Brains and Eggs: Sunday Auld Lang Syne Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Saturday Evening - enjoy
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US salsa legend Willie Colón, vocalist, trombonist and composer, dies aged 75 - Colón’s music combined jazz, rock and salsa, incorporating rhythms from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Africa American salsa legend Willie Colón, the pion...
Mediaite

Lefty Pundit Accidentally Drove Into Oncoming Traffic While Chasing ICE Vehicle During Magazine Profile - Liberal pundit Will Stancil drove into oncoming traffic and displayed "erratic" driving while chasing ICE agents around Minnesota, according to a Verge r...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The UT System’s New ‘Controversial Topics’ Policy Is About Policing Knowledge, by Dr. María Del Carmen Unda, Texas Observer Feb. 20, 2026 - *In a powerful essay published yesterday by the Texas Observer, Dr. María Del Carmen Unda examines the University of Texas System’s new “controversial topi...
Raw Story

'I am withdrawing my endorsement': Trump revokes support for GOP congressman after dust up - Donald Trump on Saturday revoked his endorsement for a Republican congressman, instead backing a challenger. Trump over the weekend continued to lash out...
El Paso Matters

At El Paso ICE facility, James Talarico argues for ‘pro-immigrant, pro-security’ approach - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico campaigned in El Paso, arguing that voters want leaders who are both pro-immigrant and strong on border ...
memeorandum

From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace (Reuters) - Reuters: *From ‘buy America’ to ‘bye America’, Wall Street exodus gathers pace* — U.S. investors are pulling money out of their own stock market at the...
Axios

Trump opens the alien files: Why Americans lean into conspiracies - President Trump vowed this week to release the government's files on aliens and UFOs, the latest instance of declassifying records that have fueled Ameri...
Houston Public Media

NASA finds critical issue with Artemis II rocket, ‘almost assuredly’ delaying launch again - Hours after holding what the space agency called a successful dress rehearsal, NASA found interrupted helium flow into the rocket, handing a significant se...
Al Jazeera English

Slovakia threatens to cut electricity to Ukraine over Russian oil spat - Slovakia and Hungary vexed after Russian oil flows via Ukraine halted by alleged Russian drone strike last month.
The Hill

Elon Musk's X appeals $140M EU fine - Billionaire Elon Musk’s social platform X has appealed a $140 million fine from the European Commission in a landmark case that could shape how online plat...
Futurism

Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans - "Our goal is to harness the chaotic nature of fire whirls as a powerful, precise restoration tool, to protect coastlines, marine ecosystems and the envir...
San Antonio Report

JCB Academy students cross the pond to collab with San Antonio high schoolers - British and San Antonio high schoolers worked side by side this week in a "challenge-based" engineering competition. ------------------------------ JCB Aca...
Election Law Blog

“Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law” - The Verge: For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law. Now his America PAC has been ...
Salon.com

Trump escalates tariffs despite Supreme Court loss - The Supreme Court said “no,” so Trump found another way to impose 15% duties, showcasing his political agenda
Daily Cartoonist

Ketching and Kvetching Up(dates) - With editorial cartoonist Paula Pugh, the aftermath of Brad Holland’s death, more about a.i. Scott Adams, Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill’s Death to Pachu...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Favorite Appointee Right Now Is the One Who Didn’t Challenge His Power - President Trump’s favorite Supreme Court justice right now is the appointee who refused to restrict the president’s tariff agenda. After the high court rul...
Courthouse News

Blizzard warnings issued for New York City, New Jersey, Connecticut as storm threatens East Coast - Forecasters said the storm could bring up to 2 feet of snow and blizzard conditions across parts of New York, New Jersey and southern Connecticut, with flo...
Political Wire

Pentagon Seeking Ways to Spend Additional $500 Billion - Washington Post: “Trump administration officials have struggled to figure out how to increase U.S. military spending by a whopping $500 billion in their fo...
Undernews

Republicans -
The Greanville Post

DISPATCH FROM OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT: Elon Musk and the US Military-Industrial Complex - OLIVER BOYD—Europe still yearns for a return of the US to a more full-blooded involvement over Ukraine. Europe so desperately needs the US because its poli...
Bracing Views

That Warship Has Sailed - The Death of the Constitutional Republic BILL ASTORE FEB 21, 2026 My fellow Americans, it’s nice to think we have a semblance of a constitutional republic,...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #FabricSustainabilityGrift - [image: Greenwashing, fabrics, toxic particles] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #FabricSustainabilityGr...
Slate

My Ex Gave Our Boys Burner Phones for a Nefarious Reason. This Is Not “Harmless Fun.” - I'm so mad
Deadline Politics

‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Responds To Trump’s Truth Social Rant, Jokes POTUS Expected Him To “Put Out” After Dinner - Following a public Valentine’s Day breakup with his former pal Donald Trump, Bill Maher has shared his reaction to the president’s recent rant. On Friday’s...
Dissident Voice

Kentucky Supreme Court Says Charter Schools Are Unconstitutional - While it is not the first state or court to rule that charter schools are unconstitutional and have no right to public funds, it is refreshing to see con...
Mediagazer

Survey: 6% of US adults often get news from email newsletters, 24% say they sometimes get news this way; just 3% say they prefer newsletters for getting news (Pew Research Center) - Pew Research Center: *Survey: 6% of US adults often get news from email newsletters, 24% say they sometimes get news this way; just 3% say they prefer ne...
CultureMap Houston

2 Houston neighbors named safest cities in Texas and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from Texas' safest cities to fresh restaurant openings. Read on for our most pop...
The Verge

Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law - For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law. Now his America PAC has been slapped with ...
OpEd News

On the Ten Commandments: A Revisit - This column is a re-publication of a earlier column. It concerns an effort being undertaken in Texas by the National School Chaplains Association to requir...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Authoritarian Monster Turns On His Allies: Trump Attacks Supreme Court - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
The Root

The Truth Behind This Viral Meme King Might Surprise You - Michael Seals-- once a professional boxer-- is taking the internet by storm, but how well do you know him? Read more...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: David Brooks talks the talk! - *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2026* *The gentleman gets it right: *It reminded us of one of our favorite passages from literature—although, in fairness, there ...
San Antonio Current

Cuban man’s death at El Paso tent camp was result of ‘spontaneous use of force,’ ICE says - [image: Camp East Montana in El Paso on Aug. 11, 2025.] His death is the first homicide in ICE custody in recent history, experts said. It comes after the...
Glasstire

Making it Big: On Cumulative Opportunity - This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from t...
Alternet

Republican election expert undermines key Trump claims - Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is sounding the alarm. Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Richer said that if SB 1570 becomes law, it "would pro...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Take A Hike — Legally - Oregon enhances rights for hikers and hunters, ICE loses a mega detention center, Missouri cracks down on illegal gambling, and Amazon cancels a spy-camera...
Grist

‘A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations - Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
Mondoweiss

Netanyahu and Israel are provoking the U.S. into attacking Iran — and the media continues to ignore it - [image: Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump at the Ben Gurion airport in May 2017. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom GPO)]As Donald Trump assembles a massive U.S. ...
Progressive.org

The Democratic Party Is Turning Back Toward Public Schools - The New Democrat Coalition in the House of Representatives is calling for funding public education for students in every zip code.
ArcaMax

Trumpism Is Forever - "Move fast and break things," Mark Zuckerberg famously ordered his employees at Facebook. His thought wasn't original. "Inaction is death," Benito Mussolin...
NPR's Health Shots

A huge study finds a link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later - Researchers followed more than 400,000 teens until they were adults. It found that those who used marijuana were more likely to develop serious mental illn...
Vox

How did we get to ICE? - In the history section on ICE’s website, one line reads: “Despite U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s relatively young age, its functional history p...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
naked capitalism

Links 2/21/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Critics Trash ‘Psychopath’ Trump’s Threat To ‘Destroy the Country’ -
Skeptophilia

Vanished into the triangle - My thought process is like a giant game of free association at the best of times, and there have been occasions when I've tried to figure out how I got (fo...
Scheerpost.com

Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration - By Jeremy Busby / Truthout, The Appeal For decades, corporate media and elected officials have shown little interest in reporting by incarcerated individua...
Crooked Media

Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, Pete Hegseth vs. AI, and Max-Maxxing with Max Fisher - The post Zuckerberg Takes the Stand, Pete Hegseth vs. AI, and Max-Maxxing with Max Fisher appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Hearing held on Maria Rojas’ injunction appeal - Keeping a close eye on this. Attorneys for Maria Rojas, the Texas midwife accused of providing illegal abortions, asked an appeals court to reverse a tempo...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week — w/Scott Ritter - With the world on the brink of a major Middle East war, Scott Ritter joins The World This Week to discuss the rationale, conduct and outcome of a devastati...
Countercurrents

Mumbai is becoming unlivable, but Modi says the French President liked it - French President Emmanuel Macron’s short run on Marine Drive on the morning of February 17 could be seen as an unintended public relations exercise to boos...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 21 February 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Oh no, the giraffe has escaped! Apparently Batman is an idiot. Delivery ...
The Week

Crisis in Cuba: a ‘golden opportunity’ for Washington? - The Trump administration is applying the pressure, and with Latin America swinging to the right, Havana is becoming more ‘politically isolated’
Wolf Street

