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

jobsanger

Trump And GOP Call Anything They Don't Like "Socialism" -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT - Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler. Today, the almighty Thaler.
Counterpunch

Naturalize Or Terrorize? ICE Is a Racket – And It’s Costing Too Much - After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just...
San Antonio Current

The San Antonio flood of 1921 held lessons we refuse to learn - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Mediagazer

Several LAT staffers say Jon Stewart's unchallenging interview of Patrick Soon-Shiong on The Daily Show left many inside the LAT newsroom perplexed and furious (Oliver Darcy/Status) - Oliver Darcy / Status: *Several LAT staffers say Jon Stewart's unchallenging interview of Patrick Soon-Shiong on The Daily Show left many inside the LAT ...
Al Jazeera English

EU warns Israel as Trump’s envoy heads to Europe for Gaza truce talks - The EU's top diplomat says 'all options remain on the table if Israel doesn't deliver' on its Gaza pledges.
World Socialist Web Site

Israel massacres more than 300 Palestinians in three days as “hunger knocks on every door” in Gaza - The fifteen Palestinians who starved to death yesterday included four children, the youngest a six-week-old baby.
memeorandum

House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo) - Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: *House and Executive Branch Now Totally Derailed by Epstein* … Every time I think Donald Trump is putting some dista...
Informed Comment

Iran Faces a new Phase of Isolation if Europe Reimposes Sanctions for its Nuclear Program - With Germany at the helm and regional tensions mounting, the diplomatic window may be closing Braga, Portugal and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comm...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Eswatini opposition attacks US deal as ‘human trafficking disguised as deportation’ - Men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to be temporarily held in kingdom Civil society and opposition groups in Eswatini have expressed outrage ...
Raw Story

'Poetic justice': Analyst reveals the true winner of Trump's attack on Wall Street Journal - There's a bit of irony packed into the president's fight with the Wall Street Journal, according to one analyst. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon told Andrew ...
The Hill

Khanna: Speaker Johnson knows Epstein resolution would pass - Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) knows his and Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) resolution on files related to co...
See You In 2020

Gaza, East Timor, & the popular struggle we must sustain in order to stop Washington’s extermination efforts - The East Timor genocide of 1975 to 1999 is what happens when the balance of forces has been successfully tipped in favor of the capitalist class. The ge...
Techdirt.

Restaurant Owner Keeps Getting Denied His Purely Descriptive Trademark - I recognize that trademark law is a nuanced thing and I don’t expect the average person to be familiar with all of its intricacies. Hell, I write about tra...
Portside

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End - Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End Marti Tue, 07/22/2025 - 23:15
Mediaite

‘I’m Not Going to Calm Down!’ CNN Panel Blows Up Over Trump’s Attack on Obama - A CNN NewsNight panel blew up on Tuesday during a debate over President Donald Trump's attack on former President Barack Obama. The post ‘I’m Not Going t...
Daily Dot

“Just calling to disturb your peace”: People are calling their exes to say goodnight in TikTok’s latest trend - [image: calling ex to say goodnight] TikTok creators are calling their exes to say “good night.” The calls are mostly made by women to their former boyfr...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Washington Takes on the BRICS - Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock. By Pat...
Wolf Street

The 10 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-9% to -23%) from Peak through June - Austin, Oakland, New Orleans, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Denver, Portland, and Phoenix.
Alternet

'Got a little brown on your nose': Mike Johnson mocked after praising Trump's 'stamina' - During a reception for House Republicans at the White House on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump stood by while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ...
Axios

U.S. envoy Witkoff to meet Israeli, Qatari officials in Rome in Gaza ceasefire push - White House Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff plans to meet in Rome on Thursday with senior Qatari and Israeli officials to continue negotiations over the ...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Rio Grande Guardian

Ramírez: A Lifelong Democrat’s Case for Eric Flores - Lifelong Democrat Edén Ramírez, Jr., explains why he is backing a Republican, Eric Flores, for Congressional District 34. The post Ramírez: A Lifelong D...
Crooked Media

Mike Johnson Staves Off Epstein Vote - The post Mike Johnson Staves Off Epstein Vote appeared first on Crooked Media.
Daily Cartoonist

