Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Trump goes nuclear as 'evil' Dems zero in on his staggering rise in wealth - President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social Thursday that he is the polar opposite of corrupt, four days after a “60 Minutes” interview pressed him o...
Political Wire

Senate Losses Spark Republican Fears Over 2028 Majority - “Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) said the GOP can ‘forget’ about taking back the Senate majority in 2028 after Democrats’ blue wave secured the majority in both ch...
Vox

Why are so many young guys taking Viagra? - Colby was in his 20s — far too young, according to some, to struggle with this particular thing — when he noticed an issue: When he wanted to get intimate,...
Al Jazeera English

Robot tells Al Jazeera AI is ‘too useful to disappear’ - Al Jazeera’s Rosie Birchard asks a humanoid robot about AI's future at the Web Summit in Lisbon.
Common Dreams

Trump's Inferno: Just Stop - In the hopeful, chaotic aftermath of the biggest blue wave in 50 years, the inept “cartoon ghoul of a man” who fomented the carnage and his foul minions ...
Infidel753

What the Democrats should do - As of this writing, the Democrats will end up with at least 55 and probably 56 Senate seats, and about 260 House seats -- majorities bigger than almost an...
ProPublica

More Than Numbers: Portraits of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents - The post More Than Numbers: Portraits of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Climate change is coming for the cactus. Yes, the cactus. - New research shows that a quarter of nearly 1,000 cactus species could lose at least 80 percent of their habitat by 2100, due to relentless droughts.
naked capitalism

‘A Mobilization That No One Imagined’: Furious Over Housing Costs, Millions Join General Strike in Spain - The so-called 11N protest Spain is a general strike for housing and against the cost of living.
ArcaMax

Gambling in Casablanca - Poor Susie Wiles. Someone has to take the fall for the disaster, even if this is one case where the fish really does rot from the head. When you lose by th...
Portside

The Cyberpunking of America - The Cyberpunking of America Mark Brody Thu, 11/12/2026 - 02:36
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Re-Centralizing Information Control - Pro-Israel propagandists are now saying they can make use of Big Tech to spread their narrative, which recalls a warning from 2017 by Julian Assange about ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Promises and pride: Scott Colom rejoices with young and old on historic night in Mississippi - When he finally arrived at his victory party, Colom walked out to T.I.’s Let ‘Em Know. The audience, still galvanized even after hours of standing, roare...
Informed Comment

Gasoline-0nly Cars are less than Half new Car Sales Globally for 1st Time since 1920s - In 2026, China produced over 16 million New Energy Vehicles. It was ranked number 1 in that field for the eleventh consecutive year.
jobsanger

Another New Democrat In The U.S. Senate -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3432: Pulp Magazines - Episode: 3432 The once popular, grossly underrated, and now nearly forgotten pulp magazine. Today, Pulp Magazines.
World Socialist Web Site

Watch David North’s lecture at the University of Michigan: “After the midterms: Results and prospects” - In his concluding remarks in Ann Arbor, North explained why the US election anticipates an eruption of class struggle and posed the task of building a revo...
Workers World

PDF of November 12 issue - [image: PDF of November 12 issue] Download the PDF Behind unprecedented election wins in Georgia A vote against AIPAC, billionaires Editorial: Midterm elec...
Alternet

Reporter pulls back curtain on Trump 'game plan' as he fumes in White House - President Donald Trump apparently does not appear to be following his conservative friend’s guidance in dealing with the plague of scandals heading his w...
Environment Texas

Statement: Interior Department plans to sell off public lands - Strategic plan lays out goal of reducing acreage managed by federal government The post Statement: Interior Department plans to sell off public lands ap...
Election Law Blog

Alaska State Court Denies Peltola Campaign’s Demand for Election Officials to Turn Over Certain Records Related to Rejected Absentee Ballots - Here is the opinion. The post Alaska State Court Denies Peltola Campaign’s Demand for Election Officials to Turn Over Certain Records Related to Rejected...
The Hill

GOP senator feels 'strongly' Jensen Huang should resign at Nvidia - Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said he feels “strongly” that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang should resign following reports alleging the tech leader had an "intimate ...
Mediagazer

