Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Senators near deal to reopen government as key Democrats signal willingness to back plan (CNN) - CNN: *Senators near deal to reopen government as key Democrats signal willingness to back plan* — Several Senate Democrats are signaling a willingness...
Mediaite

House Democrats Furious That Their Senate Colleagues Are ‘Caving’ On Shutdown: ‘Unconditional Surrender!’ - A number of Democratic representatives vented they don't support their Senate colleagues "caving" on a deal to end the shutdown without Obamacare extensi...
Raw Story

'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled' - A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Be...
The Hill

Flight cancellations mount as government shutdown continues - Flight cancellations have mounted as the government shutdown stretches into its second month, causing headaches for travelers nationwide. Over 7,000 flight...
Mediagazer

An interview with Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan on why he choose Apple TV for his show, the AI disclaimer in the credits, Tilly Norwood, and more (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety) - Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: *An interview with Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan on why he choose Apple TV for his show, the AI disclaimer in the credits, Ti...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump shares false claim Obama earned $40m in ‘royalties’ from Obamacare - US president promoted fictional claim from satirical website that has been debunked repeatedly since 2017 Donald Trump promoted the false claim that Bara...
NPR's Health Shots

What's behind your phone cravings and how movement can replace them - Breaking your scrolling habit could help you feel calmer, happier, and more energized. NPR's Life Kit explains how to get there.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Whose Truths Are Told: From Canada's Parliament Hill to Texas Classrooms - *This exchange with reporters happened on June 29, 2017. It was part of a four-day “reoccupation” protest around Canada Day that takes place annually on th...
OpEd News

Moving Toward Dtente - This story covers how the current geopolitical conflicts in the world can lead to a future peace.
Political Wire

Senate Begins Long Process to Reopen Government - Punchbowl News: “As the shutdown hits Day 40, the Senate is beginning to make moves to reopen the federal government, although it could be several days bef...
Al Jazeera English

BBC boss Tim Davie resigns after criticism over Trump speech edit - Davie's exit caps week of attacks on UK's public broadcaster, with Trump press secretary calling it '100% fake news'.
The Verge

You need to listen to this compilation of ‘80s Spanish ambient and electronic music - Much of La Ola Interior (Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990) sounds shockingly contemporary for a collection of tracks recorded in the mid to late ...
Eschaton

Gotta Admit, He's Not Wrong - Though of course he has no idea why and they have no interest in improving it.
Deadline Politics

Trump Declares Victory After Shock BBC Resignations: “These Are Very Dishonest People” - Donald Trump has declared victory after the bombshell resignation of the BBC’s director general. The MAGA community has been attacking the BBC for days, ac...
Angry Bear

October employment situation: stagnant hiring, increased firing, continued wage growth - – by New Deal democrat On a normal first Friday of the month, I would be crunching the official jobs report data to try to provide not just a coincident...
Axios

Deal to end government shutdown in reach - A handful of Senate Democrats on Sunday indicated they are ready to advance a package of bills that could end the government shutdown, multiple sources t...
Salon.com

Trump spreads satirical website’s “Obamacare royalties” claim - The president ate the onion
Daily Dot

Millennials grew up with Steve from Blue’s Clues. Now, they’re thirsting over him online - [image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcdi8W2FjOs] Steve Burns is an icon for Millennials, and the generation that once looked up to the *Blue's Clues ...
San Antonio Report

Univisión cumplió 70 años. Así nació la cadena de televisión en español en San Antonio. - El fundador de Univisión, Emilio Nicolás Sr., viajó por todo Estados Unidos para fundar estaciones de televisión, pero siempre regresaba a San Antonio. ----...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment on our post about receiving a bogus DMCA takedown from CyberGhost o...
Popular Resistance

ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media 24/7 Threatens Privacy And Participation - When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social me...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for November 9 - “A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject”. Spoiler alert, it’s not great. “Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare”. “B...
Election Law Blog

“How an Adam Schiff indictment could shake the Senate” - Politico: President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his political adversaries could soon hit the Senate — and lawmakers are already bracing ...
Socialist Alternative

90th Anniversary Of The CIO And The Rise Of US Labor - The single most important development in American history—perhaps second only to the defeat of the slaveowners in the Civil War—was the rise of the Congres...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hamburg cobblestones - [image: Hamburg cobbles]
Krebs on Security

Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban - The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that current...
World Socialist Web Site

Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi defies Turkish state’s intervention on its program - The Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi, which was officially established in August in Turkey, received a letter from the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor’s Offic...
WhoWhatWhy

Bingeing on TCM: A Poem - [image: Dancing through history, bingeing, Turner Classic Movies] Point your remote… and aim for your choice of reality Bingeing on TCM: A Poem originally ...
Courthouse News

Pfizer clinches deal for obesity drug developer Metsea after a bidding war with Novo Nordisk - Metsera cited U.S. antitrust risks in Novo's bid, saying in its statement that the board has determined Pfizer's revised terms represent "the best transact...
Mother Jones

Florida Takes On Planned Parenthood - In anti-abortion Republicans’ latest attack on abortion pills, Florida’s attorney general is suing Planned Parenthood for allegedly misrepresenting the saf...
Undernews

Trump regime orders states to stop full food assistnce benefits - *The Washington Post *- The Trump administration over the weekend ordered states to stop distributing full food assistance benefits for November to th...
Futurism

Scientists Just Found Something Fascinating About How Women Dirty Talk - Positive affirmations are good for more than your self-confidence. The post Scientists Just Found Something Fascinating About How Women Dirty Talk appea...
Slate

I’m Grateful That My Wife Is Trying More In Bed. But I Am Repulsed By How She’s Doing It. - How am I supposed to get off when she says things like, "Come on, bring it on home!"
Reform Austin

Can You Get Arrested for Flying a Drone in Your Neighborhood? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Drone use has become increasingly common across Texas for both recreation and professional proj...
Ballot Access News

USA Today Publishes a Letter from a Libertarian Party Member Who Says He Voted for Trump but Now Regrets It - On November 8, USA Today published this letter to the editor from a Pennsylvanian who says he is a Libertarian Party member. He mentions that Trump attende...
Alternet

'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled' - A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Be...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Ass Kicking' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly ...
El Paso Matters

City of El Paso’s latest property buys pave way for convention center expansion - Hoping to attract more conventions, the city has paid just shy of $8 million this year to acquire the five parcels to expand the Judson F. Williams Conv...
Daily Cartoonist

Prince Valiant Montage Sources 3 and The Reasoning Behind It - Aleta continues with part three of the tale of her and Prince Valiant and Justinian. We continue to discover the original sources of the panels used (part ...
Bracing Views

“Fast, Vicious, and Sweet” - President Trump Threatens War on Nigeria BILL ASTORE NOV 08, 2025 Lately, there’s a “Talking Heads” lyric that’s been popping up in my brain: Our president...
First Draft

Berlin Express (1948) - A film noir set amidst the rubble of post-World War II Germany. Starring Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, and Paul Lukas. Directed by Jacques Tou...
Grist

The EV battery tech that’s worth the hype, according to experts - Major battery breakthroughs seemingly happen every day, but only some of that tech ever leaves the lab. WIRED breaks down what’s actually going to change E...
Mondoweiss

How it feels to live as an academic in exile while Gaza burns - [image: Abdalrahim Abuwarda hiking at Medicine Bow Peak which lies in the heart of the Snowy Range, about 45 minutes west of Laramie, Wyoming.]As a graduat...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Big Pharma Bought The Drug Police - How drugmakers captured the FDA, what Zohran Mamdani’s win means for democracy, and more from The Lever this week.
Glasstire

Review: “Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video” at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston - Co-curated by Kelly Montana, the Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) Associate Curator, and Anna Lovatt, Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Methodi...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 09, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 09, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump...
Vox

Pandemics are a choice - For the first time in history, we have an opportunity to stop the next pandemic. From the earliest thinking of the Greek physician and philosopher Claudius...
naked capitalism

Links 11/9/2025 -
The Root

Films With Black Stars Everyone Should See This Fall - From a "Knives Out" sequel starring Kerry Washington to the final ‘Wicked’ installment, we’re breaking down all of the must-see films of the fall. Read m...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: A Beginning? -
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Crooked Media

This F*cking Guy: Pam Bondi - The post This F*cking Guy: Pam Bondi appeared first on Crooked Media.
Scheerpost.com

With Food Banks in ‘Disaster Response Mode,’ Supreme Court Lets Trump Pause SNAP Funds - By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams The US Supreme Court late Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that required the Trump administration to fully fu...
The Week

