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

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 Verge

Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on - Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associat...
memeorandum

Trump revives policy penalizing immigrants for using safety net programs (Alice Miranda Ollstein/Politico) - Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico: *Trump revives policy penalizing immigrants for using safety net programs* … The Department of Homeland Security will ...
Al Jazeera English

US Fed Governor Cook offers detailed defence in mortgage fraud case - Cook's lawyer says the criminal referrals against her 'fail on even the most cursory look at the facts'.
The Week

Obesity drugs: Will Trump’s plan lower costs? - Even $149 a month, the advertised price for a starting dose of a still-in-development GLP-1 pill on TrumpRx, will be too big a burden for the many American...
Mediaite

Johnson Pressed On If Trump Calling MTG a ‘Traitor’ Is Putting Her Safety At Risk - “The president has called Marjorie Taylor Greene a traitor. She says it's impacting her security and safety. Would you advise the president to stop calli...
Courthouse News

Feds recount seizing cash, cars, jewelry from former Cuomo-Hochul staffer - The FBI seized a Patek Philippe watch, a 2024 Ferrari and more than $130,000 in cash from raids on Linda Sun and her family.
Houston Public Media

Harris County will implement AI to expedite permitting process for new builds - Officials with the county's engineering department said artificial intelligence would make the process quicker, more accurate and easier for the public to ...
Political Wire

Democrats Look to Beat Back Resolution - Punchbowl News: “Democrats will offer a motion to table Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s (D-WA) resolution to formally disapprove of retiring Rep. Chuy Garcí...
San Antonio Current

Report: Nearly 90% of homes in San Antonio, Austin, declining in value - However, only 8% of new listings in San Antonio are selling at a loss, the analysis shows. The post Report: Nearly 90% of homes in San Antonio, Austin,...
Alternet

'Same look of confusion': Trump's niece says his memory 'deteriorating' like his father's - Mary Trump on Monday escalated her accusations that her uncle, President Donald Trump, is suffering from dementia, sighting the “same look of confusion” ...
The Hill

NIH funding cuts have impacted over 74,000 people enrolled in trials: Report - More than 74,000 people have had their lives disrupted by Trump administration cuts to clinical trials supported by the National Institutes of Health, acco...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Movement For Socialism In The Age Of Trump 2.0: Socialist Alternative Convention 2025 - Over a weekend in early November, more than 250 socialists gathered in Maryland for the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention. Our members traveled far fro...
Axios

UN Security Council approves Trump plan for Gaza security force - The UN Security Council on Monday approved a U.S.-led resolution to establish an international stabilization force (ISF) to deploy to Gaza for at least t...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's Hobby Airport saw sharp passenger decline in 2025, per study - A new global airport travel study has revealed passenger traffic at Houston's William P. Hobby Airport (HOU) sharply decreased from 2024 to 2025.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump has ‘blurred’ line between military and politics, ex-officers warn - Former leaders’ report cautions against politicizing armed forces as national guard deployments raise tensions in US With months of escalation between US...
Election Law Blog

Democratic backsliding is not just a matter of how the government treats citizens - We often work and think in silos. Law of democracy scholars assess the state of democracy by considering the fairness of our elections. Traditionally, ou...
Raw Story

'Good luck with that': Expert scoffs at desperate Trump DOJ move in high-stakes case - The Trump Justice Department has made a motion to try to get around a devastating blow to their prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey that came ...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Did Tina Brown (possibly) get it wrong? - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2025* *In search of brilliant writing:* On this campus, we've long admired Tina Brown for her smarts and for her good sense. Over ...
ArcaMax

10 things Democrats should pledge to do about Trump’s economy when they’re back in power - Trump claimed last week on social media that “Our economy is BOOMING, and Costs are coming way down,” and that “grocery prices are way down." Rubbish. How ...
WhoWhatWhy

Judge Rules Trump’s Insurance Lawyer May Have Tainted Comey Indictment - [image: Lindsey Halligan, White House] Did Donald Trump's former lawyer-turned US attorney cut some corners when seeking the indictment of former FBI Direc...
NPR's Health Shots

For clues on how to evade cancer, some scientists look to the bowhead whale - Where might we look for inspiration for new cancer therapies? Some researchers say the bowhead whale may offer clues.
Techdirt.

