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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

Countercurrents

Identity Politics and the Uneasy Practice of Democratic Equality - Democracy rests upon the premise that citizens participate in public life as equals, irrespective of their social origins, cultural affiliations, or inheri...
naked capitalism

With Shipping Industry in Meltdown, Struggle to Oust China from Global Ports Intensifies - Panama “retakes” canal, and Blackrock-led consortium doubles down on efforts to acquire dozens of global ports from Hong Kong-based company, including ones...
Axios

WATCH: Anduril's Palmer Luckey talks AI, nukes and Iran on "The Axios Show" - The U.S. holds an "extremely small" lead on China in the AI race, in part because authoritarian governments have certain advantages in deploying new tech...
ProPublica

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law - The post The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law appeared first on P...
Al Jazeera English

How Israel, the US and Iran deploy covert ops - Sometimes called sleeper cells, these anonymous agents employ deception to spy, sabotage or kill.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 16 March 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] For full details on his proposal, click here. I pos...
Counterpunch

To Stop US Militarism and Criminal Wars, We Need Universal Conscription - The Trump White House is refusing to rule out a draft, and also won’t rule out sending current all-volunteer troops into Iran, and look at the hue and cr...
The Week

How NASA shifted an asteroid’s orbit - A rock and a hard place
memeorandum

Trump defends Mark Levin after pundit's wild podcast feud with rival Megyn Kelly (Zoe Hussain/New York Post) - Zoe Hussain / New York Post: *Trump defends Mark Levin after pundit's wild podcast feud with rival Megyn Kelly* — President Trump threw his support beh...
Mediagazer

Warner Bros. won a record-tying 11 awards at the 98th Oscars, followed by Netflix's six; Apple, Disney, Focus, and Neon had one each, while Paramount had none (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian) - Catherine Shoard / The Guardian: *Warner Bros. won a record-tying 11 awards at the 98th Oscars, followed by Netflix's six; Apple, Disney, Focus, and Neon...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump claims he has ‘absolute right’ to impose new tariffs after supreme court blow - US supreme court has ‘ransacked’ the country, president argues, in wake of its ruling against his trade agenda Donald Trump has claimed he has “the absol...
jobsanger

jobsanger Is 20 Years Old - This blog is 20 years old today. The first post was done on March 16, 2006.
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3361: Ravens in Thin Air - Episode: 3361 The versatile, intelligent, Raven has much to teach us. Today, ravens in thin air.
Informed Comment

Children of War - On January 29, 2024, volunteers from the Palestinian Red Crescent received an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl was trapped in a car, pleading
Slate

*Sinners *Made Oscars History, but Not the Kind Anyone Expected - The hit film began the awards season as the most nominated movie ever. It ended it by setting a different sort of record.
Mediaite

Trump Defends ‘THE GREAT ONE’ Mark Levin Amid Feud With Megyn Kelly: Only ‘Jealous’ Critics With Little ‘Sway’ Would Attack Him - Trump posted a lengthy defense of Mark Levin on Sunday, calling the Fox News host a "Great American Patriot" who is getting unfairly maligned by "angry" ...
Deadline Politics

Oscars Amp Up The Politics: As Donald Trump Rages At The Media, Presenters And Winners Counter The “Chaotic, Frightening Times” - The Oscars got more political this year, not just with the underlying themes of winners like One Battle After Another and Sinners, but the subtle and overt...
Portside

Sunday Science: Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made - Sunday Science: Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made Ira Sun, 03/15/2026 - 23:29
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Spring Bookings - Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for March 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering...
Political Wire

Trump May Try to Seize Kharg Island - “President Trump is weighing a seizure of Iran’s critical oil depot on Kharg Island — a move that would require U.S. boots on the ground — if tankers remai...
The Hill

Javier Bardem sports anti-war pin, says 'free Palestine' at Oscars - Javier Bardem is sharing a simple message from the Oscars stage: "No to war and free Palestine." The "No Country for Old Men" actor presented the Internati...
Raw Story

Trump raises eyebrows with response to female reporter asking about Iran deployment - President Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Sunday night in response to a female reporter's question about his plans to deploy U.S. troops to fight in the ...
Crooked Media