In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders calls for impeachment of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, accusing him of politically tinged investigations and more (Finya Swai/The Hill) - Finya Swai / The Hill: *In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders calls for impeachment of FCC Chair Brendan Carr, accusing him of politically ...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: Stop Trump’s Massive Military Spending Bill - Congressmembers have returned to the Capitol following the recent midterms and are poised to pass the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that...
Mother Jones

Pete Hegseth’s Crew Got Chewed Out at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - Narrowly dodging impeachment yesterday might have put Pete Hegseth in too chipper a mood. After a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Heg...
Glasstire

Mid-America Arts Alliance Announces Open Call for Creative Forces Grants - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced an open call for its Creative Forces Community Engagement grants, an initiative supporting arts p...
Sludge

AI-Invested Hedge Fund Billionaire Is Bankrolling Democrats’ 'What’s Next' Conference - Stephen Mandel, whose fund holds billions of dollars in AI stocks, and his wife have given $13.4 million to the group Majority Democrats behind a Denver ga...
Crooked Media

For Your AIs Only - The post For Your AIs Only appeared first on Crooked Media.
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 15 things to do in Houston this weekend - Food show rock star Alton Brown will be at Jones Hall on Friday night. The problem is there are only a handful of loose seats, so good luck snapping up one...
IVN

These Veterans Fought for Our Democracy, But New York Won’t Let Them Vote - A federal lawsuit filed by two veterans asks whether the right to vote comes from citizenship or from joining a party.
Progressive.org

Gaza’s Crumbling Buildings Provide Unsafe Refuge - The tragic collapse of the Al-Saada building stresses the need to evacuate structures strategically damaged by Israel’s bombardment.
Antiwar.com

Democratic Wave or Imperial Rebrand?: Time Will Tell - As a citizen and scholar, whose research, advocacy and moral framework have been dedicated to seeking justice and peace for the people of Palestine, Iran, ...
Futurism

As Multiple Affairs Emerge, Calls Grow for Jensen Huang to Resign - A "brilliant man — and a fool." The post As Multiple Affairs Emerge, Calls Grow for Jensen Huang to Resign appeared first on Futurism.
Axios

Scott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith in historic Mississippi Senate flip - Democrat Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a stunning Mississippi upset, becoming the first Democrat elected to the state's Senate...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'2026 midterm fallout continues: Why GOP's $400 million anti-trans gambit failed with voters' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *As more fallout is felt from the Democratic Party's huge blue tsunami of victories last Tuesday, it's becoming clear that the reliance on anti-trans at...
The NM Political Report

Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury says she is “sincerely sorry” for missing a critical Hegseth impeachment vote - [image: Screenshot of Rep. Melanie Stansbury] New Mexico Political Report – Riding high from a national rebuke of President Donald Trump’s economic polici...
Mediaite

‘I Saw You Right Here With Minutes to Spare!’ TMZ DC Reporter Grills House Dem Who Blamed Traffic for Missing Hegseth Vote - "I had seen you having arrived on the steps with minutes to spare," TMZ DC's Charlie Cotton told Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL). "I'm wondering why didn't ...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio takes another look at police’s ICE policy, following Austin and Houston - Three San Antonio council members want to limit SAPD contact with ICE, following moves in Houston and Austin after Democrats swept elections. --------------...
Slate

The “Replace Schumer” Movement Is Growing. We Know Where This Ends. - The leadership fight is on. That may not be a bad thing.
The Week

Decline of the lab-grown meat industry - High costs, slow regulation, consumer scepticism and difficulty scaling has seen investment dry up in recent years
Rallblog

Lost - I was either nine or ten. So it was either 1972 or 1973. The first time I saw the blood in the bathtub was the middle of the night, when I was peeing. Th...
The Verge

Nvidia is reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang - Nvidia's board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from The New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days af...
Deadline Politics

Scott Colom Projected To Win U.S. Senate Race In Mississippi - UPDATED: Democrat Scott Colom will win the U.S. Senate race in Mississippi, in what may be the biggest upset of the 2026 midterms. Colom would be the first...
First Draft

Fuck Yeah, Mississippi - The winner and new champion: Scott Colom.
San Antonio Current