Pete Hegseth Has Turned State Violence Into TikTok Content - You know this is a spectacle, right? A show. That’s what it is. A performance for social media. With blood. Pete Hegseth just ordered the twenty-first stri...
Second Nexus

'Wicked' Star Furiously Speaks Out After Ariana Grande Was Accosted By Fan In Scary Incident At Premiere - Marissa Bode is not here for anyone disrespecting her *Wicked* family—especially not Ariana Grande. The 25-year-old actor, who plays Nessarose Thropp in ...
Church and State

Good reasons for feeling helpless? Any solutions? - I remain confident that Trump’s record has reached a new level of immorality that even the dullest among us, may vote correctly.
Ballot Access News

Constitution Party Wins Two Contested Partisan Offices in Pennsylvania - On November 4, the Constitution Party won two contested partisan elections in Pennsylvania. Robert E. Smith defeated his major party opponents for School D...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Texas Gas Service seeks El Paso rate hike as electric, water bills set to increase - The proposal to consolidate service areas would lower rates in some regions, while increasing El Paso gas bills. Here’s how the proposal compares to pla...
Mediagazer

Jeffrey Epstein's emails, released by the US House Oversight Committee, contain Michael Wolff's unpublished Epstein profile, raising access journalism concerns (Ben Smith/Semafor) - Ben Smith / Semafor: *Jeffrey Epstein's emails, released by the US House Oversight Committee, contain Michael Wolff's unpublished Epstein profile, raisin...
Daily Dot

“10/10 would recommend”: TikTok swears by the “potato bed” sleep hack - [image: 3 Panel: Woman in bed under caption reading, "let's make the VIRAL potato bed." Middle: Potato bed. Right: Woman in bed with iPad, text overlay r...
NORML

US Attorney Says Feds Will “Rigorously Prosecute” Low-Level Marijuana Violations, Reversing Prior Administrative Guidance - [image: marijuana handcuffs][image: marijuana handcuffs]NORML's Deputy Director Paul Armentano called the Justice Department’s policy change "inappropria...
Slate

They’re the Most Insidious Mom Influencers on TikTok. They Drive Me Insane. I Know Why They’re Doing This. - So why can't I stop watching?
World Socialist Web Site

UK Labour government unveils far-right anti-immigration programme - The SEP warned in May, weeks before the fascist-led mobilisations outside hotels housing asylum seekers began, “Shorn of its name, conjuring images of a lo...
Futurism

Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse - "Bitcoin has fallen fast, hard, and with no clear trigger." The post Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse appeared first on Futurism .
Mondoweiss

Understanding the mindset behind Israel’s usage of rape as a weapon of genocide - [image: Israelis cheer two of the five Israeli soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention center, during a court hearing...
Wolf Street

Construction Spending on Data Centers, Factories, Powerplants, and Office Buildings: Boom at One End, Bust at the Other End - But spending on factories dwarfs spending on data centers.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Anthony Cristo Announces 2026 Bid for Texas Lieutenant Governor - Libertarian Anthony Cristo has announced that he is running for Texas lieutenant governor in 2026, becoming the first publicly declared Libertarian candi...
OpEd News

Trump advances a plan for a new Syria - The article talks about the Syrian president Ahmad Al-Shara's visit to the white house and meeting president Trump
San Antonio Report

Feds launch new Homeland Security Task Force, confirm 140 arrests in San Antonio raid - Federal officials launched a new Homeland Security Task Force in South Texas on Monday, confirming more than 140 people were detained during a court-author...
Capital & Main

In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail - As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each othe...
Progressive.org

Bill McKibben Sees COP30 as a ‘Real Opening for Quicker Progress’ - The famed environmentalist considers the United Nations meeting on climate.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: TACO MIGA Breaks With MAGA Over the Epstein Files - A look at Trump's attempts to kick 2 MAGA stalwarts out of Congress and the what the New York Times is leaving out of its Epstein coverage.
First Draft

A Media That Asks ‘What Is The Point Of Standards?’ - Our elite media outlets can't be bothered by silly things like ethics and standards.
Bonddad

August construction spending: strong nominal headline masks neutral real trend in the deep rear view mirror - - *by New Deal democrat* The good news is, with the end of the government shutdown, economic data reporting resumed this morning. The bad news is, w...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to clean up plastic pellets across the state - Staff and coalition partners help stage four events in Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston The post Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: UN Members Complicit in Genocide - U.N. Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese discusses why, in her most recent report, she called out more than 60 nations for their collective-...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Greg Palast

Lumberjack Trump - The US housing market is melting. Trump’s solution: 50-year mortgages instead of 30-year loans. As an economist, I can tell you 50 years or 30 years don’t ...
Liberation News

