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

Raw Story

Trump loses appeal to delay Supreme Court's tariff smackdown - President Donald Trump and his administration lost an appeal that would have delayed a Supreme Court ruling striking down the authority to impose emergen...
The Week

Media: The campaign to silence Trump critics - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is one of Trump's biggest supporters
Political Wire

Big Majority Disapprove of Attack on Iran - A new CNN poll finds 59% of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s decision to take military action in Iran, as most say a long-term military conflict b...
Al Jazeera English

How the US hit Iran with a banned AI - Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains the dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic over how AI should be used in warfare.
Mediaite

‘I Never Get Bored’: Trump Lays Out His ‘Objectives’ and Timeline in Iran - "We have the strongest and most powerful, by far, military in the world, and we will easily prevail. We're already substantially ahead of our time projec...
memeorandum

Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous "Restoring Trust In Media" Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media (Karl Bode/Techdirt) - Karl Bode / Techdirt: *Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media* — from the these...
Futurism

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server - "Streisand effect in full swing." The post Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server...
Salon.com

Mainstream media rallies for war, again - Why Donald Trump isn't bothering to make the case for war against Iran
San Antonio Current

Suspect in Austin bar mass shooting was former San Antonio resident - [image: Republican and Democratic officials have offered vastly different responses to the Austin mass shooting.] The suspect who killed 3 and injured ano...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Authorities investigate mass shooting at Austin bar as potential act of terrorism - Officials continue to investigate Sunday shooting in Texas amid fears of further attacks following US airstrikes on Iran - Austin bar shooting...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 198: Mar. 2, 2026 - Today's puzzle has five pears.
The Verge

Nvidia’s spending $4 billion on photonics to stay ahead of the curve in AI - Nvidia announced on Monday that it's investing $2 billion each into Lumentum and Coherent, which are both developing photonics technology for data centers,...
ProPublica

ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools - The post ProPublica Sues Education Department for Withholding Records About Discrimination in Schools appeared first on ProPublica.
Independent Political Report

National Political Parties Respond to U.S.-Israel Strikes in Iran - The United States and Israel launched coordinated military strikes against targets across Iran on Saturday, resulting in the death of Iran’s Ayatollah Al...
CultureMap Houston

Historic Houston air terminal museum closes due to budget shortfall - A beloved Houston museum has closed its doors — at least for now. The *1940 Air Terminal Museum* *announced* this morning (Monday, March 2) that it has cea...
Texas Standard

Iranians in North Texas react to U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran - North Texans say they’re waiting anxiously to reach family and friends back in Iran amidst the major military campaign that began in the country Saturday m...
The Hill

Democrats must not lose the plot on Iran - Democrats must hold Trump accountable for his actions in Iran, ensuring that any regime change is complete and democratic, or risk repeating past mistakes ...
Eschaton

Whatever, Man - The Iraq war rationale shifted - and pundits made up their own - but not hourly. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said today that the US strikes on Iran...
Scheerpost.com

‘Everything Is Gambling Now’: War on Iran Sparks Insider Trading Fears as Bettors Cash In - Posted by Joshua Scheer As thick plumes of smoke rose over residential neighborhoods in Tehran as U.S.–Israeli airstrikes shook the Iranian capital. Within...
Undernews

ICE is even detaining Native Americans - *Maine Morning Star - *ICE officers are arresting and detaining Native Americans, not distinguishing them from Central and South American immigrants. As...
Dissident Voice

Iran, Epstein, and Human Sacrifice - Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyah...
Mediagazer

How CBS News' right-leaning, pro-Israel editorial leadership is covering the Iran crisis; Bari Weiss' outspoken approach led to her reposting false information (Max Tani/Semafor) - Max Tani / Semafor: *How CBS News' right-leaning, pro-Israel editorial leadership is covering the Iran crisis; Bari Weiss' outspoken approach led to her ...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing In February positive, but with a major helping of inflation - * - by New Deal democrat* Most official data series remain about one month behind their normal schedule, despite the government shutdown having ended...
Daily Howler