Exiting GOP congressman Chip Roy says party should never have let Ken Paxton run for Senate - 'You can't win an election and beat corruption when you put at the top of your ticket in Texas someone we know to have massive issues,' the San Antonio-...
Socialist Alternative

All Black Boys Deserve To Grow Old: Nolan Wells & The Fight Against Systemic Racism - Four months ago, 18-year-old Nolan Wells was found dead, face down on the shores of Mississippi’s Horn Island. In the ensuing months, the investigation int...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Discourse

Chuck Schumer Must Go - ...but he probably won’t. Plus: Adam Jentleson’s pro-spanking agenda, “Talafreako,” and a Free Press doozy.
El Paso Matters

Bill filed to give every Texas household $1,500, a Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa campaign promise - A proposal to send $1,500 to every Texas household faces political, legal and financial hurdles as Democrats seek to deliver on a major campaign promise...
The AltWorld

Our Future as the Democrats Reveal It to Us - Three news items yesterday provide an indication of where the New Democrats will be taking us. One […] The post Our Future as the Democrats Reveal It to ...
Texas Standard

A new Vietnam War documentary teaches us how to heal from — and confront — the past - “Home From the Vietnam War” follows the journey of two men impacted by the war — a U.S. veteran and Vietnamese refugee — as they work to heal their wounds...
Daily Cartoonist

Jack Cassady – RIP - Cartoonist Jack Cassady has passed away. John Richard (Jack) Cassady II April 26, 1940 – November 3, 2026 From the obituary: “A pre-Disney Floridian, Cassa...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Elliptic analytics say North Korea launders stolen Binance funds via homemade meme coins - North Korea is laundering cryptocurrency stolen from Binance through homemade meme coins, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, describing it as...
memeorandum

Pete Hegseth's Crew Gets Scolded by Soldier at Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch) - Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch: *Pete Hegseth's Crew Gets Scolded by Soldier at Tomb of Unknown Soldier* — The defense secretary and his senior advisers ...
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratios, Delinquencies, Foreclosures, Collections & Bankruptcies in Q3 2026 - How Americans are handling their debts.
SCOTUSblog

Justices see immigration contract dispute as raising the possibility of major limits on administrative power - Yesterday’s argument in *Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards* showed a court open to the possibility of a major limitation on the ability of agenc...
Texas Observer

Will Governor Hinojosa Break Up DPS and ICE? - Prior to last week’s election, it was likely the State of Texas, under Governor Greg Abbott, would continue functioning as an extension of President Dona...
Novara Media

How Trump Lost the War in Iran, With Trita Parsi - Trita Parsi explains why Trump may walk away from Iran. Plus: New details emerge from the Nvidia spy scandal, and a report shows why AI development may not...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Hegseth could have been impeached! - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2026* *Did every Democrat want that?* Pete Hegseth could have been impeached. That would have led to a Senate trial. Is that t...
WhoWhatWhy

Cleaning Up Trump’s Mess Is a Dirty Job, but Someone’s Got to Do It - [image: Uncle Sam, Democratic Donkey, shovel, clean up Trump’s mess] Thanks to Donald Trump, the US economy works great for those at the very top but not s...
Courthouse News

Russia and Ukraine agree to a large prisoner exchange as talks end with no major breakthrough - Moscow doesn’t want European countries, which are concerned about Russia’s conduct and broader intentions on the continent, involved in the direct negotiat...
The Greanville Post

Once Again, Remembering My Dad on Veterans Day - GO—After my dad died from a sudden heart attack in 1956, I recall my mother wistfully confiding to me that your “Your father was never the same person afte...
The Daily Poster

The Blue Wave Could Make The Popular Vote Count - Democratic victories in key states put the country within reach of a compact that would make the national popular-vote winner president.
OpEd News

Toy tanks, small ball and dementia - Some news items not connected to the election for a change.
Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin? - The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past thre...
The Root

How to Raise Kids Who Can Advocate for Their Own Health - October is Health Literacy Month, and these practical strategies can help kids understand health information and become advocates for their own health. ...
Ballot Access News

Alabama Elects an Independent State Senator - Jesse Battles, an independent candidate for State Senate in Alabama’s Tenth District, has been elected in a very close election against the Republican incu...
The Conversation

