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

Slate

A New Book Has Been Called “the Novel of the Decade, if Not the Century.” It Really Is That Good. - This unforgettable epic manages to find hope and beauty in a subject many of us would rather forget.
San Antonio Report

Boeing aims to reduce employee health insurance costs with new medical clinic at Port San Antonio - Boeing's new 4,200-square-foot medical clinic near its Port San Antonio facility will provide primary and dental care to its workers. ----------------------...
Al Jazeera English

Why has the Trump administration ordered staff to take polygraph tests? - Reports of dwindling US weapons stocks have triggered an unusually sweeping hunt for leakers inside the Pentagon.
Eschaton

At Least The War Is Over - With Iraq, "everyone" agreed it was a glorious idea even though nobody could agree on why or what it was supposed to achieve. I suppose most pundits basica...
Alternet

Pete Hegseth’s low-IQ culture war is putting America at risk - Republican Senator Thom Tillis, former *Senate Armed Services Committee* member, has accused Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of mismanaging the Pentago...
Scheerpost.com

US Communities Are Organizing To End Complicity With Genocide In Their Backyards - Victoria Valenzuela Waging Nonviolence As the genocide in Gaza nears its fourth year, communities across the U.S. are pressuring their local governments to...
The Daily Poster

You Love To See It: A Progressive Puts Human Rights On A Local Ballot - A local ballot goes global, Flock gets the bird, a corporate protection plan gets burned, and your paycheck scores a win.
The Hill

Live updates: Hegseth eyes Driscoll replacement, Missouri asks to restore GOP-friendly congressional map - Missouri officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reinstate the Republican-friendly congressional map which adds one seat for the GOP. “A federal-ele...
Mediagazer

The US Ninth Circuit rules an Idaho policy restricting public access to new court filings violates the First Amendment, in a case brought by Courthouse News (Bill Girdner/Courthouse News Service) - Bill Girdner / Courthouse News Service: *The US Ninth Circuit rules an Idaho policy restricting public access to new court filings violates the First Ame...
WhoWhatWhy

All That Matters - [image: Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893-1910] My exclusive focus until the dust settles on the midterm elections. All That Matters originally appeared on Wh...
naked capitalism

Links 9/5/2026 -
Salon.com

Maria Bartiromo’s Fox exit exposes breakdown of Trump’s media machine - The Bartiromo break up shows where Fox’s loyalty actually ends
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Captain calamity: Pete Hegseth under fire for ‘inept’ leadership of US military - The US defense secretary faces internal dissent and discord at the Pentagon, accused of focusing on culture war issues and his own political ambitions as...
The Root

Black Movies, TV Shows to Stream on Hulu This Labor Day Weekend - With the long Labor Day weekend upon us, now is a good time to kick back and indulge in some shows and movies to help you forget about work Read more...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 5 September 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Eight weeks to Halloween! o o o o o These people need proofreaders. I don't think ...
The Week

Tiramisù loaf cake recipe - Moist and creamy twist on an Italian favourite makes the ideal centrepiece
Common Dreams

A Moral Monstrosity: Yet More Blood, Hate and Grief - The latest of thousands of innocent victims of inhuman ethnic cleansing carnage, Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old Haitian honor student, soccer player,...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1625: Elisha Gray and Miracles - Episode: 1625 Telephone inventor Elisha Gray talks about miracles. Today, a telephone inventor talks about miracles.
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - India: 14,000 Haryana sanitation and fire workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Moulvibazar tea workers demand 500-taka daily wage; Sri Lankan dev...
memeorandum

Missouri asks US Supreme Court to allow use of new Trump-backed congressional districts in midterms (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Missouri asks US Supreme Court to allow use of new Trump-backed congressional districts in midterms* — Missouri appealed to the U.S....
Informed Comment

White Supremacist Myths about Slavery - Bristol and Liverpool Merchants Enslaved and Transported 2 Million Africans
Mediaite

‘Do You Want Him?’ CNN’s Abby Phillip Asks GOP Strategist if He’d Take Fetterman off Democrats’ Hands - CNN's Abby Phillip asked Republican strategist Tim Parrish if he would welcome Sen. John Fetterman to the GOP after the Democratic senator has repeatedly...
Techdirt.

