Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Aston Villa vs Manchester City: Premier League – teams, prediction, lineups - Man City are the only team with a perfect Premier League record, but face a Villa side determined to climb the table.
Futurism

Man Dies After Being Mowed Down by Self-Driving Tesla, Police Say - Grim. The post Man Dies After Being Mowed Down by Self-Driving Tesla, Police Say appeared first on Futurism.
Slate

I Made the Elizabeth Holmes Eggs. I Have to Side With Billy on This One. - For Elizabeth’s version, I weakly turned the eggs in the bowl with the stunned limpness of someone facing a looming prison sentence.
The Verge

Soundcore’s latest noise-crushing headphones are on sale for a new low price - My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — an...
Raw Story

‘We’ll see what he means by that’: Ramaswamy’s cryptic claim about his mom confounds CNN - Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy left a CNN anchor and reporter searching for answers Friday after leveling an unexplained accusat...
Undernews

Voting - *Jonathan Willson Hartgrove - *The Associated Press reported this week that early voting turnout has surged over past midterms, especially in states with...
Mother Jones

Mamdani on Trump, Floods, and the Fight Over Data Centers - His name might not be on the ballot this November, but New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in American po...
Alas, a Blog

Nobody In Israel Said That! - Sources for all quotes used in the cartoon are at the end of this post. In a TV appearance in April 2024, Israeli-American journalist and pundit Emily Schr...
San Antonio Current

Fed up with data centers and Big Tech, rural Republican crossover could decide Democrats’ fate in Texas - NAVASOTA — Joie Miller moved to rural Grimes County to raise her daughter hunting, fishing and spending time with her grandparents on their 100-acre ran...
Novara Media

ECONOMICS GURU: Britain Is NOT Ready for the Next Crisis - We talk to a top economist and former advisor to Gordon Brown about the challenges and opportunities facing John Healy’s first budget announcement. With Mi...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Absurd by even current standards. The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate election i...
Political Wire

Trump Shrugs Off the Rape Charges Central to Ohio Ad - “President Donald Trump continued to defend Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad that featured the estranged mother of his Democratic oppo...
Courthouse News

For decades, he’s hunted tickets from Cal Ripken’s ‘Iron Man’ streak. Just 8 elude him - Rick Taylor's pursuit comes as physical tickets have largely become a thing of the past.
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue near historic lows, forecast sub-4.0% unemployment rate - – by New Deal democrat Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. As a brief reminder, I always look at this because, especially in conjuncti...
Axios

DOJ sues to block Alaska election results if GOP incumbent loses - The Trump administration sued Alaska on Thursday to block certification of election results if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. *Why it mat...
IVN

“We've Been Conned”: The 65-Year-Old Lie Behind Closed Primaries - Plus, Matthew McConaughey takes on the biggest myths in the two-party system. And 70% of Oregon voters want open primaries.
Houston Public Media

Mysterious transgender mailers: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
ProPublica

Ken Paxton Says He’s Tough on Crime. His Trust Invested $600,000 in a Convicted Fraudster’s Company. - The post Ken Paxton Says He’s Tough on Crime. His Trust Invested $600,000 in a Convicted Fraudster’s Company. appeared first on ProPublica.
Bonddad

No, we are not DOOOMED: real usual weekly earnings edition - * - by New Deal democrat* As widely reported in the past week, real weekly earnings declined a sharp -2.1% in Q3. For example, here is Menzie Chinn a...
Daily Howler

GENDER: Psaki presented a brilliant segment! - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026* *But first, the sitting misogynist:* We're sorry to say that we agree with Sam Stein—with what he said in the first hour of to...
Texas Standard

‘Beneath the Bluebonnets’ gathers horror tales from Texas women - The collection draws inspiration from the real-life struggles women, in particular, face.
Crooked Media

Pod Save…the world? Global justice w/ Thomas Piketty and ‘Changing Gender’ w/ Susan Stryker - The post Pod Save…the world? Global justice w/ Thomas Piketty and ‘Changing Gender’ w/ Susan Stryker appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Root

These Real-Life Black Horror Stories Are Scarier Than Halloween - From chilling crimes to unresolved mysteries and miscarriages of justice, these real-life stories reveal horrors no Halloween tale could capture. Read mo...
naked capitalism

