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

memeorandum

The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *The Welfare State Is Crushing Britain* — The soaring number of people on disability and sickness benefits is blowing up the count...
Al Jazeera English

Photos: Protests over voter lists escalate in India’s capital - India’s opposition parties have marched in New Delhi to protest a voter list purge they say favours PM Modi's party.
Mediagazer

X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms (Daring Fireball) - Daring Fireball: *X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics th...
Mediaite

Fox News Host Maligns Elon Musk as ‘Worst Person for PR’ on AI: ‘He’s So Smart, He’s Dumb’ - The Fox News host shredded Elon Musk's take on artificial intelligence and the American workweek on Monday, saying the billionaire Tesla CEO is "so smart...
Raw Story

Trump rages NYT ‘artificially put mold all over’ his golf club in bonkers new rant - President Donald Trump accused The New York Times on Monday of doctoring a photo of his Doral Miami golf resort to “artificially” add mold to the clubhou...
The Hill

Microsoft president: AI faces fewer safety requirements than milk, washing machines - Microsoft President Brad Smith says AI has fewer safety requirements than milk and washing machines, arguing in a BBC interview released Sunday that self-r...
The Verge

The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots - Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - but in re...
Bonddad

A proposal for Project 2029: Medicare Advantage for All - - *by New Deal democrat* On this Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day holiday, there is no new economic news, so let me roll out something I have been th...
Political Wire

Kimberly Guilfoyle ‘On Very Thin Ice’ with Trump - “President Trump is considering firing Kimberly Guilfoyle after a series of explosive reports detailing alleged misconduct,” the New York Post reports. “Th...
Mother Jones

Your Questions About Kristan Hawkins and the Campus Anti-Abortion Movement, Answered - On Friday, I hosted a Reddit AMA, prompting the Internet to ask me anything about my coverage of anti-abortion activist Kristan Hawkins and the movement sh...
Alternet

'Screaming' judge rips the DOJ for defying order not to touch golf course - A judge is furious that on Friday at 4:55 p.m., President Donald Trump's administration told a federal judge it would cut down more than 160 trees protec...
Daily Howler

VALUES: Brother Maher's aim was true! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2026* *His remarks on the treatment of persons: *Bill Maher is Cornell's most televised living graduate, surpassing even Ann Coulter...
The Week

Is escalation inevitable between Houthis and Saudi Arabia? - Kingdom threatening ‘serious’ response to bloodshed at Riyadh airport
Election Law Blog

“Many GOP states have imposed new voting rules this year, some mirroring Trump’s midterm proposals” - AP: President Donald Trump has pushed Congress to pass a proof-of-citizenship law, signed an executive order seeking a national voter ID requirement and ...
Novara Media

UK Universities Are Smashing Humanities and Arts Subjects to Pieces - [image: higher education staff and student take part in a protest march]In June 2026, Exeter University announced plans to cut 150 jobs. These redundancies...
Futurism

NASA Investigating Large Hole on Moon That May Open Into Enormous Cave - Time for some lunar spelunking. The post NASA Investigating Large Hole on Moon That May Open Into Enormous Cave appeared first on Futurism.
Scheerpost.com

No State Has A ‘Right’ To Exist – Least Of All An Apartheid, Genocidal State Like Israel - Jonathan Cook Substack After the Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the mo...
San Antonio Current

Taxpayers pay the price when Texas education department takes over school districts - Cash-strapped Austin ISD faces big changes under a potential state takeover. It could also face increased costs at a time when reserves are running dry....
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation - Video posted by Fox shows what appears to be law enforcement in HSI jackets at Omar’s DC residence Federal agents searched Representative Ilhan Omar’s ho...
Axios

Feds search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in immigration probe - Federal agents conducted a pre-dawn search Monday at the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as part of an ongoing immigration probe, a DOJ spok...
Grist

A once-in-a-generation opportunity for California’s ocean - California is weighing new marine protections that could safeguard vital coastal habitats, help restore marine life, and give Tribes a greater role in ocea...
Ian Welsh

