Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

memeorandum

Why Trump Won't 'Produce a Scalp' After the Signal Debacle (The Atlantic) - The Atlantic: *Why Trump Won't ‘Produce a Scalp’ After the Signal Debacle* — As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security perso...
naked capitalism

Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible? - Insert variable A new expose on Facebook confirms some known abuses while also describing malign influence in unexpected corners of the world
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Adopt the Pace of Nature - Today’s quote is from American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Adopt the pace... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Adopt the Pace of N...
Crooked Media

Trump 2.0’s Biggest Scandal Yet - The post Trump 2.0’s Biggest Scandal Yet appeared first on Crooked Media.
Southeast Texas Record

Attorney General Ken Paxton Defeats Biden-Era Rule that Attempted to Force Radical “Gender Identity” Ideology on Texas Foster Care System - Attorney General Ken Paxton has successfully stopped a Biden Administration rule forcing foster care providers to “affirm” radical “gender identity” ideo...
ArcaMax

We All Join the Inner Circle - Two days ago, I went out to get trash bags because I needed trash bags, a prescription because I needed a prescription and cookies because I like cookies. ...
Rallblog

Republican Congressmen Are Canceling Town Halls - Republican Congressmen have indeed been canceling town halls, but the reasons are more complex than just “angry Democrats.” Many are dodging public forum...
Counterpunch

Roaming Charges: The Goldberg Variations - If the Trump team was going to "accidentally" include any reporter in their Yemen war planning–Goldberg, the former IDF prison guard–would be the one. It...
The Week

Sudoku medium: March 28, 2025 - The Week's daily medium sudoku puzzle
Al Jazeera English

US, Philippines must stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ on China, Hegseth says - US defence secretary meets Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos amid controversy over leaking of Yemen strike plans.
jobsanger

jobsanger Is 19 Years Old! - Trump has me so upset these days that I forget the birthday of this blog. I made my first post on March 17th of 2006. That makes the blog 19 years old. ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1041: Chinese Pharmacy - Episode: 1041 A Chinese pharmacopoeia — 2000 years ago. Today, we ask how the Chinese managed to hide their candle under a bushel.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk - The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet ei...
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and conservative influencer Ben Shapiro discussed how to help Canada elect “solid allies” to the Trump administration duri...
Political Wire

Fallout Coming for Trump’s Rug Pull on Stefanik - “President Trump’s dramatic rug pull of Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) UN ambassador nomination has given House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a new series of...
Informed Comment

China’s BYD has a $16K “Tesla-killer,” as IEA finds EVs are an Oil Company-Killer - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Incredible new developments in electric vehicles are taking place in China with global implications. China’s BYD sold $100 b...
Courthouse News

Conservationists’ lawsuit to preserve Great Salt Lake allowed to proceed - A state judge agreed with the plaintiffs that Utah has a fiduciary duty under the state's public trust doctrine to preserve the waters of the lake that fac...
Antiwar.com

The Signal Scandal, Carelessness, Revelations, and Hypocrisy - In an act of astonishing, and possibly illegal, carelessness, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inexplicably invited to join an op...
World Socialist Web Site

US immigration Gestapo abduct Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi - Doroudi, who has not been accused of a crime, is the latest student to be kidnapped by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Raw Story

'That's outrageous!' CNN panelists clash after 'serious problem' flagged with Trump - President Donald Trump appearing to be clueless when asked if he's been briefed on the four missing soldiers in Lithuania set a CNN panel discussion on f...
Wolf Street

US Government Fiscal Mess: Debt, Deficit, Interest Payments, and Tax Receipts: Q4 2024 Update on an Ugly Situation - The Deficit-to-GDP ratio and Debt-to-GDP ratio get even uglier.
The Hill

DOGE team defends federal layoffs: 'Almost no one has gotten fired' - President Trump’s senior adviser and tech billionaire Elon Musk, along with seven Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers, defended the number ...
Techdirt.

The Consequences Of An RFK Jr. HHS Appointment Are Smacking Our Children In The Face - The reemergence of measles, a disease once declared officially eradicated in the United States, didn’t start with the second Trump presidential term. It di...
Mediaite

‘Crushed’ Elise Stefanik ‘Scrambled’ To Convince Trump To Change His Mind About Pulling Her Nomination - Rep. Elise Stefanik reportedly "scrambled" to get President Donald Trump to reverse course on withdrawing her nomination as Ambassador to the United Nati...
Daily Dot

‘Somebody lost their job’: Driver trades in 2024 Lexus for brand-new Nissan. Why is dealership worker calling it an ‘upgrade’? - [image: 2 panel image: on the left is a Lexus vehicle and on the right is a Nissan vehicle.] A car dealership salesman was criticized online after claimi...
Salon.com

