Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Novara Media

Wes Streeting Is SABOTAGING Burnham’s By-Election - Wes Streeting has invoked the B-word, and it’s not Burnham for once. Plus: We talk to Ben Walker, co-founder of Britain Elects and Senior Data Journalist a...
ArcaMax

Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise? - On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instig...
Eschaton

Can They Both Lose - They sort of did. Musk obviously lost the suit, but on a "technicality" so Altman wasn't exactly exonerated. After around two hours of deliberation, the j...
The Verge

PlayStation exclusives aren’t coming to PC anymore - Sony reportedly won't release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up ...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Numbers look better for congressional Dems! - *MONDAY, MAY 18, 2026* *Or so one survey says:* Does the venerable Cook Political Report know what it's talking about? We can't necessarily answer yo...
The Week

Students across the country are in a ‘reading recession’ - The decline predates the pandemic
memeorandum

Can Anyone Beat Jon Ossoff? Georgia Republicans Grasp for a Contender. (Tim Balk/New York Times) - Tim Balk / New York Times: *Can Anyone Beat Jon Ossoff? Georgia Republicans Grasp for a Contender.* — On the eve of their primary, Republicans have gr...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio residents dealt with longer power outages last year, CPS Energy data shows - The utility provider shared its internal metrics at its board meeting last month, showing where it did and did not meet its goals over the past year. ------...
Futurism

Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI - "I am troubled by the idea of using my child's likeness in unknown AI tools and how this could be abused." The post Parents Explode in Fury at School’s P...
El Paso Matters

Troubled ICE medical provider remains at Camp East Montana despite outcry - Camp East Montana retained its medical provider despite deaths, a measles outbreak and longstanding allegations of medical neglect tied to the contracto...
NORML

Transportation Memo: Marijuana Rescheduling Order Doesn’t Change Federal Drug Testing Rules - [image: thc drug testing][image: thc drug testing]“Marijuana use under state marijuana programs or other non-prescription sources does not qualify as a ‘...
Slate

A MAGA Judge in Texas Was Called Out by a Colleague for Trying to Steal a Case in Rhode Island - On Wednesday, Judge Mary S. McElroy shot down a federal subpoena seeking medical records and personal data of children.
Al Jazeera English

WHO chief ties funding cuts to Ebola, hantavirus outbreaks - Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola are tied to funding cuts to the WHO, the WHO chief and other UN leaders said.
First Draft

The Kids Are Not Alright With AI - Normally, young people embrace technology. But definitely not with AI.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Primaries, Redistricting Reveal American Political Fault Lines - A series of primary races and the national partisan fight over mid-decade redistricting are revealing the deep fault lines dividing both American political...
Raw Story

Prominent Reverend draws criticism for his speech at Trump's 'Rededicate 250' event - Rev. Franklin Graham delivered a pre-recorded video message at President Donald Trump's *Rededicate 250* prayer event Sunday at the National Mall in D.C....
Daily Cartoonist

Petition Created to Prevent Future Eisner Nomination of AI Work - Byron O’Neal, Editor-In-Chief at Comic Book Yeti, has started a petition to change the submission guidelines for future Easter Award nominations to disqual...
Mediaite

‘Have We Ever Seen Anything Like This?’ CNN Panel Stunned By Trump Slush Fund to Pay Out Allies - A CNN panel was stunned by Donald Trump's creation of a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-backed slush-fund for his allies who feel they were wronged. The pos...
Project Censored

Record 83.4 Million People Internally Displaced in 2024 - A record 83.4 million people were displaced within their home countries at the end of 2024, according to the Diplomatic Courier. Regional conflicts, viol...
SCOTUSblog

Court agrees to hear case on ability of employees to bring certain suits for sex discrimination, turns down child pornography reporting suit against X - The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its docket for the 2026-27 term. The justices will hear arguments sometime in the fall on wheth...
Alternet

Latest Trump nominee has botched prosecutions 'slam dunk' murder cases - President Donald Trump's Justice Department is calling on the U.S. Senate to confirm interim U.S. Attorney for Wyoming Darin Smith despite major mistakes...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party of Kansas Intent on Keeping Active in Current and Future Elections - According to this story, the Kansas No Labels Party, which is still on the ballot, intends to be active in elections in 2026 and beyond. This is in contras...
Mother Jones