Indian Gen Z ‘Cockroach’ Protesters Aim to Upend Assumptions About Democracy – and Populism – in Modi’s India - India's "cockroach" party continues to gain influence as it identifies and combats shortcomings in democratic practice.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

At Last, We Arrive: The French and Albanian Protests and the Revolt of the People - We’ve entered a chapter of this crisis that many of us expected
Election Law Blog

“NEW POLL: Donald Trump’s midterm deception campaign is failing” - If you can keep it: (Protect Democracy) This month, If you can keep it conducted a national poll with YouGov to find out. The poll was fielded between Oc...
NPR's Health Shots

Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germaphobia - When an outbreak strikes, humans try to avoid germs. (Remember wiping off groceries at the start of the pandemic?) What about ... monkeys?
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Being pro-Trump has been ‘easy radio’ for conservative hosts like Jesse Kelly. Those days are ending. - Conservative media personalities who have long benefited from boosting the president will be forced to wrestle with the likely fallout of Republican loss...
SCOTUSblog

The Ten Commandments, classroom walls, and the establishment clause - *Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its s...
Mediaite

Political World Piles on Vanity Fair’s Bombshell Jared Kushner Report: ‘Bananas’ - The political world was agog after Vanity Fair published an excerpt of an upcoming book on Jared Kushner claiming his phone had been hacked by Russia. Th...
Grist

Distorted — October 28, 2026 - Join Grist and Climate Central for a conversation about truth and trust in the age of climate disasters
Dissent Magazine

A Dream of John Berger - On what would have been his hundredth birthday, the writer, documentarian and art critic John Berger is more celebrated than ever. What is it about his w...
Mediagazer

NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor Kelly McBride leaves the role (Tyler Falk/Current) - Tyler Falk / Current: *NPR plans to move its public editor partnership from the Poynter Institute to the University of Maryland in 2027, as public editor...
Independent Political Report

Green National Committee to Consider Resolution Disavowing Former Presidential Nominee Cynthia McKinney - The Green National Committee is considering a proposal to formally disavow Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, over accusation...
Ian Welsh

The Danger Of Cynicism - Some years ago I realized that one of the reasons I was a good analyst was my upbringing. My parents were alcoholic, my father was, errr, erratic at best a...
The Hill

Laura Loomer releases videos from Ukraine, says US must help - Loomer shared the video first with NewsNation, along with what she's been told about munitions levels in the US, advice the president is getting, and what ...
Scheerpost.com

US, Israel Plan Major Assault On Iran ‘Post-Midterms’ - News Desk, The Cradle. Iranian officials called US hopes of a quick campaign a ‘fantasy.’ Recall Trump’s February promise of a two-week war. The US and Is...
Salon.com

Midterm panic turns Trump’s GOP into “Lord of the Flies” - With a blue wave on the horizon, Republicans are turning on each other — and it’s getting ugly
First Draft

He’s Got The Whole World In His … Oops! - Hegseth drops the metaphor of the year, quite a New Mexicoincidence, and more. Cameos by Crowded House, New Order, and Jonathan Lipnicki.
Rewire

Missouri Voters to Weigh in on Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure - Plus, a Planned Parenthood affiliate's staff sued over alleged retaliation, and the Supreme Court deals a blow to the Trump administration's anti-trans age...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Earns Iowa’s Prestigious ‘Man of the Century’ Award - [image: Donald Trump, Peterbilt Motors Company, Denton, TX] Donald Trump's streak of amazing accomplishments and feats continued Thursday night. He is now ...
Democracy Now!

"Dying in Detention": Al Jazeera Investigates Immigrant Deaths in California's Adelanto ICE Jail - At least 59 people have died in ICE custody since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the highest number in more than a decade. Many deaths ...
Rallblog

Rise of the Left | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: • Youth protests erupt in Albania, torching buildings and clashing with police over corruption and a Ku...
Church and State

African genomics research is growing: what countries are doing to connect genetic data and healthcare - Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa.
Texas Observer

Black Texans Built More than 400 Schools When the State Would Not - In 1921, the Black families of Hill Prairie, in Bastrop County, built a two-teacher schoolhouse. The Rosenwald Fund in Chicago sent $800—equivalent to $1...
Dorf on Law

Postcard From Koyasan--and a Thought on Jewish Cultural Identity - Because I am not teaching this semester, I tacked an extra week onto my fall break and have spent the last week and a half in Japan--partly touring in To...
Techdirt.

