Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

New Jersey Democrat faces House censure vote and removal from key committee (Barbara Sprunt/NPR) - Barbara Sprunt / NPR: *New Jersey Democrat faces House censure vote and removal from key committee* — The House of Representatives is preparing to vote...
The Week

GPT-5: Not quite ready to take over the world - OpenAI rolls back its GPT-5 model after a poorly received launch
Political Wire

Another Democrat Runs for Senate in Maine - Maine brewery owner Dan Kleban (D) announced in a video that he is mounting a Senate bid because Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has “been in Washington for 30 y...
Mediaite

‘Appalling and Disgusting!’ Epstein Victim Goes Off About Ghislaine Maxwell Getting Transferred to ‘Holiday Camp’ Prison - Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou said it is "appalling and disgusting" that Ghislaine Maxwell was recently moved to a minimum-security federal prison...
Mediagazer

C-SPAN, a nonprofit network supported by license fees from cable and satellite companies since 1979, lands distribution deals with YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV (Ted Johnson/Deadline) - Ted Johnson / Deadline: *C-SPAN, a nonprofit network supported by license fees from cable and satellite companies since 1979, lands distribution deals wi...
The Verge

Roblox experiences are getting ESRB age ratings - Roblox is going to start showing ESRB ratings alongside experiences to help users in the US better understand if an experience is appropriate for a user of...
Raw Story

'I'm a registered Republican': Epstein survivor calls for Trump to meet her face to face - Haley Robson, who claims she was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a minor, called out President Donald Trump directly Wednesday during the explosive...
San Antonio Current

Texas student groups sue to block new state law limiting campus protests and free speech - A coalition of Texas university student groups has sued to overturn a new state law designed to limit campus protests, calling the legislation an unconsti...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

Trump calls Epstein disclosures battle 'a Democrat hoax' - President Trump on Wednesday was dismissive of the latest round of bipartisan pressure to release files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, cal...
The Daily Poster

Elon Musk Silences His Private Jet Critics, Again - The social media platform owned by Elon Musk again suspended the accounts of Jack Sweeney, who tracks the billionaire’s private jets using publicly availab...
OpEd News

Tomgram: William D. Hartung, Researching the Roots of War - I have spent the bulk of my career on and off since the late Carter Administration following the money that drives war and repression. What I have finally ...
Al Jazeera English

Watch UK police arrest Palestine Action supporter for planning protest - UK police arrested a Palestine Action supporter for allegedly taking part in a Zoom meeting to plan a protest.
CultureMap Houston

Houston nonprofit toasts fall with fashionable fundraiser at Tootsies - After a summer of jet-setting, sun-chasing, and group chats gone quiet, Houston’s most fashion-forward friend group reunited right where they left off. At ...
Daily Dot

“You couldn’t have waterboarded this from my drafts”: Woman flips her car seconds after singing iconic Britney Spears lyric - [image: 3 panel: Woman driving in car while singing, then flipping the car] A lighthearted singalong took a sharp turn for one driver after the song's ly...
Texas Observer

🎶It’s His Party and He’ll…🎶 - Every time Texas Democrats have a bad election (read: every two years), blame reasonably finds its way to a person whose title suggests quite a lot of cu...
Reform Austin

Kerr County Youth Camps Appeal to Dan Patrick on Proposed Floodplain Restrictions - After the Guadalupe River flooding tragedy on July 4, owners of affected camps in Kerr County have requested Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to work with them and r...
Alternet

'Stupid': How Trump’s Cabinet keeps making 'gullible' Republicans 'look like chumps' - New Republic writer Ross Rosenfeld said President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks keep making the Republican senators who approved them “look like chumps.” ...
NORML

Nebraska: State-Appointed Commission Approves New Rules Undermining Medical Cannabis Access - [image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves][image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves]The passage of ...
Progressive Army

