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

Raw Story

'Knifing each other': GOP goes haywire as Trump tantrums and Senate stalls - Public fighting between President Donald Trump and Republican leaders are infuriating party members who say now isn't the time to throw tantrums. “We ne...
Alternet

GOP in 'absolutely dire straits' with 'no end in sight' as Trump implodes: report - The Republican Party is trapped "in absolutely dire straits," according to a veteran Washington reporter, as President Donald Trump crashes to catastroph...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Republican calls for Max Miller to resign from Congress amid abuse allegations - Senator Bernie Moreno says congressman and former son-in-law should step down after ex-wife’s allegations Republican senator Bernie Moreno on Sunday publ...
World Socialist Web Site

East Midlands Railway workers strike over safety following Bedford crash - The RMT organised pickets at several stations, including Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and London St Pancras. The stoppage forced EMR to run a skeleton serv...
Mediagazer

The top-paid podcasters of 2026: Joe Rogan earned $82M, TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays $70M, Steven Bartlett $45M, Ashley Flowers $42M, SmartLess' hosts $37M (Matt Craig/Forbes) - Matt Craig / Forbes: *The top-paid podcasters of 2026: Joe Rogan earned $82M, TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays $70M, Steven Bartlett $45M, Ashley Flower...
Salon.com

“My job is to find out the truth”: Dana Bash grills RFK Jr. over vaccines - The HHS secretary denied responsibility for the nation's measles surge while defending vaccine skepticism
Election Law Blog

“The Democrats’ Biggest Donors Have Gone on Strike” - WSJ: George Soros and his son Alex donated more than $400,000 to the Democratic National Committee during the 2018 midterms. They gave more than $1 milli...
Axios

Rep. Max Miller not dropping out after domestic abuse allegations - Ohio GOP Rep. Max Miller said Sunday he will stay in his reelection race, using a livestream on X to deny allegations he abused his ex-wife and their you...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 353: Aug. 2, 2026 - Today's puzzle has 10 pears.
San Antonio Report

Jones vows to revisit veteran vouchers, slamming fellow council members as ‘OK with a little bit of discrimination’ - Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones and veteran advocates argue that the current ordinance doesn't do enough to expand access to housing for veterans. ------------------...
The Greanville Post

Why Nobody Moves to Queens, NY Anymore - PM—Queens was farmland, then it was a cemetery for Manhattan's dead, then a piano factory town, then the most diverse place on Earth. This is the story of ...
Debunking Christianity

We Already Use Bayes' Formula - Via John Earman.I guarantee you that everyone uses Bayes' formula whenever considering new information. We ask ourselves implicitly and/or explicitly wha...
memeorandum

This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats (Adam Wren/Politico) - Adam Wren / Politico: *This Senator Has a Very Midwestern Plan to Save the Democrats* … “I think that the Democrats could use a little education about th...
Ballot Access News

Kansas Supreme Court Won’t Interfere for Now with Lower Court Decision that Keeps the 3-Day Grace Period for Postal Ballots to Arrive - on July 27, the Kansas Supreme Court refused to interfere, for now, with a trial court decision that keeps the 3-day grace period for postal ballots to arr...
Al Jazeera English

Heatwave forces nuclear shutdown in Hungary - Hungary says a heatwave has forced the shutdown of its largest nuclear plant as low Danube levels disrupt cooling.
Scheerpost.com

FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications - Jeremy Busby & Isabella Lucia Maitino Truthout/TheAppeal Congress is grappling with the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Ac...
Novara Media

The Age of the West Is OVER. Here’s Why. - In the years since October 7th, the world has been bitterly polarised over how to make sense of the violence. While polling shows that a majority of people...
Field Negro

News roundup. - The main stream media seems to be more fixated on an ideological difference within the Democratic party, than they are actual fascism being practiced b...
Glasstire

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Announces 2026-2027 Resident Artists - The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) has announced 10 artists-in-residence for the 2026-2027 season, including five Texas artists. The HCCC ...
The AltWorld

