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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Al Jazeera English

UK prosecutors charge two after RAF Fairford incident - This is a breaking news story.
Novara Media

Home Secretary Refuses to Meet Worker Affected by Her ‘Nasty’ Immigration Plans - Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has refused to meet with a migrant care worker who will be affected by her rightwing immigration reforms. Mahmood was asked ...
Crooked Media

Brazil’s Shock Election, and Preparing for Midterms (w/ Jen Psaki) - The post Brazil’s Shock Election, and Preparing for Midterms (w/ Jen Psaki) appeared first on Crooked Media.
jobsanger

The Road To Fascism -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3426: Roller Skates - Episode: 3426 Roller skates come of age. Today, roller skates.
World Socialist Web Site

More indications of imminent renewed imperialist assault on Iran - Emergency talks in Tehran, reports of strikes on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and the increase in US forces in the region point to the renewal of a US-I...
Informed Comment

Officials of Mecca Pact Nations gather for Talks in Tehran, Defying Trump - They are offering Tehran some carrots, and signaling to Israel that it will not have free sway to launch attacks throughout the region.
El Paso Matters

In fourth El Paso stop, James Talarico takes aim at Paxton mega donor Elon Musk - The race pitting Democrat James Talarico against Republican Ken Paxton is among the most expensive and heated in Texas as the outcome could affect contr...
Portside

The No Kings Movement Is Already Planning for 2028 - The No Kings Movement Is Already Planning for 2028 Mark Brody Mon, 10/26/2026 - 23:51
Popular Resistance

Uhuru Movement Challenges State Repression; Advances Demand For Reparations - In July 2022, the FBI raided homes and offices of the Uhuru Movement as part of an effort to advance the idea of Russian intervention in the US. This led...
Common Dreams

Monsters 'R Us - Most of Planet Earth now knows cruelty is the point of Trump 2. But if anyone implausibly needs more evidence, meet Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a 79-year-old, ...
Raw Story

GOP pundits' swipe at Obama instantly backfires amid cheesecake fiasco: 'No, darling' - A pair of GOP tried to defend President Donald Trump's White House renovations on Monday night, only for their remarks to instantly backfire. Trump erup...
The Hill

Trump announces $250M-plus initiative to recruit, retain nursing home nurses - President Trump announced Monday an initiative worth hundreds of millions of dollars to recruit and retain nursing home nurses. “The Trump Administration i...
Political Wire

Bob Woodward Criticizes Jeff Bezos in New Memoir - New York Times: “While he says Mr. Bezos has not interfered in news stories, Mr. Woodward writes that the billionaire owner’s sweeping staff cuts, reorient...
Courthouse News

Judge rejects ex-city councilman’s PTSD diversion bid in SoCal corruption case - A San Diego judge rejected former Poway Councilman Tony Blain's request for mental health diversion, finding insufficient evidence his military-related pos...
Alternet

Kushner accused of massive 'Iran-contra'-level scandal - President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is accused of being in a scandal one commentator compared to the Iran-contra scandal which marred Pre...
Deadline Politics

Neil Young Rocks Trump With $10M Suit Over Using That ‘Free World’ Tune Again - Almost no one expects Donald Trump to keep his word, but unlike most, Neil Young ain’t taking any crap from the former Apprentice host. Having repeatedly t...
The Daily Poster

Lever Live: Behind AIPAC’s $13.1M Money Trail - David Sirota sits down with Lever reporters Katya Schwenk and Luke Goldstein to dive into their investigation that traces how the Israel lobby is furtively...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration asks Washington to set aside hundreds of ballots from suspected noncitizen voters - This is the latest sign of the administration’s attempts to challenge states with competitive midterm races that could determine control of Congress The...
See You In 2020

The Epsteinite network’s roots run deep, so our campaign against it must look like a Cultural Revolution - What Americans have seen so far of the Epsteinite network is only one tip within the structure; the rest is for us to investigate, and to dismantle in o...
Election Law Blog

Federal Court Speeds Up Considering Mary Peltola and LWV’s Motion to Dismiss the DOJ’s Complaint to Block Certification in Alaska Senate Race - Under this order, the district court agreed to expedite consideration of the case. It will first consider the motions to intervene, and if they are grant...
Axios

Rubio warns Venezuela's Machado: Street protests won't get you democracy - A day after Venezuela's exiled opposition leader returned to Caracas with great fanfare, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a veiled warning agai...
Futurism

Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment - "It's so much easier to steal this than to rob a bank." The post Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment appeared first on Futurism.
Antiwar.com

Who Is Making Billions From the Iran War? - At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay f...
Workers World

Pennsylvania Supreme Court agrees to hear Coffey’s appeal - [image: Pennsylvania Supreme Court agrees to hear Coffey’s appeal] Philadelphia Jerome “Hoagie” Coffey is appealing his wrongful conviction in the Philadel...
The Verge

OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics - Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back...
Ian Welsh

Lula Wins In Brazil, His Opponent Has His Passport Seized - Lula came back to win in Brazil. Flavio Bolsonaro, his opponent had more votes in the first round, but lost in the second. There are a few issues here to u...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Conservative parents upset that anti-trans ads are teaching kids that trans people exist' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Conservative parents claim that anti-trans ads against Senate candidate James Talarico are teaching their children that trans people exist. *Editor's not...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Obama too good for the Cheesecake place! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2026* *Snobbery, hatred emerge:* It's true! At that rally in Cleveland this Saturday, Barack Obama made a flippant remark about The ...
The Week

Road to nowhere: Malawi’s deepening fuel crisis - The southeast African nation has been hit by a currency shortage – and the nation’s drivers are paying the price
The Conversation

What legal experts say about the Trump administration’s attempts to make a federal case out of state elections - A crucial US Senate election in Alaska is the latest target among many Trump administration efforts this year to assert unconstitutional control over feder...
Vox

Trump’s vicious closing message in Michigan - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Iraq's closure of Iran border crossing fuels protests - The crossing was closed Wednesday, October 21, until further notice. Iraqi authorities cited technical and security concerns, but the decision has drawn gr...
Techdirt.

SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing - Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president of xAI, appeared recently at the International Astronautical Congress in Turkey to lame...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When Political Cruelty Becomes Normal: Why Educators Should Pay Attention, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *When Political Cruelty Becomes Normal: Why Educators Should Pay Attention* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 25, 2026* *I never expected to f...
San Antonio Report

In an unusual year, Bexar County reports midterm turnout on track to surpass 2024 presidential election - Money is pouring into this area to influence voters in the U.S. Senate and congressional races that could determine the U.S. House majority. ---------------...
Slate

The Far Right Lost a Foreign Election and MAGA Sees Only One Solution - Donald Trump and his allies are not taking Brazil’s election results well.
Angry Bear

It Must Be Fun When Two Privileged Jackasses Decide How They Will Split the World Up - Russia governs in a different manner than the United States. Not much to disagree with there. If you have a verbal complaint about what I am saying in th...
Mediaite

Trump Econ Chief Insists ‘Affordability Crisis’ Is ‘Myth’ 8 Days Before Midterms - Trump adviser Kevin Hassett called what has been dubbed the "affordability crisis" a big "myth" that is being pushed by innumerate haters of the presiden...
Glasstire

Multiple 2027 Federal Grants for U.S. Museums Due November 13 - The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) U.S. federal agency is accepting applications for grants for museums across the country, with a deadl...
San Antonio Current

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones to appear on Emmy-nominated PBS show this Tuesday - The San Antonio mayor will be one of eight panelists on an episode of public affairs show Breaking the Deadlock dedicated to data centers and AI. The po...
IVN

Hillary Clinton Is the Past. Independents Are the Future - With Election Day approaching, Paul Rieckhoff takes aim at the attacks against independent voters, the billionaire money fueling the two-party system, and ...
Texas Standard

When James Talarico was Jimmy, he played in the sandbox of student politics at UT Austin - Talarico’s college years at the University of Texas at Austin included a massive voter registration drive, bruising student government campaigns and politi...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Want to Lower the Cost of Living? Unrig our Democracy. - Going into the midterms, voters are feeling the squeeze in their wallets and need relief. The answer lies in holding accountable politicians who prioritize...
CultureMap Houston

Houston star Lizzo to lead Thanksgiving parade, En Vogue for tree lighting - Houston Mayor John Whitmire has shared plans for two of the city’s most beloved holiday traditions: the *77th Annual H-E-B Thanksgiving Day Parade* and *De...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - I bet many journalists were pissed they had to chuck out their "Bolsonaro wins/global rejection of the dastardly Left continues" prewrites. ...Ooops, do...
The Texas Signal

A Whimsical And Colorful Houston Halloween Graveyard - A sculptor and art activist have transformed a graveyard installation in Houston into a celebration of life and loss
Rallblog

