Brains and Eggs: Sunday 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

World Socialist Web Site

Portland, Maine, nurse released from ICE detention - The highly respected nurse, originally from Zambia, had an active asylum application when she was arrested.
The Hill

Trump says he'll spend 'a lot' of MAGA Inc. war chest in midterms - President Trump said he’s prepared to spend ‘a lot’ of money from his MAGA Inc. war chest to support Republican candidates in this midterm cycle. “Well, I’...
memeorandum

Vance's homecoming is a throwback to 2024 — and a preview for 2026 and 2028: From the Politics Desk (NBC News) - NBC News: *Vance's homecoming is a throwback to 2024 — and a preview for 2026 and 2028: From the Politics Desk* — Plus, an uncertain South Carolina rac...
Vox

Trump’s ballroom survives — for now - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (August 21, 2026) - For our busy Houston commuters, we have – The Commuter Cut – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
ArcaMax

Life Isn't a Race. My Husband's College Degree Reminded Me Why. - My husband graduated with his bachelor's degree this summer at the age of 56. We ordered a cake and celebrated with friends and family. He had earned his a...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: School Of Hard Blocks - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
The Week

What’s cash-out refinancing and when is it a good idea? - This option lets homeowners convert home equity into cash by getting a bigger, larger mortgage
Political Wire

5 Deportees Resisted Deplaning in Liberia - “At least five people who were deported by the United States to Liberia but resisted getting off the plane were flown to Equatorial Guinea, in Central Afri...
slacktivist

LBCF: Management material - Wherein ace reporter Buck Williams -- after missing several deadlines and burying the only story he's chasing -- meets with his boss and gets a promotion.
Al Jazeera English

US Supreme Court allows Trump’s ballroom project to continue for now - The Trump administration has argued the $400m White House ballroom is needed for national security purposes.
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: "Multiple paths," the Cook Report says! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026* *Unless you're watching Fox:* Who will control the Senate next year? We have no idea. If we were somehow forced to bet, we'd ...
WhoWhatWhy

Why I Think Most Media Stink - [image: The Atlantic, Republicans, Elephant] From watchdog to lapdog, the media traded their bite for a leash. Why I Think Most Media Stink originally appe...
Liberation News

Nuyoricans march for Puerto Rican independence amidst the water crisis - Hundreds of New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans in the diaspora took part in the march for independence, advocating for a free Puerto Rico and an end to the deca...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows White House ballroom construction to continue for now - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon allowed construction on a new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom to continue – at least for now. Senior U.S. D...
Glasstire

Reseña: “Yonke EncontraDOS” en el Laredo Center for the Arts - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Novara Media

Revealed: New UK Datacentre’s Massive Carbon Footprint - With the record heatwaves subsiding & El Nino on its way, Havering council decides this is the perfect moment to announce the UK’s largest datacentre build...
Salon.com

The best band you’re probably not listening to yet - Black Marble’s "Life in Small Spaces" proves once again why this synth-pop project remains a best-kept secret
Futurism

Wild New Paper Claims Human Brain Doesn’t Produce Consciousness - "Nothing in science explains how three pounds of matter... can love, hate, dream, imagine, fear or hope for its future." The post Wild New Paper Claims H...
First Draft

Spinning Wheel - Cheers to David Clayton-Thomas.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Notes on the Surveillance State, AI, and Scientific Communication - Part the First: Is There No Place to Hide, or Just Be Yourself? Caitlin Johnstone points out once again that while we have been snoozing happily in a virtu...
Consortium News

‘Barclays 5′ Palestine Activists Won’t Be Tried as Terrorists - A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing ...
Undernews

Oil prices - *Bloomberg - *Oil prices headed for a substantial weekly advance as the US push to isolate Iran raised the specter of further disruptions. Crude has rall...
Election Law Blog

“A Detour for Democracy: When polling sites move off campus, students face new barriers—and elections shift” - Yael Bromberg in Liberal Education: The consequences of removing or restricting polling sites on campuses are measurable and significant. My research, wh...
Texas Freedom Network