Queens tenants fight for dignified housing and against the war economy - In La Mesa Verde alone, 859 violations have been filed against the owner, A&E Real Estate – one of New York City’s largest landlords
Salon.com

Trump’s call to release the Epstein files could get in the way of Bondi’s investigation - Trump's political reversal could complicate matters for his administration
The Daily Poster

Now Loading: The Epstein Files - Not even Donald Trump can stop what’s coming next.
Daily Cartoonist

Matt Wuerker Wins 2025 Berryman - The National Press Foundation has announced Matt Wuerker as the winner of the 2025 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons. Matt Wuerk...
Dissident Voice

The Truth about Nuclear Weapons - I am grateful for the invitation from The China Academy and its Thinkers’ Forum in Shanghai to shed light on the dark logic behind nuclear weapons—their ...
The Texas Signal

Fluid Motion: The Perfect Mix of Art and Science in Houston - An exhibit currently shown in both the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Nicole Longnecker Gallery is a compelling mixture of art and science
Scheerpost.com

60 Minutes Exposes Trump’s Controversial CZ Pardon Tied to Billion-Dollar Crypto Deal - A presidential pardon shouldn’t look like a family business perk.But Trump’s CZ pardon — and the $2B crypto windfall tied to his sons Trump’s Pardon of Bin...
SCOTUSblog

Court turns down hearing cases on prison construction, school prayer - Over the objections of three justices, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from the sheriff of New Orleans in a dispute over the city’s obl...
Vox

An exciting update to Vox’s Membership program - The Vox Membership program is getting even better. We’re excited to announce that Vox is now on Patreon. We’re using Patreon’s tools to introduce great ne...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
The Root

After Trump, One of These 13 Republicans Could Lead MAGA - These 13 MAGA Republicans could replace Trump by 2028. Read more...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2025 - I’m later than usual with this link roundup. Not apologizing, just observing. Last month, on The Asexual Agenda, I published “From definitions to motivati...
Project Censored

News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse - We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities...
Undernews

Falmouth keeps good lawn care ordinance - *Friends of Casco Bay - *If Casco Bay could talk, it would say thank you to the citizens of Falmouth, who voted to uphold their town’s pesticide and fert...
Glasstire

Artpace Announces Rigoberto Luna as Guest Curator for Fall 2026 International Artist-in-Residence Program - San Antonian Rigoberto Luna has been announced as the Fall 2026 International Artist-in-Residence Guest Curator for Artpace, marking the first time a San...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump’s Reversal On Epstein Files Does Not Mean Release Is Inevitable - Donald Trump’s reversal on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files may have been accepting the inevitable, a House vote this week that otherwise would see...
The NM Political Report

Opinion: Beyond “Book Bans”: The scientific truth about protecting our children - Opinions Anthonty “Ant” Thornton is a state senator representing State Senate District 19 including parts of Torrance, Santa Fe, Sandoval and Bernalillo ...
Ian Welsh

Some Thoughts On Epstein’s Non-Moral Virtues - Obviously Epstein was scum of the lowest order. A blackmailer, a pimp, a pedophile and a traitor. (Working with Mossad to blackmail American politicians wa...
Democracy Now!

"Just Transition": Polluting Countries Must Take Responsibility for Extreme Climate Change - With negotiations in their second week here at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, we get an update on the United Nations talks from Asad Rehman...
The Conversation

White nationalism fuels tolerance for political violence nationwide - Active white nationalist groups operate in all but two U.S. states. Researchers have found that there’s a strong association between holding white national...
Space City Weather

Houston will push record highs this week before our first serious rains since October - In brief: In today’s post we discuss record heat in November, with a couple of days this week likely breaking high temperature marks. Houston is also going...
Texas Observer

Pitted Against Waste - Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between the Texas Observer and Inside Climate News. For 15 years, Debrah Linn and her children have raised c...
Mother Jones

Federal Cash for Lead Pipe Replacement Isn’t Making It to Illinois Communities - This story, a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and Chicago-area public radio station WBEZ, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk co...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Flip-Flops on Epstein” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou catch you up from the weekend in news. Am...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Liquidonate CEO Disney Petit On Solving The Retail Returns Crisis - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. What if the solution... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Liquidonate CEO Dis...
Dorf on Law

