Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

6 gripping museum exhibitions to view this winter - Discover the real Grandma Moses and Frida Kahlo
Mediagazer

A profile of Disney Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush, appointed in September 2024, who is trying to reclaim Disney's animation magic, ahead of Zootopia 2 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) - Brooks Barnes / New York Times: *A profile of Disney Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush, appointed in September 2024, who is trying to reclaim Disney's an...
memeorandum

3 people, including 2 National Guard troops, hurt in Northwest DC shooting (Thomas Mates/WJLA-TV) - Thomas Mates / WJLA-TV: *3 people, including 2 National Guard troops, hurt in Northwest DC shooting* — 3VIEW ALL PHOTOS — FILE - Photo of a Metropoli...
The Hill

Bipartisan lawmakers call on Trump to reject Myanmar election results - A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to reject the outcome of the upcoming elections in Myanmar, which they said "co...
Raw Story

White House responds after 2 National Guard troops shot - The White House released a statement on Wednesday after a shooting involving multiple people, including two National Guard members. “The White House is ...
The Verge

Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair - Military contractors are trying to thwart a widely-supported right-to-repair provision in the annual defense policy bill — and their efforts may pay off. A...
Mediaite

Court Upholds $1M Sanctions Against Trump and Alina Habba for ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit Against Clinton and Comey - Yet again, President Donald Trump's social media bluster has not translated to a legal victory, with an appellate court upholding the dismissal of his la...
Futurism

OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills and Knives - That didn't take long. The post OpenAI Restores GPT Access for Teddy Bear That Recommended Pills and Knives appeared first on Futurism.
World Socialist Web Site

The December 9 Protest, Nyerere’s “African Socialism” and the Struggle for Permanent Revolution—Part Two - As Trotsky’s had warned, the democratic, economic and social aspirations of workers and peasants could not be resolved through the creation of Tanzanian ca...
Independent Political Report

Massachusetts Forward Party Adopts Mission, Vision, and Values Statements - The Massachusetts Forward Party has formally adopted mission, vision, and values statements as part of recent efforts to define its organizational direct...
Daily Dot

“He’s losing his touch”: Trump pitches new name for “Trump Republicans,” and some critics think he’s lost it - [image: donald trump tepublican tpublican trumplicans] President Donald Trump's recent suggestions for what we should call "Trump Republicans" have peopl...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Two US national guard soldiers shot near White House in Washington DC - Conditions of two soldiers isn’t immediately known after incident, and emergency vehicles were seen responding in the area - US politics live ...
Al Jazeera English

Ireland tightens immigration rules to check population growth - The tough new measures come amid record numbers of asylum claims and growing tensions over immigration.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio ranks among worst cities for holiday travel - [image: The air travel industry spent $2.8 million to influence the last election, one news outlet reports.] San Antonio is among the nation’s worst citie...
Eschaton

Sleepy Donald - Not bringing his best, anymore.
Houston Public Media

Texas law enforcement commission to vote on disciplinary action for Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fullen - The upcoming vote on an "agreed order of suspension" regarding Fullen's peace officer license comes after allegations that he knowingly omitted information...
Political Wire

Justices Defers Ruling on Ousting Copyright Official - “The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred a decision about whether President Trump could remove the government’s top copyright official until after the just...
Courthouse News

Driver sobs as he admits plowing car into Liverpool soccer parade - Police declared the incident was not terrorism, but the circumstances of the attack had remained unclear. It now appears to have been an extreme case of ro...
The Daily Poster

How The Oil Summit Got Fracked - Fossil fuel lobbyists overwhelmed the COP30 climate negotiations in Brazil.
Ballot Access News

Hearing Set in California Redistricting Lawsuit - A three-judge U.S. District Court will hear Tanpiga v Newsom, c.d., 2:25cv-10616, on December 15, Monday, at 9 a.m. in Los Angeles. This is the case filed ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Nvidia’s Narrative Breaking Down? - Nvidia's narrative is being battered by mega-bears, defended by the most credulous bulls, and undermined by trade wars and a major new competitor.
Techdirt.

