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

Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (October 8, 2026) - Today: We learn about the effort to restore the Bastrop Promenade in Houston's East Downtown, discuss Farmer’s Markets in the Houston area, and talk with l...
NPR's Health Shots

Suicide is up among Black Americans. We need to talk about it. - NPR's Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal co...
Axios

Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it - President Trump on Thursday called anyone who uses "Artificial Intelligence" instead of "Super Intelligence" "THE ENEMY!" — even as the White House conti...
The Hill

Shock poll: 89 percent of boomers want higher taxes on young people - It’s simply wrong to sentence the next generation to indentured servitude.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump claims US won’t strike Iran before November midterms – live - President claims US won’t attack ‘at any time prior’ to elections after reports suggest White House asked Pentagon to develop strike options for before 3...
Raw Story

Judge takes aim at White House over 'objective evidence' of vindictive prosecution - A federal judge ruled that a Harvard researcher showed evidence she was in the White House's crosshairs, clearing her to probe whether her prosecution wa...
Mediaite

Trump’s Rage at Fox Continues — But Conservative Media Has Been Conspiculously Silent - President Donald Trump is angry with a lack of coverage Fox News, but it doesn't seem like anyone else in the media sphere is that concerned. The post Tr...
ProPublica

U.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant AAU - The post U.S. Lawmakers Launch Sexual Abuse Probe of Youth Sports Giant AAU appeared first on ProPublica.
Al Jazeera English

Israel opens first-ever pavilion at Morocco defence show - Israel opened its first national pavilion at Morocco's Marrakech Air Show, joined by Israel's top military contractors.
IVN

Who's Polling the Independents? A Field Guide to the Firms Behind the Numbers - Polls are important tools to understand where a race stands, and where the electorate is moving. As with all tools, though, it’s important to understand ho...
Mediagazer

Fox Nation debuts Houdini: Back from the Dead on October 14, a three-part series relying entirely on AI-generated imagery; scripts were written by humans (Corbin Bolies/Variety) - Corbin Bolies / Variety: *Fox Nation debuts Houdini: Back from the Dead on October 14, a three-part series relying entirely on AI-generated imagery; scri...
Consortium News

The UK Role in Ending UN’s 1970s Anti-Zionism Stance - John McEvoy on how U.K. officials helped to revoke in 1991 a U.N. resolution that had been a thorn in the side of the Israeli government for over 15 years....
naked capitalism

Latin America: Elections Are Truly Free When the Results Don’t Matter - U.S. interference and right-wing gains across Latin America have eroded democratic legitimacy, calling into question elections elsewhere.
Political Wire

Roy Cooper Ahead in North Carolina Senate Race - A new ECU Poll in North Carolina finds Roy Cooper (D) leading Michael Whatley (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 50% to 43%. North Carolina Senate Race Roy Coope...
memeorandum

No new attack on Iran before the midterm elections, Trump says (Michael Birnbaum/Washington Post) - Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post: *No new attack on Iran before the midterm elections, Trump says* — The president has acknowledged sometimes using p...
Futurism

Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source - "About time we leave adobe for good." The post Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source appe...
SCOTUSblog

Wild card justices and the “Kagan court” for criminal cases - If you read my columns closely, you know this: over the past two terms, 21 of the court’s 30 “pure” criminal law decisions have been pro-defendant or def...
Courthouse News

Thousands protest in India’s Bengaluru as ‘Cockroach’ movement demands election chief resign - The rallies pose a political challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi midway through his third term.
Socialist Alternative

Giant Wave Of Youth & Student Protest Surges In France - Since mid-September, a so far unstoppable wave of student protests has swept across France, led by angry high school students demanding an end to cutbacks ...
Slate

My Daughter’s Second-Grade Classroom Doesn’t Sound Very Academic. I’m Concerned. - This doesn't sound right.
The Daily Poster

What Would An El-Sayed Win Mean For American Zionism? - Pro-Israel Democrats oppose the Michigan Democrat’s views, yes. But they also fear his election would make them politically irrelevant.
CultureMap Houston

