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

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Stephen Miller Goes to Bat for Trump’s $1.8B Fund: ‘Just a Small Measure Of The Justice That They’re Owed’ - Stephen Miller went to bat Thursday for the president's $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that reportedly received a chilly reception from GOP senat...
Deadline Politics

Elon Musk Calls ‘The Boys’ Finale “Pathetic,” Eric Kripke Raves: “I’ll Never Get A Better Review” - SPOILERS: This post contains details about The Boys series finale ‘Blood and Bone’ As The Boys comes to an end, one Homelander fan is not pleased with the ...
Election Law Blog

Guy Charles and I Were on Michael Sargent’s Podcast: “Entangled: Race, Politics, and Post-Callais America” - Listen to this episode of Circumspection. The post Guy Charles and I Were on Michael Sargent’s Podcast: “Entangled: Race, Politics, and Post-Callais Amer...
Houston Public Media

27 packages of cocaine washed ashore on a Galveston Island beach, police say - Police said the discovery is not all that uncommon. In April 2025, officials in nearby Jamaica Beach said packages containing drugs washed up on the west e...
Slate

FEMA’s Ousted Leader Is Back. Our Next National Disaster Will Be the Ultimate Test. - It’s a real disaster over there.
Axios

Trump copies Obama's playbook on counting deportations - The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put i...
The Verge

Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI - Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use privacy settings, including the sw...
Futurism

Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño - "By some measures we look at, it is rivaling the one we saw in 1997." The post Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming E...
The Hill

Hogg calls for Ken Martin's resignation over DNC's delayed 2024 autopsy report - Democratic activist David Hogg is demanding that the head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) step down following the delayed release of a flawed au...
Political Wire

Maine Could Be the Key to the Senate Majority - Just for members: The latest Inside Elections. This issue includes a deep dive into one of the most important Senate races in the country: Maine. Join now ...
IVN

Democrats and MAGA Are Working Together on THIS (Not What You Expect) - You'd think Democrats and MAGA Republicans agree on nothing - but they just quietly teamed up to do one specific thing: shut 7 million California independe...
Eschaton

Daddy's Mad - The Senate doesn't fund the ballroom which was totally going to be paid for without taxpayer money ANYWAY and they're skipping town because of the crime re...
See You In 2020

Anti-Zionist MAGA will get a third party, whether from Thomas Massie or from other dissident forces - AIPAC’s war on Thomas Massie has created new hope for the third party movement, hope that had seemed unrealistic until quite recently. And if communists...
Alternet

Intel community debunks Trump commander’s sworn testimony on Iran - Newly uncovered U.S. intelligence reports have debunked claims made by a leading Trump administration admiral during sworn testimony about the damage don...
CultureMap Houston

Tickled Pink luncheon rallies Houston for breast cancer fight - The ballroom at *The Post Oak Hotel* became a cotton-candy cloudburst with a mission on April 24 as more than 650 Houstonians arrived dressed in what could...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Spurs lose $14 million in yearly revenue due to bootleg merchandise - Sales of bootleg San Antonio Spurs merchandise cost the team $13.6 million in lost revenue annually, according to a new research report from online spor...
Rallblog

Should Congress Stay or Should They Go? - Should I stay, the Clash asked, or should I go? When I was a kid, during and following Watergate, the tortured politico’s answer to that existential ques...
Capital & Main

In California Governor’s Race, Xavier Becerra Walks Away From Single-Payer - Once an advocate for a universal system, he now focuses on incremental reforms and shielding Californians from federal cuts. The post In California Gover...
Raw Story

Trump planted a bomb that's set to sink his whole presidency - Friends, Trump’s revenge tour continues. Republican congressman and Trump critic Thomas Massie lost Tuesday to Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein in th...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on Texas Bicentennial Commission - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, is being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on the Texas Bicentennial ...
Crooked Media

Starmer clings on, Burnham steps up w/ MP Nadia Whittome - The post Starmer clings on, Burnham steps up w/ MP Nadia Whittome appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediagazer

Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook self-publishing tool (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: *Spotify says it has 1M+ subscriptions to Audiobook+, which is on track for $100M in ARR, and unveils an ElevenLabs-powered audi...
Bracing Views

