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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Vox

Why DHS is investigating its own killings, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
memeorandum

Outcry in Italy as U.S. Says ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegation (Motoko Rich/New York Times) - Motoko Rich / New York Times: *Outcry in Italy as U.S. Says ICE Agents Will Join Olympics Delegation* — The Italian government said it had requested cl...
The Hill

Noem faces mounting criticism from Republicans, Democrats after Minneapolis killing - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is coming under intense pressure over her handling of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, raising questions...
Raw Story

Senate Dems signal plans to torpedo White House's ICE deal - The odds of a partial government shutdown appear to be growing as Senate Democrats harden their position against the funding bill megapackage without ser...
Counterpunch

The Nuclearized World w/ Sean J Patrick Carney - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Sean J Partick Carney to discuss his 10-part series, Time Zero, on the nu...
Mediaite

Noem Says ‘Everything I’ve Done’ Has Been Directed by Trump and Stephen Miller: Report - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is chalking up her actions in office to the direction of President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller. The post Noem...
Daily Cartoonist

The Return of…or, Now Appearing - The return of Ming and Merrill. now (or soon) appearing is Nancy Beiman and Looney Tunes, playing games with Rosebuds and Lum and Abner.The Return of Ming ...
Courthouse News

Sex trafficking trial prosecutors say Alexander brothers were predators, not partiers - Prosecutors said during opening statements that the jury will see video of one of the socialite Alexander brothers raping a 17-year-old.
Houston Public Media

Sunken, abandoned boats prompt Galveston city council to seek solutions - City officials say the abandoned boats are bad for public safety, create hazards in the waterways and muddy up the environment.
Slate

Marvel’s New Show Feels Like a Mix of *Atlanta* and *The Studio* - Wonder Man almost feels like a cross between Atlanta and The Studio.
NPR's Health Shots

When a loved one with dementia wanders away - Caregivers of people with dementia often reach their breaking point when their loved one wanders off alone. How "elopement" can lead to institutional care.
CultureMap Houston

Essential Houston crawfish joint heads to Beaumont for new location - One of Houston’s favorite destinations for crawfish is heading east. *BB’s Tex-Orleans* will open 12th location in Beaumont.
Popular Resistance

Capitalism Without Humans - Around the United States, the rebellions against President Donald Trump’s militarized Immigration and Customs Enforcement invasions — bolstered by other ...
Progressive.org

The Equity Docket: When Civil Rights Enforcement Turns Upside Down - Trump’s new civil rights war targets DEI and ignores real discrimination.
Axios

Three quarters of House Democrats now back Kristi Noem's impeachment - House Democrats' support for articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem surged again Tuesday, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (...
Mother Jones

How Greg Bovino Proved Too Openly Fascistic for Trump - Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is being put out to pasture by Presi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US federal judge blocks ICE deportation of five-year-old boy and his father - A Texas-based judge issued an order saying Liam Ramos and his father cannot be removed A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that a five-year-old Minnesota bo...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Your moment of Zen.
San Antonio Current

‘Fronterizx’ brings together San Antonio, Phoenix artists for exhibition rooted in border experiences - Jenelle Esparza and the creative duo Fronterizx are recipients of the 2024 US Latinx Fellowship. The post ‘Fronterizx’ brings together San Antonio, Phoe...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Buried Human Rights Reports Few Ever Heard Of! - Many of the biggest Human Rights groups in the world have been documenting atrocities by Israel against Palestinians for decades, possibly going back to...
Mondoweiss

As Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ presses forward, Palestinians in Gaza fear what lies ahead - [image: Donald Trump announces the "Board of Peace" on January 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.(Photo: ©2026 World Economic For...
Second Nexus

Minnesota Republican Condemns His Party In Powerful Video Announcing He's Dropping Out Of Gubernatorial Race - In a post across his social media, one of the Republican frontrunners for governor of Minnesota announced he would be ending his campaign due to the GOP'...
Glasstire

Alison Weaver To Leave The Moody Center for Grey Art Museum in New York - The Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston has announced the departure of Alison Weaver, its founding Executive Director. Ms. Weaver is ...
Mediagazer

Report: the DOJ withdraws its request for an arrest warrant for Don Lemon and four others in connection with a MN protest, but could still bring charges (Tom Durante/Mediaite) - Tom Durante / Mediaite: *Report: the DOJ withdraws its request for an arrest warrant for Don Lemon and four others in connection with a MN protest, but c...
slacktivist

