Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Trump calls for new president in Ukraine - US President Trump criticised Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he called for new leadership in Ukraine.
memeorandum

Trump says he'll decide whether to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan (NBC News) - NBC News: *Trump says he'll decide whether to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan* — The livestream plan floated by Defense Secre...
Courthouse News

UN human rights office slams racist abuse of Coco Gauff and calls for solidarity to help fight it - The U.N. human rights office denounced racist abuse targeting Coco Gauff and urged collective action against racism and sexism.
The Hill

Trump rips Zelensky amid Russia diesel deal feud: 'I suggest they get a new leader' - President Trump on Saturday pushed back on criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian...
ArcaMax

What Is the Death Penalty For? - Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee's would-be prison executioners, who have repea...
Raw Story

Trump torched as 'traitor to the free world' for demanding US ally 'get a new president' - President Donald Trump drew a fierce wave of backlash after he suggested a U.S. ally fighting off an invasion should replace its leader. Speaking to repo...
Mediaite

‘Suck It’: Sophie Cunningham Responds to NY Times Writer Who Called for Her to Be Traded Over Trans Comments - Sophie Cunningham has two words for The Athletic writer Candace Buckner, after she wrote the Indiana Fever should trade her for being a distraction: "s*c...
Futurism

Senator Who Tried to Ban Prediction Markets Gets Hired by Kalshi as a Lobbyist - Her lobbying group is raking in the cash. The post Senator Who Tried to Ban Prediction Markets Gets Hired by Kalshi as a Lobbyist appeared first on Futur...
Salon.com

NYPD footage fuels scrutiny of ICE shooting - Police rushed a wounded father to the hospital as protests erupted over ICE shooting witnessed by his young son
Angry Bear

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 personal in...
Eschaton

Useful Tools - I'm sure this stuff has some genuine uses, but like a lot of this type of thing, it's much more for messing about on the computer for people who like messi...
Axios

Trump tells Ukraine to replace Zelensky over Russia fuel deal - President Trump called Saturday for Ukraine to replace President Volodymyr Zelensky with someone willing to make a deal with Russia to end the war. *Why...
Political Wire

Trump Denies Role in Plan to Livestream Execution - “President Trump said he wasn’t involved in the plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, while stressing that he u...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Christa Pike out of hospital and back in prison after botched execution attempt - Pike’s lawyers said she is back in same prison she’s lived in for last 30 years and will continue to receive medical care Christa Pike has been discharge...
Ballot Access News

Alabama Supreme Court Won’t Rule on Whether Republican Gubernatorial Nominee Meets the Residency Requirement - The Alabama Constitution says Governors must have lived in the state for seven years before running for that office. On October 9, the Alabama Supreme Cour...
Novara Media

Inside Huawei: the Company That Terrifies the West - Huawei makes the pipes and cables that power the Chinese internet. Its global reach has made China into a superpower. Huawei is often accused of spying for...
Undernews

Putin Cons Trump Into Making Massive Oil Deal - *New Republic - *President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. would lift sanctions on the sale of Russian diesel—a move that will help Russian ...
CultureMap Houston

4 Houston neighbors declared best small cities and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, starting with America's best small cities before diving into the new Texas Mich...
Slate

My Son Had a Tiny Little Tantrum. My Sister’s Reaction Is Too Much. - This is too much.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County will elect a new generation of leaders this November. Meet the candidates. - Democrats have controlled the countywide offices for more than a decade — but turnover in two top offices means change, no matter what. --------------------...
Mother Jones

After ICE Shooting, Progressives Want New York’s Police Commissioner to Step Down - The ICE shooting of a 28-year-old in the Bronx Thursday has provoked an uproar among New Yorkers, who rushed to the streets in protest the night of the sho...
The Root

Wunmi Mosaku’s Might Have The Best Face Card In Hollywood - After making an appearance at the Louis Vuitton show during Paris Fashion Week, Wunmi Mosaku has Black social media gagging over her stunning face card. ...
Independent Political Report

Montana Libertarian Party Seeks FEC Opinion Recognizing it as State Party Committee - The Montana Libertarian Party is asking the Federal Election Commission to recognize it as a state committee of the national Libertarian Party, a designa...
Liberation News

How Joslin workers forced Pritzker to find funds to reopen the former Tyson plant - The working class and socialists must draw out our own lessons; both to keep the momentum going and as a basis for future organizing across the nation.
Mediagazer