Audio/Visual Yakety Yak - Talkin’ ’bout this ‘n’ that with Francesco Marciuliano and Jim Keefe, Doug MacGregor, William Randolph Hearst, and Michael Ricigliano and Kevin Kallaugher....
Antiwar.com

America’s Syrian Civil War - As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phras...
Courthouse News

Ex-Colorado police officer appeals conviction in death of Elijah McClain - An officer convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain argued to the Colorado Court of Appeals that his trial judge wrongfully concluded that a white wom...
Election Law Blog

Corey Brettschneider and Aidan Calvelli Review My Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” in Political Science Quarterly - A very thoughtful review essay. The post Corey Brettschneider and Aidan Calvelli Review My Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” in Political Science Quarterly a...
Political Wire

Obama Calls Out Trump’s ‘Weak Attempt at Distraction’ - “Former President Barack Obama’s office issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the president accused his predecessor of having com...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Salon.com

Obama responds to Trump treason allegations - The former president's office called the allegations "outrageous" in a rare comment on Trump's actions
Futurism

Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery - As we continue on our path towards a future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain p...
Popular Resistance

NEA Leadership Rejects Member Vote To Sever Ties With ADL - In one of the biggest displays of labor organizing against anti-Palestinian racism, the National Education Association’s (NEA) policymaking body voted on...
The NM Political Report

Democrats say 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under Trump bill - Nearly 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” according to a new Democratic Party ...
Claytoonz

Bucket Full Of MAGA - 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...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims - Officials in the Donald Trump administration discussed loaning the oil-rich province of Alberta hundreds of millions of dollars to help it become indepen...
The Greanville Post

The Andor series: Encouraging and reflecting anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian sentiment - JANE WISE—The appeal of Andor stems in part from the choice showrunner Tony Gilroy made to target an adult audience who are not traditional Star Wars fans....
The Verge

The Escobar Phone scam saga has finally come to an end - The former CEO of the company that marketed the sketchy-looking Escobar Fold 1 and Escobar Fold 2 phones — which you may remember from a 2020 video from Ma...
Vox

Epstein breaks Congress - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
CultureMap Houston

Premier Houston nightclub group reopening iconic strip club this month - One of Houston’s “Sweet 16” gentlemen’s clubs is now under new ownership. The Clé Group has added the *Colorado Club* to its portfolio. Currently closed, i...
Capital & Main

Broken Promise: How the Trump Administration Dismantled Pathways to Protection for Afghans - Even for those who worked alongside the U.S. military, the Trump administration has taken away ways for Afghans to reach safety — and loved ones — in the...
Mother Jones

The FDA Held a Misinformation Fest About Antidepressants in Pregnancy - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long railed against antidepressants, and now he has very practical ways to attack them. As my...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump And Paramount Close Out Lawsuit After $16M Settlement; POTUS Says They “Anticipate” $20M In PSAs From New Owners - Attorneys for Donald Trump and Paramount Global officially gave notice Tuesday that the president’s litigation against CBS is over. The parties’ joint stip...
Slate

Internet Rumors Suggest a Man’s Smile Can Foreshadow His Penis Size. There’s More to That Than You Might Think. - This is, surprisingly, a question researchers are taking seriously.
Second Nexus

Trump Blasted After Threatening The Washington Commanders If They Don't Change Back To Racist Name - With very little of interest going on in the United States, and with all of his campaign promises fulfilled—Americans can enjoy inexpensive eggs while th...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of New Hampshire to Host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable for Discussion on National Party - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire will host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable this Thursday for a virtual discussion on the history of the Constitu...
SCOTUSblog

North Dakota urges Supreme Court to leave in place decision that could limit the power of the Voting Rights Act - Lawyers for North Dakota on Tuesday urged the court to leave in place a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that two Native America...
The Week

Art Review: Hilma af Klint's What Stands Behind the Flowers - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, through Sept. 27
Progressive.org

Trump’s Threat to Bilingual Education - Multilingualism is a gift to students, communities, and our country. The Trump Administration is trying to hinder it.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *On May 21, 2025, a fiery exchange between Rep. Pramila J...
San Antonio Report

Texas lawmakers changed the rules. Colleges now have to charge undocumented students higher tuition rates. - [image: A woman wears her graduation cap to support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.]Texas lawmakers just reversed the law tha...
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Ballot Access News