The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles - Persecuted for Helping Victims of Murderous State Violence BILL ASTORE MAY 21, 2026 Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) conc...
Common Dreams

“Failures of ‘America First Global Health’”: U.S. Global Health Cuts and DRC Conflict Fuel Ebola Crisis - Sweeping U.S. cuts to critical global health programs, including funding and staffing reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
Independent Political Report

2026 Libertarian National Convention Open Thread - The Libertarian Party is convening in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this week for its 2026 national convention. The event will run from Thursday, May 21, throu...
The Daily Poster

Lawmakers Launch Probe Into ICE’s Phantom Contractor - The Lever uncovered an ICE contractor’s phantom clients, dubious claims, and disappearing executives. Now Congress is stepping in.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations - ACLU and partners urged members of Congress during Community Safety Week to pass legislation that allows people to sue federal law enforcement when they vi...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard Carrier Highly Endorses My Book! - Thank you Richard Carrier for this enthusiastic endorsement of my book, "The Outsider Test For Faith"! Thanks also for accurately applying the outsider tes...
Texas Standard

Corpus Christi leaders believe data center plans may be behind delays to emergency water supply - Authorities in Sinton won’t confirm or deny Corpus Christi’s suggestion that the small town is hoarding its precious groundwater for data centers. Across T...
Rewire

The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives (Podcast) - Conservatives have launched a campaign to redefine motherhood in culture and the law. The post The Trump Administration Wants More Trad Wives (Podcast) a...
Texas Observer

Not with a Bang but with a ‘Truth’ - For as long as his hair has been silver (going back to his 20s), John Cornyn has been winning elections. Among those victories seemed, perhaps, to be th...
Bonddad

An exception to the rule? Maybe Housing ISN’T the Business Cycle - - *by New Deal democrat* Twenty years ago, Professor Edward Leamer gave an important presentation at the Fed’s Jackson Hole meeting entitled “Housin...
naked capitalism

Establishment Democrats Still Don’t Get Why They Lost in 2024 - Democrats can't face that they don't have a message because having one with broad appeal would alienate too many powerful factions.
Discourse

Fuck Israel for Making Us Defend the New York Times (and Nick Kristof) - Plus: Preferred carcinogens, more flopping from Tony Dokoupil, and taco drama involving James Talarico.
Glasstire

Top Five: May 21, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Charles Dee Mitchell: Goodbyes Are Not ForeverKeijsers ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Capitalist Horror: A Conversation with Jon Greenaway - Jon Greenaway, author of Capitalism: A Horror Story and host of Horror Vanguard stops by for a chat
Consortium News

Consortium News Spring Drive for Détente - Well into our 31st year of publication, Consortium News has its readers to thank for keeping the news organization launched by legendary journalist Robert ...
The Root

Why Fans Are Calling Out Mary J. Blige Over Her Las Vegas Residency - Mary J. Blige has been entertaining the masses for years now. But her latest Las Vegas residency has some fans feeling disappointed. Let's get into it! ...
The Progressive Wing

5/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments.
Democracy Now!

"They're Trying to Silence Us": Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations - As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including can...
Techdirt.

Trump FCC Using False Claims Of Immigrant Fraud To Drive Up Costs Of Broadband For Everyone - Back in February the Trump FCC announced it was launching new “reforms” of a major bipartisan FCC program that helps poor people afford broadband. Dubbed L...
The Conversation

The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat - Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradi...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Administration Can’t Ignore Presidential Records Act, Judge Rules - [image: : Four Signal Scandal, participants, Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Waltz, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance] A federal judge ruled that the White House must comply w...
NORML

NORML Remembers Congressman Barney Frank - [image: NORML Remembers Barney Frank][image: NORML Remembers Barney Frank]"Representative Barney Frank was one of the earliest supporters of marijuana leg...
Vox

Our national parks are struggling - Summer travel is just ramping up, but our country’s pride and joy is being put through the wringer. Since President Donald Trump took office in 2025, the ...
Mother Jones

HHS Refuses to Say What an Anti-Vaccine Activist Is Doing at the Agency - Longtime and controversial anti-vaccine activist David Geier is still working at the Department of Health and Human Services—and the agency is still refusi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Republicans could abandon $1bn proposal for Trump’s ballroom – US politics live - Republican senators have queried the timing and lack of detail in secret service bid to add money to the Department for Homeland security bill - ...
Earth 911

