Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/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

memeorandum

South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine (Erika Edwards/NBC News) - Erika Edwards / NBC News: *South Carolina measles outbreak is ‘accelerating,’ driving hundreds into quarantine* — Some students who remain unvaccinated...
Raw Story

Pete Hegseth's making a 'grave mistake' with pet name for US-China relations: lawmaker - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has apparently come up with a new pet name for the relationship between the United States and China, and its name is raisi...
Mediagazer

President Trump told reporters "it's imperative" for CNN to be sold: "Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that CNN is part of it or sold separately" (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill) - Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: *President Trump told reporters “it's imperative” for CNN to be sold: “Any deal it should be guaranteed and certain that...
The Verge

Trump could introduce ‘mandatory’ social media reviews for travelers - The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a pr...
Courthouse News

‘There’s no smoking gun:’ Defense makes last stand in case of accused Chinese agent - Linda Sun, a former state employee under the Cuomo and Hochul administrations, is accused of selling out New Yorkers for bribes and benefits from Chinese g...
The Hill

Lawmakers react to US seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker - Democratic lawmakers and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) expressed concern Wednesday that the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker by the U.S. could further increase ...
Houston Public Media

Here’s who will be on March primary ballots in the Houston area - With the candidate filing deadline having passed this week, Houston Public Media has a rundown of the Democratic and Republican hopefuls for notable county...
SCOTUSblog

Court appears divided on whether lower courts properly found death row inmate to be intellectually disabled - The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question be...
CultureMap Houston

3-day ACL music festival launches blind pre-sale for 2026 tickets - Austin City Limits Music Festival fans are jumping on the chance to get cheaper access to the festival by buying ahead. The first pre-sale for the 2026 fes...
Vox

The “Trump Gold Card,” 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 ...
Popular Resistance

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store - Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their...
Dissident Voice

The North-South Project Reclaims Human Rights as People(s)-Centered - December 10th, International Human Rights Day, represents one year since the launch of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. The N...
Al Jazeera English

Tents flood, families seek shelter as Storm Byron bears down on Gaza - Officials warn hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lacking shelter are at risk as heavy rains lash the Strip.
Salon.com

“No crisis lasts forever”: Judge orders Trump admin to pull National Guard out of LA - Months after Trump first sent them, hundreds of National Guard members are still active in LA
San Antonio Current

San Antonio honors Mission San Jose descendants with new public art - [image: "Kindred" is the first public art installation from San Antonio creator Ashley Perez.] 'Kindred,' located on the World Heritage Trail, highlights ...
Progressive.org

States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme - Vouchers hurt public schools and their students.
Mediaite

Trump Pours Cold Water All Over Reports He’s Looking to Fire Kristi Noem - "I read a story recently I'm unhappy with Kristi [Noem]. I'm so happy with her. I mean, we have a closed border." The post Trump Pours Cold Water All Ove...
Undernews

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Second Nexus

Liberal Podcast Host Blasts Erika Kirk For Being An 'Absolute Grifter' In Mic Drop Rant - Outspoken podcaster and former Bravo home improvement star Jennifer Welch spoke out about the publicity tour Erika Kirk has been on since her husband Cha...
Socialist Alternative

No To War On Venezuela! - The world is following with horror as Donald Trump makes one announcement after another, gloating over unleashing a barrage of extra-judicial killings in t...
Political Wire

Trump Hates Socialism—Except When He’s Doing It - Tara Palmeri: “Trump made a quiet admission that his tariffs aren’t working as intended: he rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers.” “The irony is ha...
Futurism

Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist - The wonders of our AI age. The post Librarians Dumbfounded as People Keep Asking for Materials That Don’t Exist appeared first on Futurism.
Reform Austin

