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

Techdirt.

Got Ideas For Growing The Open Social Web? Bring Them. - Register here for our Growing the Open Social Web Un-Workshop. For over three years now, since Elon Musk decided to spend $44 billion turning Twitter into ...
Raw Story

ICE takes 2-year-old girl and dad as fury grows over agents targeting children - ICE agents reportedly took a 2-year-old and her father in Minneapolis as anger grew over the agency targeting children and detaining them. Minneapolis C...
Eschaton

...The Democrats! - I have no patience for the ones who pull shit like this because they are saying, "ha ha fuck you stupid hog voters." Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering ...
Houston Public Media

Houston-area school districts announce Monday closures ahead of incoming winter storm - A winter storm is expected to hit the region late Saturday or early Sunday, bringing freezing temperatures as well as precipitation.
memeorandum

Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve 'respect' after Trump comments (BBC) - BBC: *Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve ‘respect’ after Trump comments* — Summary — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer s...
Futurism

Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard - "What they’re talking about doing is crazy." The post Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astrona...
Mediaite

DHS Excuse For Dragging U.S. Citizen Out of His Home Spectacularly Falls Apart - DHS's excuse for dragging a US citizen out of his home in his underwear fell apart when it was discovered the actual suspect had been in prison for over ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston designer shares 5 style tips for mixing vintage and modern - Houstonians are, as a rule, enthusiastic about an elegant blend — in any form. From historically-lax zoning laws to fusion cuisine and everything in betwee...
Popular Resistance

Hate Crime Laws Can Chill Free Speech - What impact will the criminal hate provisions in the Albanese government’sCombatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026have on the ability of ordi...
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...
The Verge

Hang on, there’s a Trump Phone Ultra coming too? - Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual...
Courthouse News

Ukraine-Russia-US talks open in Abu Dhabi as Moscow demands Donbas region - This marks the first time Kyiv and Moscow face each other to talk about Trump's peace plan.
Texas Standard

Viral moments: What James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett both get about politics in 2026 - The two hopefuls for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate have bolstered their careers and raised their profiles across YouTube, Instagram and other s...
Mediagazer

Source: Amazon plans to spend $35M+ on marketing Brett Ratner's Melania Trump documentary, which it paid $40M for, huge sums for the medium (Matthew Belloni/Puck) - Matthew Belloni / Puck: *Source: Amazon plans to spend $35M+ on marketing Brett Ratner's Melania Trump documentary, which it paid $40M for, huge sums for...
Mother Jones

Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE - A breakfast restaurant, a bike shop, and a brewery: these are some of the hundreds of businesses across Minnesota closing their doors Friday as part of a g...
The Week

Powell: The Fed’s last hope? - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fights back against President Trump's claims
Undernews

Doctor worries about Trump's mental health - *Irish Star - * A doctor has warned that Donald Trump is showing a "trend line" in cognitive decline that "seems to be getting worse." Trump sent health f...
Dissident Voice

Payola Laws: The Gilding of Golden Tonsils - Last month’s eulogising of the late Australian “shock jock” John Laws has been revealing on the state of health of what is laughably left of the Fourth E...
ProPublica

“A Godsend”: ProPublica’s Rx Inspector Tool Is Helping People Find Critical Safety Information on Generic Drugs - The post “A Godsend”: ProPublica’s Rx Inspector Tool Is Helping People Find Critical Safety Information on Generic Drugs appeared first on ProPublica.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pentagon contractor indicted over alleged leak tied to raided Washington Post reporter - Worker illegally provided classified information ‘related to national defense’ to journalist, justice department says A federal grand jury in Maryland ha...
Salon.com

Minnesota judges keep rejecting arrest warrants for ICE protesters - In one case, a federal judge rejected a warrant against a protester who allegedly threw a single egg
The Hill

Trump sparks UK firestorm by claiming NATO troops 'stayed a little back' in Afghanistan - President Trump has set off a firestorm in the United Kingdom and among NATO allies whose troops fought in Afghanistan by claiming NATO forces "stayed a li...
San Antonio Current

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s brother indicted on federal fraud charges - [image: Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar (right) poses with his brother, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (left), during a November event.] The feds accuse Marti...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to find California’s redistricting map unconstitutional - The Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to block the new congressional map adopted by California voters in November. U.S. Solicitor ...
Consortium News

The Police States of America - The U.S. government, like authoritarians throughout history, is seeking to silence the speech it hates and fears, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. By And...
Political Wire

Ruben Gallego Hears 2028 Calls - “The 2024 election was a dark chapter for Democrats nearly across the board, as they lost not only the presidential race but also both the House and the Se...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso’s long history of hospitality offers a lesson for U.S. immigration policy - Despite shifting national immigration policies and rhetoric, El Paso demonstrates how humane, community-driven approaches to migration can uphold dignit...
Election Law Blog