Michelin adds 14 Houston restaurants but no new Stars for 2026 - The Texas restaurant scene is once again in the international spotlight. Breaking from its invite-only ceremony of the previous two years, the Michelin Gui...
Election Law Blog

“Airbnb Disavows Anti-Trans Ad From Republican Super PAC It Supported” - Washington Sun: Airbnb is denouncing a Republican super PAC’s anti-transgender campaign ad in Arizona, saying it wasn’t aware of the signs — or the fact ...
Novara Media

UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban - Terror arrests in the UK have increased by 1,553% and hit a record high, with the overwhelming majority linked to support for Palestine Action, new Home Of...
Common Dreams

Corporations Benefiting From Enforcement Rollback Funnelled $200M+ to Trump-Aligned SuperPAC - Corporations that have benefited from the Trump administration’s cancellation of federal enforcement actions have given *$210.5 million in contributions ...
Eschaton

As Explained In Das Kapital - Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American wo...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s three restaurants with Michelin stars keep their designations - Michelin's Texas Guide also added two more San Antonio restaurants to its list of recommendations. The post San Antonio’s three restaurants with Michel...
Daily Cartoonist

About That Recent Lee Enterprises Comics Page Change - The newspapers of the Lee Enterprise group recently had a change of their comics lineup that we thought had been cleared up with them keeping the King Feat...
Texas Standard

‘He’s trying to divide’: What Bo French’s racist posts mean for him, Republicans and US politics - The impact of the posts by Bo French, the Republican candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, could extend beyond his campaign, testing the GOP in Texas.
Dorf on Law

"Innocent" Sanewashing, the Gish Gallop, and Bad-Faith Arguments from Republicans - "Where do I even begin?" I feel confident that almost everyone reading this column will have uttered that rhetorical question at least once, because we ...
The Root

Exclusive: What HBCU Students Want Ahead of the Midterm Elections - The Root spoke with students at Bowie State University, Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia about the issues they want candi...
Scheerpost.com

The War on Afghanistan Was Launched 25 Years Ago. It Still Hasn’t Ended. - By Emran Feroz This article was originally published by Truthout The war inaugurated a terrible new global order in which armed drones kill civilians who a...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 8, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Chinati Weekend 2026Chinati Foundation (Marfa)October 9...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Selects Representatives to All Hands Coalition Council - The United States Pirate Party has selected Captain Jolly Mitch Davilo and Young Pirates USA co-captain Lily Boyt to represent the organization on the go...
Mondoweiss

Shooting and craving: on NAZA and the mediated obscene - The documentary film by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor follows the predictable script of the regretful soldier, but the subjects in NAZA express something d...
The Week

Say cheap: parents turning to AI for school photos - Professional photographers losing out as parents use AI to generate free portraits
Democracy Now!

Afghanistan, 25 Years Later: Journalist Emran Feroz on the Legacy of "America's Longest War" - This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of what would become the longest war in U.S. history. After installing a...
ArcaMax

Stop the Hysteria Over Flock Cameras - In the bad old crime days of New York City, I spent a Christmas Eve waiting outside an emergency room. Our foursome had been violently robbed in a subway s...
The Conversation

Why the assault weapons debate is a culture debate - The Supreme Court’s decision to hear two assault weapons cases caps a multi-decade dispute over restricting assault weapons that extends far beyond legal a...
The Verge

Xbox is launching a new film and TV division - Xbox is launching a new division, called "XP," that's dedicated to Xbox experiences that aren't video games, including films and TV adaptations, consumer p...
Vox

What if making your neighborhood safer means breaking the rules? - Jonathan Hale was ready to lay down his paint rollers. Hale, a law student turned viral road safety advocate, had run into legal trouble for painting his o...
Angry Bear

Employment September 2026 - Briefly, nothing really to get excited about in this Labor Statistics Report. Of course it depends upon who is reporting it. Few changes in the Establish...
Wolf Street

Still QT plus Renewed Rate Hikes at the ECB despite Surging Bond Yields in the Euro Area - The ECB shed €95 billion of QE Bonds & Loans in Q3. Since mid-2022, QE assets dropped by 53%! Gold got marked up to market.
Rallblog