Major Donors Walk Out as Alamo Leadership Clash Deepens - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Three top fundraisers for the Remember the Alamo Foundation have resigned in protest over the f...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Sean Duffy wants to bring ‘civility’ to air travel … so why is he doing pull-ups at the airport? | Arwa Mahdawi - Transport infrastructure in the US is a hot mess – and the guy in charge thinks ‘wellness spaces’ are gonna solve the problem Sean “Dog” Duffy is a legen...
Daily Dot

“Not the Waymo standoff”: Three robotaxis stop traffic, blocking a San Francisco street - [image: Three Waymo vehicles locked in a standoff on a steep street in San Francisco.] Waymo's reputation took another hit after a TikToker posted footag...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
LareDOS

Two-day celebration of prayer, dance, and music honors Feast Day of the Virgen de Guadalupe at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Dec. 11 – 12 - Events include procession, Midnight Mass, matachines, mariachis, and sale of 200 dozen tamales prepared by the Guadalupanas
World Socialist Web Site

The Gelfand Case: Depositions and the fight against summary judgement - This lecture outlines the legal struggle of Alan Gelfand to expose the penetration of the Trotskyist movement by agents of the Stalinist GPU, and reviews t...
ArcaMax

Why Did Trump Pardon a Cocaine Kingpin? - To ordinary MAGA voters in the American heartland -- who may have witnessed the ravages of narcotics up close in their own families -- the recent conduct o...
The Grayzone

CIA front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mo...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
slacktivist

Wrote a note said be back in a minute - Angie Clark Diller has some good thoughts about watching Hallmark Christmas movies in Potterville. Plus: Trinitarian constitutional law, the Trumpy smell o...
Church and State

Why Do Atheists Want a War on Christmas? - I’m confident what I say here is true of most atheists are happy to celebrate and to let others celebrate Christmas in peace.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Opposes Warner Bros. Discovery Retaining Ownership Of CNN In Any Merger Transaction - Donald Trump weighed in again on the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, this time by saying that he opposes any plan in which the company continues ...
Techdirt.

Australia’s Social Media Ban Goes Into Effect As Pretty Much Everyone Realizes It’s A Total Mess - Australia’s social media ban for kids is now in effect. As we’ve discussed, this is a monumentally stupid plan that will do real harm to kids. It’s based o...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s military chief says the ‘Yellow Line’ dividing Gaza will be Israel’s new border. Palestinians say this is a ‘second Nakba.’ - [image: Displaced Palestinian families sheltering inside the UNRWA-run Malak School in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, find themselves suddenly located ...
OpEd News

Trump (and Hegseth too), Narco terrorism, and Dealing with Drugs and Drug Use - Trump's attacks on small boats on the Caribbean are supposed to part of some "War on Drugs." The column deals with some of the myths surrounding the use of...
Axios

Mike Johnson squashes another internal revolt - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) put down an internal rebellion over a procedural vote for the second time in two weeks, this time over advancing the $...
The Week

How will China’s $1 trillion trade surplus change the world economy? - Europe may impose its own tariffs
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Fox News star forms Bible group! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025* *Then batters "effeminate weasels:"* We were surprised by the revelation in this report from *Mediaite*: *Jesse Watters R...
Wolf Street

This Fed Meeting Must Have Been an Epic Circus - Amid 3 dissenters in both directions, FOMC cuts by 25 basis points. “Dot Plot” sees 1 cut next year, 3 members see 1 hike. Reserve management purchases of ...
High Country News

Top Interior Department official has ties to Thacker Pass lithium mine - [image: Thacker Pass] Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the controversial Nevada lithium ...
The Rag Blog

LARRY PILTZ / VERSE / Save The Futures - Save The Futures To save our futures we’ll need supplies of sutures to stitch tightly up with courage the scourges violent urges to bind the wounds and spa...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

In the Thick of It: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
First Draft

Album Cover Art: Weird Christmas Albums - Have yourself a weird little Christmas.
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: The Filton Show Trial of Palestine Action - With this prosecution, the British government hopes to legitimize its proscription of Palestine Action and deflect attention from its own sustained support...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: GOP Lures Jasmine Crockett Into US Senate Primary - The GOP has succeeded in luring U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett into entering the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Time will tell if they regret ge...
Mother Jones

