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/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

Vox

AI models have learned how to cheat. That might actually be a good thing. - The fake identities were the part that stopped me. In late July, according to a report published this week by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI), an An...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio FC considers top division opportunity with United Soccer League - San Antonio FC is banking on World Cup hype to attract new fans to free games while it considers moving up to a higher level league in 2028. ---------------...
The Verge

Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling - Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for b...
Grist

In Montana, a controversial $2B pipeline hits a speed bump - After an environmental group filed a complaint on behalf of two Montana residents, state regulators rescinded a crucial waiver.
jobsanger

Accusations Of "Communism" Come From Politicians Who Can't Defend Their Record -
Counterpunch

Cuba’s Caregiving Despite the Blockade - During the same historical period that the United States has targeted Cuba with blockades that last for decades– and now a full blown naval blockade of a...
The Week

6 majestic homes in Utah - Featuring a historic gothic revival in Spring City and contemporary mountain home in Eden
Informed Comment

US: 75% say Iran War not worth Cost, 61% Blame Trump for Inflation - Iran's seizure of control over the Strait of Hormuz is a world-historical event; Americans don't Know About it
Mediaite

Republican Congressman and Iraq War Vet Claims He Also Fought ‘Over in Iran’ - Rep. John James either drastically misspoke or broke some major news on Thursday night when he claimed that, in addition to Iraq, he also fought "in Iran...
Raw Story

'Awkward': MAGA CBS anchor's absence leads to the 'best ratings in months' - A MAGA CBS anchor's short vacation led to his show getting the best ratings in months, according to a report. CBS Evening News finally cracked more than ...
Techdirt.

Erica Schwartz Confirmed As CDC Director Right After She Ruined Her Reputation - When Erica Schwartz was first nominated for Director of the CDC, you could almost hear both a gasp of surprise and a collective sigh of relief from healthc...
memeorandum

Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left (Peter Baker/New York Times) - Peter Baker / New York Times: *Insults, Expletives and Fat-Shaming: Vance Trolls Critics on the Right and Left* — The vice president has dispensed with...
Election Law Blog

“Voter ID supporters drop claims ballot measure would save money, make voting ‘easier'” - Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle: Sponsors of a November ballot measure that would require California voters to bring a driver’s license, passport or ...
Mediagazer

A US federal judge pauses an order requiring Trump to disclose details of his businesses' financial performance to the BBC in his $10B defamation suit (Josh Gerstein/Politico) - Josh Gerstein / Politico: *A US federal judge pauses an order requiring Trump to disclose details of his businesses' financial performance to the BBC in ...
Popular Resistance

Hiroshima 81: The Looming Risk Of Nuclear Disaster - On June 10, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, who was then U.S. Director of National Intelligence, released a brief but poignant video that began with devastating sce...
Brad Blog

Trump’s Lawless FCC Votes to Ignore Legal Cap on Corporate TV Station Ownership: ‘BradCast’ 8/6/2026 - Welcome to another episode of the independent BradCast, as heard on dozens of independent affiliate stations over what remains of our still-public airwaves...
Wolf Street

Derivative Losses Squish Already Crushed UWM, the Largest Mortgage Lender in the US: SPACs just Keep on Giving - With its earnings announcement, it had a few tricks up its sleeve.
Antiwar.com

The Rulers of the Nuclear Powers Are Slow Learners - Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a nuclear ...
Slate

Why America Is Turning Against AI Data Centers - From Texas to New York, local communities are organizing against massive data centers, making their development a new political battleground.
Mother Jones

What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals? - Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical minerals deal...
Ballot Access News

Aaron Day, Independent for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, Completes Petition Drive - Aaron Day, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate, has finished his petition drive. He collected 5,000 signatures and 3,000 are needed. However, assumi...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Council creates Project Marvel oversight committee - In its first session since summer recess, City Council on Thursday voted 10-1 to create a District Community Advisory Committee for the proposed $4 bill...
Progressive.org

The Battle for Delaney Hall - The immigration detention facility is notorious for mistreatment. Inside and outside, people fought back.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Angry Bear