The ‘religious left’ may be rising – but Black Christian women have been there all along - For years, Black women have been one of the Democratic Party’s steadiest groups of supporters. And for many of those voters, faith helps inspire their poli...
Mondoweiss

Stalling for time: Palestinian elections are postponed until next September - [image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh at Fatah's Eighth General Congress in Ramallah, May 14, 2026....
Liberation News

Final Ohio results disprove ‘spoiler’ nonsense about socialist Greg Levy - Levy’s support came from working-class communities of all types – all the places this political system has left out.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Soul in Judgment - As we proceed through Yeats’s A Vision, the intricacies of “The Completed Symbol” are past us now, the symbolic philosophy underlying the whole system is c...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The New Paradigm: The Post-Midterm Future is Taking Shape - We’re entering a new chapter of politics
Undernews

Trump regime considers jailing journalists - *Mediate - *The White House and Department of Justice have reportedly been discussing potentially throwing journalists in jail to reveal the identities...
Bonddad

Leading employment indicators, real wages and payrolls, and the consumer nowcast recession indicators - * - by New Deal democrat* Typically in the quiet week after the jobs report, I take an extended look at some of the trends. With the significant “hot...
Ian Welsh

Banking Needs To Be A Human Right - This scourge continues to spread: Poland just voted to EXPAND the government’s power to freeze your assets without a court ruling. Say the “wrong” thing on...
Scheerpost.com

Impeachment Won’t Undo Hegseth’s Christian Nationalist Remake of Defense Department - By Sara Gabler This article was originally published by Truthout As calls for his impeachment mount, Hegseth is further entrenching his violent legacy of C...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Chair Urges Republicans to Abandon GOP Following Midterm Elections - The Constitution Party is reaching out to disaffected Republicans following the November general election, positioning itself as what its national chair ...
The Progressive Wing

11/11 News Roundup and Open Thread - Happy Veterans Day
Democracy Now!

"Birds of War": New Film Tells a Story of Love and Journalism from Syria to Lebanon - We speak with Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, filmmakers and subjects of the new documentary *Birds of War*, which tells their epic love story through ...
Earthworks

French Multinational Eramet, Part Owner of Controversial Mining Complex in Indonesia, Joins IRMA Board - The announcement comes despite four years of empty assurances that its Indonesia mine would be audited under the standard A … The post French Multinatio...
Angry Bear

Medicaid Cuts - “How Has Projected Medicaid Spending and Enrollment Changed Since Passage of the 2025 Reconciliation Law?” KFF or how Trump and Republicans were screwing...
Space City Weather

Houston just got a nice soaking to start the week, especially areas that needed it - In brief: Good morning, and we hope you have a meaningful Veterans Day. In today’s post we discuss the significant rainfall picked up by the Houston region...
Dorf on Law

Incentivizing Running Up the Score - My latest *Verdict *column explains why it makes a difference whether Democrats win the Senate races in Alaska and Mississippi, even though the differenc...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Nobody’s Paying Attention’ — and Not Even Trump’s ‘Mayhem’ Can Save Him -
Off The Kuff

The wins keep on coming - Great news #1: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has dropped a suit seeking to shut down Annunciation House after demanding two years ago to examine the re...
Two Party Opera

Lost The South For a Generation - Read More
Seeing the Forest

Lyrics By Pete Brown - Lyrics that can make you cry are below. This is quite a story, “We all contributed on our songs,” Baker protests. “The ones that piss me off are Sunshine O...
NPR's Health Shots

Ebola tops 11,000 cases in Congo's deadliest outbreak - Congo's Ebola outbreak has topped 11,000 cases, the government said Wednesday, a stark figure that underscores the severity of the situation as the country...
Land Destroyer

Why the US Can Never Match Chinese Shipbuilding - *October 17, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In a recent Business Insider article and accompanying video regarding the US’ $66 billion plan to “beat China...
Techdirt.