Trump Just Gave Himself a $1.8 Billion Slush Fund to Reward His Friends - President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 bi...
Election Law Blog

Donald Trump Colludes with Government that He Sued to Set Up $1.7 Billion Trust Fund to Reward Insurrectionists and Other Political Cronies - The Orwellian named Anti-Weaponization fund in fact rewards those who tried to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States on January 6, 202...
The Hill

How Sun Tzu might have responded to the Trump-Xi summit - For those not familiar with Sun Tzu, he was a famous Chinese strategist and military philosopher living between 400-600 B.C.E. His most important book, "Th...
Countercurrents

Vinesh Phogat is Being Humiliated, and the Government Remains Silent - The Indian Wrestling Federation has barred Vinesh Phogat from participating in wrestling competitions. This raises the question: does the Wrestling Federat...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Justice department sets up $1.7bn fund to compensate Trump allies president claims were wrongfully targeted – US politics live - In an unprecedented, self-dealing maneuver for a US president, Trump ends lawsuit against IRS in exchange for fund to compensate for supposed persecution...
Texas Observer

Bo French’s Blood-and-Oil Bid for Railroad Commissioner - Former Tarrant County GOP Chairman Bo French is running what can fairly be called a fossil fascist campaign in his bid to unseat incumbent Railroad Commi...
Progressive.org

The Problem with Preemption - Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course.
Axios

Kevin Warsh's bond market bind - Kevin Warsh hasn't even been sworn in as leader of the Federal Reserve yet, and his first great test has already arrived. *The big picture: *Global bond ...
Popular Resistance

Flotilla Boats Again Under Attack By Israeli Forces - At this moment Israeli military forces are illegally attacking and boarding the sailboats of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and the Global Sumud Fl...
Liberation News

If Trump really wanted to lower gas prices, he would end the war - On the surface, it might look like Trump and other politicians are concerned about the very real impact of skyrocketing gas prices on working families. But...
Mondoweiss

How Gaza is exposing Germany’s ‘never again’ myth - [image: A photo of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin lit up with the Israeli flag that was shared by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Twitter/X with the capti...
Edinburg Politics

$18 million to $20 million redevelopment of Comfort Inn and MainStay Suites latest evidence of continuing strong commercial construction in Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa announces - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Former Edinburg mayors Ramiro Garza, Jr. and Joe Ochoa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, during Mayor Oma...
IVN

Independent Power Watch: Candidates Rise as Voters Sour on Both Parties - Independent candidates surge in several states, while 30% of independent voters are so unhappy with their choices that they plan to sit out the midterm ele...
Glasstire

Estudiosix Opens Call for New Artist Residency Program in Austin - Estudiosix, a new artist residency program and cultural workspace in Austin, has announced its inaugural open call for six-month artist residencies. Estu...
Undernews

Letter from a journalist - *Rachel Leingang, The Guardian *- I attended my first White House correspondents’ dinner last month, and I admit I felt like a fish out of water. I’ve c...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
Mediagazer

Sources: FIFA officials are visiting India, where no World Cup broadcast deal is agreed; Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M and Sony refrained from bidding (Reuters) - Reuters: *Sources: FIFA officials are visiting India, where no World Cup broadcast deal is agreed; Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M and Sony refraine...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Runoff Election - The showdown between Paxton and Cornyn has generated headlines, but there’s still plenty of other races to watch.
The Progressive Wing

5/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - On Friday, May 15 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined the people of Philadelphia to rally to send Chris Rabb to fight for Medicare for All, hou...
The Conversation

Trump’s Cabinet dramatically changed American foreign policy while the president made noise – a scholar of presidential rhetoric explains - The president’s barrage of pronouncements on foreign policy mean his Cabinet members’ statements on foreign policy have become more reliable indicators of ...
Field Negro

The death of voting rights. - *"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more" ~Laurell K. Hamilton~ * The United States Supreme court ruled recently that gerrymandering...
Earth 911

