Brains and Eggs: Sunday Shithole 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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Eschaton

America's Worst Humans - Greg Bovino.
memeorandum

Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center (Michael Andor Brodeur/Washington Post) - Michael Andor Brodeur / Washington Post: *Philip Glass pulls world premiere from Kennedy Center* — The pioneering composer said “the values of the Kenn...
Mediaite

Newsmax Host Holds His Phone Like a Firearm in Defense of ICE Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti: ‘Does That Look Like a Gun?’ - Newsmax host Greg Kelly held his phone as if it were a gun to make the argument that the ICE agents who shot and killed Alex Pretti were simply mistaken....
The Week

ICE: Now a lawless agency? - Polls show Americans do not approve of ICE tactics
The NM Political Report

New Mexico court strikes down “Homewrecker Law,” ending husband’s suit against ex-wife’s new boyfriend - The New Mexico Supreme Court has unanimously abolished the state’s century-old “alienation of affections” law, commonly referred to as “Homewrecker Laws...
CultureMap Houston

Inside look at Houston sushi master's intimate new omakase counter - As his recent James Beard Award *semifinalist nomination* for Outstanding Chef demonstrates, *Manabu Horiuchi* — better known as Hori — has long been consi...
Courthouse News

Ancient Chinese tools challenge early human development timeline - Researchers identified early handled tools that archeologists previously thought were not created in East Asia until thousands of years later.
Futurism

Moon Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Launch - Let's go! The post Moon Astronauts Enter Quarantine for Launch appeared first on Futurism.
Salon.com

Nigella Lawson joins “Great British Bake Off” as newest judge - “The Great British Bake Off is more than a television programme, it’s a National Treasure," Lawson said
Al Jazeera English

Gauff blasts broadcasters over privacy after Australian Open racket smash - Coco Gauff, who lost to Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, was filmed smashing her racket.
Mother Jones

Tom Homan Is Supposed to Fix Trump’s Minnesota Crisis. His Record Raises Serious Questions. - Donald Trump announced Monday that he is sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota to take charge of the chaotic immigration operation that led to t...
Bonddad

Repeat home sales indices for November indicate continued rebalancing vs. new home prices — at a glacial pace - - *by New Deal democrat* For the past year, my view has been that the housing market is in recessionary territory, although that has not translated t...
San Antonio Current

GOP Sen. Cruz, Rep. McCaul call for investigation after federal agents fatally shoot man in Minneapolis - [image: Mourners visit a makeshift memorial at the site where federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Jan. 25, 2026.] Other...
Raw Story

'Worse and worse for White House': Damning new video reveals run-up to ICE shooting - More video showing the run-up to Alex Pretti's shooting was revealed Tuesday — and it further contradicts Trump administration claims about the killing b...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #12: One Terrible Year of Trump 2.0 + Oscar Nominations Reactions (w/Katherine Krueger) - Katherine returns to recap the first year of Trump's violent, unrelenting second term.
Vox

How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond - In recent weeks, Minnesota has borne the brunt of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration strategy, with federal officials detaining thousands of...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Gun rights debate resurfaces after Minneapolis shooting - After Border Patrol agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis who was legally carrying a firearm, some federal officials suggested bringing a gun to a pr...
Election Law Blog

“After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff” - NYT: The nursing home industry was on a roll last summer. It had just won a 10-year moratorium on a rule initiated during President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’...
Common Dreams

Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in Illegal Boat Strike Sue Trump Administration - Today, family members of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. missile strike in October are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicia...
Second Nexus

AOC Goes Nuclear On Kristi Noem For Suggesting That Protesters Who Show Up With Firearms Deserve To Die - New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's hypocrisy after Noem responded to the mu...
The Verge

You’ll be able to change the color of Virtual Boy games on Nintendo Switch Online - Following the initial reveal last September, Nintendo has released a new trailer detailing which Virtual Boy games will be available to Switch Online subsc...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Families of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US government - First-of-its kind suit filed by civil rights attorneys on behalf of families centers on 14 October strike in Caribbean Sea that killed six Civil rights ...
Political Wire

