Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Xbox’s cross-device play history syncs your recently played games on every screen - On Thursday, Xbox announced it’s widely rolling out cross-device play history. With the new update, even if you’re on a different Xbox console, Ally handhe...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules - [image: State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard at the groundbreaking of a community solar project in Valencia County.] [image: State Land Commis...
naked capitalism

Haiti Is Not a Failed Country; It Has Been Broken. Now Erik Prince Wants to Fix It. - Haiti's "manufactured chaos" is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country's oligarchic elites. Erik Prince's mercenaries will not f...
Daily Dot

Adam Friedland confronted Rep. Ritchie Torres over Israel. Fans are calling it a breakthrough moment - [image: Left: New York Rep. Ritchie Torres. Right: Adam Friedland hosting his talkshow, The Adam Friedland Show. Caption overlay reads "I’ve never seen a...
San Antonio Report

Northside ISD starts school year with smaller budget deficit, fewer vacancies - Northside ISD is kicking off the school year with a $38 million budget deficit. ------------------------------ Northside ISD starts school year with smalle...
WhoWhatWhy

International Coalition Calls Out Three Chinese Companies Over Hacking Campaign - [image: tech, cybercrime, international coalition, hacking allegations, 3 Chinese companies] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors o...
memeorandum

Jan. 6 Rioter Killed As She Stormed Capitol Will Receive Military Funeral Honors (Brandi Buchman/HuffPost) - Brandi Buchman / HuffPost: *Jan. 6 Rioter Killed As She Stormed Capitol Will Receive Military Funeral Honors* — The Babbitt family also received a sett...
Courthouse News

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai verdict in the pipeline as closing arguments wrap - As the trial entered its final stages, the three-judge panel — selected from a pool of jurists hand-picked by Hong Kong's leader — often took a dim view of...
Eschaton

Cindy Who - It does say a lot about That Town that everybody stopped taking her calls. #Gaza is at a breaking point. I've just seen it myself. @WFP operates in confli...
Mediaite

WATCH: Tensions Boil Over Into Shocking Physical Brawl In Mexico’s Senate - The political leaders ended up in a literal shoving match on the Mexico Senate floor as one demanded time to speak from the podium. The post WATCH: Tensi...
Raw Story

Trump may slap blue state's taxpayers with $1 billion charge over feud with governor - Local taxpayers in a Democratic-run state may be in for a nasty financial surprise if President Donald Trump continues his standoff with their governor. ...
San Antonio Current

'These f--kers are crazy': San Antonio state senator blasts GOP colleagues for legalizing ivermectin - AUSTIN — In an expletive-filled Instagram post on Wednesday, Texas State Sen. Roland Gutierrez accused his Republican colleagues of being out of their min...
Reform Austin

Patrick Signals Final Week as Second Special Session Winds Down - When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick suggested in early August that the Legislature was entering its “last full week” of work, it seemed plausible. The first specia...
Krebs on Security

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine - Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and...
Al Jazeera English

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook sues Trump for his attempt to fire her - The lawsuit comes amid concerns that the US president is trying to sway central bank’s decisions on monetary policy.
Axios

Scoop: Inside Trump's Gaza meeting with Tony Blair and Jared Kushner - The meeting President Trump convened on Wednesday to discuss a post-war plan for Gaza involved two high-profile invited guests, Jared Kushner and Tony Bl...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘A proxy for America’s culture war’: why Cracker Barrel’s new logo sparked ire on the right - The restaurant chain reverted back to its old logo after Trump joined the backlash against its rebrand. Experts say it was an easy target On Tuesday, the...
Political Wire

Much of Europe Is Losing the Ability to Govern - Bloomberg: “Given the prevailing headwinds, who could have predicted that Italy under Giorgia Meloni would emerge as a relative bastion of stability?” “He...
Mediagazer

In its first-ever strategic plan, The 19th announces the creation of a $30M "quasi endowment" it can use in case of crisis, for which it's raised $25M so far (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab) - Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: *In its first-ever strategic plan, The 19th announces the creation of a $30M “quasi endowment” it can use in case of crisis, ...
Independent Political Report