When the Lawn Becomes the Fuse: How Climate Change Is Rewiring Grass and Wildfire - More than 25,000 square miles of the U.S. Great Basin, an area nearly twelve times... The post When the Lawn Becomes the Fuse: How Climate Change Is Rewi...
Vox

An HIV-free generation is closer than you think - Ismail Harerimana grew up in Uganda not knowing why he was always sick. His childhood in the 1990s was a string of recurrent infections: malaria, diarrhea...
Dorf on Law

Addressing Long-Term Problems With Our Free Speech Infrastructure Without Empowering The Autocrats (cross-posted at The Knight Institute website) - N.B. As readers may recall, I current serve on the steering committee of the *Reconstructing Free Expression *initiative of the Knight Institute. As part ...
Salon.com

The real reason RFK Jr. is coming for your antidepressants - The HHS Secretary's attacks on psychiatric medication follow a pattern of putting politics over public health
Scheerpost.com

Declassified: UK Knew NATO Expansion ‘Would Provoke’ Russia War - Kit Klarenberg Substack On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political and mili...
The Smirking Chimp

Has Trump’s Republican Party Become a Criminal Enterprise? -
NPR's Health Shots

Thousands of U.S. countertop workers could have damaged lungs, safety expert says - Over 550 men in California have fallen ill after cutting natural or factory-made stone countertops. But epidemiologists say this isn't just a California pr...
ProPublica

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. - The post Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Utah’s fragile desert could feel like the Sahara if America’s biggest data center gets built - The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What happens when a data center as large as a city sits next to it?
Seeing the Forest

Most Voters Too Young To Remember - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. I was thinking about how most voters out there have no memory of all...
Wolf Street

Food Inflation in America by Product: It Boils down to a Sharp Acceleration on Top of Already Very High Prices - Ground beef, steak, chicken, fruit & veggies, coffee, dairy, eggs, other foods, and total.
Crooked Media

How SCOTUS is Waging Electoral Warfare - The post How SCOTUS is Waging Electoral Warfare appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Into the Sunset - Remember those car ads where they drove a gas-guzzling vehicle up to the top of a mesa in Arizona to capture the romance of the open road? Now that gas p...
Counterpunch

Communal Consults and Venezuela’s Fight for the Future - “This is a system of ants,” Dulce Esperanza, a member of the Candelaria Heroica Commune in Caracas, Venezuela, explained to me as we sat outside of a vot...
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Elderly residents of Melbourne apartment complex face forced eviction - The threat to Oasis residents takes place amid a housing crisis and the Victorian Labor government’s program to evict 10,000 people from the city’s 44 publ...
See You In 2020

Russia & the DPRK are fighting for the right side in World War III. The workers movement must join with them. - To know how the workers movement should respond to our third world war, we must look to Kim Il Sung’s guidance on waging joint anti-imperialist struggle...
jobsanger

They Do Not Know The Sleeping Giant That They Just Awakened -
Informed Comment

Ghalibaf Named China Envoy: Are Iran-Beijing Ties Deepening? - If China and Iran come closer in a relationship more like that between China and Pakistan, that would be significant change in geopolitics
Portside

Sunday Science: How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough - Sunday Science: How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough Ira Mon, 05/18/2026 - 00:12
Political Wire

Lindsey Graham Calls on Trump to Bomb Iran Again - Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed doubt Sunday that U.S. negotiations with Iran would prove fruitful and called on President Trump to follow through with his t...
Antiwar.com

The Man Who Seeks To Rule the World - Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clea...
Claytoonz

Orange Chicken - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Courthouse News

Taiwan’s president defends US arms purchases that Trump called ‘bargaining chip’ - The U.S., like all countries that have formal ties with China, doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country but has been the island's strongest backer and arms su...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War Iran war has cost American consumers over $37 billion in extra fuel costs, Brown Uni...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When Billionaires Stop Living in the Same Reality as Everyone Else by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. May 17, 2026 - *When Billionaires Stop Living in the Same Reality as * *Everyone Else* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 17, 2026* *Noah Hawley’s essay in T...
The AltWorld

