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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

Counterpunch

“Pull a Baby Out of Your Bag?” The Question That Exposes a Genocide - “What are you going to do now, pull a baby out of your bag?" The guard's voice echoed through the marble halls of Capitol Hill, his words hitting me like...
The Week

The EPA wants to green-light approval for a twice-banned herbicide - Dicamba has been found to harm ecosystems
Informed Comment

US Green Beret: Israeli “Hunger Games in Gaza” (h/t Sen. Chris Van Hollen) - Senator Chris Van Hollen interviews Anthony Aguilar, former Green Beret and former contractor in Gaza, on what Aguilar witnessed there. Warning: Graphic la...
jobsanger

Trump Is Just Making The Controversy Worse (But He Can't Help Himself) -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump - International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya A group of global civil society orga...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3243: The Water Illusion Machine - Episode: 3243 Hollywood’s Heroic Water FX. Today, water effects.
Al Jazeera English

What is Israel’s war taking from Gaza’s children - The war on Gaza is leaving behind a generation of orphans. Many children survive, but they will grow up without parents.
World Socialist Web Site

ICE seizes and holds Korean-American scientist and legal US resident incommunicado - Korean American scientist and longtime US legal permanent resident Tae Heung Kim was detained by ICE on July 21 and has been denied both access to his atto...
Courthouse News

Shareholders, board of directors pen provisional agreement in California biotech drug lawsuit - Shareholders sued over what they saw as a breach of fiduciary duties by the board of directors regarding the drug Anktiva, used to treat bladder cancer.
Mediaite

‘He Is a Disgusting Liar’: Bernie Sanders Rips Netanyahu and Israel’s ‘Racist Government’ - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him "a disgusting liar." The post ‘He Is a Disgusting Liar’: Bernie...
memeorandum

Sen. Cory Booker in angry outburst says 'complicit' Democrats need a 'wake-up call' (Mary Clare Jalonick/Associated Press) - Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press: *Sen. Cory Booker in angry outburst says ‘complicit’ Democrats need a ‘wake-up call’* — In a rare public outbur...
Mediagazer

YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restrictions that limited ad revenue (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Jay Peters / The Verge: *YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restric...
Raw Story

'Poisoned the well': Ex-prosecutor warns Trump DOJ's lack of credibility will haunt him - President Donald Trump has backed himself into a deep corner on the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to one analyst. Former federal prosecutor Daniel Ric...
Techdirt.

Oklahoma Superintendent: Bible Thumper & The Curious Case Of The Board Meeting Pornography - It’s been a while since we checked in on Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Superintendent and all around assbag fascist. If you’ve read any of our previous posts fe...
The Hill

Tsunami warning issued for Hawaii following 8.7 earthquake - A tsunami warning was issued in Hawaii on Tuesday following an 8.7 magnitude earthquake near the Russian coast, according to the National Oceanic and Atmos...
Political Wire

Trump Considers Pardon For Sean Combs - President Trump is heavily weighing giving Sean “Diddy” Combs a full presidential pardon ahead of the convicted Bad Boy Records founder’s sentencing later ...
Daily Cartoonist

Appreciating Cartoonists - featuring Sir Quentin Blake, Gluyas Williams, Doug Marlette, Dirk West, Helen Hokinson, and William Hogarth. Quentin Blake Ask ChatGPT to create a portrait...
Alternet

Emil Bove's confirmation proves Congress is 'a lapdog to Donald Trump': ex-DOJ prosecutor - On Tuesday, Emil Bove — who is President Donald Trump's former personal criminal defense attorney — was confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the powerf...
Wolf Street

Recklessly Ballooning US Government Debt Spikes by $519 Billion since Debt Ceiling, Expected to Hit $37.8 Trillion by Yearend. $722 Billion in Treasury Auctions this Week Alone - A Mississippi River of debt issuance. But the Treasury buybacks are small.
Workers World

IOF genocide in Gaza: Is internal resistance possible? - [image: IOF genocide in Gaza: Is internal resistance possible?] July 28 – Every day more people in the world, including those living in the imperialist sta...
Deadline Politics

