Brains and Eggs: Sunday Soulless 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

Al Jazeera English

Mourners gather to remember Lebanese conservationist killed by Israel - People gathered in Beirut in memory of beloved turtle conservationist Mona Khalil, killed in Israeli attack.
Salon.com

“Won’t even make it back to your f**king country”: Trump threatens Iranian officials during talks - The president said the officials "would not have a country" if they closed the Strait of Hormuz
The Verge

Bose thinks it can be a media company for some reason - The history books are littered with the corpses of corporate record labels started by companies that had no business being in the music industry. Bose thin...
Mother Jones

“Willful Neglect”: A New Report on the State of Fatherhood Pulls No Punches - In many countries around the world, it’s Father’s Day, a time to celebrate the contributions of dads. But aside from the inevitable barbeques and dad jokes...
Alternet

Republican warns against Trump's newest effort to 'dishonor' America - President Donald Trump has dishonored America through the actions of his top armed forces cabinet officer, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who is open...
Futurism

A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot - Let's see how "convenient" the store manages to be. The post A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot appeared first...
Election Law Blog

“Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career” - Jon Swaine WaPo investigation: Saltzburg had heard I’d been asking people about Chris Butler,the eccentric religious leader Gabbard once described as her...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - "President Trump told Fox News the US may take over the strait in the future if they have to & collect tolls. The president described this as the US bein...
Ballot Access News

New Mexico Journalist Merilee Dannemann Op-Ed on New Mexico’s Severe Ballot Access for Independent Candidates - Merilee Dannemann, a New Mexico journalist, has this op-ed criticizing the New Mexico ballot access law for independent candidates. It appears in the Daily...
The Root

The True Story of Fatherhood: Joshua DuBois on the Launch of ‘The Dad 100’ - The Dad Games recognizes 100 fathers and father figures whose impact strengthens families and communities Read more...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Man falls to his death during Madison Square Garden concert, police say - Officers find man unconscious and unresponsive with injuries indicating a fall from an ‘elevated position’ A 51-year-old man fell to his death during a c...
Undernews

How do people in the US describe customer service - The Guardian - Guardian readers from across the US wrote in to tell us about their battles with big companies, and the time, expense and emotional toll ex...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Sète - [image: Sète]
El Paso Matters

Motor vehicle deaths fall, overdose drugs shift: Medical examiner data shows how people died in El Paso in 2025 - The annual El Paso County medical examiner’s report reveals death trends, vulnerable demographics and shifts in drug overdoses. The post Motor vehicle d...
Independent Political Report

California Pirate Party Demoted to Observer Status by Pirate National Committee - The California Pirate Party has lost its voting membership in the Pirate National Committee and was demoted to observer status this month after failing t...
Axios

The clock is ticking on Trump's border wall - The closer you look at Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's declaration that the border wall will be finished by this time next year, the harde...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Goes Off the Deep End of the Reflecting Pool - [image: Algae bloom, Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool] In order to mask an embarrassing defeat, Donald Trump concocted a story of vandals who destroyed hi...
Mediagazer

In 2025, Article 19 documented 69 cases of Mexican officials' use of lawsuits and other legal tools against journalists, more than triple the number in 2024 (New York Times) - New York Times: *In 2025, Article 19 documented 69 cases of Mexican officials' use of lawsuits and other legal tools against journalists, more than tripl...
NPR's Health Shots

Recent studies show fathers' brains change after bringing home a new baby - NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Washington Post journalist Richard Sima about how fathers' brains change after bringing home a new baby.
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, o...
Vox

Why we don’t actually want a world without mosquitoes - I want you to close your eyes and imagine a perfect summer girls’ night out: It’s dusk and you assemble your crew and hit up the ultimate cookout. You avoi...
Off The Kuff

Time for another screwworm roundup - We’ll start with a bit of positive news. Several drugs to treat animals during the Texas screwworm outbreak have been approved by the Food and Drug Adminis...
Infidel753

Political alienation strikes again - This week I seem to have lost what was probably the closest online relationship I have, or rather had. And I don't know why, or at least I don't know the...
The Week

Elon Musk: the making of a trillionaire - The SpaceX founder has defied sceptics to post the largest flotation in history
Counterpunch

Dispatch From Horse Nation - Photograph by Joeyln Dalit. Joelyn and I talked through the bars on the stall windows as we shoveled manure into large buckets. We had gotten to know eac...
jobsanger