Postcards from America (01.27.26) - "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."
Political Wire

Stephen Miller Directed False Claim About Alex Pretti - “Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Mi...
Futurism

Even Palantir Staff Are Now Disgusted With ICE - "In my opinion ICE are the bad guys." The post Even Palantir Staff Are Now Disgusted With ICE appeared first on Futurism.
El Paso Matters

Do El Paso dust storms start in spring? - Claims online raise questions about when dust storms typically begin in El Paso. The post Do El Paso dust storms start in spring? appeared first on El P...
Alternet

'What in the world is he doing?' Trump frustrating Republicans with red state tour - Amid his self-made national rancor, President Donald Trump is retreating to safe ground in Iowa. But this reliable red state today is providing little co...
The Week

Grok in the crosshairs as EU launches deepfake porn probe - The European Union has officially begun investigating Elon Musk’s proprietary AI, as regulators zero in on Grok’s porn problem and its impact continent-wide
OpEd News

A Communications Breakthrough - A method of group communication that eliminates customary barriers to exchanging ideas, and quickly enables people to feel comfortable and connected, A val...
Alas, a Blog

Wanted - ICE agents are the worst people in the world. If you’re a good person and you’re working for ICE, you don’t really exist, because all the good people have ...
Salon.com

“Uncharted water”: Caribbean boat strike victims’ families sue US - The families of several Trinidadian men killed by U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean filed wrongful death suits
Al Jazeera English

Will Palestinians ever find their loved ones in Gaza’s rubble? - Thousands are missing as Israel blocks machinery essential for the search.
The Conversation

How government killings and kidnappings in Argentina drove mothers to resist and revolt − and eventually win - After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice – and exposed the atrocities of a dicta...
The Grayzone

Paul Mason plotted to sue The Grayzone over factual reporting, new leaks show - Newly-leaked emails show ex-leftist journalist-turned-snitch Paul Mason attempted a legal crusade to silence his critics and censor The Grayzone’s report...
Undernews

Workers - NY Times - UPS said on Tuesday that it expected to cut as many as 30,000 jobs this year as part of a continuing effort to reduce costs and shore up profi...
World Socialist Web Site

Five workers killed in massive biscuit factory explosion in Greece - According to figures compiled by the Federation of Technical Company Trade Unions, 630 workers lost their lives at work between 2022 and 2025.
Techdirt.

Border Patrol Thug Greg Bovino Gets Booted Back To The Border By The Trump Administration - Unexpected, but in the most delightful sense of the word — the sort of thing we’ve rarely seen since January 2025. Gregory Bovino has been removed from his...
Ballot Access News

Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender, a Nonprofit, Sues to Overturn Illinois Law that Won’t Let the Group Operate Unless it Gets Permission from the Democratic Party - On January 27, a nonprofit group called “Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender” filed a lawsuit to overturn an Illinois law that won’t let a group u...
The Verge

Razer’s testing a new tool for customizing its keyboards in your browser - Razer has announced the beta release of a new online customization tool compatible with several versions of its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards at launch. Razer ...
Novara Media

USA at Boiling Point: the ICE Murder Backlash - Donald Trump has sacked his border chief, Gregory Bovino – but rage at the killing of a second US citizen continues to engulf the country. Plus: Matthew Go...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: "Violent" and "crazy," Watters says! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026* *Things you hear at Fox: *What sorts of things do citizens in Red America hear when they visit the Fox News Channel? Below, ...
Election Law Blog

“Why Does Pam Bondi Want States’ Voter Rolls?” - I spoke to Jen Rubin of The Contrarian on this topic, in the news because of AG Bondi’s recent demand of Minnesota. The post “Why Does Pam Bondi Want Sta...
Common Dreams

Big Tech’s Reckless Release of AI Companion Products Sacrifices Safety for Profit - According to a new report from Public Citizen, Counterfeit Companionship, Big Tech companies are pushing experimental, unsafe AI companions onto the Amer...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Silicon Valley and The Military–Industrial–Venture Complex - Silicon Valley’s entry into defense contracting is often framed as a long-overdue modernization of a bureaucratic Pentagon. This article argues that the ve...
Consortium News

