Brains and Eggs: Sunday "It's Not Funny" 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

The Guardian (U.S. news)

US man stabbed bakery owners over sandwich bought years ago, police say - Suspect allegedly stabbed New Jersey brothers Abed and Mohammed Assad because they gave him eggplant not egg A knife-wielding man recently slashed and st...
Eschaton

Go, Kathy, Go - She isn't always Good, but she can be appropriately aggressive at times. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) vowed Monday to explore “every option” to redraw t...
memeorandum

Joseph McCarthy's War on Voice of America (Daniel Golden/Columbia Journalism Review) - Daniel Golden / Columbia Journalism Review: *Joseph McCarthy's War on Voice of America* — A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution fr...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones affirms public be able to speak on Project Marvel study - Despite rescheduling a City Council meeting about a controversial Project Marvel economic impact study, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones late Sunday told Current th...
The Verge

One of the biggest newsletter platforms now syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon - Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon. With Ghost’s free soc...
Mediaite

Ex-Trump Supporter Andrew Schulz Fumes at the President Over Another Broken Promise: ‘You Don’t Break Your Word’ - On Sunday night, Schulz hit Trump for not fulfilling his promise to help make IVF more affordable for Americans in need of the fertility treatment. The p...
Al Jazeera English

Gunfire heard near GHF aid site in Gaza - Video shows gunfire hitting the ground near a group of Palestinians seeking aid in the vicinity of a GHF site in Gaza.
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS Edinburg finished in second place among “Most Beautiful Hospitals” in the United States - STHS Edinburg wins after a five-week voting period among "Most Beautiful Hospitals" in the United States. The post STHS Edinburg finished in second place...
Second Nexus

Anthony Hopkins Pokes Fun At Kim Kardashian's New Face Wrap With Hilarious Hannibal Lecter Video - What goes even better with fava beans and a nice chianti than human liver? Kim Kardashian's Skims products, apparently. Legendary Welsh actor Sir Anthony...
The Hill

California Republican to introduce bill banning middecade redistricting - Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) said he plans to introduce legislation on Tuesday that would ban all middecade redistricting efforts nationwide and nullify any...
Axios

GOP effort forms to stop redistricting war between California's Newsom and Texas' Abbott - A House Republican said Monday that he plans to introduce legislation to ban mid-decade redistricting efforts nationwide — which would stymie his own par...
Mediagazer

EchoStar reports losing 383K subscribers in Q2 for ~7.1M in total and pay TV revenue down 8% YoY to $2.5B; Sling TV lost 109K subscribers for a total of 1.78M (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider) - Daniel Frankel / StreamTV Insider: *EchoStar reports losing 383K subscribers in Q2 for ~7.1M in total and pay TV revenue down 8% YoY to $2.5B; Sling TV l...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
Mother Jones

Fleeing Texas Was the Only Way Democrats Could Block Trump’s Plan to Rig the Midterms - On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats made the fateful decision to flee the state to block Republicans from quickly passing a new Trump-ordered redistri...
CultureMap Houston

11 top Texas travel ideas before going back to school this August - Back-to-school is just around the corner, and there's still time to plan a last-minute summer escape. From a recently opened glow-in-the-dark immersive exp...
The Week

Charlamagne Tha God irks Trump with Epstein talk - The radio host said the Jeffrey Epstein scandal could help 'traditional conservatives' take back the Republican Party
Courthouse News

Seals of approval - The State Bar of California plans to issue gold, silver and bronze seals to employers in the legal industry for use on their websites and marketing.
Raw Story

Kash Patel's latest action opened door to finally releasing Epstein files: analyst - FBI Director Kash Patel took a step that could pave the way to justifying the release of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, an analyst w...
Techdirt.

Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now - Back in April 2023, when Substack CEO Chris Best refused to answer basic questions about whether his platform would allow racist content, I noted that his ...
Political Wire

Marjorie Taylor Greene Threatens to Leave the GOP - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told the Daily Mail that she feels that the Republican party has lost touch with its base, and suggested she may abandon...
Futurism

Baby Born Already 30 Years Old - The world's "oldest baby" has been born to a couple who are, technically, just a few years older than the newborn himself. As MIT Technology Review repor...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva “FE DE ERRATAS” - Estimados socios buen día: Les hacemos llegar copia del acta numero 916 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día “LEASE 30 DE JULIO ...
The Daily Poster

Musk Bullies Tesla Into $29 Billion Payout - Tesla’s board of directors has capitulated to CEO Elon Musk with a $29 billion stock package after he threatened to exit the company if he wasn’t paid more.
Houston Public Media

