Brains and Eggs: Sunday Mildly Nauseous Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Death toll from Hurricane Melissa climbs to 49, with many still missing - Haiti reported the highest number of deaths following catastrophic flooding from hurricane rains.
Counterpunch

Roaming Charges: Grave Disorders - More than half of new ICE recruits failed an open-book test after taking a course on Immigration and the Fourth Amendment. This pervasive constitutional ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

What would you do if democracy was being dismantled before your eyes? Whatever you’re doing right now | Andy Beckett - In California, daily life under Trump is marked by sporadic resistance and avoidance. Neither will defeat the autocrats How would you behave if your demo...
The Week

AI models may be developing a ‘survival drive’ - Chatbots are refusing to shut down
memeorandum

Trump administration limits refugee admissions to lowest on record (NBC News) - NBC News: *Trump administration limits refugee admissions to lowest on record* — The admissions cap will be 7,500, less than the previous low of 15,000...
jobsanger

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3335: Transcontinental - Episode #3335 Learning to fly non-stop from coast to coast in America. Today, we fly across America.
Wolf Street

Fed Balance Sheet QT: Reserve Balances & ON RRPs -$109 Billion in October, -$3.0 Trillion from Peak. What’s Next, According to Powell - Reserves will shrink further when the balance sheet stays flat after QT ends.
naked capitalism

Rage Against the ICE Machine - Anti-ICE protestors are showing signs of developing effective strategies and tactics.
Mediagazer

Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: *Disney networks including ABC and ESPN go dark on YouTube TV after the two sides failed to reach a new carriage deal* — YouTu...
Informed Comment

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23 - In Quatrain no. 23 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, we find an explicit denial of the afterlife. Th...
Mediaite

House Republican Tells Food Stamp Recipients, ‘Stop Smoking Crack’ - Rep. Clay Higgins has little sympathy for millions of Americans whose food assistance benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1. The post House Republican Tel...
Daily Cartoonist

Michael Heath, Senior Stripper - Michael Heath is “a British strip cartoonist and illustrator. Heath has been cartoon editor of The Spectator since 1991.” He turned 90 this month on Octobe...
Axios

Trump tells Senate Republicans to use "nuclear option" to end shutdown - President Trump called for the end of the Senate filibuster on Thursday, urging Republicans in a post on Truth Social to "initiate the 'nuclear option.'"...
World Socialist Web Site

US extracts billion-dollar investments from South Korea under trade “deal” - Following an agreement with Malaysia in which it will invest $70 billion in the US over the course of 10 years, Trump managed to finalise the commitment by...
The Hill

DC Mayor Bowser says residents will receive SNAP, WIC benefits in November - D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) on Thursday said the city will fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the separate program for Women, I...
Techdirt.

Yes, There Are Some National Guard Willing To Do The Right Thing - As of this moment, the National Guard is indefinitely prevented from deploying within the Chicagoland area. The court order was issued pending the Supreme ...
Raw Story

'Completes the corruption': Trump DOJ's 'utterly appalling' move stuns legal expert - Legal expert and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance penned a searing essay on Thursday, accusing the Department of Justice of becoming completely corrupted by...
Political Wire

Five Unions Break with Democrats on Shutdown - “Democrats’ already fraying alliance with organized labor is coming under new strain as a growing list of union leaders calls on the party to accept a Repu...
Workers World

Does artificial intelligence kill jobs? - [image: Does artificial intelligence kill jobs?] The recent Workers World article “Capitalism isn’t working, no jobs to be found” by Martha Grevatt exposes...
Courthouse News

Portland trial pits local cops against feds over protest tactics - Oregon suggested federal officers inflamed crowds to justify National Guard deployment.
Portside

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught - How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught jay Thu, 10/30/2025 - 22:02
Brad Blog

A Pretty Weak 'Strongman': 'BradCast' 10/30/2025 - On today's BradCast: For a guy who believes he's a strongman, or wants to be one --- in a nation where too many have fallen for that idea as well --- the P...
Deadline Politics

CBS Says There Have Been “No Discussions” With Gayle King About Her Contract Amid Report She Is Expected To Exit Morning Show - A CBS News spokesperson said that the network has had “no discussions” with Gayle King about her contract amid a report that she is expected to depart CBS ...
Popular Resistance

El-Fasher’s Fall: A New Chapter in Darfur’s Ethnic Cleansing - The capture of El-Fasher, North Darfur, by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on October 26, 2025, marks a catastrophic tur...
Crooked Media

Will Trump’s Trade Truce With China Last? - The post Will Trump’s Trade Truce With China Last? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Verge

Microsoft’s agent platform play - This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. To underst...
ArcaMax