The economically weighted ISM indexes for July show a reasonably strong but stagflationary expansion - – by New Deal democrat The economically weighted ISM manufacturing + services indexes continue to be the best timely snapshot of the US economy. With th...
Futurism

Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too - A likely story. The post Jealously Watching OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta Suddenly Claims That Its AI Went on a Hacking Spree Too appeared first on Futurism.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Recollections of probably taking Hum 3! - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026* *The doldrums invade our camps:* As a matter of fact, we did in fact take Hum 3 during the first semester of our junior year. ...
Capital & Main

‘It Wasn’t Right.’ Car Wash Workers Cope With Lingering Impacts of SoCal ICE Raids. - Workers and their families struggle in the aftermath of federal immigration raids that targeted more than 100 car washes in the region. The post ‘It Wasn...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Multi-Generational Fight for Desegregated Schools in Los Angeles - For more than 40 years, equal access to educational opportunities of Los Angeles students under the California Constitution have been protected by a court ...
Al Jazeera English

The biggest AI bill for parents yet? - Congress is pushing a new bill forward that would give parents the power over their kid’s interactions with AI chatbots.
Novara Media

Trump Begins Building Gaza Military Base - Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Board of Peace’ has issued its first building contract in Gaza, and it’s for a military base. Plus: New EHRC guidance on single-s...
Daily Cartoonist

David McCaw Ascends to the Cartooning Pinnacle - This week’s issue of The New Yorker introduced two new cartoonists to the magazine’s readers. Michael Maslin tells us: As Michael noted in his Monday entry...
naked capitalism

The Ceuta Psyop Shows the Seams of the European Far Right - Far-right hysteria labeling the 70,000 border crossings an 'invasion' is part of the psyop—and it reveals the limits of their narrative.
First Draft

Republicans Salted Their Own Fields - Come and enjoy a smorgasbord of schadenfreude, courtesy of the GOP.
WhoWhatWhy

Amid Blanche Confirmation Battle, NM Sues DOJ for Access to Epstein Docs - [image: Jeffrey Epstein, dock, Little Saint James Island] Before senators vote on Todd Blanche's confirmation, they should look into allegations from New M...
Krebs on Security

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions - A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspi...
Texas Standard

Austin’s Waterloo Records still setting the stage for budding artists 44 years later - After relocating, the storied record store’s new digs offers artists a bigger space to reach fans through in-store performances.
Undernews

Climate change - *AP- *Airline passengers know to expect possible flight delays when weather forecasts call for thunderstorms, heavy snow or strong wind. The omens are l...
Consortium News

HIROSHIMA 81: An Appeal to Pope Leo on Nuclear War - U.S. veterans, professors, clergy, writers and peace activists ask Catholic Archbishop John Wester to forward their appeal for emergency diplomacy to stop ...
Political Wire

How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents - Coming this fall: How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents by Sen. Thom Tillis. According to Politico, Tillis describes Donald Trump’s advisers as “MA...
Scheerpost.com

Faith Leaders Collectively Raise Alarm as AI and Nuclear Weapons Systems Merge - By Jon Letman This article was originally published by Truthout As AI complicates nuclear threats, religious groups are doubling down on calls for disarmam...
Glasstire

Top Five: August 6, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. Last week, Glasstire Publisher Brandon Zech and outgoing Editor-in-Chief Jessica Fuentes picked t...
Debunking Christianity

Hume's Four Suplemental Arguments Against Miracles Vs Michael Licona - As mentioned in a previous post, David Hume argued that the prior probability of a miracle is infinitely low because it violates established laws of nature...
SCOTUSblog

What is “trapped in amber”? An originalist explanation - Anyone watching the Supreme Court this past term may have remarked on the frequency with which the justices talk about fossilized tree resin. Consider: ...
Bonddad

Very positive “superlow” new jobless claims forecast an unemployment rate under 4% in the next few months - * - by New Deal democrat* The superlow number of job losses in the country continues to be one of the two most powerfully positive signals for the en...
Democracy Now!

