Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Carlos Alcaraz suffers shock loss to Cameron Norrie at Paris Masters - Cameron Norrie rallied from a set down to record the biggest win of his career against world number 1 Carlos Alcaraz.
naked capitalism

Revolt Against Data Centers Spreading Around the World - Data centers' rapidly rising resource demands is fuelling rising internatiional opposition.
Informed Comment

UN: “Extreme Concern” as Netanyahu Orders “Powerful” Israeli Strikes on Gaza, killing 21 - ( IMEMC ) – Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including eight c...
The Verge

Withings’ urine scanning health tracker is now available for $350 - Withings first announced its U-Scan, a non-invasive device you install in your toilet to track various health metrics, at CES 2023 two years ago. Unlike Ko...
memeorandum

White House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington (NBC News) - NBC News: *White House fires board that reviews presidential construction projects in Washington* — The move comes as the president plans to build a tr...
Mediaite

Democratic Candidate Opens Up to MSNBC About Getting ‘Nazi Symbol’ Tattoo Removed: ‘I Don’t Want Something Like That On My Body’ - Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, opened up about removing a tattoo after it received criticism for resembling a "Nazi symbol." Th...
The Hill

Bill DeBlasio says Times of London Mamdani story 'false and fabricated' - Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) said that a story in which he was reported to discuss New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in The T...
World Socialist Web Site

Gangster Trump unleashes Murder Inc. against Latin America - Monday marked the deadliest day yet in the barbaric campaign of extrajudicial assassinations carried out by the US military in Latin American waters.
Political Wire

Trump’s Net Approval Hits New Low - The Economist finds President Trump’s net approval rating is -18 (39% approve, 57% disapprove) — the lowest it has been since his inauguration and three pe...
Raw Story

Nigerian Nobel laureate's visa yanked after comparing Trump to brutal dictator: report - President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the visa of a Nigerian Nobel laureate after he compared Trump to a brutal dictator, according to a ne...
Techdirt.

Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent - The whole “blame video games for everything” theme seems to be resurfacing more and more these days. It’s a bit strange, as I honestly thought that this bi...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace's backtrack on gay marriage support proves that she is a political opportunist with the integrity of a dead slug - *How it went:* *Nancy Mace in 2021:* In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Mace explained that while she’s voting against the Equalit...
Houston Public Media

Michelin Guide honors three Texas restaurants, but none in Houston, with new star ratings - Five Houston restaurants preserved their one-star ratings from 2024, while five others received the "Bib Gourmand" designation for high-quality food at a g...
TalkLeft

Hurricane Melissa Redirects towards Cuba - Hurricane Melissa is one for the history books. Melissa is leaving Jamaica and headed to Cuba. As if Cuba doesn't have enough problems right now, 900,00...
Daily Cartoonist

Secret Origins of a Dancing Bug - In 2004 The Chicago Tribune set the record straight: First off, there is no Tom the Dancing Bug. Nowhere in Ruben Bolling’s 700-odd “Tom the Dancing Bug” c...
Election Law Blog

Preparing for next year’s midterms - This morning Rick linked to David Graham’s story for the December issue of The Atlantic, entitled Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already ...
Alternet

Republican points out one big problem with MTG's criticism of GOP healthcare 'plan' - The core issue behind the ongoing government shutdown — expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits — has led to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) si...
The Greanville Post

BLOWBACK Roundtable: Class War or Culture War? • The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk • - BILLY BOB—The video discussion centers on the theme of “Class War or Culture War,” sparked by the recent murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk an...
CultureMap Houston

Prestigious Michelin Guide selects 44 Houston restaurants for 2025 edition - The Texas restaurant scene is once again basking in an international spotlight. The Michelin Guide has revealed its statewide selections at an invite-only ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: senators pass measure that would scrap Brazil tariffs in rare fightback against trade war - Bipartisan measure would terminate sweeping tariffs on coffee, beed and other products – key US politics stories from 28 October at a glance The Republic...
Mediagazer

CBS News hires Charles Forelle, who recently left his role as deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal; he had been with the WSJ since 2002 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News) - Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: *CBS News hires Charles Forelle, who recently left his role as deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal; he had been with...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s Isidore, Nicosi and Mixtli restaurants win big at Michelin Guide awards - Mixtli in Southtown earned a second Michelin star while Pullman Market's Isidore and Nicosi each won their first star. ------------------------------ San An...
Workers World

Hamas leader in Gaza speaks on current status of agreement - [image: Hamas leader in Gaza speaks on current status of agreement] The Resistance News Network posted the following interview for Al Jazeera by Hamas lead...
Crooked Media

Is This Mamdani’s Moment - The post Is This Mamdani’s Moment appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

