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

Futurism

McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad - "There is no consequence these companies cannot survive, they can not be held accountable, therefore they do not actually respond to backlash." The post ...
Slate

I Want to Invite My Sister, Her Guys, and Their Kids to Visit for the Holidays. But My Parents Have Issued a Big Threat. - I don't want to start a war.
Mediaite

‘I’m Concerned’: Republican Senator Breaks With Trump Sending NVIDIA Chips to China - The U.S. traditionally banned the sale of advanced technology to China and other adversarial countries that can use it for military purposes. The post ‘I...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Half a million flee as deadly Cambodia-Thailand border clashes escalate - At least 20 killed and almost 200 injured, as Trump claims he can settle hostilities ‘pretty quickly’ - What’s behind the Thailand-Cambodia cl...
Courthouse News

Sunshine through the fog - In a Ninth Circuit hearing last week, the judges illuminated a set of basic truths that bust up the fog pumped into courtrooms by clerks who withhold publi...
The Hill

Trump administration helped Venezuela's Machado escape to Norway: Report - The Trump administration reportedly aided Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado in her secret travel from Venezuela to Norway for the award ceremon...
The Daily Poster

Click To Cancel, Uncanceled? - After pressure from consumer advocates, the Trump administration is reconsidering a Biden-era rule banning hard-to-cancel subscription practices.
Eschaton

Lunch - Shop while you eat! (Ad, I get a commission).
Second Nexus

Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Slams Trump In Blistering New Ad: 'I Am P*ssed Off As Hell' - Tennis icon Martina Navratilova criticized President Donald Trump and warned Americans of the rise of his totalitarian regime in a new political ad in wh...
San Antonio Current

Migrants held at Texas base suffer physical abuse, unsafe conditions, human rights groups claim - [image: The East Montana Detention Facility, designed to house up to 5,000 migrants, while still under construction at Fort Bliss in El Paso on Sept. 7, 20...
Mediagazer

Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journalist writing about a DoD official (Dan Friedman/Mother Jones) - Dan Friedman / Mother Jones: *Jack Posobiec, a new Pentagon press corps member, seems to be working in coordination with the Pentagon to threaten a journ...
The Verge

Rivian is building its own powerful AI chips for autonomous driving - Rivian announced that it was designing its own AI chips for fully autonomous driving, in a bold - if belated - move to catch up with Tesla and other automa...
Crooked Media

Trump blasts Europe and Sadiq Khan – but will his strong man act backfire? - The post Trump blasts Europe and Sadiq Khan – but will his strong man act backfire? appeared first on Crooked Media.
CultureMap Houston

Buzzy R&B artist Khalid brings summer back to Houston on 2026 tour - Texas R&B and pop artist Khalid is hitting the road for his 2026 *It's Always Summer Somewhere Tour*, including a stop at the 713 Music Hall in downtown Ho...
memeorandum

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show (NBC News) - NBC News: *AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show* — New research from Public Interest Research G...
Raw Story

'Go ahead and sue me': South Park creators take stand against Trump admin in season finale - South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have dropped their highly anticipated final episode of the season, taking a stand against the Trump admini...
Salon.com

Florida and Texas sue FDA to restrict abortion pill access - The filing marks a fresh attempt by Republican-led states to use the judiciary to limit access to mifepristone
Political Wire

Measles Outbreak Accelerates in South Carolina - “South Carolina’s measles outbreak is ‘accelerating’ in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations, after authorities traced a sizable outb...
Vox

Caitlin Dewey Joins Vox as Senior Writer & Editor for the Today, Explained Newsletter - Vox editor-in-chief Swati Sharma and editorial director for politics, policy, and ideas Libby Nelson announced today that Caitlin Dewey is joining the bran...
Workers World

Historic 12-day March for Mumia ends at SCI Mahanoy - [image: Historic 12-day March for Mumia ends at SCI Mahanoy] Around 150 participants filled both sides of the entrance road to State Correctional Instituti...
SCOTUSblog

