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

memeorandum

Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Luis Ferré-Sadurní/New York Times) - Luis Ferré-Sadurní / New York Times: *Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records* — Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bro...
Mediaite

Trump Pledges to Fire Consultants ‘If There’s a Conflict’ After Scathing NYT Report - "I do not have any idea who else they work for but will, on reflection, ask them and, if there’s a conflict, I will terminate them, immediately!" The pos...
The Hill

Ex-Trump personal attorney adds Dem operative as client, says DOJ treating him unfairly - An ex-personal attorney to President Trump is taking on a Democratic political operative as a client, accusing the Justice Department of not treating him f...
Raw Story

Trump sending 'dangerous' signal to enemy after hasty retreat: ex-Pentagon official - The hasty withdrawal of a dozen U.S. B-1 bombers from a British air base over an Iranian drone threat may have taught Tehran that President Donald Trump ...
Al Jazeera English

US mortgage rates hit their highest level in three years - Rising borrowing costs have pushed mortgage applications to their lowest level since February 2025.
Slate

There’s Something My Fiancé Needs to Do Before We Get Married. He Says If I Keep Bringing It Up, There Will Be No Wedding. - Why won't he listen to me?
Futurism

“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting - Here's how to check yours. The post “Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting appe...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: No One Cares About Oct 7 Anymore - After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel for the past three years, people get it now. Support for Israel, after its perpetration of...
Independent Political Report

Republican Tennessee State Senator Spurns Party, Backs Independent Candidate David Hatley - *This article was originally published by* *Tennessee Lookout on October 5, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expre...
Mediagazer

David Ellison's Skydance executive team shows he favors movies with stronger commercial prospects than the artier fare that's defined WBD in recent years (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg) - Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg: *David Ellison's Skydance executive team shows he favors movies with stronger commercial prospects than the artier fare that'...
Bonddad

Last week’s major revisions to personal income: comparing the source data - - *by New Deal democrat* While we are waiting for new data releases to start back up, let me follow up on the surprise revisioins last week to perso...
Scheerpost.com

The Pentagon’s Secret Budget - David Vine, Counter Punch. News reports that next year’s U.S. military budget will top out at $1.5 trillion if President Donald Trump gets his way are misl...
Salon.com

Michael Shannon’s R.E.M. tribute reminded me why I love the band - The actor’s show with Jason Narducy is more than nostalgia — it celebrates the band’s artistry
Capital & Main

Aging Coal Plants Turn Into a Midterm Fight Over Energy Costs - The Trump administration says the plants are vital for grid reliability. Utilities, states and ratepayers are challenging the orders and candidates are t...
SCOTUSblog

The first relists of the 2026-27 term - *The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is ava...
Axios

Raskin seeks to preserve Trump's D.C. "propaganda" in Smithsonian - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would direct the Smithsonian to preserve and display artifacts he said reflect the rise o...
Eschaton

The Bond Market God - He is angry, but we aren't hearing all that much about it. U.S. Treasury yields climbed Wednesday, trading back around multiyear highs, as traders braced f...
The Verge

Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’ - Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research orga...
Mondoweiss

Genocide and the slow erosion of the family in Gaza - [image: Palestinian Karam Abu Haloub and his wife Faten prepare iftar food during the third day of the holy month of Ramadan in a tent they set up on the r...
The Week

Holding Lightning: new biography makes the case for Whitney Houston’s ‘genius’ - Emily Lordi’s book refuses to reduce the singer’s story to the usual ‘good girl gone bad’ narrative
Houston Public Media

Most Texas Republicans ignore Democratic calls to debate in statewide races - The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last th...
OpEd News

Navigating different realties using different templates - What's happening as I get older and less interested in teaching (explaining) things is, I have come to trust what I know but I am also aware that there is ...
CultureMap Houston

Texas shocks as the No. 3 least safe state in America, new report says - While no state is invulnerable, some do more to protect their residents than others. And a new study has declared Texas one of the five least safe states i...
Undernews