Forthcoming Book Announcement. The Fifteenth Amendment: An Unabridged History of the Fight against Racial Discrimination in Voting - Travis Crum here. I am thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to write a book on the Fifteenth Amendment. It wi...
WhoWhatWhy

Another Near-Record Hot Year Is ‘Warning Shot’ From Shifting Climate - [image: limate crisis, global warming, science, near-record heat, 2025 record] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended ...
Slate

I Saw What COVID Did to Students. What ICE Is Doing Will Change Them Forever. - My years of teaching have taught me that behind every student’s behavior is a desire to feel like they belong. Trump is making that very hard.
Second Nexus

Karoline Leavitt Gives Bonkers Excuse After Trump Is Spotted With Massive Bruise On His Left Hand - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was called out after she gave a dubious excuse for what happened to President Donald Trump after he was spot...
Texas Observer

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence - This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Si...
naked capitalism

3 Trump Administration Health Policy Changes That Will Worsen Care for the Elderly - One Trump rule rollback alone will kill an estimated 13,000 nursing home residents a year. Welcome to what passes for health care in the US.
Mondoweiss

Here are four ways Zohran Mamdani can end financial support in New York City for Israeli settlements, and he must act soon - [image: Zohran Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in New York City's Bryant Park on October 27, 2024. (Photo: Bingjiefu He, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0)]Z...
Bracing Views

What Is Blitzkrieg? - And how much does the U.S. spend on weapons and war? BILL ASTORE JAN 23, 2026 Last January, I published “My Father’s Journal,” which recounts my dad’s expe...
Bonddad

Economic cycle indicators update: the Autumn Shutdown Stall - - *by New Deal democrat* Now that we have the very important personal income and spending data through November, here is a look at the widely acknow...
The Conversation

‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge - Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant reviewed and signed by a judicial...
Axios

Trump escalates Carney feud after Davos dust-up - President Trump on Thursday rescinded Canada's invitation to his "Board of Peace" for Gaza, deepening a feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney that reignit...
Debunking Christianity

Horrendous Suffering Cannot Be Ignored in Guessing about God - *Religious delusions no longer serve the needs of humanity* *In my article here last week*, I described three brick walls that Christian theology colli...
Rewire

It Just Got Harder for LGBTQ+ People to Address Harassment at Work - The EEOC voted Jan. 22, 2026 to delete a 200-page document on workplace harassment matters amid a push to prioritize cases brought by white men. The post...
First Draft

The Cost of “I Ain’t Reading All That” - Take a bow, underinformed Americans who get all their "information" from Tiktok videos. Trump couldn't do it without you.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County considers deal with Silicon Valley company looking to invest $200M at Brooks - Industrial Electric Manufacturing, which builds equipment like power panels and switchboards, is considering a new campus at Brooks. -----------------------...
Daily Howler

COGNITION(S): Stephens and Brooks describe President Trump! - *FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026* *Ever so slowly they turn: *As the snow becomes general over the west, the flooding of the zone has become a deluge, a tsunami...
Democracy Now!

"Kings and Pawns": Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America - Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but ...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Showdown - Just weeks away, the Republican and Democratic primaries for the Texas Senate race have captured national attention
Rallblog

Club Med Gaza | 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...
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...
Vox

The public health win hiding in plain sight: Poison centers - Accidentally poisoning yourself is much easier than you might think. Once, I took two antihistamine medications on the same night and panicked when Google...
Scheerpost.com

‘An Abomination’: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ & Threat to Democratic World Order - “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstanc...
Al Jazeera English

Trump claim on NATO role in Afghanistan draws UK condemnation - UK politicians have accused Trump of avoiding military service during the Vietnam War.
Space City Weather

The Arctic front is now nearing Texas. Here’s the latest on what it means for the greater Houston area. - In brief: In today’s post we dive into the latest data about the impending winter storm and share our thoughts about freezing rain, hard freezes, and more ...
ArcaMax

Muhammad Ali Risked Everything for His Convictions. His Stamp Proves It Mattered. - Muhammad Ali was honored with his own forever stamp by the United States Postal Service on Jan. 15. "I should be a postage stamp," Ali famously once said, ...
The Root

Pam Grier Says She Saw Lynched Bodies— and the Internet is Fighting Over Whether to Believe Her - Actress Pam Grier is facing criticism from some who are calling BS on her account of witnessing lynched Black bodies in her Ohio home town. Read more...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Nothing In Vain - Aristotle, who saw purpose and design in everything, wrote in several different works that “Nature... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Nothing In Vain appe...
Novara Media