Another Israeli Settler Attack on Journalists | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: • Israeli settler-terrorists attacked and fired at two Agence France-Presse journalists as they were re...
Space City Weather

Seriously though, is it ever going to feel like fall around here? We’re running very late this year - WANTED: Fall-like weather. Last seen in Houston sometime around April. Suspect is known to bring crisp mornings, low humidity, and open-window weather. Rew...
WhoWhatWhy

The Flamingo Revolution: The Race to Save Europe’s Last Wild River - [image: Flamingo Revolution, protests, Albania] Albania’s Vjosa Narta River faces threats from development planned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushn...
Mother Jones

Flávio Bolsonaro’s Advance in Brazil’s Election Is Grim News for the Climate - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More fire, more ash, more crime, more...
Rewire

Abortion Foes Plan to Push Pill Restrictions in the States - Even if the FDA preserves telehealth abortion, they want mandatory ultrasounds, waiting periods and in-person visits. As they await a federal decision on a...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Nightmare’ Hurricane Heads Right for Trump’s Weekend Campaign Plans -
Grist

Trump is gutting the Endangered Species Act. These 10 species show what’s at stake. - Hundreds of imperiled species, including North Atlantic right whales and rusty patched bumble bees, could face greater threats from industry and development.
High Country News

OnlyMarms, dino doings, sailor cats and “Thank you, Jimothy!” - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post OnlyMarms, dino doings, sailor cats and “Thank you, Jimothy!” appeared first on High Country News.
Infidel753

The importance of ballot initiatives - Voting for political candidates or parties is increasingly a weary exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils. As I've discussed before, the Republican...
Crooked Media

The Man-Hating Episode w. Meredith Lynch & Rebecca Sananès - The post The Man-Hating Episode w. Meredith Lynch & Rebecca Sananès appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

Build committees of action! Mobilize workers against war, in defense of France’s youth movement! - Nearly half a million youth and workers marched against austerity and militarism in the October 6 day of action in France, as high school protests entered ...
jobsanger

Gas/Diesel Prices Will Not Come Down Before Election Day -
Portside

172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far - 172 Billionaire Families Have Spent Record $1.7 Billion on 2026 Midterms So Far Mark Brody Thu, 10/08/2026 - 00:26
Informed Comment

Is Palestine a Third Rail or Key to a Democratic Blue Wave? - 29% of Americans who didn't vote for Harris in 2024 reported that "ending Israel's violence in Gaza" was the reason
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Neutrality on Shaky Ground: Who Gets to Speak at UT? by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Oct. 7, 2026 - *Neutrality on Shaky Ground: Who Gets to Speak at UT? * *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 7, 2026* *I don't know about you, but I'm definitely ...
San Antonio Report

‘Pretend that I’m on the ballot’: Trump rallies in San Antonio to coax Republicans to hold the line - President Donald Trump's supporters started lining up at 2:30 p.m. for a campaign rally at San Antonio's Freeman Coliseum on Wednesday evening. ------------...
Techdirt.

New York Declares State Of Emergency As Measles Cases Spread Fast - It’s becoming very apparent that we failed to learn a key lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic: infectious diseases aren’t partisan; they will come for us all...
OpEd News

A disturbing failure to execute - Tennessee' s failure, twice, to execute a female inmate, has revived debate on Capitol tal pun
Alternet

Former aide says Trump knows a reckoning is coming - It appears to be finally dawning on President Donald Trump that he will be catching more scrutiny after November if Democrats take the House and possibly ...
Popular Resistance

Ansarallah Unveil Strategic Weapons; Israeli-US Backed Offensive Backfires - Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensi...
Antiwar.com

By Netanyahu’s Own Math, Gaza Is 3,900 September 11ths - Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by ...
The Greanville Post

Youth uprising in Europe could spread from France and Spain to the rest of the continent, including Germany. - TGP—Are we witnessing the emergence of a new wave of youth rebellion in Europe? In France, secondary school students are mobilizing and blocking schools, i...
Claytoonz

