Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Fox News panel smears 'ugly' protesters as 'demented elderly people' with no friends - A Fox News panel dedicated several minutes Saturday to attacking the millions of Americans participating in the nationwide No Kings protests as “demented...
Al Jazeera English

Photos: No Kings rallies in US urge midterm voters to cast ballots early - Thousands gathered at events throughout the country on Saturday, building on two years of No Kings marches.
Political Wire

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day - “If we’re not in the majority a year from now, then my life is a waste up here right now.” — Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
The Hill

Concerning economic data pose issues for GOP down midterm stretch - Recent data paints a bleak picture of the economy, lending Republicans another blow as midterm early-voting is underway. Annual inflation, as measured by t...
San Antonio Report

Ken Paxton to close Senate campaign with ‘Come and Take It’ bus tour ending at the Alamo - Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton is setting off on an 18-day bus tour Saturday that will take him to over 30 stops across the state leading up to ...
Alternet

The quiet reason MAGA voters let Trump treat them with utter 'contempt' - Nothing that any Democrat or enemy of Donald Trump has ever said about his MAGA supporters has ever shown more genuine "contempt" for them than the presi...
The Verge

TikTok bans Musk documentary account - Just ahead of the wider release of Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, TikTok has banned the film's social media account from its platform. TikTok did not imme...
Mother Jones

Anthropic’s AI Safety Bill Has an Alarming Threshold for Government Action - As the debate over regulating AI companies rages on, the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has scaled up its Capitol Hill lobbying. And, as lawmakers...
Axios

Trump's Russia waiver draws instant bipartisan backlash - Top Republicans and Democrats alike lined up Saturday to condemn President Trump's decision to waive recent sanctions on Russia, calling it "irresponsibl...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

ICE agent who crashed into man in Texas was targeting suspect who died years ago, family says - Federal officer slammed vehicle into a construction worker while pursuing a man who died in similar circumstances A federal officer slammed a vehicle int...
Salon.com

Actor & Director Timothy Busfield’s charges of sexual abuse of a minor dismissed — sort of - A New Mexico judge faults prosecutors' grand jury conduct but leaves open the possibility of new charges
Angry Bear

Retail sales continue this year’s positive trend, suggest jobs market likely to improve as well - – by New Deal democrat As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite economic indicators, because it says so much about the health of the US con...
OpEd News

Tesla' s So-Called ' -First Flying Car' - Enters Crowded Airspace - Tesla' s Roadster blasts into the night amid smoke and spectacle' -but ' -first flying car' -? Not so fast. From vintage roadable aircraft to wingsuit adve...
Eschaton

If European Politicians Weren't Shit - They would be turning Musk in public enemy #1. Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reve...
Election Law Blog

“U.S. campaign finance watchdog is sitting out the midterms. Here’s what that means.” - WaPo: The Federal Election Commission, the agency tasked with enforcing campaign finance law, has been unable to perform most of its duties for the past ...
Futurism

Using an AI Agent Makes You a Sucker for Phishing Emails - "The real flaw is that the model can’t tell the difference between text it’s supposed to read and instructions it’s supposed to follow." The post Using a...
Ballot Access News

Poll for Indiana Secretary of State Race - A Bellwether Poll released October 16 says the Libertarian nominee for Secretary of State is at 6%, whereas the Lincoln Party is at 5%. See this story. If ...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — ‘Trump v. Zelensky’ - Trump tells Ukraine stop hitting Russia; says Zelensky must go; exempts Russia from sanctions; orders Musk to stop aiding Ukraine. Yemen roars, Saudis reco...
Novara Media

China’s Century of Revolutions - For a century, China underwent a series of invasions, revolutions and counter-revolutions. In China, it’s known as the Century of Humiliation. It was a tim...
memeorandum

TikTok "Permanently Bans" the 'Musk' Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive) (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter: *TikTok “Permanently Bans” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)* — Move comes just ...
El Paso Matters

Herrera, Padilla Stout and Mendoza vie for Texas congressional seat vacated by Gonzales - Three candidates are competing for a sprawling West Texas congressional district left vacant by Tony Gonzales, offering competing visions on border secu...
Courthouse News