Legalized gambling and health - *Time - L*egalizing gambling can come with big health problems. That’s the conclusion of a recent study out of Ontario, published in the American Journ...
Texas Standard

PossAble Dream aims to give Rio Grande Valley high school dropouts a chance to ‘change the story’ - The charter pilot program is giving adults opportunities to earn their diplomas and receive workforce training.
naked capitalism

Global Imbalances and the China Challenge - A useful discussion of the key China policy measures that have enabled it to achieve and maintain a dominant position in exports.
Krebs on Security

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests - A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating...
NPR's Health Shots

DIY fertilizer is a blessing as farmers face steep prices due to the Iran war - It's hard enough being a small-scale farmer. Then the Iran war drove up fertilizer prices. So farmers are using a traditional Asian recipe to make their ow...
Ian Welsh

Saudi Arabia Has Truly F**cked Around & Is About To Find Out - Saudi Arabia made a major counter-offensive against Ansar-Allah with mercenaries. It took a bit of ground, and is now being pushed back hard. No one with s...
Political Wire

El-Sayed Just Ahead in Michigan Senate Race - A new poll in Michigan finds Abdul El-Sayed (D) leading Mike Rogers (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 48% to 47%. Michigan Senate Race Abdul El-Sayed (D) 48% ...
The Root

How Rachel Ojuromi Went From Walking on the Streets of Lagos to the Chanel Runway in Paris - After spending the better part of a year posting fashion videos on the streets of Lagos, Nigerian model Rachel Ojuromi has just made her runway debut wit...
Democracy Now!

Three Years into Genocide, "The IDF Is Still Hunting Gazans": Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri - In Gaza, October 7, 2023, is viewed as the beginning of the genocide. Over the past three years, Israel killed over 74,000 people, according to the Gaza He...
The Progressive Wing

10/7 News Roundup & Open Thread - Senator Susan Collins and Troy Jackson face off in the CBS13/FOX23 U.S. Senate debate. More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Rallblog

How Israel Lost the War | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - IVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas d...
Techdirt.

Paramount, Warner Bros Formally Merge, Form Giant Mountain Of Disastrous Debt - Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-qual...
Alternet

'Not a win': Senate Republicans torn apart for boosting Collins’ self-own - The debate between Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Troy Jackson has sparked several clips showing epic failures by the Republican lawmaker, and her own ...
Texas Observer

What Will It Take to ‘Get ICE the Fuck Out of Austin’? - Though exact counts vary, Department of Homeland Security agents have shot at about two dozen people in the United States since Donald Trump resumed the ...
Space City Weather

With Isaias bound for northern Gulf coast Texas to see calm, if warm, weather - In brief: Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the southern Gulf, and it has a really good chance to become the season’s first hurricane. It is bound for th...
Mother Jones

Trump Administration Plans to Have Its Own Lawyers Represent Migrant Kids - The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against ...
ArcaMax

A Tale of Two Americas - "The rich are different from you and me." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald I read two books in one weekend: "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson on Saturday, "Strangers" ...
Dorf on Law

Malcolm Gladwell, Confused Originalist - In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky published *Worlds in Collision*, in which he argued that astronomical events such as the supposed expulsion of Venus as a co...
The Smirking Chimp

Lawyers at the Ready As Experts Map Out Election ‘Doomsday Scenario’ -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Rep. Gene Wu - There’s a lot one can say about State Rep. Gene Wu, who has represented HD137 since winning a hard fought primary in 2012 to succeed Scott Hochberg. Wu, an...
San Antonio Report

Redistricting scrambled San Antonio voters this year. Here’s how to find your sample ballot. - San Antonio voters will see many new names on their Nov. 3 ballot thanks to redistricting, retirements and upsets. Find the list here. ---------------------...
Debunking Christianity

Vincent Torley Responds! News and Views From An Apologist Who Became a Skeptic - I have argued with Vincent Torley a time or two. As an honest Christian scholar he eventually changed his mind. A history of our debates can be found here....
Vox

