Brains and Eggs: Sunday Freak Out Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

‘It’s a Crisis’: Stephen A. Smith Has ‘No Problem’ With Trump Sending National Guard to Chicago - ESPN star Stephen A. Smith said he has "no problem" with President Donald Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Chicago to combat crime The post ‘It...
memeorandum

Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy (Ian Millhiser/Vox) - Ian Millhiser / Vox: *Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy* — In a trio of cases, two currently pending before th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kash Patel denies politicizing FBI in fiery grilling by Democratic senators - Trump appointee insists he is staying in post despite reports of White House doubts over his leadership A defiant Kash Patel on Tuesday denied Democratic...
Mediagazer

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival transformed how Hollywood does business, creating a pipeline for independent films to be shown around the world (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch) - Lukas I. Alpert / MarketWatch: *Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival transformed how Hollywood does business, creating a pipeline for independent films...
The Week

Rebrands: Bringing back the War Department - Trump revives the Department of Defense’s former name
Axios

Tech pours money into U.K. AI as Trump visits - U.S. tech companies are rolling out investments into U.K. AI infrastructure as President Trump kicks off his state visit to London. *Why it matters: *The...
Salon.com

“One of the lions has passed”: Robert Redford dead at 89 - The actor, director and environmentalist died at his Utah home on Tuesday
The Hill

House passes two bills overhauling DC sentencing policies - The House passed two bills on Tuesday to assert congressional control over the District of Columbia’s sentencing policies, the first portion of a slate of ...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend redistricting committee approves five maps for public hearings - The committee will gather public feedback on the maps, though county commissioners will have the final say.
Raw Story

'We have an intolerable threat': Trump's new 'stunt' blasted as 'cruel intimidation' - Leaders at the ACLU on Tuesday joined other rights advocates and elected Democrats in condemning US President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the Natio...
Ballot Access News

Third Circuit Won’t Put Pennsylvania Primary Write-in Candidate on November Ballot - On September 16, the Third Circuit refused to order Pennsylvania election officials to put Brandon Pugh on the November 4, 2025 ballot as the Republican no...
Al Jazeera English

UK court temporarily blocks deportation of Eritrean asylum seeker - Human rights groups say the government risks breaching international law by denying people the right to claim asylum.
Daily Dot

“Snackgate”: Runner calls out boyfriend for eating her marathon snacks. The internet turned it into a relationship test - [image: Left: Woman running a marathon. Text overly reads "When you gave your boyfriend extra snacks to give you during your marathon and he eats them al...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Courthouse News

It’s ‘do or die’ for electric vehicle maker Rivian as it breaks ground on a $5 billion plant - The company initially tapped a largely unfilled niche: demand for electric pickups and SUVs. But competition now includes Ford’s F-150 Lightning and the el...
The Daily Poster

Defense Bill Opens Door To Guns-For-Hire At The Border - The must-pass legislation that just passed the House would, for the first time, allow the Pentagon to send private military contractors to the border.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Discourse

They Want You Shot By The Smoothest-Cheeked Stormtroopers - The warrior ethos demands troops be as sleek as baby seals
Slate

He Was One of the First Swept Up in Donald Trump’s Darkest Agenda. If You Thought It Was Over, You Were Wrong. - On his first day back at Columbia, Mohsen Mahdawi began the day logging into an immigration hearing.
The Verge

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will stop talking about suicide with teens - On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was attempting to balance privacy, freedom, and teen safety - principles that, he admitted, were in...
OpEd News

Early this morning the IDF (Israel Defense Force) invaded Gaza city with thousands of troops - This morning the IDF (Israel Defense Force) invaded Gaza city w/ two divisions numbering tens of thousands of troops. Even though the Trump administration ...
San Antonio Current

Texas lawmaker wants to erect Charlie Kirk statue at state capitol - [image: Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the 2025 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.] 'Charlie Kirk isn't just...
Techdirt.

