Brains and Eggs: Sleepin' Heavenly Peas

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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Dissident Voice

Venezuela after the Abduction of President Maduro - The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington...
Axios

Supreme Court says Trump global tariffs are illegal - The Supreme Court struck down a suite of President Trump's tariffs on Friday, a historic blow to the administration's economic agenda. *The big picture*...
Novara Media

Epstein Files Suggest ‘Torture, Murder and Other Crimes Against Humanity’ - The abuses detailed in millions of recently released files relating to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein could amount to crimes against humanity, a panel of indep...
Salon.com

Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance — now people are pushing back - Super Bowl Ring ad was the latest sign our cyberpunk nightmare is real. People are finally noticing
Rewire

Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Axed at Major NYC Hospital - Plus: New Hampshire introduces abortion shield law and LGBTQ+ federal workers fight back. The post Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Axed at Major NYC Ho...
Raw Story

Trump tariffs get crippling blow in Supreme Court ruling - The Supreme Court delivered a significant setback to President Donald Trump on Friday, ruling that he exceeded his constitutional authority when imposing...
memeorandum

Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News) - Lawrence Hurley / NBC News: *Supreme Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs in a major blow to the president* — The decision does not affect all of...
Deadline Politics

Supreme Court Strikes Down Donald Trump’s Tariffs, Saying He Lacked Authority To Do So - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Donald Trump did not have the authority to unilaterally impose tariffs, a rebuff of the president’s central economic...
Houston Public Media

Houston-area midwife accused of providing illegal abortions seeks reversal of order that closed her clinics - A three-justice panel for a Houston appeals court raised questions Thursday about a lower court's order to temporarily close three clinics operated by Mari...
Futurism

Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals - "These chemicals are not just additives; they may be migrating from the headphones into our body." The post Every Single Headphone That Researchers Teste...
Courthouse News

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s one-man tariff war - In anticipation of the high court’s ruling, big-name companies like Costco, Revlon and Bumble Bee Foods filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International T...
Eschaton

The Tariff King - Headlines say the Supremos took away his favorite toy, 6-3. No tariffs for him! Don't know if there are any nuances... ...no idea what this means for col...
San Antonio Report

Planners share new timeline, restaurant plans for proposed La Villita food hall - Architects for a new food hall on the River Walk said the project could break ground this year and finish construction by the end of 2027. -----------------...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New Mexico to reopen investigation on Epstein’s ranch amid pressure campaign - Criminal investigation to examine role Zorro ranch may have played in disgraced financier’s trafficking scheme New Mexico will reopen its investigation i...
Daily Howler

KAFKA'S DESCENDANTS: A little small mutt went on the air... - *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2026* *...and evoked Kafka's hoof:* For us, it has never quite reached the level one might call Kafkaesque. That said, the phenome...
Mediaite

CNN Conservative Calls Trump and Top Lieutenant ‘Sleazy New York Democrats’ That Have ‘Taken Over’ GOP - Jonah Goldberg described President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as sleazy New York Democrats on Thursday. The post CNN Conservat...
naked capitalism

AI Chatbots Attacks May End the Internet as We Know It - Recently, openDemocracy’s website was brought down by an army of bots, just like Naked Capitalism and other publishers.
Undernews

Trump Is Still Deporting People Wherever He Wants - *New Yorker *- In March of 2025, the Trump Administration was widely criticized for sending more than two hundred Venezuelans to cecot, a notoriously bruta...
Glasstire

The Odd Couple - Why are we here? What are we doing? What does it all mean? A bit cliché perhaps but I’ve been asking myself all those big questions you’ve probably encou...
Second Nexus

JD Vance's Attempt At A Joke About AOC Completely Bombed—And AOC Just Came In For The Kill - After Vice President JD Vance completely bombed a joke about New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a Board of Peace press co...
Bonddad

December personal income and spending: on the very cusp of recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* Personal income and spending are among the most important monthly indicators of all, because they give us a detailed look a...
SCOTUSblog

