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

memeorandum

Fired '60 Minutes' journalist says she was pressured to report on events that 'never happened' (Sydney Carruth/MS NOW) - Sydney Carruth / MS NOW: *Fired ‘60 Minutes’ journalist says she was pressured to report on events that ‘never happened’* — Cecilia Vega said CBS News ...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli forces tear gas journalists reporting Nablus shootout - Israeli troops fired tear gas at Palestinians and journalists in Tal a day after a deadly shootout
The Daily Poster

Whitmer’s War Against Medicare For All - Michigan’s Democratic governor is helping her healthcare donors try to stop Abdul El-Sayed’s crusade.
ArcaMax

New Red Scare. Why? - If Republicans get their way, McCarthyism will be back -- and here to stay. Leading the race to the soggiest pits of ethical crud, as usual, President Dona...
Mediaite

Can’t Make This Up: Jon Ossoff Reportedly Spent Thousands on ‘Makeup Services’ From Hollywood Artist - Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) spent nearly $3,000 so far this year on "makeup services" from a celebrity makeup artist — more than any other Congress member Th...
Sludge

Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires - James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and ...
Mother Jones

How Fossil Fuel Companies Made Us Believe Gas Was Clean - About half of Americans think natural gas—a methane-based, planet-warming fuel—is a “clean” energy source, according to a recent poll. And a long-running f...
Political Wire

Inside the Room as Donald Trump’s Schtick Didn’t Land - Deadline: “Inside the Waldorf Astoria on Friday evening, President Donald Trump took to the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and tried out s...
Eschaton

Afternoon - Weekending
San Antonio Current

AC/DC left San Antonio Thunderstruck with Friday’s Alamodome show - With Friday’s show at the Alamodome, Australian hard-rock trailblazers AC/DC proved they still have it. Indeed, the venue felt frozen in time as the gro...
Deadline Politics

Inside The Room At The Rescheduled WHCA Dinner As Donald Trump Tried Rickles-Like Rally Shtick, But Was Met With The Sounds Of Silence - Inside the Waldorf Astoria on Friday evening, President Donald Trump took to the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and tried out some Don Ric...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Ballot Access News

Democratic Party Rules & Bylaws Committee Issues Recommendations for Six Earliest Presidential Primaries - On July 24, the Democratic Party’s Rules & Bylaws Committee issued its hopes for the 2028 presidential primary schedule. The most drastic change was for Ne...
Undernews

Todd Blanche - *POGO- *Todd Blanche, acting attorney general of the Department of Justice (DOJ), had his confirmation hearing last week to take on the role permanently....
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — The Return of McCarthyism - Recent government-assisted censorship began under Biden but Donald Trump has now unleashed the return of full-blown McCarthyism in which “communism” is aga...
Scheerpost.com

There Are No Saviors in a Freedom Movement - From Queen Nanny and Ida B. Wells to Martin Luther King Jr. and Black Lives Matter, liberation has always required the organized masses. Melina Abdullah La...
Independent Political Report

Georgia Libertarians End 2026 Ballot Access Petition Effort - The Libertarian Party of Georgia has ended its effort to regain statewide ballot access this year after falling far short of the required petition total ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Draining the Ogallala Aquifer for AI? Project Matador and the myth of limitless growth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. & Luke Metzger, Exec. Dir., Environment Texas Research & Policy Center - *Friends,* *I’m pleased to share a newly-published article co-authored with Luke Metzger, executive director of the Environment Texas Research & Policy ...
Glasstire

Taking the Helm: Updates from Dallas’ New Museum Leaders - This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from t...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The president spoke for over an hour! - *SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2026* *A politics of meaning:* Did the president really speak for over an hour? Yes, he actually did! Beyond that, also this: We'...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 20 - 24 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the renewed warmaking in the Middle East, the price of oil and gas...
The AltWorld

Israel shows there is no limit to the imagination of colonial violence - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/mem-tts-audio/cache/tts-856772-77d8472f264ad0b571ffa1aa9d03f534.mp3 Forget the importance of preservi...
Grist

In Michigan, the price of energy is on the ballot and both parties know it - The GOP spent years circling the state as a key 2026 pickup opportunity. But after a lopsided election loss, doubts are creeping in.
The Progressive Wing

