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

The Week

Dry skin, begone! 8 products to keep your skin supple while traveling - Say goodbye to dry and hello to hydration
Al Jazeera English

Cuba captures alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin wanted by US, Mexico says - Alleged trafficker, Zhi Dong Zhang, who had escaped Mexican authorities in July, was arrested in Cuba,
naked capitalism

The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution - The U.S. shadow government is not a big fan of democracy.
Counterpunch

No Kings Day Needs to Remove Democratic Party Influence in Future Events - I attended the downtown local No Kings Day festivities in Northampton, Massachusetts, and estimate that some 1,500 people came out. I liked the crowds bu...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Felipe Mora double leads Timbers over RSL and into MLS Playoffs’ next round - - Justen Glad scores for RSL after two from Mora - Kamal Miller header seals result for Phil Neville’s side Felipe Mora’s firs...
ArcaMax

Pooping on the Parade - If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would -- ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for ...
jobsanger

The Rich Are Propping Up The Economy While Everyone Else Struggles -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2523: Georges-Eugene Haussmann - Episode: 2523 Georges-Eugene Haussmann Reshapes Paris. Today, a city redone.
memeorandum

Trump to DOJ: Pay Up (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic) - Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic: *Trump to DOJ: Pay Up* — The goal is not just dictatorial power, but ostentatious performance. — Donald Trump is a ski...
Informed Comment

Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The International Court of Justice, established by the UN to adjudicate issues among nations, issued an advisory opinion on ...
Workers World

PDF of October 23 print issue - [image: PDF of October 23 print issue] Download the PDF Editorial Stop U.S. attack on Venezuela! Millions turn out for anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ actions Boycot...
Wolf Street

US Treasury Debt Hits $38 Trillion after Spiking by $1 Trillion in 2.5 Months and by $1.8 Trillion since the Debt Ceiling - But debt and interest expense don’t exist in a vacuum.
Raw Story

'Hate my party': GOP lawmaker escalates feud with colleagues who are 'terrified' of Trump - Rep. Marjoie Taylor Greene (R-GA) escalated her feud with her Republican colleagues on Wednesday night during an interview with Tucker Carlson on his epo...
World Socialist Web Site

Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, defend endorsement of Maine Democrat Graham Planter after Nazi tattoo revealed - Planter, a US veteran and mercenary, has continued to receive support from “progressive” Democrats even after it was revealed he had a *Totenkopf,* the fav...
The Hill

McLaughlin: ICE agents could soon be going to San Francisco - Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could soon be headed to...
OpEd News

Monster Pandemic (poem) - Poem that infers that Covid while it happened was a cover for a secondary virus still spreading, with no cure apparent, and likely fatal to our species.
Courthouse News

Canal Street ICE raid takes center stage at final NYC mayoral debate - Candidates traded barbs at the final mayoral debate of the New York City election cycle, with early voting set to kick off in just three days.
Mediaite

Trump Threatens ‘Very Serious Action Against’ Colombia’s ‘Thug’ President - President Donald Trump blasted Colombian leader Gustavo Petro as a "thug" who better shut his yap, or else he will take "very serious action" and do it f...
Techdirt.

Measles Outbreaks Abound Under RFK Jr.’s Inaction - You may be tired of hearing about measles by now, but measles is not tired of infecting Americans. It’s worth reminding ourselves that this is a disease th...
Portside

Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats - Zohran Mamdani’s 5 Lessons for the Democrats Mark Brody Wed, 10/22/2025 - 22:49
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Political Wire

Abandoned NASA Nominee May Find New Life - “Jared Isaacman’s bid to take the top job at NASA — once thought dead in the Senate — has found renewed life as Sen. Tim Sheehy and a handful of […]
Brad Blog

Trump-Allied GOP Partisan Buys Dominion Voting Systems. Why Worry?: 'BradCast' 10/22/2025 - We try to make sense of a couple of different things on today's BradCast, neither of which make much sense. Wish us luck. [Audio link to full show follows ...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Popular Resistance

No Kings And The Lure Of Spectacle - Many years ago the late Glen Ford, then the Black Agenda Report executive editor, related his experience with the One Million Man March, which took place...
Axios

"Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. - The latest must-have accessory is a "stop-scrolling bag" — a tote packed with analog activities like watercolors and crossword puzzles. *Why it matters: ...
Crooked Media

The Key to Unlocking the Epstein Files - The post The Key to Unlocking the Epstein Files appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Texas Signal

Texas Coalition Launches Campaign About Constitutional Amendment - A diverse group of organizations is rallying to inform voters about Proposition 15, which they say will be harmful to students and families
Salon.com

“Never thought of as much”: Trump downplays demolition of White House’s East Wing - The president unveiled a model of his planned ballroom and an adjusted price tag of $300 million
The Verge

