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

Mediagazer

American Express launches Amex Ads, a commerce media platform to let brands buy display ads on Amex-owned sites; the ad platform is separate from Amex Offers (Kerry Flynn/Axios) - Kerry Flynn / Axios: *American Express launches Amex Ads, a commerce media platform to let brands buy display ads on Amex-owned sites; the ad platform is...
CultureMap Houston

Chris Shepherd's biggest food festival yet raises $1.7 million - Almost 100 food and beverage professionals from all over the country descended on Houston for this year’s *Southern Smoke Festival*. Held at Discovery Gree...
Daily Dot

“We just realized how stupid this is”: Taylor Swift fans react to her movie theater takeover for “The Life of a Showgirl” - [image: taylor swift life of a showgirl in theaters] Taylor Swift hosts a listening party in movie theaters, dubbed "The Official Release Party of a Show...
Courthouse News

Author Neil Gaiman evades Wisconsin sexual assault case - The judge said the claims belong in the courts of New Zealand, where Gaiman’s former nanny says he repeatedly raped her and called her his “slave.”
memeorandum

Trump says White House will host UFC event on his birthday next summer (Reuters) - Reuters: *Trump says White House will host UFC event on his birthday next summer* — The president counts UFC President Dana White as a close friend and...
Futurism

Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim - "It is scary to think what AI is doing to feed my stalker's delusions." The post Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim appeared first on...
Second Nexus

Authorities Investigating After Home Of South Carolina Judge Who Ruled Against Trump's DOJ Is Destroyed In Explosion - Authorities have launched an investigation after the home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein was destroyed by a fire caused by an expl...
Mediaite

FIREWORKS! Stephen Miller Battles CNN Anchor Over ‘Domestic Terrorism’ in Portland in All-Out Brawl - Stephen Miller brawled with CNN's Boris Sanchez over President Donald Trump's effort to deploy National Guard troops to Portland on Monday. The post FIRE...
Texas Standard

Some in Houston congregation lacking faith in successor to famous pastor - A group calling themselves the Jeremiah Counsel have sued to stop Ben Young from taking over at Second Baptist Church.
Progressive.org

Living with Injustice - Gary Tyler had his life taken away, yet managed to claw it back.
Raw Story

Stephen Miller gets fired up over CNN anchor's challenge: 'You walked right into that!' - A CNN anchor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller got into a fiery exchange Monday afternoon after the anchor challenged him, with Miller...
The Hill

Rural airline service subsidies could expire in days: Trump administration - Smaller airports across the country could face financial hardship as subsidies helping them stay afloat are set to expire Sunday. The Department of Transp...
Wolf Street

Home Prices in the Largest Countries of Europe Range from Splendid Housing Bubbles to a Market that Dropped back to 2010 - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Portugal.
ArcaMax

The mad king’s television - When over the weekend federal Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s National Guard to Portland, Trump said she “sh...
Houston Public Media

Houston-based Occidental Petroleum to sell chemical business to Berkshire Hathaway in nearly $10 billion deal - Occidental said the deal will help the company pay down its debt.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio police chief says he’ll hold accountable those who ‘leaked’ details of mayor’s security detail - 'Protecting the public’s right to know must never come at the cost of compromising safety,' Chief Bill McManus said. The post San Antonio police chief ...
Al Jazeera English

Israel says blind Hezbollah fighter, wife killed in Lebanon car strike - CCTV footage shows the moment an Israeli drone struck a car in southern Lebanon, killing a husband and wife.
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court declines to hear cases on gun laws, American Indian sacred site, and other controversial issues - The Supreme Court on Monday morning issued a long list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Sept. 29. At that conference, sometimes dubbed ...
Undernews

Money - *Newsweek - *In its 2025 Retirement Survey & Insights Report—entitled *New Economics of Retirement*—the investment bank said about 40 percent of America...
Political Wire

Judge Poised to Free Abrego Garcia - “A federal judge said on Monday that she was inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man now being held in U.S. immigration custody ...
American Prospect