These doctors want to break the cycle of shame and blame in medicine - Shaming is common in medical school and unfortunately, sometimes in the doctor's office. Some doctors are trying to teach medical students awareness of the...
Courthouse News

Cameo files trademark lawsuit against OpenAI - Cameo claims the new “cameo” feature on OpenAI’s new video generation app Sora confuses consumers and infringes on the Cameo brand.
Axios

Democrats embrace votes to make government shutdown hurt less - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has seized on the plan that Republicans floated – and then discarded – to soften the government shutdown's sting for...
Krebs on Security

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies - Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a...
Popular Resistance

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - Israel’s genocide is being powered by Microsoft. From creating a massive digital dragnet, aiding in the production of A.I.-generated kill lists, hiring h...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
Ballot Access News

Chelsea News Story on New York’s Unfair Ballot Format - New York and New Jersey have the nation’s most unfair ballot format, but news stories about that are very rare. However, the Chelsea News, a New York city ...
Antiwar.com

Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain – and Return - Amid some extremely cautious optimism for peace following a tenuous and incomplete ceasefire in Gaza, any hope for Gaza’s future depends significantly on a...
Salon.com

“Don’t close the book on him”: Tuberville says Trump could serve third term - Alabama's Tommy Tuberville said Trump could "go around the Constitution."
Portside

Gaza ‘Scholasticide’: We Mourn Our Universities as One Mourns an Old Friend - Gaza ‘Scholasticide’: We Mourn Our Universities as One Mourns an Old Friend Judy Tue, 10/28/2025 - 19:41
OpEd News

A tour of my brain - The tour will last about 30 minutes. / Everybody please stay together. / Heads up. There will be places where it will be easy to get distracted.
Deadline Politics

Halloween-Night ‘South Park’ Episode To Take On Donald Trump’s Demolition Of The East Wing Of The White House - South Park‘s next original episode will debut on Friday with a dose of Halloween, this time taking on Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the Whi...
Daily Dot

“Almost choked on my lunch”: Man discovers his “real voice” after 30 years of changing it to make others comfortable - [image: Man sitting in a car in a gray shirt looking into the camera.] A TikTok creator racked up nearly 5 million views in a video revealing how he has ...
Reform Austin

Fifth Circuit Reopens Case Over West Texas A&M Drag Show Ban - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will review whether West Texas A&M University can prohibit d...
Undernews

Jobs - Melanie D'Arrigo - Layoffs since April: Amazon: 30k Intel: 25k Microsoft: 15k Meta: 3600 Target: 1800 Charter: 1200 Paramount: 1000 Rivian: 600 xAI: 50...
Independent Political Report

Gallup Poll Again Finds Majority of Americans Say a Third Major Party Is Needed - A new Gallup poll finds nearly two-thirds of Americans say the Republican and Democratic parties do a poor job representing the public and that a third m...
Slate

A New Movie Tries to Adapt One of Our Most Popular Novelists—and Biffs It Completely - The new Colleen Hoover movie adaptation makes even less sense than the book.
San Antonio Current

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center’s Día de Muertos celebration to take place Saturday - [image: Organizers of the event encourage attendees to don traditional calaca costumes.] The group's 30th annual event will feature 20 altars plus a proce...
Consortium News

Trump, Russian Oil & Tomahawk Missiles - M.K. Bhadrakumar considers the possible complications for the U.S. president now that he has assumed the war-monger avatar and is escalating the pressure o...
Futurism

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases - "We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose." The post University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected W...
Vox

Trump has forgotten why he won in 2024 - For years, voters believed that, despite all of President Donald Trump’s chaos and controversies, he’d still do a good job with the economy. Not anymore. T...
Socialist Alternative

“No Kings” Put Trump on Notice—Now We Need to Escalate! - More than 7 million people flooded the streets on October 18 for the “No Kings” protests to fight back against Trump in what was the biggest day of protest...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Church and State

Our Ethnicity Mix May Save Us! - Trump sees no problem with spending $300 million for a ballroom in the East Wing of the White House so he can entertain his billionaire friends.
The Conversation

More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername - The 1984 murder of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico AG sues Trump administration over SNAP benefits freeze - [image: Raul Torrez Courtesy Photo] [image: Raul Torrez Courtesy Photo] New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is among 24 state attorneys general taki...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: Excellent News from the Horn of Africa - There are rumors about in the diplomatic sphere and in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa, that Trump might just be about to recognise Somaliland.
Second Nexus

Mom Finds Ingenious Way To Get Son's Classmate To Stop Ripping Up Notes She Puts In His Lunchbox - The phrase "Hurt people hurt people" is popular for a reason! When someone has a vital need that isn't being met, they often seek it out in unkind ways, ...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian women share how Israeli forces used them as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank - [image: Israeli army straps injured Palestinian man to the front of a military vehicle and uses him as a human shield, Jenin, June 22, 2024. (Photo: Social...
Common Dreams