The Extinctions We Watched Happen - On August 26, 2009, an Australian biologist’s audio detector picked up a single bat working... The post The Extinctions We Watched Happen appeared first ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Ties That Blind - I’m getting a “shut up and hand over your wallets” vibe from this one, for a number of reasons.One is that nobody voted for this war, and, in fact, Trump w...
Salon.com

Trump’s anti-war claims blow up in his face after Iran fiasco - Opposition to the president's war with Iran among Gen Z MAGA members could help create positive political change
The Smirking Chimp

PTSD Nation? -
Al Jazeera English

Philippines orders arrest of fugitive senator wanted by ICC - Justice Secretary says anyone helping Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa evade arrest will 'face consequences'.
High Country News

Get to know the Pacific newt - From Vancouver Island newts to California’s high country newts, the toxic Taricha genus includes some unique and deadly Western species. The post Get to...
jobsanger

Americans Are Concerned That A.I. Will Have A Negative Effect On Society -
Trivial Knot

Annoyances with AI Wars - I’ve been spending some time on Reddit, mostly following stuff about puzzle video games and game dev. I also see stuff from a couple subreddits that argue ...
Workers World

PDF of May 21 print issue - [image: PDF of May 21 print issue] Download the PDF Union in Italy demands More $ for wages, not for war! Stonewall still means RESIST! NAKBA DAY: Protests...
Portside

AFSCME Local 3299 Members React to Tentative Deal - AFSCME Local 3299 Members React to Tentative Deal barry Thu, 05/21/2026 - 00:36
World Socialist Web Site

Widespread support for walkout as Nexteer workers force UAW to hold strike vote: “The ball’s in our court now” - Workers at the local union hall Wednesday expressed overwhelming support for a strike and denounced union officials for collaborating with management to in...
Informed Comment

Can the Davutoglu “Middle Powers Plan” Reopen Hormuz? - Davutoglu’s proposal is to establish a joint maritime security force—composed of Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey
Ian Welsh

Freedom Under Representative Democracy (Freedom Series #2) - In the first article in this series we discussed freedom under capitalism. The conclusion was simple: capitalist freedom for the vast majority of the popul...
Popular Resistance

Last Ten Ships Of The 2026 Gaza Flotilla Attacked By Israeli Commandos - By 8pm local time on May 19, 2026, the last ten boats of the 2026 Gaza flotilla had been illegally seized by the Israeli military in international water ...
Brad Blog

Primary Results from Six States and Trump’s $1.8 Billion Taxpayer-Funded Grift Machine: ‘BradCast’ 5/20/2026 - Today on The BradCast, our never-ending fight for democracy and the eventual termination of the Trump Era nightmares take the shape of actual election resu...
Antiwar.com

The Boring Trump-Xi Summit: Boring Is Good - Critics of the May 2026 summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), widely condemned the outcome as b...
Claytoonz

Kars4Grifters - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The Greanville Post

The Bust-Out Of ‘America’ - INDRAJIT—you analyze ‘America’ politically, you’re making an error, unwittingly. ‘America’ is not a polity, people’s opinions have nothing to do with polic...
memeorandum

Bezos defends billionaires, hypes AI, talks taxes and praises Trump in CNBC interview (CNBC) - CNBC: *Bezos defends billionaires, hypes AI, talks taxes and praises Trump in CNBC interview* … VIDEO 54:38 — Watch CNBC's full interview with Amazon ...
Project Censored

Corporate Sponsors Spend Millions Supporting “America First” Messaging - Corporations, including Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil, are spending millions to sponsor Freedom 250, a Trump-led organization celebrating the coun...
San Antonio Report

Spurs watch parties: Where to watch Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals - Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder starts 7:30 p.m. ------------------------------ Spurs wa...
Progressive.org

Protect English Learners in Nation’s Schools - Multilingual education is not merely workforce preparation. It is about equal opportunity.
The Week

Music reviews: Isaiah Rashad and Aldous Harding - ‘It’s Been Awful’ and ‘Train on the Island’
slacktivist