Hypocrisy, Ansar-Allah, and the Military Revolution - There have been a lot of condemnations of Ansar-Allah for hitting airports in Saudi Arabia. (They have hit every major airport except those in Mecca and Me...
SCOTUSblog

Court to hear argument on how a video privacy law applies in the internet age - In a 1987 article for the weekly Washington City Paper, journalist Michael Dolan published a list of the videos that Judge Robert Bork, then President Ro...
Houston Public Media

NASA is decommissioning the ISS. It’s asking businesses to take its place in space - On Friday, the agency submitted its request for proposals from space industry businesses and organizations to develop new commercial space stations in low ...
Texas Standard

As the military speeds up the use of drones and AI in warfare, Congress considers safeguards - Experts say even with human oversight, AI can move so quickly that it risks overwhelming people’s ability to catch its mistakes.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Indigenous People's Day: What We Inherit, What We Reclaim, and What We Choose to Pass On - On Indigenous People's Day, one Blackfeet woman shares the crucial need for Indigenous education for her daughter — and her classmates.
El Paso Matters

Alejandra Chávez faces three challengers for El Paso City Council District 1 seat - Voters will choose among incumbent Alejandra Chávez and challengers Sam Armijo, Daniela Garcia and Matthew Kozik as taxes, city spending, public safety ...
Slate

He Journeyed Deep Into Elon Musk’s Brain. Spoiler: It Wasn’t Pretty. - Alex Gibney on his “traumatizing” new documentary.
San Antonio Report

East Central ISD high schoolers landed internships with some of San Antonio’s biggest hotels - Some of San Antonio's largest hotels opened their doors to high school interns from East Central ISD this school year. ------------------------------ East C...
Angry Bear

A Positive Rating for Socialism - In the last few months, Pres. Trump has taken on Iran and fumbled it rather badly. This does not mean Iran has been beating the United States during its ...
Democracy Now!

Indigenous Peoples' Day: Leonard Peltier on Resistance, New Film & Fighting for Freedom - On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we feature a conversation with one of the world’s most prominent champions for Indigenous rights, Leonard Peltier. “Indigenous ...
Undernews

Time moves on - *Sam Smith – *Although I’m generally perceived as an alternative urban journalist, my parents bought a Maine farm in 1946 and I worked on it numerous sum...
Vox

Why the right turned on Indian Americans - In early October, Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, went for a classic “politician on the stump” move: He picked up a kid. Or...
Rewire

New York City Dedicates $9 Million to Youth Gender-Affirming Care - Plus, Maryland requires more in-depth mammogram reporting and the Department of Health and Human Services directs Title X funds to anti-abortion groups.
Dorf on Law

Trump Lionizes Columbus Because, Not in Spite, of his Atrocities - Today is what we here in Ithaca recognize as Indigenous People's Day. In many parts of the United States, however, today is Columbus Day. Ithaca and vari...
naked capitalism

Links 10/12/2026 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Goodbye, Columbus Day - That is indeed how you know it’s Columbus Day, or Indigenous Day, or Discovery Day. The new names have caught on about as well as “the Gulf of America,” th...
Salon.com

Billionaires love Trump’s AI rebrand - Trump and his tech bros want to turn us all into video game wallpaper
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s ‘Rapidly Declining’ Mind Is About To Get Much Worse — and Soon -
Crooked Media

It’s Conference season: ideology, Iron Domes and independence. Plus, why is Burnham “hypocritical and insulting”? w/ Lara Bird MP - The post It’s Conference season: ideology, Iron Domes and independence. Plus, why is Burnham “hypocritical and insulting”? w/ Lara Bird MP appeared first...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth - I don’t know what there is to say about Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth that hasn’t been said many times before. With a giant target painted on her o...
The Root

Imagine if Obama Had Made The Comment About Iran ‘Taking out LA’ - Obama faced weeks of outrage over minor phrasing, while Trump’s high-stakes comments on American cities spark debates over intent. Read more...
Eschaton