Far Right Watch: James Leininger - Texas Public Policy Foundation, Founder James Leininger is a major Republican donor and founder of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative thi...
San Antonio Report

A ballpark for the community remains on the table as city pursues new use for Wolff Stadium - A master planning process is underway to determine whether the 32-year-old ballpark remains or is cleared out to make way for other kinds of development th...
The Militant

Organize, build protests to demand US hands off Cuba - 1,000s attend events in Cuba to back its nat’l sovereignty HAVANA — Thousands of people across Cuba paid tribute to the revolution’s central leader, Fidel ...
Common Dreams

FTC Must Investigate AI Book Burning - On Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon ...
Mother Jones

MAHA and the Midterms - When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food-label-reading Mak...
The Root

As The City Prepares for Another Weekend Without Power, Gary Mayor Says Residents Deserve Better - After more than a week without power, Gary residents face mounting losses as Mayor Eddie Melton demands answers and pushes for recovery. Read more...
Slate

We’ve Replaced School Security With the Creepiest Possible System - Students are going back to the most surveilled campuses in American history.
Scheerpost.com

Diesel: The Netanyahu-Trump War on Iran Threatens Shortages, Price Spike - Juan Cole Informed Comment Diesel prices are high in many markets around the world, but we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Energy analyst Ron Bousso at Reuters war...
Rallblog

Professor Who Attacked Jason Arday Suspended | 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...
Discourse

What If We Kissed at Karen Bass’ ‘Do Not Park Here’ Sign? (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Thanksgiving wins, that Jon Ossoff video, that Oliver Larkin video, and boy oh boy, that miserable Karen Bass video
Mediagazer

A Seattle Times sports columnist quits, citing its repeated refusal to publish columns that went "against the grain", including one on transgender athletes (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: *A Seattle Times sports columnist quits, citing its repeated refusal to publish columns that went “against the grain”, ...
Daily Cartoonist

Strip Scene & Strips Seen - Despite the feature image and the opening comments this is a post about comic strips. Three Days a Week at the Two Party Opera Last month Brian Carroll, af...
Independent Political Report

Communist Party USA Calls for Worldwide Anti-Fascist Front at Cuba Conference - The Communist Party USA is calling for the creation of a worldwide anti-fascist front and greater cooperation among international communist and workers’ ...
Debunking Christianity

The Great Adventure of Reading the Bible, Cover-to-Cover - *But right out of the gate, the book of Genesis is a bumpy ride of bad theology* In articles I posted here on *12 July 2026* and *18 July 2026*, I descr...
Texas Observer

Like Zal - To submit a poem, please send an email with the poem attached to poetry@texasobserver.org. We’re looking for previously unpublished works of no more than...
NORML

Turning Interest Into Advocacy: Why You Should Intern With NORML - [image: NORML internship][image: NORML internship]NORML Summer ‘26 Intern Dakota Helgren shares her experience for The post Turning Interest Into Advoca...
Mondoweiss

Besieged by Israeli settlers and cut off from the outside world, Palestinian families on a West Bank hilltop refuse to leave - [image: Abdul Karim Hassan, whose family is besieged on the Ras al-Ain hill outside the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the central West Bank, August ...
Space City Weather

A weekend of 100s awaits the Houston area but a few folks may hit the rain jackpot - In brief: Our second 100 degree day of summer was recorded yesterday, and several more may follow. Although records are safe, continued near 100 degree wea...
Raw Story

World's richest man called out for openly embracing notorious ‘Nazi psychopath’ - Billionaire Elon Musk *issued a call* Thursday evening to free the law enforcement officer serving a 22-year sentence for murdering George Floyd, but in ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s View of Everything in the World -
ProPublica

Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment - The post Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

The BLM may stop notifying landowners about drilling under private land. Ranchers are alarmed - Western cattleman are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property. The post The BLM may stop n...
Two Party Opera

Flock Camera Down - Read More
Crooked Timber

AI and the reshuffling of labor - A summer anecdote: when on holidays in France, on a sunny August day, we visited a castle garden in rural Normandy. When buying the tickets, we got the usu...
jobsanger

Democratic Leaders Should Forget Intraparty Conflicts And Focus On Defeating The GOP -
Informed Comment