SURROUNDINGS: The president made the fateful decision! - *MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2026* *But what were the surroundings?* Last Friday night, we happened to sit up, awake, at roughly 1:30 a.m. On all three major "cable...
Deadline Politics

Pete Hegseth Gets Irritated As Reporters Query Him On Details Of The Endgame In U.S. And Israel’s War With Iran - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s irritation with the media was on full display on Monday as he and General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of St...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Engelhardt, The President from Hell on One Hell of a Planet - I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration ...
Glasstire

Fusebox Festival Shifts to Biennial Event, Announces 2026 Lineup - After two decades as an annual Austin event, Fusebox Festival returns in 2026 as a biennial multimedia, multivenue, multiday series of performances, art ...
SCOTUSblog

Justices to consider breadth of a federal defendant’s waiver of appeal - In Hunter v. United States, to be argued on Tuesday, March 3, the Supreme Court will address how broad federal defendants’ waivers of their right to appe...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How We Got to War and Where We're Going: Bourbon Talk Q&A - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
naked capitalism

Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine - How Category III CPT codes for new procedures became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game, to patient detriment.
Houston Public Media

Turnover in East Texas politics may jeopardize regional sway at the Legislature - Some advocates for the region worry freshmen lawmakers will start deal-making at a deficit, while other voters see a chance for new blood.
Axios

Top U.S. general says it will take time to achieve Iran war goals - The U.S. military operation against Iran, dubbed "Epic Fury," will not end "overnight," Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair...
Courthouse News

Small victory - Every now and then the little guys do win.
Mother Jones

Can James Talarico Convince Democrats He’s the Fighter They Need? - If you ask a bunch of James Talarico supporters when they first heard about the 36-year-old Democratic candidate for US Senate, more often than not they wi...
Democracy Now!

Trump's War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody - The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations S...
The Conversation

The nation is missing millions of voters due to lack of rights for former felons - At least 20 million Americans have served time. Most of them can’t or don’t vote, and that may distort some election outcomes, a political scientist argues.
Novara Media

UK Gave £90k to Sexual Violence Report Central to Israel’s Genocide Propaganda - The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report seeking to prove that sexual violence by Hamas on 7 October was “systematic”, a weakly evidenced claim Israel made...
Techdirt.

Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media - You might recall that when political news website Semafor entered the media industry on the back of $25 million in private money, they made all kinds of pr...
The Progressive Wing

3/2 News Roundup & Open Thread - State Rep. James Talarico (D-TX) holds a Senate campaign event in San Antonio, Texas. More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Reza Pahlavi - Persian pretender throws in with Netanyahu and Trump. The malakatude, it burns.
Space City Weather

Saddle up Houston as we ride into a warm week with a good soaking at the end - In brief: In today’s post we discuss our unseasonably warm weather this week, which will persist into the weekend. The big thing we’re watching for is rain...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Day After the Morning After - Two days after the attacks on Iran began, the assault continues to dominate political cartooning, though Monday is always quiet as few cartoonists work the...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 2 March 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the first post on the attack on the Iranian theocracy, cli...
Rallblog

The Republic Strikes Back | 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...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: The Wildfire Season You’re Not Prepared For - Smoke doesn’t check borders. You learn that fast on a fireline, watching a fire run... The post Guest Idea: The Wildfire Season You’re Not Prepared For a...
NPR's Health Shots

Ivermectin is making a post-pandemic comeback, among cancer patients - The anti-parasitic drug became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is now being embraced as an alternative treatment for cancer. It is as...
Vox

The “Epstein class,” explained - The Trump administration says it’s done with its release of the Epstein files. But that doesn’t mean the issue is going away: Just last week, NPR and other...
The Root

The Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read in March 2026 - A history of Black comedians, a beautiful children's book adapted from a hit song and an inspiring memoir are among the books we can't wait to read in Ma...
The AltWorld