Can Big Oil Grease The Courts? - The post Can Big Oil Grease The Courts? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Futurism

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months - Dumb AI meets even dumber cops. The post AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months appeared first on Futurism.
Popular Resistance

The Urgent Need For The Black Radical Tradition - The celebrated Pan-African revolutionary who was born Stokely Carmichael became known as Kwame Ture circa1969 at the age of 28. He died in 1998 at the ag...
World Socialist Web Site

The rate of global warming is accelerating, approaching a dangerous tipping point - Multiple recently published scientific studies all point to the increasing pace of global warming, driven by the mounting contradictions and irrationality ...
WhoWhatWhy

No Good Options - [image: Kharg Island, Iran, target, War, US, Israel] Trump has two options: attempt to topple the Iranian regime with no guarantee of success, even if he w...
Antiwar.com

Five Losers in the War on Iran - There may be no winner in the war on Iran. But, although it is Iran that is under attack, they will not be the only losers. This war, fought without legal ...
The Greanville Post

Airport CHAOS Reported as Israelis SCRAMBLE TO FLEE War - DD—The video transcript explores the stark contrast between Palestinians steadfastly refusing to leave their homes despite dangerous and unlivable conditio...
Eschaton

Oscar Thread - Only 4 away from my EGOT!
Election Law Blog

“Senate Braces for Showdown Over Trump-Backed Voter-ID Rules” - WSJ: President Trump has demanded that the GOP-controlled Senate quickly pass strict new voting rules ahead of the midterms, setting the stage for a the...
Claytoonz

Trump’s Cut - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Root

Cringey 2026 Oscars Snub the Heck Out of ‘Sinners’ - Sinners shutout leaves 'Sinners' Oscars were full of Black history moments, but many didn't make it to the golden statue. Read more...
slacktivist

A sharing of life’s glories - Why the best supporting character was really the lead character in a whole other movie we didn't get to see. Plus: More old links from my dead computer.
Undernews

Tump and Israel's Middle East war - *New Republic - *None of us knows how long this war is going to last. But it’s certainly no Venezuela, which took—ready?—two and a half hours. Donald Trump...
Debunking Christianity

My Debate Notes: "God Probably Doesn't Exist Given the Existence of Horrendous Suffering, by John W. Loftus - Get this huge book!! I had mentioned this debate yesterday. Here is my planned opening statement: My focus is on heinous, hideous, horrific levels of ho...
The Verge

Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol - Aether OS puts a full-fledged desktop in your browser that ties directly into the AT Protocol. That means it connects to your Bluesky account and other pub...
Salon.com

Iran war could help Russia, Zelenskyy warns - Ukrainian leader cites higher oil prices and U.S. distraction as risks to ending the Ukraine-Russia conflict
San Antonio Report

A plan to get more electricity to West Texas may come undone - Oil and gas companies have said the region needs more power. Environmentalists and a conservative think tank worry the state is moving too fast — and ratep...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Nimrod with a comment about the lack of checks and balances for RFK Jr.: Observation If a membe...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for March 15 - “The U.S. and Israeli war against Iran is disrupting energy markets and driving oil and gas prices higher in the United States and globally. While those in...
Courthouse News

Jet fuel prices are rising. That could make summer flights more expensive - Travelers may feel the impact in several ways.
Mother Jones

Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Trying to Turn a Newspaper for Troops into Propaganda - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has come up with a plan to limit the independence of Stars and Stripes, the news publication for members of th...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now Jonathan Saul,...
Angry Bear

“Gap between the boom Trump predicted and the volatile results He Produced” - If you are reading this, New Deal democrat predicted 2025 would be a wash in labor growth and the economy. No Boom to be experienced in any case for 2025...
Scheerpost.com

‘Serious Threat to the First Amendment’ as Trump Admin Wins First Antifa Terror Charge - Olivia Rosane for Common Dreams The government has largely won its first case bringing material-support-for-terrorism charges against protesters alleged to...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz condemns mass detention and deportation, tells Catholic agents to reject immoral orders - In a Lenten pastoral letter, El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz condemned mass deportations, expressed solidarity with migrants and urged Catholics involved in i...
Field Negro

