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

Mediagazer

A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (Janko Roettgers/The Verge) - Janko Roettgers / The Verge: *A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architectu...
Houston Public Media

Gov. Abbott appoints Don Huffines to be Texas comptroller - Huffines, a former Republican state senator, is seeking a full term as the state’s top financial officer. He previously primaried Abbott from the right and...
Futurism

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions - "The timeline you're leaving behind? It won't miss you — because it's not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and yo...
Courthouse News

Ukraine, Russia vow escalation after Moscow attack kills 21 in Kyiv - Some 52,000 people, including 4,500 children packed into underground stations to shelter from the barrage — the highest number in recent years, according t...
Salon.com

Why the media lets Republicans keep medical woes a mystery - The lengthy absences of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean Jr. raise a congressional double standard
San Antonio Current

Starlighter venue in San Antonio’s Deco District posts plea for help as it falls behind on rent - The Starlighter, an all-ages venue in San Antonio’s Deco District, posted an urgent online plea for financial assistance, saying it’s having trouble mak...
Undernews

Immigrant arrests surge - *NY Times - *Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, a major surge that has stemmed from a push withi...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Trump’s ‘Commie’ Freakout - The U.S. president is inventing fictional monsters to fight as he tries to prevent massive losses in the midterms. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s Newslette...
Al Jazeera English

Spain vs Austria LIVE: FIFA World Cup 2026 - Live coverage and text updates as Spain play Austria in Los Angeles in the Round of 32 knockout stage.
CultureMap Houston

Miller Outdoor Theatre reopens and 7 more performance debuts for July - Houston theaters have some cool treats this month to sooth that summer heat. Lots of intimate cabaret and comic theater makes this month's must-see list, a...
memeorandum

European Nations Now Believe Some Hormuz Fees Are Inevitable (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *European Nations Now Believe Some Hormuz Fees Are Inevitable* — Some leading European powers now accept that ships transiting the vital Str...
Sludge

The Billionaire Money Behind New Centrist Pledge - Promise to America won't disclose who is funding its new anti-socialist pledge. But the group is closely tied to the Welcome Party, whose affiliated PAC ha...
Eschaton

Best 4th Ever - Our big beautiful sweaty president is going to stroke out on stage while giving a speech in 100 degree weather, as fireworks choke DC with toxic pollutio...
SCOTUSblog

An immigration law error in the court’s asylum decision threatens immigration courts - The Supreme Court’s decision last week blocking migrants stopped at the international boundary from applying for asylum turns on the text of federal immi...
ArcaMax

Some French Say 'Non' to Air Conditioning. Others Say 'Oui' - Europe is now the fastest heating continent, and Paris is suffering greatly under 100-plus Fahrenheit temperatures. That has inspired some conservative Ame...
Daily Howler

REVERSIONS: One nominee has some horrible tweets! - *THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2026* *The other two nominees don't:* On Monday, it only got worse. No, dear reader! Mayor Mamdani's three nominees *aren't* all exact...
Deadline Politics

Ken Burns Talks About The Impactful Way To Celebrate America At 250, And Why Polarizing Times Have To Be Put In Perspective - Ken Burns keeps a neon sign in his editing room reading, “It’s complicated.” That was certainly true of his illuminating and nuanced The American Revolutio...
The Conversation

How health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensions - A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Angry Bear

Leadership and Justice that Looks the Other Way and Ignores Racism - As I explained multiple times. Turn out was less in 2024 that in 2020. 3 million people did not vote, The same numeric of ~ three million who voted for o...
First Draft

The Crackpot Court - SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship 5-3-1. Kavanaugh provides a loophole for future challenges. Thanks for nothing, Justice Bro.
Techdirt.

More IPO Fluffing: Musk’s Starlink Hints At Becoming Full Wireless Phone Company - Last month, SpaceX began making lobbying filings in support of phone unlocking rules making it easier to switch your phone between wireless providers. You ...
Rallblog

Trump’s Fireworks Will Cause Air Pollution Hazard, Secret Parks Documents Show | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Mondoweiss

As in Gaza, the Israel-Lebanon ‘peace’ agreement is designed to fail - [image: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun speaking at a cabinet session on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Beirut, May 22, 2026. (Photo: Lebanese President's Off...
naked capitalism

Links 7/2/2026 -
Vox

The best thing about Love Island USA this summer is the…friendships? - On Love Island USA, a show purportedly about pursuing heterosexual romance in an obnoxiously-lit villa in Fiji, the two biggest stories this season are not...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Has No Conflicts of Interest. He Has Only One Interest, and He’s Not at All Conflicted About It. -
Texas Environmental News

