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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff alleges sporting goods retailer sold defective ammunition leading to injury - Luke Marberry has taken legal action against several companies including Academy Sports and Outdoors after suffering severe injuries from a defective sho...
The Week

5 triple threat cartoons about Trump's third term - Artists take on the 22nd Amendment, Barack Obama, and more
Mediagazer

A look at the inroads made by China, Russia, and Turkey in Africa's information ecosystem and the void they will fill now that VOA has been silenced (Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute) - Gretel Kahn / Reuters Institute: *A look at the inroads made by China, Russia, and Turkey in Africa's information ecosystem and the void they will fill n...
Al Jazeera English

Verstappen wins F1 Japanese GP ahead of Norris, Piastri - The reigning world champion held off McLaren's Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to claim his 64th career GP victory.
Glasstire

Dallas Invitational Art Fair Changes Venues for 2025 Iteration; Establishes Acquisition Fund for the Modern - The Dallas Invitational, which has been held at the Fairmont Hotel for the last two years, has relocated to the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek for its ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: flamingos at Maguelone - [image: Flamingos at Maguelone]
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Britain needn’t be cowed by wrecking-ball Trump, it should seize opportunities in Europe, Canada and beyond | Will Hutton - Keir Starmer can help redefine global trade while strengthening new – and old – alliances ‘Liberation Day” was, of course, a tragic idiocy based on a bew...
Counterpunch

Understanding Israel’s Impunity - Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir Clancy. Image by Levi Meir...
memeorandum

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging (Angie Orellana Hernandez/Washington Post) - Angie Orellana Hernandez / Washington Post: *Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging* — An emergency order removes protec...
Daily Cartoonist

Sunday Morning Reads - Art Spiegelman biography and career timeline As a prelude to their airing of the Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse documentary on April 15, 2025 PBS pres...
jobsanger

About 1.5% Of ICE Arrests Are U.S. Citizens -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1348: Castel Del Monte - Episode: 1348 Castel del Monte: in which Frederick II plays with geometry. Today, we wonder why a castle was built.
First Draft

George Benson North Sea Jazz Festival Live - Going Dutch with George Benson.
Informed Comment

“The American Spring:” Trump is increasingly Like Middle East Rulers who were Overthrown - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nationwide “Hands Off!” rallies were held in over 1,200 towns and cities, in every single state of the Union on Saturday, st...
Deadline Politics

‘SNL’ Takes A Swipe At Morgan Wallen & God’s Country, Tesla Vandalism & Trump’s “Historically Awesome” Tariffs Speech In Cold Open - A week after Morgan Wallen stalked off Saturday Night Live, the NBC late-nighter made sure the door hit the hit the “I’m the Problem” singer on the way out...
The Hill

DOJ lawyer who criticized admin over Maryland man's deportation placed on leave - The Department of Justice (DOJ) placed one of its senior immigration lawyers, who criticized the Trump administration over mistakenly deporting a Maryland ...
Daily Dot

‘Change your address’: Man wants to buy BMW M3 Competition. Then his insurance company shocks him with the car note - [image: 2 panel image: on the left a person makes a shocked face and on the right the BMW M3 Competiton hood ornament.] Car insurance providers alter the...
Raw Story

MAGA activists are asking why no 'arrests' have been made over fraud sniffed out by DOGE - Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have claimed to have found fraud, so why haven't any arrests been made? That's the question on the ...
Popular Resistance

Restoring Lies And Insanity To American History - President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian reg...
WhoWhatWhy

Banning Marine Le Pen From Future French Elections Could Backfire - [image: Marine Le Pen, inaugurating, Brigitte Bardot street] France’s far right National Rally is expected to cry foul after its charismatic leader, Marine...
ArcaMax

Absolute Power Brings Economic Catastrophe - Everyone should have known what was about to happen when Donald Trump announced huge global tariffs under the slogan "Make America Wealthy Again." Like "Ma...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Rock on.
Wolf Street

Inventories of Existing Homes in Florida Spike in March to Highest since at Least 2016, Massive Jumps in Tampa, Miami, Orlando, as Buyers Are on Strike - These sellers have to compete with inventory of new houses that in the South is now above Housing Bust highs.
Election Law Blog