Amazon claims the headline isn’t robots taking jobs as it reveals new cost-cutting robots - A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring mo...
NPR's Health Shots

This nation has the fastest rising rate of cancer cases -- and deaths -- in the world - According to a new report, cancer rates are skyrocketing in this tiny country. What's causing this to happen? And what steps can be taken to turn the tide?
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Antiwar.com

The Irreversible Tides: Israel’s Isolation and the Gaza Genocide - The escalating global antipathy toward Israel, increasingly visible in cultural concepts like concerts, cinemas and sports events, underscores a profound i...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Oops! Inaccurate birth certificate proves how anti-trans policies can harm student athletes - Some of us told folks that these anti-trans policies would have unintended consequences. From *LGBTQNation: * In Arizona last week, a cisgender male ...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend is mostly about food and frights.
Dissident Voice

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg - In an interview with Swedish paper Aftonbladet, Greta Thunberg has corroborated earlier eyewitness reports that she and her fellow Global Sumud Flotilla ...
Mediagazer

In a letter, David Ellison told the WBD board that Paramount was WBD's only viable suitor, as offers from bigger companies would invite regulatory scrutiny (New York Times) - New York Times: *In a letter, David Ellison told the WBD board that Paramount was WBD's only viable suitor, as offers from bigger companies would invite ...
El Paso Matters

UTEP ended Title IX probes into former Vice President Jake Logan after his June resignation - UTEP dismissed two Title IX cases against former Vice President Jake Logan following his June resignation. University officials said the cases would hav...
Daily Dot

What is the “bird theory?” The relationship test people are using to see if their partners actually care - [image: Left: Couple looking into camera under text reading, "testing the bird theory on my husband." Right: Couple walking in a park, woman pointing, ma...
Progressive.org

A Voice for Public Schools and Educational Equity - An interview with Diane Ravitch.
Vox

Trump’s East Wing demolition, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Deadline Politics

Jimmy Kimmel Clash Was “Never About The First Amendment”, Sinclair Exec Insists; FCC “Overreach” & Nexstar-Tegna Mega-Deal Worry CEO Of Boutique Station Group Graham Media - Rob Weisbord, COO and President of Local Media at Sinclair, insisted that the local TV station giant’s recent clash with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was “...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—October 2025 - Censored Press News Project Censored sent State of the Free Press 2026 to the printer earlier this month. The 2026 yearbook celebrates the Project’s fift...
San Antonio Current

Leading sports economist calls current deal to publicly fund Spurs arena ‘insane’ - [image: The Spurs' current facility, the Frost Bank Center, is the 12th-newest in the NBA, according to one ranking.] Economist J.C. Bradbury warns that t...
The NM Political Report

State warns food banks to prep for 400,000 in need; Feds warn SNAP will “not be issued to New Mexico families” next week, if shutdown persists - [image: SNAP Receipt] [image: SNAP Receipt] The state’s top human services officials are organizing food banks and warning legislators that 400,000 of N...
slacktivist

Get angry. Stay angry. Do better. - Remorse is not sorrow. It's anger. Getting angry with yourself is what real repentance looks like -- the kind of repentance that allows for the possibility...
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Slate

DoorDash Finally Found a Way to Stop Paying Its Workers for Good - The company launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to fight worker protections and invest in delivery robots.
Futurism

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death - "We expect to prove to a jury that OpenAI's decisions to degrade the safety of its products were made with full knowledge that they would lead to innocen...
Undernews

Documenting Your Family History and How to Get Started -
Daily Cartoonist

Tom Flannagan – RIP - Staten Island Advance editorial cartoonist, reporter and columnist Tom Flannagan has passed away. Thomas R. (Tom) Flannagan March 31, 1932 – October 19, 20...
The Greanville Post

The Masks Have Come Off - ED CURTIN—It was in 1985, the year of “amusing ourselves to death,” that Donald Trump, a fake-estate developer, acquired the Atlantic City Hilton Hotel and...
San Antonio Report

TCEQ approves controversial wastewater permit for Guajolote Ranch, despite opposition - [image: Randy Newman, a community member opposing a proposed wastewater treatment plant, comment during a TCEQ public hearing on Tuesday evening.]The Texas...
Mother Jones

Trump Claims He’d Give His $230 Million Justice Department Grift to Charity. Yeah, Right. - On Tuesday, shortly after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump is demanding $230 million from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reimbur...
Second Nexus

MAGA Ohio Pastor Who Railed Against Kids Seeing Pride Flags Arrested For Child Sex Abuse - Anti-LGBTQ+ Ohio pastor Silas H. Shelton—who previously complained about a book series he said encouraged children to "explore their sexuality"—has been ...
Capital & Main

