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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

CultureMap Houston

Grand hotels, hot air balloons + 9 more Texas travel tips for April - It's time to take advantage of the season's mild weather and embark on a fun spring getaway. April is in full swing for travel ideas, from a Hill Country h...
Claytoonz

Third Term Banana - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Raw Story

'Lock him up!' Critics rebuke Mike Waltz for reported use of private Gmail account - National Security Advisor Mike Waltz used a private Gmail email address for official government business, according to a Tuesday report, and critics dema...
Mediaite

Colorado Governor Trolls Trump Complaining About His Official Portrait By Tweeting a ‘South Park’ Style Picture of Himself - Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) took the opportunity presented by April Fools' Day have some fun at President Donald Trump's expense, posting a portrait of...
memeorandum

Exclusive: Trump preparing executive order to increase weapons exports, sources say (Reuters) - Reuters: *Exclusive: Trump preparing executive order to increase weapons exports, sources say* — U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planni...
Vox

Who did Trump actually deport to El Salvador? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
The Greanville Post

A political left that’s controlled by billionaires is fake ‘left’: hypocritical nazism. - ERIC ZUESSE—The great progressive, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thought very deeply about and planned constantly (during 11 August 1941 to 12 April 1945 when...
Texas Monthly

The Latest Celebrity Western Status Symbol? An Actual Horse. - Post Malone is Texas’s newest horse daddy. Meanwhile, Drake, Kacey Musgraves, and Miranda Lambert can’t stop horsin’ around on Instagram.
The Verge

T-Mobile closes Lumos deal after dropping DEI - T-Mobile has officially closed its joint venture deal with the fiber provider Lumos, after taking down its webpage dedicated to diversity, equity, and inc...
The Hill

The White House’s mixed message on its tariff policy - Trump's tariffs could raise $600 billion a year, but this would only happen if consumers avoid substitution and continue to buy foreign goods at tariff-ele...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
The Root

How Wendy Williams Responds to Protests for Her Freedom in Two Major Cities - Wendy Williams’ voice championing for freedom from her guardianship just got a whole lot louder thanks to her supporters. And now she’s speaking out abou...
Axios

Report: Waltz used Gmail for official work - National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks in the Cabinet Room on March 25. Photo: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images National Security Adviser Mi...
Deadline Politics

Kid Rock Talks Up Donald Trump’s Dinner With Bill Maher: “Everyone Was So Surprised, So Pleasant” - Kid Rock said that Donald Trump’s dinner at the White House with Bill Maher was “so pleasant” and that the conversation “included things we had in common,”...
Houston Public Media

Contentious Montrose Boulevard project in Houston draws protest ahead of construction - The plan for the thoroughfare, which involved creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians, was changed after Mayor John Whitmire overhauled the local ...
Salon.com

Wallen reportedly wasn't game for "Saturday Night Live" sketch - The country singer, who quickly walked off stage at the end of the show, turned down a sketch with Bowen Yang
Political Wire

Mike Johnson Sends Lawmakers Home - “After nine Republicans joined all Democrats to tank a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a novel solution: everyone go hom...
Courthouse News

Advocates demand thaw of federal funds for legal help to undocumented kids - The plaintiffs say a government order to cease representation of undocumented children violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
Techdirt.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 413: Ron Wyden On Chutzpah - Support us on Patreon » If you’re a Techdirt reader, you’re probably familiar with Senator Ron Wyden. In January, he released his new book It Takes Chutzpa...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: As Leavitt returns to her favorite word... - *TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2025* *...Morning Joe turns to sports: *It's beginning to seem like Karoline Leavitt's favorite word. That favorite word would be "vic...
Mondoweiss

‘Every arrest that ICE has made is a political one’: How immigrant rights activists are fighting attacks on the Palestine movement - [image: The Palestine movement, immigrant rights groups, and community members gathered together in Newark, NJ on March 28, 2025 to protest the detention o...
Discourse