Iran and Russia Wars Now Entering Most Dangerous Phase - Scott Ritter joins Let’s Talk Geopolitics to break down how the Russia and Iran Wars are now […] The post Iran and Russia Wars Now Entering Most Dangerou...
San Antonio Current

Trump says he will pull Blanche’s attorney general nomination until Cornyn leaves office - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is pulling his nominee for attorney general until Sen. John Cornyn is out of office, escalating ...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Sam I Am’ Toons - Nevertheless, we persisted… …In other dumb news… …NEXT WEEK!… …Beginning in November?… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always ...
Eschaton

"Conventional Wisdom" - I think this "conventional wisdom" was always self-serving nonsense designed to please the donor class, and the broader class of people served by their d...
Daily Cartoonist

The 10 Artists that Influenced Bob Staake - It’s hard to find an article or review of Bob Staake that doesn’t include a line about Bob being “one of the most prolific illustrators” of his generation....
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: Location, Location, Deportation - Shady ICE developers, a health care war in Michigan, and more from The Lever this week.
Grist

This Texas coal mine will soon be home to a 1.2GW solar farm - Panamint Capital broke ground on a $1.7 billion solar and storage project at the Calvert coal mine. The mine and an adjacent coal plant will stay online.
El Paso Matters

Hundreds of El Paso teachers leave classrooms as enrollment decline reshapes area schools, workforce - School district officials in El Paso say there will likely be fewer teachers over the years as student enrollment declines The post Hundreds of El Paso ...
First Draft

The Breaking Point (1950) - A 1950 film noir based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, and Wallace Ford. Directed ...
NPR's Health Shots

Trust in public health institutions is eroding. What can officials do? - NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses America's declining trust in public health officials with Marianne Udow-Phillips, a lecturer at the School of Public Health a...
The Root

The MOVE Bombing: 13 Facts About The Revolutionary Movement That Ended in Tragedy - As America reflects on 250 years of its history, the MOVE bombing stands as a painful reminder that some of the nation's darkest chapters aren't buried i...
Vox

The case for turning golf courses into affordable housing - Maybe it was never a great idea to build so many golf courses in the desert. But in the 1990s, when Tiger Woods mania was at its peak, Las Vegas went on a ...
naked capitalism

Links 8/2/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

The ‘Odd Coincidence’ Casting Further Doubt on McConnell’s Health Mystery -
Off The Kuff

Parental rights lawsuit filed against Ten Commandment law - We’ll see if this approach works better than the first one did. A lawsuit filed this week against the state-mandated Ten Commandments displays in public sc...
LareDOS

Josephine Sacabo’s THE RIGHT TO DREAM – regreso a mi pueblo opens August 27th at TAMIU’s Fine and Performing Arts Gallery - Artist Talk set for April 27th at TAMIU’s Academic Innovation Center
The Week

The deepening chip rout downwards as stocks take a dive - Shares in chipmakers globally have plunged, prompting fresh doubts about the AI trade
Counterpunch

When Football Became a Mirror of “America First” Politics - Image by Fauzan Saari. The tournament showed how a global sporting event could be recast through the Trump administration’s emphasis on national power, s...
jobsanger

Trump's War Has Created Windfall Profits For Big Oil Companies -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1611: Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather - Episode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.
Informed Comment

The Moral Collapse of a Nation - Some nations in the future may use the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Gaza to justify future genocides
Mediaite

Trump Halts Strike on Iran After ‘Perimeters of a Deal’ Agreed To — But Warns US Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ If Talks Crumble Yet Again - The president on Saturday night announced he canceled a WW II-level pummeling of Iran after the country lobbied the U.S. to pause the anticipated barrage...
Common Dreams

We Shall Prevail: An Echo That Doesn't Die - More than 50 years after the murder of Chilean folk singer Victor Jara, the last man convicted of killing him has been tracked down and brought to justic...
Trivial Knot

Origami: U4-30 floral ball - I folded this from someone else’s origami book, which was in Japanese. I don’t know why it’s called U4-30, although I know the “30” comes from the 30 shee...
Political Wire

Saudis Raise Concerns Over Trump’s Plans for Iran Strikes - “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke to President Trump on Saturday and expressed concern over his plans for massive new strikes against Iran,” Ax...
Popular Resistance

