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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

Raw Story

'Sounds like threats to me': Jimmy Kimmel bashes FCC chair in new skit with famous actor - Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel bashed FCC chair Brendan Carr in a skit on a new episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Tuesday. "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump angered by ‘bad escalator’ at UN as White House vows to investigate malfunction - Press secretary speculates the escalator stopped on purpose to humiliate president, but UN says safety function may have been ‘inadvertently triggered’ ...
jobsanger

Trump Has Crossed The Reddest Of Red Lines -
The Week

Crossword: September 24, 2025 - The Week's daily crossword
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Worker killed in Perth factory earmarked to build AUKUS submarine parts - The 45-year-old man was the second worker killed at the Hofmann Engineering factory in a little over six years.
Mediaite

MSNBC Team Gushes Over Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Perfect’ Tone in Monologue - Jimmy Kimmel's first monologue after his show returned from suspension got a warm reception on MSNBC right after it aired, drawing effusive praise from t...
Al Jazeera English

Gaza aid flotilla hit by drone attacks and explosions, activists say - Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on Tuesday.
Counterpunch

Big Thinking for the Survival of Birds - Prologue Tim Birkhead, a British ornithologist, introduced me to the extremely ancient and flightless sea bird, Auk, that made a living in the North Atla...
The Hill

Jimmy Kimmel rips Brendan Carr, Trump in tearful return to late night - Comedian Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late night perch on Tuesday, giving an emotional response to the backlash his comments last week on the killing of Ch...
Deadline Politics

No ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ In D.C.: Sinclair-Owned ABC Affiliate Airs Expanded Newscast - Donald Trump may be irate at ABC for reinstating Jimmy Kimmel, but he still won’t find the late-night talk host’s show on the airwaves in Washington, D.C. ...
Daily Cartoonist

Jake Tapper Jokes He May Have to Go Back to Cartooning (A History) - Jimmy Kimmel will return to air on Tuesday night after being briefly suspended by Disney last week, a decision celebrated by many on Monday night, includin...
Informed Comment

Despite New Western Recognition of Palestine, the Israeli Gov’t is Coming for the West Bank - Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; feature) – As a native Palestinian, visiting my homeland is not just about seeing family and friends. It’s also about...
memeorandum

Kimmel Calls Kirk Murderer 'Sick' ABC as Trump Renews Attack (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Kimmel Calls Kirk Murderer ‘Sick’ ABC as Trump Renews Attack* — Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took a conciliatory tone in his return to TV ...
Mediagazer

In a post, President Trump criticized ABC for returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air and said he would "test ABC out" as "they gave me $16 Million Dollars" last time (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *In a post, President Trump criticized ABC for returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air and said he would “test ABC out” as “they gave ...
Common Dreams

Optuse Sexual Predator Approved - In celebration of Friendship Month and presumably his stupendous speech at the UN, wherein he raved, bloviated and browbeat world leaders that their coun...
Techdirt.

Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright - The latest generation of AI systems, based on large language models (LLMs), is perceived as the biggest threat in decades to the established copyright orde...
Political Wire

FBI Found Classified Documents in Bolton’s Office - “FBI agents executing a search warrant at former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington office last month turned up documents marked a...
Courthouse News

Feds must fund city grants - SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration's attempt to revoke federal funding from a coalition of cities ...
The Verge

iFixit zooms in on reports of an iPhone 17 Pro scratch problem - Apple’s new, anodized aluminum iPhone 17 Pro phones have drawn attention for reportedly being easy to scratch around the camera “plateau,” and iFixit has i...
Brad Blog

Homan Bribery Update; Kimmel Censorship Update; Our Insane U.S. President at the U.N.: 'BradCast' 9/23/2025 - We pick up on today's BradCast with several new developments in stories we covered on yesterday's show plus much more, thanks to another insane day in Trum...
Claytoonz

Hate On An Escalator - 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...
Ballot Access News

Georgia Special State Senate Election Results - On September 23, Georgia held a special election to fill the vacancy in the 21st State Senate district. The results: Republican 60.97%, Democratic 39.03%. ...
Daily Dot