Missed The Kickstarter? You’ve Got One Last Chance! Limited Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game Are Now Available - Over the past few months, we’ve been fulfilling the orders for all the backers who helped us launch One Billion Users, the social media card game, on Kicks...
Political Wire

Men Tried to Kill Zambian President with Witchcraft - “Two men in Zambia have been handed two-year prison sentences with hard labor after being found guilty of plotting to assassinate the country’s president t...
slacktivist

‘A brief encounter’ - In which I regret never getting to ask our old family friend Missionary Bob about his potential connections to the Romanian Revolution.
Deadline Politics

Bob Woodward Pays Tribute To Robert Redford, Shares Actor’s Thoughts On Politics In Recent Years: “We Don’t Have Nixon Anymore, We Have Trump” - Bob Woodward paid tribute to Robert Redford, who died Tuesday morning at age 89, by sharing some quotes from their conversations over the past decade, as t...
Second Nexus

Country Star Zach Bryan Scales Barbed Wire Fence To Confront Rival Singer As Feud Turns Physical In Wild Video - Country music’s latest feud has nothing to do with chart positions or CMA trophies—it’s Zach Bryan channeling his inner WWE stuntman on a barbed-wire fen...
Vox

Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy - In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday, President D...
The Greanville Post

Yes, the killing of Charlie Kirk was heinous. No, he was not a martyred truth-teller - M. TRACEY—Tracey wasn’t just some random commentator or podcaster. He was a full-time, extremely influential Republican Party apparatchik. His mega-donor f...
NPR's Health Shots

The U.S. said it would burn $9.7 million of birth control. Its fate is still unclear - Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Ai...
The NM Political Report

Lujan Grisham, GOP at odds over special session - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) and legislative Republicans are openly clashing about the necessity for next month’s special legislative session and w...
Futurism

Trump's Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI - [interesting overview but is there anything new we can highlight in here?] Partisan politics in the United States makes for a generally contentious atmos...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: When the Achaeans came over the walls... - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2025* *...we'll guess that it sounded like this:* Yesterday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, we sat down to watch *The Five*. The analyst...
Undernews

Trumpflation - *Elizabeth Warren* Under Donald Trump’s economy: Coffee is up 26% Beef is up 14% Oranges are up 17% Bananas are up 6% Chicken is up 6% Chocolate Chip Cook...
Election Law Blog

“Voter Registration is Being Undermined Across America” - Op-ed in Time by Hannah Fried, executive director of All Voting is Local. My month-long fellowship at the University of Melbourne this summer taught me,...
American Prospect

What William Buckley and Charlie Kirk Had in Common - Today on TAP: As George Will noted, both made ‘politics fun’ (to be sure, even while disparaging equal rights).
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those August Retail Sales - Some big shifts related to tariffs. But our Drunken Sailors keep on splurging.
WhoWhatWhy

Gold-Covered Hairballs May Reveal Why Cats Eat Grass - [image: science, nature, feline behavior, grass ingestion, hairballs, new theory] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommend...
Independent Political Report

Green Party of Pennsylvania Endorses Global Sumud Flotilla - The Green Party of Pennsylvania has endorsed the Global Sumud Flotilla, a multinational fleet attempting to break the blockade of Gaza. Organizers say th...
Ian Welsh

Interregnum of Unreality 2008-??? - By Nat Wilson Turner I would like to propose that the United States and associated English language information sphere remain in what I call The Interregnu...
Mondoweiss

UN inquiry finds Israel is committing genocide, calls for arms embargo - [image: Palestinians inspect the site of a morning Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, August 8, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]A UN commissio...
El Paso Matters

Fact check: Does the city’s Animal Services prioritize community sheltering over shelter intakes? - El Paso residents are debating whether Animal Services is shifting responsibility for surrendering or losing animals to the public. Here's what the depa...
World Socialist Web Site

UK children on free school meals blocked from accessing vital curriculum subjects - Children on free school meals are less likely to take up costlier subjects at GCSE level like music, geography and foreign languages than their better off ...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: Israel, Kirk, & the Coming Repression - Max Blumenthal provides important context on Charlie Kirk’s changing relationship with Israel and tension within the Trump administration in the lead up to...
First Draft

Madman Across The Water - The Epstein-Maxwell scandal follows Trump to the UK.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Plinking Narcos - The Trump administration’s stepped-up military actions in Latin America resemble “plinking”—casual target practice against weak opponents. From strikes on ...
Dorf on Law

The Democrats' Best (Only) Strategy Now Is to Let the Republicans Shut Down the Government - In the midst of all of the horrible things that are happening in the world, it is almost quaint to notice that the federal government of the United State...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 16, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: It's not your imagination --- summers really are getting...
CultureMap Houston

Rap star Cardi B brings the drama to Houston on new spring tour - Superstar female rapper Cardi B is launching her first tour in six years. Called Little Miss Drama Tour, it's in support of her second studio album, *Am I ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Right Breaks Down: Charlie Kirk's Assassination Set Off a Powder Keg - We're watching the fury of the Right grow by the hour and it reveals the depth of our problems
Counterpunch

Racism Ain’t Punk w/ Punks Against Apartheid - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt talks with members of Punks Against Apartheid to discuss the history of the network, the...
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
Capital & Main

