Brains and Eggs: Sunday Thankful 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

The Hill

Mayorkas dodges endorsement of Becerra for California governor - Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday dodged endorsing former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra in the Ca...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ageing Patriots - For decades, the Patriot missile system has symbolized American technological superiority and alliance reassurance. But modern missile warfare is evolving ...
Al Jazeera English

US faces rising costs with Iran war driving energy prices, inflation higher - Consumer prices spike in April, driven by soaring energy costs, with petrol prices up nearly 30 percent since last year.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Marty Makary departs FDA after clashes over fruit-flavored vapes with Trump – reports - Kyle Diamantas, a top official at the agency, will reportedly replace Makary and serve as acting FDA commissioner - Sign up for the Breaking N...
CultureMap Houston

Eclectic Houston neighborhood restaurant will shutter Bellaire store - A Houston neighborhood restaurant is saying goodbye to Bellaire after two years. *KP’s Kitchen* will close its location at 5427 Bissonnet on Sunday, May 31.
Dorf on Law

Reasoning With the Other Zealots While Under Attack - Should professors reflect on their successes and failures, taking the proverbial hard look into a mirror to ask how we could do better? Of course we sho...
World Socialist Web Site

Ash Field Teaching assistants in Leicester, UK continue strike in defense of union rep, Tom Barker - The *World Socialist Web Site* spoke with staff on the picket on the first day of strike action.
The Daily Poster

A Meat Mirage - The world's largest meat-packer is astroturfing as a local neighborhood grocer in a worrying sign of industry consolidation.
Axios

Exclusive: How the White House is justifying its $1B East Wing ask - The White House will offer line-by-line detail on its $1 billion plan for its East Wing renovation project during a Senate Republican lunch on Tuesday af...
ArcaMax

Laughingstock: Bluster and Gibberish Turn Us Into a Joke - When the sorry history of the President Donald Trump Era is written, historians will note the irony that the television reality star elected twice to the p...
The Verge

Rivian’s AI-powered voice assistant is ready to roll - Rivian's AI-powered voice assistant is rolling out today to the company's vehicle fleet. The assistant will be available through a software update to all c...
Eschaton

Shortages - Me, dumb: We could have shortages soon. You, smart, after two Econ 101 classes: Prices adjust to equate supply and demand so shortages are impossible.
The Week

Birth tourism: a key part of Trump’s anti-immigration platform - The practice may be a major factor in an upcoming Supreme Court ruling
Daily Howler

ALL AGAINST ALL: Bakari Sellers is a high achiever! - *TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026* *But also, here's something he said:* Last evening, Abby Phillip imagined a world where "the war of the all against all" had comp...
Novara Media

Victory for Palestine Action Lawyer Accused of Contempt of Court - A prominent barrister who represented a Palestine Action activist has won his appeal against contempt of court proceedings, which began after he allegedly ...
Discourse

The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Pro-Boss Propaganda - The Discourse Pod Movie Club returns for this special subscribers-only episode
Texas Observer

Ken Paxton’s Glass House - Ken Paxton wants you to join him on his high horse. Since announcing his run for the U.S. Senate seat held by four-term incumbent Senator John Cornyn la...
Bonddad

April CPI report shows further surge in gas and electriity prices, raises “yellow flag” recession caution - - *by New Deal democrat* As almost universally anticpated, the April CPI continued to reflect the big increase in gas prices - although it didn’t p...
Slate

Jon Krakauer Wishes He Never Climbed Mount Everest—and Never Wrote *Into Thin Air* - He wrote a controversial book about a deadly disaster. It became a massive hit. Now he wishes it all would go away.
Mediagazer

BuzzFeed's shares jump 130%+ following the deal with Allen Family Digital; BuzzFeed plans to set up BuzzFeed Studios and Tasty as a new independent entity (Sarah Fielding/Fast Company) - Sarah Fielding / Fast Company: *BuzzFeed's shares jump 130%+ following the deal with Allen Family Digital; BuzzFeed plans to set up BuzzFeed Studios and ...
Ian Welsh

Is It Better To Be Raped Or Be A Rapist? - There are a lot of people who believe that in this world you either fuck other people, or get fucked. The world is full of predators, and if you aren’t vic...
Political Wire

Trump Says the White House Was a ‘Shit House’ - President Trump complained that the White House was a “shit house” when he moved back in for his second term, claiming that the columns were “falling down”...
Democracy Now!