Bonfire of the Murdochs - Out next week: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family –– and the World by Gabriel Sherman. Tina...
SCOTUSblog

Defending the Fed: agency independence in three dimensions - Controlling Opinions is a recurring series by Richard Re that explores the interaction of law, ideology, and discretion at the Supreme Court. The Supreme...
Daily Cartoonist

When Trudeau Turned Doonesbury Over to “Zorro” - Soon after Doonesbury began syndication there arose a false accusation that Garry Trudeau was no longer drawing the comic strip only writing it, having han...
naked capitalism

Retro Fever: Cranking Back the Years - From Trump on down, the US is particularly keen on the retrograde.
Daily Howler

WITNESSED: The New York Times takes a new approach! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026* *Reports what they're saying on Fox:* To the naked eye of an unskilled observer watching via videotape, the latest fatal shoo...
Houston Public Media

Artemis II crew quarantines in Houston ahead of possible February launch to moon - The moon-bound crew entered a 14-day quarantine on Friday evening to keep them from contracting any illnesses that could delay launching.
Undernews

Doctors break with CDC on vaccine guidance for children - *NBC - *The nation’s leading group of pediatricians released its annual children’s vaccine recommendations — and for the first time in 30 years it signific...
The Hill

Chris Madel: 'This is not the United States ... that we want to be' - Chris Madel, the attorney who ended his GOP campaign for Minnesota governor Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol official, sla...
Deadline Politics

CNN To Host Town Hall On Minneapolis “State Of Emergency” - Anderson Cooper and Sara Sidner will host a CNN town hall on Wednesday from Minneapolis, reeling from the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ...
Bracing Views

Of Lies and Surges - There’s Blood in the Streets BILL ASTORE JAN 26, 2026 Two headlines caught my eye this AM in my email media stream. From the New York Times: “How the Trump...
Countercurrents

Another Newborn Baby Freezes to Death in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade on Aid, Including Shelters - Gaza (QNN)- A 12-day-old Palestinian baby died in Gaza on Tuesday from severe cold, bringing the number of children in the war-torn enclave who have died o...
Mediagazer

Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (Katarina Hoije/Bloomberg) - Katarina Hoije / Bloomberg: *Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his...
NPR's Health Shots

A kids' guide to phone-free fun, from the author of 'The Anxious Generation' - Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book made the case that screen time had "rewired" kids' brains. *The Amazing Generation *is a collab with science journalist Catherin...
El Paso Matters

EPCC VP Smith turns chance hire into impactful 37-year career - Steve Smith, a longtime El Paso Community College educator and administrator, to retire after 37 years marked by leadership in workforce education, earl...
First Draft

Bovino and Bondi Overplay Their Hand - With cameos from Peter Gabriel, John Donne, and A Fish Called Wanda.
San Antonio Report

Our Lady of the Lake revives observance of the Treaty of Guadalupe with free conference - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo will be the focus of a five-day conference center around it's history and ripple effects. ------------------------------ Ou...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: The Magic System: Zionism - It’s stunning how much influence this ideology has had throughout our society’s culture and institutions. It’s almost magical. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin...
WhoWhatWhy

Yes, Climate Change Can Supercharge a Winter Storm. Here’s How - [image: science, climate crisis, North Pole, Arctic amplification, polar vortex, storms] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or re...
Democracy Now!

From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: "Copaganda" Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing - As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary ...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Again Threatens Talk Shows That Refuse To Coddle Republicans - For more than fifty years the U.S. right wing has accused academia, journalism or science of having a “liberal bias” if it reveals absolutely anything the ...
Rallblog

Where Will ICE Killers Go Next? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
The Conversation

Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it impossible for citizens to think and to judge - When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, becau...
Texas Observer

In Texas Cities, Let a Hundred Mamdanis Bloom - The ascent of Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old socialist Muslim, to New York City’s mayoralty once seemed an almost absurdist dream. Yet, propelled by an ar...
The AltWorld

Why is Trump postponing his attack on Iran? - How did aircraft carriers become a burden on the American military establishment? The Israeli occupation state and […] The post Why is Trump postponing h...
ArcaMax