Immigration judges urge Supreme Court to allow lower court ruling against Trump administration to remain in place - A group of immigration judges on Wednesday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that sent a dispute ov...
Undernews

U.S. to require foreign tourists to submit 5 years of social media history - *Newsbreak - * The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit addition...
Al Jazeera English

US judge orders release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration detention - Abrego Garcia's wrongful deportation to El Salvador has become a rallying point against Trump's hardline policies.
Dissident Voice

Lord Hughes Buries the Skripals Alive - As all cricket and football followers know, the British are bad losers. They blame the other side or the umpire; they stampede inside the stadium, then ...
Daily Dot

Celebrities join the “come on Superman, say your stupid line” trend to drag themselves - [image: Left: Sabrina Carpenter in a "Late Night with Seth Meyers" crewneck, text overlay reads, "Come on Superman, say your stupid line." Right: Hailey ...
Axios

Another House Democrat faces Bernie Sanders-backed primary challenge - Add Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) to the rapidly expanding list of House Democratic incumbents being challenged by the left in the primary next year, wit...
Texas Standard

Millions of borrowers in Biden’s SAVE plan would start paying under new settlement - Legal challenges put SAVE borrowers in limbo for months, a time during which they were not required to make payments on their loans. That would change if t...
The Week

It Was Just an Accident: a ‘striking’ attack on the Iranian regime - Jafar Panahi’s furious Palme d’Or-winning revenge thriller was made in secret
Deadline Politics

Disney Fires Off Cease-And-Desist Letter To Google Claiming Its AI Services Infringe On Copyright On A “Massive Scale” - The Walt Disney Co. has fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Google, claiming that its AI training models and services infringe on its copyrights on a “m...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis, The Bible Condemns Rich Predators, Not Poor Trans Lovers - As more of the Epstein files are released, reminding us of Donald Trumps close association with Jeffrey Epstein and the young people he abused and traffick...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Issues Demand Letter to Former Chair - The Libertarian National Committee is pursuing restitution from former national chair Angela McArdle over payments made to Freedom Calls, LLC, a fundrais...
Mother Jones

The New CDC Leader’s Whooping Cough Scandal - Already this year, anti-vaccine activists have downplayed the risks of measles and polio. Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of ...
Daily Howler

AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: When the president said she was garbage... - *THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2025* *...Blue stars barely said a word:* "And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen / The timeless explosion of fant...
naked capitalism

Israel Is Acting with Impunity. Is It Overconfident in Trump’s Support? - More Americans support Palestine than Israel for the first time ever. But does that matter to Trump?
Mondoweiss

Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity - [image: London Irish Brigade activists protest outside the Houses of Parliament in support of the hunger strikers' demands, on December 5, 2025. (Photo: St...
Glasstire

Top Five: December 11, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Dario Robleto: If You Remember, I’ll Remember Art Leagu...
Common Dreams

New Report: “Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads” - For decades, Big Oil has deceived the public about the problem of climate change. Now, as CCI's latest report shows, oil majors are deceiving the public ...
Bonddad

Is Thanksgiving seasonality masking a possible longer term positive regime change in jobless claims? - - *by New Deal democrat* This week’s update of initial and continuing jobless claims is a demonstration of two frames of seasonality: one in the imm...
Scheerpost.com

The Encampments (w/ Mahmoud Khalil and Michael Workman) | The Chris Hedges Report - The documentary “The Encampments” captures what the corporate media hid during the 2024 mass student protests against Israel’s genocide — that a rainbow co...
Houston Public Media

How the political tide turned on Mark Welsh, the four-star general ousted as Texas A&M president - The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew wear...
First Draft

The Insult Comedian’s Top Ten Favorite Words - Does Donald Trump have the best words?
El Paso Matters

El Paso whooping cough cases rise as immunization wanes statewide - The El Paso health department this year has identified the highest number of pertussis patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. The post El Paso whooping c...
Socialist Alternative

Setbacks for Trump But Attacks Continue: Step Up the Struggle - Nearly one year into the most reactionary federal government in modern US history, cracks at every level of Trump’s coalition are getting wider and deeper....
Space City Weather

After a Friday and Saturday warming trend, it looks like Houston gets a very, very brief shot of winter cold - In brief: A lovely day today in Houston will give way to a warm up tomorrow and fog and shower chances on Saturday. Our next front Sunday morning may knock...
Democracy Now!