Speaker Johnson: Seat Adelita Grijalva Now! - As the United States government shutdown marks its fifth week, approaching the record 35-day shutdown set back in 2018-19, unleashing a worsening cascade o...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas State Trial Court Rules that Governor Must Call an Earlier Special Election to Fill a Vacancy - On October 22, an Arkansas state trial court ruled that voters in State Senate district 26 cannot be forced to wait until June 26, 2026, to fill the vacanc...
Antiwar.com

Whitewashing the Gaza Gas Exploration - The Quest for Gaza’s Energy, Part 2 Read part 1 here In 2019, UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) reported that the occupied te...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT explores merging 'fragmented' departments, raising fears over ethnic studies’ future | “What Happens Here Happens to Us” - *The sense of alarm among many right now is profound. What appears to be a routine “consolidation” of departments within UT Austin’s College of Liberal A...
Salon.com

Prince Andrew stripped of titles amid Epstein fallout - Andrew’s alleged association with Jeffrey Epstein led to the remarkable move from King Charles.
San Antonio Report

New York Times bestselling author to headline 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series - SPONSORED: Arthur C. Brooks, a leading expert on the science of human happiness, will give a lecture titled “The Meaning of Your Life.” --------------------...
Reform Austin

Texas Supreme Court Protects Judges Who Refuse Gay Marriage on Religious Beliefs - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas judges who decline to perform wedding ceremonies due to a “sincerely held religious belie...
Vox

Why does Trump want the National Guard doing crowd control? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
WhoWhatWhy

A (White) House of Dynamite - [image: Donald Trump, Oval Office, Golden Dome, Missile Defense System] If you want to turn a new political thriller into a horror movie, just imagine what...
CultureMap Houston

Washington Avenue's drive-thru only Chick-fil-A sets opening date - Inner loopers with a craving for chicken sandwiches and waffle fries will soon have a new option to satisfy their cravings. Houston’s newest *Chick-fil-A* ...
The NM Political Report

City collects food, opens parks to urban farming to help those without SNAP - Information in this report was provided by the City of Albuquerque, which is responsible for its content. The City of Albuquerque is opening public space...
The Greanville Post

Prof. Richard D. Wolff : Venezuela Strikes Back! Russian Missiles Challenge U.S. Warships - R. WOLFF—Beyond military and economic considerations, Venezuela’s alliance with Russia symbolises a broader ideological challenge to neoliberal capitalism ...
Second Nexus

Biggest Financial Mistakes People Make In Their 20s - It can be really fun to experience something for the first time that you've never really had before, like a disposable income. For the average person, t...
slacktivist

South Carerdddd - A story of an aging authoritarian leader who clings to power despite being increasingly out of touch. And other recent items in the news.
Environment Texas

Where do butterflies go in the winter? - In the fall, butterflies begin some of the most epic and iconic journeys in the animal kingdom The post Where do butterflies go in the winter? appeared f...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: We talk about El Paso’s water future with a top executive from city’s water utility - An El Paso Water official discusses the sustainability of our water supply, especially as we see trillion-dollar corporations developing big AI data cen...
Slate

It Has Become the Most Beloved Halloween Decoration in America. But I Have a Bone to Pick. - In a world full of intractable problems, this is the rare one with a clear solution.
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] How Will Zohran Govern? - A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Daily Dot

“Gen Z doesn’t do filters”: Worker’s honest breakup leave request has bosses and boomers divided - [image: Email screenshot from a Gen Z worker requesting time off. Email reads, ""Hello Sir, I recently had a breakup and haven't been able to focus on wo...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio councilman calls for city to look into data center growth and resource drain - [image: An aerial photo shows a QTS Data center under construction.] District 6's Ric Galvan said policy hasn't kept up the growth in data centers, which ...
The Texas Signal

Best-selling Texas Author Turns Gothic Horror In New Novel - Acclaimed Richmond author Leigh M. Hall is taking her first stab at southern gothic horror with her latest Texas-set novel
Futurism

Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI - "The total dollar spend is just kind of what hangs us up a little bit." The post Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spe...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/31/2025 - 02:32 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Consortium News

Jailed in America for Free Speech - Andrew P. Napolitano says making up crimes where none exist and arresting without investigation — as was the case with Larry Bushart — are crimes in and of...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Texas Standard

Know your voting rights in Texas as you head to the polls for the Nov. 4 election - Understand the rules covering electronics, what you can’t wear in a polling place, and more.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: President wants to lock them up! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025* *Young voters may not be buying:* These have been very tiring days. Meanwhile, according to *Mediaite*, there he has gone on...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Backing 56 Candidates in November 2025 Elections - The Forward Party is supporting 56 candidates in the 2025 election cycle, backing candidates in 11 states, with the largest number appearing in Pennsylva...
Texas Observer