The Martyrdom of Luigi Mangione - The Trump administration is doing everything it can to turn him into a saint.
Futurism

The Majority of Scientists Are Now Considering Fleeing America - As president Donald Trump's administration continues to greatly diminish the role of scientific research and gutting funding, while installing crackpot a...
Al Jazeera English

Syria hit with nationwide power outage amid grid failures - Nationwide blackout strikes Syria due to malfunctions, authorities say, amid deepening economic crisis.
Mother Jones

RFK Jr.’s HHS Just Dismantled a Center Focused on Efficiency - On Tuesday, in a series of emails sent at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, all employees—around 20—of the federal Administration for Community Living’s (ACL) Center fo...
Ballot Access News

US District Judge Rules on Georgia Voting Machine Case - The Curling, et al. v. Raffensberger, et al. case is about certain in-person electronic voting machines in Georgia and their vulnerability to tampering. He...
Mediagazer

BBC and ITV's new contracts with actors' union Equity won't include AI safeguards as they await the outcome of Equity negotiations with producer trade body Pact (Max Goldbart/Deadline) - Max Goldbart / Deadline: *BBC and ITV's new contracts with actors' union Equity won't include AI safeguards as they await the outcome of Equity negotiati...
Slate

The Trump Administration Just Admitted It’s Creating a Black Site for Migrants - Because this situation is unprecedented, there is little case law to indicate whether the DOJ is correct that migrants lose their rights at CECOT.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs - Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companies Big US technology companies have been offe...
Wolf Street

Underlying Labor Market Dynamics Still Tight Despite Highest Gov Layoffs & Discharges since Census Wind-Down of 2020 - Hiring Begins to Shift to Private-Sector where Hiring Jumped, while Hiring by Governments Slumped.
Church and State

A new definition of global overpopulation, explained and applied - People are degrading essential global ecosystem services in ways that could seriously harm current and future human generations.
The NM Political Report

Here’s how PNM decides when to shut off power during high winds - By Hannah Grover The Public Service Company of New Mexico is monitoring weather closely as it determines whether to shutoff electricity to prevent wildfi...
World Socialist Web Site

Communication Workers Union's Martin Walsh attacks WSWS over opposition to “USO reform” pilots - If there is one takeaway from this episode, it is how panicked the Communication Workers Union leadership becomes when they are faced with even a hint of o...
Daily Dot

Are torpedo bats ruining baseball? These 13 memes think so - [image: Screenshot of a Baseball player holding a torpedo bat; Screenshot of a tweet from X user @MLBONFAX: There's no way these Yankees bats are legal.]...
Election Law Blog

Watched Archived Video of SDP Webinar, Combatting False Election Information: Lessons from 2024 and a Look to the Future - Fascinating discussion with Alice Marwick, Kate Starbird, and Josh Tucker. Watch: The post Watched Archived Video of SDP Webinar, Combatting False Electi...
Alternet

'People are going to die': Physicians say CDC 'effectively dissolved' after mass firings - Doctors are reeling at mass firings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this morning, even as the nation prepares for its worst measles out...
Second Nexus

Leaked Memo Reveals USDA Has Banned Massive List Of Terms Including 'Climate' And 'Pollution' - On his first day in office, Republican (MAGA) President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders (EOs). *Among them was the MAGA movement's resp...
Reform Austin

Administration Shutters Critical School Shooting Database Amid Growing Violence - In a move that has raised concerns among school safety and terrorism experts, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Terrorism and Targeted Violence ...
The AltWorld

Hamas’s new resistance strategy abroad against Israel? - It seems that the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” and the leadership of its hardline military wing, stationed […] The post Hamas’s new resistance str...
The Week

Book reviews: ‘Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ and ‘How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978–1998’ - A political ‘witch hunt’ and Helen Garner’s journal entries
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Danza Mexica Ceremony on April 8, 2025 at 12 Noon in the Outdoor Rotunda, Texas State Capitol - ****PLEASE SHARE WIDELY**** *Friends,* *Next Tuesday, April 8th at noon, please join Texas State Rep. Christina Morales (Houston, Dist. 145) in celebrat...
Texas Standard