2025 National Party Chair Questionnaire: Justin L. Magill, National Chair of the Constitution Party - The Outsider Media Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing public understanding of and participation in underrepresented po...
CultureMap Houston

Houston DJs reflect on raves gone by at recently shuttered theme park - Local fans of amusement complexes most likely shed a tear last week when it was announced that, after 40 years of business, Alief indoor theme park FunPlex...
Houston Public Media

New Texas law creates peer support network to address mental health for first responders - House Bill 35 goes into effect on Sept. 1, creating a new program that aims to connect firefighters and EMS workers across Texas with peer-to-peer mental h...
The Week

Truck drivers are questioning the Trump administration's English mandate - Some have praised the rules, others are concerned they could lead to profiling
Slate

My Wife Thinks I’m Not a “Real Man” for What I Refuse to Do in Bed. That’s Not Fair! - She never gives up.
Second Nexus

Charlie Kirk Slammed After Telling Taylor Swift To 'Submit To Your Husband' Following News Of Her Engagement - Far-right influencer Charlie Kirk put his misogyny and sexism on full display when he responded to the news that Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce and...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2025 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Gall. We live in a state whose top leaders have entirely, vastly, monumentally too much goddamn gall. Just five days after the de...
The Hill

Border czar: 'I don’t particularly like masks, but the agents need the mask' - President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that he is not a fan of masks, but argued that federal immigration officials need them during raids s...
Mondoweiss

Gaza Genocide deniers are no different from Holocaust deniers, except that their denial abets the genocide itself - [image: The body of 28-year-old Palestinian Hamada Nael Warsh Agha is brought to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for funeral procedures, after he died from ...
Undernews

Poetry in journalism - *Sam Smith - *Attended last night an enjoyable program in which three journalists discussed the many ways that art and literature impact our lives. Was ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Norman Solomon, The Detached Cruelty of Air Power - Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground cant match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of m...
Futurism

There's a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers - In the past few years, the tech industry's plans for artificial intelligence have grown from ambitious to outright treacherous — with the amount of money...
Vox

The bigger story behind the mass exodus of CDC leadership - The simmering showdown between US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally b...
Consortium News

US Pressuring Lebanon to Disarm the Resistance - As Washington pushes Beirut to produce a disarmament plan, Hezbollah’s leader vows to keep “the weapons that protected our dignity,” Aseel Saleh reports. B...
Capital & Main

A Heavier Case Load, Diminished Care - Due to Trump’s funding cuts, “having sex is about to get a lot more dangerous,” warns a Los Angeles nurse whose work helps prevent the spread of HIV. Th...
Alternet

'Empty threat': Ex-prosecutor reveals why Trump has no power to follow through on new push - During a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, August 26, President Donald Trump vowed to use the federal courts to ramp up the death penalty in Washin...
Dissident Voice

A New Foreign Policy for Europe - The European Union needs a new foreign policy based on Europe’s true economic and security interests. Europe is currently in an economic and security tra...
Progressive Army

Comunicado Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas - Estimados socios buen día: Les hacemos llegar comunicado recibido hace instantes de parte de TCA Estimados clientes, Como comunicado en anteriores oportuni...
Project Censored

Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines - There is a universal tendency among mankind to think of all things as being like themselves, and to transfer to every object the qualities they are famil...
Ballot Access News

Virginia Gubernatorial Poll Shows Write-in Candidate Donna Charles at 3% - A Co/efficient poll for the Virginia gubernatorial race shows write-in candidate Donna Charles at 3%. See this story. Charles attempted to get on the ballo...
Mother Jones

“The Most Transparent Administration In History” Refuses to Say Who’s Behind Their Batshit Social Media - The way the U.S. government communicates online has shifted dramatically since Donald Trump returned to power on January 20. Before then, for instance, it ...
Election Law Blog