"We're going after them": Musk promises Trump admin will target Tesla critics - The world's richest man threatened those who attacked his companies in a new interview with Fox News
Election Law Blog

A Tale of Two Law Firms: “Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm’s Connection to Robert Mueller”/”Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order” - NYT: President Trump moved on Thursday to punish the law firm WilmerHale, where Robert S. Mueller III worked before and after he served as special counse...
Mediagazer

A report on California's creative economy finds entertainment jobs in 2024 were 25% below 2022; LA County's 2024 shooting days fell 42% compared to 2022 (Matt Stevens/New York Times) - Matt Stevens / New York Times: *A report on California's creative economy finds entertainment jobs in 2024 were 25% below 2022; LA County's 2024 shooting...
Daily Cartoonist

Sneak Peek at the New GoComics - In a few days (April 1, 2025) the new GoComics website will present itself to the world at large, and while we don’t have any details as to most of what wi...
Alternet

'Open declaration': Hegseth slammed over new tattoo seen as insult 'to the Muslim world' - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was seen with a new tattoo earlier this week while visiting U.S. troops in Hawaii. And it's causing a stir among the Musli...
Popular Resistance

Can We Exit From A World Of Debt? - In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to USD 11.4 trillion (2023). It is important to understand that this mo...
Brad Blog

Veterans Push Back Against Trump, Musk Plan to Slash Health Care, Benefits, 80,000 V.A. Jobs: 'BradCast' 3/27/2025 - On today's BradCast: The Trump Administration may have chosen the wrong group of Americans to launch a "war" against, including taking jobs, benefits and h...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Workers World

Protests erupt in Türkiye following Erdoğan’s jailing of rival - [image: Protests erupt in Türkiye following Erdoğan’s jailing of rival] By Cemile Cakir Türkiye March 23. Since the evening of March 19, millions of people...
Axios

Trump targets Smithsonian funding for programs with "improper ideology" - President Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at reshaping the Smithsonian Institution and removing what he deems "improper ideology" from its ...
Deadline Politics

Trump Signs Executive Order To Remove “Improper Ideology” From Museums, National Monuments - President Donald Trump today signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The document asserts there has been a “wide...
The Greanville Post

INDISPENSABLE READ! — US “Peace” President Drops Bombs, Green-Lights New Warplane - BRIAN BERLETIC—As the Trump administration continues Biden-era wars, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has proposed renaming the Department of Defense t...
Undernews

Elon Musk - *Washington Times - *Billionaire Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state S...
Idavox

Nothing Funny About The Proud Boys Founder’s Upcoming Comedy Tour - By Keystone Anti-Racist Action America Strikes Back comedy tour was recently announced on the social... The post Nothing Funny About The Proud Boys Found...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio 3.28.2025 - Black Agenda Radio 3.28.2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Radio...
Sludge

Tesla Gets a Recharge From Trump’s Auto Tariffs - Auto industry analysts say Tesla, which is losing market share in EVs, stands to win from Trump's 25% tariff plan on foreign-made cars.
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 years ago - April 3, 2000 CHICAGO — The AFL-CIO women’s conference here drew 4,000 women. The conference was stamped by women who are in the middle of union battles. T...
Texas Standard

Yolanda Saldivar, convicted of killing Selena, will stay in prison - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to deny parole over “the Nature of the Offense.” She will be eligible again in 2030.
Portside

The New Definition of Antisemitism Is Transforming America – and Serving a Christian Nationalist Plan - The New Definition of Antisemitism Is Transforming America – and Serving a Christian Nationalist Plan jay Thu, 03/27/2025 - 18:41
Progressive.org

As Trump Sets His Sights on Birthright Citizenship, Deported Mothers Fight for Their Children’s Rights - The case of deported asylum seekers who gave birth in the United States portends a grim reality for the children of noncitizens.
See You In 2020

Jackson Hinkle has surpassed alt media, proving communism is essential to the anti-imperialist movement - When I say that Jackson Hinkle has surpassed alt media, I mean he’s been able to connect with a kind of global mass energy that very few other commentat...
The Verge

Nintendo digital lending feature reveals ‘Switch 2 Edition’ games are on the way - Nintendo has revealed something new about Switch 2 games on a day it wasn’t planning to talk about the new system. After today’s Nintendo Direct stream, th...
Futurism

CoreWeave's Huge IPO Is Becoming a Disaster, Spelling Trouble for the AI Industry - The AI industry has been a roller coaster ride so far, to put it lightly. Selling promises of an automation revolution, startups and established tech gia...
The Texas Signal