Justices to consider constitutionality of tax foreclosure sales - The argument next week in Pung v Isabella County asks the court to consider the constitutionality of the longstanding practice of tax foreclosures sales....
ArcaMax

Black History Is Defended by Those Willing To Preserve It - This year marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. While we celebrate this milestone, we are also grappling with efforts to remove or revise Bla...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
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 ...
The Hill

Homan says immigration authorities who break the law will be 'held accountable' - Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday said any immigration agents that break the law will be held accountable, arguing a failure to do so undermines public tru...
Space City Weather

Cooler weather for Houston by Sunday morning, as we assess recent rain impacts on drought - In brief: Today, we look at how drought has changed in the Houston area since last weekend’s rain (it hasn’t). We also take stock of our weekend cold front...
First Draft

Introducing The Bored Of Peace - The kickoff meeting of the Trump's Bored of Peace went pretty much as you might expect.
El Paso Matters

Regents cut UTEP student housing complex budget, Children’s Grief Center to open new permanent home - This week: UT System regents cut $6 million from UTEP student housing complex budget; Children’s Grief Center to open Braden’s Home of Hope; EPISD offer...
The Verge

Nintendo turned its biggest flop into an expensive, uncomfortable novelty - I've written about a lot of different video game hardware over the years, from new consoles to retro gadgets to whatever you want to call the Playdate. But...
Mondoweiss

Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ - [image: Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media, on May 12, 2025. (Photo: Wikimedia)]The Vatican flatly rejected a U.S. invitation to join the Trump...
The Week

James Van Der Beek obituary: fresh-faced Dawson’s Creek star - Van Der Beek fronted one of the most successful teen dramas of the 90s – but his Dawson fame proved a double-edged sword
The Conversation

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s - Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.
Vox

Why the western US is running out of water, in one chart - More than one in 10 Americans rely on the Colorado River to take showers and drink clean water. But with no end in sight to the decades-long drought in the...
Election Law Blog

Good explainer on the latest in Virginia re-redistricting litigation - See here (Dwayne Yancey at Cardinal News). For the second time in a little more than three weeks, a Tazewell County judge has issued a ruling that says t...
Techdirt.

Department Of Education Forced To Back Off Illegal Plan To Be Racist, Sexist Assholes - One recurring theme of this era: folks who actually choose to stand up to this bumbling kakistocracy of hateful failsons usually tend to win if they stick ...
Mediagazer

Source: Axel Springer joins a group led by Dovid Efune that is making a ~£500M fully funded bid for the Telegraph, should DMGT's deal fail regulatory hurdles (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: *Source: Axel Springer joins a group led by Dovid Efune that is making a ~£500M fully funded bid for the Telegraph, shou...
NPR's Health Shots

For years the Taliban told women to cover up in public. Now they're cracking down - At hospitals, at seminaries and on buses, the Taliban is stepping up enforcement of rules on women's dress in the city of Herat.
Rallblog

CamerGoon Squad | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
The AltWorld

Golden Corridor - Pepe Escobar travels to Iran to study the North-South Corridor, designed not only to boost Iran–Russia trade […] The post Golden Corridor appeared first ...
Mother Jones

Trump Claimed His EPA Climate Rollback Will Save Americans Money. That’s Very Unlikely. - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration claims its l...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Randy Andy Pudding & Pie - A busy week: In South Korea, former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for having attempted to overturn election results and make hims...
WhoWhatWhy

Password Managers’ Promises That They Can’t See Your Vault Aren’t Always True - [image: cybersecurity, password managers, vault privacy, sensitive data, research finding] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or ...
Dorf on Law

My Opening Salvo for the New Knight Institute Initiative on Reconstructing Free Expression After Trump: Supporting and Implementing Truth as a Free Speech Value - Over the course of the last 13 months, I have frequently found myself relatively clear-eyed when diagnosing the dire condition of our constitutional demo...
Al Jazeera English