Trump Cooties - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 27 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
The Texas Signal

The Shockingly Close Race For Texas Governor - Greg Abbott, despite being an entrenched incumbent, faces the stiffest challenge of his career from Gina Hinojosa, a five-term representative and former Au...
Capital & Main

New Mexico’s Threatened Pecos River - Declining snowpacks plus climate stress lead to less water in one of New Mexico's iconic waterways. The post New Mexico’s Threatened Pecos River appeared...
Progressive.org

Hold Trump to Account on Promotional Ads - Trump continually tests how far he can go, and it is the job of Congress to impose limits.
Deadline Politics

In New Book, Joe Biden’s National Security Aide Brett McGurk Describes Jeffrey Katzenberg & Steven Spielberg Advising POTUS On Major Gaza Speech - Brett McGurk’s new book Brink: Inside the Race to Free the October 7th Hostages offers an insider account of the diplomatic rollercoaster to secure a cease...
Workers World

Hamas: October 7, 2023 is a historic chapter in our ongoing struggle - [image: Hamas: October 7, 2023 is a historic chapter in our ongoing struggle] The following press release was issued by Hamas Online English Mirror on Oct...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy. - ACLU breaks down findings from our latest report on how mass deportations are breaking our democracy.
El Paso Matters

Samaniego seeks third term as Republican Torres Shelton challenges for county judge amid mounting budget pressures - Democrat Ricardo Samaniego faces Republican challenger Minerva Torres Shelton for county judge in the Nov. 3 midterm. Samaniego calls his GOP opponent a...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN says committed to work with Pakistan for voluntary returns of Afghan refugees - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations will work with Pakistan to “uphold protection principles and ensure that returns of Afghans...
slacktivist

Grandfather clause - "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."
Church and State

Is Trump Building the Infrastructure of a Police State One Child at a Time? - The key to creating such a system is creating a system where the federal government has a single master file on every citizen.
Ballot Access News

New York Might Get a New Ballot-Qualified Party, “Vote Affordable” - Earlier this year, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in New York, Bruce Blakeman, arranged for a petition to qualify himself as the nominee of the “Vote...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Escaping Boutique Realities: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Undernews

Word - "History shows that nonviolent protest is one of the most powerful tools ordinary people have ever wielded, helping advance social and environmental prog...
Discourse

What Is ‘The Project of Journalism’??? (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Jeremy O. Harris in Vanity Fair, a ROSIE SPOTTING, and David Ellison’s acting ‘career’
Liberation News

Palestine has irrevocably transformed global politics and consciousness - As U.S. imperialism threatens further escalation, in the region and around the world, it is our responsibility to continue to build a fighting movement tha...
Bonddad

Last week’s major revisions to personal income: comparing the source data - - *by New Deal democrat* While we are waiting for new data releases to start back up, let me follow up on the surprise revisioins last week to perso...
Salon.com

Michael Shannon’s R.E.M. tribute reminded me why I love the band - The actor’s show with Jason Narducy is more than nostalgia — it celebrates the band’s artistry
The NM Political Report

Getting a read: Regulation commission staff seeks formal investigation into PNM’s estimated bills - [image: Pictured is the PNM building in downtown Albuquerque. Photo by Roberto E. Rosales/The City Desk. January 12th, 2024.] By Kevin Hendricks Alamogord...
Ecosophia

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited - Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of m...
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...
Texas Observer

A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State’s Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms - Already facing backlash for its decision to forgo reviewing critical post-Roe v. Wade pregnancy-related deaths, the state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbid...
Krebs on Security

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests - A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating...
Ian Welsh

Saudi Arabia Has Truly F**cked Around & Is About To Find Out - Saudi Arabia made a major counter-offensive against Ansar-Allah with mercenaries. It took a bit of ground, and is now being pushed back hard. No one with s...
First Draft

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being High School - A weirdo factory designed to produce the next far right "Debate Me" bro.
The Progressive Wing