PCE Inflation (2.9%, 3.0%) and GDP Inflation (3.7%) Got Hotter, but CPI Inflation (2.4%) Cooled. Why? The Fed Needs to Pay Serious Attention - The PCE price index gets pushed down far less by the doctored housing index than CPI does because housing weighs half as much in PCE.
jobsanger

Trump Has Not Justified His Pending War Against Iran -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Misunderstood - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

SCOTUS Tariff Ruling to Ease Solar Prices, as even GOP Voters Boost Sun Power - The SCOTUS decision striking down arbitrary Trump tariffs will make solar panel imports cheaper
World Socialist Web Site

2 coup attempts: Ex-South Korean president jailed, while Trump sits in office - While Yoon sits in jail for his actions, Trump has faced no opposition from ruling circles for his own attempts to overthrow the US constitution.
Crooked Timber

The US state has proved itself dispensable - Not long after Trump took office, I observed that the status of the US as the “indispensable nation” could not be sustained. A year later, the US, consider...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | February 20, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | February 20, 2026 barry Fri, 02/20/2026 - 23:13
Workers World

Mumia gives U.N. ‘inside impression’ of death row - [image: Mumia gives U.N. ‘inside impression’ of death row] Prison Radio released this statement on Feb. 16, 2026, by Mumia Abu-Jamal, with an introduction ...
Techdirt.

Court Orders Slavery Exhibit At George Washington’s House Restored After Trump Admin Pulled It Down - The Trump administration’s project for erasing the parts of American history they find inconvenient continues unabated. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hi...
Popular Resistance

The Decapitation That Failed - The kidnapping of a sitting head of state marks a grave escalation in US-Venezuela relations. By seizing Venezuela’s constitutional president, Washington...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
SCOTUSblog

Watching tariffs come down - Today is the first time the court is taking the bench since its nearly four-week mid-winter recess. It is a day for bar admissions and possible opinions ...
The NM Political Report

New poll shows Haaland still comfortably ahead of Bregman as Dem. primary for gov heats up - Columnists in NM Political ReportPat Davis is the founder and publisher of NM Political Report, City Desk ABQ and the nm.news network. He is a recoverin...
See You In 2020

Trump & AOC are both driving forth unrestrained imperial assault. Yemen & Palestine show how to fight back. - What does it tell us that the president who was supposed to bring spectacular “peace” deals has fully taken the mask off of U.S. imperialism’s violence?...
Independent Political Report

Colorado Forward Party Announces Virtual 2026 Nominating Assembly - The Colorado Forward Party will hold its 2026 Nominating Assembly virtually in April, where members will make candidate nominations for later this year, ...
The Texas Signal

A New Legal Terrain For Texas Nonprofits - By combining old legal tools with new state laws that took effect in January, the Texas Attorney General can pressure nonprofits without filing criminal ch...
Church and State

Wyoming Supreme Court Strikes Down First US State Ban on Abortion Pills - According to a 2023 study by the Guttmacher Institute, 63% of abortions nationwide are done using medications.
Texas Observer

The UT System’s New ‘Controversial Topics’ Policy Is About Policing Knowledge - In a recent classroom conversation, a student asked whether it was still “allowed” to talk about immigration policy in relation to Texas history. He did ...
ProPublica

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. - The post South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. appeared first on ProPublica.
Common Dreams

SCOTUS Blocking of Trump’s “Emergency” Tariffs Is a Small But Meaningful Check on a Lawless President - Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement sweeping tariffs was unlawful. *Glo...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
The AltWorld

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of […] The post The Dalai Lama – Epstein Con...
Novara Media

REVEALED: Mandelson Pushed for Prince Andrew to Be Trade Envoy - The former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is out of police custody as new information about his relationship to Peter Mandelson comes to light. Plus: We...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Liberation News

Six Black leaders who transformed the labor movement - As we celebrate 100 years of Black History Month, it’s essential we recognize the deep and longtime connections between Black history and the labor movemen...
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Legislature Passes Bill Outlawing Out-of-State Circulators - On February 11, the Wisconsin legislature passed AB 223, which bans out-of-state circulators for candidate petitions and recall petitions. Wisconsin doesn’...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
Second Nexus

Newsom Hilariously Responds After Video Catches Trump Falling Asleep At Board Of Peace Meeting—Complete With The Perfect Nickname - After President Donald Trump was caught on video snoozing at the inaugural meeting for the recently-formed Board of Peace, California Governor Gavin News...
Idavox

Patriot Front Members Pollute Environmental Board, Metal Band - Sorry fascists, you can’t go on with your lives when you try to undermine everyone... The post Patriot Front Members Pollute Environmental Board, Metal B...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! Build protests against US blockade - Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. r...
Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | February 28] Socialism in the City: Issue Launch - A discussion between Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Chris Maisano.
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Marijuana Legalization - [image: a background of cannabis buds is revealed behind a torn up newspaper][image: a background of cannabis buds is revealed behind a torn up newspaper...
Capital & Main