Operation Epstein. - Happy Sunday field hands. Imagine being such an evil and contemptible human being that you would literally start a war with another country* (one with...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Reader Mailbag: Audio From A Collapsing State - Answering your questions on the podcast
Novara Media

Swiss MPs to Vote on Revoking Uefa’s Tax Benefits Over Israel - Uefa could lose its tax-exempt status in Switzerland unless it expels Israel. Swiss MPs in the canton of Vaud, where the European football governing body i...
alicublog

ROY’S 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS (FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY) - OK cats and kitties it’s OSCAR DAY! Feel the excitement! I've been making Oscar predictions for years, peppered with what I used to call “sucker bets” ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: shed - [image: Shed]
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The View From Tehran’ - Sayed Mohammad Marandi speaks to CN Live! from the Iranian capital under fire from a barbaric U.S. and Israeli aggression rooted in profound ignorance of t...
Ballot Access News

USC and ABC 7 Will Host California Gubernatorial Debate but Exclude Some Candidates Who are Polling Above One Candidate Who Is Included - On March 12, the University of Southern California and ABCChannel 7 in Los Angeles announced that they will host a California gubernatorial debate. Unlike ...
San Antonio Current

A 2-story San Antonio penthouse for sale has skyline views, a pool table and its own cinema - A two-floor penthouse at downtown’s Thompson Hotel hit the market last week, offering floor-to-ceiling windows with sweeping skyline views. And it will ...
Glasstire

Review: “Jamal Cyrus: how you sound” at Inman Gallery, Houston - One of Jamal Cyrus’ most iconic works — both a set of performances and an object — titled Texas Fried Tenor is a battered and shallow-fried saxophone. Th...
Space City Weather

This evening’s cold front will hit like a ton of bricks - In brief: We’re interrupting your Sunday morning to bring an updated forecast for the arrival time of a strong cold front this evening. Not much has change...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Secret Agent, Man - Foreign-influence schemes, AI seat assignments, and more from The Lever this week.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When Community Feeds Itself: Supporting Homies Empowerment and The Bloom in Oakland, CA—an Important Message from Dr. César A. Cruz - *When Community Feeds Itself: Supporting Homies Empowerment and The Bloom in Oakland, CA—an Important **Message from Dr. César A. Cruz* *Across the country...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: The Worst Best Picture Oscars - Dedicated to the late great Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert.
Grist

Species slowdown: Is nature’s ability to self-repair stalling? - When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover.
Mondoweiss

How might the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran fail? - [image: Oil facilities in Tehran on fire after U.S./Israel air strikes. March 2026 (Source: Social media)]Every week the U.S.-Israeli war grinds on without...
Alternet

The Trump administration has the answers many academics are too afraid to seek - President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon and other federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to UFOs and unidentified anomalous ph...
Vox

AI is moving fast. Should you ditch the job you love? - Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the ide...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Who’s Winning From Trump’s War? Follow the Money. -
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Dissident Voice

The Growing Problems of Operation Epic Fury - The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back, its a...
CultureMap Houston

Sold-out Houston crowd sings along at Kelly Clarkson's epic rodeo return - A cross between Pat Benatar and Reba, with a dash of Aretha, Kelly Clarkson headlined Saturday afternoon’s RodeoHouston matinee, 22 years since she debuted...
Wolf Street

Treasury Yields Jump, 10-Year to 4.28%, 30-Year to 4.90%, Mortgage Rates Spike to 6.41%, on Inflation & Deficit Fears - US Government sold $651 billion of Treasury securities this week into these rising yields.
The AltWorld

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: They’re Going To Keep Lying About This War The Entire Time - Every month I publish a collection of my work called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new issue is now […] The post New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: They’re Going To Keep ...
Rallblog

A Funny Thing Happened to John Kiriakou - John Kiriakou wasn’t exactly down and out. But he was struggling. Not only was John broke, he was drowning in legal fees he owed to the lawyers who’d def...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: No one will ever ask these lowlifes... - *SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026* *...why they behaved as they did: *No one will ever ask the children why they did what they did. Also, no one will ever repo...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: Oscars Pod 2026! (w/Katherine Krueger & Caitlin Schneider) - Our most anticipated pod of the year is here!!!
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Activist Detained by Immigration Authorities Following Return From Egypt - A libertarian activist from Orlando with a history of volunteering with the Libertarian Party of Florida is being held in federal immigration custody and...
NPR's Health Shots