BBC Pre-Edits Lecture Calling Trump ‘Most Openly Corrupt President’ - The BBC is now voluntarily suppressing criticism of Donald Trump before it airs—and the reason is obvious: Trump threatened to sue them into oblivion, and ...
Slate

Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander - It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
Scheerpost.com

New Research Shows True Death Toll From Israeli Genocide in Gaza Could Be 126,000 or Even Higher - In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay...
Salon.com

10 ways to step up self-care over the holidays - Mental-health experts offer practical strategies to help make the season calmer and more manageable
WhoWhatWhy

The Congo Basin Is Earth’s Second-Largest Rainforest. Why Is It Being Neglected? - [image: climate crisis, global warming, tropical rainforests, Congo basin, vital carbon sink, funding and policy neglect] PICKS are stories from many sourc...
CultureMap Houston

Houston dazzles among top 10 most festive cities in America for 2025 - Houston has once again landed a coveted spot on Thumbtack's annual ranking of the most festive American cities in 2025.
Undernews

American Psychological Association warns against over use of Tik Tok and Instagram - *Independent UK - *Excessive usage of TikTok and Instagram Reels is damaging cognitive performance, the American Psychological Association has said in a r...
Deadline Politics

Trump Insults Another Female Reporter After NYT Posts “Fatigue” Article: “Ugly, Both Inside & Out,” Self-Declared Protector Of Women Says - Donald Trump incredulously promised on the campaign trail last year to be the “protector” of American women, “whether the women like it or not.” With his t...
NPR's Health Shots

Medicare negotiated lower prices for 15 drugs, including 71% off Ozempic and Wegovy - Medicare announced 15 lower drugs after a second round of negotiations with pharmaceutical companies. The drugs include Ozempic and also drugs to treat ast...
Reform Austin

Harris County Hit Hard as Tornado Strikes Without Warning - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… On Monday a tornado swept through Harris County causing widespread destruction, damaging more t...
Election Law Blog

Voting Technology Experts Respond to New York Times Article on Anchorage “Vote by Phone” Experiment - The following statement was shared with me from some leading voting technology experts in response to this NY Times article: As experts who have studied ...
Second Nexus

Campbell's Soup Exec Allegedly Caught Calling Products 'Sh*t For F—king Poor People' In Secret Audio Recording - Another corporate overlord was caught saying the quiet part out loud after a whistleblower employee leaked an audio recording that criticized *Campbell’s ...
Axios

Court upholds Trump's nearly $1M penalty for frivolous Clinton suit - A conservative federal appeals court unanimously upheld nearly $1 million in sanctions against President Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba for fi...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court defers decision on whether Trump can fire head of U.S. Copyright Office - The Supreme Court on Wednesday put off a decision on the Trump administration’s request to be able to remove Shira Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyr...
Progressive.org

The Uncertain Future of SNAP Leaves Schools Filling the Hunger Gap - Federal delays in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are rippling through classrooms and putting thousands of school-meal programs under pr...
Krebs on Security

Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ - A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass ext...
Texas Standard

After deadly floods, Thanksgiving in Texas feels different this year - Many families across the state are grappling with unanswered questions and loss following the destructive flooding on the Fourth of July that left at least...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
The NM Political Report

2/3 of New Mexicans lack access to”trustworthy local news,” new study finds - Two-thirds of New Mexicans say they lack access to trustworthy local news, what they do have is often hard to access, even in bigger cities where news in...
Consortium News

The Necropolitics of Warfare Over Healthcare - With a skyrocketing insurance premium forcing her to give up her health coverage, Melissa Garriga says she joins all the other people around the world harm...
Capital & Main

Is the Solution to Hunger All Around Us in Fertile California? - A program in Los Angeles County is recycling unused food to feed hungry residents — and offering a model for other cities. The post Is the Solution to Hu...
Daily Cartoonist

Ashraf Omar Referred to Criminal Court - Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Omar has been referred to criminal court. Ashraf has been detained since July of 2024 on charges of joining a terrorist group, p...
Dissident Voice