Four reasons mosquitoes might like to bite you best - Only female mosquitoes take blood meals. So why might these tiny ladies prefer you to your neighbor?
American Prospect

Trump’s and MAGA’s Own Identity Politics: White, Preferably Racist - Today on TAP: The ‘race-centered’ Smithsonian exhibits are bad, but there’s nothing race-centered in restoring Confederate statuary.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Potash Tariffs: A Favor to Three Dictators or Just Putin? - [image: Uralkali, Russian, potash, fertilizer company] With US agriculture reliant on foreign potash, Trump’s tariff moves against Canada appear to have no...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- tariff time - Some of Peter Zeihan's analyses of issues get a bit too hyperbolic for my taste, but in this case he's just giving an unusually clear explanation of the p...
Consortium News

‘Every Atrocity Imaginable’ - Israel faces more war-crimes accusations and calls for accountability since resuming its campaign of annihilation last month in Gaza. By Brett Wilkins Comm...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court considers South Carolina’s effort to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding - [image: Supreme Court considers South Carolina’s effort to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding] [image: Supreme Court considers South Carolina’s e...
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Randy Fine - The mouthy malakatude, it burns.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Bombing Yemen - Our warfare focused Coffee Break: The bombing of Yemen, a story of pernicious foreign policy and misguided military action
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - April 1, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump Administration plans to dismantle Federal Emergenc...
Undernews

Polling -
Bonddad

February construction spending: nominal vs. real makes all the difference - * - by New Deal democrat* Since the turn of the Millennium, a downturn in manufacturing has not been enough to tip the economy into recession. There ...
NPR's Health Shots

Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership - Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.
Texas Observer

Carlton Carl, 1945-2025 - Carlton Carl passed away on March 25, 2025, in Austin. Born on September 20, 1945, in Houston, Carlton was the younger of the two Carl Boys, born to Cla...
DeSmogBlog

Doug Ford’s Policies Increased Ontario’s Energy Dependency on U.S., Say Experts - As Donald Trump’s unjust trade war with Canada heats up, Canadian politicians are advocating less economic dependence on energy exports to the United Sta...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Conversation with Sarah Kendzior - Live Wednesday April 2nd at 8pm ET - I'll be discussing Sarah's new book The Last American Road Trip and our worsening crisis
Popular Resistance

A People’s History Of San Francisco’s Most Notorious Neighborhood - Few San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area still called “The Tenderloin”—a name which derives from the late 19th ...
Idavox

Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A White Supremacist, to Shoot ‘N—–’ After Incident At Free Concert - All they told her was that she could not be in a certain part of... The post Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A Wh...
Angry Bear

Manufacturing Index returns to Contraction - ISM manufacturing index returns to contraction as the front-running of tariffs has ended – by New Deal democrat [Note: I’ll report separately on constru...
Daily Cartoonist

Society of Illustrators’ 2025 Hall of Fame – Arno, Paul, M. Severin - The Society of Illustrators has revealed it class of inductees for their 2025 Hall of Fame. They are: Rudy Gutierrez Kadir Nelson Tim O’Brien This is the f...
The Conversation

Why a presidential term limit got written into the Constitution – the story of the 22nd Amendment - No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
Rio Grande Guardian

Covarrubias: TAMIU has two more white papers coming out on international trade - The director of the Texas Center for Border Economic and Enterprise Development discusses two new proposals: The American Industrial Coordination Council...
The Daily Poster

Florida Is Going Medieval On Labor Law - Republican lawmakers in the Sunshine State are advancing a suite of bills making it easier for employers to exploit society’s most vulnerable.
Dissent Magazine

Will Federal Workers Rediscover Their Militancy? - Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
Capital & Main

Cal State Stalls on Recognizing Resident Assistant Union at 20 Campuses - Fate of 1,400 undergraduate student workers hinges on university response. The post Cal State Stalls on Recognizing Resident Assistant Union at 20 Campus...
The Grayzone

