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

Mediaite

Jesse Watters Asks RFK Jr. Why He Wears Jeans When He Works Out - Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday why he wears jeans when he works out. The post Jesse Watters Asks ...
Al Jazeera English

Australia hits back at Netanyahu amid escalating diplomatic row over Gaza - Australia's Home Affairs minister says 'strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up'.
San Antonio Report

Community activist arrested for going over speaking time at Edgewood ISD board meeting - Edgewood ISD police officers arrested a community activist for trespassing during a board meeting Tuesday night. ------------------------------ Community a...
Crooked Media

Does Washington, D.C. Need Federal Intervention? - The post Does Washington, D.C. Need Federal Intervention? appeared first on Crooked Media.
memeorandum

DOJ prosecutor investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James seen posing for photos outside of her home (Kara Scannell/CNN) - Kara Scannell / CNN: *DOJ prosecutor investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James seen posing for photos outside of her home* — Video Ad Feedb...
Courthouse News

Justice Department asks Ninth Circuit to allow terminations of Temporary Protected Status to resume - A federal court recently postponed the termination of protected status for more than 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras, and Nepal through at least...
Techdirt.

MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound - We’ve already demonstrated over the course of plenty of posts that RFK Jr. is wildly incapable of running Health and Human Services. The fact that he was e...
The Hill

Trump called Orban to win his support for Ukraine joining EU: Report - President Trump called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday to win his support for Ukraine to join the European Union (EU), a conversation that ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian university and high school students strike against the Gaza genocide - “It’s one thing to strike for a day—that doesn’t change or impact anything. I think a complete shutdown is the only real action that can be taken.”
Raw Story

'True history should include everything': Abby Phillips slams Trump's comments on slavery - A CNN host slammed President Donald Trump on Tuesday for his remarks about America's history of slavery. Earlier in the day, Trump said his administrati...
The Daily Poster

The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits - State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s tariffs replace diplomacy as other US tools of statecraft are discarded - Measures meant to rebalance America’s economy are wielded instead against the likes of Canada, India and Brazil ‘to compel loyalty to the president’ On t...
Daily Dot

MSNBC is officially changing its name to MS Now, and the internet reacted as you’d expect: with memes and conspiracy theories - [image: miss now msnbc internet reacts ms now] Television networks and streaming services change their names all the time, but people are surprised that ...
Wolf Street

Where Americans Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year at Ecommerce Retailers and How that Changed Over Time - Clothing & general merchandise online retailers are the biggie.
Brad Blog

Texas GOP Imprisons Dem State Lawmaker in State House Chamber: 'BradCast' 8/19/2025 - Okay. So, now Republican elected officials who pretend to oppose "Big Government", are literally locking up their elected opponents in the state capital. (...
Consortium News

WATCH: Out-Flattering a Capricious Trump - CN editor Joe Lauria tells RT News the significance of the recent flurry of high-level diplomatic activity on Ukraine may be overblown and that tangible pr...
Alternet

A 'fire-breathing defender of MAGA' tapped to 'quiet the noise' around Epstein could backfire on Trump - Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, “a fire-breathing defender” of President Donald Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement, was brought o...
The Verge

The White House just joined TikTok - While it was President Joe Biden who signed the law that would force ByteDance to sell its stake in TikTok or face a ban, it’s his successor, Donald Trump...
Political Wire

Elon Musk Pulls the Plug on Third Party - “Elon Musk is quietly pumping the brakes on his plans to start a political party,“ the Wall Street Journal reports. “Musk has told allies that he wants to ...
Popular Resistance

Trump And Democrats Fuel The Washington DC Crime Panic - “The year before, Newark, New Jersey, had been occupied by nearly lily-white units of the National Guard, sent there to quell a four-day rebellion in whi...
Mediagazer

Newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic-Fox News defamation case show former host Jeanine Pirro, now a US attorney, bragging about aiding Trump and the GOP (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post) - Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: *Newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic-Fox News defamation case show former host Jeanine Pirro, now a US attorney, ...
Workers World

No martial law in D.C.! No to MAGA storm troopers! - [image: No martial law in D.C.! No to MAGA storm troopers!] It’s hard to keep track of all of the Trump administration’s many violations of people’s rights...
The Week

A whole new world: redrawing the Mercator map - African Union joins calls to ditch 'colonial distortion' and portray countries at more accurate size
Axios