The cruelty of a beloved American pastime - This story is part of a series supported by Animal Charity Evaluators, which received a grant from EarthShare. When I was a kid, my family would occasional...
ProPublica

Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families. - The post Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families. appeared first on ProPublica.
Novara Media

Israel at Risk of Civil War and State Collapse, CIA Report Says - A CIA report has said Israel is at risk of civil conflict and state collapse as its genocide in Gaza and attacks on Iran and Lebanon take their toll. The u...
Infidel753

October 7 - Today marks three years since the largest single massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. The monsters of Hamas swarmed across the border into Isra...
Grist

Powering data centers on nuclear? That’s a tough sell in Utah’s coal country. - To power two new data centers, Carbon County is getting a giant gas plant and 456 small nuclear reactors. Locals are pushing back.
Crooked Timber

How Money Matters - Having alighted from the bus in an industrial area I’d never been before, I found the right building and descended the stairs. As instructed by email, I ra...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Expert advice includes simple solutions alongside larger home investments; Oct. 7 is national Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help...
High Country News

The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed for the border wall - After a 71-day protest, the last of the 100-plus-year-old trees was cut down southeast of Tucson. The post The ‘grandmother’ cottonwood trees bulldozed ...
Two Party Opera

Midterm Martial Law - Read More
Wolf Street

Though Pussyfooting Around on Rate Hikes, the Bank of Japan Pushes QT to Prop Up the Plunging Yen - Its QT is substantial and ongoing and impacts long-term yields of Japanese Government Bonds.
World Socialist Web Site

Germany’s intelligence agencies drum up support for war against Russia - The public hearing of the heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies in the Bundestag on Monday was an undisguised propaganda event for preparations for a di...
jobsanger

The Mainstream Media Should Stop "Sanewashing" Donald Trump -
Informed Comment

The Race to an AI Apocalypse: How an Obsession with Autonomous Weapons Ignores Decades of Warnings - In its genocidal war against the people of Gaza, Israel has deployed the AI-enabled DDS called “Lavender” to identify human targets.
Courthouse News

Oyster reef conservation could unlock $12 trillion annually in untapped ‘ecopotential’ - Researchers in China believe that international oyster bed expansion and protection would bring about major economic and environmental benefits.
Workers World

October 7: Three years of resistance, genocide and solidarity - [image: October 7: Three years of resistance, genocide and solidarity] October 7, 2026, will mark the third anniversary of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood — the d...
LareDOS

Solaz y solaridad: Contra-ICE launches in downtown LA with compilation album featuring artists, musicians, comedians, and performers - Album is a fundraiser for National Day Laborer Network and Unión del Barrio, non-profits that serve immigrants and protect their human rights
See You In 2020

AI’s acceleration, our perpetual economic depression, & the next phase in the class war - Any effective response to the weaponization of AI against the working class will need to have the same strategic patience that brought about past prolet...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Friends of Nolan Wells sue NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation - Owens sued over September Instagram post that suggested trio tampered with evidence in death of Mississippi teen Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Mississi...
Popular Resistance

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills And Case For Public Banks - For several years, “the death of the dollar” has been a persistent headline, with compelling data to back it up. The dollar’s share of global foreign exc...
Brad Blog

Good, Bad and Ugly News, Four Weeks from Midterm Election Day: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2026 - We’ve got mostly encouraging news about the 2026 midterms on today’s BradCast, though there are plenty of caveats and reasons for the pro-democracy forces ...
Election Law Blog

Must-Read Jack Goldsmith Reflections on Justice Alito’s New Book - Here, in the Atlantic (gift link). He is right on target, situating Alito exactly where he and his jurisprudence sit on the Court. Goldsmith captures the...
Trivial Knot

Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time - The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time isn’t really a remake, nor an RPG. It’s a puzzle game with a metafictional narrative. You get plopped...
Deadline Politics