FIFA and Peace Board pledge to help Gaza reconstruction through football - US President Donald Trump says FIFA alone will seek to raise $75m for football-related projects in Gaza.
Skeptophilia

Emergent nonsense - Today I'd like to look at two articles that are especially interesting in juxtaposition. The first is about a study out of the University of New South Wa...
The Smirking Chimp

The U.K. Arrests Price Andrew. Why Shouldn’t the U.S. Arrest King Trump? -
Scheerpost.com

‘A Big F*ck You to Big Tech’: New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center - “It’s time to build communities, not data centers,” said one local activist.
Off The Kuff

The Tony Gonzales scandal - Here’s a headline I did not expect to see: “Rep. Tony Gonzales accuses dead staffer’s husband of trying to blackmail him amid affair scandal”. Republican U...
Countercurrents

Trump hosts first Board of Peace meeting on Gaza and Claims ‘War in Gaza Is Over’ - Washington (QNN)- US President Donald Trump has praised the so-called “ceasefire” deal in Gaza that took effect in October, claiming the “war in Gaza is ov...
Grist

Would you pay $49 a month to drink recycled wastewater? - A recent survey found that rural Americans would pay for the privilege of water reuse. Here's the huge potential benefit of the technique.
The Root

This One Incident From Over 40 Years Ago is Blamed for Michael Jackson’s Downfall - In TMZ's new documentary, they take a deeper look at Michael Jackson's infamous 1984 Pepsi commercial fire and the possible link it had to his demise yea...
High Country News

How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history - [image: Shades Of Brown performing at Clyde’s Prime Rib to celebrate the release of their self-titled album, recorded in the ’70s and released on vinyl by ...
Crooked Media

Trump: “I’ve Won Affordability” - The post Trump: “I’ve Won Affordability” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Dems Quietly Back War on Iran - Democratic Party leaders are doing nothing to oppose Trump’s war plans for Iran because they support those plans. They just don’t want to be the ones pulli...
Counterpunch

Profit Over People: How the World Fuels Sudan’s War - Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a brutal armed conflict that began in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary ...
jobsanger

Living In The World That MAGA Made -
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Come On and Take a Free Ride: Looking Back at “Uncontested” Senate Races - In New Mexico, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D) seems poised to win another term without a GOP opponent. According to our research, there have been close to 30 com...
Informed Comment

Trump Compares his Gaza Peace Plan to the Melania Movie, and he is Right - Trump's Gaza plans have no concrete reality, consisting of a mere Potemkin Village: the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are sleeping rough
Slate

Alysa Liu Just Changed Figure Skating Forever - In a sport that can be scary and stressful, she proved it doesn’t have to be that way.
Ballot Access News

Hawaii Bill to Exempt Very Old Parties from the Vote Test Loses in Committee - On February 19, the Hawaii House Judiciary Committee defeated HB 1716, which would have said that parties that have been on the ballot for at least 20 year...
OpEd News

Ukraine's Energy Crisis and the Cost of Corruption - Ukraine's energy system collapse, driven by Russian attacks, leaves millions without power amid harsh winter. President Zelensky seeks billions in aid, but...
Popular Resistance

The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against US Imperialism - In January 2026, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba to be an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US security, a designation that allows the United...
Brad Blog

DOJ Unlawfully Withholding Epstein Docs With Evidence of Trump Rape, Assault Allegations: 'BradCast' 2/19/26 - Today on The BradCast: If only we were a real country. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] On Thursday, South Korea's former President, Y...
Portside

Do Democrats Have a Plan for the Post-Trump World Order? - Do Democrats Have a Plan for the Post-Trump World Order? jay Thu, 02/19/2026 - 21:10
Claytoonz

Prince Pedo - 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...
World Socialist Web Site