Uncommon Criminal: The Perp Walk President Protected from Prison - It wasn't enough last week for Americans to stomach the global humiliation of watching an untethered president babbling about "taking" territory from a NAT...
Crooked Media

Hold Your Applause - The post Hold Your Applause appeared first on Crooked Media.
Space City Weather

Houston to warm up for a few days before another sharp cooldown this weekend - In brief: After our coldest weather in nearly a year this morning, the region will thaw out and warm up today with plenty of sunshine. We will then have a ...
Scheerpost.com

Immigrant Children Lead Uprising at Texas Detention Center - The immigrant jail, where many children are detained, has “horrible” conditions, including “putrid” drinking water.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Finding a Northwest Passage to the Sea - According to science, it was unexpected in 2008 when the famed Northwest Passage across the... The post Guest Idea: Finding a Northwest Passage to the Se...
Dorf on Law

The Term From Hell and the Court that Isn't a Court - For two decades, I have argued that the Supreme Court of the United States is not a real court of law and its justices do not perform their jobs like rea...
The Smirking Chimp

Is the Most Powerful Message in America Now “Obey or Die”? -
Skeptophilia

The tide is high - The list of confirmed exoplanets now exceeds six thousand. Considering the fact that the three main ways they're detected -- direct measure of stellar wob...
The Root

Left Alone With His Infant for the First Time, a Maine Father Now Faces Unthinkable Accusations - A Maine's father first solo playdate with his 12-week-old infant Lyla Samuels ended in tragedy two weeks ago. Now, he's facing murder charges. Read more...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Tanya Garrison - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
Slate

Help! My Sister Just Experienced an Unthinkable Tragedy. She Says She’s “Not Grieving.” - I can't imagine what she's feeling.
ProPublica

How Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Helped Keep a Payday Lender’s Struggling Sports Gambling Company Alive - The post How Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Helped Keep a Payday Lender’s Struggling Sports Gambling Company Alive appeared first on ProPublica.
The Daily Poster

Why America Spends Billions Policing Immigrants — And Pennies Policing Corporations - From Minneapolis to Davos, the state shows who it polices — and who it protects.
Axios

The gold rally is the new bet against Trump - Investors around the world are losing faith in traditional safe-haven assets like the U.S. dollar and Treasuries, fueling a fierce rally in gold. *Why i...
Grist

The EPA wants to eliminate one of the few ways that tribes can protect their water - The agency’s plan would narrow water quality reviews and make it harder for tribes to enforce treaty rights.
Ian Welsh

Just How High Can Silver Really Go? - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Everyone is talking about gold topping $5k an ounce. The yellow metal is captivating and big moves by it tend to suck all the oxygen o...
Dissident Voice

The Barr Doctrine, Noriega, and Maduro - US President Donald Trump might leave an impression of violent novelty, at least for the leader of a nominal liberal democracy, soiling international rel...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 27 January 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "rise of Amelia" post, click here.] ...
Counterpunch

A First-Hand Account of Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Southwestern Syria - “They came in the night after Assad fled,” said Mohammed, a resident of Kodena, a small village perched upon rolling hills of rocky soil, about a mile an...
Novara Media

98: Are We Obsessed With Having Our Feelings Validated? - Have we become reliant on having our feelings validated instead of taking valid criticism? Ash and Moya offer their own strategies for worrying less about ...
Trivial Knot

My games of the year 2025 - I play 50+ video games every year, so why not make a list of the best ones? People like listicles, right? Personally, I don’t have much interest in Game-of...
World Socialist Web Site

Co-workers, veterans at Minneapolis VA center honor Alex Pretti, denounce murder by ICE thugs - Minnesota veterans and students denounced the assassination of VA nurse Alex Pretti.
jobsanger

A Brave Light In The Fascist Darkness -
OpEd News

Reverse Sonnet - Poem for the same ol new year. Here's hoping love prevails and there is joy in the world and less sorrow.
Informed Comment

“Once dead you never shall return:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:34 - It gave its mouth to mine and whispered, / Have some wine, since once you're gone, you won't be back.
Claytoonz

Another MAGA Flip-Flop - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Brad Blog