Can Left and Right Create a Populist Front? - In times of crisis—and who can doubt that we are living in one now?—political people ask themselves whether they are about to witness a dramatic ideologi...
Church and State

Trump hated by most voters! Will he survive his 2 years still left! - Now with midterm voting just days away, anyone Trump controls willing disobey his further unlawful orders???
OpEd News

Ode to Autumn - A brief acknowledgment of the changing of the seasons. Some things don' t change.
Project Censored

Black Youth in the Media: Hearing About Them— Not From Them - Featuring Tianna Jameswhite
Mother Jones

“Just Like Kidnapping” - In late August, the Trump administration loaded 12 Somali immigrants onto a plane and flew them to an ICE facility at Guantanamo Bay. “Nobody tell us that ...
ArcaMax

Trump and his sycophants exposed - Multiple polls show Trump’s approval at record lows, but I think what’s happening runs deeper than this. Something very dramatic is occurring. Many people ...
Wolf Street

Mega and Large Investors Pull Back from Housing Market, Become Net Sellers, Small Investors Continue to Pile In - Who is the smart money, after the home-price explosion?
Sludge

Musk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot Push - People Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funde...
The NM Political Report

Working overtime: New Mexico ranks 7th in job growth, but jobless rate climbs, too - [image: Health care led New Mexico’s job growth, adding 3,700 jobs over the past year. Pictured: UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center in Rio Rancho.] By K...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia por de la Junta de Educación Estatal (SBOE) - Anuncio político pagado por Texas Freedom Network. Read in English Este otoño, los votantes desde South Padre hasta la Bahía de Matagorda tienen un super...
The Greanville Post

Julian Macfarlane’s Dispatches: The Tao of Vladimir Putin / End of Israel? and much more - JM—The Iranians have fired about 1400 missiles in the war so far. In many cases, for long range targets, their policy was fire a cloud of older ballistic a...
Consortium News

Lula’s ‘Miracle’ Victory in Brazil - By winning a fourth non-consecutive term, Luiz da Silva broke political precedent and produced a victory that matters beyond Brazil, writes Guilherme Casar...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Trump’s GOP Flailing as Campaign Nears Close - GOP strategy and POTUS Trump’s behavior are spiraling in parallel as the 2026 midterms come to a close. Note: I’ll be doing an election-night open thread n...
First Draft

Fuck Yeah, Brazil - Not everything sucks: Bozo Spawn bested in Brazil.
Dissent Magazine

Let Palestine Vote - The Palestinian Authority, aided by the international community, has avoided legislative and presidential elections for the last twenty years, disenfranc...
Ballot Access News

Democratic Party Seeks to Intervene in Alaska Lawsuit Over Dan Sullivan - On October 23, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee filed this brief in U.S.A. v State of Alaska, 3:26cv-376. This is the case in which the federal gov...
Mondoweiss

Gaza’s displaced families are struggling to keep the lights on - With Gaza’s power grid destroyed and Israel restricting the entry of fuel, private generator owners are charging high fees to provide electricity, leaving ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Heartfelt Apology to the German Authorities and Courts on the Occasion of My Sentencing for Heinous Tweet-Crimes - So I was sentenced for my tweet-crimes this morning. My sentencing hearing took place in Berlin District Court, where I was originally acquitted of the sam...
The Root

This Whitney Houston Hit May Have a Special Connection to Jermaine Jackson - Over 40 years after Whitney Houston secured her first hit with 'Saving All My Love for You,' new details have emerged that it may have been inspired by a...
Crooked Timber

NAZA – on being a cog in a machine - I went to see NAZA last week. In case you haven’t heard yet, NAZA is a documentary on the Israeli machinery of mass killing in Gaza. It draws a picture of ...
NORML

Analyses: Licensed Marijuana Retailers Associated With Decreases in Local Crime, Boost Local Economies - [image: Interior shot of a legal cannabis dispensary with glass cabinets][image: Interior shot of a legal cannabis dispensary with glass cabinets]"These ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Tired Priests of Capitalism: Systems of Power and the Superstructure - Capitalism’s priest class is paid handsomely to lie to us and the lie is wearing thin
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip Stuff and Nonsense - Some AI Nonsense Ron Winkler asked AI to imagine comic strip characters as real people and what we got was a few possibilities but mostly bunk. Beetle Bail...
Undernews