"Slower Form of Death": Despite Ceasefire, Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents - Palestinians were battered with rain and freezing temperatures overnight as winter storm Byron hit the Gaza Strip. Soaked tents and makeshift shelters floo...
The Conversation

AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving - Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group identity and cashing in on viral content.
Techdirt.

Our Corrupt Congress Just Quietly Killed Military Right To Repair Reforms - We’ve covered how there’s a real push afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendli...
Rallblog

It’s Piracy Time! | 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...
Election Law Blog

“A national GOP push to exclude noncitizens from future redistricting could have big ramifications in Texas” - Texas Tribune outlines how “Republicans and conservative groups are lining up behind a continuing effort to add a citizenship question to the questionnai...
WhoWhatWhy

Locusts and Landmines Threaten Ukraine’s Farmland - [image: large locust, Ukrainian field] Ecosystems have also come under threat from toxic plants whose spread has been difficult to control during the Russi...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- from fakery to disaster - For years now the "AI" hypesters have promised godlike super-intelligence and a radical transformation of the very nature of work. All they've delivered ...
ArcaMax

Trump Leads America Boldly Into Decline - Bribery, inflation, plagues, crumbling trade links, stalled innovation -- all these negatives helped bring down the once-mighty Roman Empire. But Rome need...
slacktivist

The Baptist Rebellion vs. the Archdiocese of Boston - Any church (or Archdiocese) that wants to thrive in a world where ICE roams freely needs to learn the lessons of William Knibb.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Media Matters. At least it used to. - Golding offers a Banksyesque tribute to Australia’s new age limitations on social media. The first thing to note is that kids under 16 are not being banned...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Low-Waste Family Routines That Support Calmer Homes and Healthier Teen Well-Being - Feeling overwhelmed at home? You’re not alone. Evenings often feel noisy, cluttered, and rushed—exactly when... The post Guest Idea: Low-Waste Family Rou...
The Root

Ex-NFL Star Kevin Faulk Mourns Sudden Death of Another Child - The daughter of former New England Patriots running back Kevin Faulk died unexpectedly at age 30, just four years after the death of her sister. Read mo...
The Smirking Chimp

Pentagon Insiders Say His War Threats Have No Teeth -
Skeptophilia

Burning down the house - It's always thin ice to make too many assumptions about why our distant ancestors did what they did. Most of the time, all we have is the traces of what th...
Off The Kuff

The Dallas County GOP’s hand-counting debacle - This is going to be a disaster. Dallas County Republicans say they’re planning to go ahead with hand-counting tens of thousands of Election Day ballots cas...
NPR's Health Shots

I hate getting Pap smears. Is there a safe alternative? - You may have heard about HPV testing and self-swabbing to collect the sample. Does that work as well? Here are the ins and outs of this newer option.
San Antonio Report

There’s still time to get your flu shot as cases rise in Bexar County - [image: A sign at a CVS pharmacy promotes flu and COVID-19 vaccines as cases rise.]We could be in for another bad flu season as San Antonio health official...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Consortium News

Support CN For Coverage of the Crisis of Free Speech - Consortium News’ reporting has stood out since the 2012 arbitrary detention and later imprisonment of Julian Assange; the U.S. using social media firms to ...
ProPublica

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer - The post Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer appeared first on ProPublica.
Angry Bear

Declining college enrollment - My parents were both college grads by the time I was born. They believed strongly in the importance of a college education. In the event, they had five k...
Countercurrents

Infant Freezes to Death in Gaza Amid Harsh Winter and Israeli Blockade - Gaza (Quds News Network)- An eight-month-old girl has died from extreme cold in the southern Gaza Strip, where Palestinian families displaced by Israel’s g...
Grist