Potential Legal Challenges To Abortion Shield Laws - A clerk in New York refused to file a judgment against a doctor for violating Texas abortion laws, however the threat to shield laws still looms
El Paso Matters

Former El Paso Zoo employee files sexual harassment lawsuit against supervisor, zoo director - The zoo director allegedly minimized sexual discrimination and sexual harassment complaints made by a former employee against her supervisor, the lawsui...
Vox

ICE’s viral arrest of a Tufts University student, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Testimony Against Bill Attacking Abortion Access: “SB 33 is yet another example of the ‘party of small government’s’ hypocrisy” - What is Texas Senate Bill 33? SB 33 would further erode local control by prohibiting municipalities and counties from using public funds for practical su...
Common Dreams

Free Press Mourns the Death of Co-Founder and Scholar Robert W. McChesney - Robert W. McChesney, the eminent media scholar and co-founder of Free Press, died on Tuesday, March 25, in Madison, Wisconsin. Before his retirement, McC...
Second Nexus

Fox News Correspondent Explains Why Signal Group Chat Was 'More Serious' Than We Even Thought - Fox News’s chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin shared concerning insight on the "classified" military strategy information that Secret...
Reform Austin

AG Announces Investigation Into Health Insurer Over Surveillance Allegations - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced that the state is opening an investigation into health insurer Superior Health over allegations t...
Mondoweiss

The Gaza demonstrations, and the desire for certainty - [image: Protesters chant "Hamas get out!" during a demonstration in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. (Screenshot via NBC News)]The protests in Gaza c...
Slate

The New Album From One of Our Greatest Songwriters Is a Mini-Masterpiece - Don’t listen to the backlash. Forever Is a Feeling is astonishingly honest—and all the more powerful for it.
San Antonio Report

District 9 Council race draws partisan fight over rare conservative-leaning district - The far Northside council district drew a number of conservative-minded candidates running for Councilman John Courage's seat. -----------------------------...
CultureMap Houston

Chopped champion chef confirms 'rumors' of his 4th Houston restaurant - The rumors are true: a Houston Chopped champion’s newest restaurant is opening in late spring.
The Root

Joe Budden’s Neighbors Are So Tired of Him, They've Leaked His Nudes. And that's Just The Beginning - Just months after beating a lewdness charge, Joe Budden is being dragged back to court. However, this time his fellow podcast host will be joining him. ...
Claytoonz

Classified Morons - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
slacktivist

A story we all should re-read: The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue - "You would do so ... and no matter what the laws might be, you would honor yourself for doing it; your friends would honor you for doing it; your children ...
The NM Political Report

Battery repurposing project in Santa Fe on DOE ‘hit list’ - By Hannah Grover A reported “hit list” of clean energy projects that could lose U.S. Department of Energy funding includes a long-duration storage demon...
Discourse

The Price of Criticizing Israel Has Never Been Higher - Supporting Palestine can get you kidnapped, jailed, or brutally beaten right now.
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Texas Monthly

One of the Rarest of Texas’s Rare Plants Might Be Growing in Your Neighbor’s Garden - Wild big red sage may soon be listed as endangered. So how did it become a landscape plant?
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: A graduate student, then MS-13! - *THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2025* *A tale of two arrests:* On its face, the first arrest—the first arrest of the *two* arrests—had an ugly, sinister feel. In i...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care - The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal fund...
WhoWhatWhy

US Arrests a Prominent MS-13 Leader… Maybe - [image: en. Mark Warner, questions, FBI Director Kash] For far too long, media outlets have taken members of the Trump administration at their word. For th...
Eater Houston

The Saddest Houston Restaurant Closings to Know This March - [image: A table covered in white-linen and topped with wine glasses and a bottle of wine.] It’s a tough month for speakeasies. | Barrett Doke A steakhous...
Mother Jones

“A Sicker America”: RFK Jr.’s HHS Will Lay Off 10,000 Staff - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remaking of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entered a new phase on Thursday, when officials announced tha...
Consortium News

Losing Academic Freedom - The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly...
First Draft

Team Trump’s Extortion Racket: Big Law Edition - Life imitates The Sopranos.
LareDOS

LFS Film Club Friday features films of Marcela Morán on Friday, March 28 - Isaac Garza’s team-building workshop set for Saturday, March 29
Scheerpost.com