Trump Now “Seriously Considering” Pardon For Sean Combs Ahead Of Sentencing; White House Officially Says Nothing - EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is heavily weighing giving Sean “Diddy” Combs a full presidential pardon ahead of the convicted Bad Boy Records founder’s sentencin...
Brad Blog

A Pu Pu Platter of Trump Corruption: 'BradCast' 7/29/2025 - News is coming in from every direction on today's BradCast, though there does seem to be a recurring theme throughout: a wholly corrupt Presidency. [Audio ...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Trivial Knot

Waking up, past tense - Do you like waking up? Yeah, me neither. I prefer that all my waking be done strictly in the past tense, i.e. to be woke. I’m looking at my drafts bin and ...
OpEd News

Fairuz and items shared on day 661 of the ongoing holocaust and staying humane - The one plane load of food dropped on Gaza as a PR stunt is equivalent to less than one truck-full of supplies. 1000 truck loads of supplies were buried in...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Tariff Deadline Is Two Days Away - The post Trump’s Tariff Deadline Is Two Days Away appeared first on Crooked Media.
Undernews

Some little discussed things about ethnic relations - *Sam Smith - *As I read about civil rights I’m increasingly struck by how the complexity of multicultural relations gets short changed. I am, as just one...
Daily Dot

“You want them to hop the gate?”: USPS mail carrier throws “fragile” box, breaking contents. Then viewers start picking sides - [image: 3 panel: Left: USPS box showing Fragile sticker Middle: Postal worker dropping box over fence Right: Broken pineapple] A viral TikTok has the int...
American Prospect

DOJ Does MAGA Lobbyist Bidding Again, Shutters Another Antitrust Case - Pam Bondi’s old lobbying firm, Ballard Partners, pushed to move through a business travel merger. Bondi’s DOJ did it, in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny.
Antiwar.com

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers - When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the ...
Portside

US Workers Say Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Causing Labor Shortages: ‘A Strain on Everybody’ - US Workers Say Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Causing Labor Shortages: ‘A Strain on Everybody’ Greg Tue, 07/29/2025 - 19:54
NPR's Health Shots

Senators introduce resolution supporting prevention task force RFK Jr. may disband - The task force makes recommendations for medical screenings that doctors' groups rely on and that guide what preventive services most insurance covers with...
Axios

Congress breaks record after record in war over Trump's agenda - A record-shattering Senate speech. A House vote held open longer than ever before — twice, in two weeks. Those are just some of the milestones that Congr...
The Verge

YouTube tells creators they can drop more F-bombs - YouTube videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds (words like “fuck”) are now eligible for full monetization, according to a video from Conor...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump-vangelical pastor Kenneth Copeland want angels to go after those calling Trump out' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Kenneth Copeland Calls On Angels To 'Pull Those Devils Down That Are Attacking Our President' *-* Unlike some of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters, I belie...
Salon.com

Dropkick Murphys show video of “loser” Trump, Jeffrey Epstein at Warped Tour - Dropkick Murphys projected video of the president and Epstein while playing a Warped Tour set over the weekend
Futurism

Elon Musk Scoffs as Rival Waymo Plows Through Car While Driving Wrong Way Down Street - Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to ward off critics of his approach to autonomous driving. Many years ago, the mercurial billionaire decided to rely exclus...
Sludge

Trump Admin Halts a String of Antitrust Cases, Approving Corporate Mergers - Trump regulators are waving through multibillion-dollar mergers, according to a new Public Citizen analysis, many for companies that were Trump-Vance inaug...
Vox

The EPA gives up on climate change - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
San Antonio Report

Texas strong: Valero steps up to help Hill Country - Sponsored by: This summer has been marked by devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country, leaving behind widespread damage, displaced families, and commun...
The Greanville Post

All that’s FAIR …and unFAIR - JULIAN MACFARLANE–Most of the media does not do “news” – nor does it “report”. It makes up stories, unsullied by facts or evidence, as directed by editors,...
Popular Resistance

Abolishing The First Amendment - I testified at the New Jersey state capital in Trenton last week against Bill A3558, which would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (...
San Antonio Current

Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Herb Alpert, Counting Crows, Jason Bonham’s Led Zep Evening - Live music shows in San Antonio this week offer a chance to look back. From the hip and brassy sounds of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass to the '90s rad...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 190: “World to Israel: Drop Dead” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023, and at least 145,870 more hav...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Voices Sudden Pivot on Gaza - It’s a symptom of Western civilization’s sickness that prominent people are only now expressing qualms about the prolonged and monstrous abuses Israel has ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston trattoria and BBQ joint team up for Hill Country flood relief - Two top Houston restaurants are teaming up to help the Hill Country recover from the recent floods. *Truth BBQ* and Italian-American restaurant *Milton’s* ...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS recognizes seven exceptional individuals at a recent McAllen City Commission meeting - STHS Hometown Heroes Awards were given out Monday, July 28, 2025 to seven exceptional individuals. The post STHS recognizes seven exceptional individuals...
Election Law Blog

North Carolina: “All-GOP Appeals Court panel ruled against Stein in elections board dispute” - Carolina Journal: Three Republican members of the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued the April order that blocked a lower court ruling favoring Democ...
Mother Jones

Trump’s EPA Moves to Kill “Holy Grail” of Climate Regulations - On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” a critical O...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico senators join broad Democratic push for Gaza humanitarian aid expansion - [image: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) meet with local leaders in Ruidoso, July 11, 2025.] [image: U.S. Senators Martin...
See You In 2020

Russia’s long march to victory over Ukrainian fascism, & the test it’s created for all anti-imperialists - The start of Russia’s military operation against the Ukrainian fascist regime represented a test for the communist movement. This test has compelled the...
Texas Observer

ICE ‘Task Force’ Agreements Expand to Galveston, Beaumont - Nearly 1.5 million Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as immigration age...
Second Nexus

Trump's Denial That He Ever Visited Epstein's Island Is A Freudian Slip For The Ages - On Monday, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump sat down for a presser at his Trump Turnberry Golf Club in Turnberry, Scotland. After Trump lamented ab...
Common Dreams

ACLU Calls for Voting Rights Protections Amid Reintroduction of John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act - Today, members of the U.S. Senate formally reintroduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (JLVRAA), a critical piece of legislation aimed at r...
Mondoweiss

U.S. security contractor: ‘I saw Israel commit war crimes at Gaza aid sites’ - [image: Palestinian women come back from GHF distribution center in southern Gaza, where eyewitnesses say GHF staff pepper-sprayed the aid-seekers and beat...
Slate

Katy Perry, I’ll Admit I Was Worried—but You’ve Really Outdone Yourself This Time - An incredible morsel of celebrity gossip.
Church and State

The Great Men(ace) of American History - We forget at our peril that Trump is very much a product of decades of conservative/Republican policy and effort.
Alas, a Blog

Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones - I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing r...
Discourse

How Old Does This Man Look To You - Let's judge a terrible book by its alarmingly worn cover.
Claytoonz

Bribed War Criminal - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Progressive.org

The Erosion of Democracy Threatens Our Health - The backsliding of democracy has direct effects on the public health outcomes of our nation.
Capital & Main

The Reality of Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’: A Generation’s Worth of Damage - Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.” The post The Rea...
Ballot Access News

Merger of Two Minor Parties in Minnesota Brings Forth “Forward Independence” Political Organization - Here is the story from Independent Political Report. … Continue reading →
Black Agenda Report

Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin & BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley - Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin & BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley bareditors Wed, 07/30/2025 - 00:00 Danny Haiph...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: There is no cure for being human! - *TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025* *Charlamagne crashes and burns: *Yesterday, in this news report, the New York Times taught a lesson. It taught an (extremely o...
First Draft

Emil Bove Is A Perjurer - Lying his way to the top: The Emil Bove story.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Money Weapon - Let’s talk about money, specifically the use of bribery as a weapon in war and geopolitics. Like any weapon, it has technical characteristics and operation...
Project Censored

Project Censored’s 2025 Summer Reading List - With temperatures soaring, the team at Project Censored believes nothing is cooler than reading a good book. The following titles are helping us stay inf...
Reform Austin

Texas Tries to Ban THC While Pretending It’s About Safety - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Texas grapples with the aftermath of one of the deadliest natural disasters in its history, ...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
El Paso Matters