I Was Kidnapped by Israel in Int'l Waters, Jailed for 10 Days: Gaza Flotilla Activist Saif Abukeshek - “We were hearing, every day, the screams of other Palestinians who were being tortured inside this investigation center.” Spanish citizen Saif Abukeshek, a...
Rewire

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis - Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets. The post Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Car...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Politics and Pigeon Drops - I’m not nearly as worried about mice and rats as I am of the looney in charge of Health and Human Services.Hantaviruses are spread in rodent droppings, whi...
The Root

From Josephine Baker to Prince: Music Biopics We’re Still Waiting For - Now that FKA twigs has been announced as the star for the new Josephine Baker biopic, let's take a look at other major music stars who need one ASAP! Re...
Rallblog

Dems Run Against Trump, Again | 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...
Space City Weather

Houston has enjoyed a pleasantly cool start to May, but it won’t last - In brief: In today’s post we discuss our somewhat cooler-than-normal start to the month of May. Alas, it won’t last. After some lower humidity to start the...
Earth 911

Electronics: The Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in Your Home - 24. That is the average number of electronic devices sitting in a typical American home... The post Electronics: The Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in Your...
WhoWhatWhy

Trees Can Halve The Heat Trapped in Cities — But There’s a Catch - [image: climate crisis, global warming, cities, heat islands, health Risks, urban trees, catch] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editor...
The Smirking Chimp

How to Respond to the Rebirth of the Jim Crow South -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Rep. Al Green - For my final interview of the 2026 primary cycle, I’m pleased to bring you a conversation with Rep. Al Green. He is the longtime member of Congress from th...
San Antonio Report

Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wants San Antonio to be ready for rise in artificial intelligence - Jones was named to an international group of city leaders focused on artificial intelligence, community needs and resilience. ------------------------------...
Alternet

I'm not a scammer —I'm collateral damage in the GOP's war on the American dream - For almost a month, I have been limping around my apartment, thinking this has got to be a metaphor for something. It's from one of those household injur...
NPR's Health Shots

She's trying to outrun pancreatic cancer. Breakthrough treatments give her hope - Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have more reason to hope than ever b...
ProPublica

He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway. - The post He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Ted Turner owned vast swaths of Western land. What happens to them now? - The media mogul had a lifelong commitment to endangered species, ecotourism and supporting rural agriculture. The post Ted Turner owned vast swaths of W...
Grist

How climate change could help hantavirus find more hosts - Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations.
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation - Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News No one ...
memeorandum

Trump's gas tax holiday pitch faces some early Capitol Hill headwinds (Politico) - Politico: *Trump's gas tax holiday pitch faces some early Capitol Hill headwinds* … But Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who chairs the Senate Finance sub...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2081: A Monstrosity and a Skeptic - Episode: 2081 A Monstrosity, a Skeptic, and a new view of the 16th century. Today, guest historian Cathy Patterson gives birth to a cat.
Courthouse News

Geologists say a new tectonic plate could be forming in Zambia - Helium-rich gases rising through hot springs could mark the early stages of continental breakup in southern Africa.
Techdirt.