Second Circuit Still Hasn’t Explained Why Jim Walden Can’t Have “Independence” as his Ballot Label - Jim Walden is an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. On May 2, 2025, the Second Circuit issued a one-sentence order, denying his request for ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Sommers says the magic word! - *TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025* *Something we've been withholding:* Is it possible that President Trump is serious? Is it possible that he's serious about pur...
Common Dreams

House Appropriations Committee Advances Bill To Keep Public In Dark About Pesticide Risks - Today, the House Appropriations Committee voted by party line to approve a Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bill, inclusive of language (Sec. 453) that wo...
NPR's Health Shots

People who have lost their voices are using AI technology to regain them - AI-generated speech can be heard in customer service and media. Now some patients who lost the ability to talk due to cancer or other disease are using AI ...
Discourse

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points - Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!
Progressive Army

IATA – MAILS CON DOMINIO FRAUDULENTO – - Estimados socios buenas tardes: Según nos informa IATA se están enviando mails desde este dominio: IATA Management “jerry@prairiegardensassistedliving.co...
OpEd News

No health without rights, says Shobha Shukla SDG-3 Lead Discussant at UN meet - Please consider the below article based on intervention made in UN HQ at intergovernmental meet to review SDG-3 (health and wellbeing) by Shobha Shukla, wh...
WhoWhatWhy

The Gabbard Hoax Is a Microcosm of Trumpism - [image: Tulsi Gabbard, sworn in, DNI] Anybody who makes the ridiculous claim that is a "hoax" to tell the American people that Russia tried to help Donald ...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Grist

The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules - A mass of dangerous heat and humidity is spreading across the US. What exactly is it?
The AltWorld

Japan Dynamically Aligns With The Collective West - Despite its unique identity, the Land of the Rising Sun increasingly associates itself with the Anglo-Saxons and […] The post Japan Dynamically Aligns Wi...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
American Prospect

Trump Makes His Move at the NLRB - Today on TAP: His new nominees come from the management side or—worse—are suffused with management’s ethos.
slacktivist

John MacArthur, dead fundamentalist - "Evangelicals" and "fundamentalists" did not used to be the same thing.
ProPublica

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs. - by Abe Streep ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing arou...
NORML

DEA Veteran Confirmed To Lead Agency - [image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves][image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves]Throughout his tenure at the DEA and in law enf...
Reform Austin

Labor Department Targets Major Rollback of Worker Protections Across Industries - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The U.S. Department of Labor has unveiled a sweeping proposal to repeal or revise more than 60 ...
El Paso Matters

First IDEA Public Schools graduating class in El Paso loses over half its students since eighth grade - IDEA, a public charter school network, enrolled 256 eighth-graders in El Paso four years ago – but only 124 were enrolled in the graduating class in May...
The Daily Poster

AIPAC-Funded Lawmakers Push For Millions In Spending On Genocide Tech - The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas - Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction: poison gas. I will desc...
Mondoweiss

How one Israeli company controls – and cuts off – Palestinians’ access to water in the West Bank - [image: Palestinians fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a water tank in the West Bank village of Um al-Khair south of Hebron, Aug...
Texas Standard

The number of missing people in Kerr County has dropped to 3. How did that happen? - It is not uncommon for the number of missing people to diminish after a major catastrophe like the Texas flooding.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 22, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Yet another heat dome broils much of the U.S., so hot ev...
Sludge

While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street - The DCCC raised record levels of lobbyist cash in the first half of the year, per new disclosure.
First Draft

Ryne Hancock: Yes, You’re Racist - Ryne is back.
The Root

5 Things to Know About Rip Currents Which Took Malcom-Jamal ‘Theo’ Warner’s Life - In light of Malcom-Jamal Warner's tragic passing, here are some things you can do to keep yourself safe on your next trip to the beach. Read more...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Dara O'Briain - These days it's sometimes comedians who feel most free to speak the truth. Irish comedian Dara O'Briain has plenty of truth to offer here.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Among the Tragically Missing… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Amo...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Guess the Dallas Maverick - Wrong answers only: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Fleming (@chrisflemingfleming) The post Guess the Dallas Maverick appeared first o...
Dissident Voice