Effort to Curb Southern California Rail Yard Pollution Stalls Under Trump - The region’s rail yards continue to pose serious health hazards, prompting local advocates to push state leaders for action. The post Effort to Curb Sout...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dean Charles Martinez and a Legacy of Equity, Belonging, and Impact - *Friends:* *I share a sad and disappointing message this morning from University of Texas College of Education Dean Charles Martinez. Dean Martinez’s dec...
The Root

Cam’ron Wasn’t Playing With Boxer Adrien Broner For Disrespecting His Female Podcast Co-Hosts - Fans are praising rapper and podcast host Cam'ron for his response to Adrien Broner's unwanted comments to his co-hosts. Read more...
Grist

‘Green’ diesel producer’s supplier linked to Amazon deforestation - A U.S. renewable diesel refiner purchased tallow from slaughterhouses supplied by ranches fined for illegal clearing of Brazilian forests.
Texas Standard

Federal loopholes may have opened the door for sports betting alternatives that skirt Texas’ gambling ban - While the state’s strict ban on gambling hasn’t changed, fast-growing daily fantasy sports and prediction market apps are giving Texans new ways to wager w...
Popular Resistance

All Hands on Deck! Letter From Veterans Boat On Gaza Flotilla - Nine of us veterans arrived in Barcelona on August 27th. We were mostly strangers meeting for the first time, with a couple of exceptions. We began to b...
Dissident Voice

Thinking Beyond the Bars: How Higher Education Helped Me Develop Confidence in Myself and Rediscover My Humanity - Ambitious young people are told that a college degree is necessary to launch a successful career. For me — a “lifer” taking courses from my cell in a sta...
Mother Jones

Charlie Kirk’s Murder Fuels New Attacks on Higher Education - In the days following the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, his friends and allies have called for revenge against all kinds of groups, including tra...
SCOTUSblog

When the court clings to half-measures - Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. Please note that the vi...
Common Dreams

Over 100 Organizations Tell EPA to Ditch Dangerous Proposal to Gut Vehicle Emission Standards - Today, 112 organizations submitted a comment letter to the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the agency’s proposal to gut federal greenhouse...
MintPress News

Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement - Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life. The post Infiltr...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Texas Observer

‘I Am Not Your Enemy’ - The following is excerpted from I Am Not Your Enemy: A Memoir, out September 16 from Spiegel & Grau. It is reprinted with permission of the publisher, © ...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Autumn Albums - Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though o...
Bonddad

August industrial production: overall neutral trend continues - - *by New Deal democrat* So much is imported that industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “Chin...
Glasstire

Is President Trump Right About the Smithsonian? - On September 6, 2025, while thousands of people protested against the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., I spent the day at the Nat...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 223: “Are You On the Blacklist?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Welcome to the new McCarthyism. Are you on the blacklist? Trump and his far-right allies cynically exploit th...
Rewire

Infant Mortality Rises in States With Restrictive Abortion Laws—New Research - Analysis: States that enacted abortion bans post-*Dobbs* saw a 7.2 percent increase in infant deaths. The post Infant Mortality Rises in States With Rest...
Crooked Media

Survival of the Schooling w/ Dr. John B. King, Jr. - The post Survival of the Schooling w/ Dr. John B. King, Jr. appeared first on Crooked Media.
Democracy Now!

U.S. Acts as "Judge, Jury & Executioner" in Venezuelan Boat Strikes, Killing at Least 14 - On Monday, President Trump announced the U.S. bombed a boat in international waters, killing three people. The attack was the second to target what the Tru...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s Netanyahu Starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children - Even more worrying, UNICEF found an increase in cases of acute malnutrition.
The Conversation

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the US might seem hopelessly divided – is there any way forward? - Trying to change someone’s mind can seem futile. But there are approaches to political discourse that still matter, even if they don’t instantly win someon...
Liberation News

‘One space, one people, one destiny’: Two years of the Alliance of Sahel States - The roots of the AES were formed out of military coups that sought sovereignty as a rallying cry from the mass mobilizations taking place against French pr...
Space City Weather

The tropics are waking back up, but hurricane season is nearing its end for Texas - In brief: Today’s post discusses the state of the Atlantic tropics, which are waking up after an uncharacteristic snooze to start September. We also talk a...
ArcaMax