It’s Not Only about Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect - It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela...
Infidel753

The fork in the road - We Americans are a conquered people. And we were conquered while barely firing a shot to defend ourselves. The conquerors are not from overseas, not some...
San Antonio Report

Alamo Colleges’ Student Trustee Josiah Rodriguez speaks for 88,000 students - A decade after the launch of the Student Trustee program at Alamo Colleges District, leaders say it champions stronger student representation and engagemen...
Socialist Alternative

2025 US Perspectives: Trump 2.0 & Capitalism in Decay - This document is a slightly abridged version of what was passed by the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention to guide our work in the coming period. Trump ...
Discourse

Back Next Week! - Have a restful holiday break.
Rallblog

Affordability: We Need Higher Incomes, Not Lower Prices - Everyone’s talking about affordability or, more precisely, unaffordability—and the issue is likely to drive U.S. politics for the foreseeable future. Aff...
Daily Howler

SERVILE / DEFERENTIAL: Why did Gutfeld flip on Trump? - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2025* *Gutfeld gets the word: *Yes, he could—and yes, he actually did! It's as we noted (again) yesterday. On at least three occ...
Glasstire

Synergistic Studio Series: Transcending Spaces with Tricia Earl - Practicing artists frequently create the culture they would like to be a part of, giving time and energy to support others. Artists might curate pop-up e...
Brad Blog

Presidential Illegality and the Duty to Disobey - Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) actually didn’t go far enough when he told members of the U.S. military: "Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders." In ...
Bonddad

The housing market continues to be recessionary: repeat home sales edition - - *by New Deal democrat* Note: there was a good advance manufacturers’ new orders report for September this morning. I’m going to save discussing it...
Bracing Views

America the Sick and Anxious - And so too are our kids BILL ASTORE NOV 25, 2025 “America’s children are unwell.” From the New York Times this morning: Nearly one in four 17-year-old boys...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Game They Make Us Play: Capitalism as a Ticking Time-Bomb - We're standing at the end of a disastrous cycle that has played out time and time again.
First Draft

The Department of Defense v. The Boy Scouts - It’s an all-American battle. Bonus points for the administration’s kicking WV in the teeth over this.
El Paso Matters

Thanksgiving Parade, Turkey Trot lead culture, holiday events in El Paso - El Paso’s Sun Bowl Thanksgiving Parade returns alongside the YMCA Turkey Trot, with cultural events, WinterFest activities and community celebrations fi...
Democracy Now!

"Policy Violence": ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber - Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious...
The Conversation

As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste - Despite the administration’s claim of streamlining the government to make its operations more efficient, a range of recent federal policies have, in fact, ...
Space City Weather

Seasonal weather arrives in time for Turkey day, with even colder conditions next week. Also, did you see the fireball last night? - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the seasonal conditions for Thanksgiving, which will be followed by widespread showers this weekend. After this we wil...
Texas Observer

‘Mija, Solamente Me Importa Clint’ - My dad’s list is short and simple. He loves the Marines, his grandsons, menudo on Sundays, and Clint. If pressed, he’ll own up to loving the Cowboys but ...
Vox

What happens when women lead? A new future for Bangladesh - In Bangladesh, women’s participation in the workforce is low, and only 7.2% of small businesses in the country are owned by women.* For generations, girls ...
ArcaMax

A Funeral for a Handshake? - WASHINGTON -- A moment in former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral at the National Cathedral brought me to tears. Not for the departed and grim old warr...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Plan for Drilling off California and Florida Coasts Faces Bipartisan Opposition - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s not often that the govern...
slacktivist

Men behaving badly (11.26.25) - May every day be another wonderful secret.
The Root

Black Internet Erupts After Government Tells Travelers Not to Wear These Specific Items in the Airport - As millions of travelers prepare to hit the skies during the holiday travel season, the government is telling travelers not to wear these specific clothi...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Officials Can Be ‘Held Accountable’ for Obeying His Illegal Orders: Ex-JAG Officer -
Skeptophilia