As Climate Crisis Upended Homeowners Insurance, the Industry Resisted Regulation - When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back. The post As Climate Crisis Upended...
Rewire

‘He Gave Me My Wings’: Jesse Jackson Opened Doors for Black Women in Politics - Jackson, who died Feb. 17, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power. The po...
Texas Standard

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs - The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president’s signature economic policy.
Angry Bear

SCOTUS overturns Trump tariffs - “The justices, divided 6-3 held that Trump’s aggressive approach to tariffs on products entering the United States from across the world was not permitte...
Bonddad

December personal income and spending: on the very cusp of recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* Personal income and spending are among the most important monthly indicators of all, because they give us a detailed look a...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Space City Weather

Cooler weather for Houston by Sunday morning, as we assess recent rain impacts on drought - In brief: Today, we look at how drought has changed in the Houston area since last weekend’s rain (it hasn’t). We also take stock of our weekend cold front...
Democracy Now!

Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian Columbia Student Targeted by Trump, Hails Court Ruling Blocking Deportation - An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University graduate and green card holder who was detai...
The Conversation

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s - Both Prohibition and current mass deportation efforts were hastily built, staffed by people permitted to use force, and had difficult objectives to achieve.
Rallblog

CamerGoon Squad | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Dorf on Law

My Opening Salvo for the New Knight Institute Initiative on Reconstructing Free Expression After Trump: Supporting and Implementing Truth as a Free Speech Value - Over the course of the last 13 months, I have frequently found myself relatively clear-eyed when diagnosing the dire condition of our constitutional demo...
High Country News

How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history - [image: Shades Of Brown performing at Clyde’s Prime Rib to celebrate the release of their self-titled album, recorded in the ’70s and released on vinyl by ...
Counterpunch

In Dark Wood with Don Giovanni: Mozart in Berlin - What to do with Don Giovanni? The title character—not to mention the universally recognized operatic masterpiece that bears his name—should, by rights, h...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Come On and Take a Free Ride: Looking Back at “Uncontested” Senate Races - In New Mexico, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D) seems poised to win another term without a GOP opponent. According to our research, there have been close to 30 com...
Brad Blog

DOJ Unlawfully Withholding Epstein Docs With Evidence of Trump Rape, Assault Allegations: 'BradCast' 2/19/26 - Today on The BradCast: If only we were a real country. [Audio link to full show follows below this summary.] On Thursday, South Korea's former President, Y...
Claytoonz

Prince Pedo - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Tenn bill attempts to undermine gay marriage by allowing individuals, private groups to refuse to recognize it' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Bill to let private groups refuse to recognize same sex marriage passes Tennessee House* - *These continuous attempts to undermine same-sex marriage are...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/20/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Antiwar.com

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine - After some delays, the United States is dispatching a second aircraft-carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join the US...
Unlimited Hangout

Redacted - Redacted.
Socialist Alternative

Epstein Files Expose The Depravity Of Capitalism - The exposure of the Epstein files is like peeling back a bloody bandage to expose a wound that is somehow even more gaping and puss-ridden than you could h...
DeSmogBlog

Alberta Separatism Has Always Been About Joining Trump’s America - The leaders of the so-called separatist movement seem careful to assure their supporters that leaving Canada does not mean being absorbed by the increasi...
The Progressive Wing

2/19 – 2/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - California is proposing a 5% wealth tax on 200 billionaires worth $2T to protect health care for 3M people. Let’s get it done—and make billionaires fina...
Earth 911

The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping - Is it sustainable to shop on Amazon? This is an important question, since almost everyone... The post The Sustainable Consumer’s Guide to Amazon Shopping...
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...
Sludge

Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virg...
Ecosophia

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #15: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Olympics Scandals, and Complaints Dept (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Caitlin is back for another wacky and wild ride
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2026 - Censored Press News Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention. Sheal...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed, Tulsi’s Tricks, Epstein’s Trail - A quick read on images of motion, spectacle, and selective seeing shaping the latest politics. The post Caught My Eye: Crushing the Press, Chinese Speed,...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
The Grayzone

EEUU tiene imputación secreta contra Delcy Rodrígez, según periodista opositora - Una periodista de oposición financiada por Estados Unidos reveló que el Departamento de Justicia de Trump ha elaborado una acusación secreta contra la Pr...
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 ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
LareDOS

Center for the Arts with Contemporary - Art Month San Antonio presents: Unbound
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
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. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

Illegal Orders - Read More
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...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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