Diez horas que sacudieron Asia Occidental - Es posible que estemos llegando al umbral del orden postestadounidense en Asia Occidental. Diez horas. Eso es […] The post Diez horas que sacudieron Asia...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s United States of Amnesia Blunders Into Iran -
Skeptophilia

Divine meddling - In Paul McCaw's musical comedy *The Trumpets of Glory*, angels back various causes on Earth as a kind of competitive contest. Anything from a soccer game ...
Off The Kuff

A statewide comparison - I mentioned this yesterday, so here it is. I decided to look at the most recent early voting turnout numbers I could find for the counties, and then compar...
San Antonio Report

‘Very concerning to me’: Texas Biomed president talks about changing U.S. vaccine policy - Texas Biomed CEO Dr. Larry Schlesinger said he sees no legitimate scientific reason behind changing the federal vaccine schedule. --------------------------...
Countercurrents

US-Israeli Assault Kills Over 550 in Iran, About 30 in Lebanon - Tehran (QNN)- At least 555 people have been killed in Iran in the US-Israeli assault on the country, and 31 others have been killed in Lebanon in Israeli s...
Grist

A regional network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds - As climate change intensifies wildfires and other extreme weather events, demand for native seeds is surging.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Still Just A Confirmation Bias Machine - It used to be that when I used AI I found that it would give me obviously wrong answers to questions about things I had some knowledge about. Later new ver...
Election Law Blog

5th Circuit okays Texas ban on professional ballot harvesting - Judge Jones, joined by Judges Engelhardt and Summerhays, in a decision from a couple of weeks ago, with a bit of editorializing about the complexity that...
Two Party Opera

Milestones - Read More Comic *1000!* Yowza! Can't get psyched out by the milestone. On Friday, I premiered an* 8-minute animated Two Party Opera* proof of concept — i...
High Country News

Can Alaska save caribou by killing bears? - [image: Caribou from the Mulchatna herd cross a frozen pond near Eek Lake, south of Bethel, Alaska, in 2021.] A controversial culling program aims to revi...
Crooked Media

The Conservative Push To Weaken Our Democracy - The post The Conservative Push To Weaken Our Democracy appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

Sunday Science: What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals - Sunday Science: What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals Ira Mon, 03/02/2026 - 03:01
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Germany Learns From the IDF - The Israelis are to teach Germans how to use artificial intelligence based on the I.D.F.’s experience in Gaza, where, among other things, it used A.I. to i...
World Socialist Web Site

Stop the criminal US-Israeli war against Iran! - The joint US-Israeli assault on Iran, which began in the early morning hours of February 28, is a criminal act of war waged in flagrant violation of the Un...
Counterpunch

The Policy of “Maximum Pressure” on Iran Finds Its Ultimate Conclusion - Americans should not be fooled or led astray by the corporate media or the Beltway consultant class: fact-free fearmongering and warmongering about Iran ...
ArcaMax

The Ripple Effects of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Vision of Black Economic Power - Having covered the Rev. Jesse Jackson for more than a half-century, I have an insider’s understanding of why thousands of people lined up to wait patiently...
jobsanger

Austin Shooting Is Looking Like A Terrorist Reprisal For The Iran Bombing -
Wolf Street

Drill Baby Drill for 20+ Years: US Natural Gas Production Jumps to Record, Exports via LNG & Pipeline Spike to Record in 2025 - And the price of US natural gas fell back to where it had been 30 years ago.
Informed Comment

How the US/ Israel War on Iran could Spike Energy Costs and Provoke an Economic Downturn - The macro effect is elevated inflation as energy prices are coupled with rising costs in transport, food and manufacturing
El Paso Matters

Carlos Spector, pioneering El Paso immigration attorney and human rights advocate, dies at 71 - Carlos Spector, a prominent El Paso immigration attorney who championed asylum claims for Mexican and Indigenous migrants, died Sunday after a recent ca...
Crooked Timber