Trump Admin Appeals ACIP Court Ruling So RFK Jr. Can Continue Fucking With Vaccines - It took longer than I thought it would, but the Trump administration’s appeal of the court ruling and injunction that put a pause on RFK Jr.’s remaking of ...
Brad Blog

Virginia Supremes Void Special Election on Redistricting Referendum in Huge Gift to Vote Rigging GOP: ‘BradCast’ 5/11/2026 - Once again on today’s BradCast, we step through the latest corruption-in-plain-sight by Trump/Republicans working to undermine democracy itself to rig this...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Supreme Court Greenlights Alabama Mid-Decade Redistricting - In a 6-3 shadow docket order, and over a dissent by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court effectively allowed Alabama to re-draw its congressional redistr...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation hosts Soil Painting Workshop Sat., May 16 - Workshop led by artist/educator Sandra S. K. Amoabeng
Portside

This Week in People’s History, May 13–19, 2026 - This Week in People’s History, May 13–19, 2026 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 05/11/2026 - 20:20
SCOTUSblog

Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow it to reinstate congressional map that would advantage Democrats - Lawyers for Virginia Democrats and Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to allow the state to use a new congre...
Antiwar.com

Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis? - Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by ...
Workers World

U.S-Israel bombs destroy Iranian universities, research and cultural centers - [image: U.S-Israel bombs destroy Iranian universities, research and cultural centers] U.S.-Israeli airstrikes have severely damaged over 30 Iranian univers...
Claytoonz

Frickin’ Hegseth - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Ballot Access News

Virginia Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Reverse the State Supreme Court on Redistricting - On May 11, Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the State Supreme Court order that had stopped the new U.S. House districts. Here is the filing...
Raw Story

Trump nominates former Navy SEAL to lead FEMA — after firing him for disobedience: report - President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Politico reported. A year ago, the president...
Vox

Can Trump lower gas prices? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Project Censored

Midterms Heighten Need for Social Media Regulation - A March 2026 report from the nonprofit organization Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) warns that recent changes to social media platform policies c...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio arts group Luminaria to debut downtown pop-up exhibition this Friday - [image: "Creatives Bloom" will be on display through July 10 at the Aiden River Walk San Antonio.] If you’re too impatient to wait for Luminaria’s annual ...
Futurism

Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk - "More than one thing can be true, but this isn't one." The post Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk appeared first on Futurism.
Deadline Politics

Netflix Lassoed Into Texas GOP Race As Senate Hopeful Sues Streamer; State AG Alleges “Bait & Switch” Harvesting Of Kids’ Data - MAGA sure love some Netflix, at least when it comes to kickin’ the streamer’s butt around for political gain. With 15 days to go before what looks to be a ...
Progressive.org

Protect the Rights of Students with Disabilities - Having laws on the books is not enough. There has to be enforcement.
Independent Political Report

Duggan Protests Signature Threshold for Independents — but It’s Lower for Him Than Party Candidates - *This article was originally published by the Michigan Advance on May 8, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
The Conversation

Trump-Xi summit will be no ‘Nixon in China’ moment – that they are talking is enough for now - Taiwan, trade and AI regulation are on the agenda. But will there be progress on any of these issues during Beijing sit-down?
Wolf Street

Supply of Existing Single-Family Homes Rises to Highest in 10 Years, Condo Supply Highest since 2012, Sales in Deepfreeze - April was another bad dud for spring selling season as supply continued to pile up.
Popular Resistance

Activists Are Risking Their Lives To Break The Brutal Blockade On Gaza - Under international law, all countries that have signed onto the Genocide Convention are mandated to both prevent and stop genocides, and yet the genocid...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Redistricting Makes the House Map a Bit Redder, but Not By Enough to Protect Republicans from a Wave - he House map has taken on a larger GOP bias as a result of redistricting, although when it’s all said and done, the bias by one measure may essentially b...
The NM Political Report

Three Republicans clash on crime, taxes and education in New Mexico governor’s race - [image: Former Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull, Albuquerque businessman Doug Turner and former state cabinet secretary Duke Rodriguez each staked out positions...
First Draft

Dems Must Stop Doing What They Aren’t Doing - The Paper of Record has a think piece about how Democrats must stop focusing on climate change if they want to win elections. They really don't talk about ...
Texas Standard