Diesel: The Netanyahu-Trump War on Iran Threatens Shortages, Price Spike - 20 percent of the refineries in the Gulf have been damaged by the Israeli-US war on Iran and Iran's ripostes.
Workers World

Facing U.S. threats, Iran prepares for a long war - [image: Facing U.S. threats, Iran prepares for a long war] Mobilizing the whole Iranian population for continued harsh economic sanctions, likely new round...
Wolf Street

Oh Dear, Condo Prices Fell by 15% to 33% in 33 Bigger Markets, Some Below 2006 Levels, as Historic Condo Bubbles Deflate - In 9 cities, from Oakland to Jacksonville, condo prices fell by over 20%. In 3 markets in California & Florida, they fell by 30%+.
Brad Blog

U.S. National Debt Tops $40 Trillion. Should Progressives Care?: ‘BradCast’ 8/20/2026 - If you really care about deficit spending and the National Debt, I hope you care as much about elections, voting, and making sure everyone else can vote as...
Alternet

Trump torn apart for passing the buck on manufacturing losses - President Donald Trump's signature economic policy was levying tariffs at the start of his second term. Now that his own Department of Labor has shown 75...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Michael Cohen, ex-fixer for Trump who once testified against him, hosts president on his radio show – as it happened - Despite previously comparing him to a ‘mobster’, Trump’s former personal lawyer showers him with praise. This blog is now closed. - Trump admi...
Mediaite

New York Times Breaks News of Own Loss in Defamation Case - The New York Times reported Thursday that it had lost a defamation case brought by a former University of Alabama basketball player — marking the newspap...
Ian Welsh

Another Word On Treasury Bonds - Treasury bonds are auctioned by the Treasury department. It is an auction: banks say what rates they will accept, the ones who offer the lowest rate get th...
Popular Resistance

USA And Israel Put Drug Cartel-Linked US Citizen In Power In Colombia - The United States has a long history of meddling in the internal affairs of Latin America. But in recent years, US interference has become even more extr...
The Daily Poster

Private Prison Giant Gave Trump-aligned Super PAC $1.4 Million After Landing Mega ICE Contracts - GEO Group made the donation weeks after securing two five-year immigration detention-center contracts expected to generate more than $160 million annually.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 21, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio August 21, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/21/2026 - 06:17 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Ballot Access News

I was Left on the Cutting Room Floor - On Tuesday, August 18, as I was getting my haircut in the early afternoon, my barber suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, I almost forgot. NBC News is sending a crew h...
Antiwar.com

Has Trump Turned the Tables on Iran – or Is Another Round of War Coming? - Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. The Trump administration believes it has turned the tables on Iran. Washington assesses that the rer...
OpEd News

A Vote of Opposition - Except for the last few paragraphs, this article is just a concise summary of what is important about BAV. At the end is an appeal for action (not an appea...
Deadline Politics

Ariana Grande Slams Trump For Using Her Song In Anti-Trans TikTok: “Your Truth Is False” - As Ariana Grande winds down her Eternal Sunshine Tour, she’s the latest pop icon to call out Donald Trump for using her music. On Thursday, the three-time ...
Claytoonz

Sofa Fort Blues - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 75 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
The Conversation

Is it illegal for the president to spend ‘patriotic’ donations on a White House ballroom or anything else? - Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
Progressive.org

End the Use of AI in Warfare - It's foolhardy to believe that humans can adequately review AI targeting without making tragic errors.
CultureMap Houston

ZZ Top honors late drummer Frank Beard with Austin tribute concert - Texas rock trio ZZ Top will play a tribute to their late drummer, Frank Beard, at their scheduled Austin tour stops at ACL Live at the Moody Theater on Aug...
NPR's Health Shots

Record cyclosporiasis outbreak tests the response of a 'weakened' health system - From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up again...
IVN

Missouri Voters Got the Signatures. A Judge Says They Still Can’t Vote on Trump-Backed Map - A Missouri judge blocked voters from using a referendum to overturn a Republican-backed congressional map, despite the initiative collecting over 300,000 s...
Project Censored