Houston Public Media Announces Key Leadership Appointments - Scott Flannigan Named Senior News Director; Edgar Zavala Named Senior Director of Technical Operations
Salon.com

“Come and take it”: Texas Democrats brush off threat of arrest - Democratic lawmakers are continuing to defy the Texas governor, despite escalating threats from Republicans
Consortium News

Cynically Stage-Managed Humanitarian Aid - Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel, were witting players in a fraudulent event intended to show no one has been kill...
Daily Dot

“Most distasteful”: Rod Stewart’s “Forever Young” concert tribute features Ozzy Osbourne using a selfie stick with other dead celebrities - [image: rod stewart ozzy osbourne ai tribute] Just when you thought AI couldn’t get weirder and more problematic, a new horror appears. Since Black Sab...
Deadline Politics

New York Post To Expand To L.A. With The California Post - News Corp. said Monday that it plans to launch the California Post, a Los Angeles-based tabloid with the flavor of the New York Post, early next year. Robe...
Slate

I’m Finally Leaving My Wife. Unfortunately, She Controlled All of Our Money. - It's a clean slate in more ways than one.
Rewire

How Medicare Is Failing Reproductive-Age People With Disabilities - Plus, Texas Democrats flee the state, federal judge temporarily restores some Planned Parenthood funds, and detained immigrants go on hunger strike. The ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, On Creating a Cover for Genocide - In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state to follow the federal government, 45 ...
Daily Howler

STRANGERS AND FRIENDS: This just in from the world's strangest man! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025* *"There needs to be scalps," he said: *Unless you live in "a distant land from me" (Thoreau), the fellow's a tough act to swallo...
Dissident Voice

Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror - Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the d...
Vox

A wasting disease killed millions of sea stars. After years of searching, scientists just found a cause. - “It was like a battleground,” Drew Harvell remembers. “It was really horrible.” She’s reflecting on a time in December 2013, on the coast of Washington sta...
Angry Bear

Make China Great Again - Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Brazilian coffee. Guess that will show them! “China has approved 183 new Brazilian coffee companies to export products to t...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Election Law Blog

My New One at Slate on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term” - I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Reading the tea leaves from cryptic Supreme Court orders can be perilous business because the justices ar...
Undernews

Economy - [image: A choropleth map of the U.S. showing the change in residential electricity prices by state between May 2024 and May 2025. Maine leads at +36.3%, w...
The AltWorld

A further U.S. attack on Iran would be pointless kabuki - Escalation with Russia is clearly on the cards (in one form or another), but Trump has also […] The post A further U.S. attack on Iran would be pointless...
Texas Standard

Texas cotton is struggling to keep up with economic pressures, but new funding might help - In Texas, cotton is king. But what happens if farmers can no longer come back from financial blows?
SCOTUSblog

Why the shadow docket should concern us all - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Mondoweiss

PEN America claims to support free speech, but fired me for speaking about Palestine - [image: A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/ PEN America)]The fr...
NORML

DEA Seizes Over Five Million Cannabis Plants in 2024, Reports Nearly 6,000 Marijuana-Related Arrests - [image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves][image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves]"Considerable time and resources still remain prioritized tow...
Bonddad

“Recession watch” for economically weighted ISM indexes, and residential construction spending, continues - - *by New Deal democrat* Since Friday featured the very salient jobs report - and its immediate fallout - I delayed reporting on two other important...
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s a Genocide - We are now urged — and required by law in many jurisdictions — to accept a definition of “antisemitism” that is beyond preposterous.
Democracy Now!

Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation - A new investigation reveals the months of physical and mental abuse Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration endured inside a Salvadoran prison....
The Conversation

The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone - A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted by Presid...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 194: “Fires, Floods, Destruction: The New Normal?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: “The TMI Show” with hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan is on fire. And so is much of the country and the world. W...
First Draft

Big Yellow Trumpy - "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
Texas Observer

Recovering Suzanne Césaire’s Legacy - “Everything collapses in the ripping sound of great manifestations,” wrote Suzanne Césaire in 1945. The line purportedly described an immense hurricane i...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | DOCUMENTARY | Lone Star Three - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / August 4, 2025 Texas women won us the right to abortion then. It’s up to us to win it back now. The Lone Star Three is a...
Space City Weather