Skydance becomes the largest holder of premium US sports media rights, controlling 36 properties, a portfolio nearly twice as large as its closest competitor's (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) - Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: *Skydance becomes the largest holder of premium US sports media rights, controlling 36 properties, a portfolio nearly twice a...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 5 - 9 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The paradigm that has been supreme for the last few months continues. O...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s Violence Against Palestine Survives The Ceasefire - Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The assault on Palestinian existence is not confined to bombardment. The destruction of infras...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Mondoweiss

New York Times report on AIPAC hides a central truth about Israel’s unpopularity - [image: New York Times headquarters (Photo: Flickr/Jason Kuffer)]Four Times reporters, 53 paragraphs, and no mention of AIPAC’s new stealth strategy: hidin...
Bracing Views

The Bloody Awfulness of War - And the Awful Idea of Killing as “Winning” BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2026 Today, I talked about the decline and fall of the citizen-soldier ideal in America with...
The Progressive Wing

10/10-11 News Roundup and Open Thread - Beautiful day here in New York but rain from the former hurricane tomorrow.
The Daily Poster

You Love To See It: Breaking Bad Money - Democracy stages a Southwestern rebellion, abuse victims find shelter, UnitedHealth faces a preexisting investigation, and the anti-Citizens United movemen...
Grist

Fifty billion seedlings: Can Ethiopia replant its ravaged forests? - A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to restore its native forests through ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Comic Relief - When No Tab Pete announced his big extravaganza, this Far Side was my first reaction. Call it “wishful thinking.” But given the overall reaction to his ide...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #4HorsemenOfInequity - [image: Four Horsemen Of Inequity, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #4H...
NPR's Health Shots

Ongoing lawsuits allege GLP-1s can cause serious harm. But we don't know how often - Scant data about serious adverse effects makes it harder to answer scientific and legal questions about how often the drugs might cause serious harm like b...
Vox

The “grim” state of free speech in the US - On his first day back in office in January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorshi...
The Verge

The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truck’s body - I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck. The Te...
naked capitalism

Links 10/10/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Public Sadism -
ProPublica

As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones - The post As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones appeared first on ProPublica.
Off The Kuff

That jet-setting Ken Paxton lifestyle - We should all be able to live like this. When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry....
Crooked Media

What A Big Tech Whistleblower Learned About Power - The post What A Big Tech Whistleblower Learned About Power appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

To Speak the Truth: On the Mediated Obscene - This week's anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the creation of a dark world where "the...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 10 October 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Three weeks to Halloween! o o o o o Wheee! A swing! Sic semper predatoris. This ...
The Week

University moong recipe - Wholesome mung beans are warmed with flavoursome spices
World Socialist Web Site

As measles kills a fifth Pennsylvanian, New York declares a state of emergency - A 20-year-old leukemia patient who could not be vaccinated is among Pennsylvania’s five measles-associated deaths. The CDC still acknowledges only two deat...
jobsanger

The GOP's Big Beautiful Bill Will Throw Millions Off Medicaid After The Election -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1640: Learning Electricity - Episode: 1640 Learning electricity and learning about technological revolutions. Today, we become electrified.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Show Biz Kids - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

The Strait of Hormuz in World History & the Present Crisis - This potential for disruption threatens not only shipping through the Strait, but all Hormuz's successors as global business hubs in the Gulf
Progressive.org

Make Sure College Students Are Vaccinated - When disease enters a school community, the consequences can be immediate and severe.
Techdirt.

Polling: Americans Uncertain On RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Stance, Very Certain That They Hate Him - In my many, many posts about RFK Jr. and his disastrous tenure as Secretary of HHS, there are two themes that have hopefully broken through all the noise. ...
Claytoonz

Snuffy Hegseth - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 25 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas at a Crossroads: Gina Hinojosa, the Public Good, and the Future of Democracy, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., October 9, 2026 - *Texas at a Crossroads: Gina Hinojosa, the Public Good, and the Future of Democracy* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 9, 2026* *Texas faces a...
Portside

Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times? - Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times? barry Fri, 10/09/2026 - 21:25
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: In Praise of French Students - If the streets of France have something important to tell us now, it is that the centrist, or liberal-authoritarian, model is crumbling as surely as the l...
The Greanville Post

