Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

This Reminds Me Of The Time Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Politely Asked To Leave A Restaurant - The intolerant and often violent Left strikes again. Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Veg...
memeorandum

The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control (U.S. Department of State) - U.S. Department of State: *The Next Era of Nuclear Arms Control* — Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio — During the Cold War, few negotiation...
Futurism

Novo Nordisk Furious at $49 Knockoff Ozempic Pill - A bitter pill to swallow. The post Novo Nordisk Furious at $49 Knockoff Ozempic Pill appeared first on Futurism.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Science and Medicine, Bad and Good - Part the First: Predatory or Not? Over the past six years the biomedical literature has accumulated 494,547 scientific “publications” with “COVID” (case i...
Raw Story

New details revealed as lawmakers depose billionaire: 'Focused on Epstein’s inner circle' - New details were revealed Friday as lawmakers planned to depose a retail billionaire in late financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's inner cir...
Techdirt.

The CIA Erased The World Factbook With No Warning… And Told Everyone To ‘Stay Curious’ - For over half a century, the CIA’s World Factbook has been one of the most quietly useful things the federal government has ever produced. A comprehensive,...
Second Nexus

Halle Berry Reveals Her Teachers Refused To Accept That She Was Voted Prom Queen Over A White Girl - Halle Berry has cemented herself as a Hollywood icon, from her breakout role as Angela Lewis in *Boomerang* to her historic Academy Award win for *Monster...
Mondoweiss

Trump is not threatening war on Iran over its nuclear program, but because it challenges U.S. dominance - [image: President Donald Trump monitors U.S. military operations in Venezuela, from Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday, January 3, 2026. (...
Political Wire

AIPAC’s Big Spend Backfires Spectacularly - The special Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district is still too close to call. Progressive Analilia Mejia holds a narrow lead of ro...
Salon.com

Trump posts and deletes racist Obama video, sparking outrage across the political spectrum - Multiple Republican lawmakers denounced the post on social media
The Grayzone

Kincora: British intelligence-run sex abuse brothel? - Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was...
Alternet

Judge orders federal agent disclose private text message thanks to DHS official’s flub - An Illinois judge has ordered that all text messages and videos about the shooting of Marimar Martinez be turned over. Martinez, from Chicago, was shot ...
Al Jazeera English

US imposes sanctions on ‘shadow fleet’ accused of transporting Iranian oil - The US State Department has said the economic penalties are necessary to 'stem the flow of revenue' to Tehran.
Mediaite

Here Are the Republicans and Trump Loyalists Who Demanded He Take Down Obama Ape Video - Hours before President Donald Trump finally took down a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, numerous Republicans and loyalists slam...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Sues U.S. Department of Commerce to Change Formula for Reapportionment of U.S. House Seats - On January 30, the state of Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce. The lawsuit seeks to obtain an order that when the nu...
CultureMap Houston

7 off-beat Valentine’s Day date ideas for couples in Houston - From the weight of expectations to dashed engagement dreams, Valentine’s Day can lose its luster long after the flush of receiving folded, cartoon-covered ...
Undernews

Jeff Bezos - Financial Times - The most puzzling aspect of Jeff Bezos’s evisceration of the Washington Post is why he won’t sell it to someone else. According to Semafo...
San Antonio Report

Storytelling and culture define World Heritage Center’s first anniversary event - The World Heritage Center celebrated its one-year anniversary with Mexican food, modern art and storytelling. ------------------------------ Storytelling an...
The Verge

Spotify’s About the Song offers context and trivia about your favorite tracks - Spotify is launching About the Song in beta today, which offers context and facts about the song you're listening to. Premium users can scroll down to the ...
San Antonio Current

‘Tolerance for criminality’: Why top Republicans are turning on Texas Ag chief Sid Miller - [image: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller answers a question during a Texas Republican candidate debate forum at the Civic Center in Canton on Jan....
The Hill

Trump White House pulls video depicting Obamas as apes after outrage - 12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here or using the box below: 🔎 Plus: New developments in the search for Nancy Guthrie {beacon} Hap...
Mediagazer