Are we entering a ‘golden age’ of nuclear power? - The government is promising to ‘fire up nuclear power’. Why, and how?
Counterpunch

The Dangerous Rise of the Extreme Right in Latin America - “Capitalist, patriarchal and white supremacist” is not a mere collection of politically correct adjectives—these inseparable forces fuel the far right an...
jobsanger

Trump's Winning Coalition Has Evaporated -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1469: The Hourglass - Episode: 1469 The hourglass: the poor man’s clock, the poor man’s metaphor. Today, let’s look at the hourglass.
Informed Comment

Will Climate Change force Tehran to Evacuate? - Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian landed himself in hot water by broaching evacuating Iran's capital, Tehran
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar: BRICS Just Drew the Line — And Trump Is Pushing Back Hard! - DW—The discussion highlights the U.S. Empire of Chaos’s strategic despair given looming defeats, particularly the inability to militarily confront Russia o...
Portside

The Real Fraud, Waste, and Abuse - The Real Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Dave Sat, 11/08/2025 - 18:25
Dissident Voice

The United States Continues Its Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution - Children play on the beach during a security deployment in Anzoátegui, Venezuela, 19 September 2025. Credit: Rosana Silva R. Since early September, the U...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Money Can't Buy You Love: Fascist Oligarchs as a Cautionary Tale - Musk and Trump and their whole cadre of conspirators are joyless and give the lie of capitalism away. We should be grateful.
CultureMap Houston

5 Houston suburbs among best places to retire and more popular stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week. Five area suburbs are among the top places to retire, plus the long-awaited I...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We watched an array of Unrecognizables! - *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025* *Telling this story is hard:* At one point, the Harvard Law School graduate said it, though only perhaps in a dream: *I was...
San Antonio Current

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Galveston ISD for not displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms - [image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 23, 2024. Paxton sued the Galveston school district ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 3 - 7 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This was the week that the 800 pound gorillas of Wall Street reported Q...
The AltWorld

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber - So it turns out Israel’s mistake was starting its genocide right after Palestinians gained the ability to […] The post Artificial Intelligence Is Making ...
Skeptophilia

The un-canon - A while back I was interviewed on the radio program *Graphic Ear*, and the interviewer, the wonderful Sabra Wood, asked me an interesting question: how w...
DeSmogBlog

UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage - British national newspapers devoted more than triple the space to advertising polluting industries such as oil, airlines, and sports utility vehicles tha...
Common Dreams

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake - Hope glimmers. After an election that saw "democrats in array" rising up to thunderously repudiate "anyone and anything" associated with a doddering wann...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 8 November 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. If you like a blog post I link to here, remember to leave a supportive comment *on t...
ArcaMax

Shutdown Politics - It has been a terrifying week for the one in eight Americans who depend on food stamps -- the SNAP program -- to feed their families. Would they be eating ...
Consortium News

California Law Illegally Muzzles Students & Teachers - The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information, reports Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie C...
Environment Texas

From New England to Texas, community action works - The post From New England to Texas, community action works appeared first on Environment Texas.
Workers World

Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025) - [image: Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025)] We come to bury Cheney, not to praise him. This is unlike the comments in most of the...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: RAY OF LIGHT EDITION. - *Heard this in a restaurant -- you remember this?I don’t and I don’t know how I missed it.* I missed ‘Round-The-Horn last week, and I’ll let you know ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court temporarily pauses ruling on November SNAP payments - Updated on Nov. 7 at 9:34 p.m. The Trump administration on Friday night asked the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island that...
Wolf Street

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q3 2025 - Banks are mostly off the hook this time; risks were shifted to taxpayers and investors.
See You In 2020

The self-implosion of ruling-class ideologies, & the favorable chaos that this has left - Above: Zohran Mamdani with Alex Soros, son of George Soros. The ideological frameworks that used to hold dominance over the politically conscious masses...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 7-9 Weekend OT - I saw our other thread was at 110. Decided to open Benny’s Bar. News, opinions, and video jukebox is of your choosing below the jump.
The Texas Signal

Rodney Ellis Doc To Screen At Round Top Film Festival - A new short documentary from three storied directors about Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis premieres this weekend
The NM Political Report