Even The Wealthy Are Getting Pessimistic About The Future -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1592: Specialized Language - Episode: 1592 In which we use fancy words instead of simple ones. Today, the quotidian denominator.
Informed Comment

Hormuz Effect: EVS = Record 2/3s of Chinese New Car Sales - We are witnessing the end of the Chinese gasoline car market in China. You have to wonder whether gas stations will be able to stay in business
Raw Story

Trump hit with ridicule as National Guard stands at Reflecting Pool: 'Protect from algae?' - The Trump administration has reached the stage of its Reflecting Pool saga where soldiers stand watch over a pond full of algae, and the internet has dec...
Socialist Alternative

Trump Indicts Anti-ICE Activists—Defend The Minnesota 15! - Federal prosecutors have charged 15 Minnesota activists for their participation in the struggle against ICE’s violent occupation of the Twin Cities. The in...
See You In 2020

The coming AI blackouts, imperialism’s long-term plan, & the next struggle the people are tasked with - Above: Gaza’s only power plant after the Zionist occupier struck it in 2014. The Gaza genocide should give a new sense of perspective to the Americans w...
Portside

Who Counts as a Worker? - Who Counts as a Worker? Dave Sat, 06/20/2026 - 20:40
The AltWorld

Sabotaje del acuerdo EE. UU.-Irán, auge del Eje de Resistencia y Hezbolá es invencible - Únete al debate, donde hablamos de geopolítica, economía y de la relación entre las narrativas oficiales y […] The post Sabotaje del acuerdo EE. UU.-Irán...
Mediaite

JD Vance Claims ‘Things Are Actually Getting Better’ in Lebanon Despite Reports of 16 Dead in Overnight Strikes - J.D. Vance left for Switzerland Saturday evening, but not before gaggling with reporters on the tarmac and declaring that the situation in Lebanon is imp...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Claytoonz

What’s In The Sack? - 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...
Trivial Knot

Thoughts on maintaining a game diary - I’ve been maintaining a video game diary since 2021. I post it publicly on my pillowfort. It is not the only media diary I maintain, I also review books ...
Workers World

Cleveland rally: ‘Hands off our vote!’ - [image: Cleveland rally: ‘Hands off our vote!’] Cleveland Some 150 people rallied on June 18 to protest FBI raids the previous week on the Ohio Organizing...
Mondoweiss

Reclaiming my Baba: the legacy of a Palestinian father who inspired The Sameer Project - [image: Sameer Abusaleem (Photo courtesy of the Abusaleem family)]This Father's Day, Miramar Abusaleem reclaims her father's memory — a Gaza farmer killed ...
Popular Resistance

The Joke Is On Us - The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is ea...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s ‘Sabotage’ of Peace Agreement Working Again as Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz in Response to Lebanon Assault - Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Israel’s attempts to sabotage the peace agreement between the United States and Iran appear to be working again, with its ...
Courthouse News

Texas judge releases grisly evidence from murder trial of Karmelo Anthony - Judge John Roach Jr. made public images of the murder weapon, autopsy and surveillance video showing Karmelo Anthony tripping and falling over bleachers as...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: It's hard to stomach the kind of behavior... - *SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2026* *...we wrote about yesterday morning:* It's hard to stomach the kind of behavior we wrote about yesterday morning. In conte...
memeorandum

America's intractable air traffic problem (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *America's intractable air traffic problem* — Tech outages and staff shortages are causing traveller misery as World Cup fans arrive an...
Wolf Street

Out Hiking in Europe. Shop (Partially) Closed through June - I’ll have sporadic access to the internet and will read the comments; if I turn into a night owl, I might write an article.
Novara Media

Private Equity Bought the World – And Dug Capitalism’s Grave - Secret backrooms where deals are done in private: the realm of conspiracy theories? Or an increasingly large part of capitalism? Since the financial crisis...
The Hill

Chinese firms can't get away with abusing workers overseas - Overseas labor conditions are becoming a genuine constraint on Chinese outbound investment.
Political Wire

What if Both Parties Redistricted to the Max? - Nathaniel Rakich: “It’s possible to imagine nearly three dozen states redrawing their congressional lines by 2030. That would reshape the battleground for ...
Space City Weather