7/25-26 News Roundup and Open Thread - Michigan establishment Dems are fully behind Stevens.
Axios

How AI is becoming part of the American family - AI's impact on American life isn't just at work. It's also at home, where it's helping with dinner and bedtime, learning our routines, overhearing argume...
NPR's Health Shots

COMIC: Temps are predicted to hit 106 in Egypt this week. How do people stay cool? - Back in the '90s, I learned the art of staying cool in Egypt. At that time, air conditioning was not common. In the extremely hot summer of 2026, how are p...
Vox

An 86-year-old Congress member explains why he won’t retire - The gerontocracy is real: The median senator is 64 years old, and 20 members of Congress are over 80. One legal scholar called it the “old-igarchy.” It see...
Angry Bear

Review: Money: A Story of Humanity - I’ve been enjoying David McWilliams’s podcast for a few years now, and I was planning to ignore his 2024 book on the history of money until I didn’t, and...
The Root

Professor Sets An AI Trap and Catches 32 Students Red-Handed - Reading is fundamental. The kids might've missed that lesson. Read more...
OpEd News

The Politics of Oil: The Next Shock at the Pump May Already Be Underway - Oil is far more than a commodity""it is a strategic asset that shapes inflation, geopolitics, and the global economy. This article examines why even the wo...
Mediagazer

As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (Akriti Sharma/Bloomberg) - Akriti Sharma / Bloomberg: *As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recor...
WhoWhatWhy

Illegal Loophole - [image: ICE, extrajudicial killings, murder, immigration] Bad aim is good news when it comes to ICE. Illegal Loophole originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Salon.com

Big cannabis has cozied up to the GOP - The hemp, marijuana and alcohol industries are all vying for the president’s attention
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war - No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures The Pentagon is taking a “shameful appro...
Crooked Media

Andrew Yang Still Wants To Give You $1,000 - The post Andrew Yang Still Wants To Give You $1,000 appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

The “Explosive” News Story That We All Couldn’t Stop Talking About. - Cyclosporiasis’ rebranding as “explosive diarrhea” has brought our collective attention to food safety concerns and the MAGA-cultivated Taylor Farms.
Crooked Timber

Nate Silver discovers the educated poor - My son Daniel points me to a piece by Nate Silver which announces the discovery that highly educated workers with low or precarious income are the natural ...
The Week

The Iran war: ‘despair’ in Washington - President’s claims of victory over Iran have ‘bordered on delusional’ as crisis continues to deepen
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Victorian educators speak out at strike rally in Melbourne - “The lack of resources is making staff leave and the wages are not enough. That is the situation for a lot of us. To survive I have a second job.”
jobsanger

Trump Lost The Iran War In The First Few Days -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1607: Fire Control - Episode: 1607 Continuous-aim firing: a diagnosis of an ill-received idea. Today, we aim a gun from a rocking platform.
First Draft

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

The US Culture of Misunderstanding in Iran & the Middle East - The US would be more effective if it used the language of respect and equality. But Americans instead talk down to the Iranians
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | July 24, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | July 24, 2026 barry Sat, 07/25/2026 - 00:12
Techdirt.

Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney One Hour After Appointment, Immediately Gets Sued - Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’...
Alternet

Conservative says no 'bankruptcy option' for Trump this time - President Donald Trump built a reputation for filing multiple bankruptcies to get himself out of his expensive career scrapes, but there’s no bankruptcy ...
Courthouse News

Arizona immigration law clears first legal hurdle - Because no migrants have yet been swept up by the new state immigration system, a federal judge said there is no material harm upon which to grant relief a...
Debunking Christianity

Every Human Is Born Into a Vast Bubble of Ignorance - *Religion seems to benefit the most from this reality* The majority of humans seem unaware of their ignorance, and simply want to thrive as best they can...
The Greanville Post

Mohsen Rezaei: Iran Is Ready to Go on the Offensive and Deploy Its Ground Forces - GEN REZAEI—I promise our dear people that, although we are truly facing a very powerful enemy — and I constantly advise all my brothers, both within the Gu...
Raw Story

WSJ rips into Trump for tearing down the economy over his 'obsession' - President Donald Trump got a reaming from the Wall Street Journal on Friday over his ongoing "obsession" with imposing as many tariffs as possible. The J...
San Antonio Report