Morning - Just another...
Debunking Christianity

"The Strange and Superstitious World of the Bible" by John Loftus - *The Strange and Superstitious World of the Bible, by John W. Loftus* [In what follows is chapter 13 from my book, *Why I Became an Atheist* (with endno...
Two Party Opera

A Second Chance for Columbus Day - Read More
NPR's Health Shots

Here's what to know if you're unsure about your measles immunity status - Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself against measles. For most adults, one shot of the MMR is considered enough protection. But there are certai...
High Country News

Watersheds near Río Frijoles bear the brunt of wildfire - In the aftermath of drought, wildfire and floods in northern New Mexico, residents who rely on a centuries-old irrigation system are concerned about wat...
Portside

Sunday Science: Star Talk - Inside the Search for Extra Dimensions, With Lara Anderson - Sunday Science: Star Talk - Inside the Search for Extra Dimensions, With Lara Anderson Ira Mon, 10/12/2026 - 03:44
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 12 October 2026 - If an image is hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for the full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] ...
Rallblog

Never Meet, Never Exist - The Cornell University alleged gang-rape case, and the online controversy around it, is the latest example of fear between the sexes: women afraid of men...
World Socialist Web Site

University of Michigan students defend nurse targeted by Trump administration for aiding immigrant worker - Students at the University of Michigan speak in defense of Chloe Freeman, the Ann Arbor registered nurse being prosecuted by the Trump administration for h...
ArcaMax

Clarence Page: A botched execution shakes our attitudes toward the death penalty - Almost a week after receiving a double shot of a lethal execution drug, Christa Pike woke up in a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital, handcuffed to a bed and, ...
jobsanger

AI Is Not A Good Job Creator -
See You In 2020

DSA is unequipped to lead the coming workers revolts, & this gives American Bolsheviks the mandate of history - There is a particular situation that working-class organizers should be looking out for right now. This is the scenario where your community has an urge...
Informed Comment

Iran offers to Mediate between Riyadh and Sanaa even as Houthis hit Airports - They also struck the Aramco Shedgum gas plant its plant at Tanajib in the Eastern Province.
Crooked Timber

Adrian Grey-Turner, 1955-1986 - (This is an updated version of something I posted 20 years ago, on the 20th anniversary, and 10 years ago, on the 30th anniversary, of my friend’s death) A...
Deadline Politics

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Stop Running Taxpayer Funded Ads That Promote POTUS - A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop running taxpayer-funded ads for at least 14 days, putting a halt to the spots that resemble campai...
Popular Resistance

New Yorkers Demand ‘ICE Out’ After Bronx Father Shot - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot seven rounds into the vehicle of a New York father while his five-year-old son was in the car on th...
Antiwar.com

What the UK Terror Law Really Protects - That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature and name is chang’d; to be Then humble to her is idolatry. ~ John Donne, Satir...
Liberation News

Solidarity with the Indian youth and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) extends its revolutionary greetings and unwavering solidarity to the brave youth and workers of India who have...
Ballot Access News

Montana Holds Four-Candidate U.S. Senate Debate - On October 11, all four candidates on the Montana ballot for U.S. Senate debated each other. See this story. The candidates are the Republican, Democratic ...
OpEd News

Marco Rubio's 2,500-Year-Old Grudge: Ancient Persia Cannot Explain Washington's Iran War - Marco Rubio's invocation of ancient Greek-Persian conflicts is an offensive and unnecessary political maneuver. This article examines how the Trump adminis...
Consortium News

Ongoing Tales of Syrian Chemical Weapons - Ian Henderson, “Inspector A” of the OPCW’s skeptical insider analysis of chemical attacks in Syria, responds to allegedly newly-found, un-declared chemical...
Claytoonz

Speaking of Public Executions - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 23 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad replying to a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s past projects: I’d say the first thing he di...
The Greanville Post

Looting Russia: Why the British Empire Never Died | Alex Krainer - PL—Alex Krainer joins Pascal to discuss the financial interests behind geopolitical conflict. Drawing on his hedge fund background and research for Grand D...
Idavox

Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter intimidation campaign is a cautionary tale ahead of 2026 midterms - Thugs organized by the RNC actually kept a number of Black and Hispanics from voting.... The post Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter int...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas, by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, October 11, 2026 - *Friends:Hot off the press. Adam Serwer’s disturbing new article in The Atlantic, “All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say in Texas,” exposes the escal...
Glasstire

MFAH to Host Immersive Video Exhibition by Acclaimed British Artist David Hockney - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced that it will present David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away), an immersive vide...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Beardos and Weirdos’ Toons - …Your Friendly Reminders… …NEXT WEEK!… …RIGHT NOW!… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial cartoo...
Independent Political Report

Arizona No Labels Nominee Teri Ann Hourihan Faces Andy Biggs in Governor Debate - No Labels gubernatorial nominee Teri Ann Hourihan was one of only two candidates to participate in a televised Arizona governor debate this week, taking ...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: Cleanup On Aisle 2026 - Walmart watches, Zionists worry, and more from The Lever this week.
First Draft

The Nanny (1965) - Tagline: Would you trust the Nanny or the boy? Starring Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers, and William Dix. Directed by Seth Holt. Pro...
Mondoweiss

‘Citizen Osama’ turns life under bombardment into urgent, intimate cinema - [image: A still from the Palestinian documentary by Ahmed Hassouna, 'Citizen Osama', which premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival. (Photo Courtesy o...
WhoWhatWhy

Sideshow Don: An Unceasing Trump Has Pushed Many Americans Past Exhaustion - [image: Americans done with Trump] Donald Trump has worn down the nation with an endless stream of lies and scandals that has compelled many Americans to t...
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $728 Billion of Treasuries this Week. Yields at the 3-Year, 10-Year, 30-Year Auctions Highest in 20+ Years, Demand Emerges. Short-Term Yields See Rate Hike - The bond market is functioning again after the Fed’s interest rate repression between 2008-2022 had broken it.
Courthouse News

Rio court confirms Flávio Bolsonaro ally’s first-round victory - Douglas Ruas secured 50.88% of valid votes after judges annulled a rival’s ballots, eliminating a runoff against Lula-backed Eduardo Paes.
CultureMap Houston

4 Houston neighbors declared best small cities and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, starting with America's best small cities before diving into the new Texas Mich...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Bracing Views

The Bloody Awfulness of War - And the Awful Idea of Killing as “Winning” BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2026 Today, I talked about the decline and fall of the citizen-soldier ideal in America with...
The Progressive Wing

10/10-11 News Roundup and Open Thread - Beautiful day here in New York but rain from the former hurricane tomorrow.
ProPublica

As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones - The post As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones appeared first on ProPublica.
Common Dreams

To Speak the Truth: On the Mediated Obscene - This week's anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the creation of a dark world where "the...
Progressive.org

Make Sure College Students Are Vaccinated - When disease enters a school community, the consequences can be immediate and severe.
Krebs on Security

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigat...
Workers World

Students in France hold militant protests - [image: Students in France hold militant protests] “To confront repression, class unity” was written on the banner that some high school students carried i...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: INTERNATIONAL SCUMBAGGERY AFOOT EDITION. - *Can you dig it?* Hey, remember when the bad guys were the lunatics who performed executions in front of cameras and broadcast it to the world? Well, gue...
IVN

Pennsylvania’s Primary Lockout Is Running Out of Defenders - After a bipartisan House vote to open the primaries, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick are adding their support as advocates turn their attentio...
The AltWorld

THIERRY MEYSSAN brise le mythe d’une GUERRE mondiale accidentelle ! - Les tensions internationales atteignent un point de rupture critique. Depuis plusieurs années, les dirigeants occidentaux font face […] The post THIERRY ...
slacktivist

LBCF: That beats all - The characters in Left Behind have access to the thoughts of the authors and the omniscient narrator. But, alas, this still leaves them forgetful and cluel...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US says Taliban failing to combat human trafficking in Afghanistan - The United States says the Taliban government in Afghanistan does not ‘fully’ meet the minimum standards for combating human trafficking and is not making ...
MintPress News

