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

Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rule by Crisis: Trumpism, War Powers, and the Attack on Democracy, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. June 19, 2026 - *Darrell West Was Right: Trump Is Not the Only Threat to Democracy* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *June 19, 2026* Link to article *Darrell M. West’s ...
Houston Public Media

Bald eagle released near Houston after three months of medical care following injury - The eagle was found with a traumatic head injury in March near the Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge in Anahuac.
Salon.com

Trump’s Iran framework hits immediate turbulence after announced deal - Escalation in Lebanon, GOP dissent and even lower approval ratings signal the US-Iran peace deal might not be ready
The Daily Poster

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

Stunning aerial photo reveals breadth of Trump’s DC destruction - Local news reporter Spencer Allan Brooks on Friday posted a photo out of an airplane window looking over the new face of Washington D.C. after President ...
Futurism

Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads - Anything but this. The post Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads ap...
Slate

Bonus: Elon, Please Log Off - Giving a bad name to trillionaires everywhere…
IVN

47% Independent: The Two-Party System Has Lost the Country It Claims to Represent - This growing shift raises a fundamental question: Can a system designed by partisans for partisans remain legitimate when the country is going independent?
Al Jazeera English

Italy’s top diplomat nixes US trip after Meloni says Trump fabricated story - The Italian prime minister has accused Trump of making up a story that she 'begged' him for a photo at G7 in France.
San Antonio Current

From the plantation to the thicket: Juneteenth, Black freedom and ‘marronage’ in Texas - [image: he sun shines through the trees at the Big Thicket National Preserve.] This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit i...
Undernews

Trump Regime - *National Memo - *Federal workers for the U.S. Department of the Interior are being directed to wear pins promoting the president’s public-private partne...
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.
Independent Political Report

Green Party of Minnesota Qualifies Four Candidates for November Ballot - The Green Party of Minnesota will have four candidates on the November general election ballot this year, including three seeking statewide office and an...
Eschaton

PEACE - Apparently there is an Israel/Hezbollah peace deal. We can see how long that lasts.
Scheerpost.com

Throughout the US-Israeli War, Iranians Refused to Be Owned - By Elham Rahmati & Sahand Saadatmandi This article was originally published by Truthout In a war of aggression, our people refused to disappear and earned ...
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.
naked capitalism

People Are Marrying Holograms and Making Friends with Chatbots. But Can AI Bring True Happiness? - How AI companions enable the junk-food version of happiness sold by materialistic, externally-oriented societies.
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $518 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. 6-Month to 2-Year Treasury Yields Spike on Warsh’s “Regime Change” at the Fed - The 1-year Treasury yield spiked by 16 basis points, to 4.0%, highest since July, three rate cuts ago, as the bond market now expects multiple rate hikes.
Mediagazer

Source: DAZN is restructuring its business with a new holding company to make it easier to raise money and explore a potential public listing (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *Source: DAZN is restructuring its business with a new holding company to make it easier to raise money and explore a potential public l...
Courthouse News

$40 a pound for steak is cheap - Gripe about the price of beef today all you want, but one of the world’s leading flavor chemists told me what the most expensive steak in the history of th...
First Draft

I Guess The Rebel Flags Were a Clue - Yes, the GOP is a white nationalist party
NPR's Health Shots

Tick season is getting worse. Can managing deer help? - Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as "party buses" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of tick...
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...
El Paso Matters

Questions follow reported ICE facility overdoses; El Paso cooling centers open - This week: U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar questions DHS over suspected overdoses at Camp East Montana; community centers, libraries open cooling centers; Bo...
Mediaite

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Roasts Trump With Comparison to Obama Amid Iran Deal - CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins roasted President Donald Trump by comparing and contrasting him with former President Barack Obama amid fallout from the Iran ...
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...
Axios

House Democrats suffer 2nd crushing primary loss as party's pick falls short in Maine - House Democratic leadership's preferred candidate in Maine's 2nd district, state Sen. Joe Baldacci, lost his primary to progressive rival Matt Dunlap, st...
ArcaMax