Alex Krainer: BREAKING: Explosions Rock Riyadh as Pakistan Reportedly Enters Saudi War - DW—This video features a conversation (0:08) between host Nima Alkhorshid and guest Alex Krainer regarding the current escalation in the Saudi-Yemen confli...
Alternet

Conservative analysts blast 'morons' who put 'economic moron' in the White House - Economists make distinctions between kinds of inflation, reports conservative news site The Bulwark. “There’s demand-pull and cost-push inflation. There...
Krebs on Security

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigat...
Workers World

Students in France hold militant protests - [image: Students in France hold militant protests] “To confront repression, class unity” was written on the banner that some high school students carried i...
Wolf Street

Despite the AI Debt Pileup, Bond Market Still in La-La-Land, Investors Chasing Yield, Backed by Sky-High AI Stock Valuations - With the stunning amount of capital getting sucked up while the AI revenue model is in fantasy land, you’d think it would be Panic City. But no.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio country music venue Cowboys Dancehall closes after 23 years in business - The owners said construction around the club makes it too hard to access and will be ongoing through 2028. The post San Antonio country music venue Cowb...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: INTERNATIONAL SCUMBAGGERY AFOOT EDITION. - *Can you dig it?* Hey, remember when the bad guys were the lunatics who performed executions in front of cameras and broadcast it to the world? Well, gue...
IVN

Pennsylvania’s Primary Lockout Is Running Out of Defenders - After a bipartisan House vote to open the primaries, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick are adding their support as advocates turn their attentio...
Election Law Blog

“Trump Has Cast Doubt on Elections on 440 Days in His Second Term” - NYT: President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making fals...
slacktivist

LBCF: That beats all - The characters in Left Behind have access to the thoughts of the authors and the omniscient narrator. But, alas, this still leaves them forgetful and cluel...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US says Taliban failing to combat human trafficking in Afghanistan - The United States says the Taliban government in Afghanistan does not ‘fully’ meet the minimum standards for combating human trafficking and is not making ...
Popular Resistance

Israel’s Violence Against Palestine Survives The Ceasefire - Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign has devastated Gaza’s wastewater system, destroying or damaging nearly 90% of the territory’s water and sanitation in...
MintPress News

Books or Bombs? France’s Student Revolt vs. NATO’s Spending Push - Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the stre...
Socialist Alternative

ICE Shoots, NYPD Assists: We Need Mass Struggle! - Last night, ICE shot a man in the Bronx. His name is Oscar Belgal, and he and his five-year-old son were in their car when ICE fired at least seven shots i...
SCOTUSblog

Trump announces committee investigation of Fed Governor Lisa Cook - President Donald Trump on Friday announced the creation of a three-person committee to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud against Lisa Cook, a mem...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Picks Katie Zacharia As Next White House Press Secretary - UPDATED: President Donald Trump has selected his next White House press secretary: Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator. Trump wrote on Truth Social ...
Dorf on Law

The Debate About Banning Fraternities: Overdue Reform and Possible Unintended Consequences - An issue that has unexpectedly dominated the news in recent weeks is the justified public outrage at Cornell University's wholly unacceptable response to...
El Paso Matters

El Paso doctor faces assault charge; UTEP teacher program shows student gains - This week: An El Paso doctor is arrested, UTEP’s teacher residency shows gains, and sheriff’s overtime spending returns to county scrutiny. The post El ...
The Militant

Solidarity with BP oil workers, locked out for over 6 months! - WHITING, Ind. — The 800 oil refinery workers locked out by BP in March, after they overwhelmingly rejected the company’s “last, best, and final” offer, hav...
Texas Standard

‘It’s a great live sport’: Sumo Championship League launches in Texas this weekend - The league’s first event features a San Antonio athlete as the No. 1 seed.
Capital & Main

Latino Voters Disapprove of Trump’s Presidency: Will That Decide the Midterms? - Immigration enforcement and high prices are weighing on Latino voters, but Democrats can’t take this “swingy” electorate for granted. The post Latino Vot...
Sludge

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines - Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of million in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 millio...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism - The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone
Glasstire

Art League Houston Names New Curator and Exhibitions Manager - Art League Houston (ALH) has announced the hiring of Veronica Myers as its new Curator and Exhibitions Manager. In May, ALH announced the departure of Zh...
Daily Howler

VALUES: Down on the waterfront, long ago... - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026* *...Brando admired "the girl:"* Her name at birth was actually Saint. The leading authority offers this overview of the life of...
Duck of Minerva

Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming - Even if you did have a LLM that could mirror human actions and decision-making processes in a wargame, it wouldn't actually be sufficient to model how weir...
The Texas Signal

The Comic Repurposing Lovecraft For Mexican Stories - Hector Rodriguez III has been creating Mexican comic stories for 15 years. His latest one pits monsters created by one of literature’s most notorious racis...
Rallblog

What Is the Death Penalty For? - Once again, the debate over capital punishment is raging, driven by the staggering incompetence of Tennessee’s would-be prison executioners, who have rep...
Democracy Now!

"Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her": Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community - University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the anonymous former student whose lawsuit allegi...
Debunking Christianity

How Science and Seminary Sabotaged My Belief in God - *I was well on my way there before I got to seminary* I have often pointed out that by the time I had finished my PhD in Biblical Studies at Boston Univ...
The Conversation

When abortion and surrogacy law collide, contracts can’t answer the hardest questions - A custody battle over a newborn with a heart condition raised a question courts have rarely faced: Can anyone be forced to end a pregnancy?
Space City Weather

Space City Weather declares Fall Day 2026 has arrived in Houston! If only for a day - In brief: Today marks Houston’s first morning of autumn with a low temperature of 65 degrees, so we declare it to be Fall Day 2026! Enjoy the comfortable m...
Texas Observer

Matters of Religion - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Matters of Religion ...
Rewire

How to Talk to Your Kids About Consent and the Cornell Rape Case - Untangling rape culture is complicated. Teaching kids that you need permission to touch someone else’s body is not. The Cornell University rape case has sp...
Two Party Opera

Cruel Or Unusual - Read More
The AltWorld

Five Thoughts About Pakistan’s Rapid Mission Creep In The Yemeni War - Pakistan’s de facto military dictatorship, which was imposed after April 2022’s post-modern coup against former multipolar Prime […] The post Five Though...
High Country News

Meet the flower whose evolution is outpacing climate change - This common perennial blossom, beloved by hummingbirds and biologists, offers key insight on which plants might save themselves from climate stress. Th...
Brad Blog

The Greatest Threat to Our Midterms is Trump and his Election Conspiracy Clown Car: ‘BradCast’ 10/8/2026 - Lots of trouble blowing in on today’s BradCast. Or is there? [Audio to full show follows this summary.] Our central story: Donald Trump’s top election cons...
See You In 2020

Automation, mass lumpenization, & the journey out of America’s coming dark age - The Trump wing has decided what path it wants: the unrestrained acceleration of AI, and thereby the lumpenization of what remains of the working class. ...
Antiwar.com

Three Years of Gaza as a Ghetto of Genocidal Extermination - Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. Israel is lost. Every day for the last three years, the decent people of the world — in our untold millions — ha...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/09/2026 - 05:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich-backed permitting reform bill unites Big Oil, clean energy and labor for major overhaul to speed up federal projects - [image: US Sen Martin Heinrich, D-NM (speaking), and others introduce the American Affordability and Jobs Act (Courtesy Photo, Oct 2026)] A bipartisan per...
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
The Grayzone

British chemical warfare commentator’s MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails - Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer w...
Earthworks

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Is Left Behind in the Rush to Mine the Seafloor - The International Seabed Authority is writing policies to govern mining in the deep sea. Those policies cut right to some of the biggest questions that d...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today - In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitution...
Church and State

Trump: Worth impeaching after the midterms? - Another major problem which requires legislative action is the practice of gerrymandering.
OpEd News

The United Front for the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy: A Message for the Democrats: Part I - Very briefly, this column is the first of a 3-part series in which I set the stage for and then describe a proposal for an over-arching electoral strategy ...
Dissent Magazine

Is This Play About Us? - Like the *Mission: Impossible* series, *Digger* delights in its own theatricality. But the film takes so much pleasure in autocritique it borders on auto...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Equality Forum's LGBTQ History Month icons are varied and controversial - October is LGBTQ History Month and on an annual basis, Equality Forum spotlights 31 iconic figures of LGBTQ history. This year is no different, but I thi...
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’
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

Academic Freedom And Constitutional Rights in a Time of Crisis - Geoffrey Stone and Valerie C. Johnson led this livestream discussion on the state of Academic Freedom and the Importance of the First Amendment, recorded 9...
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 ...
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

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Skeptophilia

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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