Hurricane Melissa Is a Reminder That the Trump Administration Is Putting U.S. Residents at Risk of Catastrophic Harm - As Jamaicans endure Hurricane Melissa, *Revolving Door Project Executive Director Jeff Hauser* released the following statement: “Hurricane Melissa is po...
The Week

‘The worry is far from fanciful’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
SCOTUSblog

The dangers of using medical consensus to dilute the First Amendment - Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. The Supreme Court recently heard oral...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #01: The Graham Platner Problem - Jack Crosbie joins us to talk about the what the hell is going on with the Maine Senate candidate's Nazi tattoo
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Gloomy headlines in the Washington Post... - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2025* *...bring a question to mind:* We've asked the question before: In the Oscar-nominated film, *The Sixth Sense *(1999!), the B...
El Paso Matters

James Talarico Senate campaign says it mistakenly listed endorsement from Socorro ISD Superintendent James Vasquez - SISD Superintendent James Vasquez was mistakenly listed as endorsing U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, according to campaign and district officials....
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A War Against the People: Fascism will Steal Everything From Us - 42 million Americans will lose food assistance this week. This is a crime against the people.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Black Agenda Report

'Leave us alone': Scholar Jemima Pierre on ending Haiti’s foreign occupation | UpFront - 'Leave us alone': Scholar Jemima Pierre on ending Haiti’s foreign occupation | UpFront bareditors Wed, 10/29/2025 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Con...
Angry Bear

Repeat home sales show continued deflation (Case Shiller) vs. stabilization (FHFA) (update with current graphs) - – by New Deal democrat Despite the government shutdown, the FHFA did publish its repeat home sales index this morning. And since the S&P Case Shiller in...
The Daily Poster

The Billion-Dollar Car Heist - Americans increasingly can’t afford their cars, while car insurers are raking in record profits and executive pay.
First Draft

Don’t Call Them Conservatives 3.0 - Why do people still refer to Republicans as conservatives? They're not conservatives, they're radicals, reactionaries, and extremists. Take your pick but c...
Environment Texas

A forever problem: Texas stalls while PFAS pollution grows - Despite bipartisan support, state leaders have failed to adopt meaningful protections against PFAS—leaving communities and ecosystems exposed to lasting ...
ProPublica

My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist. - The post My State Banned Vaccine Mandates. Here’s How I Covered It as an Idaho Journalist. appeared first on ProPublica.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - October 28, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Monster Hurricane Melissa batters Jamaica, the strongest...
Texas Observer

Fort Worth ISD Parents Fear the Same Chaos that State Takeover Has Brought to Houston ISD - Despite months of community protests, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced last week that it would begin the process of taking over Fort Worth Inde...
Wolf Street

Even as Revenues Grow, Amazon to Lay off 14,000. Why? AI & Corporate Efficiency. Walmart and Others Toot Similar Horn - Revenue growth without employment growth. But Amazon spent $78 billion on capex in 2024 and more in 2025. So companies that get this cash hire more people ...
Dorf on Law

Why Hasn't Even More Wealth Been Destroyed? (Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth? Part 4) - *I ate a low-fat cookie for dessert, but I didn't lose weight.* *It rained, but I didn't get soaked to the skin.* *Tariffs went up, but the economy wasn'...
WhoWhatWhy

Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Browser’s Password Manager - [image: tech, security, browsers, passwords, management, data safety] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our re...
The Root

Several Democratic States Flip the Script on Trump’s Old, Racist Playbook - Democrats in New York, Virginia and California are getting creative with ways to fight against Republican redistricting efforts. Read more...
Texas Standard

Minnesota has safeguards for police chases. Could similar policies make a difference in Texas? - Police chases can be deadly. Minnesota has more safeguards in place than Texas, including a statewide pursuit policy and enhanced training. Does that make ...
NORML

We Have the Opportunity To Take Down a Major Plank of Marijuana Prohibition - [image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag][image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag]The stakes couldn’t be higher...
Mother Jones

Another Big Reason to Worry About Bari Weiss’ Tenure at CBS News - A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides b...
Dissident Voice

Toxic Stew: Chemicals, Poisons, Sprays, Nanoparticles, VOCs, PFAS’s and the Evil Monsters Cooking up this Brew - Listen to my interview here: Carol Van Strum on Haeder’s Finding Fringe. If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure again...
Bonddad

Repeat home sales show continued deflation (Case Shiller) vs. stabilization (FHFA) (update with current graphs) - - *by New Deal democrat* Despite the government shutdown, the FHFA did publish its repeat home sales index this morning. And since the S&P Case Shil...
Ian Welsh

Near The End of Our Fundraiser, About $2,200 to go - Every year we do a fundraiser. This pays to keep the site and me running, and the site wouldn’t be viable without it. If you read the blog readily, I proba...
Grist

The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom - The tech industry’s soaring electricity and water demands are raising consumer rates and threatening sustainability goals.
Glasstire

Bending Shadows: “New Classicism in Collage” at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston - “The classical spirit is much with us nowadays,” Stuart Preston wrote in his 1964 New York Times article “Classicism on the Rebound.” “Just what is that ...
Rewire

Governor’s Race Could Alter Abortion Landscape in New Jersey - "This is one of the most consequential elections of, I will say, my lifetime, when it comes to what the future of reproductive health care access can loo...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: October 28, 2025 - Oct. 28, 2025
Democracy Now!