In the Next Great Transformation AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable - These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to. And in the past, you would have to go on a journey. You can lay down trail markers that o...
The Greanville Post

US and Israel ATTACK IRAN - DD—The conversation delves into the broader consequences of the war, comparing it to previous conflicts like Vietnam and Iraq, emphasizing the human cost, ...
Popular Resistance

Going To War, Again, For Israel - Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will ...
Workers World

Sayyed Ali Khamenei: Rest in power!! - [image: Sayyed Ali Khamenei: Rest in power!!] Sayyed Ali Khamenei Workers World Party, based in the United States, extends to the people of the Islamic Rep...
Antiwar.com

No Mandate, No Peace: America’s War of Choice Against Iran - Early Saturday, the United States joined Israel in launching a major strike on Iran, with President Donald Trump announcing that “major combat operations” ...
The Daily Poster

How The Supreme Court Could Legalize Trump’s Iran War - A congressional showdown over the Iran War could provide conservative justices their long-awaited chance to let presidents launch wars without any limits o...
Mondoweiss

Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal aggression in Iran - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Ga...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Trump Kills Khamenei — Iran Hits Back | Regime Change War Day 2 - The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East. After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washingt...
Alternet

MAGA isolationists melt down over new Trump move - When former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) announced that she was resigning from Congress, she wasn't shy about expressing her disappointment wi...
Socialist Alternative

Trump, Tradwives, and “Traditional Values”—We Need Socialist Feminism - It has been nearly ten years since #MeToo went viral, sparking a movement that took down rich and powerful serial abusers and brought conversations around ...
Ballot Access News

Eastland County, Texas, Struggles with its Decision to Hand-Count Primary Ballots - Here is an interesting story about the problems that have cropped up in Eastland County, Texas, after the county and the Republican Party decided to count ...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 01, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 01, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Iran Calls Trump’s Bluff as Deep State Rebels Over War [Simplicius, via Naked C...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom in Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom * *in Texas Higher Education* *by* *Angela Valen...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Horses - Here’s a horse I folded at a conference many years ago. It’s meant to stand on its hind legs, although you’d really need to attach it to a stand. Earlier ...
Idavox

US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call for Regime Change - The first casualties reported by Iran were those from strikes on an elementary girls’ school.... The post US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call ...
Claytoonz

Gerrymandering Hypocrites - 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...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'No, More Wars!' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... ...NEXT NOVEMBER?... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasin...
Angry Bear

Trademarking a President’s name - Trademarks his name for future use? This was going on mid-February. It is now two weeks later and I am catching up on my subscriptions. Trump is trademar...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Sludge

Here Is How Much AIPAC Has Funneled to Every Member of Congress - Sludge analyzed FEC data to create a searchable list of AIPAC’s donations this cycle to every member of Congress.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

When Genocidal Governments Label their Victims As Terrorist! - Since October 7th Social Media has gone viral with atrocities committed by Israel, including many confirmed by credible sources, and among these claims ...
Dorf on Law

Trump's War Against Iran Violates International Law - Donald Trump's attack on Iran violates both international law and the U.S. Constitution. In this post and a subsequent one, I'll take seriously some argu...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Stop Trump’s War on Iran! - The Trump administration and Israel have launched a massive war against Iran that has already brought death, destruction and chaos all across the Middle East.
Bracing Views

Yet Another Illegal Regime-Change War - Bibi and Trump Launch Their War on Iran BILL ASTORE FEB 28, 2026 I woke to the news that Israel/USA is launching attacks (New York Times) and strikes (NBC ...
MintPress News

Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout - War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trum...
The NM Political Report

New Mexicans in Congress condemn Trump’s Iran actions without Congressional approval - The United States and Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran Saturday morning, prompting near universal condemnation from New Mexico’s elected ...
Field Negro

The Epstein War has begun. - I have a friend who bought this really nice sports car a few years back, and he wouldn't let his nineteen year old son at the time get within a hundred...
Discourse

