Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courthouse News

Catalan amnesty gets cautious green light from EU court adviser - Spain’s new Catalan amnesty just hit its first real EU test. A court adviser says the law can stand as a political deal, but only if Spain’s judges enforce...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Maine to Meet in Hallowell for 2025 State Convention - The Libertarian Party of Maine will hold its annual state convention this weekend in Hallowell, with delegates electing new party officers, reviewing byl...
Slate

There’s a Reason This Time Feels Different With Epstein and Trump. It’s Right There in the Letters. - Jeffrey Epstein called the president the “dog that hasn’t barked.” What does that mean?
Political Wire

BBC Formally Apologizes to Trump - The BBC apologized to President Trump after criticism over how a documentary edited his Jan. 6 speech, and said it does not plan to rebroadcast the program...
Reform Austin

U.S. Government Reopens After Record 43-Day Shutdown - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday night when President Donald Tru...
Mediaite

Sean Hannity Asks JD Vance What He’s Learned From ‘Force of Nature’ Trump - Fox News' Sean Hannity asked Vice President JD Vance what he's learned from President Donald Trump in an interview airing Thursday night. The post Sean H...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein and associate discussed ‘girls’ and travel - Revelation comes despite US justice department downplaying possibility that other men involved in Epstein’s abuse While Donald Trump’s justice department...
Futurism

Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned - Just like the good old days. The post Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned appeared first on Futurism.
Wolf Street

Data Fog Engulfing October due to Government Shutdown May “Never” Be Fully Lifted - Survey-based data doesn’t exist because the surveys were not conducted in October. But data that companies electronically submitted exists.
Al Jazeera English

Trump administration targets European antifa groups as ‘global terrorists’ - US State Department labelled four groups, from Germany, Greece and Italy, as 'specially designated global terrorists'.
CultureMap Houston

Historic Texas landmark reopens after $54 million restoration - A defining landmark in Texas history is welcoming visitors once again. Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site has reopened following a $54 million res...
Vox

Should salmon farming be our future? - Earth’s population is growing. We’re expected to have 2 billion more mouths to feed by 2050. But how can we feed all those people in a way that is still su...
Daily Dot

This pastor’s “MAGA vs. Jesus” series is dismantling conservative talking points using Bible verses - [image: Reverend Dr. Caleb J. Lines, the pastor at University Christian Church in San Diego, holding up signs reading, "Maga says real christians support...
Mediagazer

The BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his demands for compensation (Noor Nanji/BBC) - Noor Nanji / BBC: *The BBC apologizes to President Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his January 6 speech together but rejects his deman...
The Hill

Delta CEO: 'The system should return to normal by the weekend' - Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday that the air travel system “should return to normal by the weekend” after recent chaos caused by the governmen...
Church and State

REPEAT: Atheist or Agnostic? - Atheist or agnostic? I’m both and that’s not because I’m too wishy-washy or indecisive or chickenshit to say.
Mondoweiss

Israel is killing Gazans trying to return to their homes beyond the ‘yellow line’ - [image: Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles have placed yellow-painted concrete blocks along what is known as the "yellow line" inside the Gaza Strip,...
Salon.com

Starbucks workers strike on “Red Cup Day” - Thousands of Starbucks employees have organized to strike on one of the coffee giant's biggest days
The Verge

Valve wants Half-Life: Alyx to work well standalone on Steam Frame - When I tried Half-Life: Alyx streaming from a PC to Valve’s new Steam Frame VR headset, I was blown away; thanks to the Frame’s dedicated wireless adapter ...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Heinrich calls for evacuation of Torrance County ICE facility after contract lapse - U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich is demanding answers from federal immigration officials about the continued operation of a New Mexico detention facility despit...
Election Law Blog

“Unilateral Election Administration” - John Martin has posted this article, which is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review and was awarded the AALS Election Law Section’s Distinguished Scholarship...
Raw Story

'Gasps across courtroom' as Trump’s DOJ gets brutal grilling from judge - A federal judge in Virginia on Thursday heard arguments in a bid from former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James to disq...
The Week

Israel jolted by ‘shocking’ settler violence - A wave of brazen attacks on Palestinian communities in the West Bank has prompted a rare public outcry from Israeli officials
NPR's Health Shots

Federal special education staff may get their jobs back. But for how long? - A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted by layoffs.
memeorandum

Vaccine advisory panel set to revisit hepatitis B, other childhood shots next month (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill) - Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill: *Vaccine advisory panel set to revisit hepatitis B, other childhood shots next month* — Health and Human Services Secretar...
OpEd News