SNAP Shutdown Will Leave Texas Students like Me Hungry - The announcement on the Your Texas Benefits app reads: “SNAP benefits for November will not be issued if the federal government shutdown continues past O...
Undernews

Poop progress - [image: Organics Ocean Better Fiber] *Sam Smith - *Because of some new prescriptions I was taking I stopped my vitamin pills for several months. Among the ...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Mondoweiss

Palestinian scholar who wrote iconic book on Zionism reflects on the Gaza genocide and our duty to history - [image: Displaced Palestinians return to their destroyed homes and neighborhoods in the Aa-Zeitoun area of southern Gaza City, following the ceasefire betw...
Capital & Main

Desperate Times: ‘If We Do Not Do This … There Will Be Tragedy After Tragedy.’ - A proposed ballot initiative would tax California’s billionaires’ wealth to stabilize Medicaid amid sharp federal cuts. The post Desperate Times: ‘If We ...
Angry Bear

Open Enrollment for Medicare Traditional or Advantage. Why you should Pick Traditional - I broke this comment by Deb Schultz (comments section “Traditional Medicare Open Enrollment is Now”) into three different segments to emphasize each part...
Progressive.org

Disrobing John Roberts - New book powerfully exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s transformation into a haven for extremists.
Common Dreams

Sierra Club Statement on Senate Vote to Overturn Arctic Protections - Today, the U.S. Senate voted to overturn environmental protections in the Western Arctic, clearing the way for oil and gas companies to greatly increase ...
OpEd News

New Russian base in southern Syria: security for Israel and Syria - This article talks about a Russian military base in the south of Syria to stop the Israeli aggression on Syria
Church and State

Why do so many female animals live longer than males? New research - A new study conducted the most comprehensive analysis of sex differences in longevity in birds and mammals.
The Conversation

Voters lose when maps get redrawn before every election instead of once a decade − a trend started in Texas, moving to California and likely spreading across the country - With a new, mid-cycle redistricting war raging in state after state, the media and politicians focus on which party is winning or losing seats. But are cit...
First Draft

Feds That Go Bump In The Night - Why does Cosplay Barbie hate Halloween?
Dorf on Law

Conservatives' Lies About the National Debt -- and They Are Indeed Lies -- Have Tragic Consequences - There is a truly bipartisan consensus in the US on one issue, a consensus that is demonstrably -- even trivially -- wrong but that harms millions of peop...
Discourse

Birds of the Week: Verreaux's Eagle and Tropical Royal Flycatcher - A titan of South America and a titan of Africa are sharing the crown this week for a big, bold Halloween spectacular.
The Root

How White Folks Can Dress as the Twins From ‘Sinners’ For Halloween…Or Can They? - In many cases, what starts as “appreciation” too often slips into impersonation, and fans are voicing their opinions. Read more...
Ian Welsh

Yes, Canadians Did—Did Think America Was A Friend & Yes, Trump Is Good For Canada - These numbers are astounding: 36 per cent of Canadians currently view the United States as a friend, compared to 60 per cent at the end of 2020 and 89 per ...
Alternet

Americans turn against Trump’s crime crackdowns: report - Nine months into the second Donald Trump presidency, a majority of Americans strongly oppose his hard-line crime-crackdown policies, including sending mi...
Mother Jones

The Shutdown Is Pushing Federal Workers to Food Banks—Just as SNAP Is Set to Expire - Pastor Oliver Carter is in a strange predicament. For the last few years, he’s run a food bank serving the needy through No Limits Outreach Ministries, his...
Election Law Blog

“AJC poll: Georgia Democrats express growing distrust in the election system” - AJC: For much of the last decade, it was Republicans who questioned the integrity of Georgia’s elections. Now a growing share of Democrats are voicing d...
The Daily Poster

Citizens United Against Citizens United - A new survey shows that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of campaign spending restrictions, and one state could be making that a reality.
SCOTUSblog

Trump’s tariffs to face Supreme Court scrutiny - On Nov. 5, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of challenges to President Donald Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs on virtually a...
Rewire

The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men (Podcast) - Slavers wrote the Constitution and Elie Mystal says it’s working as intended. The post The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men (P...
Dissident Voice

Every Day is Halloween in Trumpland! - With his storm troopers… oops, his ICEMEN, rambling into a town like a pack of ghosts, replete with no faces. With his navy , My **** navy, blowing up s...
Project Censored