Embattled UTEP aerospace leader Ahsan Choudhuri to retire, launches local defense firm - The researcher, who secured tens of millions of research dollars to the university, served as associate vice president of the UTEP Aerospace Center unti...
WhoWhatWhy

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Casually Clicks Through Human Verification Test - [image: tech, OpenAI, Chatbot, verification test, automation, checks easily defeated] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recom...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Tale of Two Toss-ups: Why WI-GOV Moves There While NC-SEN Stays There - WI-GOV moves to Toss-up while NC-SEN remains a Toss-up following major candidate announcements in both races The post A Tale of Two Toss-ups: Why WI-GOV ...
The Root

Why Diddy Says He Deserves to Be Out on Bond in Wild New Motion - The judge in Diddy's cases has denied bail multiple times, but now, Diddy's team has a new proposal. Read more...
The Daily Poster

Epstein’s Woman On The Bench - A judge who sealed evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes has ties to financial institutions implicated in the disgraced investor’s sex trafficki...
Texas Standard

Embrace the messiness: Texas writer Katherine Craft brings Audible original series ‘Shaky’ to life - The series is out now and follows a drummer who faces a young onset Parkinson’s diagnosis.
SCOTUSblog

The ways in which justices reach their decisions - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...
Dorf on Law

No, Trump Is Not Winning Any Trade Wars - There is exactly one bit of advice that I give young people regarding how to choose a writing topic: If you read or hear something and find yourself spon...
Dissident Voice

Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It - This week, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) boarded the Handala, a ship associated with the Flotilla Freedom Coalition, that was attempting to reach Gaza ...
Space City Weather

We’re updating our flood scale. Here’s why - Editor’s note: On July 29, 2025, we published a new version of the Space City Weather Flood Scale. The new version incorporates research done by two psycho...
Ian Welsh

Real Time Iraq War Death Estimates Were Wildly Off - During the Iraq War, we were fed very low death estimates: The Iraq War Death count had an upper estimate of 43,000 by the end of 2006. The Iraqi Ministry ...
Bonddad

Repeat home sales and leading apartment rent indexes both point to lower shelter inflation ahead - - *by New Deal democrat* This morning’s repeat home sales reports from the FHFA and S&P Case Shiller were not good news for sellers - but very good ...
NORML

Pennsylvania: Reading City Council Adopts Municipal Decriminalization Ordinance - [image: pennsylvania marijuana laws][image: pennsylvania marijuana laws]Since 2018, nearly 90,000 Pennsylvanians have been arrested for violating state m...
Rewire

Texas Man Sues California Doctor Over Mailing Abortion Pills - A Texas man’s lawsuit against a California physician he accused of sending abortion pills to his partner is the first test of a reproductive health shiel...
Angry Bear

Tesla takes the robo out of robotaxis - Like commercial fusion power, Tesla’s robotaxis are always just around the corner but never quite here. In the case of Tesla, it doesn’t really matter be...
Glasstire

Dallas Contemporary, Keith House and ProjectART Announce New Hires - Texas art institutions in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Wimberley have announced new hires and new board members. ProjectART in Wimberley has hired its first E...
Democracy Now!

"Our Genocide": Israeli Human Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza - For the first time, two leading Israeli human rights groups — B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have accused Israel of committing genocide ...
The Progressive Wing

7/28-31 News Roundup and Open Thread - Finishing off July. Summer is flying by.
The Conversation

Unpacking Florida’s immigration trends − demographers take a closer look at the legal and undocumented population - Florida has the third-largest population of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, but that population has been steadily shrinking since 2018.
Independent Political Report

Communist Party USA to Host Virtual Peace Conference - The Communist Party USA is organizing an online conference in conjunction with the online newspaper People’s World this November. The event is intended t...
ArcaMax

Gabbard Jabber: Our -- Gulp! -- Head of National Intelligence Just Says Anything - Early on in "Fiddler on the Roof," Yente the Matchmaker tries to sell a villager on Rachel, the shoemaker's daughter, as a suitable wife for his son. "Rach...
Earth 911

How to Reduce the Impact of Your Coffee Pod Consumption - More than 20 billion coffee pods are disposed of globally each year. In fact, 39,000... The post How to Reduce the Impact of Your Coffee Pod Consumption ...
The Smirking Chimp