David Ellison Defends Meeting With Trump Amid Paramount-Warner Bros Merger Review, Comments On What Was Said About CNN - Skydance CEO David Ellison defended meeting with Donald Trump as Paramount sought to complete its merger with Warner Bros Discovery, while addressing conce...
Ballot Access News

Fourth Circuit Hears Case on North Carolina’s Law that Criminalizes Taking a Selfie of One’s Voted Ballot - On September 15, the Fourth Circuit heard oral argument in Hogarth v Bell, 26-1328. This is the case challenging North Carolina’s law that makes it a crime...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Other War - As the midterm election draws near, a number of Republicans in tough races are distancing themselves from President Trump’s war. The war is unpopular becau...
WhoWhatWhy

Why Computerized Election Theft Is Worse Than Martial Law - [image: Donald Trump, Blue wave, approval rating.] The worm has turned, but can it vote, will its vote count, and what will happen if it doesn’t? Why Comp...
Portside

Call Me a Jacobin: France’s Students Are Defending Their Future - Call Me a Jacobin: France’s Students Are Defending Their Future Judy Tue, 10/06/2026 - 19:51
Claytoonz

Catering Traitor Tots - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 28 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Daily Cartoonist

Patrick LaMontagne – 25 Years at The RMO, Week In and Week Out - 25 years and a few weeks ago a small group of people a couple dozen kilometers west of Calgary started a small weekly newspaper, The Rocky Mountain Outlook...
The Greanville Post

Gabriel Rockhill: Western Marxism, Imperialism, Slavoj Zizek, Stalin, USSR, China, Deng Xiaoping - TGP—This video features a discussion with philosopher and professor Gabriel Rockhill regarding the book Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can B...
Black Agenda Report

The Time for Polite Protest Is Over | Ajamu Baraka & Dimitri Lascaris - The Time for Polite Protest Is Over | Ajamu Baraka & Dimitri Lascaris bareditors Wed, 10/07/2026 - 03:27 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Dim...
Crooked Media

When Gender Identity Is On The Ballot - The post When Gender Identity Is On The Ballot appeared first on Crooked Media.
El Paso Matters

El Paso ISD among four Texas school districts selected for state spending review - The Texas Comptroller’s Office will examine El Paso ISD spending as part of a review requested by Gov. Greg Abbott focused on administrative costs and e...
IVN

Massachusetts Could End Party Primaries. Here’s What Question 3 Would Actually Do - Massachusetts voters could eliminate party primaries and replace them with an open primary allowing all voters to choose any candidate on a single ballot. ...
Common Dreams

Trump Must Reimburse Treasury for Public Funds Wasted on Partisan Ads - Facing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for partisan advertisements. He has...
San Antonio Current

Gov. Greg Abbott spent $141 million only to be neck-and-neck with Democrat Gina Hinojosa - Hinojosa's campaign has only spent $17 million so far as she chases Texas' governorship. The post Gov. Greg Abbott spent $141 million only to be neck-a...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Families of missing Yazidis in Syria search for hope - Years after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State militant group, hundreds of Yazidis remain missing in Syria, an issue made more complicated by clas...
MintPress News

Yemen’s Ansarallah Unveil Strategic Weapons As Israeli-US Backed Offensive Backfires - Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensi...
The Daily Poster

Your Tap Water Could Have A 67 Percent Markup - Corporate water providers charge customers hundreds more annually than households connected to public systems, according to a new analysis.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake - The ACLU could have its busiest Supreme Court term ever, with potential cases on immigration, voting rights, and religious freedom in schools.
Socialist Alternative

Socialism, Black Voters & The Midterm Elections - There is a growing wave of progressive and democratic socialist electoral campaigns across the country. Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York, Abdul El-Saye...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: He's crafted our most intelligent cable news show! - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026* *He may be wrong about this:* We're grateful to Joe Scarborough for the cable news show he has built. It seems to us that*...
First Draft

Mike Johnson Does Not Have One Weird Trick - No, the GOP can't refuse to seat the next Congress if they lose.
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
The NM Political Report