Coastal homes burn as hot winds fuel California fires - Wind-driven fires scorched Southern California communities, destroying homes and forcing thousands to evacuate.
Sludge

Prop 4 Would Let California Cities Curb Big Money With Small Donations - The California ballot measure would let cities, counties, and the state match small donations with public funds. Backers led by the League of Women Voters ...
CultureMap Houston

West Houston Tex-Mex restaurant says adios and more popular stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including a Tex-Mex shutter and the next chapter for a beloved wine shop. Rea...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 429: Oct. 17, 2026 - Today's puzzle has three pears.
See You In 2020

Tech upheaval, AI hallucinations, & the new reality that will emerge from today’s chaos - In response to imperial anxieties over China’s rise, the U.S. government is now determined to speed up AI’s development. And for the nucleus of the new A...
Scheerpost.com

Rappers For Regime Change: How The CIA Recruits Hip Hop Artists Around The World - Alan Macleod Mint Press News Bangladesh: Songs of Subversion “The U.S. government has observed the power of hip hop culture as a vehicle for expression, pr...
Undernews

Russia - *NBC News - *President Donald Trump waived sweeping new sanctions against Russia passed by Congress, arguing in an executive order Friday that the move ...
The Root

17 Black Movie Love Interests Who Were Walking Red Flags - They looked good, talked a good game, and had us rooting for them. But baby, the red flags were waving in 4K. Read more...
MintPress News

Iran’s Covert Missile Strikes Revealed, US Threatens MOAB Attack & The Arab-Israeli Plot Exposed - Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to u...
San Antonio Current

Our Lady of the Lake president resigns amid enrollment declines at San Antonio university - [image: A top Our Lady of the Lake official said the study is based on outdated information and doesn't reflect the campus' current reality.] Abel Chávez ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 12 - 16 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The tug of war between the AI-powered inflationary expansion, and the B...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Shine on me, sunshine? Walk with me, world? - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026* *The president gay-baits Ossoff: *We want to show you two bits of text from last night's Anderson Cooper program on CNN. I...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Jeremy Todd Announces Ron Paul Endorsement in Kentucky Congressional Race - Libertarian Jeremy Todd, a candidate for Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District seat, has announced the endorsement of former presidential candidate and R...
Ian Welsh

Information Overlord: West Asia War Overwhelms Political and Business Coverage - What I Wrote This Week West Asian War: Ansar Allah Hits Enemy HQ in Aden — Naked Capitalism, 16 Oct. Saudi National Arrested for Spying at OpenAI — Naked C...
The Daily Poster

You Love To See It: The Phone Tree Gets the Ax - Indigenous People’s Day raises the alarm, California takes customers off of the endless phone hold — and other wins worth a little noise.
Grist

The fire retardant in the seafood chain - A chemical additive helped stop fishmeal from catching fire on ships, but it carried a downstream carcinogenic risk to modern food systems.
Glasstire

Museums Moving Forward Survey Finds Poor Management as Key Reason Why Professionals Leave the Field - Museums Moving Forward (MMF), a Los Angeles-based independent nonprofit organization established in 2023 by museum sector professionals to advocate for i...
WhoWhatWhy

Bestie Bailout: Trump Gives a Helping Hand to Putin and the Finger to Congress - [image: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson] Donald Trump has bailed out his pal Vladimir Putin once again and protected him from...
Vox

Republicans have a huge fundraising advantage. Will it matter? - Polls and pundits alike are widely — if sometimes cautiously — predicting a blue wave in the midterm elections on November 3. But there’s an important cave...
ArcaMax

A Missed Chance to Look Terrible - Trump's decision to back out of his planned public execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter is sad for America. Not because it wouldn't have been a gruesome...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Cult of the Chameleon - I’m going to be watching to see if the GOP continues to call Democratic candidates “communists,” now that Dear Leader has openly declared his support of Vl...
The Progressive Wing