Urgent Message to Progressives: Infiltrate Your Local Democratic Party Before It's Too Late -
Skeptophilia

The edged tool - Today's post comes to you from the Odd Bedfellows department. Okay, so all of you probably know all about the *Harry Potter* series. Kid finds out he's ...
Off The Kuff

So is there a map yet or not? - Hard to believe Republicans are flying blind on this. While the Republican redistricting effort is underway in Texas, the fight is on nationally. So, too, ...
ProPublica

A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives. - by Anjeanette Damon ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoin...
Scheerpost.com

Genocide’s Hard When You Have to Win the PR War Too - Israel’s quest to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians through expulsion or extermination keeps getting interrupted for photo ops of aid airlifts or a few aid truc...
Progressive Army

Cierran cupo 2025 para importar autos eléctricos e híbridos - La Secretaría de Industria y Comercio adjudicó 22.998 nuevos cupos para la importación de vehículos eléctricos e híbridos sin arancel, completando así el l...
Grist

Climate change has sent coffee prices soaring. Trump’s tariffs will send them higher. - From drought-stricken farms to rising trade barriers, the global coffee industry is facing unprecedented strain.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 29 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the music post, click here.] ...
High Country News

How a network of volunteers helped spot Colorado’s butterflies in decline - A Q+A with an entomologist who trains people to count butterflies for science. The post How a network of volunteers helped spot Colorado’s butterflies i...
Nina Illingworth

A Schutzstaffel of His Own - Although it didn't register much in American corporate media, the budget bill Republicans just passed transforms ICE from Trump's Gestapo, into the Regim...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 1) - The "Epstein Files" furor in MAGAland can help us to understand how and why Satanic baby-killers are at the very core of white American politics and religion.
Liberation News

ICE and local cops join forces: How to fight back against the 287(g) program - [image: Immigration activists protest the 287(g) program in Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo credit: NDLON (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)]The 287(g) program essentially turn...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
The AltWorld

U.S. Involvement in the Thailand-Cambodia Conflict - Brian Berletic is a former US Marine, author and international relations expert. Berletic discusses America’s intrusive influence […] The post U.S. Invol...
The Texas Signal

The New Federal Lawsuit Against Abortion Shield Laws - A federal lawsuit from Texas against a California doctor marks a new legal ground against shield laws, which blue states enacted to protect abortion providers
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
MintPress News

GAMAAN: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting the West About Iran - An investigation reveals how the influential Dutch group GAMAAN uses flawed polling methods and collaborates with U.S.-funded organizations pushing regim...
DeSmogBlog

Reform Splurged £1.3m on Right-Wing Newspaper Adverts During Election - Nigel Farage’s Reform UK paid almost £1.3 million to conservative publications during the 2024 general election campaign. The right-wing populist party, ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / THE BOMB / The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years out - The bombings of Hiroshima, left, and Nagasaki. Photos in the public domain. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / July 27, 2025 I have lived now for 80 years i...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: near the Puces St Ouen - [image: Puces St Ouen, Paris]
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

To Defeat Fascism We Must Have Self-Empathy: Audio From A Collapsing State - Fascism is a system of domination through abuse. Right now we need to organize and fight back, but we must also learn to care for ourselves as we do it
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

What we’re talking about this week - A few highlights from the week on Frontburner. The post What we’re talking about this week appeared first on D Magazine.
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
Debunking Christianity

Religion Survives Because Humans Live in Vast Bubbles of Ignorance - *Reducing your own bubble requires determination, effort, and courage* It’s inevitable actually: when we are born, we know nothing about the cosmos, and ...
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...
The Grayzone

FBI surveilled 2018 ‘Russia & Wikileaks’ panel featuring The Grayzone, files show - Russiagate hysteria led the BI to spy on a panel featuring The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil. As Blumenthal warned during the discussion, t...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
Krebs on Security

Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers - KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a lar...
Ecosophia

July 2025 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...
Bracing Views

Trinity, 80 Years Later - Haunted by Thermonuclear Nightmares BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2025 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic de...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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

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

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

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - 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 ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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