11 indicted in migrant-smuggling case linked to 7 deaths - A federal grand jury has indicted 11 people accused of participating in a migrant-smuggling operation that resulted in seven deaths in May. ----------------...
Claytoonz

Fun With Cyclospora - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Election Law Blog

“Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race” - MS NOW: Sade, a self-described mother of three from Michigan, posted a video to Instagram and TikTok earlier this July, expressing a popular sentiment: I...
Workers World

Devuélvanse las riquezas robadas a Venezuela para una recuperación total tras el terremoto - [image: Devuélvanse las riquezas robadas a Venezuela para una recuperación total tras el terremoto] sanctionskill.org Expresamos nuestra plena solidaridad...
Common Dreams

330 + Communities Nationwide Gather for Vigils for Lorenzo, Johan and All Lives Taken by ICE - On Saturday, July 25, over 330 communities across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Buck’s new friends - Wherein our hero, ace investigative journalist Buck Williams, uncovers a malevolent global conspiracy and immediately agrees to help cover it up and assist...
Wolf Street

New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further amid Declining Sales and once again Growing Inventory Glut - In the South, inventory for sale was up 71% from 2019, while sales were down 8%. Homebuilders are very motivated to make deals.
Daily Cartoonist

The Greatest Editorial Cartoonist? - Who would you choose as the greatest editorial cartoonist of all time? James Gillray? Thomas Nast? Robert Minor? Paul Conrad? Last week David Von Drehle wr...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CIRCULATIN' LIKE CYCLOSPORA EDITION. - *I never knew it was him! Infectious, ain't it?* Sorry I missed last Friday -- my normally crowded week got further squeezed by birthday celebrations, wh...
The NM Political Report

In court, Trump administration admits canceling New Mexico grants “solely” because the state voted for Kamala Harris and has two Dem. senators - [image: Sen. Martin Heinrich] The Trump administration told a federal judge earlier this month that the Trump administration had deliberately canceled gra...
Futurism

Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI - Major trouble. The post Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI appeared first on Futurism.
Progressive.org

Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here - I went to Paris for an escape and ended up in an inferno.
Counterpunch

Freeing Rivers w/ Tara Lohan - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with journalist and author Tara Lohan about her new book, Undammed: Freeing ...
Texas Standard

Dystopian novel ‘Mudlark’ shows how stories can carry on through objects and artifacts - Texas author Mary Helen Specht drew inspiration from music and mudlarking to weave the tale of a daughter seeking the truth about her lost indie-rocker mot...
Popular Resistance

The Long Goodbye To The US Dollar - There are moments in history when a system appears so complete that it becomes difficult to imagine its end. When Britannia ‘ruled the waves’, it was tho...
Novara Media

Angela Rayner Rules Out Rent Controls - Angela Rayner has ruled out rent controls, citing Scotland’s scheme as her reason. We ask an expert if she’s right. Plus: Europe is further engulfed in fl...
Capital & Main

What Santa Monica Gets Right on Section 8 Housing - The affluent coastal city is a rare exception in L.A. County, where two-thirds of Section 8 voucher holders live in areas the state considers “low-resour...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Longevity, Quackitude, a Supplement that Works, and a Short Meditation on Orthodoxy - Part the First: What the Longevity Bros Miss: The Office of Science and Society (OSS) at McGill University is one of the best newsletters of its kind and h...
The Grayzone

Leaks show Paul Mason secretly advised UK Chancellor John Healey to escalate Ukraine war - Leaks reveal failed journalist Paul Mason secretly advised ex-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Defence Secretary and now-Chancellor John Healey, and top ...
IVN

The First REAL Working-Class Senator? Troy Jackson Explained | EP49 - The Independent Voter Podcast explores Troy Jackson's rise as Maine's next senator, his independence from party leadership, and election integrity issues i...
The Militant

Protests continue against ICE shootings in Maine, Houston - HOUSTON — “We are calling for a full, transparent, independent investigation into all of this,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, told a ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Democratic Civil War and the Tech Neo-Feudal State: Dispatches Mailbag - I answer your questions
Dorf on Law

Bad Argument Follow-Up: They Actually Believe It - In Professor Buchanan's "Veganniversary" essay yesterday, he referred to a variety of bad arguments against veganism, locating them within the larger cul...
ProPublica

Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. - The post Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. appeared first on ProPublica.
Rewire