The ICE Murder of ICU Nurse Alex Pretti and the Heroes of Minneapolis: 'BradCast' 1/26/2026 - Today on The BradCast: Apparently, the Trump Administration's murder of U.S. citizens will continue until morale improves. [Audio link to full show follows...
Popular Resistance

Italian Workers Are Building A Global Movement Against Fascism, Launch February 6 - Last Fall, Italians turned out in massive numbers to support the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza and to stop weapons shipments to Israel. They held nationw...
Workers World

Trader Joe’s United demands “Sanctuary Store” - [image: Trader Joe’s United demands “Sanctuary Store”] Workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Minneapolis, one of the few in the country with a union, are prio...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'LGBTQ celebrities, lawmakers speak out against ICE for Alex Pretti shooting' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Alex Pretti * Editor's note - I apologize for not posting as much as I should. The situation in Minnesota is bad enough to make me sad for my country, b...
Antiwar.com

Democrats Are Complicit Enablers of Trump’s War Machine - Reprinted with permission from The Screeching Kettle at Substack. The year is 2026. The US under Donald Trump kidnapped the president of Venezuela after bo...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Jan 28-Feb 3, 2026 - This Week in People’s History, Jan 28-Feb 3, 2026 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 01/26/2026 - 18:56
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar : The Emperor of Chaos Strikes Again! - JUDGE NAPOLITANO—The video features Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewing geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar on January 20th, 2026, discussing the current vo...
Alternet

Firearms instructor warns GOP will lose pro-gun voters over Trump’s crackdown - Federal agents gunning down a U.S. citizen and lawful gun owner in Minneapolis, Minnesota last weekend may result in blowback for Republicans in this fal...
Socialist Alternative

Minneapolis Target Workers Strike—Shut Down Stores Everywhere To Kick ICE Out! - On January 23, the Twin Cities went on a historic strike against ICE, but it wasn’t just unionized workers organizing their workplaces to shut it down. At ...
The Texas Signal

What To Know About Abortion In Texas Now - Texas’ blanket ban has not eliminated access to abortion—just displaced it. Care has been forced out of state and into a statutory gray area. One thing rem...
See You In 2020

The implosion of liberal identity politics, and our task of building a new cross-racial workers force - If American communists want to survive this state crackdown, we will need to work fast at rebuilding Marxism’s ties to the anti-racist struggles. We mus...
Church and State

What were the key moments in your life? - My contention is that each phase affords the life traveler the unique chance to practice for the next phase.
Wolf Street

Hard to Imagine an Economic Slowdown until this Business Investment Boom Fizzles. Core Capital Goods Orders Show Why - The five-month surge is a sign of strong business investment, partly driven by the AI infrastructure buildout.
Crooked Timber

WHO: An anecdote - So the Trump administration has just pulled the US out of the World Health Organization, WHO. WHO is the biggest and most important international health or...
Mondoweiss

A Palestinian neighborhood’s last stand against Israeli settler takeover in Jerusalem - The town of Silwan has been at the heart of the Israeli settler takeover of Jerusalem’s remaining Palestinian neighborhoods. A recent Israeli court decisio...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Plato and Socrates would have quite a few questions for Texas lawmakers, by Deborah Beck, For the Express-News Jan 25, 2026 - *Friends:This piece should alarm anyone who cares about freedom, truth, or higher education. When Plato is treated as a political threat and factual text...
Angry Bear

Stale data watch: manufacturers’ new orders soared in November — more evidence of AI data center building? - – by New Deal democrat With another likely government shutdown looming at the end of this week due to DHS funding, we are still playing catch-up from th...
NORML

Study: Lifetime Cannabis Use Linked to Greater Cognitive Performance in Aging Populations - [image: Marijuana Brain][image: Marijuana Brain]“This study adds to a growing body of evidence that cannabis use may be associated with greater brain vol...
Ballot Access News

Tennessee Bills to Bar Naturalized Citizens from Running for Congress in a Party Primary - Bills have been introduced in each house of the Tennessee legislature to bar naturalized citizens from running for congress in a party primary. They are SB...
slacktivist