YSN-566 Rina Takase -
Slate

I Just Discovered My Stepmom Is Doing Something Offensive With Her “Children’s Books.” I Need to Stop This. - How do I make her see reason?
The Root

The Next Fight for Birthright Citizenship is Now - The authors warn that the Court’s narrow reasoning, Justice Thomas’s dissent, and the President’s threats provide a roadmap to bypass the Constitution en...
The Verge

Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor - Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating in low-Earth orbit to light up its Starlink internet competitor. With last night's launch, Amazon Leo ha...
Axios

Polis defends data centers as Colorado juggles energy demands - *ASPEN, Colo.* — Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, defended data centers, touted oil and gas rules and bemoaned climate change in a recent int...
ProPublica

How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral - The post How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Some observations on life - A few thoughts that have come to me over the years, some of them perhaps obvious, others not. I hope some will be found of interest or worth thinking abo...
High Country News

The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that. The post The...
Counterpunch

Sentencing of the Prairieland Defendants Necessitates a Massive Movement against ICE and Repression - Trump 2.0 has been marked by a barrage of attacks on social movements. A key pillar of this repression has been the use of extreme legal measures against...
Portside

Another Blow to Democratic Establishment As Melat Kiros Unseats 30-Year Incumbent in Colorado - Another Blow to Democratic Establishment As Melat Kiros Unseats 30-Year Incumbent in Colorado Mark Brody Thu, 07/02/2026 - 01:25
Workers World

PDF of July 2 issue - [image: PDF of July 2 issue] Download the PDF Solidarity with Venezuela U.S. anti-war activists demand ‘Stop the secret war chest for Israel before it star...
Informed Comment

History Continues to Serve Foreign Policy: Why Israel Finally Recognized the Armenian Genocide - The recognition of mass murder as genocide is becoming a tool of foreign policy
Raw Story

CNN anchor shuts down MAGA columnist's head-scratching warning about 'Chinese babies' - A fiery debate broke out between a CNN anchor and a MAGA-defending correspondent who warned about "Chinese babies." CNN anchor Abby Phillip hosted a pane...
Political Wire

Trump Now Risks Forever Talks with Iran - “President Trump came to office promising an end to forever wars. He now finds himself bogged down in talks with Iran with no end in sight,” the Wall Stree...
The Hill

Mamdani to give speech marking America 250 on Friday - New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is expected to give a speech marking America's 250th birthday on Friday flanked by recently naturalized citizens, ac...
Popular Resistance

US Navy’s ‘Killer’ Submarine Participating In RIMPAC 2026 - As the Trump administration and the U.S. Congress continues to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the United States has...
Claytoonz

Hoo-Hah Inspectors - To read the blog, visit my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Ballot Access News

Wyoming Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Files Federal Lawsuit to Appear on the Ballot With Only His First Name - On May 28, a Wyoming Republican candidate for U.S. Senate filed a federal lawsuit to get on the primary ballot under the name he says he uses, which is jus...
Antiwar.com

The War in Ukraine Arrives at a Crucial Juncture - Though relegated to the sidelines thanks to President Donald Trump’s decision to launch an illegal and unjustified war on Iran at the behest of the Israeli...
Capital & Main

Capital & Main Scores 10 First Place Wins at Southern California Journalism Awards - The Los Angeles Press Club honored Capital & Main with 21 prizes in the annual journalism contest. The post Capital & Main Scores 10 First Place Wins at ...
Mother Jones

I’d Seen It From The Ground, But Wait Until You See It From The Sky - On a hot, sunny day in California, I crawled into the tiny cockpit of a small Cessna aircraft to fly around one of the state’s most active volcanoes, Mt. L...
Crooked Media

Wet Hot American Bummer - The post Wet Hot American Bummer appeared first on Crooked Media.
El Paso Matters

Historic La Tuna federal prison slated for closure as Bureau of Prisons restructures - Federal officials announced the closure of the nearly century-old La Tuna prison, saying employees will be laid off while the agency consolidates operat...
Wolf Street

Unwinding the “Lock-in Effect” Suddenly Stalls as Homeowners Stopped Paying Off Below-3% Mortgages - Those ultra-low mortgages wrecked the housing market, but homeowners had nevertheless been paying them off steadily – until now.
Dorf on Law