10/17 – 10/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Killer Mike sits down with Senator Bernie Sanders for a powerful conversation about billionaires, Donald Trump, the Democratic Party, voting rights, arti...
Mediaite

Stephen A. Smith Says This Is What He Found ‘Shocking’ About Dinner With Trump - "Anything we asked him, he kept coming back at us with the things that he had to say, his belief, in terms of what he had to say." The post Stephen A. Sm...
naked capitalism

Links 10/17/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

What If America Could Break the Power of Big Oil and Escape the Wars It Helps Fuel? -
Off The Kuff

30 day campaign finance reports: State candidates - I do 30 day campaign finance reports for city of Houston elections and Harris County elections. I’ve never done them before for state candidates, partly be...
Crooked Media

What Does It Mean to Be a Good Man? (with Jon Ronson) - The post What Does It Mean to Be a Good Man? (with Jon Ronson) appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

Sidewalk sleepers: They have nowhere else to stay while a loved one is in the hospital - Patients travel miles to be treated at public hospitals in Delhi. Those in need get financial aid for their care. But for overnight accommodations, familie...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 17 October 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Two weeks to Halloween! o o o o o He sees..... a rival! Cats wreak havoc. Behold ...
Mediagazer

Hiring Peter Rice signals a back-to-basics content approach; sources: Netflix struggled to hire film execs as they wanted to report to Ted Sarandos, not Bajaria (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap) - Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: *Hiring Peter Rice signals a back-to-basics content approach; sources: Netflix struggled to hire film execs as they wanted to r...
The Week

One-pan Greek lemon chicken recipe - Fragrant herbs and citrus flavours combine in this one-pot wonder
World Socialist Web Site

AFT President Weingarten’s AI “safety standard” is a corporatist pact with Microsoft - The AFT’s “iron-clad” AI safety standard was signed with the company that funds the union’s own AI academy, then carried to a platform shared with the fasc...
jobsanger

Trump Squandered His Political Majorities -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1643: Athanasius Kircher - Episode: 1643 In which Athanasius Kircher softens the 17th-C scientific revolution. Today, — after Galileo.
Informed Comment

When Trump and Rogers mock El-Sayed’s Name, they’re Mocking the Bible - When Trump makes fun of the name Abdulrahman, he is making fun of a phrase that has the name of God in it, a form of which appears in the Bible
Deadline Politics

Anthony Scaramucci Reacts To Katie Zacharia’s White House Tenure Being Shorter Than His: “Records Are Made To Be Broken” - Anthony Scaramucci weighed in on the tenure of Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary, which turned out to be shorter than his 10-day stint as Donal...
Workers World

Why does #47’s vendetta vs. Rep. Ilhan Omar continue? - [image: Why does #47’s vendetta vs. Rep. Ilhan Omar continue?] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
Techdirt.

MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout - Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief owner’s lockout of player...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 16, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | October 16, 2026 barry Fri, 10/16/2026 - 20:20
Claytoonz

Half A Scaramucci - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 18 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
Texas Standard

15,000 Texas voter registrations caught up in backlog after another state software error - Counties must now process affected voter registrations before Monday, when Texans can start voting early in the midterm elections.
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks justices to determine courts’ ability to vacate federal agency actions - The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether and when a federal court can throw out an agency’s action or rule in its enti...
Wolf Street

Oh Dear, Prices of Single-Family Homes Fell by 11% to 26% in 16 Bigger Markets Already - In another 13 bigger cities, prices fell by 9% to 10%. But San Francisco’s market goes haywire as AI mania money spills into housing.
The Greanville Post

The West Loses Escalation Dominance - OBB—US recent withdrawal of troops from Iraq after over two decades of US occupation appears to have been motivated by fear of these troops being targeted ...
Popular Resistance

What China’s Global Initiatives Offer The World - The fires of war burn from Palestine to Ukraine and from Sudan to Iran, demoralising billions of people around the world who suffer from the inferno and ...
Brad Blog