Restauranting in DC - Finishing Andy Shalal’s autobiographical book A Seat at the Table (OR Books, 2025), I said to myself, “This fellow tells a great story.” I should have sa...
Dorf on Law

With the Income Tax Under Sustained Attack, Professor Rebecca Morrow's Insights Are Especially Welcome - Almost every year, I contribute an essay to the tax law sub-site of *Jotwell - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)*, which is edited at the University o...
Bonddad

Updating transport and consumer spending since Tariff-palooza! - - *by New Deal democrat* New economic data will resume tomorrow. Since I haven’t updated the impact of Tariff-palooza! on transport and spending in ...
Angry Bear

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants. - Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are payin...
Undernews

What the big bad bill will really cost - *NBC News - *President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill” will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report f...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 185: “Los Angeles Times, R.I.P.” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Things get personal on today’s “The TMI Show” with hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan, diving into what looks lik...
Rewire

Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increased After State Bans, Researchers Find - The *Dobbs* ruling "slowed people down, but it hasn’t decreased their determination to get that care." The post Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increase...
Democracy Now!

"Life After": Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves - As the federal government begins to implement some $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts called for in President Trump’s budget bill passed by the Republican-led Co...
Glasstire

We Will Protest As Long As We Carry Breath: An Interview with Gregg Deal - “We will protest as long as we carry breath.” This powerful declaration closes artist Gregg Deal’s performance film The Last American Indian on Earth, e...
Democracy Chronicles

On The Basic Problem of US Democracy - We are a tired and busy population trying to understand the news and what’s happening our world through the prism of our own understanding and bespoken rea...
ArcaMax

Empire Falls: Trump Revs Up the Reign of Terror, and It's Working - "Fear is the tool of the tyrant," wrote suddenly former Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey to her colleagues after she was abruptly fired by Attorney Ge...
Space City Weather

Has it been a fairly mild summer in Houston? The answer may surprise you. - In brief: After Houston’s hottest summer day so far, more heat is likely to persist today through Thursday. A tropical disturbance (that will not develop) ...
Earth 911

7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wrecking the Environment - You might think your daily home habits are harmless, but some quietly contribute to environmental... The post 7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wreck...
The Smirking Chimp

So Much for Socialism -
Skeptophilia

Weathering the storm - Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a school board b...
Off The Kuff

Start of the special session flooding roundup - Just a reminder of why we’re supposedly here, the non-THC reason. Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr Co...
Scheerpost.com

Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump - Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.
High Country News

In Wyoming, forestry work is female - [image: Monica Elliot, crew lead of the Friends of the Bridger-Teton’s Forest Corps, chainsaws a downed tree.] In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Fo...
Crooked Timber

The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People - The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging ...
Trivial Knot

Critical thinking as community value - Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an i...
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. Comment on anything interesting below. I value everyone's input.
Workers World

Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians - [image: Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians] By Penny Freedom New York City In the early evening of July 17,...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again. *Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the ...
The Conversation

Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference - Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former law...
Environment Texas

Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beach closures and contaminated water before you swim - 5 essential steps to protect your family from unsafe water at Texas beaches this summer The post Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beac...
Church and State

The Epstein Affair won’t ice Trump – his policy failures will: Trump’s support on issues weakening - For 10 years, the Teflon Don Trump has shrugged off scandal, fraud, felonies, cons, grift, sexual assault, and poor grammar.
Ian Welsh

The Serious Starvation Deaths Are About To Begin In Gaza - I’ll keep this one brief. Almost no food or water has gone into Gaza for months. What I’m seeing is that it’s hit the crisis point. I’d expect a few hundre...
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
MintPress News

Scottish Zionism’s Inner Circle: The Caledonian Cousinhood That Bankrolls Occupation and Genocide - A century-old web of intermarried families has bankrolled Israel’s most powerful support network in Scotland. This is the untold story of the Caledonian ...
Project Censored

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance - In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day - On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compro...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On - Neocons and Weapons Makers Are Happy BILL ASTORE JUL 19, 2025 Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 202...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
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...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Land Destroyer

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Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
Black Agenda Report

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Web of Debt

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ROAR Magazine

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

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The Rag Blog

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Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

The PayPal Presidency Pt. II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis - The PayPal Presidency Pt. II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis.
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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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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