Oh! Canada! - OK, so I'm a small-timer. This column runs in some papers around the country, but I'm not the most popular columnist this syndicate employs. I've written a...
Vox

Feel like a late bloomer? You’re not alone. - Allora Dannon didn’t notice when her younger siblings started dating before she did, and she was mostly focused on her academics when her college classmate...
WhoWhatWhy

Can AI Actually Be the Tool That Brings Government Back to Life? - [image: Air Traffic Control Center, 1975] The real threat to democracy isn’t AI. It’s a government that never learns to use it. Can AI Actually Be the To...
Common Dreams

Bonn climate talks signal momentum but leave climate vulnerable nations on the lurch - The UN climate talks in Bonn closed with growing momentum behind the transition away from fossil fuels, but deep disappointment over the continued failur...
The Week

Quiz of The Week: 13 – 19 June - Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
The Smirking Chimp

Michelle Obama Humiliates Trump With Brutal Reminder of Her Husband ‘Winning a Peace Prize’ -
Political Wire

Don’t Give ‘Em a Hose - The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live. Has the GOP finally has a midterm message — or just a fresh set of burns. Join now to continue reading. Member...
memeorandum

US-Iran peace talks postponed, clouding prospects for lasting truce (Reuters) - Reuters: *US-Iran peace talks postponed, clouding prospects for lasting truce* — Switzerland said U.S. talks with Iranian negotiators on a pact to end ...
Novara Media

The Left Voted Tactically in Makerfield – and the Right Should Take Note - Nobody expected the scale of Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield byelection this morning – including many of those around him. A week ago I was told t...
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.
Consortium News

A Republic or an Empire? - Andrew P. Napolitano on the form of government U.S. citizens will be celebrating next month, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. B...
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...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

As co-host of the World Cup, is the US learning to love soccer? – video - Soccer – football to many – may be the most played youth sport in the US but it still sits behind the NFL, basketball and baseball in the battle for main...
Counterpunch

Buying a Reputation - His name is all over Duke, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. It’s on the National Archives, the National Zoo, and the Library of Congress. It...
Ian Welsh

Vance Is Trying To Thread That Vice Presidential Needle - J.D. Vance, Trump’s vice-president has often said that his job is to support the president. He’s also made sure that people know he was against the Iran wa...
jobsanger

Over 776,000 Children Have Lost Their SNAP Benefits -
See You In 2020

Weaponizing Palestine against China: the “Uyghur genocide” psyop’s use for socdem neocons - *This is an excerpt from the book that I’m writing, titled “When tears can’t save them: Why the pro-Palestine movement failed to stop a holocaust, & how...
Informed Comment

MOU: Iran Gains stature, Arab States Diminished, US Humiliated - The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Cou...
The Hill

Medication abortion restored in Missouri following court ruling - A state judge opened the door for Missourians to access medication abortion in a Thursday ruling that comes over a year after state residents voted to lega...
Techdirt.

CBS Signs Licensing Deal With ‘Peanuts’ People To Duck Legal Issues From Colbert’s Last Show - I can’t say I know for sure that Stephen Colbert is a Techdirt reader, but I very much believe he is. His interests align somewhat with ours, he often comm...
World Socialist Web Site

US-Venezuelan forces carry out extrajudicial killing of alleged cartel leader as they bomb informal miners - Six months after US special forces abducted Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, the Chavista government is jointly operating with the US military to exec...
San Antonio Report

New art installation honors AME Church’s legacy with ‘Presence of the Past’ - A large new art installation called "Presence of the Past" was unveiled in downtown San Antonio on the San Pedro Creek Culture Park. -----------------------...
Popular Resistance

Flotilla Activists’ Harrowing Experience In Israeli Torture Dungeon - Since the Zionist siege of Gaza began 19 years ago, people from around the world have been organizing to break through it and establish a humanitarian co...
Brad Blog