Take-Two’s Leak Burying DMCA Attempts Snared GameStop & Gaming Journalist That Did Nothing Wrong - I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, fra...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court in Virginia Finds that State Has Not Properly Implemented January 2026 Ruling on Felon Voting - Back in January 2026, U.S. District Court Judge John Gabney ruled that Virginia must allow felons to register to vote unless they were convicted of an offe...
Daily Cartoonist

Baltimore Sun Going With A.I. Cartoons - A year after firing editorial cartoonist Kevin (KAL) Kallagher The Baltimore Sun has found a replacement: Artificial Intelligence. The editorial cartoon fo...
Popular Resistance

Why The Global South Needs An Industrial Policy - For forty years, the countries of the Global South were told that economic planning was an error. The state was to retreat, tariffs were to fall, public ...
Portside

I Refused To Train the AI That Could Replace Me - I Refused To Train the AI That Could Replace Me barry Fri, 09/04/2026 - 20:48
Wolf Street

Where Are the Jobs? Winners and Losers by Industry - The job creation machine is running backwards in some industries and forward in others.
Election Law Blog

District Court, as Expected, Issues Preliminary Injunction in Trump/USPS Mail-In Ballot Case: Why This Should Be an Easy Case for the Supreme Court to Deny a Stay - As expected, the federal district court in Massachusetts that had enjoined the Trump executive order directing USPS to limit mail in voting and then issu...
Claytoonz

Lindsay Clancy - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 60 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Ian Welsh

Lack of Fear of Death - Back in 93 I spent 3 months in hospital. It was… beyond bad. But it had one great advantage. I lost my fear of death. I don’t know what happens after death...
El Paso Matters

Superheroes Health Fair helps El Paso families start the school year healthy - Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso event connects more than 300 children and families with healthcare, backpacks and community resources The post Superher...
The Greanville Post

JULIAN’S DISPATCH: The winter of Kiev’s discontent - JM—I cannot see how Trump could NOT lose the Midterms or avoid another impeachment trial. The only way would be dirty tricks in the election, like interfer...
The Verge

Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor - Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. T...
OpEd News

Where Is Our Marcus Aurelius? - Article explains why our political leaders of today should embrace Stoicism and vote for candidates who follow the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Political Wire

How Well Will You Do? - About a third of Political Wire members got a perfect score on this week’s quiz. So how well did you pay attention to the news this week? Take the quiz to ...
Socialist Alternative

This Is Not Normal—Leave “Skinny Culture” In the Past - Something sinister is underway in Hollywood. The scrutiny of bodies, behaviors, and attitudes of women who live in the public eye is, unfortunately, nothin...
SCOTUSblog

Court grants request from Republican groups to pause ruling, for now, on political broadcasting rates - The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees, at least for now, to receive favorable advertising ra...
Undernews

Word: Extremism - *Sam Smith (in a 2008 conversation with Carole Kolker) - *Mark Plotkin, who is on WTOP, interviewed me on my fiftieth anniversary in journalism and I s...
Discourse

The Episode Where We Remember Trump Talking About Harambe??? - Plus: Abdul El-Sayed’s 9/11 tweets, “Lake America,” and whether Trump understands emojis
Bracing Views

“The Late Great John McCain” - Democrats Should Stop Praising Republican Warmongers BILL ASTORE SEP 03, 2026 I know: this is old news. But I was going through my notes from September of ...
slacktivist

Thank you. I am much obliged. - Thank you so much for your generosity and kindness and support and words of encouragement.
Mondoweiss

Food has returned to Gaza’s markets, but most people still can’t afford to eat - [image: Palestinians receive meals from a community kitchen in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on September 4, 2026. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/AP...
Glasstire

Twenty-Foot Alebrijes Arrive at Discovery Green for Hispanic Heritage Month - Discovery Green in downtown Houston has announced a new temporary public art installation to go on view beginning Tuesday, September 15, to coincide with...
Green Pages News

Slate of GPMI candidates to hold public rally in St. Joseph - ST. JOSEPH — Numerous candidates nominated for office by the Green Party of Michigan will make public addresses and meet with interested members of the pub...
Novara Media

Reform UK Busted in Channel Four Investigation - The fallout from a Channel 4 undercover exposé on Reform has enveloped the nation, but has anyone at their conference noticed? Plus: Could the failings of ...
Futurism

The People Maintaining Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Being Treated Horribly, Insider Claims - "There's a lot of cleaning up poop." The post The People Maintaining Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Being Treated Horribly, Insider Claims appeared first ...
The NM Political Report

Opinion: Governor and legislators should pass permitting reform - Guest Commentary by Dave Contarino – Governor Bill Richardson was always forward thinking and he pressed those of us closest to him to follow suit. Whet...
Raw Story

Dems float Epstein-linked theory for GOP flight: 'Protecting billionaires and predators?' - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee promoted a theory Friday that may explain why GOP leaders *abruptly cut* the House's legislative calendar shor...
Consortium News