How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods - In the face of mounting climate disasters, tribes, scientists, and Southern communities are rallying around a nearly forgotten native plant.
High Country News

Skimpy snow makes life worse for skiers — and everyone else - The sport may seem selfish, but it reminds us why good snowpack matters. The post Skimpy snow makes life worse for skiers — and everyone else appeared f...
Counterpunch

Tech Titans Investing Millions to Create Genetically Engineered Babies - Silicon Valley and other high tech billionaires are investing millions in start-ups dedicated to creating genetically engineered (GE) babies, according t...
Wolf Street

Why the Fed’s “Reserve Management Purchases” Are Not QE - The Fed reverts to pre-2009 balance sheet management where the balance sheet grows with or less than the economy.
jobsanger

Trump's $12 Billion Payout To Farmers Will Not Cover The Damage His Tariffs Have Done -
Informed Comment

Peacemaker or Pirate of the Caribbean? Trump Celebrates Murder on the Open Seas - US forces hit the targeted boat once, then hit it again -- the second strike vaporizing two shipwrecked survivors clinging to the wreckage
World Socialist Web Site

60,000 multimillionaires own three times more wealth than half the world’s population - An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population, 56,000 people, control three times more wealth than the poorest half of humanity.
Portside

Phillip Bonosky’s Fight for the Working Class - Phillip Bonosky’s Fight for the Working Class Geoffrey Wed, 12/10/2025 - 23:14
The Greanville Post

The Russian NSS - Print this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International…
Brad Blog

Dems Continue Stunning 2025 Election Streak: 'BradCast' 12/10/2025 - Today on The BradCast: If Democrats don't put up a candidate for every goddamn contest on the ballot next year --- in every state, county, city, town, vill...
Alternet

Former Republican official says Trump's 'monumental ego' responsible for GOP's downfall - Former Illinois Lt. Gov. Bob Kustra (R) says he is surprised President Donald Trump is mulling naming the Republican Party after himself at a time when t...
Ballot Access News

Nevada Legislature Passes Proposed Constitutional Amendment for Every Voter to Receive a Postal Ballot - On November 19, a special session of the Nevada legislature passed SJR 1. It would provide that every registered voter would automatically receive a postal...
Popular Resistance

Sharing The Bounty: Cultural Celebrations In Nicaragua Give Back - When 25-year-old Dayana Martinez graduated from university earlier this year and began applying for jobs in her field of graphic design, she made a promi...
Claytoonz

Bribe Wars - 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...
Ian Welsh

Government As Helper vs. Government As Regulator - Stumbled across this story about how a Chinese province quickly built a facility based on tech discovered in Europe: So a *European* startup called IB2 ann...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Bigoted pastor thinks using the F-word slur will stop gays from 'converting' kids - *Personally, I think Webbon should think of words to keep children from being molested in churches. That's where much of the abuse is coming from.* From...
Antiwar.com

Defending Israeli Mass Murder Isn’t Easy - Although much has already been said, I can’t not comment on Sarah Hurwitz, the former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama speechwriter, who faults young peopl...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Environment Texas

Neonicotinoids and dangers to freshwater species - A bee-killing pesticide is getting into American waterways, and that isn’t good. The post Neonicotinoids and dangers to freshwater species appeared first...
Reform Austin

Major Donors Walk Out as Alamo Leadership Clash Deepens - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Three top fundraisers for the Remember the Alamo Foundation have resigned in protest over the f...
LareDOS

Two-day celebration of prayer, dance, and music honors Feast Day of the Virgen de Guadalupe at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Dec. 11 – 12 - Events include procession, Midnight Mass, matachines, mariachis, and sale of 200 dozen tamales prepared by the Guadalupanas
The Grayzone

US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mo...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Church and State

Why Do Atheists Want a War on Christmas? - I’m confident what I say here is true of most atheists are happy to celebrate and to let others celebrate Christmas in peace.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