The Next Dark Pattern - Lily Minh Wass There’s a saying that goes, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” The digital platforms we rely on daily have built...
Dissent Magazine

The Origins of Police Power - An interview with Stuart Schrader, author of *Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves*, about how U.S. police unions built thems...
Capital & Main

Children Are Losing Health Coverage. Federal Cuts Will Make It Worse. - Medi-Cal enrollment among children has fallen by more than 460,000 since 2025. Medicaid cuts taking effect next year will push coverage even lower. The p...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / LABOR / Time to Consider a Four-Day Workweek - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2026 Mike Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University, comments on Juliet B...
Bonddad

Some day the positive trend in unemployment claims will end —- but not this week - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual on Thursdays, let’s take a look at the very good short leading indicator of jobless claims. The bullet point ...
Texas Standard

Opponents of Big Bend border construction take protest to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission - Those opposed to a border barrier through the Big Bend region say the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department should be doing more to stop the construction on ...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes - The post NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes appeared first on Environment Texas.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: A Moment of Truth - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part IV: Societal atomization and personal suffering reaches a boiling point as methods of control increase in kind
El Paso Matters

What to know about possible border barriers in Big Bend - Border construction is paused in Big Bend National Park as residents, elected officials and environmental groups challenge federal plans across far West...
The Progressive Wing

8/20-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Angie Nixon is rocking her interviews.
Democracy Now!

"Love Machines": James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI - James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. *Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Trans...
Angry Bear

Michigan’s livelihood - Kind of slower these days for now anyways. I spent six days in the hospital. First a walkabout to see what was wrong. I have been eating oats plus other ...
Rewire

Intersex Children Shut Out As Hospitals Halt Gender-Affirming Care - The Trump administration's threats to defund facilities that treat trans minors is harming intersex youth who also need hormone therapy. "The federal gover...
Dorf on Law

The E.J. Carroll Case as Anchoring Device - In my various essays following the conclusion of the latest SCOTUS term earlier this summer, I emphasized a number of points to push back on the narrativ...
The Grayzone

ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal - The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned fro...
Church and State

First-ever Plug-and-play BCI device translates brain activity into action - BCIs have come a long way, the existing systems need to be reset and recalibrated each day to tap into the brain’s natural learning processes.
Off The Kuff

How much of those academic gains are a mirage? - Damn. Two years into Houston ISD’s state takeover, state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles touted a major achievement: state ratings showed there were no...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Democratic Outlook Brightens in Races for Vital State AG Posts - This year, 30 states are holding elections for attorney general. Currently, the GOP holds 27 attorney general offices to 23 for the Democrats The post De...
Grist

Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines. - An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.
Infidel753

Why do we talk like this? - Is English an unusual language? It's widely said to be so. Yet the examples most people tend to cite are not really examples at all, while the true pecu...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Money Laundromat w. Leigh McGowan - The post Trump’s Money Laundromat w. Leigh McGowan appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

There Is No Elsewhere: A World Burning - British Columbia, Canada is my home and once again, it’s burning. More than 100 fires were burning across the province as B.C. declared a state of emerg...
Portside

Why Are Progressives Winning Across the United States? It’s Not Complicated - Why Are Progressives Winning Across the United States? It’s Not Complicated Mark Brody Thu, 08/20/2026 - 01:23
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s DHS Goes After Left Groups & Unions: We Won’t Be Intimidated - After ICE invaded Minnesota with 4,000 agents last winter, the Twin Cities working class responded with a mass movement of rapid response networks and a 35...
The AltWorld

Today In Dystopia: Burning Books For Israel, Burning Books For AI - I’ve been putting out more and more of these “today in dystopia” write-ups because our society is […] The post Today In Dystopia: Burning Books For Israe...
Sludge

Trump Convenes White House Crypto Meeting With His Own Business Partners - Many of the companies at today’s White House meeting are in business with the president's or his son's crypto ventures, and have donated millions to Trump’...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the archives: Hate group makes fool of itself with latest attack on Drag Queen Story Hour - *Editor's note - For this post, I am going way back in the archives to show how ridiculous some anti-LGBTQ groups are when they attempt to push the "drag...
The Greanville Post