AI Warlord: Eric Schmidt - In August, Foreign Affairs published Alphabet-Google billionaire Eric Schmidt’s essay “The Dawn of Automated Warfare”—co-authored with Greg Grant of the ...
Space City Weather

The crispest of fall mornings arrives in Houston - In brief: The coolest morning since spring has brought crisp conditions to Houston today! Look for more of that tomorrow. A chance of showers will disrupt ...
NORML

Longitudinal Study: Inhaled Cannabis Is “Safe and Effective” for Treating Refractory Diabetic Neuropathy - [image: Dried medical cannabis flower buds spill out of an open prescription bottle][image: Dried medical cannabis flower buds spill out of an open presc...
Crooked Timber

No (Despotic) Kings, but maybe Constitutional Monarchy? - “An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of govern...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally - The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect tra...
Bonddad

Weighing Regional Fed Services Surveys, the sketch emerges of an economy on the cusp of stagflationary recession - * - by New Deal democrat* As I’ve reiterated several times this month, the two items of information I am paying the most attention to in the absence ...
Democracy Now!

U.N. Votes Overwhelmingly to Denounce U.S. Embargo on Cuba as Hurricane Melissa Batters Island - The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, includ...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Nuke Testing Is Back” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou take you from nuclear brinkmanship to economic sa...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 30, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. En lo más negro del verano / In the Darkest Domain of… ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Virginia, Kansas, and Kentucky: The Challenge of Holding an Open Governorship in a Hostile State - Each of the next three years will present an open-seat gubernatorial election in a state where the incumbent party is at a disadvantage in federal races....
The Smirking Chimp

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress -
Skeptophilia

Double take - I ended up going down a rabbit hole yesterday -- not, honestly, a surprising nor an infrequent occurrence -- when a friend of mine asked if I'd ever hear...
Off The Kuff

A brief wrapup of the redistricting trial - Meant to do this awhile ago but never quite got my act together. The future of Texas congressional elections and minority voting rights are in the hands of...
ProPublica

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America - The post “Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America appeared first on ProPublica .
Scheerpost.com

The Left Wins the Presidential Election in Ireland by a Landslide - Both Catherine Connolly and Michael D are unabashedly left-wing, absorbed by the struggle for people to live with dignity in Ireland itself and gripped by ...
Infidel753

For Halloween - I know the actual day is tomorrow, but I generally avoid posting on Fridays since it's right before the link round-up. It's the rainy season, of course, b...
Grist

This obscure Georgia election is about so much more than your power bill - Behind the PSC race is a battle for political control of the state — and maybe the country.
High Country News

The nation’s energy dominance falters - [image: Pres. Trump in front of energy dominance sign] Trump is killing clean energy, and it’s not even helping fossil fuels. The post The nation’s energy...
Earth 911

Recycling Mystery: Expanded Polystyrene - Is Styrofoam really recyclable? The post Recycling Mystery: Expanded Polystyrene appeared first on Earth911.
See You In 2020

Hamas has won, and this has thrown the entire world’s power balance into question - The triumph of Hamas, and of the other orgs within Gaza’s armed resistance coalition, has implications for all fronts in the global class struggle. That...
Socialist Alternative

Argentina: Far-Right Milei Secures Win—Lowest Turnout Since 1983 - Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei managed to secure an unexpected victory for his party, La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in midterm electi...
The AltWorld

Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose - Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? […] The post Notice Which Genocides Y...
Liberation News

Shockingly poor US healthcare, low life expectancy & high women’s mortality to be worsened by Trump cuts - It's time to fight for quality health care and all that's needed to live healthy lives.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's Time to Close Ranks: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The disaster has arrived. It's time to come together.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
The Grayzone

Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was hailed by Western governments and media as the savior and rightful leader of Belarus. But leaked emails reveal her increasin...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
DeSmogBlog

Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies - Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace's backtrack on gay marriage support proves that she is a political opportunist with the integrity of a dead slug - *How it went:* *Nancy Mace in 2021:* In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Mace explained that while she’s voting against the Equalit...
TalkLeft

Hurricane Melissa Redirects towards Cuba - Hurricane Melissa is one for the history books. Melissa is leaving Jamaica and headed to Cuba. As if Cuba doesn't have enough problems right now, 900,00...
Krebs on Security

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies - Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: Excellent News from the Horn of Africa - There are rumors about in the diplomatic sphere and in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa, that Trump might just be about to recognise Somaliland.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” - Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Re...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov 2 News roundup & OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments below.
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
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 ...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Erectile Dysfunction - Summary Erectile dysfunction is a common and treatable condition that can significantly impact a man’s self-esteem, relationships, and overall well-being...
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
Equality Texas

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

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

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 ...
Novara Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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