From Roundhouse hallway to whip’s chair: Nava joins Senate Democratic leadership - [image: Sen. Cindy Nava once spent her days in the Roundhouse hallways as an undocumented student volunteer, watching lawmakers she couldn't vote for decid...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: Institutional Critique: Considering Power Structures - Texas is home to myriad storied, respected institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), at a whopping 102 years old; the Menil Collection, one ...
Angry Bear

Leading indicators from the September Employment report continue positive trends - – by New Deal democrat We’ve entered our post-employment report lull in new economic data, so let’s take a further look at the leading indicators contai...
NORML

Massachusetts: Lawmakers Publicly Urge ‘No’ Vote on Marijuana Repeal Initiative (Question 8) - [image: Vote for Marijuana][image: Vote for Marijuana]"Repealing legal adult use would have devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those who have inve...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT cuts all Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses from core curriculum By Lily Kepner, Staff Writer Sep 24, 2026 - *Friends:* *What is happening to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin is no longer easy to describe as ordinary curricular housekeeping. As...
Sludge

Rep. McCaul's Wife Trades Stock in a Counter-Drone Contractor Profiting From His Laws - CACI stock has risen more than 70% since Linda McCaul's first purchase, as the contractor wins counter-drone contracts, including a spot on a $1.5 billion ...
The Conversation

This year’s primary elections showcase some of the problems with US electoral system - Primary winners represent the views of a small group of people who turn out inconsistently and often do not even represent the the views of the parties’ vo...
Rewire

Menopause is Everyone’s Problem - It’s not your job to “fix yourself,” says the author of "When in Menopause," a new book arguing that this hormonal transition is a public policy matter—not...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Church and State

Why winter cold spells are getting milder - However, when the polar jet stream meanders, the barrier is disrupted, allowing cold air to move towards the equator.
Progressive.org

No Land to Stand On - An excerpt from pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil’s new book.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BUSTED! Anti-trans activist, GOP super PAC caught lying in campaign ad against Sherrod Brown - A Republican group is running a political ad featuring anti-trans activist Soren Aldaco. The ad accuses U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown of supporting ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

A Blood-Red Tide - Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead of Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections. It’s the latest sign of a surging far right across the con...
The Texas Signal

Candidates Make Final Moves Across Texas - Nathan Johnson is the latest candidate to unveil a political ad in the closing weeks of an election cycle going down to the wire in Texas
Media Lens

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

Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology - On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining […] The post Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology appeare...
Liberation News

Family of Tierra Walker, killed by Texas abortion ban, sues attorney general Ken Paxton - Texas's abortion ban is killing women.
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
The Grayzone

‘Last American hostage in Gaza’ Edan Alexander was not US citizen, source says - The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GOOD FOR WHAT AI'S YA EDITION. - *These guys are local!* This week has been, as is now customary under Tubby II, a cavalcade of horrors, and perhaps the most illustrative horror was the ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Fire-breathing Martians - We were promised that the Two Witnesses would literally breathe fire. But then they don't literally breathe fire. I am disappointed.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week 2026 – Protect The Right To Read - Featuring Marshall Romero
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Earthworks

Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassment Limit Reporting on Harita’s Nickel Operations in Indonesia - In 2025, I sat locked in a room in a private home as military officials camped on the front porch. The post Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassm...
Bracing Views

We’re #1! - At Needless Wars, Weapons Exports, and Threatening Annihilation BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2026 Americans like to think we live in the best country in the world. ...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The United States of Enshittification: AI and the Flattened Future - The purpose isn’t progress. It’s profit for less.
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Ecosophia

Notes on Magical Geography - As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around - In case you weren't sure.
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Democracy Chronicles

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

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Duck of Minerva

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
Discourse

The World Ed Sheeran Wants to Live in No Longer Exists (w/Katherine Krueger) - Plus: A touching tribute from Project Mohammed
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Web of Debt

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

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

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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:
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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