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

Courthouse News

Estonia’s prison smoking ban ashed by top European rights court - Europe’s chief human rights judges said Estonia went too far with its prison smoking ban, ruling that the policy crossed a line and violated inmates’ right...
Salon.com

Dick Cheney, powerful and polarizing former Vice President, dead at 84 - The leading architect of Iraq invasion remains divisive in death
Raw Story

Nancy Mace brutally trolled by opponent after meltdown at TSA and airport officers - Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is on day five of her war against the Charleston Airport, issuing several threats of lawsuits, though she hasn't clarified if the ...
Eschaton

Much Seth Moulton News - A completely untrustworthy guy, but useful in seeing which way the wind is blowing. National Democrats have been grappling with how to talk about issues f...
Second Nexus

Nancy Mace Ripped After Throwing Massive Tantrum Over Lack Of Police Protection At Airport - South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace is facing heated criticism after she threw a tantrum and accused airport police in Charleston, South ...
Al Jazeera English

US transport secretary warns of ‘mass chaos’ if gov’t shutdown prolongs - There have already been numerous flight delays as the FAA slows down or stops traffic when it is short of controllers.
Axios

Cash-strapped Americans signal rising costs could be Trump's midterm headache - Data: Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos; Chart: Axios Visuals A majority of voters blame President Trump for rising prices, according to a recent poll, markin...
Futurism

Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral - "This will be in meteorology textbooks." The post Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Vir...
Daily Dot

Oreo drops a full Thanksgiving dinner cookie lineup, including turkey and creamed corn. Reviews are mixed - [image: Thanksgiving Oreo cookies in an Oreo-shaped tin. Background is blurred, showing a fall composition. Orange pumpkins, flowers and candles on woode...
The Verge

Deck your house in Govee’s smart string lights, which are cheaper ahead of the holidays - Now that spooky season’s over, it’s time to swap the pumpkins and skeletons for something a little more cheery ahead of the holidays. Govee’s Christmas Lig...
Mediaite

MTG Dodges And Defends Free Speech When Pressed on Nick Fuentes’s Anti-Semitism - “Well, number one, I don't have to agree with his words on attacking people like that. However, as a lawmaker, I think it's incredibly important that I d...
The Hill

Pelosi honors Cheney as a 'patriotic American who loved his country' - Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) called former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday, a “patriotic American who loved his country.” “While we...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Dick Cheney created the ground for Trump’s excesses, despite their differences - The ironies of Cheney’s parting of ways with Donald Trump and modern day Republicans are numerous - US politics live – latest updates He w...
Vox

Trump’s imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s final legacy - Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be trusted with po...
Mediagazer

OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app got 1M+ downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Emma Roth / The Verge: *OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app got 1M+ downloads in the five days after...
NPR's Health Shots

Worsening listeria outbreak tied to pasta products kills 6, hospitalizes 25 - Certain prepared pasta dishes were recalled from retailers like Trader Joe's, Kroger and Walmart between June and October. Health officials urge customers ...
World Socialist Web Site

The Gen Z protests and the struggle for the United Socialist States of Africa - The experiences unfolding across Africa brings to the fore the central problem of every revolutionary movement: leadership. The courage of the youth must f...
Mother Jones

Trump Sure Seems Eager to Starve the Poor - As the government shutdown slouches toward a historic milestone for the longest in US history, the high-stakes battle over SNAP—the country’s largest and m...
Election Law Blog

“Moore keeps redistricting push alive in Maryland amid national map fights” - The Baltimore Banner reports. The post “Moore keeps redistricting push alive in Maryland amid national map fights” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
memeorandum

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela (New York Times) - New York Times: *Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela* … The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military acti...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Poseidon Problem - Russia’s new Poseidon weapon, a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed undersea drone, threatens coastal cities with massive radioactive destruction. Its speed, st...
The Week

JD Vance wades into choppy religious waters about wife Usha - By emphasizing his hope that the Second Lady convert to Christianity, the Vice President of the United States is inviting controversy from across the relig...
First Draft

Quote Of The Day: Great Gatsby Edition - Let them eat MAGA cake.
Rewire

Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis—Opinion - Black suffering has never moved this country to act. Maybe seeing white families skip meals will finally make us admit that food insecurity isn’t fate—it...
Mondoweiss

Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society - [image: Screenshot from an Israeli Channel 12 report on the sexual assault and rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison. (Screenshot: Channel 12...
Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | November 13] A Conversation With Heidi Reichinnek - An event with the German Left Party’s parliamentary co-leader.
Techdirt.

Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t - Fox News has a problem: when you build your entire editorial model around feeding your audience’s biases, you stop asking whether the stories feeding those...
San Antonio Current

Years in the Making: San Antonio’s Favorite Son releases long-awaited debut album Juniper - [image: Favorite Son is back and firing on all cylinders after a lengthy hiatus.] The band is celebrating the album release with a Friday, Nov. 7 performa...
CultureMap Houston

Book a Taylor Swift tea + 10 more Texas travel ideas for November - The festive fall season has arrived, and with it brings early holiday happenings including makers' markets, light shows, and more. From a bubbly sparkling ...
The Daily Poster

Premium Pain, Executive Gain - As millions of Americans face jaw-dropping health insurance premiums, major insurers are raking in profits and rewadrding investors.
Consortium News

VIPS on Dick Cheney: Intelligence Unglued - The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) sent this memo to George W. Bush about Dick Cheney’s deceptive role in the Iraq invasion, publishe...
OpEd News

What Trump-Venezuela is Really About (In my opinion it's Not About Invasion) - This column presents an alternative view on a Trump invasion of Venezuela: there won't be any. The whole operation, including the use of piracy on the high...
Deadline Politics

Marjorie Taylor Greene, on ABC’s ‘The View’, Chides GOP Over Shutdown And Says She’s Tired Of The “Pissing Contest … Between The Men” In D.C. - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday made her first appearance on what, in years past, would have been the most unlikely of places: ABC’s The View...
WhoWhatWhy

The Best Meditation Apps to Quit Doomscrolling and Find Peace Instead - [image: science, health, doomscrolling, managing anxiety, meditation, path to peace] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recomm...
El Paso Matters

With SNAP benefits in limbo, here’s where to find free food, donate to help across El Paso - Federal court judges ordered the Trump administration to fund SNAP benefits after it halted payments during government shutdown. Only partial payments w...
Slate

My Daughter Wants to Get a Tattoo to Commemorate the Worst Day of My Life - I know it's her body, but it's my trauma.
Political Wire

Administration Hints Furloughed Workers May Not Be Paid - “The Trump administration is sending notifications to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Worst of Us: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built - We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
Crooked Timber

Tuesday photoblogging: Hamburg crows - I’ve been visiting family in Germany, with only a phone, so I couldn’t post on Sunday. But here are some crows from Hamburg.
Independent Political Report

Third Party and Independent Voters in Pennsylvania’s Chester County Required to Use Provisional Ballots After Poll Book Error - Poll books at all precincts in Chester County, Pennsylvania, were found to be missing the names of third party and unaffiliated voters as polls opened fo...
Dissident Voice

Trump: Sincerity and Verisimilitude - US president Donald Trump is apparently trying to burnish his Christian bona fides on Truth Social: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the kil...
LareDOS

The Bard is back: TAMIU’s Shakespeare Mini Fest 2025, Nov. 10 through 14 - All events free and open to the public
Undernews

Polls -
SCOTUSblog

The tariffs case and whether amicus briefs matter - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Crooked Media

The Alabama Solution & The Fiction of Fair Consequence - The post The Alabama Solution & The Fiction of Fair Consequence appeared first on Crooked Media.
Texas Standard

Texas voters will decide whether to fund $3 billion in dementia and Alzheimer’s research - The constitutional amendment comes before voters at a time when Texas’ population of older adults is growing faster than any other age group.
Alternet

A psychologist explains the link between signature size and narcissism - For years, Donald Trump’s distinctive, large and bold signature has captured the public’s attention. Not only did it recently come to light that his sign...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico’s permanent fund managers vote against Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package - Elon Musk is asking Tesla shareholders to approve a $1 trillion pay package for himself this Thursday, but he won’t get any help from New Mexico in doing...
The Root

Singer Tish Hyman’s Creepy Gym Locker Room Experience Goes Viral…But Not For Why You Think - Tish Hyman said her gym membership was revoked after she confronted a "man" in the women's locker room...and the whole thing is messy! Read more...
Houston Public Media

Texas sent $223 million to rural communities to fix water infrastructure after 2023 election - Texas voters will decide Tuesday whether the state should continue spending $1 billion a year to secure the state’s water supply. Part of that investment w...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is The Democratic Party - The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritaria...
Glasstire

The Surfaces that Show Receipts: “CraftTexas 2025” - CraftTexas, the long-running annual show, juried this year by Abraham Thomas, Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts at The Metropo...
ArcaMax

Taken Hostage: Democratic Pols Kiss the Democratic Socialists' Ring - With a new NBC poll showing that only 28% of Americans view the Democratic Party favorably, Republicans hardly need to be handed any more gifts this holida...
Bonddad

Tabulated initial and continuing state unemployment claims continue rangebound - - by New Deal democrat As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the number of initial and continuing claims can be calculated ...
Democracy Now!