Represent This - Drastic times and drastic measures come to California. Many Black leaders see Proposition 50 as necessary to neutralize a GOP power grab that endangers b...
The Daily Poster

Stephen Miller’s Voting Rights Nightmare - Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s legal organization is urging both the Supreme Court and regulators to disenfranchise voters.
Alternet

'Flying like a lead balloon': Republicans slam Trump policy hitting red states hardest - More Republicans are now speaking out against President Donald Trump's plan to ramp up beef imports — particularly those from states with large numbers o...
ProPublica

Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs? - by Vernal Coleman, Topher Sanders and Maryam Jameel ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: When Coons appeared on the Fox News Channel... - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2025* *...a fuzzy dispute broke out: *As we recently admitted, we're so old that we can remember when major news orgs tried to un...
Ballot Access News

Forward Party’s State Senator in Utah Will Resign; Forward Party is Permitted to Choose His Successor - On October 22, Senator Daniel Thatcher, the only Forward Party state legislator in the nation, said he will resign his seat this year. Under Utah law, when...
Reform Austin

Federal Funding Changes Put Texas Homeless Programs at Risk - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Recent changes to federal homelessness policy under President Donald Trump and Housing and Urba...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Worth in the Age of Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A new episode of The Check-In
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah - The Israeli prison guards who tormented Greta Thunberg and her colleagues on the Global Sumud Flotilla knew the world was watching and wanted the world to ...
MintPress News

Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey - Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestine voices. ...
WhoWhatWhy

Experts Hail ‘Remarkable’ Success of Electronic Eye Implant in Restoring Sight - [image: science, medicine, vision, disease, electronic implant, sight restoration] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommen...
Texas Standard

A UT administrator was removed for ‘ideological differences,’ raising questions among faculty - The university has seen a lot of turnover in leadership roles in the last two years.
Church and State

Banning abortion is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes - In 2022, the U.S. joined the likes of Poland and Hungary when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortion protections.
Krebs on Security

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M - Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian crypto...
Discourse

Graham Platner Isn't Passing the Test - The Senate candidate didn't just get a Nazi tattoo - he kept it. And his handling of the scandal has been dire.
The Root

‘Antebellum’ and Other Projects Black Stars Should’ve Consulted Their Group Chats About Before Saying Yes - Though we'll always be rooting for everybody Black, some shows and movies should've arguably never left the group chat. Let's talk about it! Read more...
Ecosophia

October 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...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: “The Space We Make” at Throughline, Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Adopts Resolution Opposing Tax-Funded School Choice - The Constitution Party National Committee adopted a resolution during its seasonal meeting this month, declaring opposition to tax-funded school choice p...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the No Kings Rally in Chicago - We should take personal account of our lives from time to time and the way we treat others. We are holding our leaders to this same evaluation.
Election Law Blog

“Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances” - NYT: Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month with the Homeland Security Department’s point person on “election integr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New North Carolina Republican Gerrymander - North Carolina Republicans appear on track to pass a new House map that would bolster their chances of winning 11 of the state's 14 districts. The post ...
Texas Observer

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas from Federal Push for Mining Revival - This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Si...
Mondoweiss

In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel - [image: Professors from McGill and Concordia, October 7, 2025 supporting the student strike for divestment and against genocide.]In a 114-8 vote, the McGil...
SCOTUSblog

Which NBA player is each Supreme Court justice? - Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff, especially when it comes to the NBA. ...
Angry Bear

Cinco Pesos Poca Plata - My paternal grandfather grew up in Argentina. When I knew him in the 1960s and 70s, he was a bank VP in New York City. He would occasionally recite somet...
Ian Welsh

Harvard Slashes Ph.D. Admissions - Readers may remember the following chart. Bear it in mind. Here’s a summary from Chris Brunet of the cuts: According to the Crimson report, which quotes fi...
First Draft

Cringe Trumps Fascism - This was a colossal mistake and the aftershocks will be destructive. Good.
Rewire

Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Hearing About Racism. Guess What? Me Too. - Opinion: If Brett Kavanaugh wants to sunset the Voting Rights Act, he can do it in the year 2299. The post Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Heari...
Democracy Now!

Tensions in Latin America Rise as U.S. Threatens Venezuela & Colombia - In recent weeks, the United States has conducted several deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the Trump administration has c...
The Conversation

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States - From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that receive...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza Genocide 2.0” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explore topics shaking the world stage. ...
Space City Weather

Houston to face widespread rain showers this weekend, followed by a stronger front next week - In brief: In today’s post we discuss rainfall amounts for this weekend, when we are likely to see our greatest totals in a quite some time. We also provide...
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
Dorf on Law

Don't Worry. Trump will take the $230 million in taxpayer money that his hand-picked lawyers will award him and "give it to charity or something." - As reported yesterday by *The New York Times*, President Donald J. Trump has demanded that the federal government pay him $230 million to settle two admi...
The Smirking Chimp