"Struggle for Dignity": At Least 40 Killed in Mass Protests in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir - In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a coalition of local politicians, activists and small-business leaders called the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) has...
Rewire

I’m Todd Blanche, And I Want To Ban Abortion Nationwide: Satire - Dear Diary, my attorney general nomination just advanced. I just had to pledge to make Dobbs permanent in every state and ban mailed abortion pills. Anythi...
The Hill

China is exporting censorship to shape global knowledge - China’s campaign against academic freedom abroad is laser-focused on the world’s premier conference on Tibetan studies in Kathmandu this month.
Space City Weather

This weekend’s heat reprieve isn’t much, but given what’s ahead we should appreciate it all the same - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the pattern that will bring slightly cooler weather and improved rain chances over the several days. Monday continues ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Kamala Conundrum: Examining A Potential 2028 Harris Presidential Run - Exploring the viability of Kamala Harris in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary fight, and what history suggests about her chances. The post The Kam...
Texas Environmental News

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The Smirking Chimp

Who’s Responsible for This Mess? -
Off The Kuff

Two South Texas stories - Turns out that ICE raids aren’t so popular there either. Leaders within the construction industry in South Texas delivered a clear message to lawmakers: St...
ProPublica

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No. - The post He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No. appeared first on ProPublica.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Infidel753

Recommended reading - With the legacy mainstream media now owned and controlled by billionaires, and largely pushing their agenda, alternate sources of information are a necess...
Earth 911

Using Reclaimed Materials in Your Home & Yard - When most of us think of landfills, we think of rotting disposable diapers, apple cores,... The post Using Reclaimed Materials in Your Home & Yard appear...
OpEd News

Thailand's community-led HIV revolution is powered by #PutPeopleFirst - Please consider the below article based on insights from 3 experts who lead community-led health service delivery model of Thailand. It offers a roadmap to...
Workers World

PDF of August 6 issue - [image: PDF of August 6 issue] Download the PDF Editorial: Behind the Ceuta crisis Political prisoner Mumia Abu‑Jamal petitions U.N. Mundo Obrero: EE.UU. u...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan primary victory is the latest win for progressives challenging establishment-backed Democrats – as it happened - This live blog is now closed. - Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary - Sign up for the Breaking News US email A quick upd...
ArcaMax

Bringing Nixon Back Home - SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA -- On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn't take...
Alternet

Trump’s bizarre pitch to Vegas voters: I might send gas prices up - President Donald Trump has long attempted to deny the sour state of America’s economy, even as rampant inflation causes millions of people to struggle to...
Salon.com

“That’s the best you got?”: El-Sayed brushes off right-wing Islamophobia after Michigan primary win - The Senate candidate encouraged his opponents to get better talking points
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'LGBTQ candidates excel and win in Tuesday's primaries' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *“Ready for change”: LGBTQ+ & progressive candidates dominated Tuesday’s primaries* - *I am very cautious and pragmatic about this sort of thing. LGBTQ ...
Axios

Trump deportations cost taxpayers $2,358 each - Data: Economic Policy Institute; Map: Danielle Alberti/Axios American taxpayers would pay about $2,358 each for President Trump's mass deportation push, ac...
Deadline Politics

Rosie O’Donnell Teases “Love Song” For Trump On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, Isn’t Worried About FCC: “I Don’t Listen To Them” - As Trump’s FCC continues its war on ABC, Rosie O’Donnell isn’t worried about being censored during her upcoming summer guest host stint on Jimmy Kimmel Liv...
The NM Political Report

Epstein’s New Mexico secrets: Truth Commission details failures, evidence and what comes next - [image: From left, Marianna Anaya, Chair Andrea Romero, Andrea Reeb and Bill Hall were appointed in February to serve on the Survivors' Truth Commission. (...
The Texas Signal

Tarrant County Postpones Election Site Closures Vote - The Commissioners were considering a proposal to reduce the number of Election Day polling sites from 316 to 176, and the number of early voting sites from...
slacktivist