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal - Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war ef...
Southeast Texas Record

Texas not a 'good neighbor' under ozone law - NEW ORLEANS - Texas and Louisiana will have to come up with better plans for handling ozone, a federal appeals court has ruled. Read more…
Dissident Voice

US Bullying in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) - United States vice president JD Vance traveled to Kalaallit Nunaat (colonial designation: Greenland) to join his wife. He issued a statement that speaks ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 108: “HHS Layoffs Impact on MAHA” - Live at 10 am Eastern/9 am Central time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafte In this episode of The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan tackle the massive ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso teachers’ unions advocate increased school funding, decry vouchers at Texas legislature - El Paso teachers’ union leaders headed to the Capitol to advocate for school funding as many districts throughout the county prepare their budgets for t...
Rewire

Opinion: The SAVE Act Will Disenfranchise Entire Swaths of Voters - Tracking down documentary proof of citizenship is hard enough, but what do you do if the name on your birth certificate doesn’t match your current name? ...
San Antonio Report

HGTV is giving away a smart home in San Antonio - HGTV has transformed a San Antonio home for its Smart Home Giveaway. The winner will also receive a new car and a $100,000 cash prize. ---------------------...
Democracy Now!

"We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is": Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk - The former international head of Doctors Without Borders is speaking out after New York University canceled her presentation, saying some of her slides cou...
Eater Houston

The Best Rooftops in Houston for Drinking and Dining With a View - [image: Thompson Hotel’s pool and rooftop bar overlooks the city skyline as the sun sets.] These restaurants and bars offer the best views in Houston. | T...
ArcaMax

Liars and Fools: Security Breach Signals Something Worse than a Clown Show - Last week's disclosure that the Trump administration officials responsible for keeping us safe from our enemies resemble reckless frat boys may have been s...
Space City Weather

Expect breezy and warm conditions for awhile, but next week still looks considerably cooler - In brief: Houston’s overall pattern appears to be set for the next 10 days. We’ll be breezy, warm, and humid for the rest of this week, with the potential ...
Dorf on Law

Will Penn's Remarkable Concession Bring Back The Bucks? - As reported over the weekend in *The Chronicle of Higher Education*, University of Pennsylvania President J. Larry Jameson reached an agreement with Educ...
The Smirking Chimp

Bracing for “Liberation Day” -
Skeptophilia

Celestial revelations - Once or twice a week I volunteer to sort book donations for our local Friends of the Library biannual book sale. This particular event, held in May and ...
Off The Kuff

Recall Houston - Color me skeptical. Recall Houston, a group working to recall Houston Mayor John Whitmire, is gaining steam and reading for a push to get the effort on the...
ProPublica

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” - by McKenzie Funk ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
Scheerpost.com

With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools - Dissolving Section 230 would empower a Trump-helmed federal government to force online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech.
Grist

Yellowstone’s gateway town fears for its future amid Trump funding cuts - “Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.”
High Country News

The murder, the museum and the monument - [image: The setting sun illuminates the site of the Topaz Relocation Center, a federal prison camp in Millard County, Utah, where thousands of Japanese Ame...
Common Dreams

Jerk: Honk If You Hate Elon or Are Stuck In His Car - Everything is still awful, but it was heartening to see Tesla Takedown's many protests and fiery message: "Would've fought the Nazis? Now's your chance."...
Crooked Media

Trump “Not Joking” About 3rd Term - The post Trump “Not Joking” About 3rd Term appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Fascism in the United States? - Many Americans felt anxious and fearful about the Trump administration long before it assumed power in January. Three months after Trump’s inauguration, ...
Glasstire

CASP Live/Work Studio Residency Applications Close April 4 - The Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP), located in Lubbock’s Cultural Arts District, is seeking applicants for its Live/Work Studio residency program. E...
Informed Comment