Venezuela, Memory, And The Long Arc Of US Imperialism - The U.S. subordination of the Venezuelan state did not occur in a vacuum and cannot be discussed without mentioning the awful toll imperialism has taken ...
Wolf Street

Six Years into Bond Bear Market, 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 5.28%, Yield Curve Steepens, but Spreads Are still too Narrow - Warsh wants the bond market to do its job and look at inflation and the economy -- and not at the Fed -- and it’s finally doing it.
Angry Bear

New Deal democrat’s Weekly Indicators for July 27 – 31 - Weekly Indicators: Rising Interest Rates Are Again the Main Attraction. Unsurprisingly, the big move this week was in interest rates, which reacted very ...
Portside

Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years. A New Bill Could Change That. - Employers Stall Labor Contracts for Years. A New Bill Could Change That. Dave Sat, 08/01/2026 - 17:42
The Verge

Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises - Android Headlines claims to have the specs and price for the entire Pixel 11 lineup. What the site shared basically lines up with everything else that we'v...
Undernews

Middle East -
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Claytoonz

Yo Quiero Cha-Cha-Cha - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Crooked Media

The Journalist Who Let AI Run Her Life For a Year - The post The Journalist Who Let AI Run Her Life For a Year appeared first on Crooked Media.
Futurism

Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows - "The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety." The...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: July 26th – August 1st - This Week in 2016 This Week in 2011 This Week in 2006
The Progressive Wing

8/1-2 Open Thread Weekend - Getting hot in Michigan and St Louis, last weekend before primaries.
Mother Jones

“The ICE Agent Behind Me Grabbed the Back of My Shirt and Just Threw Me Like a Sack of Trash” - A 68-year-old nurse who brought her mobile clinic to serve visitors at an ICE detention center, only to be thrown to the ground by ICE agents. A pair of ce...
The Hill

Harris cites JFK, Obama among 'most effective' presidents, omitting Biden - Former Vice President Kamala Harris listed at the National Urban League Conference who she thought were the “most effective presidents in American history,...
CultureMap Houston

Houston ranked as America's No. 2 least safe city and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from a very poor safety ranking to a sad restaurant closure. Plus, a vintage car...
Alas, a Blog

A Brief History of Brief Wars - Wow, did this cartoon take forever to make! So why did it take so long? First of all, history-based cartoons always take more time to research. But the res...
See You In 2020

The Luigi movement’s legacy, the next class confrontations, & the mass politics that can bring us to victory - With the rise of Flock cameras and data centers, the Luigi movement has gained a greater kind of relevance. Not because the Luigi movement itself will b...
Liberation News

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August - “Black August” is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political pris...
Mondoweiss

Book Review: Grief and resistance for Palestine - [image: Palestinian children walk beside the Israeli apartheid wall in Aida refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 6 2009. (Photo: Najeh H...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 27 - 31 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Unsurprisingly, the big move this week was in interest rates, which rea...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — How Close Are We to Nuclear War? - Some NATO and Russian adviser think nuclear war is viable. Would a desperate Israel really nuke Iran? Nuclear weapons expert Peter Kuznick. 8pm EDT Tonite....
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: "He has a story in his head!" - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026* *Is he mentally ill?* Is something wrong with President Trump? Once again, we started the current week with that same old ques...
Courthouse News

August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland - The rare celestial event will cast the Moon's shadow across parts of Europe and the Arctic, beginning a run of three consecutive summers featuring total so...
Bracing Views

Military Intelligence Is Increasingly Artificial Intelligence - Of General ChatGPT and Admiral Claude BILL ASTORE JUL 31, 2026 If you’ve been in or near the military, you’ve heard quips about military intelligence being...
OpEd News

Beyond Designations: Is Washington Quietly Dismantling the Muslim Brotherhood's Financial Network? - The latest US sanctions suggest a significant shift in counterterrorism strategy. Rather than focusing solely on terrorist designations, Washington appears...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Endorses Wisconsin Republican Niina Baum, New York Democrat Alissa Ellman for Congress - The Forward Party has endorsed a pair of major party congressional candidates, backing Republican Niina Baum in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District an...
ArcaMax