The ‘Red Scare’ Repression of ICE-Watch Activists - Free-speech advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools and libraries in Minnesota, reports Mike Ludwig. By...
First Draft

9 to 5 - Cheers to Dolly Parton.
Independent Political Report

Two Arizona Greens, One Republican Face Criminal Probe Over Campaign Funding Allegations - *This article was originally published by Arizona Mirror on September 1, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
The Militant

Support won for Cuba at NY Grenada Day Festival - NEW YORK — Pathfinder Press has participated in the annual Grenada Day Festival, held in Brooklyn, since 2014. Inspired by news of the recent “Grateful Gre...
Daily Howler

RAGE: Woke One was crazy, AOC has now said! - *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2026* *Our stay in the Little Boxes: *We start today, as we often do, with the latest expressions of the madness—rather, of the dueli...
ProPublica

Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say - The post Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say appeared first on ProPublica.
IVN

The Party Labels Are Fading. The Primary Rules Aren’t - As more Americans identify outside the two major parties, independent voters are challenging primary rules that can leave them out of the elections that sh...
San Antonio Current

Texas man arrested for threatening to slit James Talarico’s throat - Authorities filed criminal charges against a Texas man whom they allege sent a pair of violent threats to state Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat running ...
Texas Observer

Master of Puppets - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Master of Puppets ap...
Bonddad

August jobs report: possibly the best report so far all year - * - by New Deal democrat* My Big Theme for the past few months has been that the AI Boom (or possibly bubble) is counterbalancing a stagnant or even ...
Democracy Now!

"Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack - A new documentary titled *Top of the World* tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the World Trade Center, through the eyes...
The Conversation

What comes next for the 1 million people who have lost – or will soon lose – Temporary Protected Status - Congress never built a path from temporary status to permanent residence, leaving many people facing deportation with little recourse.
Debunking Christianity

The Gospel Authors Tried So Hard to Prove Resurrection, Part 2 - *But the accounts of Jesus’ resurrection fail basic standards* In my article *posted here last Friday*, I discussed the major flaws in Matthew’s story a...
ArcaMax

She Followed America's Immigration Process. Then ICE Took Her Anyway. - Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw was nervous walking into her final green card interview, but her husband Terrance assured her that it was all going to be fine. T...
Rallblog

JD Vance Laughs Off Civilian Deaths | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Vox

Can synthetic cells save the world? - Associate professor Kate Adamala has been busy. Her lab at the University of Minnesota takes chemicals and dead, isolated biological parts — like DNA, memb...
Dorf on Law

The Renaming of Lake Ontario is Even More Illegal Than I Originally Realized - In my *Verdict *column on Monday, I explained why a lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act by either New York State or a business that faces fina...
The Smirking Chimp

Remember the Epstein Files! -
Two Party Opera

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Off The Kuff

Overton Insights: Abbott 47, Hinojosa 46 - Of interest. Today, a new poll from Overton Insights — commissioned by conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation — found that Republican Gover...
The Progressive Wing

9/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - I thought Fetterman was awful but didn’t realize how awful.
Grist

With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem - The president is facing a shortage of refining capacity, and more Venezuelan oil isn't going to help.
High Country News

On the road with a desert sage - [image: Gary Paul Nabhan admires a cluster of agave plants in the hills near his home in Patagonia, Arizona.] A writer travels the Borderlands with ethnob...
Lowering the Bar

Author of “The Man Who Robbed a Bank With a Banana” Robs Bank With Banana - [image: banana]The protagonist of his book had written a similar book, which I would not think about too hard if I were you.
Workers World

Cleveland activists say ‘Flock No!’ - [image: Cleveland activists say ‘Flock No!’] Cleveland FlockNo! protested Flock cameras put up by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) by hold...
The Grayzone

Trump lifts sanctions on top Al Qaeda recruiters, financiers days before 9/11 anniversary - As the US prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump has removed top Al Qaeda figures from the US list of designated terrorists. Among ...
The AltWorld

CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died - Reading by Caitlin Johnstone: Caitlin Johnstone · CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem Has Died CIA veteran Gloria Steinem […] The post CIA Veteran Gloria Steinem ...
Axios

Maria Bartiromo fired by Fox - Fox News Media fired longtime host Maria Bartiromo for business reasons, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios on Thursday. *Why it matters:* Bartiromo is co...
Courthouse News