Stopping ICE Shouldn’t Be Left to Armed Citizens - It shouldn’t fall to armed Americans to take on the White House militia because the governor can’t use the National Guard to force ICE out of Minnesota, wr...
First Draft

Magic Words - Some unsolicited advice for the media. PLEASE say CLAIM, CLAIMS, and CLAIMED. THANKS.
Angry Bear

Repeat home sales indices for November indicate continued rebalancing vs. new home prices — at a glacial pace - – by New Deal democrat For the past year, my view has been that the housing market is in recessionary territory, although that has not translated to the...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Truth-telling about New College, by Jonathan Scott Perry, Sun Sentinel, Jan. 7, 2026 - *Friends:* *Please read this in tandem with my earlier post in order to get a more complete sense of the context. * *Jonathan Scott Perry’s letter, publ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 27, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Danger is not over yet after deadly, extreme winter stor...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REMEMBRANCE / Glenn Scott inducted into Texas Labor Hall of Fame - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 [Cross posted from Alice Embree’s Substack] On January 24, 2026, Glenn Scott from Austin was inducted int...
San Antonio Report

SAPD releases preliminary details on overturned Southwest ISD school bus - A Southwest ISD school bus carrying students overturned Tuesday morning, sending students and the driver to a hospital. ------------------------------ SAPD ...
Deadline Politics

Bari Weiss Unveils Her Strategy For CBS News, Tells Staffers Of Need To Shift To “Streaming Mentality” & To Highlight “Political Friction” Of National Debate - CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss unveiled her strategy for the network’s news division, putting a heavy emphasis on restoring trust in the news media, w...
The Daily Poster

The Pentagon’s $125 Million Vibe Shift - Updated stationery and signage for the newly minted Department of War will cost taxpayers a pretty penny.
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: A North-South Korea-like Divide… in Africa - With continued democracy and civic freedom, and now globalization and a start at international recognition, Somaliland's future is in the other direction: ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Get Out of the Way: The Democratic Party Prevents Us From Fighting Fascism - This article is free for educational and organizing purposes, but Dispatches From A Collapsing State desperately needs your support.
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. —...
The Root

The Most Outrageous ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Moments - A new documentary exploring “America's Next Top Model” and its sad underbelly is dropping soon. Let's take a look back on some of the show's most controv...
Capital & Main

The One Big Beautiful Prediction: The Energy Transition Is Still Alive - Trump has attacked renewable power from every angle, but energy justice scholar Sanya Carley envisions an affordable green future. The post The One Big B...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico court strikes down “Homewrecker Law,” ending husband’s suit against ex-wife’s new boyfriend - The New Mexico Supreme Court has unanimously abolished the state’s century-old “alienation of affections” law, commonly referred to as “Homewrecker Laws...
Dissident Voice

Diplomacy, Law, and Nonviolent Power - Read Part 1. This is the second of four TFF-created idea portfolios designed to curb the global reach of the United States and, in both the short and lon...
Bonddad

Repeat home sales indices for November indicate continued rebalancing vs. new home prices — at a glacial pace - - *by New Deal democrat* For the past year, my view has been that the housing market is in recessionary territory, although that has not translated t...
High Country News

Would you pay 1% more for wildlife? - A bill in the Oregon Legislature would tax tourists for conservation. The post Would you pay 1% more for wildlife? appeared first on High Country News.
Discourse

Discourse Pod #12: One Terrible Year of Trump 2.0 + Oscar Nominations Reactions (w/Katherine Krueger) - Katherine returns to recap the first year of Trump's violent, unrelenting second term.
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Gun rights debate resurfaces after Minneapolis shooting - After Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis who was legally carrying a firearm, some federal officials suggested bringing a gun to a pr...
SCOTUSblog

Defending the Fed: agency independence in three dimensions - Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at the Supreme Court. The Supreme...
Bracing Views

Of Lies and Surges - There’s Blood in the Streets BILL ASTORE JAN 26, 2026 Two headlines caught my eye this AM in my email media stream. From the New York Times: “How the Trump...
Countercurrents

Another Newborn Baby Freezes to Death in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade on Aid, Including Shelters - Gaza (QNN)- A 12-day-old Palestinian baby died in Gaza on Tuesday from severe cold, bringing the number of children in the war-torn enclave who have died o...
WhoWhatWhy

Yes, Climate Change Can Supercharge a Winter Storm. Here’s How - [image: science, climate crisis, North Pole, Arctic amplification, polar vortex, storms] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or re...
Democracy Now!

