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

Church and State

Our relative ignorance unabashed grows! - We know that the possibility of Trump becoming a dictator has grown; some are greatly alarmed, but seemingly have no way of stopping him.
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (September 2, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: When the president went there again... - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025* *...none of the friends said a word: *Is there a type of "paralysis" infesting come significant portion of our failing natio...
Courthouse News

Fourth Circuit clears Maryland social equity mandate for retail weed market - The appellate court rejected a California resident's argument that preference given to those who attended Maryland universities where at least 40% of the s...
Daily Dot

“May they never change”: Fifth Harmony’s reunion brings back the same old stan wars from over a decade ago - [image: fifth harmony reunion stan wars] When it comes to stan wars, the Internet never forgets. A Fifth Harmony reunion at a recent Jonas Brothers conce...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pentagon sending up to 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges - Effort comes as Trump administration cracks down on immigration, ramping up arrests and deportations The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved...
Mediaite

‘We’re Going in!’ Trump Declares He is Sending Troops to Chicago - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will be deploying the National Guard to Chicago to thwart crime in the near future, The post ‘We’re Going in!’ ...
Slate

This Isn’t the Typical Way Women Like to Have Sex. But It’s Better Than Anything I’ve Ever Done. - I'm thrilled.
Common Dreams

Federal Investment in Military Less Effective for Jobs than Investments in Education or Healthcare - The majority of the federal workforce involves militarized sectors, including the military, homeland security, and more. But military spending is ineffic...
Raw Story

'You were dead': Trump confronted with reports of his 'demise' - President Donald Trump blamed "fake news" after learning that rumors had circulated about his death. During a White House event on Tuesday afternoon, Fox...
Second Nexus

Trump Unloads On 'Stupid' White House Contractors Over 'Huge Gash' In New Rose Garden Limestone - Sometimes people serve as examples of how to accomplish a goal. And sometimes they're examples of what not to do. MAGA Republican President Donald Trump ...
Mediagazer

DMG Media, Guardian Media Group, and other UK publishers call for the CMA to include Gemini in its investigation into Google's search and search ads dominance (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) - Alice Brooker / Press Gazette: *DMG Media, Guardian Media Group, and other UK publishers call for the CMA to include Gemini in its investigation into Goo...
memeorandum

Murkowski takes aim at Trump administration's 'unlawful' pocket rescission (Aris Folley/The Hill) - Aris Folley / The Hill: *Murkowski takes aim at Trump administration's ‘unlawful’ pocket rescission* — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday critic...
Reform Austin

In rapidly diversifying Tarrant County, a summer of GOP redistricting hits Black and Latino representation - FORT WORTH — When Lillie Biggins learned that the YMCA in East Fort Worth was in danger of being sold, she did what people on this side of town do when t...
Deadline Politics

‘South Park’ Takes Aim At Trump Tariffs In New Promo & Photos - South Park is back this week, and so is Satan. The show’s latest bi-weekly installment shows President Trump and his Satan disembarking from Air Force One,...
ArcaMax

Why Trump is doomed - The neofascist takeover of America — of our cities, universities, media, law firms, museums, civil service, and public prosecutors who tried to hold Trump ...
The Hill

Massie files petition to force vote on Epstein disclosures - Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday formally filed a long-promised discharge petition to force action on his bill with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to requi...
Al Jazeera English

Russia, China ink deal to build new gas pipeline as they deepen energy ties - Moscow and Beijing agree to advance a major gas link via Mongolia, deepening their energy ties.
Eschaton

Work Is Hard - I bet most of these guys are barely-shows. As the article points out, man-against-working-from-home can't use it as an excuse.
The Verge

Microsoft gave Perfect Dark’s developers a chance to save the game — after it was already canceled - In July, Microsoft’s sweeping layoffs hit Xbox hard, and shuttered the entire game studio that was building Perfect Dark. Officially, the game was canceled...
Political Wire

Discharge Petition Filed for Vote on Epstein Files - Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) filed a discharge petition Tuesday afternoon to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the lat...
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...
The Week

Trump reignites Jan. 6 furor by awarding military honors to killed rioter - With military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the president makes good on campaign promises designed to animate his political base while relitigating his...
San Antonio Current

More than 800 new laws went into effect in Texas on Sept. 1. Here are some of the significant ones. - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. More than 800 new laws are ab...
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Byron Donalds - It all started in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. The Florida Man malakatude, it burns.
Election Law Blog

“How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image” - NYT: Elon Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be “politically neutral” and “maximally truth-seeking.” But in...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Two Faces of Palantir - The powerful software tools developed by Palantir are sold to defense and intelligence agencies to protect against exteranl threats, but they also have the...
CultureMap Houston

Returning to a career after spinal cord injury with TIRR Memorial Hermann - In May 2016, Mark Neagli fell down the stairs at his home, resulting in a C2 spinal cord injury, one of the most severe types of injury.
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish parliament passes hypocritical resolution condemning Israel over Gaza genocide - The resolution is a deceptive statement reiterating the Turkish bourgeoisie’s supposed opposition to the Gaza genocide.
Techdirt.