San Diego inmate cleared to sue deputies after jailhouse thumb amputation - A San Diego County jail inmate says two deputies closed a door onto his finger and severed it, then jail staff ignored his medical needs and forces him to ...
Crooked Timber

The US Navy loses another war - … but that won’t change any minds It’s now six months since the US-Israel war on Iran began with air attacks which killed the Iranian leader Ayatollah Kham...
Antiwar.com

Global Empire as Domestic Policy - While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today impossible to seri...
Sludge

AI Money Floods State Fights Over Data Centers - A dark money group backed by Marc Andreessen and OpenAI's president says it has $50 million for pro-data-center campaigns, starting in three battleground s...
Progressive.org

The Equity Docket: If They Find Me in a Tree, Know It Wasn’t Me - Modern day unsolved deaths bear the hallmarks of nineteenth and twentieth century lynchings.
CultureMap Houston

Exclusive: Outspoken Houston sushi chef sounds off on ghost kitchen pivot - Chef Sunny Bertsch is moving on from his embattled ghost kitchen concept. On Sunday, August 30, he closed *Kaisen Sushi* and will soon replace it with two ...
Mother Jones

Flock Is Cancelled—And Their Competitors Are Profiting - “If you want to get in your car and you want to go down to Buc-ee’s in St. Augustine, it’s really none of the government’s damn business if you’re doing th...
Texas Standard

ICE agent arrested in Texas federally charged with lying about Minneapolis shooting, AP reports - Christian Castro was released from a Texas jail last week as Minnesota continues its effort to extradite him on separate state charges.
Liberation News

North Carolina family left to die as power cut during blistering heat - We will not accept our local and state government to continue siding with developers and utility corporations that leave families in the heat.
Church and State

Is space tourism travelling faster than space law? - Virgin Galactic has signed up more than 200 prospective space tourists out of a potential pool of 30,000.
Capital & Main

Elevated Levels of Ammonia Following L.A. Warehouse Fire Raise Safety Concerns - The California Environmental Protection Agency says that Lineage stored between 10,000 and 24,999 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in the warehouse daily. Th...
Crooked Media

The 49ers Wide Deceiver w. Julissa Arce - The post The 49ers Wide Deceiver w. Julissa Arce appeared first on Crooked Media.
Web of Debt

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Brad Blog

Opinion: Democratic Socialist Policies Offer Path to Victory, Lasting Change - We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both. — U.S. Supreme Court Justic...
Angry Bear

July manufacturing core capital goods order add to evidence of manufacturing rebound; while transportation (for June) flags - – by New Deal democrat Yesterday our month started out with reports that manufacturing in August was less positive than in the several months prior, whi...
Project Censored

Look Upstream: AI, Federal Data, and the Politics of What Gets Counted - By avram anderson The US federal government is expanding AI use in high-stakes decisions that affect people’s civil rights, privacy, health and safety, a...
NPR's Health Shots

Kissing apes, anti-splash urinals: This year's Ig Nobels showcase surprising science - The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded this week for humorous yet thought-provoking research. This year, the ceremony came with a twist.
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 4 - In Part 1, we defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships with th...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Pacman Ghost - No comment <_<
Land Destroyer

How the US Destruction of the INF Treaty Backfired - *August 29, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Western media headlines have announced the alleged use by Russia of what is being dubbed the “Iskander-1000,” ...
Rewire

Federal Judge Pauses Case on Mifepristone Access Until After Midterm Elections - The FDA had requested the stay while it continues a safety review of the abortion drug.
Seeing the Forest

When Will The AI Bubble Burst? - I started writing about the big Housing Bubble on March 26, 2005. It was obvious that there was going to be a crash. From that post, The “For Sale” signs a...
jobsanger

Trump's Chaos Monkeys Keep The Shocks Coming -
Deadline Politics

Trump’s DOJ Skewered By NYT For Backing OpenAI & “Trillion-Dollar AI Companies” In Copyright Suit Featuring Media Heavyweights & Star-Studded Scribes - Donald Trump told GOP congressional candidates visiting the White House on Wednesday evening that “the media has gained respect for us, they cannot believe...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Six times anti-LGBTQ activists have been caught lying about drag queens and children - In 2022, anti-LGBTQ activist Seth Dillon claimed that this was a picture of a children being encouraged to tip a half-naked drag queen. The allegation w...
Alas, a Blog

The Basic Barrier - Another collaboration with the chicken-fat-mad Mike Lawrence! That trap-filled hopscotch board was entirely Mike’s idea. This is something I’ve suspected f...
See You In 2020