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” Repeats a Familiar Problem: We Still Don’t Believe Women - Season 3 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debuted on November 13, and among the routine infighting, there’s a heavier topic that has consumed the season...
Slate

CNN Is Letting Betting Markets Rewrite the 2026 Election Narrative - The network is giving Kalshi, a volatile and easily gamed prediction market, authority it once reserved for actual polling.
Ballot Access News

Missouri Bill to Restore Presidential Primary - Missouri State Senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis) has introduced SB 1139, to restore the presidential primary. The bill would set the primary on the secon...
San Antonio Report

Meet the candidates running for office in Bexar County in 2026 - These are the Republicans and Democrats vying for Bexar County Judge, DA, County Clerk, District Clerk and Pct. 2 and 4 commissioner seats. ----------------...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Mass Mobilization and Stopping Authoritarianism - Hedges discusses the importance of mass mobilization and strikes in pushing back against our rapidly consolidating authoritarianism.
The Daily Poster

Stephen Miller Gets His Guns For Hire - For the first time ever, private military contractors are set to be deployed to the U.S. southern border.
NPR's Health Shots

What to know about death cap mushrooms, blamed for poisonings in California - Death cap mushrooms look harmless, but are responsible for the majority of the world's mushroom-related deaths. California officials say 21 people have bee...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Calls 2026 “the Tipping Point” and Urges Conservatives to Leave the GOP - The Constitution Party has issued a call to conservative voters and several prominent legislators to abandon the Republican Party and “unify under the ba...
The Root

Heartbreaking Video of Detroit Man Finding 6-Year-Old Walking Alone in Freezing Temps Goes Viral - Joshua Threatt’s heart-stopping encounter went viral after he spotted a little girl alone in freezing weather and walked her safely to school. Read more...
Angry Bear

Just How Many Immigrants are in the United States? - If we are going to chase or discuss undocumented residents, we should at least know the numbers of them. The word immigrants includes US citizens and und...
Capital & Main

Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers - A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. T...
Texas Observer

Ex-Con Congressman Attempts a Texas Comeback - Former Congressman and felon Steve Stockman, a Friendswood-area conservative who was convicted of 23 federal corruption charges and sentenced to 10 years...
NORML

Now Is the Time To Double Down on Cannabis Activism - [image: A hand holds up a card with a marijuana leaf cut-out representing support for cannabis legalization][image: A hand holds up a card with a marijua...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: December 2025 - Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger Episode 1-4 | Video, 2 hours, via – An old television show, talking about the interpretation of European painting. Epis...
Texas Standard

‘Great treasures for all of us’: After a career preserving Latino stories, Voces director to retire - Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez’s path saw her take part in carving spaces for Latinos in the journalism world to founding a nationally-recognized oral history ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
Election Law Blog

“Redistricting Without Tradeoffs” - I just posted this article, forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, on SSRN. The piece relies on large sets of computer-generated maps to demonstrate tha...
The Texas Signal

Immigrants Without A Criminal Record Increasingly Targeted - The immigration crackdown is happening and increasing by the day, shocking communities everywhere including Texas
Bonddad

Q3 employment costs: probably the “least positive” since the pandemic - - *by New Deal democrat* The employment cost index, which was updated this morning through Q3, typically gets much less attention than the monthly p...
Grist

When Elephants Trample Your Farm, Who Do You Call? - By reconnecting fragmented habitats, researcher Krithi Karanth is pioneering ways to reduce conflict between people and wildlife.
Glasstire

Review: “Guadalupe Hernandez: Hijos de la Virgen morena” at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston - A wall painted in clay is covered in small deities made of hand-cut paper in the exhibition Guadalupe Hernandez: Hijos de la Virgen morena, at the Moody ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