Hurricane Erin triggers storm alerts in N.C., Virginia as some East Coast beaches shut - Data: NOAA; Map: Axios Visuals Hurricane Erin's threats prompted North Carolina's governor to declare a state of emergency as the massive storm began bring...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Invalidates Mississippi’s Supreme Court Judicial Districts - On August 19, U.S. District Court Judge Sharion Aycock, a Bush Jr. appointee, issued an opinion in White v State Board of Election Commissioners, n.d., 4:2...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip Rarities: Freedom 56, The Sandra Bell-Lundy Mini-Series - Sandra Bell-Lundy has been cartooning Between Friends for 35 years and most of us have thought it was the only comic strip she has done during that time, b...
Futurism

How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Become Contaminated With Radioactive Material? - As you've probably already heard, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall warning for bags of frozen shrimp sold under Walmart's "Great Valu...
Undernews

Health - *Wall Streeet Journal - * The American Academy of Pediatrics said kids ages 6 months through 23 months are particularly vulnerable to severe Covid infect...
NPR's Health Shots

A growing number of 20-somethings are getting what's known as 'baby Botox' - A growing number of 20-somethings are trying to stop wrinkles from forming on their face with a preventative treatment known as "baby Botox," which freezes...
El Paso Matters

El Paso City Council nixes proposed casitas, parking minimums zoning changes – for now - The council voted to delete agenda items that called for easing zoning for casitas and minimum off-street parking rules, leaving the proposals to be dis...
Portside

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing - The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing Judy Tue, 08/19/2025 - 19:11
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Wants ‘Out of Control’ Museums to Stop Teaching About the Evils of Slavery - [image: Donald Trump, AI Summit] Donald Trump thinks that museums shouldn't teach Americans about the evils of slavery and is directing his lawyers to cond...
Claytoonz

Eat Mor Bulshirt - 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...
CultureMap Houston

Home listings are up and prices are down in Houston, report finds - The Houston real estate market keeps making a slow but steady shift towards buyers, according to a new report from *Homes.com*, which tracks hundreds of th...
Vox

Why the DOJ is looking into DC crime stats - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Mother Jones

Texas Democrat Forced to Sleep in Capitol After Refusing 24-Hour Police Escort - After weeks spent out-of-state in an effort to deny Texas Republicans a quorum for an extreme redistricting plan—designed at Donald Trump’s behest to give ...
The NM Political Report

Appeals court blocks New Mexico’s new 7-day waiting period for gun purchases - [image: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham] [image: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham] A 2024 state law requiring a 7-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms...
Houston Public Media

Houston Police ask for help in identifying man accused of assaulting women at parks - Police are asking anyone with information possibly related to this investigation to please contact Crime Stoppers of Houston. Information leading to the ch...
Progressive.org

C’mon, LeBron - NBA star LeBron James won't back down from his staunch support for Israel.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Spurs expected to unveil rendering of new downtown arena during Thursday council meeting - San Antonians will likely get a first look at what the Spurs' proposed downtown basketball arena might look like during City Council’s highly anticipated ...
Election Law Blog

“Gavin Newsom wants an election in a hurry on his gerrymander. Here’s what has to happen” - Cal Matters dives in. The post “Gavin Newsom wants an election in a hurry on his gerrymander. Here’s what has to happen” appeared first on Election Law B...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Slate

There’s Only One Real Way for Democrats to Disarm Texas Gerrymandering - There is one way out of the partisan gerrymandering death spiral.
Krebs on Security

Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service - A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denia...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN MURRAY / CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE / Lt. Burt Gerding and I - Photo by Belmer Wright published in Austin’s underground paper, The Rag, January 15, 1968. By Martin Murray / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2025 Lt. Burt Gerdi...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Complains About “Woke” Smithsonian: “Everything Discussed Is How Horrible Our Country Is, How Bad Slavery Was” - Donald Trump again vowed to make changes at the Smithsonian Institution, this time complaining that its museums have become too woke and that “everything d...
Mondoweiss

After years on hold, Israel revives settlement project that will split the West Bank in two - [image: Israel’s separation barrier snakes between the hilltop East Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev and the Shuafat Palestinian refugee camp, in 2011....
Discourse

The Men Who Shout At Grok - Used to be people felt a sense of shame about arguing with a beep boop phantom
Reform Austin

Trump Vows to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots, Despite Constitutional Limits - President Donald Trump has renewed his push to abolish mail-in voting, promising to sign an executive order aimed at banning the practice ahead of the 20...
Second Nexus

Newsom Just Trolled Vance Hard With Viral Clip Over Oval Office 'Showdown' With Zelenskyy - In the most sincere form of political flattery, Governor Gavin Newsom has bestowed Vice President JD Vance a new nickname as part of his ongoing *mission...
OpEd News

Circle - Equation for the measurement of a circumference using a radius.
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Sanctions As Economic WMDs. An Interview with Francisco Rodríguez” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On the “DeProgram show” with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, we intervie...
Sludge