Chinese Govt. Stacks Charges On Jailed Joshua Wong To Keep Him Imprisoned Another Decade - The so-called National Security Law that the Hong Kong government ratified back in 2020 strikes again. This law, which broke the agreement made when the UK...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2026 - My link roundup skipped last month. In the last two months, the ace journal club talked about asexual literary theory, and sexual pain in Christian women....
Brad Blog

GOP Gerrymanders Failed Spectacularly, Even in MO Where Courts Blocked It: ‘BradCast’ 11/10/2026 - The fallout from the 2026 Blue Tsunami Midterms continues on today’s BradCast, as we are still examining the GOP wreckage and the voters who turned out, ev...
The Texas Signal

Whirlwind Week For Texas Politics - In the week since a blockbuster election catapulted Democrats into new statewide roles, the upcoming Texas legislature is starting to take shape
Crooked Timber

Care ethics for people, consequentialism for governments, deontology for judges - (Disclaimer: as ought to be obvious, I’m not an academic philosopher and haven’t even read all that widely. But one way or another, everyone needs to think...
See You In 2020

Empire’s attempt to capture hiphop, & the role of “outlaw” aesthetics in the class war’s next phase - To gauge where the ruling class is headed, we can look at which styles of music the industry has been pushing as of late. The relationship between what ...
Claytoonz

Bye Bye Bobo - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 728 days until the presidential election. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Black Agenda Report

Democrats Won EVERYTHING and Promised NOTHING: 2026 Midterms Exposed - Democrats Won EVERYTHING and Promised NOTHING: 2026 Midterms Exposed bareditors Wed, 11/11/2026 - 02:25 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior...
The Grayzone

NYPD silent on high profile antisemitic hate crime investigation, FOIA records reveal - One year since a strange hate crime marred the first hours of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new term, FOIA emails obtained by The Grayzone show the NYPD has...
MintPress News

Iran Strikes Back As The US Launches New Attacks In ‘Dramatic Escalation’ - The US carried out a wave of airstrikes against sites in southern Iran on Sunday, prompting a stern response from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (...
Democracy Chronicles

America Rejects Trumpism, What Can Democrats Do Now? - As a lifelong Southerner, seeing Georgia and Texas go blue, it’s what I’ve always thought, which is the South is in play.
Rewire

Analysis: Love Is Blind Tackles Political Differences in Relationships—Again - What do these conversations reflect about our understanding of human rights and social justice?
NORML

Wisconsin: Lawmakers Announce Intentions to Advance Adult-Use Legalization - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]"Wisconsin is among the nation’s leaders in marijuana posse...
Progressives Chat

Post-Election 2026: My Response - It is now one week following the 2026 United States midterm elections. The 2026 Democrats won majorities pickups to control the United States House of Re...
Media Lens

The Art Of Not Taking A View – ‘Pay Attention’ By Laura Kuenssberg - To be fair to Laura Kuenssberg, she admits that her new book, ‘Pay Attention’, is not ‘an academic tome’. (Kuenssberg, ‘Pay Attention’, Corsair, 2026, p.10...
High Country News

Is the Southwest’s flooding a harbinger of a wild winter? - El Niño has implications for the region’s snowpack and ongoing drought. The post Is the Southwest’s flooding a harbinger of a wild winter? appeared firs...
Church and State

A shrinking population might actually be a good thing - Birth rates in much of the world have fallen below replacement levels, portending gradual population shrinkage in many advanced economies.
Alas, a Blog

Secondhand Logic - With really inconvenient timing, my right shoulder went “screw you Deutsch, I’m outta here!” when I was just a few days away from finishing, and drawing be...
Project Censored

Independent News Then and Now - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with the publisher of The Progressive Magazine, Norman Stockwell. Stockwell is a v...
Capital & Main

Big Corporations Dodge Taxes as Pennsylvania Families Pick Up the Tab - Lawmakers fail to close a tax loophole that lets multinational corporations shift profits out of state as schools and food banks struggle. The post Big C...
Bracing Views

Is the Fix Already In? - How Despicable Are Democratic Leaders? BILL ASTORE NOV 07, 2026 This week’s elections were obviously a cry for change by the American people. Angry at Trum...
Unlimited Hangout

Creative Destruction: 9/11, Enron, and American Bitcoin - A lengthy investigation into the cross-section of players from the 9/11 insider trading scandal, the Enron accounting fraud and the Trump Family's Bitcoin ...
Debunking Christianity

Chapter 2, Faith, Reason, and My Approach to Christianity - *As I announced earlier, I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will ...
slacktivist

The possibility of possibility - "It is the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere."
DeSmogBlog