Climate change - *NY Times -* In just a few decades, summers in California will not only be much hotter, but will also stretch for months longer. Floods will become more ...
Texas Observer

Inside the New AI Slop Era of Texas Politics - Texans have seen it all this year: Senator John Cornyn twirling Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett on the dance floor; Attorney General Ken Paxton driving hi...
Debunking Christianity

Introduction To Why I Became an Atheist, by John W. Loftus - *As I announced earlier I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will ...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court as agent of the people - In my first two entries for this column, I focused on the president’s removal power and Congress’ power to make law. This third entry focuses on our thir...
Scheerpost.com

The 2028 Olympics Can’t Hide Los Angeles’ Homelessness Crisis - Dick Platkin, LA Progressive. As LA prepares to welcome the world, its unhoused and overcrowded residents face an uncertain future. Will Olympic organizers...
Environment Texas

End of daylight saving time leads to more wildlife-vehicle collisions - It’s a scary time to be out on the road. Beware! The post End of daylight saving time leads to more wildlife-vehicle collisions appeared first on Environ...
Bonddad

‘Level two’ chaotic systems, polling, and election results - * - by New Deal democrat* There’s no important economic data today, so let me post something that I meant to write about over the weekend before I w...
The Progressive Wing

10/26 News Roundup and Open Ttread - Heading into the last week before the election.
Progressive.org

Voting in Hell - We must have no illusions about the fact that voting alone will not solve all of our problems. But it is one of the many tools in our toolbox for creating ...
Democracy Now!

Will Ousting Netanyahu Change Anything for Palestinians? Diana Buttu on Upcoming Israeli Elections - Israeli parliamentary elections are being held on Tuesday, the first since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza. Israeli...
Mediagazer

India's DNPA, with 21 member outlets like Network18 and NDTV, challenges an upcoming privacy law, arguing it threatens investigative work and exposes sources (Aditya Kalra/Reuters) - Aditya Kalra / Reuters: *India's DNPA, with 21 member outlets like Network18 and NDTV, challenges an upcoming privacy law, arguing it threatens investiga...
Independent Political Report

Arizona Supreme Court Limits Clean Elections’ Power but Allows Fraud Probe Into Green, Republican Candidates to Continue - *This article was originally published by Arizona Mirror on October 23, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed...
Space City Weather

Yes, our Halloweens have trended a little warmer, and this year will be near the top - In brief: In today’s post we discuss Houston’s typical high temperatures on Halloween, and what conditions will be like this year. Also, is there another d...
slacktivist

Always wear a helmet when skateboarding - Heaven Tourism makes a comeback -- with a weird, homoerotic twist.
Rewire

Why Abortion Bans Could Increase Child Marriages in the U.S.—Analysis - Women started getting married later once abortion became legal nationwide. Now that *Roe v. Wade* is dead, could more pregnant teens could be pushed into w...
Dorf on Law

It Can Kill Us All, So We Will Build It - In July 2026, several AI agents, unleashed by OpenAI, hacked into servers of Hugging Face, a company that develops tools and datasets for machine learnin...
WhoWhatWhy

Snipers for Trump - [image: Shootout at the White House] Connecting the dots on Trump’s security moves. Snipers for Trump originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Salon.com

DARVO is now in the dictionary. That’s a win for abuse survivors - The term for deny, attack, reverse victim and offender gives survivors language for abuse
The Smirking Chimp

‘He’s Going To Explode’: White House ‘Moles’ Claim Trump on the Brink -
Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Seven EV totals: Sunday funday - Here, from email, is an update from Levi Asher about Saturday: Saturday came in at 67,242 in-person voters in Harris County. I said 60,000 to 72,000 would ...
ProPublica

In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests - The post In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their Interests appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

Special ed diaries: Teachers tell NPR about their most joyous, most difficult moments - What makes special education teaching jobs so hard to fill? NPR set out to find some answers by talking to more than a dozen teachers who do this work ever...
Grist

The Michigan climate candidate courting opponents of Big Solar - Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawrence is navigating backlash against data centers — and clean energy — in his bid for Congress.
High Country News

A ballot measure in Eugene, Oregon, could fund climate projects across the city - [image: Campaign volunteers and supporters participate in canvass training for Measure 20-388 at Washburne Park in Eugene, Oregon, this September.] If pas...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 26 October 2026 - If an image is hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for the full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] I congratul...
Land Destroyer