Reunión presencial AAACI con TCA - Estimados socios buen día: En el día de hoy los siguientes integrantes de la comisión directiva de la AAACI estuvieron reunidos con la gerencia comercial ...
Vox

The right debates just how weird their authoritarianism should be - What happens when you put four of the Trump right’s leading intellectuals together in a room? You see what it looks like when a political movement gets hig...
Daily Cartoonist

Gag Recap is Kaput – A Recap - Ron Coleman sent out a notice a few days ago that he will no longer produce the Gag Recap infozine, an insider trade journal aimed exclusively at gag write...
Salon.com

Republican says Trump may be “covering” for “powerful” allies as he fights Epstein resolution - Some Republicans are demanding answers, which the White House calls "hostile"
Eschaton

Saved - The author used to yell at me when I would post this, arguing that the piece was nuanced and critical and blahblahblah, but, well.. (this is from 2013)
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Condemns U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Vessel as “Extrajudicial Violence” - The Libertarian Party condemned a U.S. military strike on a Venezuelan vessel that President Donald Trump said was linked to narcotics trafficking and te...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

DC mayor Bowser signs order aligning city with Trump’s military occupation - Order sets rules for federal forces as locals stage noise protests, block indictments and demand home rule - US politics live – latest updates...
San Antonio Report

Another Hispanic Democrat is joining the GOP, this time with eyes on a San Antonio state House race - Attorney and boxing promoter Desi Martinez hopes to join a growing list of former Democrats rewarded by GOP leaders for switching parties. -----------------...
Daily Howler

THE DEAD: The analysts screamed when Stephanie Ruhle... - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025* *...tried to perform a fact check:* It's increasingly painful to observe what sits in the place of our failed American dis...
Dissident Voice

Senate Subcommittee Hearing - “Sir, are you or have you ever been member of the underground terrorist organization known as PAAP?” “Yes, senator, but PAAP is neither terrorist nor un...
Undernews

Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he claims are gang members, court rules - *The Guardian - *A federal appeals court has ruled that Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed up the deportations of people his a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Judge Blocks Trump's Late-Night Deportation of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children, Democracy Now! - *Friends,* *The images emerging from this weekend are heartbreaking. They are of children in chains, treated not as human beings but as disposable pro...
The AltWorld

Trump’s late admission of defeat in Gaza - Will he turn on Netanyahu? And what are the reasons behind the abrupt retreat… What would the […] The post Trump’s late admission of defeat in Gaza appea...
Grist

How much carbon can we safely store underground? Much less than previously thought. - Carbon storage “can no longer be considered an unlimited solution to bring our climate back to a safe level.”
Axios

Hegseth: Venezuela mission won't stop "with just this strike" - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested in a Wednesday interview that the U.S. strike on a drug vessel that officials said hailed from Venezuela would n...
Greg Palast

The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness - Milton Friedman’s feet didn’t touch the floor. This was the University of Chicago 1975 and Prof. Friedman was God. God sat in a chair, the little man’s fee...
Second Nexus

Newsom Gives Karoline Leavitt An Epic New Nickname With Trolling 'Hunger Games' Meme - California Governor Gavin Newsom had social media users cackling after he posted a *Hunger Games*-themed meme to troll White House Press Secretary Karoli...
Bonddad

The “soft landing” scenario in the JOLTS report remains intact - -* by New Deal democrat* In contrast to much other data in the jobs sector, the JOLTS reports have been very much consistent with a “soft landing scenari...
Election Law Blog

Georgia: “Republican lawmakers push for hand-marked ballots in November election” - AJC: Key Georgia lawmakers Tuesday called for a rapid test-run of hand-marked paper ballots in this year’s elections, switching from touchscreens in some...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-09-03 -
Slate

My Coworker’s Email Habit Is Making Me Lose My Mind—and Upending My Workplace - It's not that hard.
Mother Jones

On Trump’s Orders, Missouri Republicans Plan to Gerrymander a Black Lawmaker Out of Office - Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms through a series of unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders shifted from Texas to Missouri on Wednesday, as the ...
Futurism

Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents - A Netherlands-based immigration activist named Dominick Skinner is using AI and facial recognition to reveal the identities of masked US Immigration and ...
DeSmogBlog

M&S Shelled Out on GB News Ads as Broadcaster’s Owner Bet on the Retailer’s Failure - Marks and Spencer (M&S) continued to advertise on GB News even while the broadcaster’s boss was betting against the company, DeSmog can reveal. Since the...
Houston Public Media

The best under the radar places to eat in Houston: The Full Menu - Houston food writers discuss their favorite restaurants that they should have told you about sooner — ones that maybe defy any category but deserve a littl...
NPR's Health Shots

An ancient disease makes yet another comeback - Why cholera is striking in Africa. It's a disease that's easy to control with proper treatment. But without medical care, patients can perish quickly.
naked capitalism

Tariffs and US Dollar Depreciations: Not So Surprising After All - How conventional thinking on how the dollar would respond to Trump tariffs missed a key factor: retaliation.
Deadline Politics

Antipiracy Coalition Says Streameast, Live Sports Network, Shut Down - A site billed as the largest live sports piracy operation in the world has been shut down in Egypt, an antipiracy coalition announced on Wednesday. Streame...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Celebrate Minerpalooza, cheer UTEP football opener - UTEP kicks off the school year with Minerpalooza and the Miners’ home opener. Plus: opera gala, outdoor movie, dog swim, faculty art and more events. T...
SCOTUSblog

What the Trump administration wants from the Supreme Court this term - Two months after winning a case on universal injunctions that stemmed from President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, the Tr...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 214: “China’s War on WWII History” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: As China hosts a huge military parade inexplicably marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s WWII surrender—an ...
First Draft

So We Had One Glorious Day Of Hope - It's the thing with feathers, after all.
Democracy Now!

Army Vet Charged with "Conspiracy" for ICE Protest as Trump Expands War on Dissent - A 35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II, faces up to six years in prison for protesting against ICE deportations in what legal ...
Rewire

This Summer, Parents Stitched Together Child Care To Give Their Kids a ‘Space for Black Joy’ - Amid rising camp costs and limited options, parents built their own patchwork of child care plans with relatives, community programs and Black-led camps....
The Conversation

65,000 Pennsylvania kids have a parent in prison or jail − here’s what research says about the value of in-person visits - In-person visits in prisons and jails can strengthen family relationships and reduce recidivism.
Techdirt.

Judge Says Trump FCC Being ‘Vague And Uninformative’ In Response To DOGE-Related Lawsuit - Back in April, the Trump FCC was sued by Nina Burleigh and Frequency Forward, alleging that Elon Musk’s influence in government was “creating unmanageable ...
Space City Weather

Hotter and sunnier for a few days before rain chances return this weekend with tropical moisture - In brief: In today’s post we talk about the impact of early season fronts along the Gulf coast, which are somewhat paradoxical. We also look ahead to incre...
ArcaMax

A Masterpiece Museum on the Nation's Mall - The first of September was a bright morning on the National Mall. We went to pay respects to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. O...
Scheerpost.com

Belgium To Recognize Palestine, Impose Sanctions on Israel - The Belgian foreign minister said the country will ban imports from illegal settlements and sanction extremist ministers and settlers.
Angry Bear

ISM manufacturing confirms rebound in new orders in August, but construction spending continues to decline - – by New Deal democrat As usual, the new month begins with important manufacturing and construction reports which give us the pulse of the goods-produci...
The Root

The Bizarre Story Behind Why a Woman Allegedly Tried Taking A Toddler From His Mom at Miami Airport - Alvina Agba has been charged with interference of custody— a felony, after allegedly taking a boy from his own mom in a Miami airport. Read more...
Glasstire