How a French Oil Executive Is Working With the Trump Administration to ‘Kill’ Europe’s Methane Plan - A TotalEnergies executive is working with U.S. officials to delay the implementation of new European Union methane rules, raising questions over the comp...
Campaign for America's Future

Voters Pull Back the Curtain on Trump’s Lies - Midterm elections create a historic opportunity to offer people a vision for the future that welcomes them in, one they can help build. I am glad that vote...
Field Negro

Down Goes MAGA! - Well damn America, I guess you really are fed up with MAGA and their cult leader! I read this somewhere, so I can't take credit for it, but someone sai...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: I WAS BORN A WINNER EDITION. - *Two plus two is on my mind* Well -- that wasn’t *too* bad of a week, was is? I talked about the meaning of it in the first flush of victory at *Roy Ed...
Avedon's Sideshow

Election Digest - At current count, Dems picked up seven Senate seats for a total of 54, and we're still waiting to see if we get two more, which seems likely at the momen...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

In the Defense of Latina/o Studies, Academic Freedom, and Diversity at UT Austin: The Latino Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education announces its Website - *Friends, * *We are excited to debut our new website for the Latino Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education (LC4EHE) at a moment when community, so...
TalkLeft

Trump Double- Downs on Election Rejection: Promotes Stephen Miller - Donald Trump is either tone-deaf or truly hates America. He has promoted Stephen Miller to be his Chief of Staff , as the current holder of that position, ...
Web of Debt

Heads or Tails, Wall Street Wins: Saving Our Pensions From The Casino - “Most billionaires don’t park their money in making more businesses. They park their money in the stock market. That is not meaningfully investing in oppor...
Dissent Magazine

The Florida Project - What if the Democratic establishment had actually invested in Angie Nixon?
The Militant

SWP campaign showed road forward for the working class - “Whether the Democrats or Republicans win control of the Senate or House this year, workers will lose,” said Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidat...
Greg Palast

My friend faces the death sentence tomorrowRights Lawyer Tundu Lissu, who exposed the killings at Bush Sr’s gold mine, faces execution by the Tanzanian dictatorship - Tomorrow, Friday, human rights lawyer Tundu Lissu, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, leader of the opposition to a soulless dictator, will be sentenced for treas...
Lowering the Bar

Who’s to Blame for “Ballot Stacking”? I Guess Everybody - [image: image of the stacked Alaska ballot]It's ridiculous and deceptive—but sadly, some voters fall for it.
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Turned Blue. Now, the Real Work Begins. - A message from the Texas Freedom Network team It’s hard to put into words how we’re all feeling. But we’ll try. We knew this day would come, but it came ...
Salon.com

Goodbye from Salon - It has been an extraordinary privilege.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Mr. Bubble - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb Like many of us out here, I’d been watching the impending implosion of the AI “boom” (as they insist on calling...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2026 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in October 2026, including two fatal ones, one where an innocent bystander was killed in an argument between ot...
Idavox

The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost More Than $440 Million - Musk’s astronomical campaign contributions were no match for outraged voters across the US. Truthout Elon... The post The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost Mo...
Stinque

2026 Election Results - The post 2026 Election Results appeared first on Stinque.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner of the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Maria Tanyag’s article, ‘Who cares for the carers? Patriarchal contradictions and the reinvention of the ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Conversation with an Election Expert: Breaking Down This Year’s Election Process - Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has worked on elections for 25 years in the government, nonprofits, and academia. He addresses common voter quest...
Edinburg Politics

With almost 12,000 Blacks in the Rio Grande Valley, new board members for Village in the Valley (ViVa) continue to promote positive changes for all residents of deep South Texans - FEATURED: Village in the Valley (ViVa), a McAllen-based organization whose stated mission is elevating and uniting the Black community while connecting cul...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Advertisement for The Rise of the New Normal Reich, including a Stupid Anti-Nazi Disclaimer for the German Authorities - Here we go again. The second edition of The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021), published by Tucker Carlson Books, ...
Duck of Minerva

The Curse of Elon - As part of my interest in electric vehicles, I have listened to 7 or 8 audiobooks on Elon Musk, EVs, and Tesla (Vance, Isaacson, Niedermayer, McKenzie, Slo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
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...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
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...
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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