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)

Wildfires in California and Oregon grow, prompting evacuations and warnings - Firefighters battle blazes amid dry, hot weather as fires in Napa county and Deschutes and Jefferson counties spread Wildfires in California wine country...
Mediaite

Alina Habba Rips Two GOP Senators for Keeping Her Out of NJ Prosecutor Job Via ‘Blue Slip’ Rule: - Alina Habba — whose appointment as US Attorney in New Jersey was ruled to be unlawful — is going after two GOP senators blocking her from the job. The po...
memeorandum

As Other Israelis Die in War, Ultra-Orthodox Resist Call to Fight (New York Times) - New York Times: *As Other Israelis Die in War, Ultra-Orthodox Resist Call to Fight* — Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service...
OpEd News

Forget Gerrymandering - There's a Much Better Way to Steal Elections - Donald Trump this week announced his intention to disenfranchise the Democratic Party. This article discusses how he just might get away with it.
See You In 2020

Russia’s operation has led the masses to be radicalized, but it’s up to us to take advantage of this - At least since Washington started the conflict in Syria, we’ve been living through what’s essentially a third world war. And as Mao predicted, when a th...
Axios

Newsom trolls Trump once again with MAGA-style merch, Bibles - California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is doing more than just mocking President Trump's signature social media style: It seems he's now borrowing the presiden...
Al Jazeera English

Canada’s Carney meets Zelenskyy, backs security guarantees for Ukraine - Canadian PM floats the possibility of 'presence of troops' from allied countries to protect Ukraine against Russia.
Raw Story

Trump slams judge who issued massive civil penalty: 'Almost as corrupt as Leticia James' - President Donald Trump slammed a judge on Sunday who issued him one of the largest civil fraud penalties in New York state history. In a post on Truth S...
El Paso Matters

After 20 years in prison, Daniel Villegas wins chance to put El Paso police on trial for coerced confession - Daniel Villegas, acquitted in 2018 after decades in prison, will take his lawsuit over alleged police misconduct and a coerced confession to trial follo...
The Hill

Former CIA director: Putin 'clearly' has no intention to end war 'unless he's given additional territory' - Retired Gen. David Petraeus, a former CIA director and former head of U.S. Central Command, on Sunday said he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin has n...
Daily Dot

“38 pumps of dried lotion”: New Jergens line of portable product immediately compared to “lotion crust” - [image: jergens lotion bursts mocked] Skincare company Jergens has recently introduced a new product, and the reactions have been mixed. Instead of a re...
Eschaton

De Minimis - If there was a seamless way to collect tariffs on small shipments then this wouldn't be as much of a problem. HOWEVER... The international courier DHL on ...
Political Wire

Epstein Accuser’s Memoir to Be Published After Her Death - A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Giuffre, will be published this autumn, Politico reports....
Crooked Media

Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds - The post Marc Maron on Brainf*cked Trolls and Liberal Scolds appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for August 24 - “Donald Trump’s Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to dev...
Salon.com

MAGA immigrant loyalist detained under policies he cheered - TX restaurant celebrated Trump’s policies, but owner faces the harsh realities of the laws he embraced
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about the idea that ICE and the Trump administration are stupid: Y...
Mother Jones

Trump Stays Silent on Gaza’s Famine - Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new findings a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Where the Buffalo Roam: The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is educating people about the state’s native buffalo in the Southern Plains - * In the heart of Waelder, Texas, Lucille Contreras is restoring a relationship that was nearly lost to history. As founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo P...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the outer worlds - An excellent summation of what we learned from the New Horizons probe. About the planet Pluto, yes, but also about its moons and the tiny, vastly ancient...
Mediagazer

Netflix's theatrical debut of KPop Demon Hunters is estimated to earn $18M-$20M this weekend, topping the domestic box office; it came out on Netflix in June (Rebecca Rubin/Variety) - Rebecca Rubin / Variety: *Netflix's theatrical debut of KPop Demon Hunters is estimated to earn $18M-$20M this weekend, topping the domestic box office; ...
Futurism

RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine - About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Ken...
World Socialist Web Site

*The World of Debt*: “Stark disparities and systemic inequalities” in the world of public debt - Some 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on interest than health and education.
Slate

I Was Not Expecting My Husband’s Naughty Surprise. Now I Want Revenge. - I wonder how he'd feel if I did the same thing to him.
Alternet