Nobody Wants This War - People know intrinsically that an attack on Iran is an act of insanity.
Krebs on Security

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? - In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest ...
Common Dreams

Ribbital: Democracy As Something We Do, Not Just Have - Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TOO GRIM TO BE FUNNY & VICE VERSA EDITION. - *Ry Cooder doesn't get enough love.* If the actions of this administration weren’t so harmful to actual human beings, I could enjoy them as living satire...
Debunking Christianity

"Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian - "Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian is Secular Web's Editor's Choice, Kiosk Article! Congrats goes to Edouard who is t...
Alas, a Blog

The Alpha Wolf - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. And just look at how adorable the wolf pups she drew are! The term “alpha wolf” was coined in 1947 by biologist ...
Progressive.org

San José State University Should Fight Ruling on Trans Athletes - The weaponization of Title IX to exclude trans women does not remedy the many disparities for women in sports; instead, it exacerbates them.
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Dissent Magazine

A Tale of Two Plumbers - Hannah Spencer’s victory in a UK parliamentary by-election is a major win for the Green Party, which aims to build a viable left-populist alternative to ...
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...
Earthworks

We Caught Shell Polluting in PA, again! Our Partner did, too. - Since opening in November 2022 the Shell Plastic Plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania has been wrought with malfunctions and violations. … The post We C...
Capital & Main

Agents In ICE Shootings Made Racist or Sexist Remarks, Records Show - U.S. immigration agents involved in three shootings since June have been recorded or accused of using derogatory language about women or people of color....
Rewire

Surgeon General Nominee Flip-Flops on Birth Control - Plus: Vanderbilt cancels adult gender-affirming surgeries and Meta AI stifles abortion discussions. The post Surgeon General Nominee Flip-Flops on Birth...
Greg Palast

Two Speeches. Two Americas. One Liar. - Trump doesn’t just tailor his message to the room. He fabricates reality from scratch for different audiences, with total indifference to being caught, as ...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our March/April 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, And so comes primary season. That time of year when Texas Democratic voters gather to, through a process about as reliable as the...
The Militant

Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’ - Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up at...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2026 - Censored Press News The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, by Allison T. Butler, is now available for pre-order from...
NORML

A Message From NORML’s Board Chair Honoring Black History Month - [image: Leaves of a growing legal cannabis plant on a dark background][image: Leaves of a growing legal cannabis plant on a dark background]"As Chair of ...
WhoWhatWhy

Tropical Forests See Bird Declines. Is Another ‘Silent Spring’ in the Wings? - [image: climate crisis, biodiversity, tropical forests, bird declines, 'silent spring' concern] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editor...
Church and State

Is It Moral for Christians to Lie About Lies? - It’s typical of the sort of attacks on modernity and secularism produced by many religious leaders to promote gullibility and loyalty in followers.
Environment Texas

Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly - The post Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly appeared first on Environment Texas.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
See You In 2020

The Epstein class has an Israeli-backed plan to weaponize organized crime, & terrorize the people into submission - When it comes to the long-term designs of the Epstein class, an insightful resource is the Israeli-backed psyop book Bronze Age Mindset. Its author, the...
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground - Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground. By Zayd Ayers Dohrn; W. W.Norton & Company, 2026 By Jonah Raskin ...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank - Nigel Farage is preparing to fly more than 3,000 miles from his UK constituency to address an anti-climate U.S. think tank with close ties to Donald Trum...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

What to Watch for in the Texas Primaries - The 2026 primary season will begin next week, with Texas being the biggest event of the night. Both sides have nationally-watched primaries for the seat ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
The Texas Signal

Legal Challenges For Texas Muslim Organizations - In the past several months, Paxton and his office have been quite busy filing lawsuits against developments with ties to the Islamic community
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Ecosophia

February 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Unlimited Hangout

Redacted - Redacted.
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...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
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. —...
Media Lens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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