“Never met anyone who didn’t lose the stone”: Influencer’s PSA about 4-prong rings goes viral - [image: Blonde woman crying, tearfully holding up empty 4-prong ring missing a lost diamond.] When influencer Baylee (@bayleesoles) noticed the diamond m...
Workers World

Workers in Italy shut it down for Palestine - [image: Workers in Italy shut it down for Palestine] All over Italy, workers and students held strikes, blockades and demonstrations to express solidarity ...
Popular Resistance

Recognition Of Palestine: What It Does, What It Doesn’t Do, And Why Now - The United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, and Australia officially recognized the State of Palestine in a series of separate but coordinated statements on Su...
Axios

Epstein files discharge petition approaches critical threshold - A tiny group of stubborn House Republicans is poised to force an embarrassing vote for the Trump White House. - Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) Epstein f...
Crooked Media

Trump Dumps Putin? - The post Trump Dumps Putin? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Antiwar.com

Remembering Stephen F. Cohen and Sherle Schwenninger - Reprinted from The Realist Review. Five years ago this September, the scholar Sherle R. Schwenninger, perhaps the most lucid thinker on U.S. foreign policy...
Undernews

Tylenol - *NY Times - *The dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who consulted with top Trump health officials ahead of Monday’s warning about Tyl...
Portside

Italian Workers’ Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Brings Disruptions Across the Country - Italian Workers’ Strike in Solidarity With Gaza Brings Disruptions Across the Country Greg Tue, 09/23/2025 - 19:33
El Paso Matters

El Paso city manager, city attorney ‘meet expectations,’ evaluation documents show - The City Council did not extend the contracts of City Manager Dionne Mack or City Attorney Karla Nieman after their latest performance evaluations. Here...
The Greanville Post

INTERVIEW with Craig Murray: There is no viable Palestinian state to recognise - G. GALLLOWAY—The discussion with Honorable Craig Murray, a historian, former British ambassador, and human rights activist, delves into several pressing ge...
The NM Political Report

Bregman would back ban on local immigrant detention centers, limit arrests of immigrants without other crimes - [image: New Mexico Democratic candidate for governor Sam Bregman talks during an event in Roswell Friday. (Courtesy photo)] [image: New Mexico Democratic ...
Ian Welsh

Words From the Right: Some Surprising Restraint, Some Shocking Horror - In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I’ve been following the American right especially closely. I want to share two responses that I found sur...
Reform Austin

Ted Cruz Criticizes FCC’s Brendan Carr Over ABC License Threat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticized remarks made by Federal Communications Commission ...
Mother Jones

If Only Pete Hegseth’s Military Shaving Crusade Was Just Stupid - On September 17, Pete Hegseth—newly dubbed our Secretary of War—announced that any member of the US military who needs a shaving exemption for more than a ...
Houston Public Media

No serial killer in Houston, Mayor Whitmire says, after five bodies pulled from bayous - Houston Police had told Houston Public Media there was no connection between the drownings. Some social media users created a conspiracy theory that Housto...
Vox

Trump’s weird day at the UN, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
San Antonio Report

IBC Bank plans to turn downtown office building into 300-room hotel - Office buildings in downtown San Antonio are scrambling for new uses, even as hotel managers say they’ve had a slow year. ------------------------------ IBC...
San Antonio Current

Fox News tries to smear Texas Democratic rising star James Talarico in comical hit-piece - The right-wing media outlet used a four-year-old tweet to try to paint Talarico has a radical leftist. The post Fox News tries to smear Texas Democrati...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Says Ukraine Can Win All of Its Territory Back - [image: Donald Trump, hosts, Volodymyr Zelenskyy White House, ceasefire, Petteri Orpo, Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz, Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Melon...
Progressive.org

Trump Takes Aim at Minimum Wage - The current administration continues its assault on the working class.
Futurism

NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump - It's a tragedy. The post NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump appeared first on Futurism.
Environment Texas