The Zionist right’s plan to crush America’s people, & the new revolutionary coalition it will create - When the Iran war makes too much of the oil run out, and Americans reach a new stage of revolutionary consciousness, the Zionist right will outright adv...
Environment Texas

Explainer: What are PFAS? - What are ‘forever chemicals’? How did they end up virtually everywhere in our environment? And what does it all mean for our health? The post Explainer: ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Save Rural Texas: Our Land, Our Water, and Our Future Are Not a Blank Check for AI, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. September 2, 2026 - *Save Rural Texas: Our Land, Our Water, and Our Future Are Not a Blank Check for AI* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *September 2, 2026* *I want to cal...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Ecosophia

Economics: The Y2K Fallacy Revisited - Let’s continue looking back at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future, published twenty years ago in the first months of my ori...
Space City Weather

Major flooding occurring over East Texas; Houston region to see decent rain chances as Edouard pulls away - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the very heavy rainfall from Edouard that occurred overnight over East Texas. We also look ahead to a warm, but not to...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
The Texas Signal

Tarrant County To Cut Election Day Voting Sites - The Tarrant County Commissioners voted down party lines to shutter over 90 polling locations on Election Day in the third largest county in the state
Texas Freedom Network

Far Right Watch: Tim Dunn - Timothy (Tim) Dunn is a West Texas billionaire oilman and lay minister. Fellow Republicans have called him one of the “most powerful men in Texas politic...
Krebs on Security

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses - A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the Unite...
Earthworks

Aquí seguimos: el Pueblo Xinka y sus quinientos años de resistencia - A principios de este verano, el Pueblo Xinka de Guatemala y sus aliados de todo el mundo se reunieron en línea para celebrar algo extraordinario: nueve a...
Dissent Magazine

The Fight Over Affordability - We’re living in a period of excess business pricing power, not overbearing workers.
Progressives Chat

Update: 2026 Midterms … Texas … Michigan - Now that September has arrived, we are two months from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Tuesday, November 3, 2026. A quick summary follows. Re...
Counterpunch

A Rupture in Israeli Security Politics: Can the Palestinians Exploit It? - Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies. The f...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Sea Of America - 13 x 14.25 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb For any Fascists or other Trumpsters who may be looking in, I’m just gonna nip this shit in the bud right ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

More Police Violence, Including Growing ICE Atrocities! - Now that traditional media and social media are providing much more coverage of ICE raids and killings does that mean that other police killings or exam...
Idavox

Nick Bougas – AKA A. Wyatt Mann – ROT IN HELL! - Finally! Someone dies that no one will miss! It was the racist organization White Aryan... The post Nick Bougas – AKA A. Wyatt Mann – ROT IN HELL! appear...
NORML

FBI: 60 Percent of All Marijuana Arrests Nationwide Occurred in These Ten States - [image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves][image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves]"Today, the threat of arrest for cannabis possession largely ...
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...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings - Here is your latest house Negro power rankings. 10. *Sage Steele: *Sage says basketball coach Doc Rivers sent her a direct message (DM) about her pol...
Greg Palast

I’m ready to give up. How about you? - Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a poli...
Avedon's Sideshow

And a heart all plated with chrome - This picture of Craggy Gardens in the Blue Ridge Mountains was posted by M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) here. "NYT's Embarrassing Anti-DSA Meltdown: D...
MintPress News

“Beyond Critical” US-Israeli Munitions Depletion Revealed As Iran’s Response To D-Day Begins - The United States is confronting a severe strategic crisis characterized by critically depleted air defense munitions and newly confirmed, extensive dama...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Another Problem With AI-Assisted Police Reports: Companies Can Have Incentives to Distort Their Content - Police Companies Could Train Their AI to Hide Use of Their Products or Make Them Look Good
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/28/2026 - 06:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
LareDOS

Laredo-born Josephine Sacabo showcases her internationally recognized body of work with THE RIGHT TO DREAM – regreso a mi pueblo - Homecoming retrospective opens August 28, 6 p.m., at TAMIU FPA Gallery
Edinburg Politics

Terrence Howard, an Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur, honored with city proclamation for his surprise visit to Edinburg, reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED FROM LEFT: Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur Terrence Howard, and Edinburg First Lady L...
Media Lens

4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ - If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting fro...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / LABOR / Time to Consider a Four-Day Workweek - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2026 Mike Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University, comments on Juliet B...
Duck of Minerva

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic - Did the pandemic durably change our pedagogy in International Relations (IR), or were pandemic-induced changes only temporary measures with which we have s...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
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.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
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...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
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 ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
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:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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