No sign will be given except the sign of Jonah - I was sitting there earnestly asking myself one of the most pernicious, corrosive, damnable questions one can ever wind up asking oneself: Who does and doe...
Liberation News

Michigan primary: A huge defeat for AIPAC and the Israel Lobby - Abdul El-Sayed secured a narrow victory in the Michigan Democratic primary against Haley Stevens after a grueling primary which saw AIPAC and affiliated Is...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Iran Oil Giveaway - As war with Iran drove oil prices higher, Trump gave politically connected oil companies — not taxpayers — the chance to cash in on publicly owned oil.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Masks are Off: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
NPR's Health Shots

An FDA decision could give us the first mRNA flu vaccine - The Food and Drug Administration is expected to decide whether to approve the first mRNA flu vaccine.
Independent Political Report

Where Independent Todd Achilles and Republican Sen. Jim Risch Stand in Idaho Senate Race - *This article was originally published by Idaho Capital Sun* *on August 5, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (August 5, 2026) - For our busy Houston commuters, we have – The Commuter Cut – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
IVN

The Voters Who Weren’t Supposed to Show Up - CA's primary turnout record was powered by Latino independents. So why are party insiders trying to shut the door behind them?
Mondoweiss

Abdul El-Sayed overcomes massive AIPAC spending to win Michigan primary - [image: Abdul El-Sayed with supporters (Photo: Abdul for Senate)]Abdul El-Sayed overcame a record $30 million in AIPAC spending to defeat pro-Israel candid...
Ecosophia

Energy: Predicaments and Prospects Revisited - A few weeks ago, as regular readers will remember, I glanced back twenty years to my earliest and least accurate overview of the future of industrial civil...
Idavox

BREAKING: MI Rep. Haley Stevens concedes, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith - This story was published before Stevens’s concession and while the race was still tight. The... The post BREAKING: MI Rep. Haley Stevens concedes, Dr. Ab...
Green Pages News

Chino Garcia Obituary - While we were meeting at the GPUS national meeting in Chicago on Friday, July 24, one of the OGs (Original Greens) the American Green Party movement, Chino...
Ian Welsh

Understand China’s Plan To Become A Full Socialist State - “The banks, as we know, are centres of modern economic life, the principal nerve centres of the whole capitalist economic system.” –Vladmir Lenin Deng had ...
Texas Observer

The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game - When Aubrie was a freshman in the Houston Independent School District (ISD), she was assigned to an Algebra I class. On the first day of school, her teac...
Bracing Views

The Militarized Insanity of this American Moment - A “Top Ten” List BILL ASTORE AUG 04, 2026 There’s so much militarized crazy in America today that it’s entirely overwhelming. Here’s a “top ten” list: 1. T...
El Paso Matters

Mission Trail Art Market returns; Giving Day workshop helps nonprofits prepare - Browse local art, prepare for El Paso Giving Day, enjoy a museum fundraiser, tropical entertainment, hiking, movies and more during a busy week of Borde...
Crooked Timber

Perfectly Plausible - In the final comment on my most recent CT post, John Q strategically grants a premise from an earlier comment by poster Matt: John Q grants that “it’s perf...
The Conversation

White parents who tell their kids that race doesn’t matter are ignoring the long shadow of racism - 18-year old Nolan Wells’ death in Mississippi has raised again the importance of ‘the talk’ that Black parents have with their children. But what do white ...
Rallblog

Progressive Abdul El-Sayed Wins in Michigan | 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...
Dorf on Law

Precedent and Personnel: When the Justices Change so Does the Constitution - Readers of this blog know that I am a harsh critic of the Roberts Court (to say the least). The current GOP justices have dramatically altered the constitu...
The Root

Exclusive: Olivia Miles Is Taking The WNBA By Storm and We’re All Here For It - The rookie guard opens up about her electric transition to the pros, staying grounded through the hype and being her authentic self Read more...
Crooked Media