NewsGuard sues the FTC, alleging censorship after the FTC barred Omnicom from working with NewsGuard as a condition of the ad agency's Interpublic acquisition (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - Will Oremus / Washington Post: *NewsGuard sues the FTC, alleging censorship after the FTC barred Omnicom from working with NewsGuard as a condition of th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Epstein said he was ‘asked everyday’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many guys reaching out to me’ - Files released by DoJ reveal the financier engaging in efforts to blunt the impact of the movement as it was gaining ground In August 2018, as the #MeToo...
Courthouse News

EU proposes new Russia sanctions targeting energy, banking, trade - The EU is looking to clamp down on the circumvention of sanctions that sees key technologies used on the battlefield continue to flow to Russia through thi...
Deadline Politics

Trump Deletes Post Depicting Obamas As Apes Amid Backlash Over “Racist” Video; White House Blames Lower-Level Staffer - As a flood of criticism hit Donald Trump over a vile online video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, the post has suddenly been deleted. In a rar...
Axios

Senate's lone Black Republican says Trump video "most racist thing I've seen out of this White House" - Sen. Tim Scott asked President Trump to delete his social media post on Friday that portrayed the Obamas as apes, calling it "the most racist thing I've ...
Houston Public Media

Brisket ‘donuts’ among the new Astros ballpark foods: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How We Would Rate the Democrats’ Proposed Virginia Gerrymander - Virginia Democrats finally unveiled a proposed partisan gerrymander on Thursday night that is intended to elect 10 Democrats and 1 Republican if implemen...
The Texas Signal

A Brief History Of The Weird Ways People Ski In Houston - For half a century, people have been trying to bring skiing to Houston in some form or another, mostly in ways that range from charmingly bizarre to bizarr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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The Week

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency – an ‘engrossing’ exhibition - All 126 images from the American photographer’s ‘influential’ photobook have come to the UK for the first time
NORML

Study: Fewer Cannabis-Related School Disciplinary Incidents Following Legalization - [image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo][image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo]"These findings reinforce the rea...
Texas Standard

‘Benito Bowl’: Many Latino Texans view Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance as chance to celebrate - The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist is inspiring merchandising and halftime show watch parties across the U.S.
Novara Media

Morgan McSweeney’s Think Tank Paid £30k to Spy on Journalists - A think tank formerly directed by Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney paid a controversial PR firm at least £30k to investigate journalists who ...
The Militant

Fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! - Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working clas MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched ...
Election Law Blog

Greg Sargent: “Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Spin on Threat to Rig 2026 Goes Awry” - Happy to speak with Greg Sargent for his TNR podcast. The post Greg Sargent: “Trump Press Sec Snaps at Media as Spin on Threat to Rig 2026 Goes Awry” app...
High Country News

Trump’s call for deep-sea mining off Alaska raises Indigenous concerns - “Whatever happens in the ocean, it really does affect our way of life.” The post Trump’s call for deep-sea mining off Alaska raises Indigenous concerns...
Dissident Voice

Bondi Beach Reappraised: A Turning Point in History - Writing an article that references the murders of innocent people is difficult. Concerns of invading privacy, of not being sufficiently empathetic to the...
Trivial Knot

What’s next in game dev? - So I’m finally done with my video game. What’s next? Should I make another? I will definitely make a second game. One of my brothers has long been interest...
Daily Howler

SONG(S) SUNG BLUE: When Martinez described her seven wounds... - *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2026* *...she was widely disappeared: *Marimar Martinez, 30 years old, was born right there in Chicago. Today, she's a preschool te...
Vox

Why American “quad god” Ilia Malinin skates like no one else - Figure skating is nothing without tension. Humans speed across slick ice, balancing on a thin metal blade and making sharp turns. The athletes defy physics...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in GA - Join MAJ. Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Ge...
ProPublica

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump - The post Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

Congress passes $50 billion foreign aid bill, despite the Trump's cuts in 2025 - Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian pro...
Bonddad

December JOLTS report shows stabilizing at near stall speed, despite one negative “soft data” outlier - - *by New Deal democrat* I’m glad I waited a day to write about yesterday’s JOLTS report for December, because I got to read a lot of other commenta...
SCOTUSblog