Widespread showers and thunderstorms likely today in Houston - In brief: We are issuing a Stage 1 flood alert for Saturday due to the possibility of slow moving storms capable of producing rainfall rates of 1 to 2 inch...
CultureMap Houston

5 Houston universities declared world's best and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from a historic Houston showing at the James Beard Awards to some of the best un...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 310: Jun. 20, 2026 - Today's puzzle has 11 pears.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio startup KeepTabz is using AI to change how companies track competitors - San Antonio-based AI startup KeepTabz launched this year, offering programs that track and organize information about business' competitors. ---------------...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for June 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There was another air pocket this week in withholding tax payments, and...
Angry Bear

Preliminary evidence that both business expansion – and widespread inflation – have continued in June - – by New Deal democrat Yesterday, in addition to the retail sales report, general business sales and inventory were reported – but unfortunately only t...
San Antonio Current

Talarico goes all-in with attack on Paxton plea deal in child sex abuse case - [image: From left: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin. The two are the Republican and Democratic nominees for the U....
Daily Cartoonist

Empire of Ink and other weekend whatnots - The history of newspapers! A Dick Tracy villain? The History of American Newspapers Here’s a book I’m looking forward to as much as a new history of comics...
ArcaMax

Proportionality Matters - Every person who has either participated in or witnessed a fight understands the doctrine of "he started it." The fight begins with a provocation followed ...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week — Terms of US Surrender - After losing the war, a major U.S.-Israel row is coming to a head with the fate of Mideast peace and the global economy on the line. With Ray McGovern and ...
naked capitalism

Links 6/20/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Even Notorious Right-Wing Leaders Are Fleeing Trump’s ‘Fat Orange Clownery’: Conservative -
Crooked Media

Why You Should Love America - The post Why You Should Love America appeared first on Crooked Media.
LareDOS

Bread and circuses – panem et circenses - This government’s strategy to placate the public by providing cheap food and shallow entertainment to distract from deeper issues like the Epstein Files, P...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Confidential - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Juneteenth, Fort Worth, and the Sacred Work of Black and Brown Coalition, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., June 19, 2026 - *Juneteenth, Fort Worth, and the Sacred Work of Black and Brown Coalition* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *June 19, 2026* *At today's National LULAC Co...
Common Dreams

You Are America, Ready To Seize What Ought To Be - This week, a growing "dignity gap" amidst more busts and botches - war, flu, pools, fans - suggests a faint, nascent shift in momentum back toward we the...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #174 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: a FOIA request; another psychic fails to predict her own future; important disclosure requirements; etc.
Ian Welsh

Israel’s Support Is Eroding In the US - A friend pointed out to me that Israel’s support is eroding hard. The elite consensus is shifting. Point in case: Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gv...
IVN

The DC Council Has One More Chance to Let Independents Vote. Now is the Time to Get it Done! - These are taxpayer-funded elections. Every voter should be able to cast a ballot. It is time to fund implementation of semi-open primaries.
World Socialist Web Site

Burnham wins Makerfield by-election, clearing path for Labour leadership challenge - Burnham’s remaining rhetoric will be discarded the instant he crosses the threshold of Downing Street.
The Texas Signal

Texas Republicans Take A New Hard Line Against IVF - The Texas GOP's new party platform includes a call to ban IVF and commercial surrogacy in the state
Capital & Main

Sheriff’s, Probation Litigation Cost L.A. County Taxpayers $1 Billion, Study Finds - As county considers a $50.3 billion budget, a report tallies how much is going to legal payouts advocates say are preventable. The post Sheriff’s, Probat...
Discourse

Where Do We Even Start With This Iran Deal (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the necons losing their shit, the best lines from Trump's press conference, and Jack's shocking piece of mail
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Close Your Apps And Think Of England - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Dorf on Law

Juneteenth!! - For some reason, the White House is not hosting a raucous Juneteenth celebration today. Strange. We at *Dorf on Law* chose not to put a bouncy house on ou...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: RETURN TO FORM EDITION. - *You know what, I never knew what this was called until this week.* Well, looky here -- for the first time in weeks I got one of these R-T-Hs published ...
The Daily Poster

Who’s Kicking Money Out Of Politics? - Test your knowledge of Wall Street, dark money, and other issues that really matter.
NORML