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: "Copaganda" Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing - As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary ...
Church and State

When the State Becomes the Mob: The Killing of Alex Pretti - What I witnessed yesterday was the unprovoked killing of Alex Pretti: a veteran, a bystander, a witness to human rights violations.
Rallblog

Where Will ICE Killers Go Next? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

In Texas Cities, Let a Hundred Mamdanis Bloom - The ascent of Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old socialist Muslim, to New York City’s mayoralty once seemed an almost absurdist dream. Yet, propelled by an ar...
ArcaMax

Uncommon Criminal: The Perp Walk President Protected from Prison - It wasn't enough last week for Americans to stomach the global humiliation of watching an untethered president babbling about "taking" territory from a NAT...
Crooked Media

Hold Your Applause - The post Hold Your Applause appeared first on Crooked Media.
Space City Weather

Houston to warm up for a few days before another sharp cooldown this weekend - In brief: After our coldest weather in nearly a year this morning, the region will thaw out and warm up today with plenty of sunshine. We will then have a ...
Greg Palast

Gen Z Divorces MAGA - Ethan Lieberman recently joined the Palast team following completion of his degree in journalism (summa cum laude!). At 22, he is in the heart of Gen Z. So...
Scheerpost.com

Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center - The immigrant jail, where many children are detained, has “horrible” conditions, including “putrid” drinking water.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Finding a Northwest Passage to the Sea - According to science, it was unexpected in 2008 when the famed Northwest Passage across the... The post Guest Idea: Finding a Northwest Passage to the Se...
Dorf on Law

The Term From Hell and the Court that Isn't a Court - For two decades, I have argued that the Supreme Court of the United States is not a real court of law and its justices do not perform their jobs like rea...
The Smirking Chimp

Is the Most Powerful Message in America Now “Obey or Die”? -
Skeptophilia

The tide is high - The list of confirmed exoplanets now exceeds six thousand. Considering the fact that the three main ways they're detected -- direct measure of stellar wob...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Tanya Garrison - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
ProPublica

How Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Helped Keep a Payday Lender’s Struggling Sports Gambling Company Alive - The post How Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Helped Keep a Payday Lender’s Struggling Sports Gambling Company Alive appeared first on ProPublica.
The AltWorld

The Lies Get So Tedious - The lies get so tedious. The Iranians want their country to be bombed. Hamas beheaded 40 babies. […] The post The Lies Get So Tedious appeared first on T...
Grist

The EPA wants to eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can protect their water - The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.
Ian Welsh

Just How High Can Silver Really Go? - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Everyone is talking about gold topping $5k an ounce. The yellow metal is captivating and big moves by it tend to suck all the oxygen o...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 27 January 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "rise of Amelia" post, click here.] ...
Trivial Knot

My games of the year 2025 - I play 50+ video games every year, so why not make a list of the best ones? People like listicles, right? Personally, I don’t have much interest in Game-of...
jobsanger

A Brave Light In The Fascist Darkness -
Informed Comment

“Once dead you never shall return:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:34 - It gave its mouth to mine and whispered, / Have some wine, since once you're gone, you won't be back.
Claytoonz

Another MAGA Flip-Flop - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Workers World

Trader Joe’s United demands “Sanctuary Store” - [image: Trader Joe’s United demands “Sanctuary Store”] Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Minneapolis, one of the few in the country with a union, are prio...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'LGBTQ celebrities, lawmakers speak out against ICE for Alex Pretti shooting' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Alex Pretti * Editor's note - I apologize for not posting as much as I should. The situation in Minnesota is bad enough to make me sad for my country, b...
Antiwar.com

Democrats Are Complicit Enablers of Trump’s War Machine - Reprinted with permission from The Screeching Kettle at Substack. The year is 2026. The US under Donald Trump kidnapped the president of Venezuela after bo...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Jan 28-Feb 3, 2026 - This Week in People’s History, Jan 28-Feb 3, 2026 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 01/26/2026 - 18:56
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar : The Emperor of Chaos Strikes Again! - JUDGE NAPOLITANO—The video features Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewing geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar on January 20th, 2026, discussing the current vo...
Socialist Alternative