Iraqi Parliamentary elections see high voter turnout and new dynamics - This article talks about the latest developments in Iraq and the latest Iraqi parliament elections
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Lawrence O'Donnell gets it right! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025* *Times columnists bring in the snark: *Lawrence O'Donnell has been on fire in the past quite a few weeks. Last night, hol...
Popular Resistance

Mamdani Will Follow The Path Of AOC, Bernie, And Brandon Johnson - The disenfranchised, cast aside people of the US find hope when an AOC, Brandon Johnson, Mamdani and Bernie Sanders campaigns and wins public office. The...
Consortium News

Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech - Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal l...
Eschaton

Best Buds - A little chance for the Crimson to get their digs in. Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers maintained a close personal relationship with convicted...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 years ago - November 20, 2000 ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Meat packers at two slaughterhouses owned by Rosen’s Diversified Inc. are organizing to resist an antiunion offensi...
Texas Observer

Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid - In the early hours of April 1, state and federal police raided a party at an Airbnb in a wealthy Austin suburb, arresting nearly 50 people including nine...
San Antonio Report

Fresh off defeating state THC ban, Texas hemp industry faces wipeout under deal to end shutdown - [image: Luis Maldonado holds up some of the mango mountain flower he grows at his shop.]The issue roiled Texas politics earlier this year when Gov. Greg Ab...
Second Nexus

Fans Concerned After La Toya Jackson Shares Cryptic Videos About Her Health At Doctor's Office - We may not all like the same things or be fans of the same celebrities, music, books, or films, but we all understand the anticipatory grief that comes w...
First Draft

A Conspiracy Of Dunces - I hate conspiracy theories. Yet here we are.
naked capitalism

Venezuela Symbolizes for the U.S. What Palestine Does for Israel - The ideological currents behind U.S. aggression against Venezuela and Israel's war on Palestine are the same: Yoram Hazony's neo-nationalism
WhoWhatWhy

The Only Thing You Need to Know About Arctic Frost - [image: Donald Trump, Supporters, January 6] Republicans don’t want coups to be investigated, but they want to get mad at those who do. The Only Thing You...
Axios

The shutdown may be over, but the damage is not - The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has officially ended, but that doesn't mean the disruptions it caused are over. *Why it matters:* Some of...
Dorf on Law

What Happens When One Party Simply Does Not Care About People? - My column on Tuesday decried the capitulation by eight Senate Democrats that ended the government shutdown earlier this week. Those senators are Catheri...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 13, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Developing nations demand rich countries live up to prom...
Techdirt.

Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private - A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, ...
Socialist Alternative

US-China Trade Summit: Did Xi Jinping Capitulate? - 100 minutes was all that was needed for the two “strongmen” heads of the world’s main superpowers to agree a one-year truce in their long-running trade war...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Doctors and health workers in Greece in national 48-hour stoppage over funding, staff shortages and pay; workers at Iran’s South Pars gas complex strike an...
Infidel753

Moving forward - Now that the Massie discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, there's still a rocky road ahead. The actual demand for the release of the Epstein fil...
San Antonio Current

Gorilla set to relocate to San Antonio dies suddenly - One of the gorillas scheduled to relocate to the San Antonio Zoo’s highly anticipated Congo Falls habitat had died suddenly, zoo officials said. Bachelo...
Houston Public Media

State-ordered investigation into Texas Southern University finances draws scrutiny from local leaders - The school in Houston’s Third Ward is one of the largest historically Black universities in the United States, with more than 8,000 students.
Capital & Main

Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket - Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply. The post ...
Undernews

End of the shutdown - Rep. Mark Pocan - Yes, the government will reopen today. But here’s what won’t happen: No protection for 22M paying more for ACA 15M still losing health...
The Daily Poster

Christmas Came Early (For These Industries) - There’s hidden perks inside the deal to fund the government — not for you, though.
Texas Standard

Deal to reopen the government includes ban that could hit Texas’ hemp industry - A tussle over THC split members of the Texas GOP during the last legislative session.
Deadline Politics

Jim Avila Dies: Former ABC News Senior Correspondent Was 69 - Jim Avila, a longtime correspondent for ABC News and NBC News whose coverage ranged from the White House to immigration to major trials in California and e...
Crooked Media

Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories - The post Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories appeared first on Crooked Media.
Alternet

Melania Trump to appear with president as Epstein files take center stage - First Lady Melania Trump will make a rare appearance with President Donald Trump as the Epstein files crisis continues to take center stage. The Presiden...
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Ballot Access News