As Houston faces typical August weather, the Atlantic tropics start to heat up - In brief: Houston will see a decent chance of some showers and thunderstorms today, but beyond this we should remain hot and mostly sunny, as is often the ...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Carbon Direct Chief Scientist Julio Friedmann on the Path to Carbon Removal - The scale of our climate challenge is staggering: humans have pumped 1.6 trillion tonnes of... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Carbon Direct Chief S...
Dorf on Law

Will the Columbia and Brown Agreements Affect Student Body Diversity? - In addition to agreeing to fork over, respectively, $200 million and $50 million, Columbia University and Brown University made a number of other commitm...
naked capitalism

Links 8/4/2025 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The World Begins Another Week - We’ve had some smoky days here, but — looking at the AirNow.gov map — nothing like what they’re seeing in the Midwest and certainly not what they’re seeing...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Stop Bragging’: White House Account Mocked for Celebrating Trump’s ‘Winning’ Golf Numbers -
Skeptophilia

Thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening) - The cause of lightning has been strangely elusive. Oh, in the broadest-brush terms, we've understood it for a while. The rapidly-rising column of air in...
The Root

Trump and Charlamagne tha God Spend the Weekend Clapping at Each Other, Here’s What We Know - "The Breakfast Club" host appeared on Lara Trump's Fox News show to give his opinion on President Trump's first six months in office. Read more...
Crooked Media

Stacking the Bench with Creeps & Kooks - The post Stacking the Bench with Creeps & Kooks appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

State House Dems break quorum - It’s on. Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional sea...
NPR's Health Shots

Teen suicide is on the decline, new federal data shows - The 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health report found that in recent years, depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in teens have declined.
San Antonio Report

‘A real change agent’: TAMUSA to launch first-ever doctoral program rooted in South Side’s needs - The new Educational Leadership doctoral program at TAMUSA aims to prepare educators for local needs like special and bilingual education. ------------------...
ProPublica

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor, photography by Sarahbeth Maney, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in...
Portside

Sunday Science: Physicists Disagree Wildly on What Quantum Mechanics Says About Reality, Nature Survey Shows - Sunday Science: Physicists Disagree Wildly on What Quantum Mechanics Says About Reality, Nature Survey Shows Ira Mon, 08/04/2025 - 05:39
American Prospect

The Illusion of Choice - Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.
High Country News

‘Help is not on the way’ - As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant. The post ‘Help is not on the way’ appeared first on High Country...
Grist

Climate disasters are killing small businesses - Climate change could wipe out your favorite small businesses.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 4 August 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] In 1948 almost all th...
Counterpunch

Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide - As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years sinc...
WhoWhatWhy

Boeing Workers Who Build Fighter Jets Plan Midnight Strike - [image: U.S. labor, unions, Boeing workers, fighter jet manufacturing, midnight strike set] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or...
jobsanger

Agencies Should Report The Truth - Not What Trump Wishes Was True -
Wolf Street

Inventories of Homes for Sale Surge in Denver, Seattle, Phoenix, Tucson, Portland, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Boise - Lots of inventory, little demand: Median days on the market before homes got pulled or sold spiked to 70 days in Phoenix.
Informed Comment

Corrupt DoJ Shields Trump on Epstein, Extorts CBS and Columbia U. in Protection Racket - Chicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Gangster president Trump and his Justice Department lackeys are engaged in a coordinated cover-up of his e...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
World Socialist Web Site

Trump announces US submarine deployments in nuclear war threat against Russia - Trump’s pledges to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war have failed, and a seemingly unstoppable momentum is building up in ruling circles for a mass...
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...
The Texas Signal

House Democrats Leave State, Denying A Quorum - The Democrats left the state on Sunday afternoon and began arriving at various destinations across the country including Chicago, Boston, and Albany.
Popular Resistance

Thousands Of Pro-Palestine Protesters March Across Sydney Harbour Bridge - Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Australia marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday as part of a rally calling for a ceasefire in ...
Antiwar.com

How the West Bank Is Being Annexed to Israel, with Tacit US Support - Just days ago, the Israeli parliament Knesset passed a motion for the agenda to “apply sovereignty” to the West Bank. Though largely declarative, the motio...
Unlimited Hangout

Grand Theft World - Grand Theft World.
Alas, a Blog

Beware God’s Sock Puppets - This cartoon is by me and Kevin Moore. From the Bible (2 Kings 2, specifically): He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, som...
Ballot Access News

Texas Democratic Party Legislators Leave Texas to Temporarily Halt Special Redistricting by Republicans - Here is the story from Bloomberg. … Continue reading →
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 03, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 03, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump...
Alternet