Labor government moves to bar entry to Australian women and children interned in Syria - The Albanese government’s actions, echoing the anti-immigrant poison of One Nation, flout warnings of widespread human rights abuses in Syrian internment c...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Tenn bill attempts to undermine gay marriage by allowing individuals, private groups to refuse to recognize it' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Bill to let private groups refuse to recognize same sex marriage passes Tennessee House* - *These continuous attempts to undermine same-sex marriage are...
The NM Political Report

Legislators deliver wins for Gov, land punches against Trump in action-packed 30-day session - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s final regular legislative session started a little rocky but delivered her many of her biggest priorities and legislat...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/20/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Workers World

Philadelphia activists protest Enterprise’s complicity with ICE - [image: Philadelphia activists protest Enterprise’s complicity with ICE] NO ICE Philadelphia activists delivered a message on Feb. 16 to Enterprise Rent-A-...
Alternet

All of Trump's white-collar prosecutions share a single damning detail: legal expert - Former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou warns that President Donald Trump’s lucrative business of handing out pardons in exchange for donations is strip...
ProPublica

New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout - The post New Moms in Wisconsin to Get Extension of Vital Benefits After GOP Powerbroker Ends Holdout appeared first on ProPublica.
Progressive.org

More Than Neighbors - How a decades-long effort to promote interracial friendship is playing out in one New York City suburb.
Antiwar.com

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine - After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the US...
CultureMap Houston

Celebrate Margarita Day 2026 at these 19 Houston restaurants and bars - At the risk of being self-refential, we all know that articles about food holidays are pretty silly. However, we always make an exception for National Marg...
San Antonio Current

Rep. Tony Gonzales now claims he’s being ‘blackmailed’ by husband of alleged mistress - Embattled South Texas U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales on Thursday fired off tweet accusing the husband of a deceased woman who once worked in his office of tryi...
Church and State

The Warsaw Ghetto vs. God-Is-Good Theology - Even well before Bertrand Russell, many serious thinkers could see that God-Is-Good Theology doesn’t make any sense at all.
The Greanville Post

How Israel Controls the West - MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The Donald Trump administration recently bypassed the congressional approval process to provide Israel with $6.5 billion in military aid...
Common Dreams

Center for Food Safety Responds to Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Glyphosate - Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) issued the following statement from *George Kimbrell, Legal Director at Center for Food Safety*, in response to the T...
Political Wire

Quick Update - Hi – Many of you have noticed a break in the political posts. Thank you for all of the comments. This is Taegan’s Trial Balloon co-host Chris Riback: Taega...
Independent Political Report

State Rep. Travis Corcoran to Keynote Libertarian Party of New Hampshire State Convention - The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire will host Republican state Rep. Travis Corcoran as the featured guest speaker at its upcoming state convention nex...
Texas Observer

Trump’s New Wall Will Destroy Irreplaceable Border Treasures—Unless Congress Acts - The procession of more than a thousand people walked from Our Lady of Guadalupe church in Mission to the grounds of La Lomita chapel, the historic rivers...
Unlimited Hangout

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Texas Standard

Four men accused in Austin’s yogurt shop murders have been exonerated - After police discovered Robert Eugene Brashers was responsible for the deaths of the four teens in 1991, Travis County has moved to exonerate four men prev...
The Daily Poster

Commander In Cheat - The president and his son are seeking a betting app fortune as his administration goes to war for prediction markets.
Wolf Street

Pending Home Sales Drop to Record Low in the Data, from Already Low Levels, on Big Drops in the South & Midwest - “Improving affordability conditions have yet to induce more buying activity”: National Association of Realtors.
Capital & Main

Cuts Aimed at Abortion Are Hitting Basic Care - Emergency state support for Planned Parenthood can’t fully offset lost Medicaid dollars, and patients are paying the price. The post Cuts Aimed at Aborti...
Socialist Alternative

Epstein Files Expose The Depravity Of Capitalism - The exposure of the Epstein files is like peeling back a bloody bandage to expose a wound that is somehow even more gaping and puss-ridden than you could h...
The Progressive Wing