What Does the Darlington Nurses’ Case Mean for Trans People? Experts Are Divided - [image: The Darlington nurses outside Newcastle Tribunal centre. Photo: Iain Masterton/Alamy Live News]The anti-trans movement declared victory last week a...
Skeptophilia

The parasitic model - A couple of years ago, I posted a frustrated screed about the potential for AI-generated slop to supplant actual creativity. My anger at the whole thing i...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Matt Salazar - I promised you three Democratic candidates for Harris County Judge, and I’ve got the third one for you right here. Matt Salazar is a native of Lubbock who ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Sweeping Up - I hope we’re done with the Peace Prize foolishness, but I got a laugh out of Sheneman’s take, and, while we don’t grade on quality of art so much as on qua...
Countercurrents

Chains made holy: John Milton confronts Gandhi - Certain forms of power, kingship, priesthood, sainthood – protect themselves by withdrawal from argument. When authority presents itself as sacred, critici...
The Daily Poster

The Supreme Court’s Quiet War On Cuba - Lawsuits by an oil giant and Cuban-American hardliners could help corporate interests recoup hundreds of millions in expropriated Cuban assets if Trump del...
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...
Grist

Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air. - In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood-pellet mills say they’re getting sick.
High Country News

The Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater have a surprising link - [image: Meteor Crater, Arizona (circa 1980).] Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona's huge impact crater. The po...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Arctic Humiliation - The post Trump’s Arctic Humiliation appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Not So New: Machines that Play - In early 1746, the parfumier and glovemaker Pierre Dumoulin left his native Lyon and headed north towards Germany. He was on his way to foreign lands to ...
jobsanger

Donald Trump Is Mentally Disturbed -
Informed Comment

Iraqi Gov’t Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability - The thousands of ISIL fighters imprisoned by the Kurds in 14 detention centers had terrorized western and northern Iraq and eastern Syria
Crooked Timber

The social media ban that wasn’t - The Australian government’s legislation seeking to ban access to social media for people under 16 has received plenty of attention in International media, ...
World Socialist Web Site

2026 Academy Award nominations: *Sinners* and *One Battle After Another* receive the most nominations - The award nominations were the usual combination of the thoughtful and the confounding, or even disturbing.
See You In 2020

We’re seeing the death of a productive mode, and it’s creating an underclass who will build the next civilization - Everything that we’re seeing happen today is whiplash from when capitalism had to give up its old mode of production, and surrender to the flow of histo...
Workers World

Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro - [image: Testimony of a Cuban combatant who defended President Maduro] The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona To...
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Bill to Forbid Out-of-State Circulators for Candidates, Except Presidential Candidates - Twenty-two Wisconsin legislators have introduced AB 223. It would forbid out-of-state individuals to circulate candidate petitions, although the restrictio...
Alternet

'Do you feel safer?' 'Funny business' as Trump builds lists of dissidents and Jews - Bulwark writer Catherine Rampell reports the administration of president Donald Trump is quietly building the kinds of watchlists that should make histor...
Portside

January 23 – National Day of Solidarity With Minnesota – ICE Out for Good - January 23 – National Day of Solidarity With Minnesota – ICE Out for Good jay Thu, 01/22/2026 - 22:05
Wolf Street

New-Vehicle Sales in California, 2025: Tesla Loses Ground, Toyota Widens Lead, Honda Passes Tesla, but Model Y still #1 Bestseller by Far - ICE vehicle sales dropped 28% from 2017 peak, while EV sales soared 648% over same period.
Brad Blog

Mr. Smith Testifies (Publicly) in Washington: 'BradCast' 1/22/2026 - Hey! Another busy day on The BradCast! What are the odds? [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] No, you're not hallucinating. Former Special Coun...
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...
Claytoonz

He Did It All For The Nuuky - 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...
Progressive.org

When the Sun Decides Your Day: Living on Solar in Gaza - Solar energy is praised worldwide for sustainability. But here, it represents a form of abandonment.
Antiwar.com

The American Police State Has Arrived - In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history,...
NPR's Health Shots

Last year was disaster for an HIV vaccine trial. This year? A new way forward - A cutting edge pan-African HIV vaccine trial lost funding last year when the Trump administration shut down much of foreign aid. The setback was devastatin...
The NM Political Report

ICE policy under fire: Bregman threatens criminal charges for unlawful ICE detentions - [image: Sam Bregman, district attorney for New Mexico's Second Judicial District, sent a letter Wednesday to Bill Shaw, an Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
slacktivist

And we’ll go sweeping through the city - The government is doing terrible things in the Twin Cities. The people of the Twin Cities are doing beautiful things without and despite the government.
Church and State