“‘Hands Off!’ protesters across US rally against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk” - CNN: Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a ...
Political Wire

GOP Lawmaker Flip Flops on Stock Trades - Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. (R-PA), “who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in ...
Mediaite

James Carville Opens Nominations for Crowdsourced Trump ‘Collaborators’ List Who He’s ‘NOT’ Saying Should Have Their Heads Shaved and Be ‘Spit On’ - The Democrat and cable news regular invited public nominations to his list of the "treasonous" people "collaborating" with the Trump "regime." The post Ja...
Rio Grande Guardian

Guardian: Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession - The junior senator from Texas made his comments on his Verdict podcast on Friday, writes Edward Helmore in The Guardian. The post Guardian: Cruz warns o...
The Greanville Post

The graver Israel’s atrocities in Gaza, the quieter the BBC grows - JON. COOK—Even the usual excuses, as preposterous as they are, simply won’t wash in the case of Israel’s latest atrocity - which is why it initially tried ...
World Socialist Web Site

Over 1 million protest across the US against Trump’s efforts to establish a fascist dictatorship - Tens of thousands of people protested in every single state in the US on Saturday, while thousands more demonstrated in cities across Europe.
Mother Jones

You Can Stop Asking Where the Mass Opposition Is. It’s Everywhere. - It is a cliche to begin a story about a rally with a quote from a funny sign, but one small piece of floppy brown cardboard floating down 40th Street in Ma...
The Verge

Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models - Meta has announced Llama 4, its newest collection of AI models that now power the Meta AI assistant on the web and in WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. T...
Axios

Bessent seeks tax cut as big summer win - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's tax-cut negotiators say big progress has been made on Capitol Hill, and are optimistic about final passage by summer d...
The Root

A Look At Samuel L. Jackson’s Homes Over the Years - After spending decades in Hollywood, legendary actor Samuel L. Jackson has made a name for himself on the big screen and, surprisingly, in the real estat...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (4.5.25) - Just one, from a school principal in a small town in upstate New York.
Scheerpost.com

The Brutality of American Interference (w/ Joel Whitney) - Right-wing fascistic elements in the U.S. government are running similar scripts to the 20th century purging of left-wing groups and people in America and ...
Portside

Ending Militarism in America - Ending Militarism in America Kurt Stand Sat, 04/05/2025 - 18:07
Claytoonz

MAGA Tariff - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Mondoweiss

Trump is playing a dangerous game with Iran - [image: Donald Trump at a United Nations event on Religious Freedom Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. (Photo: Sh...
Alternet

'Knuckled under': Conservative wallops DC firms for letting Trump 'dictate' to them - During his second term, President Donald Trump is aggressively attacking major law firms for representing his political foes. Trump's tactic is to remove...
San Antonio Report

‘Moon tree’ helps San Antonio College boost STEM, urban agriculture - A tree germinated from a seed ferried aboard NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was planted in a memorial garden near the Scobee Education Center. -------------------...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: March 30th – April 5th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the COVID news continued. Some hospital administrators were trying to silence doctors and nurses from commenting on pande...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Trump Opened the Door: Audio From A Collapsing State - The destruction of Neoliberal Globalism was the moment we were waiting for. It's here.
Futurism

Tesla Stock Is Crashing Real Bad - The world economy is reeling today as businesses and investors try to unpack Donald Trump's so-called "reciprocal tariffs." Trump aims to curb the United...
Liberation News

Protesting genocide is not a crime! - Whether or not Trump can get away with this assault on First Amendment rights will set the tone for his entire time in office.
Salon.com

Think before bailing out of the stock market, experts say - As Wall Street reels from Trump's trade war, here's what investors can do to reduce their risk
El Paso Matters

Book by El Paso author Ron Stallworth among 381 pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI crackdown - The Naval Academy removed the books under an executive order aimed at K-12 schools. The post Book by El Paso author Ron Stallworth among 381 pulled from...
CultureMap Houston