Republican Database Finds Voter Fraud in U.S. Vanishingly Rare, Less Than One-in-a-Million - Last Sunday morning, Fox “News” published an article with the following headline: DOJ illegal voting crackdown sweeps 17 states as razor-thin elections fac...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN special rapporteur warns North Korea’s human rights situation has worsened - United Nations Special Rapporteur Elizabeth Salmón has issued a stark warning regarding the worsening human rights situation in North Korea, highlighting a...
Mondoweiss

Mayor Mamdani can stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land - The Palestine solidarity movement is exerting pressure on illegal Palestinian land sales in New York and New Jersey, but only Mayor Mamdani can ban them on...
Progressive.org

The Film Israeli Officials Don’t Want You to See - Israeli-made documentary NAZA details the deliberate mass killing of Palestinians —and prompts political backlash from all sides.
Socialist Alternative

For a General Strike to Bring Down Macron’s Government! Fight for International Socialism! - Leaflet distributed by ISA members on the mass demonstration in Paris on 17 October. Also available in French The movement taking place in France is histor...
Lowering the Bar

Again I Warn Thee: Fleeth Not by Water - [image: suspect stepping into water]Because this somehow still seems to be necessary.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: COMMIES AND MUSLIMS, WHO CARES, OH MY EDITION. - *A melody you can play with* Hate to be optimistic but the midterms are looking good. Here’s a glimpse of what the opposition is offering, courtesy of th...
The Conversation

Young voters fear mass shootings like the one in Oregon, but that fear divides them on gun control - An Oregon school shooting comes weeks before midterms when young voters could break turnout records, but research shows shared fear doesn’t mean shared vie...
The Militant

Meetings worldwide protest spread of Jew-hatred, attacks - It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the wor...
IVN

Bill Hill Raised $1.17 Million. The Fight Is Over Where the Money Comes From - As Q3 reports land, the strongest independent campaigns of 2026 are raising real money, and Republicans are using the source of those funds to fuel their a...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/16/2026 - 21:46 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Capital & Main

He Went to Document an Anti-ICE Protest. He Left Without an Eye. - Since federal agents surged into L.A. last year, at least five people have been shot in the eye at protests, with lasting consequences. The post He Went ...
Common Dreams

Elon Musk Becomes Senate Leadership Fund’s Main Donor In Quarter Three - New FEC filings show the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has become the dominant funder of the Senate Leadership Fund, the leading Republican Senate...
Texas Observer

Highways and Hunting, Parasites and Panopticons - The post Highways and Hunting, Parasites and Panopticons appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Democracy Now!

"Against Tech Oligarchy": Inside the Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry - Longtime tech worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan’s new book, *Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry*, ...
The Texas Signal

The Sculptures Reframing Women’s History In Austin - On October 27, artist and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain will be unveiling her latest work in Austin (just in time before the midterm election)
Rallblog

ICE Chases and Runs Over “Dead” Man | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: • ICE agents ram their unmarked SUV into a fleeing Houston construction worker, shattering his leg in a...
Debunking Christianity

The Biggest Threat to Christianity Is the New Testament - * The feel-good quotes are overwhelmed by contradictions and superstitions* Some scholars have suggested that the earliest document in the New Testament ...
Rewire

Trump’s new press secretary ousted after 5 days - Katie Zacharia held strong anti-abortion views. Plus, Texas woman sues anti-abortion group under law it helped to pass, and OB-GYNs advised to start HRT so...
Dorf on Law

I Read Justice Alito's Book so You Wouldn't Have To (And You Shouldn't) - Justice Alito titled his new "book," "So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and our Country." This project is not new, and it...
Space City Weather

Hellooooo, Fall! Soak up this weekend Houston, you’ve earned it - In brief: Autumn arrives in the Houston area today, with plummeting humidity and comfortable, if not cool temperatures this weekend! While next week offers...
Two Party Opera

Public Safety Power Shutoff - Read More Today's comic is hand-drawn because Southern California Edison shutoff my power all day.
ProPublica

“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits - The post “Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

What my dog taught me about how to live - The luck we don’t know we have. The post What my dog taught me about how to live appeared first on High Country News.
Seeing the Forest