"Injustice": How Biden's DOJ Failed to Hold Trump Accountable for Jan. 6, Corruption & More - We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis on the day they publish their new book, *Injustice: How Politics and Fear Va...
Angry Bear

Don’t tread on me, tread on them - Ladies and gentlemen, your GOP nanny state: “House Republicans are exploring ways to prevent Zohran Mamdani from ever being sworn in as mayor even if he ...
Space City Weather

This weekend’s front is looking stronger, maybe with a whiff of Arctic air? - In brief: In today’s post we discuss Houston’s very straightforward forecast, and look ahead to a front this weekend that will bring some (potentially) sig...
Texas Observer

The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due - The image that graces the cover of historian Ashley Farmer’s new biography of Pan-African activist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore is no less regal than the ...
The Progressive Wing

November 4-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day 2025 is here.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Wide World of Whatever - Ann Telnaes provokes a response of “Well, yes, but no …” I think I’m done wondering whether Trump is a deliberate liar or truly believes the preposterous n...
Dorf on Law

It Matters That the Extremely Close 2024 US Election Results Were Not Due to "the Economy" - Three hundred sixty-four days ago was Election Day 2024. The polls going into the final weeks had been tight, but Donald Trump's increasingly erratic an...
Daily Howler

CHAOS: These may be the world's dumbest people! - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 202* *And yes, they actually said this:* Doggone it! We're off on a medical mission today. We're not sure how long we'll be off cam...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Dick Cheney Is Dead” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explore the legacy of Dick Cheney, Amer...
San Antonio Report

Listen: David Carver says JCB is looking to hire local workers ahead of Southside plant opening - The company will need forklift drivers, welders, assemblers, painters, office staff and other workers once its new facility opens. -------------------------...
The Smirking Chimp

Zohran Mamdani Knows How To Win -
Skeptophilia

Apocalypse already - When Vermont Governor George Aiken was asked in 1966 what should be done about the ongoing military debacle in Vietnam, he famously responded that we shoul...
Off The Kuff

The secret plan to slow down the Main Street Line - I can’t believe we have to deal with this shit. Newly obtained emails show that Houston’s decision to remove signal priority for downtown MetroRail trains ...
Grist

They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t. - Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
Infidel753

Image round-up for 4 November 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the California wealth tax post, click here.] ...
High Country News

‘It’s a story of hope’: Reflections on undamming the Klamath - A Q&A with Amy Bowers Cordalis about her new book on the multigenerational effort towards dam removal. The post ‘It’s a story of hope’: Reflections on ...
Portside

10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection - 10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection Mark Brody Tue, 11/04/2025 - 03:12
Earth 911

How To Safely Dispose of Cleaning Products - Sometimes cleaning products must be cleaned out, too. What’s the best way to clean up... The post How To Safely Dispose of Cleaning Products appeared fir...
Counterpunch

Is the US Reclaiming the Wheel from a Self-Destructive Israel? - Has Donald Trump's sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments i...
jobsanger

The Battle Over What It Means To Be And American -
Informed Comment

Conflicting Visions of an International Force for Gaza in Istanbul and Washington - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Two visions of the future of Gaza are congealing, in two different power centers. One is the Arab and Muslim foreign ministe...
Brad Blog

Last Call(s) Before Election Day 2025: 'BradCast' 11/3/2025 - As the Federal Government shutdown enters its second month --- now almost certain to become the longest in U.S. history --- it's Election Day tomorrow in t...
Popular Resistance

US Court Questions Legality Of British Journalist’s Detention - A US federal court has raised "serious questions" about the legality of detaining pro-Palestine British journalist Sami Hamdi, according to a legal advoc...
Wolf Street

US Government’s Net Cash from Tariffs Jumps to Record $32 Billion in October - The Supreme Court could strike down a portion of the tariffs, but the Administration sees similar tariffs under different Acts. "You should assume they're ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trans man 'reading Ben Shapiro to filth' is the video we didn't know we needed (but do) - Right-winger Ben Shapiro when a trans man breaks through his "debate me, dude" nonsense and breaks down his deceptions. The following video took place l...
Socialist Alternative