Pack mentality - As hard as it may be to imagine, dogs -- yes, all of them -- are the domesticated descendants of gray wolves. Well, it's hard for *me* to imagine, anyhow...
Off The Kuff

Redistricting plaintiffs ask SCOTUS to put the old map back in - As expected. The original civil rights groups who challenged Texas’ new gerrymandered maps back in August of this year have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to...
ProPublica

Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System - Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons posted a video of Deputy Director Josh Smith vowing to “make the BOP great again.” The seven-minute clip echoes ...
Grist

Everyone hates gas-powered leaf blowers. So why is it so hard to ban them? - Cities and states are trying to ditch America's most hated appliance. They're running into challenges.
High Country News

The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our understanding - Science is essential to managing wildlife populations, but there are limits to what we know. The post The mystery of wildlife and a world beyond our und...
Crooked Media

Unpacking Trump’s Ukraine “Peace Deal” - The post Unpacking Trump’s Ukraine “Peace Deal” appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ian Welsh

Are Multiple Russian Breakthroughs Imminent? - In my Nov. 7 analysis of the Russo-Ukrainian War I missed two serious developments on the line of contact that I simply didn’t have the bandwidth to notice...
Wolf Street

Despite their Ultra-Sour Mood, Americans Splurge at Restaurants & Bars like There’s No Tomorrow - Far outdistancing inflation and blowing by food & beverage stores.
Counterpunch

A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Seattle - “It was the best of times” – two democratic socialists elected mayors of New York and Seattle – “it was the worst of times” – Donald Trump is still presi...
Portside

2026: A Year of Reckoning - 2026: A Year of Reckoning jay Wed, 11/26/2025 - 01:07
jobsanger

Trump Is Not The Populist That He Pretends To Be -
Informed Comment

Mamdani was Right to Handle Trump, but the Left must Remember that the President is Still a Toxic Nationalist - Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins
Workers World

Hands off Venezuela! - [image: Hands off Venezuela!] In nine countries and at more than 60 locations, opponents of the threatened U.S. attack on the Bolivarian government held mo...
Popular Resistance

What? Peace In Our Time? - There are any number of reasons you may not like, or may even condemn, the 28–point peace plan the Trump regime has drafted to advance toward a settlemen...
Antiwar.com

A Real Ukraine Peace Plan - Last week’s surprise release of a draft Ukraine war peace plan has raised hopes that the nearly three-year bloody conflict may finally come to an end. Ukra...
Alternet

Nicolle Wallace shuts down key Trump claim about the economy - President Donald Trump's administration has continued to maintain that the economy during Trump's second term has been strong, even as prices for basic n...
The Greanville Post

Ages in Turmoil (A Recommended Read) - BRUCE LERRO—Any complex human society has a number of specialized positions that go with the functions they perform to manage the state. In a prosperous so...
The Texas Signal

What It Means When Texas Counties Partner With ICE - Local partnerships with ICE, a relic from a nineties immigration bill, have turbocharged in Texas
Sludge

Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money - Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars i...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 25, 2...
Church and State

Climate Talks End With ‘Empty Deal’ That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels - COP30 concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words “fossil fuels”.
OpEd News

The Order Trump Dreams of Being Able to Enforce - This is the latest of my ongoing (since 2015) Trump and fascism series, in general, and in particular, the latest very well-known episode in it, concerning...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s agents want us fatigued over Gaza, but Palestine’s resistance shows us how to keep fighting - The recent strategic gains of Palestine’s resistance, and of the global movement that’s aligned with it, give us the lessons we’ll need to keep fighting...
Environment Texas

Forever chemicals foul the traditional Thanksgiving turkey hunt - Why has Maine issued a ‘do not eat’ order for wild turkeys in certain areas? And what else does this mean for our environment? The post Forever chemicals...
The AltWorld

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are Now Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS […] The post The Seven Richest Billionaires Are Now Media ...
MintPress News