At the Seams: Vitriol and Violence Threaten To Tear Our America Apart - Recently, the student newspaper at an elite northeastern university analyzed the list of outside speakers invited to campus in order to assess where they s...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Brandon Seale rediscovers lost Battle of Medina in new documentary - On the latest episode of the bigcitysmalltown podcast, Brandon Seale shares how he rediscovered a lost piece of Texas history. ----------------------------...
The Smirking Chimp

Team Trump Is Threatening to Aim the Power of the State at His Political Enemies—Yes, That Means You -
Skeptophilia

The morass of lies - It will come as no shock to regular readers of *Skeptophilia* that I *really* hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the truth. No...
Off The Kuff

Nirenberg’s choice - I know what I’m rooting for. Former Mayor Ron Nirenberg is mulling his political future, even as he’s adjusting to his new day job — lecturing Trinity Univ...
Angry Bear

Hold onto your wallet - St. Reagan famously said that the most terrifying words in the English language were “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Now that the Roberts...
Progressive Army

Una decisión de Trump trajo alivio a las exportaciones de Argentina - Como respuesta a la guerra de aranceles que inició el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, China rompe récord de importaciones de soja pero sin comp...
ProPublica

Employers Have Exploited and Abused H-2A Farmworkers for Years. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way. - by Max Blau ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around...
High Country News

Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow. The post Decades of public-lands planning, ov...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
jobsanger

Citizen-Led Ballot Measures Are Under Attack In Many States -
See You In 2020

Nepal color revolution proves Trump has only intensified imperialist warfare, & expanded big tech’s reach - Above: U.S. armed forces on top of Nepal’s embassy In the face of this anti-revolutionary Nepal coup, the message we must take away is that the enemies ...
Informed Comment

“Look to the Rose:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:13 - Stanza no. 13 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the free gifts we receive from nature. XIII....
Church and State

One of Us - The feverish reaction to Kirk’s death proves that the price is only tolerable when the gun death is one of them, not one of us.
Alternet

'Something is wrong': MAGA pundits say Trump is 'lying to us' about Charlie Kirk shooting - Even though the alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk has been apprehended – and even reportedly confessed in a Discord group chat — that hasn't stopped MAGA ...
Portside

Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy Agenda - Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy Agenda Stephanie Mon, 09/15/2025 - 21:48
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Workers World

Hamas demands unity to end Israeli lawlessness - [image: Hamas demands unity to end Israeli lawlessness] The following statement was published by Resistance News Network on Sept. 14, 2025. Hamas sends ur...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk's 'avengers' are making opportunistic fools of themselves - This post is not about Charlie Kirk. Instead, it's about those who have taken it upon themselves to avenge his death, so to speak. I'm talking about al...
Antiwar.com

So Much for the Nobel Peace Prize - The first seven months of Donald Trump’s second term as president has seen a remarkable transformation. In his inaugural address, Trump said that “My proud...
Claytoonz

Shitpocalypse - 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...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Sludge

Democratic PR Firm to Run Bot Army for Israel - A new FARA document reveals SKDK's plan to "flood the zone" with social media bots as part of its $600,000 contract with Israel.
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Progressive.org

Boston Organizers Launch Hunger Strike for Gaza - The People’s Hunger Strike for Gaza aims to pressure lawmakers to block U.S. military aid to Israel.
Reform Austin

“Operation Lone Star 2.0”: DPS arresting thousands of undocumented immigrants across Texas to aid Trump’s mass deportation - Texas Department of Public Safety officers have helped arrest more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants across the state this year, according to public rec...
Project Censored

Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect - This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented cens...
The AltWorld

Do White Ethnicities Understand that they and their values are under attack? - Recently I was enjoying a draft beer with a friend. Charlie Kirk’s assassination became a topic of discussion. […] The post Do White Ethnicities Unders...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 15 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Dog vs home intruder. The right-wing activist-fr...
The Texas Signal

Checking In With Houston’s Viral Anti-Trump Sign Guy - The viral social media star known as "FunSignGuy" on TikTok has thousands of followers thanks to the signs he protests with in Northwest Houston
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
Bracing Views

The End Game for Gaza - Using Old Tools of War BILL ASTORE SEP 12, 2025 I’ve taught military history “from Plato to Nato,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technolo...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
DeSmogBlog

What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences - Of the many health impacts linked to fossil fuels perhaps the most gruesome is chimney sweep testicle. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, chimne...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

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Avedon's Sideshow

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The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

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Texas Monthly

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Media Lens

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

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

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

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Two Party Opera

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

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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

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Land Destroyer

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ROAR Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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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

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BEYONDbones

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Novara Media

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Border/Lines

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

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

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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

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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
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)

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

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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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...
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Due Dissidence

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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

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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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