Dr. Fauci's Good Lawyers - 111 times. That's how many times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid falling into the perjury trap Sen. Rand Paul was setting for him. D...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Leads the Real Band of Vandals Responsible for the Reflecting Pool Debacle - [image: Reflecting Pool. Washington Monument, Chain link fence] Prosecutors acknowledged on Friday that the shoddy work of a contractor Donald Trump said h...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michigan will be wo...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 1 August 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Here are a few fun memes. Here are some more, along with some animal sti...
Idavox

‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shooting attack against Islamic Center - Muslims, Jews and the LGBTQ+ community have been the biggest targets. Times of San Diego... The post ‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shoo...
Workers World

Protests continue vs U.S. war on Iran - [image: Protests continue vs U.S. war on Iran] As of July 28, the U.S. was at war with Iran for 150 days, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians...
Lowering the Bar

Former Employee Sues Comcast Over Alleged Pie-in-the-Face Policy - [image: alleged evidence, picture of whiteboard]The highest-ranking salesperson for the month allegedly got to hit the lowest-ranking one.
Capital & Main

Your Elected Officials Might Have Side Hustles. Here’s How to Find Out. - Pennsylvania governor candidate Stacy Garrity makes money from fracking. We know from financial disclosures that are required in most states. Here’s how ...
The Grayzone

MI5 directors who plotted IRGC ‘terror’ ban exposed in leaked emails - Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a...
The NM Political Report

Commentary: Unions deserve job-creating Democrats. Unions deserve permitting reform. - Commentary by Robert Lujan, Albuquerque — As a decade long Local 214 executive board member, I worked to elect Democrats alongside the larger brotherhoo...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" 21st CENTURY EDITION - *Oooh, this is a* nice* version.* Another week of mayhem and mendacity in the books, and the thing that bugged me most was the show trial of Anthony Fauci...
slacktivist

LBCF: Fact and Fiction - Spoiler alert: In a six-page expository suppository, the authors outline their "Bible prophecy timeline" -- and thus tell readers everything that's about t...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats - July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of ...
Deadline Politics

Paramount Pitches Judge On November Start Of WBD Merger Antitrust Trial, While State AGs & WGA Propose April - Paramount wants a trial to start in November in the antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general and the Writers Guild America. Not surpris...
MintPress News

How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM - The most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering up...
Texas Standard

Texas officials order contractor on Big Bend area border wall to halt land clearing - Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham on Friday sent cease and desist letters to Barnard Construction and U.S. Customs and Border Protecti...
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...
IVN

The DNC Insider Leading the Push to Kill Ranked Choice Voting by 2028 - Democratic National Committee are close to adopting a ranked choice voting ban in the 2028 presidential primary, despite its use in Maine and Washington, D...
Sludge

Lobbying Filings Reveal What Companies Paid for Trump's Freedom 250 - Freedom 250 isn't required to disclose what its corporate sponsors paid, but new lobbying filings reveal the first documented contribution amounts for some...
SCOTUSblog

The court and the “opinions of mankind” - During this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it may be worth recalling the document’s only identified audience. Rather than single o...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Government Playing a Dangerous Game With Drone Cybersecurity - Return of the zombie idea that software vulnerabilities can be reserved for good actors
Democracy Now!

"Digital Doppelgangers": Naomi Klein Corrects the Record on Viral AI-Generated Quote - During Thursday’s segment about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated. ...
The Conversation

58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump - American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does...
Space City Weather

Houston’s sunny, hot weather continues with only a single mystery: What happens with a weak front this weekend? - In brief: Houston’s sunny and hot weather continues, but we’re watching for modest impacts from a dying front on Saturday or Saturday night. Rain chances f...
Rallblog

Hamas Agrees to Disarm, Trump Claims | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Rewire

How ‘Off Campus’ Gets Good Sex Right - The first season of this Amazon Prime series is like an instruction manual for young adults to have hot, satisfying, consensual coitus.
Dorf on Law

Fauci Fifth Follow-up - Yesterday on this blog I discussed Dr. Anthony Fauci's invocation of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when testifying before the Sena...
ProPublica

