Brains and Eggs: Happy 2016 Toons

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

The Week

The Mint’s 250th anniversary coins face a whitewashing controversy - The designs omitted several notable moments for civil rights and women’s rights
Eschaton

Proper Headline - Rare these days.
Raw Story

Star rapper wants to 'dance with Maduro' behind bars — and play card games - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine checked into prison Tuesday at the same high-security Brooklyn facility as ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, saying he'd...
Courthouse News

Security forces clash with protesters in Iran’s main market as at least 36 killed in demonstrations - The growing death toll carries with it the chance of American intervention.
memeorandum

Jack Smith reveals Jan. 6 committee charade (Byron York/Washington Examiner) - Byron York / Washington Examiner: *Jack Smith reveals Jan. 6 committee charade* — JACK SMITH REVEALS JAN. 6 COMMITTEE CHARADE. Today marks the fifth a...
Political Wire

Talks Begin to Ship Venezuelan Oil to the U.S. - “Venezuelan and U.S. officials are discussing exporting Venezuelan crude to refiners in the United States,” Reuters reports. “Venezuela has millions of bar...
Vox

Republicans accidentally protected abortion while trying to kill Obamacare - The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that abortion must remain legal in that state, despite a 2023 law seeking to ban it. The case is known as State ...
Wolf Street

Bank of Japan’s QT Cuts $502 billion from Balance Sheet. JGB Yields Surge as BOJ Steps away from Bond Market - Japanese Government Bond 10-year yield rose to 20-year high of 2.13%, 30-year yield hit 3.50%.
Mediaite

LA Mayor Compares Trump’s ICE ‘Kidnappings’ to Japanese Internment Camps and Fugitive Slave Patrols - LA Mayor Karen Bass compared President Trump sending ICE agents to arrest illegal immigrants to "fugitive slave patrols" and to the Japanese internment c...
Mother Jones

A New Theory Explains Why Trump Keeps Threatening Global Takeovers - Since the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and the ensuing claim by US leaders that “we’re in charge” of a sovereign nation, President Trump and...
Second Nexus

Miley Cyrus Shows Rude Paparazzi Who's Boss With Iconic Clapback On The Red Carpet - Miley Cyrus can buy herself flowers and write her own name in the sand, and she can most certainly decide where and how she's going to stand during a pho...
Futurism

Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence - A trillion dollar company at work. The post Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence appeared first on Futurism.
Daily Dot

“Sign of the apocalypse”: Lego’s new “Smart Brick” has some parents deeply unsettled - [image: Lego Smart Brick at CES 2026. Tweet text overlay reads, "Legos gone digital? Goodbye childhood, hello dystopia."] Stepping on a Lego might become...
NORML

Maryland: Howard County Firefighters No Longer Face Sanctions for Off-Hours Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis][image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis]NORML worked...
Popular Resistance

The Narwhal Press Freedom Trial Is One Week Away - Three years ago, our small, independent news organization made a very big decision: we were going to take the RCMP to court. Now, we’re about to head to ...
SCOTUSblog

Maduro’s arrest places these Supreme Court rulings in the spotlight - As former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro prepares to fight drug, weapon, and narco-terrorism charges in the United States after being arrested in Ca...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Labour government supports US abduction of Maduro, while pledging to defend Greenland - As supportive as Starmer has been of Trump’s crimes, the UK has been excluded from the spoils and is increasingly in the firing line of a White House which...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Scribe gives voice to a gloomy thought! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026* *Charlie Pierce gets it right: *The president continues to rant and yell about how the 2020 election was stolen. Or at least, ...
Al Jazeera English

Birzeit University raid seen as warning against Palestinian defiance - Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank during a solidarity event for Palestinian prisoners.
San Antonio Current

Bexar County drivers will be required to get vehicles’ emissions tested starting Nov. 1 - [image: If you think San Antonio traffic is bad, well, you're correct. But it's worse in Houston and Dallas.] Gov. Greg Abbott may have liberated San Anto...
Slate

Maduro Could Have Avoided His Capture Entirely if He Had Checked This App - The bets on his ouster should be treated like a five-alarm fire.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration escalates attack on Minnesota with more immigration agents - Another 2,000 ICE and homeland security agents will reportedly head to the state, targeting immigrant populations The Trump administration has sent more ...
CultureMap Houston

20 Houston restaurants and bars serving spirit-free sips for Dry January - January may be a time to resist a tipple for many, but that doesn’t mean skipping Houston’s bar scene. For those embracing Dry January, local hot spots are...
The Verge

The biggest Nvidia announcements at CES 2026 - We're not even a full week into 2026 yet, but Nvidia has already announced several products and updates to start the new year. Nvidia's new Vera Rubin arch...
Mediagazer

HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others (Eva Baron/Publishers Weekly) - Eva Baron / Publishers Weekly: *HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footst...
The Hill

Kemp sets date for special election to fill remainder of Marjorie Taylor Greene's term - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has set a March date for a special election to fill the vacancy left by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she resigned ...
Axios

Five years after Jan. 6 riot, few repercussions and even less agreement - Five years after a violent mob stormed the Capitol, the criminal repercussions may be gone, but the social divide remains. *The big picture: *President ...
First Draft

Remember January 6, 2021 - Never forget.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. War Without Boundaries - Over the past two decades, use of U.S. military force has shifted from an exceptional act governed by law and public accountability to a flexible, discreti...
Houston Public Media

Texas teachers’ union sues state over disciplinary actions tied to Charlie Kirk posts - The Texas Education Agency received more than 350 complaints involving teachers and staff who commented on the assassination of Charlie Kirk on social media.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 6, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: While we were out: Donald Trump deposed Venezuela's pres...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

With Walz Exiting but Klobuchar Potentially Entering, Minnesota’s Gubernatorial Race Remains Likely Democratic - With Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) dropping his bid for a third term, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly taking a serious look at running for governor. For n...
slacktivist

Epiphany (One of us) - Every year here, on January 6, we talk about Jesus, Job, and Jodie Foster.
Undernews

Number of shootings at schools - World of Statistics Number of shootings at schools within the United States: 2000: 31 .2005: 52 .2010: 15 .2015: 41 .2020: 116 .2025: 233
Reform Austin

Trial Puts Uvalde Shooting Response Under Legal Scrutiny - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A jury has been seated in Corpus Christi for the trial of a former Uvalde school police officer...
Techdirt.

Appeals Court Tells Trump California National Guard Members Are No Longer His To Use And Abuse - Given the recent Supreme Court ruling that (surprisingly!) said Trump did not have the executive power to commandeer National Guard troops to aid and abet ...
The Daily Poster

Open Borders For OnlyFans - Online influencers are increasingly receiving visas based on their "extraordinary ability or achievement” and audience size.
Common Dreams

Analysis: Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Could Generate 4,000+ Oil Spills - The Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically ramp up offshore oil drilling could lead to 4,232 oil spills, dumping 12.1 million gallons of oil int...
The NM Political Report

Opinion: What it will take to grow New Mexico’s economy - Steven B. Chavez is the principal at Mesa del Sol, SC3 International, SC3 Development and SC3 Mechanical and Electrical. Originally from Grants, he now l...
Salon.com

Will 2026 bring back the blockbuster? - Audiences are seeking lively shared experiences with their fellow moviegoers — and redefining success along the way
Independent Political Report

Pirate National Committee Votes to Recognize Ohio as New Member State, Approves Bylaws for Youth Affiliate - The Pirate National Committee has voted to recognize the Ohio Pirate Party as its ninth national committee member state. It also approved new bylaws for ...
Scheerpost.com

Academic Freedom on Life Support: Trump’s War on Knowledge Exposed - In this episode of Scheer Intelligence, Robert Scheer speaks with Professor Steve Macek about what he calls an unprecedented assault on academic freedom in...
Election Law Blog

“‘It’s Going to Change Everything’: A Supreme Court Case Could Rock Campaigns This Year” - Notus: Even before the year began, Democrats and Republican strategists began sketching out how the SCOTUS ruling — which could allow for nearly unlimit...
Capital & Main

In a Time of Extreme Peril, Burmese Journalists Tell Stories From the Shadows - American foreign policy complicates an already difficult situation for those reporting on the civil war in Myanmar. The post In a Time of Extreme Peril, ...
Dissident Voice

Irreversible Robust Tempo of Charter School Failures and Closures - Charter schools are deregulated private entities that embrace “free market” ideology. They rest firmly on consumerism, competition, and the medieval view...
WhoWhatWhy

State Laws Aim to Protect Environment, Consumers as Trump Wages War on Climate - [image: Farmers, equipment operators, Right to Repair, laws] “The gridlock and partisanship we see in Washington, DC, can be dispiriting. But history shows...
El Paso Matters

6 El Paso schools recognized for top math, reading STAAR scores among low-income students - CREEED’s Education for All Initiative honors teachers at five elementary schools in El Paso County with a large number of economically disadvantaged stu...
Mondoweiss

The last Columbia student protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity - [image: Leqaa Kordia]Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Co...
Bonddad

Real wages and consumer spending have been crucial positives; here is the most updated look - - *New Deal democrat* We are still suffering the aftereffects of the government shutdown, with no data today, but a helping of mainly stale government ...
The Root

How Rap Producer Hit-Boy Gets the Last Laugh After His Home is Robbed - Hit-Boy marks the second rap producer to be robbed in 2026 so far... and he has a special message for the unknown assailants Read more...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: Celebrating Glasstire’s 25th Anniversary - Welcome to Glasstire’s 25th anniversary! Way back in 2001, when the internet was nascent and many people didn’t know how to get online, Rainey Knudson fo...
Countercurrents

Land Ownership And Urban-Rural Inequalities - Landlessness is a strong indicator of rural poverty in the country.Possession of land provides economic independence, livelihood and social status to po...
Dorf on Law

The Trumpian Version of the Monroe Doctrine is Simply Might Makes Right - When President James Monroe articulated what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States lacked the kind of naval power that would have be...
Democracy Now!

Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear - Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family....
The Conversation

2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the global stage - The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and mi...
Texas Observer

Midterm Memo: The C-Team. Maybe B-. - Much like how a sailor, lost and withering at sea, at least gets the chance to see the world, Texas’ ailing Democrats will get the chance this year to re...
Space City Weather

Houston faces a few more anomalously warm days before January feels like January again - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the potential for setting daily high temperature records this week ahead of a front on Friday. There also will be some...
Crooked Media

May the Odds Be in Your Favor - The post May the Odds Be in Your Favor appeared first on Crooked Media.
Angry Bear

December ISM manufacturing report: continued contraction, continued stagflation, poor employment - – by New Deal democrat We are still suffering the data aftereffects of the government shutdown. Normally we begin each month with reports on both constr...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Cause and Effect - Jennings introduces today theme with what should be an obvious point, though perhaps it takes someone from outside the US (He’s British) to ask the questio...
Rallblog

Rogue State | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live 9 AM Eastern and Streaming All Day: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every week...
ArcaMax

Going to Extremes: As Our Domestic Cancer Spreads, America Flails - Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastas...
Alternet

MAGA’s America First faction 'falls in line' with Trump’s interventionism: analysis - Donald Trump ran for reelection with the slogan of "America First" and a promise to end costly foreign wars, but as the new year kicked off, he seemed to...
Earth 911

Oops, We Did It Again: 2025 Second Hottest Year On Record - Yes, we resorted to a Britney Spears reference, but this isn’t cute anymore. The World... The post Oops, We Did It Again: 2025 Second Hottest Year On Rec...
Consortium News

Israel Uses US Venezuela Attack To Threaten Iran - Trump’s attack on Venezuela came after he appeared to threaten another war with Iran over protests inside the country, Dave DeCamp reports. By Dave DeCamp...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Mental Decline Has Him ‘Paranoid’ About Losing Power: Psychologist -
Skeptophilia

All that glitters - If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands. It's a little scratc...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Jim Kovach - (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 ...
San Antonio Report

Alamo Colleges District eyes adding more December graduation ceremonies to boost participation - Last fall, San Antonio College and Northwest Vista College held their first fall commencement joining St. Philip's college. ------------------------------ ...
NPR's Health Shots

More seniors are becoming homeless. Shelters are trying to adapt - Older adults are the fastest-growing homeless population across the U.S. Now some shelters are trying to make it easier to accommodate older people.
ProPublica

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative. - The post Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Why forcing people to go green can backfire - A new study reveals a conundrum for climate policy: People hate when you tell them what to do.
High Country News

An age-old monument faces modern threats - [image: The erroding terraces of Smoky Mountain in the southeast reaches of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.] Scientists say Grand Stai...
Portside

For Americans, 2026 Started With Two Starkly Different Visions for the Country - For Americans, 2026 Started With Two Starkly Different Visions for the Country Mark Brody Tue, 01/06/2026 - 02:46
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Photo of Nicolás Maduro Aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima - The use of blindfolds and earmuffs to transport Maduro can’t be justified on national security grounds. Did they fear Maduro calling his generals on a ce...
jobsanger

President Rodriguez Says Venezuela Will Not Be A Colony Of Any Empire -
Deadline Politics

Jon Stewart Slams Trump Reversal On Non-Interventionism: “I Think There’s Still Some Time To Go After Warner Bros. Discovery” - Back for his first Monday night episode of The Daily Show this year, Jon Stewart dragged President Donald Trump and his MAGA base for their course reversal...
Informed Comment

Vietnam on the Nile? With Chinese investment, Egypt turns to Solar Panel Manufacturing - If Egyptians manage their affairs well, they could become the Vietnam of the Middle East with regard to solar panel production.
The Grayzone

Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness - The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony fro...
Idavox

U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism Without the Mask - No, this is not liberation. It’s kidnapping. It’s an illegal attack on a sovereign nation... The post U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism With...
Workers World

Coast to coast U.S. protests say ‘No blood for oil!’ – Release Maduro now! - [image: Coast to coast U.S. protests say ‘No blood for oil!’ – Release Maduro now!] Just 12 hours after the U.S. violently violated Venezuela’s sovereignty...
Progressive.org