OpenAI’s Answer To ChatGPT-Related Suicide Lawsuit: Spy On Users, Report To Cops - When you read about Adam Raine’s suicide and ChatGPT’s role in helping him plan his death, the immediate reaction is obvious and understandable: something ...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
Consortium News

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Former Prisoner is New BOP #2 - The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive. By ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 2, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump's Border Patrol agents arrest fire fighting crewme...
NPR's Health Shots

How rural hospitals are banding together to survive - Independent and rural hospitals are collaborating with their neighbors to shore up their finances instead of joining larger health systems to stay afloat.
The Daily Poster

The Fraudster Behind ICE’s New $2.2 Million Wheels - Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly skipped its typical bidding process to fast-track a multimillion-dollar, GOP-connected SUV contract.
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Concerns about water, power and oversight arose over planned $165 billion Doña Ana data center. Here’s what we know. - What does the New Mexico data center, dubbed “Project Jupiter,” mean for our economy, and, maybe more importantly, for the future of water and electrici...
Mondoweiss

What it’s like to be a midwife in Gaza during Israel’s genocide - [image: Babies in the NICU in the Ramal neighborhood of Gaza City, February 25, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]Midwives in Gaza are on the front li...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
WhoWhatWhy

Federal Judge: Trump Is Trying to Create a National Police Force With US Troops - [image: Task Force 51, Los Angeles] A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump acted illegally when he dispatched troops to Los Angeles to perform ...
DeSmogBlog

Scores of Climate Experts Condemn Trump Climate Report as ‘Junk Science’ - A group of more than 85 climate experts today released a scathing review of the Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” report on climate change s...
Ballot Access News

Organization Launched to Encourage Independent Candidates in Indiana - A new organization, Independent Indiana, has been launched. It will encourage individuals to run for office as independent candidates. See this story. The ...
Mother Jones

Vinay Prasad, Who Is Making It Harder to Get the Covid Vax, Barely Comes Into Office. - Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has been critical of the Covid vaccine, to put it lightly. Not only tha...
Axios

Why economists now fear tariff rollbacks - Six months ago, economists warned of severe macro consequences from President Trump's tariff agenda. Now the inverse is taking hold: fears about the fisc...
Futurism

Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video - Last week, "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Will Smith — himself the victim of a gross AI meme about slurping spaghetti — showed the world that he's not so...
Project Censored

Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI - In the first part of the program, we welcome back to the show Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, to talk about the US’ dang...
Angry Bear

Betting against the Trump tariffs - The right of Trump to impose tariffs at will and without Congressional approval is headed to the SCOTUS. What’s the odds that the tariffs will be overtur...
Dissident Voice

How to Stop Israel from Starving Gaza - Israel has crossed the clear line into the darkest crimes. Israel, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the ...
Bracing Views

The Seven Habits of a Highly Defective Country - And what to do about it BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2025 Welcome back, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend. It’s grim times in America. Perhaps grimmest...
Texas Observer

Where the Water Reached - Editor’s Note: This photo essay is published in partnership with The Texas Tribune. I walked into an apartment slipping and stumbling on mud so thick I c...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing confirms rebound in new orders in August, but construciton spending continues to decline - * - by New Deal democrat* As usual, the new month begins with important manufacturing and construction reports which give us the pulse of the goods-p...
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Nekhaila Faces Censure Motion from Region 1 Representative - Libertarian National Committee Region 1 Representative Andrew Chadderdon has introduced a motion to censure LNC Chair Steven Nekhaila, citing alleged vio...
Popular Resistance

Boston: People’s Hunger Strike In Solidarity With Palestine Begins - As the second year anniversary of Israel’s U.S-backed genocide approaches and the complete blockade to food, medicine and other humanitarian aid continue...
American Prospect

Unions Are Shrinking Nationwide—But Not in California - Organizing in the Golden State is holding strong, showing what’s possible even as Trump 2.0 makes the fight harder.
Undernews

Word - [image: A dark blue background with white text that reads: "Hitler didn't steal the power, his people voted for him, and then he destroyed his people." - ...
Alternet

'What is going on?: Mystery surrounds video showing objects thrown from White House window - On Labor Day 2025, Patriot Takes — a group describing its mission as "exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy" — posted video that s...
Salon.com

Sheriff faces “difficult” investigation after man found dead in pool of blood at Burning Man - "Witnesses, suspects, or accomplices could be on the other side of the world" as festival ends, sheriff says
NORML