How academic briefs shape Supreme Court decisions - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...
Countercurrents

Dying in distant lands: The mysterious deaths of Assam’s migrant workers in South India - The death of four young migrant workers from Assam inside their rented shed in Bengaluru on January 31 has once again brought to the fore the mysterious de...
Glasstire

Mexico City Art Week: Making Sense of the Labyrinth - Being present at Mexico City Art Week — Latin America’s biggest, wide-ranging, inexhaustible art fair — can feel like being the love interest at the cent...
The Progressive Wing

2/6 News Roundup & Open Thread - New Jersey House Primary Remains Too Close to Call Two Democrats remained in a neck-and-neck battle late Thursday night in a hotly contested primary race...
Dorf on Law

The Roberts Court's Dangerous and Anti-Historical Bruen Test For Gun Safety Legislation Must Be Changed - In 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the most anti-originalist and irrational decision interpreting the Second Amendment in Americ...
Mother Jones

How to Resist Like Minneapolis - In the chaos of 2020, Minneapolis got angry and brave and tired and jittery (Was that shots or fireworks? Unclear, check the Signal chat). Many of us got c...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 15 - *The origins of anti-Semitism in this first gospel * These 47 verses of chapter 15 should be read carefully, with curiosity fully engaged. How did the ...
First Draft

The Kids Are Alright In York, Pa. - My alma mater's students proved yesterday that our young people are engaged and aware (dare I say...woke?) during a walkout protest against ICE.
El Paso Matters

UTEP lands record $30 million donation; EPCC president receives pay raise - El Paso news roundup: Miguel A. “Mike” Loya’s historic gift will fund UTEP engineering scholarships; EPCC trustees approve $13,800 pay raise for Preside...
Space City Weather

Just go on and soak up the weather this weekend, H-Town - In brief: Dang nice, Houston. Today through Sunday This would be something of an unseasonably warm weekend anytime it occurs in winter, and to some it woul...
Democracy Now!

Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate "Blocked" Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine - We host a debate between two former officials at the human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Omar Shakir resigned this week after more than a decade ...
The Conversation

What is the American Dream, and has it become harder to achieve in recent years? - Whether the American Dream is centered in economic mobility or personal freedom, many citizens believe its achievement has grown more elusive.
The Root

Which Stars Could Join Bad Bunny at the 2026 Super Bowl LX? We Have An Idea - Bad Bunny is gearing up to take the stage at the 2026 Super Bowl! And we have a good idea of who might join him. Read more...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Texas Observer

Oh, Texas Our Texas, - Poems are selected by Poetry Editor Lupe Mendez, the 2022 Texas poet laureate and author of Why I Am Like Tequila. To submit a poem, please send an email...
Rallblog

Shutdown Scramble | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
ArcaMax

From Typewriters to Truth: Journalist Betty Baye Knows What This Moment Demands - I had just sat down with my notes for writing this column when the news came through that journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested in Minne...
WhoWhatWhy

These Beetles Sport Chemical ‘Invisibility Cloaks’ & Will Die if They’re Removed - [image: science, insects, beetles, ants, symbiosis, chemical invisibility cloaks, life-saving tactic] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Episode 5844 - As DD Degg reported the other day, the ridiculously deep cuts at the Washington Post are making most observers feel that either Jeff Bezos is a raving inco...
Earth 911

Extend the Life of Your Outdoor Gear With These Repair Programs - Think about your favorite hiking jacket with a torn pocket, or the backpack with a... The post Extend the Life of Your Outdoor Gear With These Repair Pro...
Scheerpost.com

The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think - If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain’t it.
Skeptophilia

The strange case of the talking mongoose - This week we've been dealing with some pretty heavy topics, so I thought today I'd lighten things up by telling you about a strange incident in the villa...
The Smirking Chimp

The Real Reason Trump’s Attempt To Meddle With the Midterms Is Already Doomed -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Danny Norris - And here’s that bonus interview I mentioned yesterday. If you’ve been frustrated by the state takeover of HISD, you’ve probably hoped someone would run aga...
Slate

There’s a Surefire Way to Steal the Joy From Making Art. People Always Seem to Do It. - Prudie replies to readers’ comments and suggestions.
Angry Bear