Timberwolves chaplain speaks out - Minnesota is preaching a sermon that all of America needs to hear.
Democracy Chronicles

Sad to Say But the Trump Disaster is Worse Than We Expected - I don’t believe things can get better with Trump. I have no faith in his concern for our nation. I’m afraid that we won’t have a country left by the time h...
Dissent Magazine

Nick Salvatore: Citizen and Historian - The author of *Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist* and other biographies, Nick Salvatore leaves behind a rich legacy that both challenges and inspires...
Capital & Main

Is Black Representation Over for Los Angeles City Council District 9? - Chris Martin is the only Black candidate in the race to replace City Councilmember Curren Price. It’s a pivotal moment for a South L.A. community that ha...
Environment Texas

Outdoorsmen and women show support for wildlife corridor legislation - 82 hunting and conservation entities sign letter in support of the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act The post Outdoorsmen and women show support...
Project Censored

Manufactured Borders, Manufactured Intelligence - In the first part of the program we welcome back political and legal geographer Dr. Austin Kocher to talk about the immigration news that never makes the...
Glasstire

New Ismaili Center in Houston to Feature Contemporary Art - The Ismaili Center in Houston’s Fourth Ward neighborhood opened to the public on Saturday, December 13, 2025. The 150,000-square-foot facility will host ...
Krebs on Security

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? - The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating th...
The Progressive Wing

1/26-1/30 News Roundup and Open Thread - Buried in snow and cold here in NY–and possibly another big snow storm here next Sunday ⛄️😱
Rewire

Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend. - State and federal officials are working with Native American groups to better track and address pregnancy-related deaths in their communities through mat...
High Country News

How to find deep time in Seattle - A geologist connects Earth’s history to the amazing stones that clad the city's buildings. The post How to find deep time in Seattle appeared first on H...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Idavox

Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis - This time it was a a nurse at a local VA hospital – or as... The post Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis appeared first on Idavox.
Alas, a Blog

I Can’t Believe They Deported Carol! - This cartoon is by me and new guest artist Mike Lawrence. Mike Lawrence is a cartoonist in Milwaukie, OR who mostly makes middle grade graphic novels. He’s...
Field Negro

The Fuehrer Principle - I understand now how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party became so powerful in Germany, and how, as president of the party, he was able to rise to power th...
Debunking Christianity

Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: - Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: [image: Instruments of the Passion from pinterest] *Figure 1:* Some disturbing Preconciliar Roman Catholic ar...
LareDOS

Operation Big Bucks, Cola Larga: federal indictment nails Sheriff Martin Cuellar, assistant chief Alejandro Gutierrez, and former assistant chief and UISD trustee Ricardo Rodriguez for fraud and taxpayer-funded private venture for personal gain - Three-way profits from COVID-19 era sanitizing scam allegedly netted $175,000 each for Cuellar, Gutierrez, and Rodriguez
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis – Expand the General Strike! - The only appropriate answer to this murderous violence is to expand the general strike.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Shut It Down - It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
Edinburg Politics

Tough new law coauthored by Rep. Terry Canales ensures that human traffickers of children and people with disabilities no longer qualify for parole - A recent state law, of which Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, help lead through the legislative process, guarantees that convicted human traffickers of chil...
Progressive.org

Close the Gaps in Our Frayed Social Safety Net - If we really want to address poverty and income disparities, we need gapless welfare.
Lowering the Bar

New York State May Allow “Dancing by Default” - Don't get too excited yet, though.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKE IT EASY BUT TAKE IT EDITION. - *You got to spread a warnin' when the army they come in.* All honor and best of luck to the comrades in Minneapolis on general strike today. The ICE goons ...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
DeSmogBlog

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads - Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the ...
The Militant

Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract - CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporte...
Earthworks

Standing In It Together: What One Toxic Tour Reveals About Life Near Oil & Gas Development - A Toxic Tour is a guided, on-the-ground visit that brings tribal leadership, agency staff, and community members directly to areas … The post Standing I...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/23/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Handicapping The 2026 State Legislative Map: A First Look - In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Another “No Kings” Weekend - Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting the situation ...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ad account of Atlanta influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
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...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
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....
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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