Democrat James Talarico, running for Senate to get money out of politics, attracts ultra-wealthy backers - Talarico says he’d like to get rid of political action committees like the one supporting him.
OpEd News

Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, Trumpland Is a Man's World - It's been a tough couple of months for women officials in Washington -- or, more accurately, in Trumpland. In early March (Women's History Month, by the wa...
Earthworks

Trump’s deals extort trade partners for mining company profits. There is a better way. - New mineral trade deals that the Trump administration is pushing are extortion, not foreign policy. The post Trump’s deals extort trade partners for mini...
Undernews

Voting - *Via Annie*
Scheerpost.com

Jiang Xueqin: “We Are Already in World War 3” - In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay...
Common Dreams

AI Companies Are Recklessly Racing Toward a Cybersecurity Crisis - Google researchers announced Monday that cybercriminals recently used an artificial intelligence model to help create a dangerous zero-day vulnerability ...
Capital & Main

Inside the Texas Water Crisis Pitting Residents Against Industry - As lakes, reservoirs and groundwater wither away, some Gulf Coast residents see costly desalination plants as the last hope. The post Inside the Texas Wa...
Angry Bear

New Deal Democrats Weekly Indicators Summation May 4- 8 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Surprisingly, most of the data is almost relentlessly positive. In particular...
Church and State

We Cause our Drought - Climate chaos has already caused many weird weather patterns in southwest Colorado this year. First we had summer in March.
Mediaite

‘Couch Money’: Bill Maher and John Fetterman Defend the Cost of Trump’s Ballroom - Bill Maher and John Fetterman defended the White House ballroom that President Trump is building, with Maher saying it will cost "couch money" to taxpaye...
Mondoweiss

From Shireen Abu Akleh to Amal Khalil, the killer is the same - [image: (Right) Amal Khalil reporting in Southern Lebanon for Lebanon's al-Akhbar Newspaper (Photo: Amal Khalil's Facebook Page). (Left) Shireen Abu Akleh ...
Glasstire

Dallas Museum of Art Announces 2026 Awards to Artists Grantees - The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced the 21 recipients of its 2026 Awards to Artists, selected from among a pool of 160 applicants — a record num...
Countercurrents

Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis? - Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by ...
Dissent Magazine

Doubling Down - Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
The Progressive Wing

5/11-5/12 News Roundup & Open Thread - Melat Kiros is running for Congress to fight for affordable housing, Medicare for All and working people in Denver. More news, videos, tweets, etc. in th...
Bracing Views

Is the Iran War Really About Iran? - America’s descent into authoritarianism and fascism BILL ASTORE MAY 10, 2026 Can you win a war that isn’t really about the country you’re fighting? Where t...
Mother Jones

Recent Close Calls for Michigan’s Dams Are a Warning to America - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a par...
Salon.com

Hantavirus is a warning. The Trump admin isn’t listening - The Dutch cruise ship incident probably isn’t the next pandemic. That doesn’t mean we’re risk-free from outbreaks
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
slacktivist

The truth is out there - Imagine if Frank Peretti rewrote "Chariot of the Gods." That's what you get when CharisMAGA C-listers start freaking out about UFOs and aliens.
Seeing the Forest

They Meant It - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. In 2005 I wrote a post titled “They Mean It” that warned about Chris...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 11 May 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] ...
Crooked Timber

From The People’s Bank to the Banker’s Bank - Last week Australia’s central bank (Reserve Bank of Australia, RBA) raised interest rates. Again. Political economists have been talking for decades about ...
Counterpunch

Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis? - Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined b...
jobsanger

Trump Is Tired Of The War - But Can't Find A Way Out Of It -
Informed Comment

America’s Un-Christian Autocracy - The recent conflict between the Pope and the US President was not a personal tiff or a celebrity feud
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
The Greanville Post