Big Banks accept a Catastrophic 5.4º F. Temperature Rise, Hope to sell People more Air Conditioners - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Corbin Hiar reports at the Scientific American that the big banks are now banking on a 5.4º F. (3º Celsius) rise in global t...
jobsanger

Trump Policy Will Cause A Two-Fold Brain Drain -
Antiwar.com

Who Gives Two Hoots About the Houthis! - Last week we noted that the ascension to NATO of the Balkan Five (Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania) and the Baltic Three (Lithuania, La...
Portside

Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies To Save the Postal Service - Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies To Save the Postal Service Stephanie Mon, 03/31/2025 - 21:21
Workers World

MAGA and Senate bill would ban federal workers’ unions - [image: MAGA and Senate bill would ban federal workers’ unions] By Benny Schaft The U.S. billionaire-led ruling class has officially declared war — not jus...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Video - The Trump/Putin 'Spicegirls' duet you didn't know you needed' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *One of the main things which will get us through this turbulent period is comedy. And satire. Viciously on-point satire. This above video hits all of th...
Bracing Views

Surprise! Institute of Peace in Shutdown - W.J. Astore Meanwhile, Institute of War Is Going Full Throttle Surprise! America’s Institute of Peace (USIP), admittedly a think tank that is neither that ...
Sludge

Crypto Industry Spends Millions to Hold GOP House Seats - In a closer-than-expected Florida special election, a top crypto industry super PAC is shelling out for Republican Randy Fine, who has been out-raised by D...
Progressive.org

A Cowardly Attack on Disabled Students - The squatter in the White House is laying siege to the Education Department’s civil rights division.
slacktivist

Recent reads (03.31.25) - None of these stories directly involve the Man of Lawlessness and the King Who Exalts Himself.
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Iowa - Official state motto: We Squat Atop Missouri.
Project Censored

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History - In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk...
Crooked Timber

Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life. Reading Kopenawa and Albert’s The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman from the perspective of economic philosophy - What is it that people desire when they desire riches? It may seem strange that once all basic needs are fulfilled, individuals would continue to strive fo...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adoption of Low-Carbon Concrete with Eco Material Technologies’ Grant Quasha - As trade dynamics shift and tariffs reshape supply chains, construction companies must rethink how they... The post Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adopti...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing - [image: Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing] If you want to call it negotiating. Iran refuses to even talk, unless America removes sanctions first. Putin will ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
The Disorder Of Things

Why We Wrote Governing The Feminist Peace - This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
The Texas Signal

Thousands Attend Immigration March In Dallas - The Mega Marcha, billed as the largest rally for immigration reform thus far into the year, ended at City Hall Plaza, where a diverse lineup of speakers fr...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
See You In 2020

“Truth to power” is no longer enough. We must mobilize the masses to overthrow their criminal dictatorship. - Above: Homeland Security agent in February 2025, photo by RJ Sangosti We’ve reached a point where it’s no longer enough to expose power, because power h...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
Liberation News

Undemocratic St. Louis police bill will hurt working class, immigrants - [image: Feature photo: Governor Mike Kehoe after being sworn into the Missouri Senate in 2011. Photo credit: Missouri News Horizon (CC BY 2.0)]The solution...
Trivial Knot

On artificial romance - I just watched a video by Daryl Talks Games titled “What Artificial Romance Does to People“. Although crushes/romance/relationships with artificial charact...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31-4.2 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Weil vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wor...
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
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...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Off-Year Elections: Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania - Wisconsin will hold a state Supreme Court election next week, where liberals are defending their 4-3 majority. Florida will also have two special electio...
LareDOS

LFS Film Club Friday features films of Marcela Morán on Friday, March 28 - Isaac Garza’s team-building workshop set for Saturday, March 29
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Ecosophia

March 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
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...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Adult-Use Marijuana Retail, Guts Medical Access Legislation - [image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization][image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization]"Once again, Governor Youngkin has prioritized his personal politics over...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
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 ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
Reveal

Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns - The shift comes after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting linked former police guns to crime...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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