Principle and Policy in the Birthright Citizenship Case - If you had asked me a year and a half ago what the prospects were for President Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship if and when the iss...
Idavox

Inside Freedom 250’s ‘Great American State Fair’ Kickoff - Unicorn Riot went to this nonsense so you didn’t have to. L. Cam Anderson, Contributor ,... The post Inside Freedom 250’s ‘Great American State Fair’ Kic...
The Texas Signal

TPS And Texas: By The Numbers - TPS holders in Texas generated $4.3 billion in state GDP in 2023. Their work is concentrated where Texas is already short of labor.
IVN

SCOTUS Just Strengthened the 2-Party System - and no, the country isn't going socialist
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Scam Turns 250: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Common Dreams

Trump EPA Approves Its Fifth ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide - The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the highly persistent pesticide trifludimoxazin for use on wheat, oats, oranges, apples and almonds. The...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Democratic Socialism Goes Mile-High - Progressives are pushing their winning streak far beyond NYC.
Independent Political Report

Party for Socialism and Liberation Remembers Ramiro Valdés Menéndez in Letter to Communist Party of Cuba - The Party for Socialism and Liberation is honoring Cuban revolutionary Ramiro Valdés Menéndez following reports of his death, sending condolences to the ...
See You In 2020

To survive the Jakarta Method, we must bring Americans together in defending their liberty - Our rulers increasingly desire to implement the Jakarta Method, the model for mass killings that was carried out by the 20th century’s CIA-installed dic...
Texas Standard

Trump vowed to deport ‘criminals,’ but increasingly those swept up by ICE have no criminal record - An analysis found that between February 2025 and February 2026, more than 38,000 people in Texas without criminal convictions or pending charges were arres...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Exdented boxes - This is a tessellation by David Huffman, which I took directly from an academic article titled “Reconstructing David Huffman’s Origami Tessellations“. It’...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

250th Anniversary Marks Moment of Both Commemoration and Reckoning - ACLU deputy executive director reflects on the country’s 250th anniversary and the work that continues today as she enters new role.
Bonddad

Starting off the second half of 2026 (mainly) positive - - *by New Deal democrat* *[Special programming note: Today we begin the second half of the year. On Friday there will be no data due to the federal ...
Progressive.org

A Cruel Rule: Work or Lose Benefits - The apparent goal is to keep as many people as possible from getting the help they need.
Greg Palast

America at 250, of Thee I Sing - When it comes to America's semiquincentennial birthday, I feel like someone whose husband has gotten fat and surly and announced he’s going vegan. You just...
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 years of ‘America the beautiful’ - From state parks to private gardens, more than 250 photos show success in preserving natural spaces. The post RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 year...
The Progressive Wing

7/1-2 News Roundup and OT - Congratulations to Melat Kiros on her extraordinary victory in Colorado over a 30-year incumbent House member. The tide is turning. Americans are tired of ...
Ecosophia

Peak Oil: Specter and Substance - It’s been a long time now since peak oil dropped off the radar screens of public consciousness. Mention it these days and the reaction you’ll get from the ...
Mediaite

John Kennedy Cracks Up Theo Von With Wild Joke: ‘I Might Get in Trouble for Saying That’ - Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) turned the tables on Theo Von and had the comic/podcast host cracking up on his show on Wednesday morning. The post John Kennedy...
NORML

Analysis: Drug-Related Arrests, Disciplinary Incidents on College Campuses Decline Following Marijuana Legalization - [image: a hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a young white person in handcuffs][image: a hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in fr...
Ian Welsh

Management Theory (MBAs) Are Two Thirds About Non-Competition - There’s book from the 2000’s called “The Management Myth” by Stewart on my bookshelf. It didn’t sell all that well, but it’s an important book because it e...
WhoWhatWhy

In Iran, Trump’s Stubbornness Conflicts With Persian Pride - [image: Lion, arrows, pride] Trump failed to understand — and no one around him seemed to have the courage to tell him — that Iranians are a different bree...
Democracy Now!