In South Carolina, measles shows how far apart neighbors can be on vaccines - In South Carolina, some parents embrace vaccines, others opt out. Why do people make such different choices? A mix of politics, distrust and misinformation...
ArcaMax

A Message From President Trump to the People of France -- June 6, 1944 - Hello, Occupied France, from your Favorite Country, America! Happy 1944 or, as the late, great Hannibal Lecter put it, Steak au Poivre! It's me, YOUR FAVOR...
Skeptophilia

A fine and private place - I recently joined Substack (I encourage you to check it out and subscribe if you like -- my focus there is different than here at *Skeptophilia*), and a ...
See You In 2020

The Trump base’s split over Iran, MAGA communism’s new opening, & the fight to stop war with China - MAGA communism’s purpose has always been to give Marxism a basis in material necessity. This necessity is to fulfill an American potential that’s recogn...
Workers World

when the body becomes a voice - [image: when the body becomes a voice] Capitol police, assisted by pro-war U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy, forced Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Brian McGinnis out of ...
Progressive.org

Silence Is Surrender - If democracy is to hold, local police must resist.
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Friday, March 20 - On Friday, March 20, we will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here fo...
The Texas Signal

Glenwood Cemetery: Resting Place Of Houston Suffragettes - Glenwood is a remarkable cemetery. Though there are movie stars, politicians, and entrepreneurs a-plenty, it’s also home to women who shaped Texas.
Texas Standard

Prairieland shooter convicted of attempted murder, others on lesser charges in ‘antifa’ trial - After about two days of deliberation, the 12 jurors found Benjamin Song alone was guilty of attempted murder, but defendants were convicted of rioting and ...
Church and State

Ocean Warming Drives ‘Deeply Concerning Loss of Marine Life,’ Study Shows - In terms of public policy, the study is highly relevant because it emphasizes that fisheries management systems must become more climate-adaptive.
The Militant

Get all US bombers, troops, warships out of the Mideast! - Washington’s actions make clear that its massive use of air and naval power against Iran has nothing to do with aiding the peoples of that country nor defe...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration Rolls Back Safeguards Limiting Release of Cancer-Causing Air Pollutant Ethylene Oxide - Earlier today, the Trump administration rolled back a 2024 EPA rule limiting commercial sterilization facilities from releasing ethylene oxide, a potent ...
Capital & Main

‘My Lungs Had Nothing Left.’ Inside The Epidemic Killing Countertop Stonecutters. - A new California law aims to protect workers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has killed 29 people in the state and sickened hundreds. Expe...
Rewire

Wyoming Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban - Plus, gender-affirming surgery blocked from West Virginia Medicaid and Trump comments tank Tylenol prescriptions for pregnant people. The post Wyoming P...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Chases, Chisos, Creatures, and Crossings - The post Strangest State: Chases, Chisos, Creatures, and Crossings appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Liberation News

Deportations are an attack on all workers, not just immigrants - If Donald Trump achieves his goal of deporting 4 million people over his second term, it will result in almost 6 million jobs lost, including 3.3 million f...
Bonddad

January personal income and spending: treading water, leading metrics sinking - - *by New Deal democrat* Before I get to the main event, a couple of quick comments on the other data released so far this morning: 1. Real GDP as re...
The Progressive Wing

3/13-15 News Roundup & Open Thread - In a social media post on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a conversation with Quincy Institute Founder Trita Parsi, The Iran Podcast Host Nega...
Dorf on Law

Humanitarian Intervention - I was invited to a dinner this evening that will be attended by, among others, a fair number of students. My hosts asked if I would speak for a bit. Orig...
Democracy Now!

Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli "War of Choice," Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII - The global economy has been rocked by the war in the Middle East, with Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening energy flows and sending the pric...
The Conversation

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s - There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
Bracing Views

The Unfinished Work of “All Men Are Created Equal” - Thinking About the Declaration of Independence MAR 10, 2026 Note to Readers: Here’s an article I wrote for the LA Progressive as America marks the 250th an...
Seeing the Forest

Atari’s Collapse Is A Metaphor For The Iran War - The Promise Of Easy Solutions Is An Easy Sell To The Uninformed Back in the early days at Atari we had that original 2600 game machine. It had really clunk...
High Country News

Black riders have always held the reins - [image: Paris Wilburd in the High Horse epsiode “F*ck Westerns.”] What ‘High Horse’ gets right about Black cowboys and the West. The post Black riders hav...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/13/2026 - 06:36 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Alas, a Blog

Tehran - All dialog in this strip is quoted from “Dark Like Our Future” by Deepa Parent in The Guardian. From the article: Thick black smoke was still rising in the...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: March 2026 - I wrote an article for The Asexual Agenda which may or may not interest readers, talking about umbrella terminology. “I am Jesus Christ” and Other Games ab...
MintPress News

Iranian Official Claims Israel Used Arab ‘Contractor’ in Alleged Oman False-Flag Operation - A senior Iranian security official has accused Israel of orchestrating a “false flag” operation in Oman, claiming the attack was designed to inflame tens...
DeSmogBlog

The SNP’s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate - The Scottish National Party (SNP) has selected Hannah Mary Goodlad, a sitting executive from Norway’s state oil company, Equinor, as its candidate for th...
Sludge

Democrats Criticizing ICE Are Paying Consultants Tied to Palantir - Two prominent Democratic consulting firms, Wavelength Strategy and SKDK, are owned by Stagwell, a marketing company that partnered with major ICE contracto...
Environment Texas

Texas Musicians Against Plastic Pollution debut - Kacey Musgraves, Robert Earl Keen, 11 other artists partner with Environment Texas, call for crackdown on plastic pellets The post Texas Musicians Agains...
Earth 911

The 9 Rs of Circular Economy Explained - Here’s a number that should make you uncomfortable: the global economy is only 7.2% circular.... The post The 9 Rs of Circular Economy Explained appeared...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Deeper into Texas and North Carolina’s Primaries - In the Texas GOP runoff for Senate, Rep. Wesley Hunt's (R, TX-38) voters could help determine the nominee. In both Texas and North Carolina, Democrats ou...
Brad Blog

Iran War's 'Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain'? What Long Term-Gain?!: 'BradCast' 3/11/2026 - Donald Trump's disastrous War on Iran continues to wreak global havoc on today's BradCast, with no apparent end in sight. Though election news from Tuesday...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Maine residents rally to keep LGBTQ book in local libraries' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Resident in the city of Gardiner, ME rallied to keep the LGBTQ book 'Prince and Knight' on the library shelves after some people called it 'propaganda' cr...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer’s Mistakes - [image: a fail stamp]This is a relatively clear sign that your performance left something to be desired.
The NM Political Report

City councilor seeks to make mayor, councilors liable for blocking ICE arrests in Albuquerque - [image: “unfair, complicated and untrusted.”] A day after a trio of city councilors joined dozens of community advocates and state legislators in support ...
Idavox

ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars - A review of Jake Lang’s “Stop The Islamic Takeover of NYC” rally Freya Jaager and... The post ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars appeared first on Idav...
Krebs on Security

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker - A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technol...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Second Quarter - With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode ...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Socialist Alternative

11 Days Of War On Iran—Trump Has Unleashed A Nightmare - US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (March 10), US Secretary of War Pete Hegs...
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
NORML

Alabama: Commissioner Says Patients Can Likely Begin Accessing Medical Cannabis Products Next Month - [image: Alabama Marijuana Laws][image: Alabama Marijuana Laws]“For nearly five years, Alabama patients and their providers have lacked the ability to loc...
Project Censored

What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran - First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

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Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
Greg Palast

How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma - How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 ...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026 General Election? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Dissent Magazine

War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle - The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizatio...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
The Grayzone

How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war - The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest f...
LareDOS

LC’s Out of the Box art exhibit explores innovation and creative boundaries - Exhibit open to the public through March 20
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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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