MUST WATCH: Prof. Ted Postol Explains Iran’s Nuclear Position - DW—Postol shifts focus to Iran’s nuclear program, emphasizing the rationality and levelheadedness of Iranian leadership regarding nuclear weapons. Iran has...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Happy Mother's Day Prayers and Best Wishes, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. and Dr. Cesar Cruz - *Happy Mother's Day Prayers and Best Wishes * *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. and Dr. Cesar A. Cruz* *Feliz Día de las Madres—Happy Mother's Day!* *Today...
Liberation News

How a high court ruling guts Black voting districts - Voting rights were hard won by a mass movement in the streets. Today, mass action is needed to defend these rights.
Socialist Alternative

College Degree But No Job: The Struggle To Find Work - After graduating college today, many young people are left asking “why can’t I find a job?” After being sold the “American dream” of going to college to ge...
El Paso Matters

Contrasting campaigns define Cruz-Holguin matchup in 168th District Court runoff - Voters will choose between two attorneys with different backgrounds and campaign approaches in the May 26 Democratic runoff for an open El Paso district...
Crooked Media

Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call? - The post Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call? appeared first on Crooked Media .
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
See You In 2020

The Zio-Ukraini menace, American Hitlerism, & the last time the workers had to fight off a global fascist assault - The Nazi states of Ukraine and “Israel” are the idols that the U.S. empire uses to rally support for its escalating fascist offensive. They both have cu...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - These are crazy times, people. But those of us who know saw it coming. It's sad to say, but there is a real possibility that in the next ten years Ame...
The AltWorld

Trump’s Target in Mexico Isn’t Cartels. It’s Claudia Sheinbaum. - Is Trump’s drug war really about stopping cartels — or is it a weapon to crush Latin […] The post Trump’s Target in Mexico Isn’t Cartels. It’s Claudia Sh...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is that true? - As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one a...
The Texas Signal

The Austin Comic Creator With A Mouse-eye Apocalypse View - Mac Smith just wrapped a wildly successful Kickstarter and production for the latest entry in his Scurry universe, a dystopian world full of anthropomorphi...
Duck of Minerva

Britain is experiencing wave of antisemitic terrorism: Whether organic or state-sponsored, it needs to be addressed - I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, and unfortunately it hasn’t gone out of date. On April 29th, a man stabbed two Jewish people in London. Shortly...
The Militant

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants - Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day....
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
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...
Krebs on Security

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide - An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and un...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/08/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Rad...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Corporate Fascist Dance: Watching the Alliance to End Democracy Come Together - We've been experiencing corporations legitimizing fascists for so long now
NORML

Arizona: Campaign Abandons Effort to Place Marijuana Repeal Measure on November’s Ballot - [image: Arizona Marijuana Laws][image: Arizona Marijuana Laws]“Regulation works. That is among the many reasons why voters prefer these policies over a r...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Warehouse Plans - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 536kb If you’re the kind of person who’s up to their goddamn neck with seeing millions impoverished and immiserat...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ group Moms for Liberty facing growing unpopularity, election losses, & disillusioned members - A volatile sex scandal involving one of its founders in 2023 (as seen here by one of the mocking responses on social member) as well as member disillusion...
Ecosophia

Companions on the Road: A Retrospective - “This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a ...
Environment Texas

Distributed energy resources can help build a cleaner, more resilient Texas grid - In testimony to the Texas Legislature, Environment Texas urged lawmakers to expand rooftop solar, battery storage, microgrids and other distributed energ...
Trivial Knot

The Goomba Fallacy - The goomba fallacy is when some people say A, and some people say B. And then you say, isn’t it ridiculous that people believe A and B at the same time? Bu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers - Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers
Edinburg Politics

From blank canvas to lasting legacy: McAllen’s Nikki Rowe High School celebrates resilient young artists during art contest awards ceremony - A well-attended crowd filled Nikki Rowe High School’s gymnasium on Thursday evening, April 30, 2026 for the awards ceremony of the “A Soul’s Journey: The R...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
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...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
Texas Monthly

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

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
IVN

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

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

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

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

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

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