ACLU Sues Penn State Health Over Canceled Gender-Affirming Care Procedure - The suit states administrators at Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center claimed such a procedure would violate Catholic doctrine.
Texas Observer

Cycling the Rio Grande as Trump’s Wall Looms - The sun is low over Nuevo Laredo as David Patricio and three friends start unloading gravel and mountain bikes for their evening ride along the Rio Grand...
Liberation News

Becoming disabled changed my life and deepened my commitment to liberation - The more I organize, the more I realize that disability liberation is about building relationships, creating community and ensuring that no disabled person...
SCOTUSblog

The Constitutional Court of South Africa - Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and how they compare to our own. Toda...
Democracy Now!

"Farmers of the Sea": PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the "Frontlines of Climate Change" - Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila’s new film for PBS, *Farmers of the Sea*, documents climate change’s threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieq...
Rallblog

More Amazon, Delivery App Drivers on Food Stamps | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
The Conversation

Is withholding federal counterterrorism funds from states – as FEMA has threatened – legal? - Legal scholars argue that when executive branch agencies impose conditions on federal funds, courts should give these cases special scrutiny.
Space City Weather

After Bertha’s downpours, it’s back to high summer for the Houston area - In brief: Today we discuss a bit about yesterday’s wider spread rain than expected in parts of the Houston area. A few additional storms are possible today...
Mondoweiss

How Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian citizens of Israel created the crime epidemic now ravaging Palestinian communities - [image: A protest of Palestinian citizens of Israel in Haifa condemning police and government inaction regarding the epidemic of crime in the Arab communit...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Chronicler Sees ‘New Loser Mood Swirling Around’ President -
Two Party Opera

Sing a Song of Zachary Taylor - Read More
High Country News

Pueblo leaders, New Mexico lawmakers speak out to protect Chaco Canyon - Officials call push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’ The post Pueblo leaders, New Mexico...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Nature Is Not a Place To Visit. It Is Home. - This week’s quote is from poet Gary Snyder: “Nature is not a place to visit.... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Nature Is Not a Place To Visit. It Is Home...
Brad Blog

Trump’s War Expanding, Driving GOP Toward Midterm Disaster: ‘BradCast’ 7/23/2026 - We carefully navigate through another incoming fire-hose of news on today’s BradCast. But as bad as much of it is, I’m continually reminded that each of th...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran Says Netanyahu Not Welcome In NYC: Kick Him Out With Mass Action! - On the campaign trail, Zohran Mamdani pledged to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, if he...
Antiwar.com

The Collapse of the Bipartisan Consensus Over US-Israel Ties - For decades, U.S. support for Israel rested on one of Washington’s strongest bipartisan assumptions: that military assistance was strategically necessary a...
Texas Freedom Network

Protected: Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day appeared first on Texas Freedom N...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/24/2026 - 04:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Verge

Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions - Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is curren...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Toy Museum will shutter in the Heights after 4 years - Childhood whimsy took a mortal blow this week as the Houston Toy Museum announced it would be closing its storefront on 19th Street at the end of August.
El Paso Matters

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters - Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months. The post ICE is arresti...
Church and State

A Modest Proposal for a 28th Amendment - It does seem that if women voted and men did not, the country would elect more Democratic, liberal, and progressive leaders.
Project Censored

Whose AI? Whose Opposition? - Andy Lee Roth Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to a March 2026 Gallup poll, which found that majorities of Democrats (75 perc...
Land Destroyer

The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia - *July 16, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As the Western media continues shaping narratives depicting a growing divide between the US and Europe regarding...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Three Gubernatorial Rating Changes: Michigan to Leans Democratic, New Mexico to Safe Democratic, Florida to Likely Republican - With 3 gov. rating changes, Democrats are favorites to some degree in MI & NM, while FL gets more competitive The post Three Gubernatorial Rating Changes...
Idavox

Trial Starts for White Mom Who Called a Black Child a Racial Slur at a Minnesota Playground - No, free speech doesn’t mean you can harass a autistic 5-year old child with racial... The post Trial Starts for White Mom Who Called a Black Child a Rac...
Trivial Knot

Does everything have an explanation? - My husband described to me a version of the cosmological argument based on explanations. Everything in the world requires an explanation. Since the chain o...
The Hill