Postcards from America (5.20.26) - It's Memorial Day Savings time at the Big Box, so I basically live there this week. Here are some recent links.
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr. fires two leaders of preventive health panel - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is shaking up another important scientific panel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Church and State

They’re Coming for Our Voter Rolls: Millions Could Vanish Before Election Day - Trump is preparing to illegally purge tens of millions of Democratic voters from voter rolls nationally, just in time for the election.
OpEd News

Human Rights for Enemies Only? Amnesty International, Iran, and the Blind Spots of "Democracy Now!" - Surprisingly, a recent episode of Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" sounded more like Fox News. Its false equivalent coverage of executions in Iran ignored cru...
SCOTUSblog

Daubert dust-up and AEDPA angst - *The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is ava...
Novara Media

Supermarkets Revolt Over Labour Price Control Plans - UK supermarket bosses are up in arms over the government’s plan to cap prices on key groceries. Plus: Paul Holden explains what Starmer’s inner circle knew...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: How many seats could the Democrats win? - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2026* *New districts beneath the palmettos:* South Carolina is known as the Palmetto State, thanks to the sabal palmettos. Now that ...
El Paso Matters

NASA quietly removes former El Paso astronaut and other advisers, alarming former agency leaders - Retired El Paso astronaut Danny Olivas and former NASA leaders warn that dismantling NASA’s advisory system and cutting staff could increase risks for f...
Ballot Access News

John Morgan Sponsors Contest for Name of a New Party; Winner to Receive $100,000 - John Morgan, a wealthy attorney in Orlando, Florida, is intent on forming a new centrist party. He is sponsoring a contest that can be entered by any adult...
Mondoweiss

AIPAC sends a message by defeating Massie in Kentucky, but takes a massive loss with Rabb’s victory in Philadelphia - [image: Chris Rabb supporters at a No Kings protest in Philadelphia, on March 28, 2026. (Photo: Instagram/chrisrabb)]AIPAC helped oust Thomas Massie in Ken...
ArcaMax

The Inequality Merry-Go-Round Built By Stanley Tools - In this day of AI smart tools, it's easy to forget that we humans once relied on "dumb" hand tools like saws, drills, screwdrivers and wrenches. For decade...
Counterpunch

The San Diego Mosque Hate Crime and the Political Leaders Who Lit the Fuse - A hate crime had struck close to home. On the TV screen, more than four dozen police cars, blue lights swirling in a cold, mechanical rhythm. The news ti...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Baseless indictment of Raúl Castro a pretext for another war - The announced indictment of Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of the Republic of Cuba, by the United States Dep...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Creation of Situations - Some of my readers may be surprised that with everything else happening in the world, I’m returning to the ongoing discussion of Situationism, that bizarre...
Unlimited Hangout

The Rise of the Military Retail Industrial Complex - When it was reported that Wegmans grocery stores were utilizing facial recognition technology (FRT) to collect data on their customers, the company decli...
The Texas Signal

The Impact Of SNAP Cuts In Texas - With HR 1, Congress has forced some of the biggest cuts to SNAP in the program’s history. And the impacts are just starting to be felt in Texas, which has ...
Undernews

Where to find summer jobs - *WalletHub - *WalletHub compared more than 180 markets in the U.S. across 21 key metrics. The data set ranges from the median income of part-time workers t...
First Draft

I Could Have Droned All Night - Trump's "gift" to future presidents is also where he intends to hide out after the 2028 general election.
Space City Weather

Overnight rains are just the beginning of a wet pattern that should peak over Memorial Day weekend - In brief: Tuesday night’s rains were mostly manageable, but they are just the first round of storms that our region will experience over the next week. We ...
Dorf on Law

Color Blindness as Judicial Tyranny - From the very beginning of the Roberts Court in 2005, the Chief along with all the conservative justices except Anthony Kennedy (and for the last few mon...
ProPublica

Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care - The post Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care appeared first on ProPublica.
Scheerpost.com

No More Kings But Billionaires are Fine? Really? - Americans rejected monarchy 250 years ago. So why do we now defend an economic system that allows a microscopic fraction of humanity to accumulate extraord...
Countercurrents

Thousands of Palestinian Patients Stranded in Gaza Await Treatment Abroad Amid Israeli Restrictions - Gaza (QNN)- Thousands of Palestinian patients remain stranded in the war-torn Gaza Strip, awaiting treatment abroad, as only a limited number are permitted...
Off The Kuff