Texas Democratic Nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2022 Will Run Again, but as an Independent - Mike Collier, the Texas Democratic Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor in 2022, will run for the same office in 2026, but as an independent. His petition...
Dissident Voice

Zohran Mamdani Will Follow the Path of AOC, Bernie, and Brandon Johnson - The disenfranchised, cast aside people of the US find hope when an AOC, Brandon Johnson, Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders campaigns and wins public offi...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Invest in El Paso’s future with the Downtown Deck Plaza - Other cities show that bold civic projects like the Deck Plaza can transform El Paso’s economy and community far more effectively than short-term fixes....
Common Dreams

New Data Exposes Countries Fueling Genocide in Gaza - Today, at COP30, Oil Change International released a new report, *Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply*, detailing the glo...
Bonddad

Light vehicle sales and transportation of goods: the next recession caution shoe may have dropped - - *by New Deal democrat* Although the temporary continuing resolution was signed last night, reopening the Federal government through January, need...
The Root

4 Shocking Takeaways From Eddie Murphy’s New Netflix Documentary ‘Being Eddie’ - From early fame to private struggles, Eddie Murphy's Netflix Documentary "Being Eddie" reveals a side of Murphy we've never seen before. Read more...
Mother Jones

The Elections Were a Referendum on Energy—And Democrats Won - On the campaign trail in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to halve Americans’ energy bills by January 2026. After his win, his administration pushed ...
SCOTUSblog

States seek clarity on class actions in a post-CASA world - In last term’s Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court curtailed the use of universal injunctions – that is, lower court orders that grant relief to everyone, e...
Krebs on Security

Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad - Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers im...
Glasstire

Top Five: November 13, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Gyula Kosice: Intergalactic Museum of Fine Arts, Housto...
Democracy Now!

Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID - “We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.” We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administratio...
The Conversation

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner’s populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party - Whether Maine’s Graham Platner wins or loses, his campaign to knock off longtime GOP Sen. Susan Collins already points to a deeper question: Can Democrats ...
Space City Weather

They said we were crazy to forecast Thanksgiving weather two weeks out. They were probably right. - In brief: In today’s forecast we talk about our warm weather across the next week, and when it should start to rain again. We also venture into the perilou...
ArcaMax

Dems Won Victory in Defeat - In 1940, Winston Churchill ordered the evacuation of 338,000 troops facing annihilation on the beaches of Dunkirk. Churchill called the successful operatio...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Angry Bear

Spending Cuts Over More Taxes to Cut Deficit - Some of what people favor is ok until they are impacted by increased taxes, spending cuts, and reducing programs. Suggestions politicians and political i...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Snubs US Workers at Mar-a-Lago” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou examine the late child predator Jeffrey E...
The Smirking Chimp

‘I Am the One Able To Take Him Down’: Epstein Bragged to Friends About Power Over Trump -
Ian Welsh

American “AI” Is “No Win” For Society - Let’s lay out the big picture for LLM style AI. It is is statistical prediction of what should be the next word or symbol. That is why it required so much ...
Skeptophilia

The incomplete algorithm - A paper this week in the *Journal of Holography Applications in Physics* left me scratching my head. To get why it's so puzzling -- and why not only I (a...
Off The Kuff

Texas sues Roblox - This is a new one on me. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the online gaming platform Roblox for allegedly exposing children to sexually explicit ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: 2 a.m. in the Sophomore Dorm - The expression “2 a.m. in the sophomore dorm” goes back at least to Usenet days. It refers to overly idealistic ideas and nonsensical proposals that arise ...
Scheerpost.com

Report Exposes Torture Endured by Migrants Trump Sent to El Salvador Prison - “The US government has not been linked to acts of systematic torture on this scale since Abu Ghraib.”
ProPublica

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime - The post “I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

What will it take to rebuild Jamaica’s food system after Hurricane Melissa? - For farmers in the nation’s breadbasket, surviving this storm is no guarantee against the next one.
High Country News

In Mendocino, river restoration pays off for salmon - [image: Along the Albion River in Mendocino County, the California Conservation Corps moves logs and branches into the river.] Coho love the newly ‘messy’...
Earth 911

11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey - After the plates are cleared today, we bet you’ll have at least one thing left... The post 11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey appeared first on Earth9...
Portside