Study documents monarch butterflies’ exposure to deadly pesticides - Researchers link pesticides to a mass die-off of monarch butterflies in California The post Study documents monarch butterflies’ exposure to deadly pesti...
Independent Political Report

Maryland Greens Andy Ellis and Owen Andrews Announce 2026 Gubernatorial Ticket - Andy Ellis and Owen Silverman Andrews have officially filed to run for governor and lieutenant governor of Maryland, seeking the state Green Party’s nomi...
Texas Standard

This week in Texas music history: Josephine Lucchese makes her stage debut - The opera singer will knock your boots off.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
NPR's Health Shots

Beauty and health gurus love it. Do claims about sea moss sink or swim? - Wellness influences claim sea moss can boost gut health, reduce anxiety and give you glowing skin. But is there evidence it works?
Slate

Jimmy Kimmel Is Still Being Silenced - Disney backed down after boycotts, but local broadcast giants Sinclair and Nexstar are keeping the late-night host off the air.
Second Nexus

Whoopi Shuts Down Rumors ABC 'Silenced' 'The View' From Talking About Jimmy Kimmel - Last Wednesday, ABC programming announced *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* would be suspended “indefinitely” in response to the host’s criticism of MAGA Republican P...
CultureMap Houston

Food-focused Montrose development adds 40-story luxury high-rise - Houston has another luxury high-rise. *Hanover Buffalo Bayou* soars above *Autry Park*, a mixed-use, amenity-laden development along Buffalo Bayou near the ...
Liberation News

Texas 2025 legislative session: A full-on attack on the working class - With Texas determined to undermine its healthcare, educational and legal infrastructure, it is more clear now than ever that we need a new system.
Salon.com

“Alice” goes down the rabbit hole again - Netflix's popular death game series "Alice in Borderland" goes off-book for its riskiest season yet
Angry Bear

Sellout by the Democrats in Congress - When I was living in Michigan, I found Jack Lessenberry to be an excellent pundit with regards to Republicans, Democrats, and state policies. For the mos...
OpEd News

Ocean vision - I am no longer looking for anything / But for the ocean itself / Which is not object-oriented but ecstatic./The ocean by itself is enough.
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Rages at UN” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou update you on the big clash over free spe...
The Conversation

Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’ - There’s a new element at play that’s heightening the stakes of budget negotiations in Congress. And it could lead to a shutdown.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: We didn't think he looked or seemed well! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2025* *The problem which can't be discussed:* Some of what happened at the U.N. today was familiar, all too familiar. Given the ...
The Daily Poster

Corporate America’s Most Wanted - The Trump administration asked corporations to identify regulatory “burdens” — now they’re building a hit list of their most hated consumer protection laws.
Consortium News

Craig Murray: UK’s Rank Hypocrisy on Terrorism - The admission that the U.K. government has provided aid to a proscribed terrorist group, while arresting citizens for the support of an anti-genocide group...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Laser Weapons - High-energy laser weapons (HELs) are moving from lab demos to real defenses. Israel’s Iron Beam—likely the first HEL to see combat—promises near-zero cost ...
First Draft

Stephen Miller: MAGA Cerberus - There's a MAGA hell hound on America's trail.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

In Absence of Truth: The Fascist Assault on Reality and Empirical Truth - The zone isn't just flooded. We're drowning in it.
Capital & Main

ICE Is Transferring People in Its Custody Away From Family, Lawyers - One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call. The post ICE Is Transferring People in Its Cu...
The Root

Stress, Regrets and Other Hot Tea From Kamala Harris’ Memoir Press Tour - In her book "107 Days," former Vice President Kamala Harris is getting real about her historic presidential campaign. Read more...
Wolf Street

The 14 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-10% to -24%) through August - Oakland, Austin, New Orleans, Cape Coral, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Denver, Portland, Phoenix, Sarasota, Naples, Hayward.
Grist

Chicago has a lead pipe problem. Millions earmarked to address it remain untouched. - City officials have struggled to meet state and federal deadlines, and many residents have yet to receive warnings about the risks of lead pipes.
Rewire