After Trump Pardons Cuellar, TX-28 Moves to Leans Democratic - With a couple of developments in his favor, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) looks a little better for reelection; despite some late drama before candidate ...
Ian Welsh

2028: Red and Blue Vs. Tech? - By Nat Wilson Turner Sounds good to me. Not my idea though. I must give credit where credit is due. 2020: blue and tech against red 2024: red and tech agai...
El Paso Matters

Segundo Barrio mural tour leads week as Horizon City launches holiday festivities - El Paso’s week features a guided Segundo Barrio mural tour, Horizon City’s holiday kickoff, library meet-and-greets with Santa, arts events, hikes and W...
Democracy Now!

What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott - What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after th...
The Conversation

Trump administration’s immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges - District courts have dismissed the administration’s efforts to detain virtually all undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing while they await deporta...
Space City Weather

Houston will see another strong front this weekend, but after that the run-up to Christmas looks fairly warm - In brief: In today’s post we discuss a warmup in our weather through Saturday, followed by a short but sharp cold front on Sunday. We also spend some time ...
The AltWorld

US Beta-Testing China Blockade with Attacks on Russian Energy Exports - “The expanding drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure represent a long-term U.S. strategy aimed at weakening Russia […] The post US Beta-Testing ...
WhoWhatWhy

The Great Un-Humaning: What We Lose When Everything’s Easy - [image: Friction, match, spark] Avoiding friction — by expelling people who are different, by outsourcing creativity and connection to AI — feels easier. I...
Dorf on Law

Why Did SCOTUS Grant Cert in the Birthright Citizenship Case? - Last week, the Supreme Court granted *certiorari* in *Trump v. Barbara*. A federal district judge in New Hampshire preliminarily enjoined President Trump...
Rallblog

Trump to Europe: Drop Dead | 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...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Yahtzee Days and Humpdays - It happens, and I’m leading off with Clay Jones’ version because he acknowledged what is known in the trade as a “Yahtzee.” I hate it when another cartooni...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Earthquake’: Experts Sound Alarm As Republicans Lose Key Seats in Red States -
Skeptophilia

Coded messages - Did you know that there are illegal numbers? I didn't, at least not until yesterday. It turns out, of course, that the issue isn't the number itself, bu...
Off The Kuff

Deadline Day roundup, part 2 - Part 1 is here. So far I haven’t found much that wasn’t known at deadline time. It’s an odd year for there to be so few true last-minute surprises, but her...
ProPublica

He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him. - The post He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him. appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

Sujalaam… Suphalaam… - ‘Jalabharadinarathrangal’ has been classified as a novel, though the label doesn’t seem to do justice to the genre. What the author has dished out for read...
Earth 911

Swapping Is Sexy: How to Host a Clothing Swap Party - We returned to this classic Earth911 article from 2014, which still tells an important story,... The post Swapping Is Sexy: How to Host a Clothing Swap P...
Crooked Media

Trump Forfeits AI Race to China - The post Trump Forfeits AI Race to China appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

From Doxxing to Dot.Gov: the White House Has Set Up a Taxpayer Funded Enemies List - Doxing, swatting, bogus FBI calls, stalkers live-streaming outside their homes — it used to be marginal maniacs who saw journalists as targets to be neut...
Crooked Timber

Bankers (not money) make the world go around? Towards a labour/tech history of finance - I am at the airport in Melbourne (again). I’m sitting in the window eating one of those excellent boxes of kale, broccoli, beans, seeds, peas and a boiled ...
jobsanger

GOP Women Are In A Party That Doesn't Respect Them -
Informed Comment

War, Peace, and Erasure: Lessons from Wakara for Gaza and Beyond - Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God
Alternet

Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years - Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to o...
Claytoonz

Cracker Jack President - 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...
Brad Blog

'Coalition of the Unwilling': Petrostates and Propagandists Undermining Climate Science: 'BradCast' 12/9/2025 - Today on The BradCast: For years, we've called out the authoritarian petrostates working to block the fight against fossil fuels and our existential battle...
The Greanville Post