‘Iran Wins’: Trump Loyalists Rebuke Pathetic Iran ‘Deal’: ‘BradCast’ 6/18/2026 - Today on The BradCast: Never mind 60 days. I’m not sure this lame Iran deal will even make it through the weekend. At least based on the way his most arden...
Portside

Democratic Progressives Are Winning Primaries Everywhere. Here’s Why. - Democratic Progressives Are Winning Primaries Everywhere. Here’s Why. jay Thu, 06/18/2026 - 20:55
Mother Jones

Grok Is More Important Than Clean Air, DOJ Says - The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon Musk’...
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...
Election Law Blog

“The Boundaries of Law and Politics: Disputes Over Wisconsin’s Political Maps…” - New, at the Marquette Law Review: John D. Johnson, The Boundaries of Law and Politics: Disputes Over Wisconsin’s Maps for Political Districts Have a Long...
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...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Says Lawsuit to Stop President Trump’s Executive Order on Preparing a Federal List of Registered Voters May Proceed - On June 18, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued an order of League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v Trump, 1:26cv-11549....
Progressive.org

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

Trusting Trump - 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...
CultureMap Houston

A highly opinionated take on Houston's venture-backed new bagel shop - It’s hard to remember the last restaurant opening with as much fanfare as *PopUp Bagels*. Houstonians lined up in the heat for the *bakery’s grand opening* ...
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...
Crooked Media

What If Abortion Meant Prison… Or Worse? - The post What If Abortion Meant Prison… Or Worse? appeared first on Crooked Media.
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.
SCOTUSblog

Divided court bars federal district court review of non-final state-court judgments - A divided Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the scope of a doctrine limiting lower federal courts’ authority to review state-court judgments. In an opi...
Socialist Alternative

Ukraine War Intensifies As Stalemate Drags On - More than four years in, the Ukraine war is the longest European military conflict since the end of World War II. The body count is growing and the damage ...
The Root

Why Michelle Obama’s Tribute to Her Husband Left America in Tears - There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a speech that celebrated her husband's grace and class as President. ...
Dorf on Law

Rare Unanimity of Result in a SCOTUS Second Amendment Case - Today's Supreme Court decision in *United States v. Hemani *is interesting for multiple reasons. (1) It is the first Second Amendment case on the Court's...
The Verge

Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits - When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citi...
Liberation News

The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding and the Limits of US Imperial Power - The most powerful military on earth bombed a country for more than three months and could not impose its will. This will be remembered as a geostrategic de...
NORML

Supreme Court Affirms Second Amendment Rights for Cannabis Consumers - [image: a legal cannabis flower sits next to a lawfully owned handgun][image: a legal cannabis flower sits next to a lawfully owned handgun]"Our Constitu...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- tic-tac - Based on the statement "the object plunged into the ocean" (which I admittedly haven't seen in any other description of the incident), and the known ways ...
Bonddad

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 on...
Angry Bear

Even adjusting for gas prices, consumers went on a (wealth effect- generated?) spending spree in May - – by New Deal democrat Consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and retail sales is our first wide measure of that spending. And since consumption...
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.
Space City Weather

Tropical Storm Arthur’s center moved near Houston on Wednesday evening. So why didn’t we feel it? - In brief: We talk about why, when Arthur’s center was closest to Houston on Wednesday evening, its winds died off. Also, we look ahead to calmer and hotter...
Mondoweiss

A Gaza father recounts how Israeli soldiers killed his seven-year-old son in his arms and mocked him - [image: Bahaha Abu al-Ajeen at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital with a photo of his son, Rayyan. (Photo: Screenshot from video testimony gathered by Osama Kahlout ...
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...
slacktivist

Each having fought himself out of his own coat - "Two partially intoxicated men engage in a fight with their great-coats on. ... A long contest, ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat, an...
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...
Off The Kuff