Trump Promotes Dubious Link Between Autism and Tylenol Use During Pregnancy. Evidence Says Otherwise. - Decades of research show that Tylenol is safe for pregnant people. The post Trump Promotes Dubious Link Between Autism and Tylenol Use During Pregnancy. ...
Mondoweiss

Israel is trying to collapse the Palestinian Authority. The first step is destroying the Palestinian economy. - [image: Palestinian Authority employees wait to withdraw cash from an ATM outside a Bank of Palestine branch in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on ...
Progressive Army

Problemas operativos con TCA -Portal Impo- - Estimados socios, buenas tardes Les solicitamos que por favor hagan un análisis de los listados que nos han enviado anteriormente con las guías sin cerrar ...
American Prospect

Trump Decides to Own the Shutdown - Today on TAP: Agreeing to and then canceling a meeting on government funding makes clear who’s immiserating the public with a costly shutdown.
Bonddad

The State of the Consumer: the nowcast recession forecasting tool - - *by New Deal democrat* In addition to my system of long and short leading indicators, and the weekly high frequency data, the third system I use t...
Alternet

'Incredibly damaging': DC insider blasts Trump's 'completely bonkers' UN speech - President Donald Trump delivered a 56-minute, low-energy speech to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning that Joel Rubin, former Deputy Ass...
Dissident Voice

Back to the Future: NDP Must Debate Capitalism again - No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead t...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

3rd annual Latino Policy Research Symposium being hosted on Friday, September 26th at the LBJ School—8:00 am to 5:00 pm. - *Friends,* *I am delighted to share that the 3rd Annual Latino Policy Research Symposium will take place on Friday, September 26th, from 8:00 am to 5:00 ...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Brett Kavanaugh and racial proxies - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Glasstire

Inside, and Mostly Outside, of Untitled Art Houston - It might seem odd to write about the first Untitled Art fair in Houston by talking mostly about things outside the fair. But that’s exactly what I’m goin...
Texas Observer

Texas History Offers Warnings amid Rash of Faculty Firings - Every day that classes are held at the University of Texas at Austin, a procession of students enter Homer Rainey Hall, which houses the Department of Fr...
Election Law Blog

“What is ‘Democracy’?” - Randy Barnett’s contribution to The NYU Law Democracy Project’s “100 ideas in 100 days” series asks this question. I encourage you to read for a succinct...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
Democracy Now!

ICE Assaults Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh at Chicago Protest - Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was thrown to the ground by ICE agents on Friday during a protest outside the Broadview Process...
The Progressive Wing

9/23-9/28 News Roundup & OT - Three current late night comedians announce Kimmel’s return to late night. Fallon’s Tonight Show is behind a paywall but if found on YT, it will get posted...
ArcaMax

Shut Up or Else: Trump Warns Americans They'd Better Be Quiet - If Donald Trump hoped to make Americans feel nostalgic about Richard Nixon, he's succeeded. Those were the days of relatively modest abuse of presidential ...
Space City Weather

Chance of storms and heavy rainfall on Wednesday ahead of a modest cool front - In brief: Today will be hot with scattered showers, but Wednesday should be more dynamic as a line of storms pushes into the area ahead of a weak cool fron...
The AltWorld

New Nepali Gov Features US-funded Puppets - 2 of 4 new ministers announced by Nepali media run orgs funded by the US gov via […] The post New Nepali Gov Features US-funded Puppets appeared first o...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Special: Live From New York, It’s Climate Week! - Tune in today at 5:00 PM Eastern for a special live event as the world... The post Sustainability In Your Ear Special: Live From New York, It’s Climate W...
Dorf on Law

Who Was the Audience for Trump's "Tedious and Burdensome" Allegations Stated in "Abundant, Florid, and Enervating Detail?" - Perhaps one of the most disorienting aspects of living through our current times is the mix of menace and buffoonery that emanates from President Trump a...
The Smirking Chimp