Media Find a New Man Who Will ‘Save’ Colombia—de la Espriella Style - FAIR—In their book Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror: US Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia, scholars Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle expos...
The Verge

Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban? - HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. Another can charge inside its carry...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio nonprofit SNIPSA hosting puppy and kitten speed-dating event Saturday - San Antonio nonprofit SNIPSA has saved 27,000 animals since 2006, and it’s hoping to grow that number with a special event this Saturday. The organizati...
See You In 2020

The DPRK backed Russia because it refuses to appease imperialism. This policy is now causing the U.S. to retreat. - How has the DPRK pressured Trump into reducing military drills, and effectively begging socialist Korea to become open towards any kind of negotiation? ...
Axios

Moderna and Merck shares soar on mRNA cancer vaccine - Moderna and Merck shares soared on Wednesday after the companies said a personalized mRNA treatment hit its target of preventing skin cancer from recurri...
Courthouse News

Eighth Circuit lifts injunction on Missouri’s SNAP implementation - The three-judge panel also overturned part of a summary judgment in favor of three individuals who claim their constitutional rights were violated.
Unlimited Hangout

How “Argentina’s Elon Musk” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia - Javier Milei’s administration has been showcasing Patagonia to Silicon Valley executives, culminating in OpenAI’s ‘Stargate Argentina’ announcement. The ...
Duck of Minerva

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic - Did the pandemic durably change our pedagogy in International Relations (IR), or were pandemic-induced changes only temporary measures with which we have s...
The NM Political Report

From Gallup to Washington: UNM Graduate nominated to lead FDA - [image: A Gallup native is in line to become one of the country’s top health officials after President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Take Out 3 Israeli Elite Soldiers As Iran Issues Final Ultimatum - Hezbollah have repelled another Israeli attempt to seize the strategic Ali al-Taher Hills in southern Lebanon as Iran issues a threat that it will not st...
Ecosophia

Energy: Preparations and Possibilities Revisited - Last month we started the process of looking back twenty years at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the deindustrial future, with an ...
Idavox

Hating Muslims Is Christian Love as Christofascist Rally Comes to Dearborn - Not a lot of the promised bikers, at least one swastika and in the end... The post Hating Muslims Is Christian Love as Christofascist Rally Comes to Dear...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Man Overboard! (to coin a phrase) - 12 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb Kevin Reed reports at the World Socialist Web Site: The President’s response encapsulates the contempt of the...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus of the GPUS Hosts August 2026 Steering Committee Election - The Young Ecosocialist Caucus Steering Committee is holding an election for five positions: Caucus Co-chair Green Party US National Committee Delegate Gree...
Earthworks

Golden Gifts, Sweetheart Deals, and Demands for Investigations - The Trump Administration’s corruption and self-dealing went on full display during the August 7 Critical Minerals Roundtable at the State Department. Th...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon, by Angela Valenzuela, August 16, 2026 - *The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 16, 2026* *There are act...
Field Negro

The united marks of America. (The great American con) - It's official, the Trump administration is now the worst in the history of America. How could it not be? Consider what is happening with the following: ...
Bracing Views

This Mighty Scourge of War - The Most Terrifyingly Honest Sentence Written by a U.S. President BILL ASTORE AUG 13, 2026 Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a...
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
Seeing the Forest

- This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Extraction Everything is extraction ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Lowering the Bar

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Allowed to Vote Because He Has “No Legal Residence” - The court didn't say he had "no legal residence," just that he lied about where it was. Falconry records notwithstanding.
Krebs on Security

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out - It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day....
The Texas Signal

The Trail Helping Houston Regain Freedom From Roads - Transforming the trail into something actually useful started in stages in 2009, but the formation of the Friends of Columbia Tap Trail really got the ball...
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat - In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
LareDOS

Janet Krueger’s Thick and Thin exhibit opens at the Hunt Gallery Sept. 3 in San Antonio - Artist talk is set for September 12 from 1 to 2 p.m.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: August 2026 - Artificial Life | Emergent Garden (video, 35 min) – A video about simulations that simulate evolution or generate life-like complexity. He draws a distinc...
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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