Overpopulation is a major factor in global mortality - In many countries, overpopulation, poverty and lack of food increase hunting of wildlife for ”bush-meat” and other products.
Deadline Politics

Judge Rejects Justice Department Effort To Charge Don Lemon After He Covered Minnesota Anti-ICE Protest Inside A Church - A magistrate judge has rejected Justice Department efforts to charge Don Lemon, who has faced threats of criminal prosecution by Trump officials after he l...
The Greanville Post

ALL SET… FOR WWII - PAUL EDWARDS—The American Empire, long in the tooth, sclerotic, unconsciously moribund, is bound and determined to force a showdown war on reluctant and pr...
Common Dreams

Under EPA’s Zeldin, Pollution Enforcement Dying a Quick Death - Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration, according ...
Angry Bear

More evidence of a positive “regime change” in jobless claims: is it tied to the immigration crackdown? - – by New Deal democrat We will get the very important personal income and spending updates for the government shutdown months later this morning, which ...
NORML

Feds Propose Amending 2nd Amendment Ban for Cannabis Consumers, Others - [image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint]The ATF acknowledges that a change in the federal ban is nece...
Socialist Alternative

Minneapolis Letter Carriers Demand ICE Off Postal Property! - On a frigid, sub-zero December morning, in the parking lot of the Lake Street Post Office, a group of Minneapolis letter carriers in the National Associati...
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...
Capital & Main

On Eve of Strike, Kaiser Nurses Sound Alarm on Patient Care - More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers plan to walk out next week following months-long stalemate with Kaiser. The post On Eve of Strike, Kaiser...
Project Censored

The AI War Machine as Superorganism - Antoine Bousquet observed in The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (2022), “Pointing on the horizon is a fully ...
Dorf on Law

Constitutional Default Rules: Second Amendment Edition - On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *Wolford v. Lopez*. The case involves a 2023 Hawaii law that was aptly described by the Ninth Circui...
Glasstire

2026 Spring Preview: Five Texas Exhibitions to See this Season - Brandon Zech and Jessica Fuentes discuss their most anticipated Texas exhibitions opening in the spring season, including solo shows by Mary Ellen Carrol...
LareDOS

I want your fingers so stiff you can’t pull the trigger on your pepper ball launchers or fire rubber bullets, so rigid you lose the grip on the hammer you want to swing at a car window, and so numb you drop that flashbang grenade in the midst of you and your ICE-y clan of masked thugs; GTFOM - “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,”
Ian Welsh

Understanding the Competent Concierge: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney - Carney gave an important speech yesterday, which you can read here. That lead to a lot of people praising him for his honesty in noting that the rules-base...
The Smirking Chimp

Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted? -
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.
Infidel753

The Greenland crisis - Trump's sudden eruption of befuddled neo-imperialism toward Greenland has the potential to be the most damaging episode of either of his terms as presiden...
The AltWorld

The Defeat Of The Kurds In Syria - After months of skirmishes and mutual accusations, the militants, formally structured into the Syrian armed forces and […] The post The Defeat Of The Kur...
The Progressive Wing

1/21-1/23 News Roundup & Open Thread - Bernie Sanders on The Theo Von Podcast: Bernie on The Late Show and More news/videos/etc. in the comments!
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...
Trivial Knot

Estimating true ratings - If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff that would float to the top would be pretty o...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ad account of Atlanta influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest. ...
Democracy Chronicles

Iran’s Upheaval and the Test of Global Resolve - The Iranian people have never been this resolute in their objective, which is toppling the regime. The regime has already fallen in the minds of the public.
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks - A new Internet-of-Things botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed de...
Discourse

An Important and Exciting Update About Discourse Blog - Why we decided to go all-in on our podcast and what it means for the blog going forward.
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...
DeSmogBlog

As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed? - On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where i...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Idavox

J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback - Ever since Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for assaulting police officers on Jan. 6,... The post J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback appeared first o...
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...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

America Is Rapidly Collapsing as Trump Creates His New World Order - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of Am...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FRAUDS ON PARADE EDITION. - *24 years? Really?* I was grateful, in this grim and gloomy week, for the laughs afforded by Evan Mandery’s story in Politico, “They Wanted a University ...
MintPress News

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again - From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran. The post The Regime Cha...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
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...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Culture and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
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...
Environment Texas

House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards - Bill passed in the House creates water and energy efficiency loophole for shower heads. The post House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards appe...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Liberation News

La guerra de Washington contra la soberanía y el desarrollo en Venezuela - [image: Mobilization in Venezuela calls for the return of Maduro from US captivity]La guerra contra Venezuela es una guerra contra la idea misma de que los...
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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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