Trump Leveraged FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Dish CEO Charlie Ergen To Get Him To Donate To Ballroom - The Washington Post recently had some interesting additional insight into the various “pay to play” shenanigans related to Trump’s $330 million ballroom. T...
The Progressive Wing

10/23 News Roundup and Open Thread - Here’s the ad that has Florida Republicans going the prior-restraint route. (The details of the grand-jury report have been widely known and shared for 2 m...
Debunking Christianity

Would Alien Visitors Assume that Humans Are Gullible and Superstitious? - *If they listen to the clergy they certainly would!* I have this fantasy about aliens arriving on earth, looking around carefully, and being baffled by s...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Trump’s one-man war against Washington - Donald Trump has done many things this month that deserve condemnation: from abandoning Ukraine and making deals with Vladimir Putin, to running self-promo...
The Conversation

Fear-based campaign ads can grab attention, but whether they win votes is less clear - Political campaigns often use fear to play on voters’ existing prejudices and stereotypes. What that means for your vote is less predictable.
Vox

Wild animals can’t vote. Here’s where they’re on the ballot anyway. - When millions of voters fill out their ballots this November, they won’t just be choosing elected representatives. Many states are offering the chance to i...
The Week

Brazil’s social media malaise - Leftist Lula accuses Meta of suppressing his campaign and promoting far-right rival Bolsonaro, which tech company denies, but concerns persist over online ...
Daily Cartoonist

Bo’s Bagels Blackface Blunder - Report by Raven Saunt of The Daily Mail: “Bo’s Bagels in Harlem was recently engulfed in heated discussion over its wooden advertising board crafted in the...
Alternet

The 11 words that should have ended Trump’s career - *“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”* Those of course were the words of Republican Speci...
Space City Weather

Suntober continues for a bit longer, along with a bit more humidity - In brief: Drought continues to expand across the Houston area with continued sunshine. More of that to come, but we are watching some potential for rain by...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump White House Lashes Out As ‘Legal Freak-Out’ Reveals Susie Wiles Drama -
Two Party Opera

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Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Four EV totals: A little slower but still fast - No prologue today, we’re going right in. The 2014 EV totals are here, the 2018 totals are here, the 2022 totals are here, and your Day Four 2026 totals are...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio weighs new penalties for repeat nuisance properties - The proposal could strengthen the Good Neighbor Program with fines of up to $500 for properties that fail to address recurring violations. -----------------...
The Daily Poster

Angie Nixon's Battle Cry Against Corporate Power - Lever columnist Morgan Harper sits down with the U.S. Senate candidate from Florida to discuss why calling out corporations is essential to empowering Blac...
High Country News

AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry - ChatGPT and other chatbots are the latest new technology to lead to wilderness rescues. The post AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry appeared...
OpEd News

Trump Wanted Bagram to Contain China' -Did His Iran War Hand Beijing the Persian Gulf? - Trump wanted Bagram Air Base to strengthen America's position against China. Yet his Iran war damaged U.S. military infrastructure and weakened Gulf allies...
Common Dreams

Being There: Are These People In the Room With Us? - These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk uncle you really didn't wanna ask to dinner is getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthf...
The Militant

Nepal floods show capitalism, not ‘climate,’ caused disasters - After a landslide in the Gorkha district in the Himalayas about 60 miles west of Kathmandu blocked the Budhi Gandaki River, causing downstream flooding Oct...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Rrrrussians - Given the vitriol gushing out of corporate media over the purchase of about two weeks’ worth of Russian diesel fuel, we just might be watching the beginnin...
jobsanger

America Hates The Billionaire Barons Of Big Tech -
World Socialist Web Site

The mass protests in France are reverberating throughout Europe - Over the month since high school blockades and shutdowns began in France, an outpouring of anti-austerity, anti-repression, anti-war and anti-fascist senti...
Informed Comment