US Project Meridian” - A Symptom of American Decline, Not a Solution - *October 12, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the creation of the 120 day task force, “Project Meri...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Democratic economic planning and ecological transition - This seminar considers the ecological and systemic arrangements for a postcapitalist political economy. The post Democratic economic planning and ecologi...
memeorandum

'Could be a crime': Todd Blanche doubles down on Alaska lawsuit (Erum Salam/MS NOW) - Erum Salam / MS NOW: *‘Could be a crime’: Todd Blanche doubles down on Alaska lawsuit* — But the attorney general insisted that “President Trump is not...
Claytoonz

Trumptanic - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 9 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, plea...
Greg Palast

How Trump, Paxton Can Overturn the MidtermsSeveral “legal” actions can reverse next week’s vote - The operation is in place to overturn the results of next Tuesday’s vote in the midterm elections. Trump has already put the wheels in motion for a “legal”...
Socialist Alternative

Young Letter Carriers Make Their Mark At Union Convention - “Opposition to war is a union issue!” argued one Gen Z delegate at the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) National Convention in Los Angeles in...
The AltWorld

Why did the CIA disclose a secret report indicating the impending collapse of “Israel”? - What were the reasons it depended on? Will Netanyahu terminate the Oslo Accords and remove the Authority […] The post Why did the CIA disclose a secret r...
Campaign for America's Future

Will You Save Democracy? - Everyone who has the right to vote must vote. We must send a clear message to authoritarians that we reject their plan, and reject division. We stand toget...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Runnin’ Low’ Toons - …Meanwhile… [image or embed] — billkittle.bsky.social (@billkittle.bsky.social) October 23, 2026 at 5:23 AM …Helpful Reminders… …NEXT WEEK!… …WEEK AFTER!… ...
Seeing the Forest

ChapGPT-6 Says It Should Not Have Been Released - ChatGPT-6 invited me to try out its new ‘GPT-6 with Intelligent UI’, so I did. I prompted, “Explain the bellringing method Plaain Bob Doubles to me.” (I’m ...
MintPress News

Iran Threatens “War Without Limits” On Israel, Unveils “Shocking” Weapons, As Casualties Mount - Iran’s Army has revealed a new drone that carries a warhead twice the weight of the previous generation, as Tehran threatens a war without limits in reta...
The Militant

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Lowering the Bar

Flamingo Stealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty - [image: flamingo and idiots in hotel hallway]Happily, Peachy the Flamingo has fully recovered from the ordeal.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DADDY ISSUES EDITION. - *I forgot they were good right to the end.* Getting close to zero hour, so Tubby and his goons are trying to fuck with the election. For example, he was ...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
The Grayzone

Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack - The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located o...
Capital & Main

In Medicaid-Dependent Central Valley, Cuts Pose Political Risk for Six-Term Congressman - Rep. David Valadao voted to slash Medicaid, giving Democratic challenger Randy Villegas an opening as voters focus on affordability and health care acces...
Alas, a Blog

Nobody In Israel Said That! - Sources for all quotes used in the cartoon are at the end of this post. In a TV appearance in April 2024, Israeli-American journalist and pundit Emily Schr...
Duck of Minerva

Proxy Patrimonialism and the Path to Pre-modernity - Patrimonialism has been making a comeback recently as a framework for interpreting Trumpian governance. Kopstein and Rauch set out masterful dissections o...
Two Party Opera

Global Conflict - Read More
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/23/2026 - 04:13 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

EU Flag, Revised, no. 2 - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb …Governments do not launch wars simply because they confront domestic unrest. The fundamental causes of imper...
DeSmogBlog

In Pictures: ‘Armageddon’ at Europe’s Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution - A version of this article was published in Euronews and Climatica Across Brittany, tractors can be seen trundling onto beaches to remove truckloads of fo...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Bracing Views

What Does America Value? - War and Weapons, or Schools and Hospitals? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2026 The one quote I know from Joe Biden is show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you v...
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Liberation News

The Midterm Curse Proves the Two-Party System is a Dead End - The growing desire across the country to defeat Trump and his billionaire agenda is righteous. But what will a “blue wave” in the midterm elections actuall...
Ecosophia

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited - Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits a...
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
Earthworks

Hearings Spotlight Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America - Representatives from six communities dealing with the impacts of Canadian mining projects in Latin America will testify in a hearing held by the Inter-Am...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
Field Negro

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save AM radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
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...
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. —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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

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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....
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...
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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