Emerson College Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say Legalizing Marijuana Nationally Is a “Good Idea” - [image: a rising arrow over an image of a cannabis plant indicating an upward trend][image: a rising arrow over an image of a cannabis plant indicating a...
Dorf on Law

Mourning Chief Justice Roberts's 20th Anniversary Part II: Top Ten Worst Moments of the Roberts Court - Two weeks ago, in recognition of the twentieth anniversary of John Roberts being named as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, I listed what I thought...
Scheerpost.com

BBC Media Action: Britain’s Overseas Info Warfare Unit - Leaked documents reveal how a shadowy BBC unit is “embedding” staff in foreign media outlets to “contest the information space” and generate “behaviour cha...
The Root

Dallas Black Woman Who Worked For British Royalty Meets This Gruesome Fate By Her White Husband - Jenean Chapman, who once worked for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was killed by her own husband in her downtown Dallas apartment in 2023. Read mor...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court fails to apply its own precedent and continues to sow confusion through its shadow docket - Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedu...
Rewire

Cash Payments Support New Parents as Costs of Living Soar - More cities embrace cash payment programs for growing families. The post Cash Payments Support New Parents as Costs of Living Soar appeared first on Rewi...
Daily Cartoonist

Now The New York Times For Kids Quits Print - The August 31, 2025 issue of The New York Times For Kids will be the last print edition the paper announced. The supplement first appeared on May 14, 2017,...
The NM Political Report

Republican state rep. files to run against Leger Fernandez - [image: State Rep. Martin Zamora] [image: State Rep. Martin Zamora] By Alex Ross A four-term New Mexico state legislator is preparing a Republican chal...
Progressive Army

Modelo carta documento para enviar a TCA - Estimados socios buen día: Adjuntamos al presente comunicado modelo de carta documento confeccionado por el sector “legales” de la AAACI por si es de vues...
Democracy Now!

"Will Western Powers Take Action?": Rami Khouri on Scholars Declaring Genocide in Gaza - In Gaza, Israeli attacks since dawn have killed at least 54 Palestinians, including people seeking food. The attacks came as Gaza health officials recorded...
Glasstire

Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Travel Fellowship Accepting Applications - Texas artists are invited to apply for the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Travel Fellowship, a $5,000 award. Last year, the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Founda...
The Conversation

‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people - Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.
Space City Weather

August is over. So how did this summer stack up? The answer may surprise you. - In brief: Today’s post reviews the summer of 2025 in Houston. Some residents may believe this one felt cooler than is typical. We see what the data says ab...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 5 Everyday Kitchen Swaps To Reduce Plastic Waste - Kitchens are often the major source of plastic waste in the home. From packaging material... The post Guest Idea: 5 Everyday Kitchen Swaps To Reduce Plas...
Vox

The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results - It’s easy to assume, as many people do, that our planet is well explored. In the last few centuries, humans have summited Earth’s highest peaks, dived its ...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Could gardens be the key to a healthier, safer San Antonio? - Gardopia Gardens is San Antonio nonprofit using gardening to tackle food insecurity, community health disparities and even crime. --------------------------...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Fires Everywhere’: Republicans in Big Trouble As Congress Returns From Recess -
Skeptophilia

Cry me a river - Urban legends often have nebulous origins. As author Jan Harold Brunvand describes in his wonderful book *The Choking Doberman and Other Urban Legends*,...
Off The Kuff

Nobody knows what to do about the dumb Ten Commandments law - It’s a mess. Texas school districts must decide whether to display Ten Commandments posters in every classroom before a new law requiring them to goes into...
ProPublica

What ProPublica Is Doing to Build a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace - by Vianna Davila, Liz Sharp and Myron Avant ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories...
Grist

How drones and AI are changing the way we fight wildfires - As the threat of wildfires intensifies, modern technology is playing an increasingly large role in both research and management. But not all communities ha...
High Country News

Who controls food in the West? - Consolidation, shifting politics, water rights and the myth of the cowboy all play into the region’s ability to feed itself. The post Who controls food ...
Ian Welsh

If You Understand Only One Thing About Chinese Government - It should be that almost always they do what they promise, and they meet their goals. An American-Chinese silicon valley type spent some time in China rece...
Counterpunch

Trump’s Immigrant Gulags: A Bonanza For Private Prison Corporations - When it comes to for-profit, private corporate incarceration of immigrants, making lots of money is like drinking salt water, the more they drink, the th...
jobsanger

Trump Is A Ruthlessly Anti-Labor President -
Informed Comment

“A thousand Blossoms with the Day Woke:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:8 - Quatrain no. 8 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s loose translation of the FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is about the impermanence of all ...
Crooked Media

Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration’s Crosshairs - The post Chicago Caught In The Trump Administration’s Crosshairs appeared first on Crooked Media.
Claytoonz

Wishful Thinking - 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...
Portside

Opinion: Zohran Mamdani Will Make New York City Work for Workers - Opinion: Zohran Mamdani Will Make New York City Work for Workers Stephanie Mon, 09/01/2025 - 20:56
The Grayzone

BBC Media Action: Britain’s overseas info warfare unit - Leaked documents reveal how a shadowy BBC unit is “embedding” staff in foreign media outlets to “contest the information space” and generate “behaviour c...
Antiwar.com

Even the Media’s Gaza ‘Investigations’ Hide the Real Story of Israel’s Atrocities - An investigation by CNN into Israel’s strike on the Nasser Hospital this week – an attack that killed more than 20 people, including emergency workers and ...
See You In 2020

The variables the Luigi movement introduced, & the revolutionary project that it must precipitate - Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP Overall, Trump 2.0 is something that is working in the favor of our ruling class. The purpose of letting Trump win was to use hi...
Workers World

Exposing New York Times’ role in U.S. threats to Venezuela - [image: Exposing New York Times’ role in U.S. threats to Venezuela] The author of this article, dated Aug. 25, 2025, is a Venezuelan consultant and interna...
Krebs on Security

The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft - The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interacti...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Secret Attempted Deportation of Close to 700 Guatemalan Children Blocked by Federal Judge, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Secret Attempted D**eportation of Close to 700 Guatemalan Children Blocked by Federal Judge* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *September 1, 2025* St...
Capital & Main

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door - L.A. County’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill has spewed high levels of toxic gases and climate super-pollutants for years. Yet local residents’ pleas for help ...
The AltWorld

The result of school integration is that we now grade for “Equity” - There is no hope that American children will ever again receive an education. To be a school teacher […] The post The result of school integration is th...
Alas, a Blog

You Only Think You Liked It! - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Wolf Street

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. Multifamily Delinquencies also Spike - Extend-and-pretend and forbearance deals widely implemented to “cure” delinquent CRE mortgages.
Texas Standard

New law will give farmers a heads-up on pests and diseases - HB 1592 creates a statewide alert system for risks to wildlife and crops.
OpEd News

Labor Day 2050, the last one? - Everybody saw it coming and nobody saw it coming. AI and the robots were very efficient.
Progressive.org

Disaster Resilience Planning Saves Money and Lives - Instead of cutting funds for disaster planning, the Trump Administration needs to prioritize risk reduction.
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 1 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Banners displayed in Alaska during Put...
Rallblog

Veterans of Phony Wars - Donald Trump is deploying National Guardsmen and regular military troops to the streets of some of America’s safest neighborhoods, despite reports of dec...
Crooked Timber

The crash of 2026: a fiction - Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Third Trump Term? A Tipping Point?: Dispatches Mailbag - It's time to answer more reader questions and get into the issues of the time.
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
Liberation News

Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35 - In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the ADA being signed into law, we share an excerpt from the book "Disability and Empire: Class, U.S. Imperialis...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/4 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas clean air programs - Cuts would eliminate programs that will help residents breathe easier The post STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas cle...
slacktivist

LBCF: Full house - The scene here is a blandly typical revival meeting, which might make sense if every character in this story hadn't just lost all of their children.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Help Duaa's Parents - 'Our only hope now is to move them to safety.'
Sludge

Pharmaceutical Industry on Pace for Record Lobbying Spending - Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly and other drug giants are spending record amounts on lobbying as they fight the Trump administration on vaccine policies and more.
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 4 - *Matthew 7: A good start, then cult severity and bragging*It might be a good idea to compile a list of the *Top Ten Bible Texts that Christians Ignore*—...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Attempts to blame trans community for mass shootings foiled by buzzsaw of truth - On Wednesday, this country yet again experienced the tragedy of a mass shooting, Two children were killed and 17 others were wounded when a lone gunma...
Greg Palast

Trump Fires FEMA Whistleblowers on Katrina Anniversary - Be afraid. The Trump Administration has “put on leave” — effectively fired — 35 experts from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for signing a l...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book *The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer*.
The Texas Signal

The Bathroom Bill Arrives In Texas - There were many horrible, nasty and plainly false statements made. But one member’s speech truly stood out
Earthworks

Testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency’s proposed rescission of its 2009 Endangerment Finding - Hello, my name is Lauren Pagel, and I am the Policy Director at Earthworks. We work with communities impacted by … The post Testimony to the U.S. Enviro...
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting - Iowa Democrats had another strong special election showing this week, and broke the GOP's state Senate supermajority. Some recent news out of Utah makes ...
TalkLeft

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Ecosophia

August 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Consent Factory, Inc.

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
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 Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
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...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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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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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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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