The Sleeping Giant Is Awakening -
Skeptophilia

Apocalypse not - Well, it was nice knowing you all. I have it on good authority that today is the Rapture, wherein Jesus reappears on Earth, selects a few of the Righteous ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Bridget Wade - Continuing with our week of HISD Trustee race interviews, the next two days will be in District VII, where the incumbent is Bridget Wade, who defeated Anne...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Expands ‘Authoritarian’ Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media ‘Illegal’: Jameel Jaffer - “The president really is using every lever at his disposal to silence, suppress and even imprison his political enemies.”
ProPublica

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. - by Eli Cahan for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they...
Two Party Opera

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High Country News

The dismantling of the Forest Service - The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30. The post The dismantling of the Forest S...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 23 September 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the nutcase assassins video, click here.] ...
See You In 2020

The Davos scheme to end the 1st & 2nd amendments, and how we can defend against it - Right now, the nationless forces of global capital are using American patriotism to justify destroying what’s left of the U.S. constitution. The propaga...
Idavox

Pardoned J6er Wearing Auschwitz T-Shirt Arrested for Assault with Dogs - Almost a dozen persons convicted for their roles on Jan. 6, 2021 who were pardoned... The post Pardoned J6er Wearing Auschwitz T-Shirt Arrested for Assau...
Church and State

A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs - If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products, they’ve set their sights on immortality.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Moms for Liberty chapter president strips at school board meeting in attempt to smear trans kids' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Beth Bourne, Moms for Liberty chapter president of Yolo County in CA, stripped at a recent school board in an attempt to smear trans kids. *Anti-LGBTQ+ a...
The Grayzone

Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Kirk in days before death, sources say - Ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman was one of Charlie Kirk’s most committed donors. But as Kirk fell under attack for his increasingly critical Is...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Baby Maryam Needs a Tent - Just one tent!
slacktivist

TikTok Rapture - "The Rapture" will not be happening tomorrow because "the Rapture" is not actually a thing and thus will not ever be happening.
ExChristian.Net

Faith, Fear, and Mental Health: Navigating Religious Psychosis in Charismatic Churches - In every Charismatic or Pentecostal congregation I’ve attended, worship was thunderous, prophecy flowed freely, and spiritual experiences were the proof ...
Project Censored

Economic Inequality, Immigration, and Media Spin - In the first half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the state of our economy as a record number of America...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Crooked Timber

The care economy, or radical economic growth? - I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. M...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
Duck of Minerva

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State - How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
DeSmogBlog

Meta Put a Climate Change Denier in Charge of Fighting AI Bias - A conservative political activist recently appointed to be Meta’s new artificial intelligence anti-bias advisor is a well-known climate change denier, De...
The Texas Signal

From Texas Scream Queen To Marketing Maven - A staple of Texas horror films now takes the helm of her own innovative marketing company (haunted toilets not included)
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...
Bracing Views

If the Pentagon’s Done Nothing Wrong, It Has Nothing to Hide - BILL ASTORE SEP 21, 2025 If there’s one thing we’ve learned (or re-learned, again and again) from the Pentagon it’s that all governments lie and that the f...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk - Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one ...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Trivial Knot

Confession - I left Catholicism when I was 18, so I literally have a child’s understanding of the Catholic practice of confession. It was a ritual that did not make muc...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 09/20/2025 - 02:18 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE REAL VIRTUE SIGNALERS EDITION. - *First woke up to her in *La Belle Noiseuse*. Lovely.* The fash frolics proceed apace. Tubby’s apparently so mad that his prosecutor won’t file false cha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
Sludge

Lutnick’s Family Firm Holds Stake in China-Tied Satellogic - Cantor Fitzgerald is a key investor in satellite imagery company Satellogic, which is angling for U.S. defense and intelligence contracts as it works for a...
Debunking Christianity

Hey, Devout Folks: Facing Reality Would Be a Smart Move! - *No god has “the whole world” in its hands*It was reported that on the Sunday following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, church attendance in the New York ar...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support *Dissent*.
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
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.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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

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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.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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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