Reparations Efforts "Sweeping the Country" Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program - The Department of Justice is attempting to sabotage a reparations initiative that compensates victims of historic housing discrimination in Evanston, Illin...
Space City Weather

This year is now half over, what do you remember most about the weather so far in 2026? - In brief: In today’s post we look back at the first six months of the year, and review the most impactful weather event during that time. We also talk abou...
Rewire

America’s 250th Anniversary Marks 250 Years of Male Sex Work - From “gigolos” to Chippendales dancers, men have been selling sex—to both male and female clients—since colonial days. Their history illustrates how sexu...
Texas Monthly

Meet Our Newest Landmark - The Rabbit Ears aren’t technically in Texas. Let’s adopt them anyway.
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Union trying to rush through sellout deal at Western Sydney University - In typical anti-democratic fashion, the NTEU is trying to push an endorsement vote through a hastily called members’ meeting on Thursday.
jobsanger

A Very Biased Supreme Court -
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History” - NYT: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s wife owned a profitable radio station. George W. Bush was on the board of an oil company while his father was in the ...
The Greanville Post

Alexander Mercouris: A New Putin? From Diplomacy to War - GD-AM—Putin’s transformation was catalyzed by internal crisis and external pressure: The December assassination attempt marked a pivotal moment, convincing...
The Week

High and dry: St Lucia’s battle to fix water woes - Costly effort to overhaul supply has yet to solve the everyday struggle for reliable water
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Historic Event’: Trump announces Republican midterm convention - President unveils plans for Dallas summit, in break with tradition of conventions only in presidential election years Donald Trump has announced that Rep...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Online conservatives declare war on SCOTUS judge and her adopted children in aftermath of birthright citizenship ruling - And we are again at the time of year which finds the LGBTQ community tired, weary, battered and bruised but still standing. It is the end of yet another ...
Alternet

Trump is drowning DC in shady no-bid contracts: report - MS NOW analyst Steve Benen said if there’s any kind of phrase for the overpriced corruption plaguing DC under the second Trump administration it would pr...
Crooked Timber

The state of nuclear power in 2026 - There was a renewed burst of enthusiasm for nuclear power a few years ago. In Australia, where I live it was confined to the political right and didn’t las...
San Antonio Report

What to do after a DWI arrest in San Antonio - SPONSORED: After a DWI arrest in San Antonio, the most important decision is who you hire to help you. ------------------------------ What to do after a DWI...
Unlimited Hangout

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1 - Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and represe...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Novara Media

Starmer Announces Cuts to Pay for Defence - The Prime Minister has announced a £15bn increase in military spending, to be funded by cutting investment budgets in other areas. Plus: Anti-immigrant pro...
The AltWorld

Omar Nashabe: ‘Lebanon’s president is here to serve US interests, not Lebanese ones’ | Ep. 33 - Dr. Omar Nashabe is a criminal justice and human rights specialist with extensive academic and advisory experience. […] The post Omar Nashabe: ‘Lebanon’s...
Scheerpost.com

In Gift to Billionaires, Supreme Court Buys Vance’s Argument Against Post-Watergate Campaign Finance Rule - Editor’s Note: While many are celebrating the Supreme Court’s narrow victory preserving birthright citizenship, it is important not to lose sight of the br...
Duck of Minerva

What Politics and IR can teach AI pedagogy - [Editor’s Note: This is a write-up of a workshop proceedings. It is posted under my name, but the participants wrote the piece; they are listed at the end....
The NM Political Report

Governor, AG accuse DEA of letting fentanyl flood NM streets, demand investigation - [image: New Mexico's overdose crisis just got a new villain, according to the governor: the federal agency that's supposed to be fighting it.] By Kevin He...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2026 - Meet Our Summer 2026 Student Interns We’re so excited to welcome a new cohort of talented students to the Project Censored team, who will support our res...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: Cultural Pillars: Museums & Institutions - Whenever I go to a city, I always want to visit its encyclopedic museum. It’s a way to take the temperature of an art scene, to see what a community (and...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Tuesday Roundup & More - Here a generally liberal and a generally conservative cartoonist offer a similar take on the Supreme Court’s finding that, because Roundup’s label doesn’t ...
Off The Kuff

Benjamin Flores update - Some good news. Benjamin Flores, the Democratic nominee for Texas land commissioner, said Friday that he is in remission, two weeks after his campaign reve...
NPR's Health Shots

After Trump's reelection, these U.S. scientists found jobs in the U.K. - More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities in the U.K.
Grist

For Puerto Rico’s fishers, climate change isn’t the only challenge — being left to adapt alone is another - Even as Puerto Rico's fisherfolk navigate rising seas and monster storms, a maze of bureaucracy is proving to be their biggest obstacle.
slacktivist

On Christianity and Aliens (cont’d.) - God created you and God redeemed you and you are beloved by God. Can you imagine this is true for anyone other than you? Can you accept that this might be ...
Church and State