Les Faucons de RAND encouragent des opérations de force en Amérique ibérique - Les États-Unis utilisent des récits sur les « menaces » pour justifier leur ingérence dans les affaires […] The post Les Faucons de RAND encouragent des ...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘All Over the Map’ Toons - …MEANWHILE, IN CUBA… …NEXT WEEK!… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial cartooning increasingly ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for May 11 - 15 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Unsurprisingly, the big move among the high frequency indicators in the ...
The Root

Iconic Moments From “All Roads Lead to the South” March - Just in case you missed it, we’ve pulled together some of the most powerful moments from the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Day of Action in Selm...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the ancient evil - As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, the ancient evil of Jew-hatred is re-emerging -- in somewhat new forms, but still easily recognizable -- amo...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou with cherries (2) - [image: Canigou and cherries (2)]
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1573: Donatello in Time - Episode: 1573 Donatello: Of his age or for all time? Today, we ask: Of an age, or of all time?
The Daily Poster

Rejecting The Health Care Trap - An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter: Russia will Soon Expand War by Striking EUROPE - DDAVIS—Russia has reached the limit of her patience with the West—both with arch-hypocritical Washington, and currently with the US vassals in Europe, say...
slacktivist

History’s final repose - Now is not the end of the story: What historians need to learn from Clyde Bruckman and Natasha Bedingfield.
WhoWhatWhy

Political Total War: The US and Virginia Supreme Courts Tilt the Electoral Table - [image: No Kings, Rally, Virginia, redistricting, sign] It’s not exactly a conspiracy, but the outcome of the redistricting wars speaks for itself. Politi...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: May 10th – 16th - This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
Deadline Politics

Mark Ruffalo Assumes “I’m Already On A List” For Opposing Paramount-Warner Bros Merger: “Vindictive Motherf*ckers” - As Mark Ruffalo continues to fight against Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, he suspects he’s already made some enemies in high places. Th...
San Antonio Current

Book Public Live! in San Antonio will feature author of ‘Chicano Gothic’ vampire novel - [image: Filth Eaters is out now from Deep Vellum Press.] During Tuesday's free event, San Antonio-based author, poet and painter Ito Romo will discuss his...
CultureMap Houston

Houston bar owner speaks out after surprise arrest and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from an unusual bar interaction to a new pizzeria and a neighborhood restaurant'...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Hitting a Chinese Wall’ - A brash, expansionist Donald Trump returned from two days in China, having been schooled by Xi Jinping in what global stability looks like. Tonight 8 pm ED...
Angry Bear

A Couple of Weeks Ago . . . About Oil - This Krugman commentary is from the last week of April. It touches upon the Middle East, the consequences of attacking Iran, and oil. In other words, it ...
Trivial Knot

Red vs blue button - The internet has been talking about this red vs blue button problem. Since I’ve been talking about game theory lately, why not talk about this one too? You...
Workers World

Veterans For Peace launches billboard campaign to reach active duty troops - [image: Veterans For Peace launches billboard campaign to reach active duty troops] The Veterans For Peace organization has on its website statements prot...
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
Lowering the Bar

Under Haitian Law, Is It Illegal to Make a Zombie? - Not specifically?
Church and State

Trump and many experts concern over Iran’s nuclear bomb needs review! - Threats of nuclear bomb use will prevail but it would seem that Iran has a particular reason not to use any nuclear bomb it might acquire.
The Militant

Greek unionists bring solidarity, needed medical supplies to Cuba - ATHENS, Greece — Some 35 people packed the meeting hall of the Athens publishing house Diethnes Vima April 18 to hear a report from a union delegation retu...
Texas Standard

Lou Diamond Phillips says getting a city of Austin proclamation and a Dallas Star Award feels ‘full circle’ - “In my teenage years, I dreamed of being where I am now. And to be able to come back wearing that and owning that and not being done, it’s an...
OpEd News

"Trump-Comey" 2016 Revisited - In brief, this is a re-run of a column published in the week before the 2016 elections in which I speculated that various anti-Clinton activities that then...
Texas Freedom Network

Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State - School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, ...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Black Agenda Report

Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit - Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/15/2026 - 22:44 Margaret Kimberley of Blac...
Capital & Main

California Hazardous Waste Rules Criticized as Years Late and ‘Polluter-Friendly’ - Proposed hazardous waste oversight changes are years behind schedule and fail to account for a community’s health risks from pollution, environmental gro...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Hosts National Bull Moose Party Leaders at Committee Meeting - The United States Pirate Party hosted leaders of the National Bull Moose Party during a recent Pirate National Committee meeting, continuing its outreach...
Democracy Now!

"Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz's Gideon Levy Debate Zionism - We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of...
Rewire

I Don’t Squirt During Sex. Is My Vagina Broken? - Sex columnist Vera Blossom explains the elusive phenomenon of female ejaculation. The post I Don’t Squirt During Sex. Is My Vagina Broken? appeared first...
The NM Political Report

Haaland talks being a mom on Medicaid, SNAP and WIC in new ad - [image: Haaland TV preview] Deb Haaland likes to say that her personal story mirrors a lot of New Mexicans, especially young single moms relying on Medica...
Space City Weather

Thursday was Houston’s hottest day of 2026 and now the humidity is returning - In brief: After the hottest day of 2026 in Houston, we expect a quiet, less hot but more humid weekend. Rain chances then pick up next week with potentiall...
Common Dreams

Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and... - Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and...
High Country News

A top Interior official’s former ranching clients wanted bison off public land. The Interior Secretary helped make it happen. - In an uncommon move, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum intervened in a case that involved the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top depu...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Ouch! Federal judge issues brutal ruling against Trump Administration in case involving gender-affirming care for trans youth - A Trump-appointed judge just handed his administration a bruising loss in its war against the trans community. What's bruising about it are her comments....
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Earthworks

Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Bolivia - Threats to Indigenous land defenders in Bolivia have drawn attention from the United Nations. The post Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Boli...
Sludge

Trump Pivots From Bonds to Buying Hundreds of Individual Corporate Stocks - A newly filed disclosure shows the President bought stock in defense contractors, crypto firms, and AI companies whose fortunes are directly tied to decisi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Death to Empire: Trump, China, and Moving Beyond this Wretched Order - The American Order isn't dead yet. But it is dying. And we should welcome that fact.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Estimating the GOP Edge from Redistricting: A State-by-State Accounting, with Caveats - Our best guess is a Republican gain in the high single digits from redistricting, with the potential for that to grow or shrink based on the actual resul...
Environment Texas

A cause uniting all: Americans show broad support for wildlife crossings - More than 15,000 people across the country took action and urged Congress to support the Wildlife Crossings Program The post A cause uniting all: America...
Off The Kuff

Okay, we need to say “no” to Maureen Galindo - Good Lord. San Antonio Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo is facing heat after an article and an op-ed, both appearing over the weekend in ...
Duck of Minerva

Whither Scottish progressivism? - Much of the discourse about the recent UK local elections had to do with the decline of Labour under Keir Starmer and the worrisome rise of the far-right R...
Discourse

MAGA Is Eating Up AI Slop (w/Jack Crosbie) - Plus: Tales in accounting, Trump's ambivalence about the cost of the Iran war, and Kash Patel losing it in a Senate hearing
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Third Quarter - With this post we have left behind the halfway mark on our journey around the Great Wheel of the lunar phases, the primary symbol of Yeats’s symbolic syste...
Socialist Alternative

Can “Future Industries” Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis - 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the “Two Sessions” (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, ...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition - Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding securit...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Your Questions Answered: What is Redistricting and Why Should We Care? - The Supreme Court recently made a ruling that blows open the door for states and localities to create discriminatory voting maps. Here’s what you need to k...
Media Lens

‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself - Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, i...
Bracing Views

Is the Iran War Really About Iran? - America’s descent into authoritarianism and fascism BILL ASTORE MAY 10, 2026 Can you win a war that isn’t really about the country you’re fighting? Where t...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Warehouse Plans - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 536kb If you’re the kind of person who’s up to their goddamn neck with seeing millions impoverished and immiserat...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

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

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

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

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

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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