Trump’s Peace Plan and Real Estate Deal - Today on TAP: Strong-arming Bibi into a hostage/cease-fire agreement is the easy part.
El Paso Matters

Podcast: El Paso is facing a declining population growth. Could it imperil the city’s future? - New demographic projections show El Paso’s population growth lagging far behind other Texas cities. It’s a slow-moving challenge, but one that can great...
Mondoweiss

Two Years of Genocide: The guilt we live with from the miserable safety of exile - [image: Palestinians celebrate on the third day of Eid al-Adha at a park in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip, July 11, 2022. (Photo: Mohammed Dahman/...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term in December 2026 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space - Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship In a lifetime studying the behavior...
Slate

The Supreme Court’s First Blockbuster Case This Term Looks Pretty Fake - On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a case that seeks to undo a major triumph of the LGBTQ+ movement.
slacktivist

America’s heel turn celebrated with its own Loonie - MAGA is rendering unto Caesar, and Caesar is zip-tying toddlers and carting them away in vans.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: David French, in search of hope! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2025* *Reconciliation: *A gloomy guest essay appeared in Sunday's New York Times. "The West Is Lost," the headline said. All in all, ...
Popular Resistance

International Institutions Failing Palestine, People Must Stop Genocide - This week marks two years since the launch of Al Aqsa Flood and the beginning of the Israeli Occupying Forces' escalated genocide of Palestinians and for...
The Week

AI workslop is muddying the American workplace - Using AI may create more work for others
WhoWhatWhy

Science Teachers Scramble as US Climate Resources Vanish - [image: climate crisis, global warming, U.S. government resources, science teachers, education challenge] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

Gaza Outrage at Trump’s ‘Governor Blair’ Plan - The return of this name to the scene in Gaza signals the return of the same policies that set the Middle East on fire, writes Shaimaa Eid. By Shaimaa Eid i...
NPR's Health Shots

The CDC says people must consult a health professional before COVID shot - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to tighten guidelines for the COVID va...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Bari Weiss, CBS News, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Same Old - David Ellison is installing Bari Weiss as the new EIC of CBS News, paying $150 million for her publication The Free Press. She will likely handle hasbara f...
First Draft

When ICE Freezes Long Overdue Justice - After spending over 40 years in jail due to a false murder conviction, Subu Vedam is back in custody, thanks to Trump's SS.
Techdirt.

Senator Cruz Figure Out Who Was President From 2018 To 2020 Challenge; Impossible - I have a simple question for Senator Ted Cruz: Who was president in 2018? How about 2020? I ask because Cruz just released a “bombshell” report claiming th...
The Grayzone

New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans - Israel’s former top general sought donations from David Ellison and his father, Larry, as part of a billionaire coterie to fund digital paramilitaries ai...
The Verge

OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT - OpenAI is introducing a way to work with apps right inside ChatGPT. The idea is that, from within a conversation with the chatbot, you can essentially tag ...
Deadline Politics

Jafar Panahi May Be Stateside Soon For NYFF Love, Academy Screening & Theatrical Release Of His Palme D’Or Winner ‘It Was Just An Accident’ - Neon is hopeful that Jafar Panahi will be Stateside as early as Tuesday after an ongoing U.S. government shutdown slowed his visa causing him to miss a bus...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 216: “Cartooning the News” - LIVE 2:00 noon Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: Conservative Scott Stantis has been the editorial cartoonist for the Chicago...
Salon.com

Bari Weiss takes reins at CBS News - The editor-in-chief outlined her editorial priorities in her first memo to staff
Church and State

‘Progressive Pronatalism’ Is an Oxymoron: How Arguments Buying Into the Low-Fertility Panic Fail Women - Progressives and feminists should be trumpeting declining birth rates and aging demographics as positive trends.
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Vox

Is Israel’s war in Gaza actually about to end? - Israel and Hamas will begin indirect talks in Egypt on Monday after Hamas said it would accept parts of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including...
Election Law Blog

New York: “Printing error led to filled-in absentee ballots being sent to Rush voters” - WROC: A printing error led to absentee voters in Rush receiving ballots that were already filled out. Over the last couple of weeks, 33 residents in Rus...
Texas Observer