Donald Trump is the greatest con man in the United States - The successes that he glories in, making America a failure in the world, demeaning all the things that have made our country the greatest ever.
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Hot Takes: Mailing it In - We are on the road this week, so there will be no new BradCasts or Green News Reports until after the July 4th holiday. So, I’ve got only a moment right no...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier Recommends Three More Books of Mine! - The category of books here is the *Philosophy of Religion* (POR). Below are summarized comments from him. The essay is linked below. *One) Unapologetic: W...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our July/August 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, The following are my remarks, in part, from our May 6 MOLLYs fundraiser gala: Last year, some of you may remember, we published a ...
Earthworks

“We Have to Do Whatever We Can” - Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people. Here's how. The post “We Have to Do Whatever We Can” appeared first on E...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Shareholder Democracy and Causeway Impact Founders on Building Shareholder Influence - If you hold a 401(k), an IRA, or a single index fund, you own a... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Shareholder Democracy and Causeway Impact Founder...
LareDOS

Next Stories of Laredo: Community Journaling program set for July 14, 6 p.m. at the Joe A. Guerra Library - Be part of enriching Laredo's cultural history!
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Texas SBOE’s Bible mandate is Not Religious Literacy. It is State-Sponsored,Taxpayer Funded, Religious Favoritism, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Texas SBOE’s Bible mandate is Not Religious Literacy. It is State-Sponsored, Taxpayer Funded, Religious Favoritism* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.*...
Liberation News

LGBTQ history is the history of working class unity and struggle! - As the right wing and the Trump administration move full steam ahead with their attempts to roll back the rights of LGBTQ people, it is more important than...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
Lowering the Bar

Nicholas Rossi Finally Extradited From Earth - It took a lot longer to get him out of Scotland.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

There’s No “P” In Our Ool - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first peeped that aerial shot on Reuters, it wouldn’t leave my mind. On the one hand, it’s another bucke...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EYE ON THE SPARROW Y'ALL EDITION. - *DANCE PARTY!!* It seems the closer we get to the big two-five-oh -- that is, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence -- the stupider t...
Dissent Magazine

The New York Left’s Super Tuesday - The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the ...
The Militant

US, Tehran deal means no peace in the Mideast - Washington and Tehran signed a 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17. But this is not a “peace” agreement, it’s a move by Washington to work with ...
Socialist Alternative

AI IPOs: Next Stage Of The Bubble? - While we pay through the nose for shortages stemming from Trump’s war on Iran, his billionaire friends are gambling trillions on the AI bubble. Elon Musk’s...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report June 26, 2026 - Black Agenda Report June 26, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/26/2026 - 03:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Discourse

Super PACs Are No Match for Zohran Mamdani (w/Jack Crosbie) - Plus: Big wins in the New York primaries, ranking NYC avenues, and Taylor and Travis' cursed wedding at MSG
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Primary Season: 2026 Already Surpasses Average Number of Incumbent Losses, and a Low Number of Incumbents are Running - After this week's primaries, 7 House incumbents have been denied renomination. This is above the postwar average of 6.5 losses, and there are some other ...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Hunts Down Hind Rajab’s Killers & Crushes Israeli Offensive - More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked to t...
Bracing Views

The Real Enemy Is War - For Democracy to Prosper, America’s Wars Must End BILL ASTORE JUN 24, 2026 To democracy, the real enemy is war. Almost any excess, any use of power, any ab...
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...
Media Lens

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Most Effective Research To Prevent Violence Is Buried For Ideological Reasons! - The academic world has been steadily improving research about how to reduce violence and solve many other social problems for decades, if not well over ...
Krebs on Security

Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial - Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the...
TalkLeft

Happy Father's Day and Open Thread - Happy Father's Day to all. A day of tribute and for many, remembrances. My dad passed away at age 81 in 2001. Something reminds me of him every day. His ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Field Negro

No exit in sight. - I few months ago I was driving down to Louisiana to play golf with some friends of mine. I had a craving for a bag of those pecan nuts that they serve...
Alas, a Blog

Fox Goggles - It took me a few tries to write this strip. It’s the most vexing question of the Trump era, for me: How can so many people support Trump? I’ve known a bunc...
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Progressives Chat

Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed. - In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition. From Democrats. But also from the supposed mainstream. One of these men, beginning...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / CULTURE / Down on the Drag: Austin Music History - By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2026 I love learning about the place, people and history of where I live. I often wonder about the people w...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
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...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
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...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
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 ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
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:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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
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

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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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