JD Vance just asked me to be stupid - The vice president was on the TV this week and said something that was not only stupid but a bald-faced lie made more disgusting by the fact of its stupi...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! - Thousands of U.S. troops on board a flotilla of warships are headed towards the waters off the coast of Venezuela in a blatant and unprovoked act of aggres...
The Root

The Internet Trolls MAGA With Hilarious Gavin Newsom Memes - The Internet is Trolling Maga With These Funny Gavin Newsom memes! Read more...
Claytoonz

New Schools and Bathroom Rules - 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...
Daily Cartoonist

The Other Paper’s Sunday Funnies - Let’s pretend that there are still two newspaper cities in the U.S. and this is the other’s funny pages. Tiny Type That other paper’s comics section featur...
Dissident Voice

Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws - Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalisin...
The Week

August 24 editorial cartoons - Sunday's political cartoons include Putin at Donald Trump's circus, gallons of whitewash, and a foldable cartoon
Election Law Blog

I Spoke to the PBS News Hour Weekend About Trump’s Threats to the Integrity of the 2026 Midterm Elections - Watch here: The post I Spoke to the PBS News Hour Weekend About Trump’s Threats to the Integrity of the 2026 Midterm Elections appeared first on Election...
WhoWhatWhy

Under a Vindictive Trump, Journalism Is Becoming a High-Risk Occupation - [image: Donald Trump, podium] For the first time ever, we have been forced to have frank conversations with American job applicants about the risks journal...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Donald Trump - *“We have a lot of bad people… many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.” *Independe...
Reform Austin

Black Bear Sightings Confirmed in East Texas, TPWD Issues Guidance - The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has verified several black bear sightings across East Texas, including Cherokee, Anderson, Panola, and Rus...
Mondoweiss

Stop Censoring Palestine: A public call for accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group - [image: Harvard University Widener Library (Wikimedia)]Hundreds of scholars, educators, and education practitioners condemn Harvard Educational Review's ca...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Random Acts of' Toons - ...A BRIEF TOON BREAK!!... On yesterday's BradCast with guests Digby and Driftglass, we discussed --- among many other things --- Gavin Newsom's brilliant ...
Glasstire

Core Residency Program Fellows Announced for New Two-Year Terms - The Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced the 2025 fellows in its Core Residency Program for visual artists and...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Name That Name 3.0 - Cheers to Ray Charles, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Elton John, Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, XTC, BNL, REM, and Colin Hay.
Grist

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address - Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving gove...
The Verge

The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room - I've long dreamed of doing all my gaming on PC - a single platform that's easily upgradeable and lets me play my overstuffed Steam library wherever and how...
NPR's Health Shots

Who should Americans listen to for guidance on vaccination? - Shifts in vaccine guidance under the Trump administration are leaving many people confused about seasonal shots. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Dr. Jeff Du...
The AltWorld

Never Forget The Lies They Told About Gaza. Never Forgive Them. - A joint investigation by The Guardian and +972 Magazine found that the IDF’s own records show that civilians make […] The post Never Forget The Lies They...
Vox

Gen Z created a new type of man to avoid - If you live in a major city, you might have seen what looks like a hipster drag show playing out in a park or on a sidewalk recently: a parade of young men...
naked capitalism

Links 8/24/2025 -
Scheerpost.com

On Day of His Release, Trump Administration Threatens to Deport Ábrego García to Uganda - "Just spiteful evil for the sake of it," fumed one observer.
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Is There a Silver Lining to These Darkening Clouds? -
San Antonio Report

Stretched thin: Bexar County Jail at capacity, short about 150 jailers - This strain of being at capacity at the Bexar County Jail has coincided with high turnover, two notices of noncompliance from the Texas Commission on Jail ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: sunflower - [image: Sunflower]
jobsanger

The D.C. Takeover Is A Step In Creating A White-Dominated Country -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1426: Skyscrapers - Episode: 1426 The skyscraper: a Phoenix out of the great Chicago Fire. Today, let’s talk about skyscrapers.
Informed Comment

Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The more genetic history that is done, the more it is clear that ancient ethnonyms, the names given supposed ethnicities, pu...
Popular Resistance

Israel’s Assassination Of Memory - As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of...
Wolf Street

The 12 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-10% to -23%) through July - Oakland, Austin, New Orleans, Cape Coral, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Denver, Portland, Phoenix, and Sarasota.
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Voting Rights Groups Ask Fifth Circuit Not to Stay Recent Decision on Legislative District Boundaries - As already noted, on August 14, the Fifth Circuit agreed with a lower court that Louisiana’s legislative district boundaries violate the federal Voting Rig...
Portside