History Shows That Trump’s Venezuela Campaign Will Be Disastrous -
Skeptophilia

Sphere itself - A loyal reader of *Skeptophilia* asked me what I knew about a strange geological oddity called "Klerksdorp spheres," which are round-ish objects with a m...
Off The Kuff

We could have asked! - I am smacking my forehead so hard, you guys. The City of San Antonio will seek an exemption from the State of Texas in order to keep the city’s rainbow cro...
Scheerpost.com

The Corporate Democrats Delivered Donald Trump - Addressing the root of economic systems that oppress Americans is exactly what the Democratic Party leadership, dependent on big corporate donors, has rigo...
Grist

The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it - Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.
High Country News

Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite water concerns - The first crack in the area’s suspension on new housing that relies on groundwater appears. The post Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite wate...
See You In 2020

Communists are in place to win America’s masses, & this could only happen when we created our own platform - When I say Marxists have created a platform of their own, I’m referring to a process that’s occurred far beyond the mainstream discourse realms. That’s ...
LareDOS

Laredo Film Society hosts Laredo filmmaker Alejandro Montoya Marín for Q&A and screening of The Unexpecteds - Laredo Film Society (LFS) welcomes home Laredo-native filmmaker Alejandro Montoya Marín for a two-day event celebrating independent cinema and Latino voice...
Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka | "Very Dangerous Situation" - Ajamu Baraka | "Very Dangerous Situation" bareditors Wed, 10/22/2025 - 04:35 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Jamarl Thomas
Trivial Knot

Review: The Fifth Head of Cerberus - The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe is a work of anticolonialist science-fiction published in 1972. Personally, I am suspicious of anti-colonialist f...
Bonddad

Redbook, Philly Fed: a whiff of consumer weakening? - - *by New Deal democrat* The government shutdown is continuing. The only significant national economic news will be the NAR’s existing home sales re...
NORML

Urgent Action Needed To End US Marijuana Arrests - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Media Lens

Reversing The Truth – The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ And British Complicity In Genocide - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to be...
Earth 911

Green Living Tips for Fall - As the brilliant colors of early fall fade in the northern U.S. states, many of... The post Green Living Tips for Fall appeared first on Earth911.
Two Party Opera

Portland Frogs - Read More
Common Dreams

Utter Desecration: Walking Wrecking Balls, All Of 'Em - In a perfect, ghastly metaphor for the state of our "democracy," J.D. and Drunken Pete just oversaw an "artillery fiasco" at a Marine celebration when a ...
The AltWorld

Peace built on ruin - Tonight, we examine the fragile calm in Gaza after the Sharm el-Sheikh summit—a pause that may be […] The post Peace built on ruin appeared first on TheA...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Shadow President: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. - *Friends,* *Every empire has its architects. In this vein, I urge you to read Andy Kroll’s extraordinary investigative report in ProPublica co-published ...
The Progressive Wing

10/20-26 News Roundup & Open Thread - Cuomo clings to his own failings. Here’s a clip of someone correcting Cuomo in an interview this morning. Notice one of the corrections was subtle, the oth...
DeSmogBlog

The Methane Hunters of Melendugno - This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For centuries, farmers in Melendugno, a town located at the tip of southern Italy’s b...
Infidel753

No Kings - See reports and images from the No Kings rallies in St Petersburg FL, Tiverton RI, Kalamazoo MI, and here in Portland OR, where the downtown rally drew fo...
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 ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pe?zenas]
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Earthworks

In West Texas, Residents Face Drought, Proposals for More Pipelines - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post In West Texas, Residen...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS EDITION. - *You still need a drugstore to cure my cough.* Getting this Friday ‘Round-the-Horn (which often turns into Saturday ‘Round-the-Horn or even Sunday ‘Round...
Lowering the Bar

Nirvana Beats Former Baby’s Lawsuit (Again) - [image: Cropped version of the Nirvana album cover]Please appeal again.
The Militant

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust - Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized fo...
Sludge

Schumer Lines up Behind Centrists in Senate Primaries - In Michigan and Minnesota, Schumer’s reported favorites align with AIPAC’s endorsements and the crypto industry's supporters.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 6 - *Bad theology in the Old Testament* Not too long ago I saw a video: a conservative woman being interviewed by a man who wanted to know her opinion abou...
Greg Palast

Palast, Hartmann Speak in San Diego, LA this Friday, SaturdayTwo evening talks — plus Palast at No Kings this Saturday - Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
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...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
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 Socialist

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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.
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...
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...
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...
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
Free & Equal

Geneesmiddelinteracties tussen Cialis en Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline - Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline Penicilline G Benzathine en Procaïne Penicilline zijn vormen van antibiotica die veel worden gebruikt om ...
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 ...
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...
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

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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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