With Louisiana Essentially Flipping Sides in Callais Case Before Supreme Court and Arguing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional, Full Defense Shifts to Voting Rights Groups - As noted yesterday, Louisiana essentially flipped sides in the Lousiana v. Callais case. In earlier brief, Louisiana argued that its congressional distri...
Daily Howler

THE DUEL: The dumbest children in the world... - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2025* *...performed on three "cable news" programs:* We start with a statement of gratitude to the invaluable *Rev*. The invaluabl...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
SCOTUSblog

New Jersey’s long history of trouncing New York at the Supreme Court - I was born and raised in New Jersey, and I live there now (not off of any exit, thank you very much). And, although I resided in the Big Apple […] The po...
Rewire

Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s How to Fix It - Conservatives have a political hold on the federal judiciary, but there’s a path to rebuilding the courts. The post Trump Hijacked the Courts: Here’s Ho...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From Chile to the Smithsonian: The Psychology of Threatened Domination and the Fear of the Supermajority that We Already Are - *Good morning from Austin, Texas. I’m re-posting this reflection from 2017 because Duke University political scientist Nancy MacLean’s prophetic book, De...
Glasstire

Top Five: August 28, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Hung Hsien: Between Worlds Asia Society Texas (Houston)...
Bonddad

Jobless claims suggest continuing, but resolving seasonality issues - - *by New Deal democrat* Initial jobless claims have been relatively subdued for the past month. Some have suggested that this is a byproduct of the...
First Draft

Get This, Some Actual Good News - Catelin Drey's big win in Iowa's special election should hearten Democrats. Now let's protect the midterms.
El Paso Matters

Sept. 15 hearing to shape next steps in David Wood’s Northeast El Paso serial killing appeal - A virtual status conference Sept. 15 will set the path forward in the long-running appeal of David Wood, convicted in El Paso’s deadliest serial killing...
Workers World

PDF of August 28 issue - [image: PDF of August 28 issue] Download the PDF Workers’ resistance against Microsoft D.C. martial law criminalizes Black people Yemen denounces Israel’s ...
Democracy Now!

New Orleans Is Unprepared for Another Katrina, Warns Community Activist Malik Rahim - As part of our coverage of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we speak with longtime New Orleans activist Malik Rahim, co-founder of the Common Gro...
Scheerpost.com

Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Don’t Always Use It. - Local officials can tap a federal warning system to send targeted alerts with evacuation orders and other actions. Many don’t use it.
Techdirt.

GOP-Friendly Local ‘News’ Broadcasters Plan More Harmful Mergers After Trump Destroys What’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits - During Trump 1.0, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohi...
The AltWorld

“The Arabs Hate Us Because Of Our Religion” Is The New “They Hate Us For Our Freedom” - Israelis who say “the Arabs hate us because of our religion” are as self-evidently moronic as the […] The post “The Arabs Hate Us Because Of Our Religion...
Bracing Views

Autonomous Killer Drone Swarms - “New Forms of Domination and Oppression” BILL ASTORE AUG 27, 2025 Just what we need: autonomous killer drone swarms powered by algorithms and AI. Part 3 of...
Space City Weather

A break in showers today before a rainy and cooler Labor Day Weekend - In brief: The next two days will feel pretty typical for Houston’s hottest and most humid month, but a front will usher in a pattern change for Labor Day W...
The Conversation

How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come - Research shows that Supreme Court justices affiliated with the group are more consistently conservative than other justices, meaning they seldom deviate fr...
The Root

Finally, A Video Reveals The Truth About Gov. Wes Moore and Trump’s Conversation - Days after Trump claimed Md. Gov. Wes Moore called him "The greatest president, ever," A video reveals what really happened. Read more...
Infidel753

The empire of shriveled souls - Several times over the last few decades, I've read of foreign observers asking some version of this question: Given the great numbers of brilliant and ta...
ArcaMax