2/19 – 2/20 News Roundup & Open Thread - California is proposing a 5% wealth tax on 200 billionaires worth $2T to protect health care for 3M people. Let’s get it done—and make billionaires fina...
Bracing Views

Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Military - Hail Caesar! BILL ASTORE FEB 16, 2026 The Pentagon has failed eight consecutive financial audits. For decades it has been unable to account for trillions o...
Ian Welsh

Genocide & Brown Shirts Are Being Normalized - So we have an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The death toll, as estimated by scientists, is probably north of half a million. (The official toll is laughable an...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The American Religion: Imperialism and the Next Step of Modern Fascism - As we stand on the edge of war with Iran, a new phase of authoritarianism rears its head
Democracy Now!

Former Prince Andrew Arrested in U.K. as Global Fallout from Epstein Files Grows - U.K. police have arrested the former Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles, on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wa...
Earth 911

The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping - Is it sustainable to shop on Amazon? This is an important question, since almost everyone... The post The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping...
Infidel753

Some guidelines I've found useful - A few things I've found useful for staying sane (well, san*er* than I otherwise would be) in today's world. I can't say I've adhered to these perfectly, ...
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...
See You In 2020

The tech nerds shoved Gen Z to the margins. Now they’re trying to prevent an uprising from the left-behinds. - This message is intended for a particular demographic, that being the ones within Gen Z who’ve been “left behind” in life by our productive mode. It’s o...
Sludge

Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virg...
Ecosophia

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
The Texas Signal

The Race For Lieutenant Governor - The race to defeat Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is an uphill climb in a state where the conservative incumbent is a household name and Democrats haven’t...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Liberation News

Worst sewage leak in U.S. history threatens already strained Potomac watershed - Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage have poured into the Potomac River for weeks, showing how improperly maintaining aging infrastructure poses a...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Angry Bear

Short and medium term inflation, interest rates, and the overstretched consumer - The deluge of data resumes tomorrow with housing permits and starts, industrial production, and durable goods orders. In the meantime, let me make a few ...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
NORML

Federal Survey Data: Cannabis Use by Young People Continues Decades-Long Decline - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]"These findings ought to reassure lawmakers that cannabis access can be legally regulated...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #15: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Olympics Scandals, and Complaints Dept (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Caitlin is back for another wacky and wild ride
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2026 - Censored Press News Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention. Sheal...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump’s 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What’s Its Plan for 2026? By Rick Seltzer | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Feb. 13, 2026 - *Friends,* *In a revealing interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education, reporter Rick Seltzer probes the next phase of the Heritage Foundation’s high...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
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...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Mayor Omar Ochoa pay tribute to David Chavana, the “runner, icon, and the heart behind the Valley’s largest race, the Edinburg All-America City David Chavana 10K Run/Walk” - Graciela Moreno Chavana on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 was presented a framed House of Representatives Memorial Resolution – along with a Texas State Flag fl...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BIG FASH AND SMALL VICTORIES EDITION. - *Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man.* Even though they lie like they breathe and are still fucking shit up in Minneapolis, the administration’s announ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal - In a massive blow to the handful of scientists and academics who still dispute widely-accepted climate science, the Trump administration discarded a sign...
The Militant

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade! - A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist ...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed, Tulsi’s Tricks, Epstein’s Trail - A quick read on images of motion, spectacle, and selective seeing shaping the latest politics. The post Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed,...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
The Grayzone

EEUU tiene imputación secreta contra Delcy Rodrígez, según periodista opositora - Una periodista de oposición financiada por Estados Unidos reveló que el Departamento de Justicia de Trump ha elaborado una acusación secreta contra la Pr...
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 ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
LareDOS

Center for the Arts with Contemporary - Art Month San Antonio presents: Unbound
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
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. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

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

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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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, December 25, 2014

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