Vignette Art Fair Announces 55 Texas Women Artists for 7th Annual Show - The 2025 Vignette Art Fair has announced the artists selected for its seventh annual edition, to run Thursday, October 2 through Saturday, October 4 at O...
Dorf on Law

The Authoritarians Who Don't Trust Authority - The rhetoric of the revolt against vaccine and mask mandates during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic was strongly libertarian, even to the point that ...
Workers World

Global Flotilla sets sail for Gaza: Genoa dockworkers promise support - [image: Global Flotilla sets sail for Gaza: Genoa dockworkers promise support] The Global Sumud Flotilla, consisting of over 20 boats carrying aid to the ...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Tactic of Declaring Fake Emergencies Hits Another Judicial Roadblock - [image: tech, social media, TikTok, Supreme Court decision, shutdown] While lower courts keep ruling that Donald Trump cannot invent emergencies to grant h...
Skeptophilia

The skull in the cave - "If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" If there is one phrase that makes me want to throw a chair across the room, it's that one. (...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Very Hostile Act’: White House Sends Ominous Threat to Republicans Over Epstein Vote -
Off The Kuff

On being financially prepared for future disasters - Got to be thinking about it. Houston might need to make some policy changes to ensure that the city has enough money on hand to provide disaster relief as ...
World Socialist Web Site

Greece: Strike against tightened disciplinary law and 13-hour day - On Thursday, public sector employees in Greece held a one-day strike to protest against a new law allowing working hours of up to 13 hours a day and tighte...
American Prospect

What It Means When Federal Union Contracts Disappear - Deteriorating services, moms forced back from maternity leave, and more as federal workers lose formal union protections.
ProPublica

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells. - by Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for D...
High Country News

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - [image: firefighter moves hazard fuel while working on the Bear Gulch fire this summer. Many in the wildland fire community believe the leadership team man...
Infidel753

Meditation #18 -- the cult of decay and death - Defective sand, Rotting amid the wasteland, Creating nothing, feeding no one, Leaching poison into the blood. Creature of the desert, creature of disease, ...
Crooked Media

More Happier: Talking Romance Writing with Stacey Abrams and Lori Gottlieb - The post More Happier: Talking Romance Writing with Stacey Abrams and Lori Gottlieb appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration - Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear...
Counterpunch

Inside Indonesia’s Growing Class Struggle - Less than a year after taking office, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is facing the most militant anti-government protests in years. Recent street ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Trying To Compromise The Agents Of Truth -
See You In 2020

Where the anti-imperialist movement’s unified strength exists, & the urgent need to build on this strength - It’s critical that we take example from the liberation struggles of the Global South, and a major recent lesson from these struggles is the importance o...
Informed Comment

A Dangerous Profession, from Palestine to Iran: When Journalists are the Target - “Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.” – ― Stefan Zweig Throu...
Ballot Access News

Wyoming Files Brief in Defense of Closed Primaries - On August 25, the Wyoming Secretary of State filed this brief in Malcom v Gray, Laramie County 2024-cv-0202658. This is the lawsuit filed by some voters to...
The Texas Signal

The Whimsy And Rage Of Poet KB Brookins - That crevasse between what’s whimsical and what is so real it hurts is where poet KB Brookins shines the brightest
Sludge

Pro-Cuomo Super PAC Gets Cash Infusion From Billionaires - Last month, the super PAC backing Andrew Cuomo received $1.3 million in one week from billionaire heirs and an oil & gas CEO, readying to spend in the New ...
Popular Resistance

Palestinian And Global Civil Society Call For Global Actions September 18 - On September 2, 2025, the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which represents 150 Palestinian-led member organizations in Gaza and the West Bank, issued a C...
Brad Blog

While We Were Out: 'BradCast' 9/2/2025 - We're back on today's BradCast after a much-needed, "end of Summer" break. That's either good or bad news depending on how you (or I) might see it. [Audio ...
Portside