Iran Implies Trump caught in the Matrix, needs to be Red-Pilled, as it strikes 7 Oil Tankers - The Iran War has produced an energy crisis already, but further hostilities could prove apocalyptic for world crude oil and gas supplies.
Portside

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell - Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell jay Thu, 10/22/2026 - 23:16
The Greanville Post

China Built a $1.2 Billion Factory With No Lights, No Workers and No Breaks — And It Runs 24 Hours - GT—China's Midea Smart Manufacturing Complex in Shunde cost $1.2 billion to build, and the lights inside have not been switched on in years. Robot arms wel...
Brad Blog

Polling, Vote Flipping, Mail Ballot Rejections, Trump’s DOJ and Other Late Threats to the Midterms: ‘BradCast’ 10/22/2026 - We promised months ago on The BradCast that there would be plenty of bumps in the road between then and this year’s critical midterm elections. But, as lon...
Socialist Alternative

India’s Youth Revolt Again - A wave of massive youth protests has rocked India in recent weeks, confronting the right-wing Narendra Modi regime with potentially its most significant po...
Popular Resistance

US Big Tech Corporations Blatantly Meddling In Brazil’s Election - Big Tech corporations in the United States are manipulating politics and meddling in the elections of countries all around the world. In the lead-up to t...
Progressive.org

Lies, Damn Lies, and Campaign Ads - Every voter still gets to decide what candidates and positions to support. No one has to vote the way the commercials advise.
Antiwar.com

Our Failed Constitution - “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified ...
Claytoonz

Humanitarian Ass - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 12 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
memeorandum

Why reported challenges with touchscreen voting machines don't signal election rigging (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Why reported challenges with touchscreen voting machines don't signal election rigging* — The reports erupt on social media every el...
Workers World

NYC rally demands justice for Nolan Wells - [image: NYC rally demands justice for Nolan Wells] Qween Jean of Black Trans Liberation Kitchen addressed hundreds of transgender and queer people and supp...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/23/2026 - 04:13 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Stays Lower Court Order Involving Explanation of New Hampshire’s Policy on Using Student ID’s to Vote - On October 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay in Scanlan v Coalition for Open Democracy, 26A512. The vote was 8-1. The issue was whether the Secretar...
The AltWorld

Yemen’s Struggle for Unity and Independence: Ansarallah and the Axis of Resistance - EXLUSIVE- This interview* explores Yemen’s revolutionary movement, its political and social foundations, its regional alliances, and the […] The post Yem...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

North Korea’s secretive prison camps: building the case for accountability - North Korea has continued to expand and renovate detention facilities across the country, while estimates of the number of prisoners held in its political ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

EU Flag, Revised, no. 2 - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb …Governments do not launch wars simply because they confront domestic unrest. The fundamental causes of imper...
slacktivist

Empathizing (if that’s allowed) with newsroom layoffs - Reading about layoffs and talk of "pivoting to video" is giving me flashbacks.
CultureMap Houston

Children’s Museum Houston's storybook soirée casts a $1.3 million spell - Once upon a time, Houston’s A-listers decided that happily ever after could use a little mischief.
The NM Political Report

Okpareke’s ads don’t add up on her federal campaign finance report - [image: Didi Okpareke, a Rio Rancho pharmacist, is the Republican nominee for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. (Courtesy of the Okpareke campaign)]...
The Texas Signal

Data Centers Emerge As Key Issue For Texas Campaigns - The issue of data centers has taken center stage for many of the races in Texas, and created some interesting alliances
Wolf Street

AI Found Catastrophic Vulnerabilities in PHP, Running on 70% of All Websites, incl. WOLF STREET. Then it Was Leaked - This could have been a massive mess.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - ACLU experts break down how data centers negatively impact communities, violate civil liberties, and how we can respond.
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Data center emissions, a Project Jupiter tour and Oracle’s proposed household electric bill credits - We talk data centers, and we'll also pull the curtain back a little bit on our own journalism process. The post Podcast: Data center emissions, a Projec...
Deadline Politics

Trump Ordered By Judge To Sit For Deposition In $10B Lawsuit Against The BBC - Donald Trump has been ordered by a judge to sit for a deposition by December as part of his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC. Trump sued the BBC for def...
Capital & Main