State DOT will seek 25-35% hikes on vehicle registration, new EV car fee to fund road repairs - New Mexico motorists could pay more to keep their vehicles registered and on the road under a proposal from the state Transportation Department, part of ...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Partners With Arizona Independent Party for 2026 Election Cycle - The Forward Party is entering into a cooperative agreement with the Arizona Independent Party, giving the national organization a recognized ballot line ...
Liberation News

The assault on the left: Trump’s crackdown in context - There is a long history of rightwing forces stretching the letter of the law to protect capitalist institutions from challenge.
Progressive.org

This Veterans Day, the VA Faces Multiple Threats - As the Trump Administration guts the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA patients and workers are fighting to save it.
Capital & Main

U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones - The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resource...
The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ - SWP candidates point road forward for working class WEST NEW YORK, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and all of its candidates are part of the working cl...
Dorf on Law

"Affordability Issues": Did Democrats Land on a Good Strategy for a Bad Reason? - By now, everyone who pays attention to US politics has heard some version of the immediate conventional wisdom explaining the Democrats' across-the-board...
Second Nexus

Gay Priest's Powerful Sermon About Love Between LGBTQ+ People Has The Internet Sobbing - In a sermon that resonated well beyond the walls of Southwark Cathedral, *The Very Reverend Dr. Mark Oakley* delivered *a passionate and powerful respons...
Texas Standard

Canceled Digital Equity Act grants disrupt projects aimed at getting underserved people online - The Digital Equity Act was designed to work in tandem with the government’s broadband infrastructure program to expand internet access and training.
Texas Observer

Jane Goodall, the Natural World, and Why I Track Skunks - In a final message, Jane Goodall urged us not to lose hope, even “as we destroy one ecosystem after another, as we create worse climate change and worse ...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
LareDOS

LC student art exhibit opens Nov. 7 at Fenstermaker Gallery; mariachi soloist Juan Capetillo recital Nov. 13 - Applied music students perform Nov. 19
Rewire

Doctors Challenge Arizona Abortion Laws as Unconstitutional Burden on Patients - “I find that the laws that we are challenging are preventing me from providing the sort of care that I think my patients want and that they deserve, and ...
Democracy Now!

Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99 - The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for ...
The Conversation

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation - ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
Space City Weather

Prepare for some serious temperature whiplash over the next week, H Town - In brief: Get ready for a wild ride in the temperature department. Houston will threaten our all-time November high temperature tomorrow before a cold fron...
Rallblog

What To Do When Your Country Sucks - In a New York Times op-ed titled “How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things,” M. Gessen asks: “When your country pursues abhorrent polic...
slacktivist

LBCF: CSI Atlanta - Wherein we discuss why a dogged insurance investigator would have made a better protagonist for these books than the callous, self-absorbed, apathetic auth...
Debunking Christianity

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - On Sunday, November 1, 1755, in Lisbon, Portugal, a great earthquake took place while Christians were worshipping their good all-powerful God. Since it was...
ProPublica

Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. - The post Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - [image: Piikunii high school students Alisa and Alison Skunkcap, Jasmine Bechel and James Trombley at Fire in the Mountains (left to right).] In response ...
Earth 911

Design Your Landscaping to Handle Stormwater Runoff - It’s time to think about spring. Yes, now, before the heavy runoff that begins the... The post Design Your Landscaping to Handle Stormwater Runoff appear...
Church and State

The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class - Back in the 1960s you could rent a small apartment, buy a used car, and put yourself through college on a minimum wage job.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/07/2025 - 05:55 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

Russia Can ‘Mirror’ in Venezuela What West Is Doing in Ukraine - When regional relations Iran and Syria called on Russia to help defend them against attacks by America, Israel, and a swarm of former ISIS militants, they ...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Earthworks

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #03: What Zohran Mamdani's Win Means - An election night so momentous we had to record a bonus episode
Project Censored

When Algorithms Break the News - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom...
Sludge

The Democrats Won’t Stop Spamming - Despite ActBlue’s updated policies banning fake matches and deadlines, Democratic Party groups are continuing to spam supporters with messages designed to ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Journalist says that 188 Republican and Christian leaders have accused of sexually abusing kids this year (so far) - *While the far right falsely paint drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community as 'groomers,' journalist Evan Hurst has identified 188 Christian...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ecosophia

Why The Left Can’t Meme: A Second Interlude - The exploration of the no-ego ego trip and its relevance to contemporary culture a few weeks back has implications that reach far. The discussion that foll...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
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...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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