Dallas Tex-Mex staple's sudden Houston shutter leads our top 5 stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week. In addition to culinary accolades, this week's top stories include a Tex-Mex sh...
Dissident Voice

Tune in - Why does legacy news media need people to tune in? The post Tune in first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Space City Weather

Some strong or isolated severe storms around Houston this afternoon, then much cooler - In brief: Showers and storms will cross the Houston area through mid-afternoon, with some possibly on the stronger or even severe side. Hail and gusty wind...
Undernews

Just a reminder - [image: Image]
Slate

Seven Years Into Legal Sports Betting, We’re Seeing It for What It Is - We’re seeing that a lot of reforms that sound good are destined to fail.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 1 - 5 at Seeking Alpha, + an update of the “quick and dirty” recession indicator - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. You may be surprised to learn that despite the 10%+ stock market crash ...
Common Dreams

AFSCME’s Saunders: As the economy sinks, senators vote to further enrich billionaires - AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after the Senate passed a budget plan that opens the door to massive cuts to public servic...
The Militant

‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’ - SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched hi...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: One more day on something uplifting and good! - *SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2025* *Last thoughts about two books:* In this particular line of endeavor, it's the rare day when you get to consider something upli...
Reform Austin

Funding Cuts Fuel Texas Measles Crisis - Amidst severe federal funding reductions Texas confronts an extreme measles outbreak creating a dual crisis situation. Local health departments face seve...
The Progressive Wing

3/5-8 News Roundup and Open Thread - Lot of April showers here this weekend.
Debunking Christianity

Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Bible: - Debunking Christianity Article: |. Video: The 3rd Creation Account in the Old Testament: The 3rd Creation Account in the Old Testament: Introduction: Jen...
Progressive.org

‘Usted Tiene Derechos Constitucionales’: Los Inmigrantes se Preparan Para las Redadas del ICE en el Norte de Virginia - Con las deportaciones masivas de la Administración Trump en marcha, las comunidades de inmigrantes y los defensores están tomando medidas para protegerse.
Grist

Closures of EPA’s regional environmental justice offices will hurt rural America - Former EPA employees warn that rural and underserved communities across the country will be left with fewer protections against environmental health hazard...
Dorf on Law

How to Break a Judiciary, Part 3: What is to be Done? - *Guest Essay by Alyssa King* In the previous installments in this series (here and here), I described dangers to the independence and effectiveness of th...
Vox

Could an inexpensive vaccine help stave off dementia? - Anyone who has watched a loved one descend into the fog of dementia knows the tremendous toll that neurodegenerative diseases of aging can exact. Dementia...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Elon Goes Home Empty-Handed - A state court seat is not for sale, lawmakers tackle surveillance pricing, journalists won’t be silenced, and states ban political deepfakes.
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Restoring Lies to US History - Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue tame - – by New Deal democrat This week initial jobless claims declined -6,000 to 219,000. The four week moving average declined -1,250 to 223,000. With the typ...
naked capitalism

Links 4/5/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Buckle In’: Expert Warns of ‘Classic Inflationary Spiral’ As Trump Move Forebodes ‘Disaster Scenario’ -
Skeptophilia

Rough neighborhood - Most likely all of you know about Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It's hard to talk about it...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: We’re already making this harder on ourselves - Here’s your weekend update. The measles outbreak centered in the South Plains region soared past a combined 500 cases in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma on ...
American Prospect

New Jersey Continues to Add Abortion Protections - State reproductive rights advocates view a stockpile as one of a number of ways to protect access.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-04-05 -
NPR's Health Shots

'Your RIF notice is not cancelled.' Inside a chaotic week of massive layoffs at HHS - Health agency staffers describe a week of chaos and continued uncertainty about who still has a job and how the work will get done. To many it's the opposi...
ProPublica

Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - [image: Open Thread] Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts!
Infidel753

Link round-up for 5 April 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Enjoy some bad art from the Middle Ages. Behold the works of stupid peopl...
Crooked Media

Martha v. Meghan and SNL v. God - The post Martha v. Meghan and SNL v. God appeared first on Crooked Media.
See You In 2020