Dem Super PACs Refund FTX Money Under DOJ Pressure - Future Forward and Women Vote waited years to refund their FTX money, only doing so after being pressed by the Justice Department.
ArcaMax

Florida's Secretive Immigration Detention Center, Explained - Deep in the Florida Everglades, a new immigration detention facility has appeared almost overnight. It's the latest example of the Trump administration's e...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Matt Bai says he has found the villains! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2025 * *Could the villain really be him? *The fury had to go somewhere today. When the sitting president awoke, the fury and rage we...
American Prospect

The GOP States With Guards Deployed to D.C. Have Urban Murder Rates Way Higher Than D.C.’s - Today on TAP: New Orleans? Memphis? Baton Rouge? Jackson, Mississippi? Why aren’t their states’ Guards on patrol there?
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Church and State

What I Would Say to World Leaders - Therefore, our top priority should be to ensure that free contraception is available to everyone everywhere.
Angry Bear

Housing remains recessionary. Why hasn’t one happened yet? - – by New Deal democrat The post pandemic period has been an exception to many past relationships. This morning’s data on housing construction raises th...
Capital & Main

There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up? - Climate policies could lead to future refinery closures as Californians transition to electric vehicles. The post There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s So...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Vanishing Foot Soldier - Armored knights vanished when gunpowder weapons made them ineffective, and cavalry vanished when motorized transport and tanks arrived on the battlefield. ...
DeSmogBlog

MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate - Members of Parliament have rebuked a Donald Trump advisor for spreading misleading claims about the UK’s climate policies. Professor Steve Koonin, a form...
The Root

Black Celebrity Siblings You Probably Didn’t Know Were Related - Hollywood may love a good solo star, but let’s be real--sometimes talent runs in the family. And these Black celeb siblings are just proof of that. Let's...
Common Dreams

Rights Groups File Complaint Against U.S. Attorney who Retaliated Against the Press - Any serious journalist would tell you that it’d be journalistic malpractice for a local journalist not to report that a prominent public official listed ...
Liberation News

Texas Democrats surrender to racist redistricting plan, declare ‘victory’ - As the Texas Democrats rejoin their Republican friends in the halls of power, the working class of Texas must keep organizing for a different type of powe...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Dissident Voice

The U.S.-Israeli Guide to Deprivation By Design - The post The U.S.-Israeli Guide to Deprivation By Design first appeared on Dissident Voice.
SCOTUSblog

The Trump administration puts ethnicity on the court’s emergency docket - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Texas Observer

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story - James Beathard had an innocence claim-- but it went largely unheard prior to his 1999 execution. Law students are working on a documentary to draw attent...
NORML

Cannabis Rescheduling: Myths Versus Reality - Absent cannabis descheduling, those who produce, dispense, possess, or use marijuana in compliance with state laws could still face federal prosecution f...
Bonddad

Housing remains recessionary. Why hasn’t one happened yet? - - *by New Deal democrat* The post pandemic period has been an exception to many past relationships. This morning’s data on housing construction rai...
Progressive Army

APLICATIVO WEB GESTIÓN DEL MANIFIESTO ACUÁTICO - Estimados socios, buenos días: Visto la implementación del procedimiento para la presentación digital del manifiesto desconsolidado de importación para la ...
First Draft

The Cantrell Indictment - Unsolicited advice for New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
Rewire

These 3 OB-GYNs Won’t Leave Texas—Even as Abortion Bans Threaten Their Work - Our "communities still deserve strong OB-GYNs,” one doctor said. The post These 3 OB-GYNs Won’t Leave Texas—Even as Abortion Bans Threaten Their Work app...
Glasstire

Laredo vs. America (Feat. George Washington Jr.): Jesse Shaw’s Satirical Wrestling Match with Culture - During the exhibition opening for Impetus: Contemporary Iterations in Laredo Right Now, curated by Maritza Bautista for the Martha Fenstermaker Memorial ...
Democracy Now!

"They Kidnapped Me": L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents - Amanda Trebach, a member of the immigrant rights’ group Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she w...
Space City Weather

Daily storm chances continue as August plods onward - In brief: Today’s post rants a little bit about August weather in Houston, and proceeds to talk about a weak (emphasis on weak, y’all) front moving into th...
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Junk It or Donate It? How to Make the Right Call Every Time - As a mom of two and co-owner of a junk removal company in Los Angeles,... The post Guest Idea: Junk It or Donate It? How to Make the Right Call Every Tim...
The Smirking Chimp

Why MAGA Calls Trump “Daddy” -
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier, David Kyle Johnson, and I, Oh My! - We three have been invited by Dr. James Sterba to write papers on ethics without God. So far Johnson's and Carrier's papers have both been published. Mine ...
Skeptophilia