Tufts University Student Detained by Masked Feds - NEW: I’ve obtained new footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers. pic.twitter.com/gucwFxdnOi — Dani...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas senators propose faculty senate limits, curricula reviews. Professors want answers by Lily Kepner of the Austin American-Statesman - *UT Mexican American and Latino Studies professor and UT AAUP member, Dr. Karma Chavez, said SB 37's curricular provision banning ideology would negatively...
The Daily Poster

The Gordon Gekko Tax Break - Private equity firms want to revive their tax rewards for looting companies and screwing workers.
Krebs on Security

When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger - Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russi...
Capital & Main

Stay Hungry: School Kids Learn the ABCs of Chaos - Trump’s penny pinching and immigrant hunting reach rural classrooms. The post Stay Hungry: School Kids Learn the ABCs of Chaos appeared first on .
American Prospect

Abundance Incoherence - The new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reviewed.
SCOTUSblog

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow cancellation of grants to teachers - [image: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow cancellation of grants to teachers] [image: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow cancellation of grants to teachers]...
Infidel753

Don't be that guy - The boycott and protest movement against Tesla has been the biggest success of the resistance so far in Trump's second term, causing a huge drop in the co...
Texas Observer

Congressman Denounces ICE Response About Prosecutor Operating Racist X Account - Last month, Congressman Marc Veasey, a North Texas Democrat, sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Deputy Director Kenneth Ge...
Glasstire

Top Five: March 27, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Audra Wolowiec: Water Radio Co-Opt Research (Lubbock) M...
Liberation News

JD Vance: ‘Voice of the Rust Belt’ or agent of venture capital? - Vance’s career over the last decade may seem jarring and disjointed — but there are threads that carry through it all.
Bud Kennedy

Colin Allred vs. Ken Paxton for Senate? Texas Dems need ‘perfect storm’ to have a shot | Opinion - Americans still don’t like Democrats. Except we still love local Democrats, and that gives the party a thin chance to come back. Democrats have won five st...
ProPublica

New Utah Law Seeks to Crack Down on Life Coaches Offering Therapy Without a License - by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribun...
Dissident Voice

The Woman Who Defied an Empire - To this day, she’s remembered as one of the first anti-colonial revolutionaries in Africa. After you’ve read this story of Kimpa Vita, you’ll never forge...
Bonddad

Long leading indicators update: corporate profits in Q4 2024 - * - by New Deal democrat* Corporate profits are a long leading indicator, as they typically turn down at least one year before the onset of a recessi...
The AltWorld

I Envy The Palestinians - I envy the Palestinians. Not for what they’re going through, obviously, but for what they have. Their […] The post I Envy The Palestinians appeared first...
Bracing Views

Department of Offense - W.J. Astore The U.S. Military Is a Global Strike Force Officially, the U.S. has the DOD, the department of defense. But when was the last time the U.S. mil...
Democracy Now!

Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out After Trump Guts Social Impact Team - The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has fired at least five members of its social impact team, including its artistic director, the renowned artist ...
Space City Weather

Upper-level system should bring mostly manageable rain into the region today and Friday - In brief: Light to moderate showers are moving into Houston from the southwest this morning, and this more or less will be the pattern over the next two da...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Rio Grande Guardian

Reyes: Right to Repair Was Meant to Protect Texas Contractors - The spirit of the Right to Repair statute is under attack, writes Josue Reyes, president and CEO of D. Wilson Construction Co. The post Reyes: Right to ...
Dorf on Law

AAUP Fills the Void the Columbia Administration Opened - Last week, Columbia University capitulated to the Trump administration's illegal and unconstitutional demands in an effort to induce the administration to...
Angry Bear

Manufacturers continue to front-run tariffs, with no weakness in new orders - – by New Deal democrat Last week I explored how past episodes of sharp increases in politic uncertainty, and decreases in consumer confidence, had playe...
The Smirking Chimp

Dear GOP: You'll Never Wash the Stench of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never. -
Skeptophilia

Lightning rod - In 1904, biologist Joseph Grinnell formulated what has since become known as the *Competitive Exclusion Principle*: if two species overlap in their niche...
Off The Kuff

Beware the trojan “abortion exceptions” bill - Jessica Valenti warns us. Texas Republicans are poised to pull a fast one: They’ve convinced Democrats and doctors to support a bill they claim will protec...
Grist

Trump wants to wind down FEMA. Could states fill the gap? - Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed.
High Country News

Trump halts historic orphaned well-plugging program - Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. The post Trump halts historic orphaned well-p...
Church and State

Scientists Warn Major Glaciers Won’t ‘Survive This Century,’ With Grave Impacts for Billions - Scientists are warning about how fossil fuel-driven global warming melts ice across the planet, endangering freshwater resources. The post Scientists War...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a bigoted fool of herself during PBS, NPR hearing - Marjorie Taylor Greene On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and ...
Ian Welsh