Mike Collier sues over independent candidate ballot access law - I shake my head. Mike Collier, the two-time Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Texas’ system for independe...
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.
Workers World

PDF of June 18 issue - [image: PDF of June 18 issue] Download the PDF 20,000 confront racism in Belfast U.S. anti-war activists demand ‘Stop the secret war chest for Israel befor...
Raw Story

Ex-MAGA insider warns Trump headed for 'five-stage denialism' after his biggest flop yet - A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet. Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former ...
Daily Cartoonist

The Big Nate Replacement Thread - I remain astonished at the lack of notices from newspapers about the weekday Big Nate ending and what is replacing the daily comic strip in the 200 (give o...
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...
The NM Political Report

In South Valley, Vasquez pitches bill to open 100,000 immigrant visas to fill caregiver needs for seniors, children - [image: Gabe Vasquez] By Julian Paras, The Paper. — United States Representative Gabe Vasquez visited a workforce development site in Albuquerque’s South ...
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...
Capital & Main

California Rideshare Drivers Join Massachusetts Counterparts in Unionizing - Uber and Lyft drivers in both states say low pay, rising gas prices and a lack of transparency in how they're compensated have fueled organizing efforts....
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
Daily Howler

MAPS OF OUR MINDS: On the latest YouGov poll... - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2026* *...Dems are just two points ahead:* On June 29, 1982, new language entered the world. Some of this language was perhaps a b...
Glasstire

Review: “Words Matter” at Arthouse, Marble Falls - “I feel real when you hold me” “Protect me from what I want” “the field” “Breath as a Boundary” All these phrases appear in Words Matter, the inaugural e...
Rewire

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says - A new documentary examines how abortion care has been portrayed on screen over the years. “We’ve all seen so many abortion storylines at various points—a...
Crooked Timber

On The Governance of LLMs, and The University (of Chicago) - Sometimes people that know and like each other, and that would never employ snark with each other, can still talk entirely past each other online. Carlo Lu...
The Texas Signal

Witnessing A World Cup - While the atmosphere around the World Cup in Texas has been exuberant, for many there’s an underlying anxiety given the recent immigration crackdowns in th...
Trivial Knot

I went gluten-free and it worked - Late last year, I was having some gastrointestinal issues, and someone suggested I should go gluten-free, as an experiment. I tried it for a few weeks, and...
Texas Observer

Texas’ Fight Against the Screwworm Will Be Nasty and Brutish - After spending four decades in exile south of the Rio Grande, the New World screwworm has finally wriggled its way back into Texas. The return of the par...
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 AltWorld

Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change - Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and […] The post Post-Iran war: The end of an era,...
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...
Field Negro

I need caption for this picture. - I will pick the winner after the first fifty comments. Go!
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.
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SILVER LININGS PAYBACK EDITION. - *Nice cover, lovely sentiment. * Sorry for the day of delay -- still healing up from the knee thing, and carrying a full load work-wise. But I have been ...
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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Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Peak Liberal no. 3 - 13 x 14″ high-res color .jpg image, 1.3mb Dear Liberal Amerika: SHUT the HELL UP about the 2024 election. Just shut the goddamn hell up RIGHT THE FUCK NOW....
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 ...
Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’ - A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hack...
Discourse

The Two-Letter Difference Between 'Ha Ha' and 'Uh Oh' (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Trump at the Knicks game, Scott Pelley's dramatic NYT interview, the endless Graham Platner saga, and the CA primaries
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...
Lowering the Bar

It Was Only a Matter of Time: *Both* Sides’ Lawyers Sanctioned for Using AI - None of the four lawyers involved will be seeing the inside of this courtroom again for a while.
LareDOS

My American history - The current brand of patriotism is product and prod, exclusionary, self-serving and narrow-minded, fear-mongering
Duck of Minerva

Rest Well, Raul Pacheco-Vega - Our community lost the inimitable Raúl Pacheco-Vega this week. Someone who knew him better than me should write a more definitive remembrance and maybe the...
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.
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...
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

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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

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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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