No War, No Distraction, No Flag-Waving Speech Should Bury Trump’s Alleged Crimes - No War, No Distraction, No Flag-Waving Speech Should Bury Trump’s Alleged Crimes Mark Brody Thu, 11/13/2025 - 02:31
Counterpunch

Trump’s Immigration Dragnet Harms All U.S. Workers - The campaign against immigrants puts large swaths of the economy at risk, not merely by decimating the workforce but by depriving the nation of people wi...
jobsanger

The GOP Promise Of A Vote On ACA Subsidies Is Meaningless -
Workers World

PDF of November 13 issue - [image: PDF of November 13 issue] Download the PDF Struggle against National Guard wins in Portland court Boycott Teva campaign Tenants, allies protest des...
See You In 2020

Communism is everything that “rightist” politics pretends to be, & it will save America from destruction - What we must understand about today’s American far right—by which I mean outward neo-Nazism—is that it’s the default path forward for incels. It’s the m...
Informed Comment

Israel’s Desperate Quest to Erase the History of the Gaza Genocide - The perfect little story of a small nation fighting for survival amid ‘hordes of Arabs and Muslims’ is rapidly collapsing.
The AltWorld

The Next Phase Of Germany’s Nord Stream Investigation Might Further Worsen Ties With Poland - Italy’s potential extradition of a Ukrainian suspect to Germany could lead to a highly publicized (and predictably […] The post The Next Phase Of Germany...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Democrats’ failed shutdown tactic in fighting the Trump agenda - Eight Democrat senators voted with the GOP majority to end the shutdown and fund the government, despite the Trump administration’s plan to nearly double t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
The Grayzone

White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show - Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they cle...
Antiwar.com

The Dark Crusade of ‘Little’ Wars - Reprinted from The Realist Review. Large, conventional wars break old structures and change the world around them. They shatter societies and individuals i...
The Greanville Post

Feeling patriotic? TWO Must Re-reads for this Occasion, from the Indispensable Fred Reed - FRED REED—The Ukraine looks, from outside of the Usasphere, to be just another of America’s unending imperial wars. If you follow news from non-Western sou...
ExChristian.Net

Former pastor gets maximum sentence after thousands of child pornography images found - *GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - * A former youth pastor in South Carolina has been sentenced to federal prison after appearing in court on Tue...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
slacktivist

I get knocked down, but I get up again - The one-panel gag from The Onion that sums up all of white evangelical devotion, spirituality, hermeneutics, ethics, piety, and practice.
The Texas Signal

Immigration Policies Take A Toll On The Texas Economy - Almost a quarter of ICE arrests have occurred in Texas, inflicting widespread reverberations on the state's economy
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
DeSmogBlog

Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his ‘Passion’ for Science - Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most a...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Rewire

I Got Birth Control in Three Different Countries—Here’s How the U.S. Stacks Up - Analysis: Intrauterine devices, or IUDs, are an increasingly popular, long-acting contraception. But pain management and cost inhibit many patients in th...
Debunking Christianity

My peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. - My peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. Atheists now have an objective morality without God! 😉 Yay! Cl...
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Environment Texas

Forget Black Friday, join us for National Clothing Swap Day - Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by hosting your own clothing swap for National Clothing Swap Day. The post Forget Black Friday, join us for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Progressive.org

Abortion Restrictions on Young People Cause Trauma - A new report finds young people in states that require parental consent are being forced to remain pregnant or involve unsupportive parents.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The New Censors of College Station: Texas A&M’s regents are trying to ban ideas, not “ideology,” by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - The New Censors of College Station: Texas A&M’s regents are trying to ban ideas, not “ideology.” *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 11, 2025* *The...
Project Censored

#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal age...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Bracing Views

Working Toward Peace - Imagine if Veterans Day Became Obsolete BILL ASTORE NOV 11, 2025 Today is Veterans Day, though of course November 11th was originally Armistice Day to mark...
NORML

Veterans Are Still Being Denied Medical Cannabis Access - [image: A closeup of a military uniform with a cannabis leaf patch on the sleeve representing marijuana and veterans issues][image: A closeup of a milita...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
Sludge

Alcohol Industry Groups Push to Ban THC Drinks in Government Funding Bill - A ban on hemp-derived products with THC was added to the bill reopening the government, pitting Sen. Mitch McConnell against fellow Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul...
Alas, a Blog

What Freedom Looks Like - Another collab between me and Nadine Scholtes. I have a big and overwhelming project with a deadline in just a bit over a month; I don’t expect to be parti...
Crooked Timber

Armistice Day - 114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has continued, in o...
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
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...
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 ...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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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

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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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