Trump Doesn’t Have A Master Plan - [image: Trump Doesn’t Have A Master Plan] There are a lot of smart people who think Trump has a plan. For example, that he’s deliberately reducing America...
MintPress News

Trump Killed Public War Research. Stargate Will Make It Secret—and Far More Dangerous - The Pentagon’s academic program studied dissent, protest, and radicalization. Now it’s being replaced by a private AI surveillance network run in total s...
ExChristian.Net

A Three-Day Death Sentence: The Absurdity of the Jesus Story in Modern Times - Imagine, for a moment, that someone told you today that a man was executed, stayed dead for three days, then got up, dusted himself off, and walked out o...
Ecosophia

March 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
Trivial Knot

My academic career finally ended - I didn’t talk about it much, but until recently I was technically still involved in academia. I participated in Project Recognize, a research grant to impr...
Rewire

4 Lawsuits From Conservatives Target Your Health Privacy Protection - Matt Kacsmaryk could declare HIPAA—and health privacy protections—unconstitutional. The post 4 Lawsuits From Conservatives Target Your Health Privacy Pro...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where We Stand: The Building Backlash and the Ongoing Coup - We're two months into the crisis and the battle lines are being drawn
Ballot Access News

Trump Executive Order re: Federal Elections, plus an Analysis of that Order - Here is a story on Trump’s Executive Order. Here is Rick Hasen’s preliminary analysis of that Executive Order. … Continue reading →
Earthworks

Taking Land for Minerals Will Amplify Mining’s Harms - If mining companies, the United States may try once again to seize land around the world explicitly in the name of resource extraction. The post Taking ...
The Conversation

From Greenland to Fort Bragg, America is caught in a name game where place names become political tools - Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle.
Project Censored

Stargate Fiasco - Recently, Trump announced the private-public partnership, Stargate. It builds on Biden’s executive order to make DOD military bases and irreplaceable ele...
The Grayzone

Why did Jeffrey Goldberg leave the ‘bomb Yemen’ Signal chat? - With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up wi...
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...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two - In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Adult-Use Marijuana Retail, Guts Medical Access Legislation - [image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization][image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization]"Once again, Governor Youngkin has prioritized his personal politics over...
Duck of Minerva

The Folly of Trying to Trade Russia for “Europe” - I published an article yesterday in Real Clear Defense. The title is “The Road to Securing European Cooperation on China Runs Through Ukraine”, but I supp...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Ten Findings from the Newly-Released JFK Assassination Records - A sampling of what we’ve found since last week with thousands of pages still to be reviewed. The post Ten Findings from the Newly-Released JFK Assassinat...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: The Suplex Bird - Today I’d like to talk about that delightful little companion of field and garden: the shrike. [copyright Rosemary Mosco, 2024, birdandmoon.com] If you kno...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Progressives Chat

The Scam Operation’s Latest Con - Numerous content creators, who I normally follow and are among recommendations, have covered the latest from Team Blue as to what kind of moves they may ...
Debunking Christianity

Here's An Earlier Paper On the Evil God Challenge - It was published by Steven M. Cahn, “Cacodaemony,” in *Contemporary Philosophy of Religion*, ed. Steven M. Cahn and David Shatz (New York: Oxford Universit...
Free & Equal

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

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CONCENTRATION CAMP FOLLOWERS EDITION. - *Lot of cool shit at the neo-soul cafe today but Alicia Keys always jumps.* Hey, how're you liking our descent into dictatorship? Me neither! There’s mor...
The Progressive Wing

Benny’s Bar Open Thread 3.24-28 - Benny’s Bar will open later, but please add any news below.
Lowering the Bar

President Threatened With Witchcraft - This one really is a "witch hunt."
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
Reveal

Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns - The shift comes after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting linked former police guns to crime...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2025 - Walmart had at least fifteen more shootings related to their business, with most of them on their property, but at least three were nearby and either th...
Field Negro

"State of the Union causes State of Confusion" - The state of this fragile American union is not good. It's not good because the leader is intentionally trying to divide us and destroy it. I am not ...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
nonsite.org

Painter: Making A Modern Painting - With generous permission from the filmmaker’s estate, we are honored to share this extraordinary short documentary, completed in 2017 by Joseph De Francesc...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
TalkLeft

Trump and Elon Musk: Policy at Home and Abroad - This is an open thread for all things related to Donald Trump's second administration, including Elon Musk, his non-elected co-leader, and Stephen Miller...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Green Pages News

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

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
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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