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

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6

— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV

— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M

— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6

— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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  • Southeast Texas Record
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  • Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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  • CPI's Danger in the Air
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  • Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
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  • New Progressive Alliance
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  • Robert Reich
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  • Grits for Breakfast
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  • Right Wing Watch
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  • Dos Centavos
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  • Morning Consult
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  • TXElects
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  • CT's short stories and novelettes
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  • The Intercept
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  • The Stars Hollow Gazette
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  • Texas Environmental News
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  • One People's Project
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  • Caitlin Johnstone
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  • So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)
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  • Lawfare
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  • Think 3 Institute
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  • IVN
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  • Modern Democracy
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  • The Metaphor Project
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  • Truthout
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  • Splinter
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