DEA Limits Participants in Upcoming Marijuana Hearing to Those Opposed to Rescheduling - [image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag][image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag]"A fair administrative proces...
Duck of Minerva

On Indigenous Political Thought in Video Games - In something of a departure from my typical work, I recently published an article in International Political Sociology on Indigenous political thought in v...
Field Negro

No exit in sight. - I few months ago I was driving down to Louisiana to play golf with some friends of mine. I had a craving for a bag of those pecan nuts that they serve...
The Progressive Wing

6/19-6/21 Holiday Weekend News and Open Thread - Today is Juneteenth – and holiday weekend. I’ll start with a classic: More news and your comments after the jump.
Liberation News

Juneteenth and the Fight for Black Liberation - We embrace the revolutionary legacy of Juneteenth by building the movement for Black liberation and a socialist future!
Glasstire

Texas Book Festival Announces Dallas-Based Poster Artist for 2026 - The Texas Book Festival has announced Temi Coker, a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist born in Lagos, Nigeria, as the poster artist for its 2026 event...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for June 19, 2026: Exploring Juneteenth and the history and culture of Black Texans - It’s been a celebration for more than 160 years — but only a federal holiday for a few. We’re recognizing Juneteenth on today’s Texas Standard.
Rewire

Wyoming and Missouri Judges Block Anti-Abortion Laws - Plus, an anti-trans bathroom ban in Idaho got temporarily paused, and the Trump administration snuck "fetal personhood" language into a federal grant des...
Deadline Politics

Democratic Senators Call On FCC To Prevent Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger From Closing While Foreign Ownership Review Is Pending - Three Democratic senators are calling on the FCC to bar the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger from closing until an agency review of foreign ownershi...
SCOTUSblog

Cameras in the courtroom? - Plus, laws on “habitual drunkards” featured prominently in the court’s latest Second Amendment ruling.
Democracy Now!

"Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song - “Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video...
Grist

How FIFA’s climate solution has turned into ‘water-gate’ - Introduced in the name of player safety, hydration breaks at the World Cup have become a flashpoint for fans and players alike.
High Country News

If you can’t find a Utah peach this year, climate change may be to blame - Record-breaking spring heat followed by freezes led to 95% crop losses. The post If you can’t find a Utah peach this year, climate change may be to blam...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Baby, Baby, Baby, You’re Out Of Drones - 10 x 18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 832kb I didn’t even bother to contain my glee as I read the news of US and Israeli stocks of missiles and drones ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report June 19, 2026 - Black Agenda Report June 19, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/19/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Antiwar.com

Trump, the Democrats and the Courage To End a Failed War - Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

''Pastors for Trump' founder drops out of Congressional race after sexting scandal' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - Jackson Lahmeyer *House candidate who started Pastors for Trump drops out of race after text messaging scandal:* * Jackson Lahmeyer has dropped out of t...
The Greanville Post

US-Iran “MOU” Sets Stage for Renewed US Siege - BB—Iran now faces either a possible longer pause it will need to race the US in preparations for the next confrontation, or another immediate disruption of...
Progressive.org

America is Not ‘One Nation Under God’ - Let’s reject false narratives about the nation’s founders and founding documents.
Environment Texas

New law speeds up rooftop solar, but Dallas is slowing it down - Rather than embrace the new law as a solution, Dallas is locking residents out of its benefits. The post New law speeds up rooftop solar, but Dallas is s...
The NM Political Report

Here are the Dems jockeying to be Deb Haaland’s running mate after Toulouse Oliver backed out of Lt. Gov run - Commentary by Pat Davis, The Paper & NM Political Report — Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver announced Thursday that she was “taking a step back...
MintPress News

FARA Docs: Israel is Spying On Millions Of Christian Americans In Their Churches - Newly released FARA documents with the DOJ reveal that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid U.S. company “Show Faith By Works” $4.1 million to ca...
Sludge

NASA Chief Bought Millions in SpaceX-Linked Stock Before IPO, While Pushing SpaceX's Agenda - Jared Isaacman has been buying up shares of SpaceX payments partner Shift4, including purchases worth up to $50 million in the weeks prior to the record IPO.
Krebs on Security

‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm - For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertis...
Texas Observer