Minneapolis Target Workers Strike—Shut Down Stores Everywhere To Kick ICE Out! - On January 23, the Twin Cities went on a historic strike against ICE, but it wasn’t just unionized workers organizing their workplaces to shut it down. At ...
The Texas Signal

What To Know About Abortion In Texas Now - Texas’ blanket ban has not eliminated access to abortion—just displaced it. Care has been forced out of state and into a statutory gray area. One thing rem...
See You In 2020

The implosion of liberal identity politics, and our task of building a new cross-racial workers force - If American communists want to survive this state crackdown, we will need to work fast at rebuilding Marxism’s ties to the anti-racist struggles. We mus...
Wolf Street

Hard to Imagine an Economic Slowdown until this Business Investment Boom Fizzles. Core Capital Goods Orders Show Why - The five-month surge is a sign of strong business investment, partly driven by the AI infrastructure buildout.
Crooked Timber

WHO: An anecdote - So the Trump administration has just pulled the US out of the World Health Organization, WHO. WHO is the biggest and most important international health or...
NORML

Study: Lifetime Cannabis Use Linked to Greater Cognitive Performance in Aging Populations - [image: Marijuana Brain][image: Marijuana Brain]"This study adds to a growing body of evidence that cannabis use may be associated with greater brain vol...
Dissent Magazine

Nick Salvatore: Citizen and Historian - The author of *Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist* and other biographies, Nick Salvatore leaves behind a rich legacy that both challenges and inspires...
Environment Texas

Outdoorsmen and women show support for wildlife corridor legislation - 82 hunting and conservation entities sign letter in support of the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act The post Outdoorsmen and women show support...
Project Censored

Manufactured Borders, Manufactured Intelligence - In the first part of the program we welcome back political and legal geographer Dr. Austin Kocher to talk about the immigration news that never makes the...
Krebs on Security

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? - The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating th...
The Progressive Wing

1/26-1/30 News Roundup and Open Thread - Buried in snow and cold here in NY–and possibly another big snow storm here next Sunday ⛄️😱
Rewire

Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend. - State and federal officials are working with Native American groups to better track and address pregnancy-related deaths in their communities through mat...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Idavox

Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis - This time it was a a nurse at a local VA hospital – or as... The post Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis appeared first on Idavox.
Field Negro

The Fuehrer Principle - I understand now how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party became so powerful in Germany, and how, as president of the party, he was able to rise to power th...
Debunking Christianity

Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: - Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: [image: Instruments of the Passion from pinterest] *Figure 1:* Some disturbing Preconciliar Roman Catholic ar...
LareDOS

Operation Big Bucks, Cola Larga: federal indictment nails Sheriff Martin Cuellar, assistant chief Alejandro Gutierrez, and former assistant chief and UISD trustee Ricardo Rodriguez for fraud and taxpayer-funded private venture for personal gain - Three-way profits from COVID-19 era sanitizing scam allegedly netted $175,000 each for Cuellar, Gutierrez, and Rodriguez
Liberation News

How the bipartisan “War on Terror” created ICE - The history of ICE, however, shows that Trump and the far-right did not build ICE or this deportation architecture overnight; it was instead handed over to...
Edinburg Politics

Tough new law coauthored by Rep. Terry Canales ensures that human traffickers of children and people with disabilities no longer qualify for parole - A recent state law, of which Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, help lead through the legislative process, guarantees that convicted human traffickers of chil...
Lowering the Bar

New York State May Allow “Dancing by Default” - Don't get too excited yet, though.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKE IT EASY BUT TAKE IT EDITION. - *You got to spread a warnin' when the army they come in.* All honor and best of luck to the comrades in Minneapolis on general strike today. The ICE goons ...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
DeSmogBlog

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads - Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the ...
The Militant

Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract - CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporte...
Earthworks

Standing In It Together: What One Toxic Tour Reveals About Life Near Oil & Gas Development - A Toxic Tour is a guided, on-the-ground visit that brings tribal leadership, agency staff, and community members directly to areas … The post Standing I...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/23/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Handicapping The 2026 State Legislative Map: A First Look - In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Another “No Kings” Weekend - Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting the situation ...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
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...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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...
Two Party Opera

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Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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