Hundreds of Staff at California National Parks To Unionize Amid Trump Turmoil - Hundreds of Staff at California National Parks To Unionize Amid Trump Turmoil Judy Tue, 09/02/2025 - 20:40
Claytoonz

- 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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the archives - Video: Children are more knowledgeable about gay marriage than some adults - Since marriage equality, or gay marriage if you will, is in the news again, I thought it would be a good time to reach into the archives and re-educa...
Antiwar.com

Department of War? - Last week President Trump took steps to re-name the Department of Defense the “Department of War.” The President explained his rationale for the name chang...
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Liberals Paved the Way to the Far Right - The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type. By...
Progressive.org

Our Liberation Is Connected - I have photographed a number of protests and rallies this year in Chicago. It’s clear to me that we will all work together to ensure that trans folks and i...
slacktivist

Just not right - The words "justice" and "righteousness" could not be allowed to remain similar in meaning by people wanting to regard themselves as righteous while avoidin...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico partners on $120 million quantum computing initiative - [image: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an agreement Tuesday with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to establish a four-year, $...
Discourse

Oh Boy, Bari Weiss' ScamU is 'Being Honest about Inequality' - Surprise: They're huge fans!
Church and State

Our relative ignorance unabashed grows! - We know that the possibility of Trump becoming a dictator has grown; some are greatly alarmed, but seemingly have no way of stopping him.
Texas Standard

This Texas community dealt with deadly flooding in 2015. Ten years later, is it safer? - The deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country in July has residents in Wimberley looking closely at prevention efforts since its 2015 storm.
Common Dreams

Federal Investment in Military Less Effective for Jobs than Investments in Education or Healthcare - The majority of the federal workforce involves militarized sectors, including the military, homeland security, and more. But military spending is ineffic...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
Mondoweiss

What it’s like to be a midwife in Gaza during Israel’s genocide - [image: Babies in the NICU in the Ramal neighborhood of Gaza City, February 25, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]Midwives in Gaza are on the front li...
LareDOS

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

Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI - In the first part of the program, we welcome back to the show Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, to talk about the US’ dang...
Bracing Views

The Seven Habits of a Highly Defective Country - And what to do about it BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2025 Welcome back, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend. It’s grim times in America. Perhaps grimmest...
Ian Welsh

If You Understand Only One Thing About Chinese Government - It should be that almost always they do what they promise, and they meet their goals. An American-Chinese silicon valley type spent some time in China rece...
The Grayzone

BBC Media Action: Britain’s overseas info warfare unit - Leaked documents reveal how a shadowy BBC unit is “embedding” staff in foreign media outlets to “contest the information space” and generate “behaviour c...
Krebs on Security

The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft - The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interacti...
Capital & Main

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door - L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help ...
Alas, a Blog

You Only Think You Liked It! - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Wolf Street

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. Multifamily Delinquencies also Spike - Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages.
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Crooked Timber

The crash of 2026: a fiction - Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Third Trump Term? A Tipping Point?: Dispatches Mailbag - It's time to answer more reader questions and get into the issues of the time.
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
Liberation News

Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35 - In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the ADA being signed into law, we share an excerpt from the book "Disability and Empire: Class, U.S. Imperialis...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/4 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas clean air programs - Cuts would eliminate programs that will help residents breathe easier The post STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas cle...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 4 - *Matthew 7: A good start, then cult severity and bragging*It might be a good idea to compile a list of the *Top Ten Bible Texts that Christians Ignore*—...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book *The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer*.
Earthworks

Testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency’s proposed rescission of its 2009 Endangerment Finding - Hello, my name is Lauren Pagel, and I am the Policy Director at Earthworks. We work with communities impacted by … The post Testimony to the U.S. Enviro...
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting - Iowa Democrats had another strong special election showing this week, and broke the GOP's state Senate supermajority. Some recent news out of Utah makes ...
TalkLeft

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Ecosophia

August 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Two Party Opera

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

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

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

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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