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong "Plot to Legalize Corruption in America" - We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, *Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America*. Co-authored with Jared Jacang M...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Honey Traps Are Go” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tell you about the Pete Buttigieg surge, the last...
Space City Weather

For the first time this fall, a front will come barreling into Houston - In brief: Today’s update covers a lot of ground, from what a real fall front should feel like, to a chance of storms this evening, and just how cold it wil...
ArcaMax

Demolition Zone: Trump's Wrecking Ball Is More Than a Metaphor - Donald Trump's sudden demolition of the White House's East Wing may have been ugly, but it sure is a metaphor. It's hard to pinpoint the most stomach-turni...
slacktivist

Trump DOL is desperately thirsty for Tom Brady - I never thought I'd say this as an Eagles fan, but I'm worried about Tom Brady's safety.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Give Your Business An October Efficiency Check - For businesses with outdoor spaces, fall often means ramping up maintenance. However, more mowing and... The post Guest Idea: Give Your Business An Octob...
The Smirking Chimp

Yes, We Are in a Constitutional Crisis and on the Verge of Democratic Collapse -
Skeptophilia

Quantum angels - One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. But because quantum physics is already we...
Off The Kuff

Sen. Eckhardt will run for CD10 - Game on. State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt launched her campaign for Texas’ 10th Congressional District on Monday, saying voters in the district, long held by Repu...
High Country News

Nuclear arms race tests aging Los Alamos lab - Contamination incidents, work outages and declining infrastructure have plagued the site, but the lab remains the linchpin in an effort to modernize the...
DeSmogBlog

Mapped: The Ad Agencies Behind A French Oil Giant’s Ill-Fated Rebrand - In a first-of-its-kind judgment under EU consumer law, a Paris civil court last week ruled that parts of a 2021 rebrand by the French oil giant TotalEner...
Counterpunch

Trump’s Politics of Defecation - Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”-- an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with the words...
See You In 2020

Let the countryside die, turn the cities into prisons: the elite’s plan for depopulation & social control - The technocrats are engineering a lose-lose situation for us, and it’s when we understand the extent of the crisis we’re facing that we can find the pat...
jobsanger

A 2.8% COLA Wasn't Enough (But Seniors Won't Even Get All Of That) -
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

'Inflection point': leadership shakeups over ideological differences continue at UT, by Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 20, 2025 - *I came across a piece this week that felt like both a gut punch and a rallying cry. Art Markman—a respected scholar and long-serving leader at the Unive...
Progressive.org

Curbing Gun Violence Takes More Than Just Gun Laws - Our nation’s prioritization of personal rights over the common good is a major barrier to gun law reform.
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
The AltWorld

You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You’re Twelve - The ultimate expression of “everyone is twelve now” theory is in the mainstream worldview promoted by western pundits and […] The post You Believe The Ma...
The Texas Signal

Houston’s Menil Celebrates 100 Years Of Rauschenberg - Menil Collection in Houston is hosting a collection of fabric pieces in celebration of Robert Rauschenberg's 100th birthday this year
Sludge

Lobbying Hits Record Highs Under Trump - Lobbyists in Trump’s fundraising circle are surging in a record-breaking year for influence spending, as companies like Pfizer cut deals with the White House.
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” - Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Re...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov2 News roundup& OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments blow.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas bunting - [image: Pe?zenas]
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. *Note*: There will be no image round-up post this coming week. o o o o o These cat...
Reveal

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

‘We’re not giving up our freedom — not without a fight’: In memory of Black trans revolutionary Miss Major - Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better world.
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
Capital & Main

‘We’re the Resistance’ - A refugee and immigrant advocate reflects on how to cope with the ICE raids in Los Angeles. Amid the trauma, she says, there is also reason for hope. The...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race - MN-SEN moves to Likely Democratic, and a look at how many voters skip the down-ballot VA statewide races The post Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Idavox

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

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Bracing Views

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Free & Equal

Erectile Dysfunction - Summary Erectile dysfunction is a common and treatable condition that can significantly impact a man’s self-esteem, relationships, and overall well-being...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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