Secret Service has investigated 10,000 threats in 2026 - U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran on Wednesday said the agency has opened more than 10,000 investigations this year into threats against protectees....
Lowering the Bar

Florida Bans Unnaturally Posed Stuffed Baby Crocodilians - [image: baby crocodilian]Without expressly defining what "unnatural" poses they have in mind.
The Texas Signal

Faith Leaders Condemn ICE Violence In Texas - The faith leaders at the Texas Capitol noted that recent violent actions from ICE go against their religious traditions and beliefs while calling for speci...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Chart proves it. 'The Odyssey' haters are obsessive and probably need 'to get laid' - You're going to get a kick out of this. As *The Odyssey *continues to be a box office hit, its haters continue to rage against it. They seem to be dete...
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Bracing Views

Retrograde Trump - And An Unconditional Congressional Surrender BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2026 Odds and ends from my notebook:
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Access to Abortion Saved the Life of One Virginia Mother. Now She’s Fighting to Expand Reproductive Freedom - Heather St. Amand is a mother, an organizer with the ACLU of Virginia, and an advocate for reproductive freedom. Having access to abortion saved her life a...
Environment Texas

New study shows wiser energy use could dramatically cut pollution - Energy efficiency improvements and demand response measures made between now and 2050 could cut particulate and other air pollution by about a quarter; a...
Ecosophia

July 2026 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...
Discourse

World Cup Halftime Show? More Like World YUCK Halftime Show! - Plus: An IMPORTANT Cyclospora update, every goofy thing Trump did at the World Cup finals, and Republicans trying to turn Olive Garden into a voting fraud ...
Krebs on Security

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps - The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-o...
LareDOS

Timely Border Wall and Buoys discussion set for July 25th in San Ygnacio at the Historic Plaza Blas María Uribe - Topics to include recent flooding, buoy fiasco, siltation, water quality, flood threats, and San Ygnacio’s 1951 exclusion from the “taking” of riverfont la...
NORML

Massachusetts: State Officials Affirm Marijuana Repeal Initiative Will Appear on November’s Ballot - [image: stylized image of a hand placing a ballot marked with a marijuana leaf into a box against a soft background of cannabis leaves and the word VOTE]...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- girl magic - Another world, or a dream. Made by video artist Ghidghid (and guaranteed no "AI" since it was made 14 years ago). Well worth fullscreen.
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
See You In 2020

Global Israelification, the right’s tech nerds, & the project to manage a growing male “excess” - When I say Israelification, in cultural terms I’m talking about the use of sex and substances to cover up reality. The colonizer society in occupied Pal...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 1: Gates of the West - We're baaack!In the inaugural episode of the second season of Whiskey and International Relations...
MintPress News

Regime Change Mission Foiled: Yemen’s Ansarallah Uncover Saudi-Mossad-CIA Espionage Network to Decapitate Resistance Leaders - Newly released documents reviewed by MintPress uncover a Mossad-CIA led “espionage network” inside Yemen against Ansarallah to enable “decapitation strik...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, *Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It*.
Texas Environmental News

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Progressives Chat

Flashback 2016: Ds’s Rigged Primary - Wednesday, July 22, 2026 will be the 10th anniversary of the *Wikileaks*’s report about the Democratic National Committee having rigged their 2016 primar...
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Greg Palast

I laughed when Trump… - I laughed when Trump announced that the Chinese “hacked” a hundred million US voter files — voter’s address, party preference etc. If China spent money to ...
Seeing the Forest

24 Years of Seeing the Forest - Seeing the Forest’s first post was on July 16, 2002. That was the “Welcome” post. The next post was a real post. Ralph Nader is a Scab Posted on July 16, 2...
Off The Kuff

Texas blog roundup for the week of July 13 - This Texas Progressive Alliance roundup is brought to you without any interference from Gianni Infantino. Off the Kuff has written multiple times about Lor...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
Media Lens

25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran - This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a l...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health’s 2026 Resident and Fellow Graduation Ceremony produces physicians and pharmacists dedicated to providing healing, advanced health care, research, education, excellence, and compassion close to home - FEATURED: Dr. Jessica Guajardo Martin, Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), General Medical Education (GME), DHR Health, addresses medical residents, fe...
Alas, a Blog

Two Toms Talking Theology - This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attr...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
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 ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

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

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

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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