Proliferating labor Zionism, enforcing imperial control: how the U.S. workers movement became co-opted - *This is from Chapter 3 of the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: How the U.S. Pro-Palestine Movement Failed to Stop a ...
Workers World

Texas mobilizes to defend migrants - [image: Texas mobilizes to defend migrants] Dallas The force of anti-deportation and pro-immigrant sentiment swept through Dallas like a whirlwind on March...
Rewire

Federal Health and Science Agencies Take Funding, Workforce Hits - Plus, Wisconsin rebukes Elon Musk, some health agency layoffs could be accidental, and girl… the Trump tariffs… The post Federal Health and Science Agenc...
Sludge

Republicans Push SAVE Act Vote, Potentially Disenfranchising Millions - The bill is being applauded by the Heritage Foundation and “dark money”-funded groups tied to Leonard Leo.
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #167 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: things are getting stupider all the time.
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Trump to halt millions in teacher training grants - [image: Supreme Court allows Trump to halt millions in teacher training grants] [image: Supreme Court allows Trump to halt millions in teacher training gra...
Texas Standard

Massage therapist grounds practice with blend of modern techniques and traditional Mesoamerican medicine - “There’s a shift in wanting to explore this side of our ancestry – wanting to let people know that we are still here, that we still practice this way, that...
alicublog

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EMPIRE BUSTERS EDITION. - *What say we just vibe on into the weekend?* *And the winner is… Crash! * My mother had a saying for times like this: “Who did it and ran?” I thought of...
Ballot Access News

Eric Adams Will Run For Re-Election as an Independent - New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on April 3 that he will run for re-election in November 2025 as an independent.
Idavox

VIDEO: Former White Supremacists Scott Kelly Ernest & Tyler DiPeppe – Ridgewood, NJ 4/3/2025 - This was the first time we ever met Scott Kelly Ernest even though we have... The post VIDEO: Former White Supremacists Scott Kelly Ernest & Tyler DiPep...
Capital & Main

With the Destruction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Fraud Victim ‘Not Hopeful’ He’ll Be Refunded - Agency charged with protecting consumers drops high-profile fraud cases, leaving victims in limbo. The post With the Destruction of the Consumer Financia...
The NM Political Report

FBI Albuquerque, federal prosecutors seize cryptocurrency allegedly meant for Hamas - [image: Flickr/cc] By Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico The U.S. government announced last week that two confidential informants and an FBI special agent b...
Church and State

Trump’s trade war is underway; no doubt, dangerous! - Trump has announced a shakeup of world trade with percentages against various nations, difficult to determine as to their origin.
Texas Observer

House Committee Passes ‘Texas Two Step’ of Vouchers and Public Ed Funding - After hours of intense debate on Thursday, the Texas House Public Education Committee passed altered versions of its marquee education legislation this s...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA 2025: THE FINAL - HERE. WE. GO.
The Conversation

The hidden power of marathon Senate speeches: What history tells us about Cory Booker’s 25-hour oration - In some cases, long Senate speeches don’t produce clear results. In other cases, they can help pass or prevent new legislation.
Second Nexus

Kellyanne Conway Just Tried To Give Trump's Tariffs A Positive Rebrand—And Nobody's Buying It - President Donald Trump's former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was criticized after she tried to put a positive spin on Trump's tariffs after the...
DeSmogBlog

Stephen Harper Shares Stage with Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg - Canadians wondering how seriously Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives would deal with the climate emergency will find timely clues from the other side of th...
Krebs on Security

Cyber Forensic Expert in 2,000+ Cases Faces FBI Probe - A Minnesota cybersecurity and computer forensics expert whose testimony has featured in thousands of courtroom trials over the past 30 years is facing ques...
Texas Monthly

Thanks to the Crazy Water Hotel, Mineral Wells Is a Must-Visit Town Once Again - Since the Crazy Water Hotel first opened in 1913, it's served as a celebrity hot spot, a hospital, and a care facility. More than a century later, it's bac...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 111: “Car-azy: Tariffs, Ford Price Cuts and Tesla Attacks” - Streaming 10 AM Eastern & 8 AM Mountain time + Streaming Afterwards: Ted Rall and Manila Chan welcome auto industry expert Lauren Fix to dissect the impa...
Bracing Views

Wars Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Dead - W.J. Astore On Ending Militarism in America Also at TomDispatch.com I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on on...
Democracy Now!