Books or Bombs? France’s Student Revolt vs. NATO’s Spending Push - Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the stre...
Socialist Alternative

ICE Shoots, NYPD Assists: We Need Mass Struggle! - Last night, ICE shot a man in the Bronx. His name is Oscar Belgal, and he and his five-year-old son were in their car when ICE fired at least seven shots i...
The Militant

Solidarity with BP oil workers, locked out for over 6 months! - WHITING, Ind. — The 800 oil refinery workers locked out by BP in March, after they overwhelmingly rejected the company’s “last, best, and final” offer, hav...
Capital & Main

Latino Voters Disapprove of Trump’s Presidency: Will That Decide the Midterms? - Immigration enforcement and high prices are weighing on Latino voters, but Democrats can’t take this “swingy” electorate for granted. The post Latino Vot...
Sludge

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines - Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of million in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 millio...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism - The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone
Duck of Minerva

Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming - Even if you did have a LLM that could mirror human actions and decision-making processes in a wargame, it wouldn't actually be sufficient to model how weir...
The Texas Signal

The Comic Repurposing Lovecraft For Mexican Stories - Hector Rodriguez III has been creating Mexican comic stories for 15 years. His latest one pits monsters created by one of literature’s most notorious racis...
The Conversation

When abortion and surrogacy law collide, contracts can’t answer the hardest questions - A custody battle over a newborn with a heart condition raised a question courts have rarely faced: Can anyone be forced to end a pregnancy?
Space City Weather

Space City Weather declares Fall Day 2026 has arrived in Houston! If only for a day - In brief: Today marks Houston’s first morning of autumn with a low temperature of 65 degrees, so we declare it to be Fall Day 2026! Enjoy the comfortable m...
Texas Observer

Matters of Religion - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Matters of Religion ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/09/2026 - 05:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich-backed permitting reform bill unites Big Oil, clean energy and labor for major overhaul to speed up federal projects - [image: US Sen Martin Heinrich, D-NM (speaking), and others introduce the American Affordability and Jobs Act (Courtesy Photo, Oct 2026)] A bipartisan per...
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
The Grayzone

British chemical warfare commentator’s MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails - Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer w...
Earthworks

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Is Left Behind in the Rush to Mine the Seafloor - The International Seabed Authority is writing policies to govern mining in the deep sea. Those policies cut right to some of the biggest questions that d...
Church and State

Trump: Worth impeaching after the midterms? - Another major problem which requires legislative action is the practice of gerrymandering.
Dissent Magazine

Is This Play About Us? - Like the *Mission: Impossible* series, *Digger* delights in its own theatricality. But the film takes so much pleasure in autocritique it borders on auto...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Equality Forum's LGBTQ History Month icons are varied and controversial - October is LGBTQ History Month and on an annual basis, Equality Forum spotlights 31 iconic figures of LGBTQ history. This year is no different, but I thi...
Discourse

What Is ‘The Project of Journalism’??? (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Jeremy O. Harris in Vanity Fair, a ROSIE SPOTTING, and David Ellison’s acting ‘career’
Ecosophia

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited - Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of m...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Expert advice includes simple solutions alongside larger home investments; Oct. 7 is national Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help...
LareDOS

Solaz y solidaridad: Contra-ICE launches in downtown LA with compilation album featuring artists, musicians, comedians, and performers - Album is a fundraiser for National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrio, non-profits that serve immigrants and protect their human rights
Trivial Knot

Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time - The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time isn’t really a remake, nor an RPG. It’s a puzzle game with a metafictional narrative. You get plopped...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
NORML

Massachusetts: Lawmakers Publicly Urge ‘No’ Vote on Marijuana Repeal Initiative (Question 8) - [image: Vote for Marijuana][image: Vote for Marijuana]"Repealing legal adult use would have devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those who have inve...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Project Censored

Academic Freedom And Constitutional Rights in a Time of Crisis - Geoffrey Stone and Valerie C. Johnson led this livestream discussion on the state of Academic Freedom and the Importance of the First Amendment, recorded 9...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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...
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...
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 ...
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:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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....
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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