Prophecy update - Hard as it is to believe, we're over halfway through 2025. On the one hand, it seems like it's flown. On the other, any amount of time spent living thr...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s Man Inside the CIA Betrayed the US, New Files Show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to assi...
Off The Kuff

And they’re back - Quorum time again. Texas House Democrats announced they would return to Austin Monday, ending a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan a...
Grist

Clearing debris after a storm is big business. For some communities, it’s also a burden. - How the necessary work of cleaning up can make even bigger mess.
ProPublica

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen - Photography and text by Adriana Loureiro Fernández for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to recei...
Dorf on Law

Banana Republic or Legalistic Lawlessness? (A Dorf on Law Classic) - *Note to readers: Later this week (or possibly early next week), I will publish an update to the column below, which I published on February 20, 2020.* ...
Infidel753

Blogiversary XIX - Today marks nineteen years that I've been doing this blog. It's become so much a part of my regular routine that it's difficult now to imagine life witho...
High Country News

Wildfire is a growing threat to the West’s water systems - [image: Tourists watch smoke from the Dragon Bravo wildfire float through the Grand Canyon.] How fire and water managers can prepare. The post Wildfire i...
Crooked Timber

AI, proofing, and the meaning of what we do - Human beings are creatures who can describe their actions at various levels. Elizabeth Anscombe has famously introduced the example of a man who moves his ...
Counterpunch

Ukraine: Let Trump Be Trump - On August 15, US president Donald Trump met with Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. On August 18, Trump met with Ukrainian president ...
jobsanger

Sidelining mRNA Technology Hurts Our Response To New Threats -
Informed Comment

Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts - Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to Medicare Advantage,“beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, jus...
The AltWorld

Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza. Americans Should Know This Too. - It’s so revealing how Israelis keep begging Trump to end the killing in Gaza, because they understand […] The post Israelis Understand That Trump Can End...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Drag show ban blocked at West Texas A&M University. Major parts of Florida book ban struck down by federal judge. - A federal appeals court blocked a drag show ban at West Texas A&M University on Monday. A few days before, a federal judge in Florida struck down major p...
Antiwar.com

Dark Lessons of Prewar Protectionism: From Tariff Wars to Global Fragmentation - With its misguided tariff wars, the second Trump administration is not only fragmenting seven decades of globalization. It is also contributing to a kind o...
The Texas Signal

The Special Session Starts Again - Texas Democrats face an uphill battle in stopping redistricting, and the other agenda items for the second special session
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Budget & The NATO 5% Of GDP Requirement Have The Same Effect - Despite all the flakiness and back and forth Trump’s actions have a unified purpose. Like the Democrats, but even more so, they disproportionately benefit ...
Independent Political Report

Colorado Forward Party Releases Additional Details on August State Assembly Meeting - The Colorado Forward Party has shared additional details ahead of its virtual State Assembly taking place this month, publishing a full agenda for the me...
slacktivist

‘We are Christians first, Americans second’ - It's a platitude that American Christians have recited so many times we're bored by it, but it still means something.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Win for DEI in the Courts as Texas Doubles Down on Censorship - *Friends:* *A Trump-appointed federal judge has just handed down a major defeat to the Trump administration’s ongoing war on diversity, equity, and inclusi...
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez - A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugeni...
Project Censored

From the Frontlines: Media, Colonization, and Resistance in Palestine - In the first part of the program, we’re joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Dr. Baroud discusses cul...
See You In 2020

The two breeds of today’s right-wing grift, & how they both advance liberalism’s schemes - *This is from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocaust, & How I...
LareDOS

1925’s silent film Phantom of the Opera screens with live score at Alamo Drafthouse, Aug. 22, 9:30 p.m. - Austin’s Invincible Czars to perform original silent film score
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California Democratic Map if Voters Approve It - California Democrats aim for a five-seat gain in a new gerrymander--IF voters approve it The post The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California D...
The Conversation

Data-driven early intervention strategies could revolutionize Philly’s approach to crime prevention - Juvenile incarceration creates worse outcomes for young people and costs more than community-based treatment. So why does Philadelphia spend so much on it?
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Bracing Views

For Putin, It’s Business–For Trump, It’s Fame - Reflections on the Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska BILL ASTORE AUG 16, 2025 I’m glad President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 - How parents, teachers, kids can spend less; have safer, healthier, greener school year. The post RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 appe...
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: There's No Such Thing As Society - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part I: The individualization of society through capitalism created a vast and seemingly inescapable loneliness
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

The joy of “Amelie” - The candy-colored hit from a director of "The City of Lost Children" never lets you forget how charming it is.

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