For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct - The post For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct appeared first on ProPublica.
Two Party Opera

D.C. Improvement Projects - Read More
High Country News

Can the last casino in Primm, Nevada, save a desert community? - A last-minute deal is another bet on the town’s unlikely survival. The post Can the last casino in Primm, Nevada, save a desert community? appeared firs...
Earth 911

Nine Tips for Greening a Home Renovation Project - Renovating a home is a great opportunity to make a home more functional, improve comfort,... The post Nine Tips for Greening a Home Renovation Project ap...
Antiwar.com

The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won’t Stop Israel’s Genocide - The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/31/2026 - 04:30 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Environment Texas

Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vulnerable wildlife - A reinterpretation of the word “harm” may push some species to—or over—the brink of extinction The post Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vu...
Progressive.org

The Urgent Water Crisis in Gaza - Destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure is forcing people in Gaza to rely on unsafe water to drink and clean.
Duck of Minerva

Divided Government and Multilateral Assistance - In January of 2025, the Republican party gained “the trifecta,” controlling the Presidency and the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Since then, co...
The Texas Signal

Data Centers Meet Their Skeptics - In nearly every corner of Texas, bipartisan activists are voicing their disapproval of data centers
Krebs on Security

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick - Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time f...
Greg Palast

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
Texas Observer

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley - As thousands of people from all over the United States came to the Laguna Madre area this past weekend to watch SpaceX’s latest launch in South Texas, ma...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Thirteen House Rating Changes Toward Democrats as Seat-by-Seat Assessment Better Aligns with Our November Expectations - We’re revamping our House ratings this week, which has the effect of bringing the number of seats at least leaning to each party to rough parity after re...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Don't blame Fauci for the COVID pandemic. Blame Donald Trump. Here are the receipts. - In March 2020, Trump told reporter Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplayed the dangers of COVID. Earlier today, Senate Republicans held a hearin...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2026 - Censored Press News We’ve been researching and writing State of the Free Press 2027, to be published by The Censored Press in December. The 2027 yearbook...
Discourse

Ascending to the Big Mar-A-Lago in the Sky (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Odyssey talk, choice moments from Lindsey Graham's funeral, checking in on Mitch McConnell, and exciting (derogatory) developments at 60 Minutes
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Checks Have Come Due: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Seeing the Forest

Free Speech - Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort...
Socialist Alternative

Justice For Corey Ruiz—Fight Police Brutality With A One-Day Citywide Shutdown - On Wednesday, July 22, police in Madison, Wisconsin murdered a Black man named Corey Ruiz. Three officers held him down while a fourth shot him three times...
Ecosophia

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies - Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and v...
Crooked Timber

Malware problem (fixed) - A number of commenters noted a malware problem with the site.It appears to be a well known attack called ClickFix. It’s now fixed, thanks again to Doctor M...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Would You "Press a Button" For Genocide, Or Anything else? - This, of course, sounds like an absurd question, but it was less than two years ago that Eytan Weinstein, the co-host of "Two Nice Jewish Boys" Podcast ...
Church and State

My New Resolution - Salye was distraught over the condition of democracy in the USA. She made me realize that I need to be more active politically.
NORML

Federal Survey: Marijuana Use Continues Multiyear Decline Among Teens, Young Adults - [image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprovingly at a teen boy offering her a joint][image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprov...
Texas Environmental News

IDJS-064 Maki -
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...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Draining the Ogallala Aquifer for AI? Project Matador and the myth of limitless growth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. & Luke Metzger, Exec. Dir., Environment Texas Research & Policy Center - *Friends,* *I’m pleased to share a newly-published article co-authored with Luke Metzger, executive director of the Environment Texas Research & Policy ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb (Full title: “Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall With Off-Ramp Bouquet”) There’s something stiffening out there ri...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Land Destroyer

The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia - *July 16, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As the Western media continues shaping narratives depicting a growing divide between the US and Europe regarding...
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, *Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It*.
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
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...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
Media Lens

25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran - This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a l...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
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 ...
Green Pages News

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

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

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...
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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