In the Thick of It: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Capital & Main

Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers - A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. T...
Texas Observer

Ex-Con Congressman Attempts a Texas Comeback - Former Congressman and felon Steve Stockman, a Friendswood-area conservative who was convicted of 23 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 10 years...
NORML

Now Is the Time To Double Down on Cannabis Activism - [image: A hand holds up a card with a marijuana leaf cut-out representing support for cannabis legalization][image: A hand holds up a card with a marijua...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: December 2025 - Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger Episode 1-4 | Video, 2 hours, via – An old television show, talking about the interpretation of European painting. Epis...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
The Texas Signal

Immigrants Without A Criminal Record Increasingly Targeted - The immigration crackdown is happening and increasing by the day, shocking communities everywhere including Texas
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

After Trump Pardons Cuellar, TX-28 Moves to Leans Democratic - With a couple of developments in his favor, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) looks a little better for reelection; despite some late drama before candidate ...
Rewire

2026’s Abortion Battles Will Be Fought More in Courts and FDA Offices Than at the Polls—Analysis - Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans' reproductive rights next year. The post 2026’s Abortion Battles Will Be Fou...
The AltWorld

US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports - “The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term U.S. strategy aimed at weakening Russia […] The post US Beta-Testing ...
Dorf on Law

Why Did SCOTUS Grant Cert in the Birthright Citizenship Case? - Last week, the Supreme Court granted *certiorari* in *Trump v. Barbara*. A federal district judge in New Hampshire preliminarily enjoined President Trump...
Crooked Timber

Bankers (not money) make the world go around? Towards a labour/tech history of finance - I am at the airport in Melbourne (again). I’m sitting in the window eating one of those excellent boxes of kale, broccoli, beans, seeds, peas and a boiled ...
See You In 2020

The working-class fight against “critical theory,” & its context of intensifying anti-colonial struggle - “Critical theory,” especially the kind that involves identity, is an enemy of the workers movement and the pro-Palestine cause. To properly explain why ...
Sludge

The Democrats’ New AI Panel Is Led by Big Tech Allies - Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from re...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition - Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 ...
Project Censored

Drones Linked to Gaza Operating Surveillance Flights Over US Cities - In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the US-based drone company Skydio provided more than one hundred surveillance drones to the Isr...
Discourse

Jimmy Fallon Is the ChatGPT of Talk Show Hosts - He's not just an obsequious kiss-ass. He's actively making the world worse than it already is.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Democracy Chronicles

The Best Replacement For Mercator World Maps - Don’t let the hype and bullshit convince you that Equal-Earth is the best, or is a scientific optimization, or that there’s anything new about it. No other...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
MintPress News

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers - MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers. The post Stop...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
The Progressive Wing

December 9-14 News Roundup and Open Thread - December continues cold in the Northeast.
Progressive.org

RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health - The current HHS Secretary is the most dangerous in U.S. history.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
The NM Political Report

State senator prepping bill to rate school library books for race, sex and LGBTQ+ content - A conservative New Mexico lawmaker is drafting legislation allowing schools to rate library books for sexual and violent content and possibly materials a...
DeSmogBlog

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Facing a growing number of law...
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...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CHEESY SCENES OF WINTER EDITION. - *RAWK.* In the not-too-distant future, I hope and pray, we will look back on the Age of Tubby II and think, “Holy shit, I know I complain about President...
The Militant

‘Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa’ - Below is the introduction by Mary-Alice Waters to the new book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial...
Debunking Christianity

The Case for Jesus as a Real Historical Person Continues to Erode - *“But I feel Jesus in my heart” is evidence for what you’re feeling* In my most recent articles here I explained why we no longer need to pay much atte...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:53 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
Liberation News

¿Por qué Trump amenaza con invadir Nigeria? ¿Realmente es para “proteger a las y los cristianos”? - A comienzos de noviembre, Trump amenazó con tomar acciones militares contra Nigeria, el país más poblado de África.
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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

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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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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

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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....
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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