10/7 News Roundup & Open Thread - Senator Susan Collins and Troy Jackson face off in the CBS13/FOX23 U.S. Senate debate. More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Rep. Gene Wu - There’s a lot one can say about State Rep. Gene Wu, who has represented HD137 since winning a hard fought primary in 2012 to succeed Scott Hochberg. Wu, an...
Debunking Christianity

Vincent Torley Responds! News and Views From An Apologist Who Became a Skeptic - I have argued with Vincent Torley a time or two. As an honest Christian scholar he eventually changed his mind. A history of our debates can be found here....
Crooked Timber

How Money Matters - Having alighted from the bus in an industrial area I’d never been before, I found the right building and descended the stairs. As instructed by email, I ra...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Expert advice includes simple solutions alongside larger home investments; Oct. 7 is national Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help...
Two Party Opera

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LareDOS

Solaz y solidaridad: Contra-ICE launches in downtown LA with compilation album featuring artists, musicians, comedians, and performers - Album is a fundraiser for National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrio, non-profits that serve immigrants and protect their human rights
See You In 2020

AI’s acceleration, our perpetual economic depression, & the next phase in the class war - Any effective response to the weaponization of AI against the working class will need to have the same strategic patience that brought about past prolet...
Brad Blog

Good, Bad and Ugly News, Four Weeks from Midterm Election Day: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2026 - We’ve got mostly encouraging news about the 2026 midterms on today’s BradCast, though there are plenty of caveats and reasons for the pro-democracy forces ...
Trivial Knot

Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time - The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time isn’t really a remake, nor an RPG. It’s a puzzle game with a metafictional narrative. You get plopped...
Black Agenda Report

The Time for Polite Protest Is Over | Ajamu Baraka & Dimitri Lascaris - The Time for Polite Protest Is Over | Ajamu Baraka & Dimitri Lascaris bareditors Wed, 10/07/2026 - 03:27 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Dim...
MintPress News

Yemen’s Ansarallah Unveil Strategic Weapons As Israeli-US Backed Offensive Backfires - Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensi...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: He's crafted our most intelligent cable news show! - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026* *He may be wrong about this:* We're grateful to Joe Scarborough for the cable news show he has built. It seems to us that*...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
NORML

Massachusetts: Lawmakers Publicly Urge ‘No’ Vote on Marijuana Repeal Initiative (Question 8) - [image: Vote for Marijuana][image: Vote for Marijuana]"Repealing legal adult use would have devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those who have inve...
Sludge

Rep. McCaul's Wife Trades Stock in a Counter-Drone Contractor Profiting From His Laws - CACI stock has risen more than 70% since Linda McCaul's first purchase, as the contractor wins counter-drone contracts, including a spot on a $1.5 billion ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BUSTED! Anti-trans activist, GOP super PAC caught lying in campaign ad against Sherrod Brown - A Republican group is running a political ad featuring anti-trans activist Soren Aldaco. The ad accuses U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown of supporting ...
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...
Dissent Magazine

A Blood-Red Tide - Flávio Bolsonaro came out ahead of Lula in the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections. It’s the latest sign of a surging far right across the con...
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...
The AltWorld

Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology - On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining […] The post Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology appeare...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
The Grayzone

‘Last American hostage in Gaza’ Edan Alexander was not US citizen, source says - The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GOOD FOR WHAT AI'S YA EDITION. - *These guys are local!* This week has been, as is now customary under Tubby II, a cavalcade of horrors, and perhaps the most illustrative horror was the ...
Project Censored

Banned Books Week 2026 – Protect The Right To Read - Featuring Marshall Romero
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Earthworks

Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassment Limit Reporting on Harita’s Nickel Operations in Indonesia - In 2025, I sat locked in a room in a private home as military officials camped on the front porch. The post Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassm...
Bracing Views

We’re #1! - At Needless Wars, Weapons Exports, and Threatening Annihilation BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2026 Americans like to think we live in the best country in the world. ...
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...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
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...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around - In case you weren't sure.
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
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.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M 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...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Duck of Minerva

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
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.
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 -
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...
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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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:
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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