Venezuela In The Crosshairs Of Trump & Imperialism - Donald Trump’s second term has reignited some of the most aggressive elements of US imperialist policy towards Latin America. Speaking bluntly, US Secretar...
Workers World

Coordinated protests Nov. 15-23 to stop U.S. war against Venezuela - [image: Coordinated protests Nov. 15-23 to stop U.S. war against Venezuela] This call to action is posted on the United National Antiwar Coalition web site...
Antiwar.com

The War Party Is Out of Ideological Ammunition - Tucker Carlson haters lie because they have to lie. Mark Levin, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and company get on their stages and behind their microphones ...
Environment Texas

Fall legislative briefing series - Environment America, PIRG and our state affiliates have teamed up for a series of brief, informative webinars for state lawmakers and their staff on key ...
slacktivist

More American Nazis in the news - Some Republicans are furious with Tucker Carlson for legitimizing actual Nazi and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. But you can't reject Nazis while still su...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Church and State

The American Catholic Church is Shrinking Because of Bad Politics - One U.S. hierarch is even an enthusiastic MAGA supporter. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the prelate of Wall Street, is openly pro-Trump.
Progressive.org

What Might New York City’s Education System Look Like Under Zohran Mamdani? - The city’s $40 billion K-12 public education system has been under mayoral control since 2002. Mamdani wants to end that.
Reform Austin

Uncertain Future: HIV Programs Face Deep Funding Cuts in Congress - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Congress struggles to resolve the ongoing budget standoff, advocates, and lawmakers, are exp...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court in Texas Dismisses Second Attempt by Congressman Ronny Jackson to Stop California Redistricting Measure - On October 31, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, dismissed a second lawsuit filed by Congressmember Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) t...
ProPublica

Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony - The post Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony appeared first on ProPublica.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday* *. You...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #02: Elections Preview! - Paul Blest joins us for an early look at some key 2025 and 2026 races
The Conversation

Congress has been dodging responsibility for tariffs for decades – now the Supreme Court will decide how far presidents can go alone - The Supreme Court’s trade case isn’t just about tariffs. It’s about who sets economic policy in a democracy.
Common Dreams

Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years - The corporate and billionaire donors to Donald Trump’s gaudy ballroom project are beset by conflicts of interest, according to a new Public Citizen repor...
NORML

Election Day Decisions Could Reshape Cannabis Markets on the East Coast - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Bracing Views

More and More War - What Happened to Diplomacy and the Rule of Law? BILL ASTORE Last week, I talked to Judge Napolitano about the Russia-Ukraine War, the Trump administration’...
Capital & Main

Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses - Impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times has been "dire." The post Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors...
Project Censored

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity - In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiograph...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Ohio House Map: Democrats Get a Better Map than Expected - The map gets better for Republicans, but Democrats still have a path toward defending all of their current seats The post Rating the New Ohio House Map: ...
The Greanville Post

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet - MATT SIMON—The two ocean heat waves started like those we experience on land, with the atmosphere warming things up. Indeed, the ocean has absorbed 90 perc...
DeSmogBlog

Fique de Olho Nestes 8 Termos de Greenwashing do Agro na COP30 - The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 26 November 2025 Alimentos e agricultura estarão no centro dos holofotes na próxima...
Ian Welsh

The State Of Play In Late 2025 - Let’s run thru the important points: Domestically in the US the only issue that really matters is affordability. Food, housing and medicine. This will domi...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
See You In 2020

“Bronze Age Pervert” is Zionism’s psyop for selling war on Venezuela, & only Marxism can defeat this psyop - “Create popular power, transition to the Communal State”—Photo by Rachael Boothroyd, venezuelaanalysis.com. To find the role that “Israel” has in the Ve...
Krebs on Security

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody - A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Ita...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
The AltWorld

Why did the U.S. Department of Defence suddenly give Ukraine “Tomahawk” missiles? - How did the Chinese president acknowledge Trump’s weaknesses? Did Beijing dominate the trade war? The “CNN” news […] The post Why did the U.S. Department...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
The Texas Signal

The Many Fronts Of The Abortion War - The Texas bill targeting abortion medication is just one layer in a multi-pronged approach to restricting abortion
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/31/2025 - 02:32 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Liberation News

Cuba resiste huracán y obtiene una contundente victoria en la ONU - La sociedad socialista cubana, organizada para poner a la gente por encima de todo, es la clave de la supervivencia del país. Quienes vivimos en las entrañ...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

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Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
Progressive Army

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

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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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.
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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