What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce About Taiwan? - K. PETERSEN—he recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe when she said a Chinese a...
Portside

Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here’s Why - Starbucks Workers Are Still Without a Labor Deal Four Years After Their First Union Win. Here’s Why Greg Tue, 12/09/2025 - 19:49
See You In 2020

The working-class fight against “critical theory,” & its context of intensifying anti-colonial struggle - “Critical theory,” especially the kind that involves identity, is an enemy of the workers movement and the pro-Palestine cause. To properly explain why ...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Interference Invalidates the Presidential Election in Honduras - An extraordinary catalog of US interference – amounting to an electoral coup – may have destroyed what was already a struggling democracy in Honduras. Trum...
Workers World

Successful China book launch in New York City - [image: Successful China book launch in New York City] New York City Authors attend China book launch meeting, Dec. 6, New York City. (WW PHOTO: John Catal...
Sludge

The Democrats’ New AI Panel Is Led by Big Tech Allies - Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from re...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition - Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 ...
Project Censored

Drones Linked to Gaza Operating Surveillance Flights Over US Cities - In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the US-based drone company Skydio provided more than one hundred surveillance drones to the Isr...
Discourse

Jimmy Fallon Is the ChatGPT of Talk Show Hosts - He's not just an obsequious kiss-ass. He's actively making the world worse than it already is.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Common Dreams

Rights Groups Sue Trump Administration for Legal Justification of Deadly Boat Strikes - The American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in the United Stat...
Democracy Chronicles

The Best Replacement For Mercator World Maps - Don’t let the hype and bullshit convince you that Equal-Earth is the best, or is a scientific optimization, or that there’s anything new about it. No other...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
MintPress News

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers - MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers. The post Stop...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
Rewire

The Official Rewire 2025 Book List - Our recommendations for your holiday reading, from memoirs to children’s literature. The post The Official Rewire 2025 Book List appeared first on Rewire...
The Progressive Wing

December 9-14 News Roundup and Open Thread - December continues cold in the Northeast.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Progressive podcaster calls out Charlie Kirk's widow as a 'grifter'' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Erika Kirk *‘Should Be Kicked To The Curb’: Progressive Podcaster Attacks Widow Erika Kirk as a ‘Grifter’* - I fail to see any lie here. Charlie Kirk was ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
The NM Political Report

State senator prepping bill to rate school library books for race, sex and LGBTQ+ content - A conservative New Mexico lawmaker is drafting legislation allowing schools to rate library books for sexual and violent content and possibly materials a...
Media Lens

The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 2 – Self-Inquiry - In Part 1, we saw how even the most exalted stars in the celebrity firmament look on in dismay as their greatest successes – Wimbledon titles, World Cups, ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 8 December 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] He actually looks better without the ora...
DeSmogBlog

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Facing a growing number of law...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CHEESY SCENES OF WINTER EDITION. - *RAWK.* In the not-too-distant future, I hope and pray, we will look back on the Age of Tubby II and think, “Holy shit, I know I complain about President...
The Militant

‘Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa’ - Below is the introduction by Mary-Alice Waters to the new book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape - The post Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape appeared first on Environment Texas.
Debunking Christianity

The Case for Jesus as a Real Historical Person Continues to Erode - *“But I feel Jesus in my heart” is evidence for what you’re feeling* In my most recent articles here I explained why we no longer need to pay much atte...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:53 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Greg Palast

Got Democracy? Give to Save 2026This Giving Tuesday, Help Protect the American Vote - You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been ele...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
Liberation News

¿Por qué Trump amenaza con invadir Nigeria? ¿Realmente es para “proteger a las y los cristianos”? - A comienzos de noviembre, Trump amenazó con tomar acciones militares contra Nigeria, el país más poblado de África.
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
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...
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...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
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
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.
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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