Freedom of Thought, Compelled Speech, and Expressive Businesses - I spent Friday of last week at a one-day symposium called *Revitalizing Freedom of Thought *hosted by the Cornell Law Review. There was a great slate of ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Truly Sh*tty Economy -
Skeptophilia

A leap into the dark - Beliefs in an afterlife of some sort are pretty ubiquitous. It's understandable; death is scary, and seems final, and it's natural enough to want life in ...
Angry Bear

Don the con - Trump says affordability is “a con job by the Democrats.” Who ya gonna believe, The Donald or your lyin’ eyes? When Trump speaks of cons, we should liste...
Crooked Media

The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh - The post The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

The clown show that is the pro-casino interests in Texas - Just amazing stuff. After a string of legislative defeats in 2025, a test of the political power of those pushing to legalize gambling in Texas fell flat a...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
ProPublica

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. - The post He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. appeared first on ProPublica.
slacktivist

We’ll think of something funny when we write your epitaph - Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in Wont seem like a heaven to me
High Country News

After Trump cuts, seeds sit in the warehouse - [image: Person manicuring sagebrush seedlings] Western groups lose federal grants for urgent restoration and conservation projects. The post After Trump ...
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
Counterpunch

Antisemitism, Campus Censorship and Freedom of Expression - Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them...
DeSmogBlog

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds - Agribusiness companies enlisted an army of Brazilian social media influencers ahead of the United Nations climate summit, now underway in the Amazonian c...
The AltWorld

How Likely Is It That Switzerland Follows The EU Into Vassalage To The US? - The US already proved in the Malaysian and Cambodian cases that it can successfully weaponize tariffs to […] The post How Likely Is It That Switzerland F...
jobsanger

Renewing ACA Subsidies Is Not Just Smart Policy - It Is Basic Governance -
Informed Comment

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance - Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history
The Grayzone

The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits - In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....
Portside

Justice Jackson Goes ‘Her Own Way’ in SNAP Fight - Justice Jackson Goes ‘Her Own Way’ in SNAP Fight barry Sun, 11/16/2025 - 23:22
Popular Resistance

Activists Mobilize Across The Americas To Demand ‘Hands Off Venezuela’ - The US military has extrajudicially killed 80 people in 20 strikes that have destroyed 21 boats, in aerial strikes off the coast of Venezuela. With outra...
The Greanville Post

Southern Spear: The American Pole and the Recolonization of the Hemisphere - PRINCE KAPONE—The fourth contradiction is historical. The United States is attempting to resurrect the Monroe Doctrine in a hemisphere that has spent two c...
Antiwar.com

Brittany Pettersen’s Blood Money and the Babies of Gaza - Children are a gift from God. In a world rigged against the little guy – where BlackRock and its ilk scoop up homes while families scrape by on shrinking p...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition - Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least...
See You In 2020

The anti-fascist fight’s current limitations, & the actions the workers must undertake to overcome them - Russia’s war against the U.S.-installed Kiev Nazi regime has gotten far, but for it to be completed, the world’s workers must take their struggle much f...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Reform Austin

Opponents Tried to Spin an Escort Scandal—Talarico Shut It Down Immediately - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… James Talarico, Democratic Texas state representative and U.S. Senate candidate, has drawn atte...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Back to Business' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spec...
Grist

The birth of the climate doula - In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and...
Infidel753

Quote for the day -- stubborn, petty and stupid - "But at least the government will be open again. There is *never any excuse* for the government to close. Let's keep this simple: shutdown politics is s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies - *Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuel...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
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 ...
Duck of Minerva

Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility - I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of politics and governance. We live in an age of populism, risi...
Workers World

Long March for Mumia! - [image: Long March for Mumia!] The following is based on a lightly edited post from Zayid Muhammad in support of the Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2025 March for Mumia: ...
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
Texas Standard

New list serves up 100 of Houston’s best restaurants - The Houston Chronicle’s rankings features a wide price range and hearty helping of the diversity found among the city’s cuisine.
LareDOS

No more fat Generals and Admirals, No more Beardos! - Hegseth's comedic arrogance: In Vietnam he would have made a very ineffective platoon leader and kept in the rear
Common Dreams

Citizens Groups and Experts Warn Federal Officials that Recent Trump Executive Orders Would Decimate Standards for Radiation Exposure - Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal offic...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Rewire

Immigrant Women More Exposed to Breast Cancer Risks At Work - Occupations predominated by immigrant women came with significant exposures to cancer-linked chemicals, a new study finds. The post Immigrant Women More...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict - BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaus...
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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