Flag Burning: Trump's Latest Stunt - At the White House Monday, Trump signed another one of his infamous executive orders, this time announcing, "If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail."...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Here’s the State of Things - I hope Ratt is right. He seems to be right about who is to blame and why. These aren’t the only suspects, but they’re the main figures in the process, whic...
The Smirking Chimp

Forget Law and Order — Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote -
Grist

How we mapped Chicago’s lead pipe problem and what we learned - Here’s what we found, how to know if you’re at risk, and how to replicate our work.
Skeptophilia

One hoax, well-toasted - One thing that *really* torques me is when people say "I did my research," when in fact what they did was a five-minute Google search until they found a ...
Off The Kuff

STAAR to be replaced with even more tests - I’m so glad my kids have graduated. The Texas House on Tuesday greenlit plans to scrap the STAAR test, clearing a path to replace the state exams with thre...
Crooked Media

Wifely Submission (Taylor’s Version) w. Megan Gailey & Evan Kleiman - The post Wifely Submission (Taylor’s Version) w. Megan Gailey & Evan Kleiman appeared first on Crooked Media.
ProPublica

A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding - by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom, and Yilun Cheng, Houston Chronicle ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up...
American Prospect

Judge the Actually Existing Trump Economy, Not the Theory - Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no strategy or plan.
Angry Bear

Trump re-branding - In his latest effort to control the news cycle and distract from the Epstein scandal, Trump wants to re-brand the Department of Defense as the Department...
NPR's Health Shots

Speaker Johnson pushed Medicaid cuts. His constituents worry about their own coverage - In Mike Johnson's district, not only could thousands of Louisianians lose coverage, health centers are bracing for a financial hit. They're hoping for addi...
High Country News

Trump looks to suffocate public lands - The administration and Congress divert funds away from conservation. The post Trump looks to suffocate public lands appeared first on High Country News.
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Gerrymandering Plot To Steal The Election - Texas Democrats say Trump’s maps expose a nationwide attack on democracy.
jobsanger

Trump Has Signaled There Are No Limits To His Ambitions -
World Socialist Web Site

Qantas fined $90 million over illegal sacking of 1,800 workers - At least $50 million will be paid directly to the Transport Workers Union, which unsurprisingly hailed the decision as a massive victory.
Portside

Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District - Dems Break GOP Supermajority in Iowa Statehouse With 20-Point Swing in Trump District Mark Brody Thu, 08/28/2025 - 00:59
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting - Iowa Democrats had another strong special election showing this week, and broke the GOP's state Senate supermajority. Some recent news out of Utah makes ...
Informed Comment

More Americans now Sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new opinion poll by the Sadat Center at the University of Maryland finds a sea change in the American public on the confli...
Popular Resistance

Solidarity, Not Charity, End Jim Crow Recovery, Restore All Communities - When I got the call, I was just leaving Magnolia Bar’s Summit at Tougaloo College. It was one of the courageous Ingalls Shipyard workers, whom I had the ...
Antiwar.com

The Palestine Chronicle Case: When Truth Becomes the Crime - The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organization. It is a modest, independent publication, sustained by small donations and animated by a singular mi...
Progressive.org

Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know History - If history tells us anything about authoritarian governments, it’s that they must control the narrative.
TalkLeft

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Dorf on Law

Can Lisa Cook Keep Her Fed Seat? That's Actually (at Least) Five Questions - A federal statute allows the president to appoint someone to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for a term of up to 14 years. President Biden appoint...
Claytoonz

Mass Mass Shooting - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Discourse

Imagine If This Was Any Other Toy - AI is killing children, and no one seems inclined to stop it.
Deadline Politics

Anthropic And Authors Say They’ve Reached “Settlement In Principle” Of AI Copyright Lawsuit - Anthropic and a group of authors said that they have reached a “settlement in principle” of the creators’ class action lawsuit against the AI company. The ...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “The Lightning Shared Scooter Scam” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On today’s “DeProgram show” with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, we guid...
Wolf Street