The death of The Washington Post - Jeff Bezos is richer than God. He owns the Washington Post, formerly an icon of objective journalism. “Jeff Bezos could float almost limitless news organ...
Grist

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better? - How Britain's new ‘"green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.
Crooked Media

Trump Threatens to Steal the Midterms - The post Trump Threatens to Steal the Midterms appeared first on Crooked Media.
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Counterpunch

MELANIA’s Music - MELANIA made it to Berlin but was only showing at a single early-afternoon time. Brandishing my coveted CounterPunch press card, I tried to talk my way i...
jobsanger

The U.S. And Other Western Nations Need Migrants -
Environment Texas

VICTORY: More solar, less red tape - Cutting red tape for rooftop solar will have a big impact on expanding the adoption of clean energy . The post VICTORY: More solar, less red tape appeare...
World Socialist Web Site

New York City nurses arrested as Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul escalate pressure to end 4-week strike - The arrests underscore that the strike has entered a new stage and pose the necessity for a broader movement of the working class in defense of the nurses.
Informed Comment

Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” Grift: Con of the Century - The whole thing is a front for Trump’s real estate development ambitions for a Gaza beachfront resort.
The AltWorld

What’s The Likelihood Of A Global Nuclear Arms Race? - Russia and China are expected to reciprocally respond to the US’ potential development of new nukes and/or […] The post What’s The Likelihood Of A Global...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Consortium News

Craig Murray: Acquittals Demolish Lies About Palestine Action - Despite the U.K. government taking every possible precaution to ensure that the state got its convictions in this show trial, the jury refused to find that...
Brad Blog

'New START' Treaty With Russia Allowed to End Amid New World Disorder: 'BradCast' 2/5/2026 - Today on The BradCast: The President of the United States likes to dismiss concerns about climate change by explaining that the real threat to humanity is ...
Portside

Virginia Gov. Spanberger Orders Termination of ICE Agreements With Law Enforcement - Virginia Gov. Spanberger Orders Termination of ICE Agreements With Law Enforcement jay Thu, 02/05/2026 - 21:17
OpEd News

Tomgram: William Astore, America's Teflon Pentagon - What constitutes national security and how is it best achieved? Does massive military spending really make a country more secure, and what perils to democr...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Franklin Graham gets called out for hypocritical attack on Bad Bunny while ignoring Kid Rock's sexualized lyrics - In a recent tweet, prominent conservative pastor Franklin Graham accused Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny of having a 'sexualized agenda.' He also praised...
Ian Welsh

How Boeing Made Record Profits And Burned Down The Company - One of the most important things to understand about companies and countries both is the difference between sustainable prosperity and burning down the hou...
Wolf Street

Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy [MSTR] Plunged 77% from its High, Joins our Imploded Stocks. Bitcoin Plunged only 50% - The miracle of valuing the company’s stock far higher than its bitcoin holdings came unglued. Then bitcoin plunged.
Workers World

Italian union supports U.S. workers against ICE repression and executions - [image: Italian union supports U.S. workers against ICE repression and executions] The Italian union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) issued the statement be...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: What Will The Future Look Like In The ‘New World Order?’ - Karl Marx, in his essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” said that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as fa...
See You In 2020

How Reaganomics let Trotskyism dominate Marxism, & how communists can take back our movement - Inside the communist movement, the most urgent fight is the one against Trotskyism. This is separate from our most urgent fight within the broader left,...
Socialist Alternative

Force & Power: Trump’s Imperialist Offensive - Every week is bringing more evidence that US imperialism is on the march under Donald Trump, determined to reorder world relations in its favor. On January...
Antiwar.com

There’s More Than Iranian Protest Behind the Iran Protests - The protests that erupted in the streets of Iran at the end of December and beginning of January were the largest since the protests of 2009. They were ign...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 6, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 6, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/06/2026 - 05:21 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Progressive.org

Bolder Voices for a Democratic Future - An increasing number of Democratic candidates are signaling that they won’t sit by quietly as the country implodes.
The Greanville Post