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts how t...
Mondoweiss

Sarah Hurwitz and liberal Zionism’s hail mary - [image: Sarah Hurwitz speaking in May 2017 (Photo: Thor Brødreskift / Nordiske Mediedager/Wikimedia)]Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Fed...
Liberation News

COP30 sees highest participation from Indigenous groups, still falls short of addressing climate crisis - Official Indigenous representation at this year's COP30 was overshadowed by the 1600 or so lobbyists for industries tied to fossil fuels, many of them U.S....
Dorf on Law

Where is the Higher Education Gold Rush? - With a major holiday in the US only two days away, this column will be uncharacteristically brief (slightly more than half the usual length of one of my ...
Rewire

‘Scrubs’ Alum Judy Reyes on ICE Raids, Humanity, and the Power of Storytelling (Podcast) - Reyes explains how community is keeping people whole amid federal immigration raids. The post ‘Scrubs’ Alum Judy Reyes on ICE Raids, Humanity, and the Po...
Angry Bear

Producer prices in September told a tale of goods vs. services (plus; programming note) - – by New Deal democrat First, a scheduling note. Several data releases have been made this morning. Several more delayed releases having to do with hous...
Dissent Magazine

Partyism Without the Party - Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: The Dirty Truth About Clean Teeth - Millions of us do the same thing every morning and night: we brush our teeth,... The post Guest Idea: The Dirty Truth About Clean Teeth appeared first on...
Trivial Knot

Recent health developments - Another casual blogging event. This one is about farts. Wait, I’m being serious! A few months ago, I had COVID for the first time. I never got it before...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Culture war backlash fuels Democrat school board sweeps' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Editor's note - This being Thanksgiving week, I don't expect to be blogging as much as I usually do. Of course knowing the disastrous few weeks the Tru...
Project Censored

Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media - In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss jou...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
The Grayzone

Funcionarios de la Casa Blanca sabían de antemano del golpe de Estado Venezolano de 2020, según archivos - Documentos publicados por una corte federal ofrecen detalles nuevos y perturbadores sobre el intento de figuras relacionadas con Trump de orquestar un go...
Debunking Christianity

The Problem of Evil Will Pulverize Theism into Oblivion Thanks To James Sterba, Paul Draper, and My New Book On Horrendous Suffering! - This latest book by Paul Draper should be very good! This should lead to a triple thumping to take place against Christian theism! It's coming from books b...
DeSmogBlog

As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps - A 2015 report by the Canadian pro-development group Resource Works cynically telegraphed the growing recognition by industry a decade ago that major proj...
Greg Palast

Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo - Forgive me, but I have send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, onc...
Common Dreams

Quiet, Piggy - Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, ped...
The Progressive Wing

11.23-30 🦃 Thanksgiving Week Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads. So, post whatever suits your fancy (within reason). Also, 🥂here’s🥂 to a safe and Happy Thanksgiving for everyone. 🙂
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
Crooked Timber

Musk’s last grift - The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some ki...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TRUMP EMBRACES SOCIALISM EDITION. - *Where they spend their se-molians / Just to watch those cre-olians /Skippin', hippin′, doin' the uptown lowdown. (Chick Webb!)* The week was strange; f...
Alas, a Blog

Crap You Hear In A Wheelchair - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: As a cartoonist in the internet age, I’m really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as...
The Militant

Author Boualem Sansal released from prison in Algeria - In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rust on the Midterm Iron Law? Voter Expectations for 2026 - In the early parts of the Trump administration, citizens were skeptical that Democrats could retake the House or Senate, but more recent surveys indicate...
NORML

Promoting Compassionate Cannabis Policies for Vulnerable Youth - [image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it][image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it]NORML ...
Duck of Minerva

Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change - The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Madu...
Avedon's Sideshow

Everybody's crying justice, just as long as it's business first - Here's a picture of my Second Life avatar in a sexy gown, just to spice things up. I hope no one's forgotten that *Common Dreams* is about as close as you...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:11 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
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...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Reveal

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

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

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

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

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

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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