Still Waiting for Lower Prices, Higher Incomes, Lower Rates: Mortgage Rates Tick Up, Demand in Deep Freeze, Supply Surges - This buyers’ strike, which started in mid-2022, completes its third year.
Environment Texas

Dallas’s $5.2 billion dollar proposed budget protects and strengthens city’s environmental priorities - Despite a tight budget season, the proposal expands the city’s EV fleet and provides funds for solar on municipal buildings while protecting key funding....
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

30+ Attorneys General Call on Congress To Implement Cannabis Banking Reforms - [image: Cannabis Business Banking][image: Cannabis Business Banking]"Allowing access to the nation’s regulated banking system is crucial to public safety ...
Sludge

Top Democrats Keep Paying Mothership Strategies, Despite Years of Warnings - House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, Steny Hoyer, and other senior lawmakers have directed millions to the controversial fundraising firm, even afte...
DeSmogBlog

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor - Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog ...
Ecosophia

August 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Earth 911

Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden With Respect for Place - Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe moved with his family to the banks of Elk Creek in Southern... The post Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden...
slacktivist

What I was walling in or walling out - Some old thoughts on new traditions, and a Mad King's increasing fears of his own death.
Trivial Knot

Selling out as a game dev - Moon Garden Optimizer is now listed on Steam. You can still play the game in browser for free on Itch.io, but the Steam version will be paid and have expan...
Ian Welsh

Trump Is Running the Standard Purge and Control Playbook To Install Decline - Some years ago I wrote an article about how to run a real left wing government. Seven Rules for running a real left-wing government Of course, it was reall...
Common Dreams

Un-Handcuffing Loose Cannons, Badges and Other Bedlam - What the ever-loving fuck. With the man-child's megalomania spiraling - rampant troops, despot banners, Ugandan exile, his "Consultational" right to hire...
Crooked Timber

It’s Not Socialism–It’s National Socialism - People are wondering how Trump could get away with nationalizing 10% of Intel, with plans to acquire more corporate assets for the Federal government, whil...
See You In 2020

The patriotic struggle of the anti-imperialist forces, & the effort to bring this struggle back into America - Something my fellow Americans must be made aware of is that around the globe, the revolutionary ideas behind 1776 are still being actively put into prac...
Black Agenda Report

Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? - Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? bareditors Wed, 08/27/2025 - 05:38 Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump - "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - SOME folks will probably claim that this comment by Trump from a recent cabinet meeting is being taken out of context. Uh no. He may be talking specif...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Debunking Christianity

Round Two Edits On My Paper Concerning Atheist Morality - I received a huge endorsement from Philosopher Jersey Flight on X. What a nice thing to hear! It happened on the same day I finished the first round of e...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Consent Factory, Inc.

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Dissent Magazine

The Women’s Basketball Boom - An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing...
Greg Palast

“If We Let FEMA Die, Americans Will Die With It.” - I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
Church and State

Trump’s Chicago dictatorship in rapid expansion - Dictators always use some lever to control the weary into allowing them extraordinary authority. Trump is using claims of crime and violence.
Brad Blog

Before the Fall... - We will be off from The BradCast and Green News Report this week, for a much-needed, end-of-Summer break until after the Labor Day holiday. As always (and ...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory - Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The W...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! - Thousands of U.S. troops on board a flotilla of warships are headed towards the waters off the coast of Venezuela in a blatant and unprovoked act of aggres...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Clears Texas Senate - The final vote on redistricting happened after Republicans in the State Senate thwarted a filibuster by Senator Carol Alvarado
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Really, Really, Really - Oh, f’crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he got back into off...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

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Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
The Progressive Wing

8/22-28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Trump and Cuomo are true buddies.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
The Rag Blog

RICHARD CROXDALE / ABORTION RIGHTS / Lone Star Three - By Richard Croxdale / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2025 [This article was originally published at People’s History in Texas (PHIT) and was cross-posted to The...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Stinque

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

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

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

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

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now we have a princess: Why a royal Meghan Markle matters - The “Suits” actress is ascending to a place millions of black women never thought possible. That's a big deal.
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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