RT: “Peace won’t save Ukraine: What comes after the war may be worse” - RT—After giving himself nearly unlimited power during the conflict through martial law and outsitting his official presidential term, Zelensky has cracked ...
The NM Political Report

Bill to close ICE facilities in New Mexico signed into law by Gov - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a bill today designed to end New Mexico’s involvement in federal civil immigration detention. House Bill 9, the I...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Condemns Trump Calls to Nationalize U.S. Elections - The Forward Party has denounced calls to “nationalize” U.S. elections after President Donald Trump urged Republicans to take control of election administ...
Claytoonz

Democracy Dies In Bezos - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Church and State

More on God and Ethics - But what is sin? As I learned in Sunday School long ago, sin is the transgression of the will of God by thought or deed.
Sludge

Foreign Interests Are Paying Millions to a Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm - Ballard Partners’ foreign-interest lobbying business has boomed since Trump took office, signing up new clients from Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Albania, Uz...
Common Dreams

New Report Exposes MAHA’s Corrupting Influence in HHS and Beyond - The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has gained significant influence over the US health care system, according to a new report by Public Citiz...
The Daily Poster

Snakes On A Plane - Commercial passengers are helping to foot the bill for billionaires’ private jet mania.
Capital & Main

Lawsuits Push Back on Trump’s Attack on Child Care - Unions, small businesses, states sue to stop the administration from punishing blue states by withholding $10 billion in funding. The post Lawsuits Push ...
Bracing Views

Wrecking Democracy in America - A Meditation on Trump’s “Dream Military” BILL ASTORE FEB 05, 2026 Hi Everyone: Here’s my latest post for TomDispatch.com. It was inspired by President Trum...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation invites Laredo to MÁSCARA SÍMBOLO DE LA CULTURA, an exhibition by local contemporary artists, and live Five Star Wrestling, Friday, Dec. 6 - Free and open to the community!
Rewire

The Justice Department Tries to Prosecute Black Journalists (Podcast) - The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the First Amendment, and along with it, government accountability. The post The Justice Department ...
Earthworks

Rushing Mineral Extraction Puts This California Community at Risk - The Imperial County, Calif. government is rushing through industrial development at the expense of communities’ health, air, water, and landscapes that h...
Infidel753

A political warning - The Democrats face a fundamental problem which the ideological left is determined to avoid addressing -- and has succeeded in not addressing, largely beca...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Rage is the Appropriate Response: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Ecosophia

On the Education of Desire - As I mentioned a little over a month ago, the competition over which theme would get the fifth Wednesday post in December was almost unparalleled in the en...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Crooked Timber

A modest proposal for the use of AI - A modest proposal for the use of AI Which jobs will be replaced by AI? Here is a modest proposal.* Replace higher management by AI. Not “management” in the...
Alas, a Blog

Weight Loss Inc - Becky writes: Barry’s script said, “A fat person is handing a bundle of cash to someone standing in the entrance to a building that has a sign saying “WEIG...
DeSmogBlog

The Political Roots of Nigel Farage and Reform UK Stretch Back To Alberta - If an election were held in the UK tomorrow, hardcore climate denier Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would likely win as the party is surging in the polls. This...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #13: Alex Pretti's Impact, New Cranks at CBS News, and Reminiscing About Fusion (w/Sam Grasso) - Producer Sam joins us to talk about the dramatic shift in anti-ICE sentiment.
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Project Censored

Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with professor of communications Dr. Steve Macek to talk about Trumps war on epistemic institutions. Dr. Macek sha...
Krebs on Security

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters - A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim f...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - * Kicking off Black History month with my latest House Negro Power Rankings. I am doing this because sometimes the damage from within, is much more det...
Liberation News

Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and weaponized colonialism - [image: U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), stage light armored vehicles ashore in A...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IS IT FASH YET? EDITION. - *You better run.* Tubby and his mob have been busy, seizing voting records in Georgia (presumably to manipulate in furtherance of his years-long Stolen E...
Moron Majority

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Dissent Magazine

A Crisis of Conflict Resolution, Not Conflict Studies - A response to “The Demise of Conflict Studies” from our winter issue, followed by a reply by the authors.
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
The Rag Blog

MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical - By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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