"Can't Look Away": New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids - *Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media* is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of big tech companies and t...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Doing Just Fine? - A sustainable life doesn’t mean an impoverished existence, it creates abundance by eliminating waste. Stewart... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Doing Jus...
The Disorder Of Things

Governing the Feminist Peace to Deflect from Decolonial Peace in Africa - This third contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Mohamed Sesay. Mohamed is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Af...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

April 3, 2025 Update on the Crucial Work of Texas AAUP and Texas AFT in the Texas Legislature - *Friends,* *I can't say enough about the excellent leadership we have in Texas fighting the good fight for higher education, meaning the right to learn, ...
Antiwar.com

Europe’s Misguided Interventions - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congrat...
Brad Blog

'Mob Boss' Trump's Global Trade Sanctions Tank U.S., World Markets: 'BradCast' 4/3/2025 - Who coulda foreseen it? Oh, yeah. Everybody in the world other than the idiot who did it and his weird cult followers working desperately to justify it tod...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Hot Mess Mace - a look back at Nancy Mace's embarrassing transphobia as charges against advocate she accused of assaulting her are dropped - When Congresswoman Nancy Mace had a pro-trans advocate arrested for merely shaking her hand, she faced a huge onslaught of social media ridicule such as t...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 4, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio April 4, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/04/2025 - 05:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Texas Signal

How A Film Incentive Bill Cruised A Senate Committee Vote - The Texas star power of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson helped advance a bill meant to increase film and television incentives in the state
Eater Houston

Where to Enjoy Dinner, Drinks, and Live Entertainment in Houston - [image: People stand while watching two men perform on stage.] No dull dinners or drinks here. | Matchless Exposure Here’s where to jam out to jazz, roma...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICS OF MEDICINE / They are trying to hide the future cuts to Medicaid - This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted by DonkeyHotey from a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Michael Vadon’s Flickr photostream. By Michael Meero...
Bud Kennedy

In ‘largest red county’ in U.S., Tarrant Democrats struggle with cash, candidates | Opinion - For once, some Democrats are being careful with money. So naturally, that comes as a shock. The low-profile Tarrant County Democratic Party made headlines ...
Dissent Magazine

The Degradation of Big Law - By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administra...
NORML

Ohio: Governor’s Proposed Doubling of Marijuana Sales Tax Nixed - [image: Ohio marijuana][image: Ohio marijuana]NORML has consistently lobbied against the proposed hikes, arguing that increasing taxes will unduly burden...
Project Censored

“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now - If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country wou...
The AltWorld

Yemen under fire for opposing genocide, Israel bombs apartment block in Beirut while civilians sleeping - *Trump is pummelling Yemen but the Resistance is still standing, Israel is violating international law on all […] The post Yemen under fire for opposing ...
High Country News

The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts - [image: Workers adorn Leatherman the mule with a Forest Service beanie.] Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in t...
Seeing the Forest

The Trump Tariffs - This is the MAGA plan to re-align the world’s economy, of course with the US oligarchs on top. I see it as the product of the same arrogance as this famous...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid: The Ideological Foundations of White Working Class Republicanism - While the state of the economy was likely an important factor in the 2024 presidential election and other recent contests, discontent over economic condi...
LareDOS

TAMIU’s Harmony Across Borders performance features Dr. Fritz Gechter, Dr. Yu-Mei Huang, and Dr. Xiaohu Zhou - April 5 concert free and open to the public; 3 p.m. at Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall
Ecosophia

Parsifal: The Solution Assessed - As we saw two weeks ago, Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal makes use of most of the same symbols as The Ring of the Nibelung, and thus provides a mordan...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Jagged Bomb - I’m going to the East Bay Origami Convention this weekend! I’ll be teaching this model. I specifically designed the model in order to teach it. Normally,...
The Grayzone

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal - Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war ef...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
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...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
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...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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