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions - Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions Dave Sat, 08/23/2025 - 17:51
Workers World

URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today! - [image: URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today!] Continue reading URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today! at Workers.org
Courthouse News

Drone attack destroys trucks carrying UN food to Sudan’s famine-hit Darfur region - A U.N. food convoy bound for famine-hit North Darfur was struck by a drone, igniting three trucks, the World Food Program said. All staff escaped unharmed,...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Clears Texas Senate - The final vote on redistricting happened after Republicans in the State Senate thwarted a filibuster by Senator Carol Alvarado
CultureMap Houston

2 Houston universities excel on prestigious report and more top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with top marks for local high schools and colleges. Plus, a top Hou...
San Antonio Current

Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map, sending plan to Abbott’s desk - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate early Saturd...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 18 - 22 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were no big changes this week, but what continues to stick out in ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: A pair of defectives had some good fun... - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025* *...on our most watched "cable news" program: *Early this morning, the thought came to mind: Had we ever attempted to resear...
slacktivist

LBCF: Sunday Morning Coming Down - There's nothing short of dying half as lonesome as the sound of Jerry Jenkins forgetting that every character in his book just lost their children.
Angry Bear

Lowe’s and The Home Depot . . . - Weathering Q1 Storms and Looking to the Horizon One always wonder how these mega hardware stores are doing in a not-so-great economy. I suspect the tarif...
ArcaMax

Trump Is Testing Us by Militarizing Cities. We're Failing. - The first time I encountered a police checkpoint was in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. My first reaction was excitement. I'd read about this fac...
Skeptophilia

Encounters with the imaginary - Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine, the wonderful author K. D. McCrite. (Do yourself a favor and check out her books...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
Deadline Politics

‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Teases Trump Support Over Marijuana Reclassification: “Finally, He Got Around To Me” - As Donald Trump flirts with reclassifying marijuana, Bill Maher appears to be done flirting with his support for the twice-impeached president and ready to...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Really, Really, Really - Oh, f’crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he got back into off...
Capital & Main

Trump Administration Gives Coal Plants and Chemical Facilities a Pass - In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emission rules. The post Trump Admi...
Sludge

Lawmakers Hold Stocks in Defense, Energy, and Tech Companies They Oversee - Here are 13 senators and representatives whose stock portfolios raise conflict-of-interest questions.
Independent Political Report

Former Santa Monica Mayor Urges Politico to Include Green Gubernatorial Nominee in California Summit - Former Santa Monica Mayor Michael Feinstein urged Politico in an open letter this week to include Green Party gubernatorial candidate Dr. Butch Ware in i...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Progressive Army

MANIFIESTO DESCONSOLIDADO IMPO ACUATICA RES. 5744/2025 - Estimados socios, buenas tardes: Continuando con el comunicado del día de hoy por la Res. De ref. y nuestras reuniones con las terminales, les comentamos ...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The D.C. Occupation - On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Robert Kuttner discuss Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in the nation’s capital, and his persecution of critics.
Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
Progressive.org

Homesteading Hate: Arkansas Group Is a Lesson in Legalized Racist Exclusion - Cultural and political regressions, as well as legal ambiguities, have allowed for a ‘whites only’ community to develop and expand.
Space City Weather

Flash flooding a possibility Friday afternoon with stubborn, slow-moving storms in the Houston area (Updated) - In brief: We are pushing out a Stage 1 flood alert for today based on developments since this morning. Locally heavy downpours will almost certainly cause ...
The NM Political Report

USDOT blames New Mexico State Police for fatal Florida semi accident involving undocumented driver - Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says New Mexico State Police officers are partially responsible for a fatal semi-truck accident over 1,000 mi...
Church and State

The imminence (or otherwise) of depopulation - As ecosystems deteriorate and wealth inequality deepens, the impact of overpopulation on the natural world is well-documented.
Second Nexus

Joe Jonas Reveals Super Cringey Interaction On Flight After He Joined The Mile High Club - Some times people share stories of their embarrassing moments and we can all relate. Sometimes, however, that person is Joe Jonas talking about how he ac...
The Progressive Wing

8/22-28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Trump and Cuomo are true buddies.
Environment Texas

Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer - Plastic pellets are polluting our beaches and harming wildlife. The post Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer appe...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
MintPress News

The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family - Everyone knows Epstein and Ghislaine—but few know the shadowy family dynasty behind them. From Mossad and CIA ties to Silicon Valley and D.C., Alan MacLe...
Texas Observer