Who Are the Billionaires Behind the $304 Million Effort To Defeat California’s Wealth Tax? - A cadre of billionaires and tech elites, including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, is bankrolling the opposition to Proposition 40. The post Who Are the Bi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 22, 2026* *The newly released U.S...
Glasstire

Géricault, Mel Casas & Deborah Roberts Among Recent Museum Acquisitions - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced a raft of recent acquisitions, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has acquired works b...
Mondoweiss

We beat the Trump administration in court. Now we’re going to the ICC to hold the U.S. accountable for the Gaza genocide - [image: Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the al-Tawil family in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, May 26, 2026. (Photo: Hassan al...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority - Moves in Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, and Oklahoma The post The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority ap...
Infidel753

I voted -- plus a few political odds and ends - I dropped off my ballot at the county drop box on Wednesday morning. No problems -- no federal goons or other miscreants lurking about (the drop box I us...
DeSmogBlog

In Pictures: ‘Armageddon’ at Europe’s Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution - A version of this article was published in Euronews and Climatica Across Brittany, tractors can be seen trundling onto beaches to remove truckloads of fo...
Land Destroyer

US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands - *September 29, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - For decades, the US has leveraged its many client states as extensions of its own military, economic, finan...
See You In 2020

Jewish ethno-narcissism, modern settler-colonialism, & the contradiction DSA’s politics can’t reckon with - If we’re going to defeat the Judeophilic ethno-narcissism that pervades far too many “pro-Palestine” spaces, we’ll need to discredit the ultra-leftist v...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Bracing Views

What Does America Value? - War and Weapons, or Schools and Hospitals? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2026 The one quote I know from Joe Biden is show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you v...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

#MAGAInYourBathroom ad blister Republicans for 'creepy' focus on trans people and public bathrooms - From *LGBTQNation: * The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young ...
Sludge

The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech - Helen Milby raises money for the New Democrats, runs a nonprofit connecting tech executives with Congress, and advises the industry-backed Chamber of Progr...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous - The post NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous appeared first on Environment Texas.
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Liberation News

The Midterm Curse Proves the Two-Party System is a Dead End - The growing desire across the country to defeat Trump and his billionaire agenda is righteous. But what will a “blue wave” in the midterm elections actuall...
Ecosophia

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited - Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits a...
Duck of Minerva

Huntington wasn’t wrong. He just wasn’t right - Big ideas often get watered down when tested empirically. Scott Appleby’s masterful Ambivalence of the Sacred—which includes deep, rich discussions of reli...
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
Earthworks

Hearings Spotlight Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America - Representatives from six communities dealing with the impacts of Canadian mining projects in Latin America will testify in a hearing held by the Inter-Am...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Invitation to My Sentencing Hearing - On Monday, October 26, I will return to the court where I was originally acquitted to be sentenced for a crime I didn’t commit. The public and press are co...
NORML

Poll: Candidates’ Views on Cannabis Policy Will Play a Role in Voters’ Decisions This November - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Seeing the Forest

Oligarchs Are Using Social Media To Destabilize Democracies - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Social media and other information o...
Crooked Timber

Turns out the Melbourne Mint was about Gold for India - Last week I was in the Public Records of Victoria (PROV) looking at records of the Melbourne mint. My substack about the Sydney mint by rights should come ...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: FBI subpoenas pro-Palestine activists over Israeli weapons plant disruption - Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months ...
Project Censored

A Spotlight on School Book Bans - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They dis...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I - From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you coul...
Earth 911

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

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
MintPress News

Iran’s Covert Missile Strikes Revealed, US Threatens MOAB Attack & The Arab-Israeli Plot Exposed - Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to u...
Lowering the Bar

Again I Warn Thee: Fleeth Not by Water - [image: suspect stepping into water]Because this somehow still seems to be necessary.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: COMMIES AND MUSLIMS, WHO CARES, OH MY EDITION. - *A melody you can play with* Hate to be optimistic but the midterms are looking good. Here’s a glimpse of what the opposition is offering, courtesy of th...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

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

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
Counterpunch

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

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save AM radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

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

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

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

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

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

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

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Skeptophilia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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....
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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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