One crook endorses another - Took his time doing it, too. President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Ken Paxton in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate in Texas, ending over a year of...
Grist

The Iran war is destroying oil demand. Could it also spark a shift to clean energy? - As the oil crisis deepens across the globe, households and industries are using less fossil fuel — maybe permanently.
Socialist Alternative

The Gulf States: Elite’s “Paradise” Dynamited By Trump’s War On Iran - About a year ago, on the first international visit of Donald Trump’s second term, he heaped praise on the authoritarian rulers of Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi...
Wolf Street

Bond Bloodbath Worsens on Inflation, Lax Fed, and Flood of New Debt. Mortgage Rates hit 6.75% - Ugly trifecta that spooks the bond market. To soothe bond yields and mortgage rates, the Fed needs to hike, not “look through” inflation.
Courthouse News

Community bemoans insufficient emergency relief in Phoenix budget - The city invested more than $18 million in homeless services, including $1.5 million in heat relief, but residents were also seeking more funding for risin...
Black Agenda Report

Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit - Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit bareditors Wed, 05/20/2026 - 02:55 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Ahmed Kaballo
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT President Homer Rainey and the Long Memory of Academic Freedom at UT, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *UT President Homer Rainey and the Long Memory of Academic Freedom at UT* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 19, 2026* *There are moments in a univer...
The NM Political Report

Andrew Yang’s Forward Party earns party status for New Mexico November ballot - [image: Andrew Yang and Bob Perls (r) speak outside the Roundhouse to launch the new Forward Party in New Mexico. Apr. 2026 (courtesy)] New Mexico officia...
Alas, a Blog

Radical Gender Ideology - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. In a way, it’s also by Samantha Fulnecky, because a lot of the dialog was swiped verbatim from a paper she wrote...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Sludge

Musk-Recruited NASA Head Pushes Nuclear Agenda Tied to SpaceX - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is advancing a space nuclear agenda closely aligned with SpaceX’s Mars ambitions.
Angry Bear

Inflation Negating Worker Wage Increases - Biden passed a strong economy over to Trump. A few things Biden passed on to Trump is due to a strong economy: – Inflation was tamed without a recession....
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Simple Model for Forecasting the Impact of Mid-Cycle Redistricting on the 2026 House Elections - Even taking into account a GOP edge from redistricting, big-picture factors will need to improve significantly for Republicans to have a realistic chance...
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 19 May 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here. For the...
The AltWorld

On the Next US Attack on Iran… - A US war of aggression is like a rocket launch. It depends on a multitude of factors […] The post On the Next US Attack on Iran… appeared first on TheAlt...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Funding for wildlife crossings included in US House transportation bill - Environment America applauds Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, calls for additional funding for wildlife crossings The post STATEMENT: Funding...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Bigoted pastor James Robison dies. LGBTQ people outlasts another one. - The late religious right pastor James Robison is the latest anti-LGBTQ figure our community has outlasted. My LGBTQ brothers and sisters, we've outlasted ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Every American Understands - 11 x 15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb “…Even in his brief remarks to reporters Tuesday, Trump made clear that his sole concern in terms of the econ...
Krebs on Security

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github - Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed cred...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
Field Negro

The death of voting rights. - *"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more" ~Laurell K. Hamilton~ * The United States Supreme court ruled recently that gerrymandering...
Seeing the Forest

Most Voters Too Young To Remember - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. I was thinking about how most voters out there have no memory of all...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou with cherries (2) - [image: Canigou and cherries (2)]
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
Lowering the Bar

Under Haitian Law, Is It Illegal to Make a Zombie? - Not specifically?
The Militant

Greek unionists bring solidarity, needed medical supplies to Cuba - ATHENS, Greece — Some 35 people packed the meeting hall of the Athens publishing house Diethnes Vima April 18 to hear a report from a union delegation retu...
Texas Freedom Network

Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State - School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, ...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Earthworks

Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Bolivia - Threats to Indigenous land defenders in Bolivia have drawn attention from the United Nations. The post Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Boli...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The 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 ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
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...
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...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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

Sunday "It's Not Funny" Funnies

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