Texas, No Exodus - I insist on survival every day I stay in Texas. Let me explain. A friend came over today & boom: joy shone from our fingertips. While the moon transition...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court is historically unpopular right now. Or is it? - Is the Supreme Court’s approval rating at a five-year high or record low? It depends on which survey you’re reading. In just the past two months, at leas...
Rewire

He Graduated Early To Get Gender-Affirming Surgery Before College. Then His Hospital Cut Him Off. - Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider. The post He Graduated Early To ...
Debunking Christianity

Oh the Irony: Religion Is Shooting Itself in the Foot - *Disbelief and atheism are on the rise* A few years ago I had the misfortune of attending a First Communion service at a suburban Rhode Island Catholic...
Democracy Now!

Day Laborer Dies Fleeing ICE: Family Mourns, Community Demands Answers - Family and community members are mourning 52-year-old Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who died while attempting to e...
The Conversation

Trump’s Epstein problem is real: New poll shows many in his base disapprove of his handling of the files, and some supporters are having second thoughts about electing him - The MAGA base is not happy. Trump’s handling of the Epstein controversy has done significant damage to his standing, particularly among his core supporters.
Dorf on Law

Should Public Schools Allow More Curricular Opt-Outs to Retain Students? - Two months ago, in *Mahmoud v. Taylor*, the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative supermajority delivered a potentially devastating blow to public schools. Ju...
ProPublica

Getting “DOGED”: DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. - by Avi Asher-Schapiro and Christopher Bing It was early morning on April 1 when Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar, got a panicked mes...
High Country News

The race to protect homes from speculators post-wildfire - Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one. The post The race to protect homes from ...
Unlimited Hangout

The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek - The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek.
Antiwar.com

Is Venezuela the Next Target of the US Empire? - President Donald Trump has deployed several warships and thousands of Marines to the southern Caribbean – just miles off the coast of Venezuela. The provoc...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

We Come to Bury James Dobson, Not Praise Him - James Dobson Infamous religious leader James Dobson died today. Dobson was a prominent and influential figure of the religious right because he not only...
Common Dreams

Assault With A Deli Weapon - As armed, burly goons roam D.C.'s streets, besieged residents say "it's the little things" that give them solace, which is why they've embraced as their ...
The Rag Blog

RICHARD CROXDALE / ABORTION RIGHTS / Lone Star Three - By Richard Croxdale / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2025 [This article was originally published at People’s History in Texas (PHIT) and was cross-posted to The...
DeSmogBlog

Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day - TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report. The channel, which attract...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2025 - Project Censored in the World In late July, Hyperallergic published “Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation,” a detailed, affirmative r...
NORML

Federal Appeals Court: Medical Cannabis Consumers Shouldn’t Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights - [image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a table next to a black handgun][image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a t...
Bracing Views

The Business of Nuclear Weapons Is Booming - Part II of a Documentary on the Military-Industrial Complex BILL ASTORE AUG 20, 2025 The business of nuclear weapons is booming in the U.S., as Part II of ...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon Fir-Cask - In 1810, in the Greenland Sea, William Scoresby Jr., the captain of Resolute, who was... The post Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Attorneys General: The Top Races to be “Top Cop” - Key battleground states feature state Attorney General races this cycle, with Democrats playing defense in a number of key battleground states The post S...
The Daily Poster

Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Could Explode Next Year - A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
Krebs on Security

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years - A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and o...
Discourse

Everyone is Making Boatloads of Money in Washington D.C. - Political service has never been so lucrative.
Consortium News

NOTE TO READERS: A Pause in Publishing - Because of technical issues, Consortium News will undergo a renovation that will prevent us from publishing from today over the weekend until early next we...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Marcos Silva, former Executive Director of Rio Grande Valley LEAD, selected to help guide South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs - Dr. Marcos Silva, Ed.D., has been named Executive Director of the South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs. A longtime leader in education and w...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Country Sick Since Its Beginning: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - America didn't just get here by accident. Our present state is the result of generations' of undealt with trauma and socipathic behavior
Ecosophia

The Narrative Trap - One of the experiences I’ve had tolerably often, over the more than nineteen years that I’ve been writing these weekly essays, is the discovery that a seri...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
GreenSource DFW

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

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
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...
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...
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...
TalkLeft

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

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

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

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

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
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, ...
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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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

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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

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

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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Sunday, November 19, 2017

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