‘I Got a Lot of People Believing in Me’: Robert Roberson Stares Down Death, Again - What are set to be the final days of Robert Roberson’s life will be busy. He has lots of people to see before his October 16 execution date. He’ll meet ...
Eschaton

Or You Are Not Aware of the Caliber of Disaster - I see no problems. AI companies have accounted for 80 per cent of the gains in US stocks so far in 2025. That is helping to fund and drive US growth, as t...
World Socialist Web Site

Behind Britain’s housing crisis—the financialisation of housing and the rise of the rentier class - Land is no longer just a factor of production; it’s a speculative store of wealth. It has fundamentally reshaped the UK economy, making housing—both rented...
Angry Bear

Estimated Initial and Continuing Claims Last Week Continued in the Neutral Range - I can not drop the f-bomb here as it would not be looked at kindly by most. It is no surprise to me, New Deal democrat doing additional work to present o...
ExChristian.Net

How Did I Ever Believe Christianity Was True? - Lately, I’ve been asking myself a question that feels both embarrassing and profound: *How could I have possibly believed that the claims of Christianity ...
Common Dreams

Trump’s Latest Insult to Social Security: A Part-Time Commissioner - The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on this morning’s *announcement* that Social Security Commissioner Fr...
Axios

Social Security chief to be IRS CEO - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has appointed Frank Bisignano, who runs the Social Security Administration, to also head up the Internal Revenue Service...
The Daily Poster

Big Tech Does ICE’s Bidding - At Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request, Apple is preventing communities from sharing information about ICE raids.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
Daily Cartoonist

Tank McNaMarmaduke - Didn’t notice it on yesterday’s Marmaduke, but it was a bit more obvious today. The kids in today’s Marmaduke looked familiar but not Marmaduke familiar. A...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
The Progressive Wing

Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
Dissident Voice

Europe’s Staged Panic over False Flag Non-Russian Drones? - Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good rea...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Alfred W. McCoy, A Dying American Empire, "Rotten to the Heart"? - In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American ...
The Root

How the Internet is Brutally Roasting Diddy for Thinking He’d Walk Out of Sentencing Hearing a Free Man - Diddy was reportedly so confident he'd walk out of prison he had speaking engagements booked in Miami. Now, the internet is trolling him for the audacity...
Glasstire

Unabashed Courage on Display at the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Galleries - In 2022, I wrote a catalog essay for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program – Round 2 exhibition held at Centro ...
The NM Political Report

Anti-Exxon protestors removed from Balloon Fiesta after daring visitors to drink fake ‘produced water’ - [image: Protestors with WildEarth Guardians and The Yes Men during a satirical protest at AIBF] [image: Protestors with WildEarth Guardians and The Yes Me...
Bonddad

Using tabulated State data, estimated initial and continuing claims last week continued in neutral range - - *by New Deal democrat* As we all know, initial and continuing jobless claims were not reported last Thursday. Which, by the way, is interesting, b...
Rewire

Prosecutors Charged Hundreds With Pregnancy-Related Child Abuse Crimes Post-‘Dobbs,’ Research Shows - Nearly three dozen cases were brought against people who miscarried or delivered stillborns, a Pregnancy Justice report found. The post Prosecutors Charg...
Mother Jones

It’s Time for Soft Secession - In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the popul...
Democracy Now!

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts - Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr....
Space City Weather

Hints of cooler weather in our forecast eventually; and everything you need to know about our big Fall Day event - In brief: Houston’s late summer heat will continue this week, but a modest front should bring some drier air by Thursday or Friday. We have a chance of a s...
Earth 911

Guest Opinion: Turning the Tide—How Land and Water Shape Our Climate Future - Storms rage. The air is warmer. The earth beneath our feet dries and, instead of... The post Guest Opinion: Turning the Tide—How Land and Water Shape Our...
Dorf on Law

Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban Comes to SCOTUS Tomorrow: Are There Implications for Gender-Affirming Talk Therapy? - The Supreme Court officially begins its new Term today with two relatively small-ball cases. The real action begins tomorrow, when the Court will hear ar...
The Smirking Chimp

The Mad King's Television -
Skeptophilia

The creative relationship - Ernest Hemingway famously said, "There isn’t any symbolism in *The Old Man and the Sea*. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a b...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 6 October 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] What a waste of a "revolution". Men have a choice, thou...
Scheerpost.com

Glenn Greenwald: Trump’s Alarming Domestic Terrorism Memo (w/ Ken Klippenstein) - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Crooked Media

Something Wicked This Way Comes: A SCOTUS Term Preview - The post Something Wicked This Way Comes: A SCOTUS Term Preview appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Alejandra Salinas - We move this week into Houston City Council At Large #4, one of two special elections on my ballot (and yours if you’re in CD18), to fill the seat left vac...
Grist

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it. - Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.
ProPublica

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them. - by Ashley Hiruko, KUOW This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with KUOW public radio. Sign up for Dispatches ...
High Country News

The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - [image: The Tartesso housing development at the edge of the desert in Buckeye, Arizona.] A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of home...
Portside

Potential Changes to Social Security Disability Insurance - Potential Changes to Social Security Disability Insurance Ira Mon, 10/06/2025 - 03:12
Counterpunch

Two Years of Genocide in Gaza, Seventy-Seven Years of Denial - Following the revolt of the besieged against their jailors on October 7, 2023, the Zionist hasbara machine mobilized across the world to impose a false n...
The AltWorld

Five Reasons Why The Latest Czech Elections Were So Important - This could most significantly provide the domestic political basis for reviving the Visegrad Group. Populist-nationalist politician Andrej […] The post F...
Ian Welsh

Israeli Actions Encourage the Formation of the Coalition That Will Ultimately Defeat It - ~by Sean Paul Kelley A little lesson in history is in order to understand why Israel remains dominant in the Middle East and continues to wage war against ...
jobsanger

What Will We Tell Our Children If We Allow Our Democracy To End? -
Informed Comment

“The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:18 - Stanza 18 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the last in the series that emphasizes the impermanence of royal glor...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Pictures - Famously Hot SC Pride a huge success & reminder that the LGBTQ community won't be made invisible - Famously Hot SC Pride, returned Saturday for its 36th year in my state of South Carolina. As always, it was a fun time had by all. And it was definitely ...
Antiwar.com

Tony Blair and the Gaza Trap: Continued Colonial Control Disguised as ‘Transition’ - Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Gaza is an occupied territory. Its borders, airspace, imports, exports, and even calories are controlle...
Trivial Knot

Origami: 2nd Brillouin Zone of the fcc structure - So let’s talk about photo organization. I have 13 years of origami photos, and every month on this blog I select one to share. How do I avoid publishing ...
Reform Austin

Conservatives Criticize Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Selection - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is among a group of conservatives voicing criticism over the ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas NAACP and Faith Leaders Launch“Building The Beloved Community”Initiative to Reclaim Civic Dialogue and Protect Dignity Across Texas Sept. 22, 2025 - *Friends:* *So glad to see this happening. And how timely! * *On the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe call...
Claytoonz

Conspiracy Bed - 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...
Duck of Minerva

The Mirage of Great-Power Competition - Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called “Remember ‘Great Power Competition?’ Lol.” As the “Grand Strategy” of Trump 2.0 comes into ...
Ballot Access News

Supreme Court of Oklahoma to Hear Legal Challenge to Senate Bill 1027, Which Was Passed Earlier This Year to Make Initiative Petitioning More DIfficult - The lawsuit will be heard in the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday, November 18, 2025. Here is a link to a story with a video interview of Oklahoma politic...
Debunking Christianity

Robert G. Ingersoll On the Necessity of Belief - David Madison's post this past Friday summarizes the many authors and voices of unbelief, starting with a quote from Ingersoll. Here's another fantastic qu...
San Antonio Report