El Salvador, Again - The United States and its ally incite new levels of international chaos.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Former New York Times editor claims that paper's anti-trans slant was deliberate and came from management - Some of us suspected the following. It looks like we were right. I guess that can be seen as *some* comfort. From THEM: Former *New York Times* editor ...
Ian Welsh

Keep Your Eyes On The Long Game of Imperial Collapse - The kidnapping of Maduro is fascinating and it’s interesting to speculate whether it was inside job. Some sources have claimed it, we’ll know by the action...
Antiwar.com

Regime Change and Nation-Building Are Back! - As was the case the morning after “Shock and Awe” signaled the start of the Iraq war, many are cheering the US military raid on Venezuela and capture of it...
Claytoonz

Maduro On ICE - 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...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Church and State

Trump’s Venezuela attack puts the USA in another war with boots on the ground for oil we don’t need and with his blatant corruption continuing! - Trump‘s presentation was long and rambling, and filled with self-congratulations followed by a press conference.
Duck of Minerva

Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty? - In my international relations classes, I encourage my students to not just express their (mostly negative) views of Trump’s foreign policy. I also ask them...
Ballot Access News

Independent Political Report Collects Statements about Venezuela Events by Various U.S. Political Parties - Independent Political Report has collected official statements from various U.S. political parties about current events in Venezuela. See the collection h...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Texas Standard

From Caracas to Houston: How Venezuela’s oil future could affect Texas - Markets thus far have shown a muted response amid uncertainty over a still-developing situation.
Dissent Magazine

The Trump Doctrine - For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is t...
The Greanville Post

FOR THE RECORD: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Jan. 4, 2026 - PG— For the record we reproduce here ABC News' episode of Jan. 4, 2026, covering via blatant lies and other distortions the lawless abduction of Venezuela'...
Environment Texas

Plastic Pellet Free Waters for Texas - Texans deserve waters free from microplastics. Let’s hold manufacturers to the same standards we hold ourselves to and stop spilling pellets in our water...
Project Censored

Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State - In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. Dr. H...
The Progressive Wing

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Discourse

The Word For This Is 'Coup' - Call what Donald Trump just did in Venezuela by its proper name.
Rewire

Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be a Vicious Cycle, Especially During pregnancy—Here’s Why It’s Important To Get Help - "Healthy sleep is a necessity for improving your mental health during pregnancy and at all times of life." The post Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be ...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 5 January 2026 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] "Bad" sources meaning "factually wrong", *not* "ideologic...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why Aren't Professors Braver? Fear and Self-Censorship in Academe, by Paul Bloom, Chronicle of Higher Education - * Friends:* *I'm finally getting around to reading this piece that is listed by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its most widely read articles...
The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Statement Issued January 3, 2026 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party The Socialis...
See You In 2020

Big tech’s agenda of AI pandemonium, & the breakthrough that will come from defeating it - When John Martin created his 1841 painting Pandemonium, pictured above, he was reacting to the hell that capital had created through the industrial revo...
The AltWorld

14 Points on Trump Kidnap of Venezuelan President Maduro on the Sixth Anniversary of the Trump Assassination of Haj Qassem Soleimani - I have tried to collate some of the main talking points on the recent criminal events in […] The post 14 Points on Trump Kidnap of Venezuelan President M...
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill - [image: Windmill Hill]
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Free pleating - I made this a couple months ago in an origami workshop with Goran Konjevod. The subject of the workshop was how to pleat paper without pre-creasing. It’s...
Democracy Chronicles

The Capture of Venezuela’s President and the Crisis of Democratic Norms - Even when a leader is accused of serious crimes, international law does not permit a foreign power to act as police, prosecutor, and jailer simultaneously.
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s New War For Regime Change—Hands Off Venezuela! - Read in Spanish below For mass struggle against imperialist plunder, bullying and war Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin A...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier On Why There Is No Free-Will - Edouard Tahmizian had an interesting discussion with Richard Carrier about the metaphysical impossibility of libertarian free will. Our actions are aimed a...
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 ...
Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network - The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been explo...
TalkLeft

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Liberation News

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade puts millions of lives at risk - Making America healthy means fighting for a system that values people more than the profit.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Storm: Preparing for 2026 and the Battles to Come - We're in the thick of a pivotal moment in our lives and history. It's time to take a breath and look at where we're heading.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Current Gaza War Is a Repeat Of Previous Atrocities - As I pointed out in previous articles, Israel has been committing atrocities, which traditional media rarely ever remind us of, assuming the report on them...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - With all the jigging and *cooning *in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the sellouts and slave catchers among us. I have ...
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
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...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
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

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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 ...
Novara Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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