'Done everything they can to avoid hearing from' us: Veteran interrupts GOP celebration in Florida - What was billed as a high-profile gathering of conservative leadership quickly turned contentious when roughly half a dozen credentialed protestors storm...
Claytoonz

Supersized Winning - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Progressive.org

Where Oppenheimer Feared to Tread, ‘Atomic People’ Bravely Goes - A new documentary tells the story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the perspective of the atomic bomb’s victims, rather than its inventor.
Glasstire

Once Upon a Time in Magdalena: A Conversation with Stephonik - Stephonik, a New York-based artist, musician, and Production Designer on 11 films, rolled into Magdalena in May, with a crew of 20, and set to work on a ...
Reform Austin

Sponsored by Carl’s Jr.? Trump’s White House Ballroom Draws Ethics Questions - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In a move set to reshape the historic White House grounds, President Donald Trump is moving for...
El Paso Matters

‘Nobody likes displacement’: EPISD elementary students to walk new hallways following school closures - It’s back to school time, and hundreds of El Paso ISD elementary students will have to navigate class in new campuses starting Monday after Destination ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Just Another Week' Toons - (Unfortunate reminder: Indy escaped that boulder.) ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always r...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "I’m sick of your religion, religion, religion,"
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: juvenile woodpecker - [image: Juvenile woodpecker]
See You In 2020

Communism is playing a critical role in today’s global events, & U.S. propaganda has been hiding this - One of imperial propaganda’s main goals today is to hide the importance of the workers struggle in shaping recent global events. Communism is what’s bee...
Workers World

Gagauzia – a new flashpoint for expanding war in eastern Europe - [image: Gagauzia – a new flashpoint for expanding war in eastern Europe] The author, Artem Balabaka — a pseudonym for security reasons — is a Ukrainian lef...
ArcaMax

Dishonor, Depravity and Ghislaine's Impending Pardon - When Donald Trump pardoned the Jan. 6 gangsters upon returning to the White House, he proved that he is capable of any depraved act to protect himself. So ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Failure of the MAGA Fantasy Industrial Complex with Jared Yates Sexton - A conversation with myself and Wajahat Ali about MAGA, fascism, narratives, and the power of popular culture to radicalize and fight back
The Militant

‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’ - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, tol...
Common Dreams

Defend the Homeland, Get A Brown Shirt! - Still insanely claiming they're arresting "the worst of the worst" gardeners, roofers, abuelas and taco-makers - and eager to spend their shiny new billi...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Passiflora Ornata with Spirals - Looking through my old photos, here’s one from 2014. It’s a variant on the Passiflora Ornata, of which I have an example here. The long points, instead o...
The Grayzone

Canada still arming Israel despite official ban, report finds - In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be ai...
Independent Political Report

No Labels Arizona Reboots After Ninth Circuit Decision - No Labels is making a resurgence in Arizona following a recent court decision that reaffirmed the rights of members to recruit and support candidates acr...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich bill targets New Mexico’s wildfire insurance crisis - New Mexico homeowners facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and policy cancellations could benefit from federal legislation aimed at understanding how w...
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
Lowering the Bar

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time” - [image: sea cucumber]Sea cucumbers would breathe a sigh of relief, if they had lungs.
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Mohammed and Rima - Can you help this family out?
Capital & Main

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids - Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids. The post Border Patr...
MintPress News

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Our SMU Issue Is Here - For the last several years, SMU has tried to position itself as Dallas’ school. And now, with Kevin Jennings leading the university’s best team in 40 yea...
DeSmogBlog

BlackRock Pivots from Sustainability Evangelists to Fossil-Fuel Funders - Claim to be verified: BlackRock offers its global clients sustainable investment products, which allegedly exclude fossil fuels. Context: In the first qu...
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Sludge

TikTok Billionaire Donates Millions to Trump as He Repeatedly Delays Ban - Jeff Yass, co-founder of ByteDance investor Susquehanna International Group, made his largest ever political donations to Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC in th...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.4 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace - 'I'm a proud transphobe.' Social media - 'That ain't all you are, honey.' - Congresswoman Nancy Mace (Rep- SC) has made a complete ass of herself online again. FALSE: I am not quitting Congress. TRUE: Proud transphobe. pic.tw...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Project Censored

The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand - In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

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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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Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Liberation News

En Illinois, los centros de datos disparan las tarifas eléctricas - [image: Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to secure nuclear power from the Clinton, Illinois, power plant (pictured) for its growing...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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...
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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Sunday, November 19, 2017

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