University Health heart clinic focuses on women’s cardiovascular health - In May, University Health opened a center focused on women's heart health with a focus on cardiovascular complications during pregnancy. -------------------...
Alternet

Trump's online behavior tells us he 'can't hold a thought together': analysis - In an article for the Guardian published Sunday Adam Gabbatt noted that President Donald Trump’s recent online behavior — especially the sharing of bizar...
Web of Debt

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

Sunday 'Shutshow' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... ...THE WEEK AFTER?... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial c...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Marseillan - [image: Marseillan]
Idavox

An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US - ICE’s is getting worse and people are not putting up with it. That was shown... The post An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US appeared first ...
See You In 2020

The KKE/Trotskyist effort to redefine imperialism, & how it undermines the global workers struggle - To win the debate against the KKE’s “neither Washington nor Beijing” camp, what we need to focus on is the role of finance capital. Specifically what pu...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GLIMMERS IN THE GLOOM EDITION. - *Still hits.* A day late on ‘Round-the-Horn, sorry, had to hang some cup hooks. (Many years ago I did a newsletter for the Ogivy ad agency and got to loo...
The Conversation

Hamas has run out of options – survival now rests on accepting Trump’s plan and political reform - The Palestinian militant group has said it accepts some of President Trump’s proposed peace plan – but will it go all the way?
The Greanville Post

Seeds of Catholic Totalitarian Rule Against Pagans - BRUCE LERRO—Catholic totalitarianism attempted to control people by anxiety, fear and hatred of life. Let us return to the sixteen characteristics of pagan...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part III: You cannot understand what is happening in our present crisis without wrestling with the effects of the corporate...
Workers World

Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal - [image: Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal] Resistance News Network posted the following Hamas Movement’s response to the proposal from Pre...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
The Texas Signal

Texas Vignette Returns For A Seventh Year - A groundbreaking woman-only artist art fair runs again this weekend in its new permanent facility in the Dallas Design District
Independent Political Report

New York Libertarians to Hold 2026 Nominating Convention in October - The Libertarian Party of New York will meet later this month for its 2026 nominating convention, where members will select a slate of candidates for stat...
The Militant

Destruction of Hamas is key to ending threat of new Holocaust - On Sept. 29, President Donald Trump announced his 20-point plan to end the fighting in Gaza. It would take Israel’s defensive war to decisively defeat Hama...
Lowering the Bar

Court: Complaint That Spends 79 Pages Praising the Client Shall Be Rewritten - Not the "short and plain statement" Rule 8 requires, and also irritating.
Capital & Main

Repairing the Future - Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations. The post Repairing the Future ap...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
Earthworks

New Mexico Bonding: Holding Oil and Gas Financially Accountable - New Mexico is a land where world-class biodiversity meets millennia of cultural heritage, with more than 20 national parks and … The post New Mexico Bon...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Extract Demonstrates Superiority Over Opioids in Patients With Chronic Back Pain - [image: cannabis oil extract][image: cannabis oil extract]"These results affirm the longstanding experiences of patients, many of whom either reduce or e...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Leading Off - The post Leading Off appeared first on D Magazine.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/03/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Environment Texas

Keep an eye out for monarchs - Monarch butterflies have begun their migration to warmer weather The post Keep an eye out for monarchs appeared first on Environment Texas.
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Asmaa and Her Daughters - Help a displaced mother and her little girls.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Missouri House Map - Missouri Republicans recently passed a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give them an additional seat in the state's House delegation. We are assuming t...
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
Bracing Views

Fat Generals Are the Problem! - Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2025 The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the a...
Dissent Magazine

The Battle Over Civil Society - An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
Greg Palast

Mom would’ve kicked Pete Hegseth’s a** - On Tuesday, our newly-dubbed “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth told our military’s top brass that they must restore the "male warrior spirit" to the armed fo...
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 ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Laughter from the Empyrean - Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is c...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
Liberation News

Assata Shakur (1947 – en adelante) - Miramos su vida para fortalecernos. Llevamos sus palabras como afirmación. Continuamos su legado como promesa para el futuro.
The Rag Blog

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

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
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...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
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.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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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