AI Rabbit Hole - I have gone down the rabbit hole looking into AI. I have been fascinated by the idea of encountering alien minds, so I’ve been using them and reading about...
The NM Political Report

Rep. Reeb resigns from state house after court rules against her double-dipping as legislator, prosecutor - [image: State Rep. Andrea Reeb] A high-profile state representative on the investigative committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein resigned from the New Mex...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 2: Being and Insecurity - Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Nina Krickel-Choi, Jennifer Mitzen, and Brent Steele join Dan and Patri...
slacktivist

The purpose-driven labor priest - A labor activist reads Rick Warren and it gets me wondering about "evangelicalism" in the age of Bryan.
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Family Separation Causes Real and Lasting Harm for Children and Parents - The ACLU is standing up for families torn apart by the government, especially those with the least resources to challenge in court.
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Crooked Timber

On the demise of Contemporary Professional Mathematics - From the Fall of the Berlin Wall until about a decade ago my animating intellectual question was pretty much, ‘how did a small number of natural sciences b...
Church and State

Does the GOP Lose Congress in the Midterm elections? - If the Democrats take both houses of Congress that would at least pave the way for a commencement of enormous reforms.
Project Censored

The Freedom and Restraints of Reporting on China in the US - Reflecting on RFA, VOA, and publications geared toward younger Chinese-speaking communities
Dissent Magazine

What’s at Stake in the Ilhan Omar Case - Trump’s investigation of Omar strikes at elementary assumptions of a free and republican government: that political opposition is legitimate, that the ex...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War We Must Never Let Happen: The New World War and the Fall of American Empire - We’re sitting on a tinderbox unlike any before and we have choices
Bracing Views

The Conceit of Total Dominance - And the Sheer Expense of It All BILL ASTORE 18 HOURS AGO A strange conceit of American exceptionalism is the naked ambition of full-spectrum dominance. The...
NORML

The Next Attack on Legalization Targets Voters - [image: An illustration of hands placing marijuana votes into a ballot box containing a wastebasket representing ignoring the election results][image: An...
The AltWorld

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Plutocrats Will Not Lead Us Into A Healthy Future - The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want […] The post New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Plutocrats Wil...
Antiwar.com

A Culture of Death - “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) A go...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Unhinged man says he loses sleep over the thought of trans men using the public restroom next to his three-year-old daughter - This Trumper gave us one of the most explosive anger-management crash outs I’ve seen https://t.co/0w2cXgUOsG — Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) October 13, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Shortlist for the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce t...
Discourse

Is James Talarico Winning or Is Ken Paxton Just Losing? (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Trump talking about Jon Husted’s ass, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s firing, and the Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird scandal
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Hispanic Heritage Month Recognition from the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) - *My heartfelt thanks to the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) and its President, Dr. Shawntal Brown, for this incredib...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Environment Texas

Energy efficiency is our secret weapon - Amid Iran oil shocks, there’s wisdom in efficient energy use The post Energy efficiency is our secret weapon appeared first on Environment Texas.
The Grayzone

US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’ - US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s governme...
Earthworks

Air Aware 101: Common Threats to Our Air Quality - By anaïs With increasing wildfire smoke and deregulation of dangerous industries, our air is becoming ever more toxic. However, we … The post Air Aware ...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 3 - Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between...
Krebs on Security

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering - The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for pa...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
First Draft

GOP DEI: Katie Zacharia - The new Press Secretary has an IQ problem, an EQ problem, and a QAnon problem. Oh, and she lied about being an attorney.
Trivial Knot

California 2026 election - In contrast to the clown show of politics, actually filling out a ballot is very tedious. I believe in filling out the entire ballot, but I also believe in...
Liberation News

How the French student revolt reveals the broader social crisis in Europe - The protests are broadening beyond education into a referendum on “Macronisme” and the entire constitutional structure of the Fifth Republic.
Alas, a Blog

Adorable AI Puppies - Another collaboration with Nadine Scholtes! (Nadine and I have done an AI-themed cartoon once before). I’m in my fifties, and therefore suspect myself anyt...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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