From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and ‘Marronage’ in Texas - In Texas, Juneteenth is often described as the day that Union Major General Gordon Granger marched upon the shores of Galveston to announce the Emancipat...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle for the Soul of Argentine Football - Why did so many fans feel betrayed by Lionel Messi’s visit to Trump’s White House? The answer goes back to the history of his country’s football culture.
The Conversation

Americans keep voting for scandal-prone candidates because they just don’t want the other party to win - Polarization and negative partisanship have lowered the standards for whom Americans are willing to support.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

If Democrats Get a 2006-Style Senate Result, It May be Because Trump Has a 2006-Style Approval Rating - Trump's approvals in the key Senate states were fine in 2018, but Bush's were not in 2006 The post If Democrats Get a 2006-Style Senate Result, It May be...
Earth 911

Yard Waste: Composting’s Success Story With a Methane Asterisk - In 1990, American landfills buried about 25 million tons of grass, leaves, and branches a... The post Yard Waste: Composting’s Success Story With a Metha...
Rallblog

Peace in Our Time? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
The Grayzone

Israeli foreign agent took over The Charlie Kirk Show days after his killing - Charlie Kirk’s media empire and his right-wing activist organization, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), have come under the control of the Israel-directed force...
ProPublica

Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes - The post Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes appeared first on ProPublica.
Brad Blog

The Trouble With Trillionaires (and Billionaires): ‘BradCast’ 6/17/2026 - We are all over the map on today’s BradCast, . Literally. [Audio for today’s show follows this summary.] FIRST UP… The terms of what appears to be little s...
Alas, a Blog

Fox Goggles - It took me a few tries to write this strip. It’s the most vexing question of the Trump era, for me: How can so many people support Trump? I’ve known a bunc...
Church and State

This Is No Ordinary Time in History Circa 2026 - As human numbers increase to extremes around the planet: countries fight for water, energy, arable land, resources and turf.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Comfort Trap: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Ecosophia

A Game of Musical Chairs - Some turning points in history are impossible to miss. They involve battle-cries and the clash of weapons, gatherings making decisions that can never be un...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Downsides of "Deterrence" - Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That
Progressives Chat

Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed. - In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition. From Democrats. But also from the supposed mainstream. One of these men, beginning...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / CULTURE / Down on the Drag: Austin Music History - By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2026 I love learning about the place, people and history of where I live. I often wonder about the people w...
Bracing Views

It’s a Most Confusing Time to be in the U.S. Military - Who knows why we fight? BILL ASTORE JUN 14, 2026 It’s a most confusing time to be in the U.S. military. Who knows why we fight? At the top, there’s a lack ...
Project Censored

Big Tech’s Campus Takeover, ICE’s Expanding Reach - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big tech's hold on higher ed - namely, their aims to surveil, extract,...
Earthworks

In Colorado, Polluting Just Got More Expensive - The headlines are inescapable: In Washington D.C., generations-long environmental rules are currently under assault. Industry-friendly officials and lawm...
Debunking Christianity

An Interview on Atheist Morality - > > Dear Dr. Loftus, >> >> I am a secondary school student currently researching the historical >> change in morality and its link to the rise in secular...
Greg Palast

Trump’s Cage Fight GeniusHow ‘bout a cage rematch? Don “The Bovine” Trump v. Sen. Jon Ossoff? - Just when the Democrats thought they had it clinched because of high gas prices from the “little excursion” in Iran, Trump pulls off one of the most brilli...
Seeing the Forest

The First AI War - This could be the first AI war. My experience with AI is it’s a confirmation bias machine. This isn’t about being right, it’s about seeing responses that s...
Idavox

HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! - We have dealing with this event for a number of years now. Looks like the... The post HEADS UP! We Got Ourselves a Nazi Concert Happening in NJ! appeared...
Web of Debt

AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED - Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificia...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: June 14, 2026 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
TalkLeft

Moving Day and Open Thread - Today is TalkLeft's 23rd Birthday! I wish I had time to celebrate it. I am moving apartments today, same building, same size unit, great mountain view, but...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Two Party Opera

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Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Texas Freedom Network

Five Ways Education Vouchers are Already Harming Texans - By Andrew Freeman Governor Abbott and his far-right cronies pushed for vouchers for more than a decade. It took millions of dollars, countless special se...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2026 - Walmart had another thirteen more shootings in May of 2026, with at least five of them killing one person and one of those killing two for a total of si...
Media Lens

Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial - We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
The Militant

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba! - The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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