Far Right Freaks Freak Over Migrants in Spain - The post Far Right Freaks Freak Over Migrants in Spain appeared first on Crooked Media.
Two Party Opera

Imaginary Friends - Read More
Courthouse News

Americans most concerned about inflation and cost of living: Survey - Americans grow increasingly dissatisfied with elevated costs and the president's response to the issue.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The People Say “Stop The War”, The Democrats Say “Hold My Beer” - 14×14 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 722 kb “…Under conditions of mass popular opposition to the war, which is being used by the Trump administration as...
The AltWorld

There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Even In Armageddon. - One point I will always adamantly insist on is that it’s entirely possible to live a joyful […] The post There Is Beauty Everywhere. Even In Dystopia. Ev...
LareDOS

The well-fed politico: the chicken we have fattened for the last 10 years has come home to roost - Was it “the work of God” when Henry Cuellar voted to give ICE $10 billion to round up brown people who speak Spanish, have an accent, and look foreign?
Portside

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One? - A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One? Judy Tue, 08/04/2026 - 19:44
The Greanville Post

Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: Saudi Tankers Just Fled the Red Sea, Iraq and Yemen Are Changing the Game - DW—This video features a conversation between host Nima and Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar regarding the escalating regional conflicts in West Asia and the invol...
Claytoonz

Stupid and Gullible - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
High Country News

The Spokane burns show that not even suburbia is immune to wildfire - The Old Trails Fire burned through the city’s northwest corner — an area considered outside the highest risk zone. The post The Spokane burns show that ...
CultureMap Houston

Top Houston chefs fire up new pizza pop-up series for local nonprofit - A Houston pizzeria has recruited some of the city’s top chefs for one-day-only collaborations. Super Pizza Friends will unite *Shredders Pizza* with five c...
Project Censored

News That Didn’t Make The News From Palestine - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with associate editor at the Electronic Intifada Nora Barrows Friedman. S...
Black Agenda Report

Iran, China, Fascism, and Boycotting FIFA - Iran, China, Fascism, and Boycotting FIFA bareditors Wed, 08/05/2026 - 01:22 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
World Socialist Web Site

Rescue of 173 migrants narrowly averts mass Channel deaths, as Burnham pledges “relentless” efforts to “stop the boats” - A report titled *How ‘stopping the boats’ kills* show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
Trivial Knot

The modal ontological argument - The king of all useless arguments Arguments for the existence of God are, generally agreed, not very compelling, and irrelevant to any real political argum...
Common Dreams

Senate Must Block ‘Corrupt, Toadying, Vengeful’ Todd Blanche After Committee Vote - Today, in a partisan split, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General on Tuesday, setting the stage ...
NORML

Analysis: Adoption of Medical Cannabis Access Laws Associated With Increased Workplace Productivity, Innovation - [image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales][image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales]"From job creation to tax revenue to improved i...
Dissent Magazine

Who Owns American History? - Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?
The Progressive Wing

8/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day in Michigan (and Missouri)
Church and State

Can Trump be convicted and ousted? Why won’t the 67 votes needed out of the 100 Senators happen? - Anyone reading the recent book “The Fix” by Barbara McQuade will agree that Trump’s crimes have far exceeded anything necessary to oust him.
Media Lens

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

AIPAC Tops $100 Million in Election Spending for Second Straight Cycle - The pro-Israel group's PAC and super PAC have poured $104.3 million into the midterms, including more than $30.6 million in Michigan's Democratic Senate pr...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
See You In 2020

America is coming apart. When it comes back together, this will look like Haiti’s revolution. - Above: Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the face of Haiti’s mass revolutionary movement. The extent to which the United States is becoming lumpenized will ma...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., August 3, 2026 - *The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror* *by* *Angela Valenzuela* *August 3, 2026* *Legacy Museum link...
Land Destroyer

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

US DOJ relying on anonymous Israeli intel agent to convict US resident of Oct 7 participation - US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost ent...
Socialist Alternative

Support Left Independent Candidates—Build An Alternative To The Two Corporate Parties - The US midterm election is fast approaching and the Trump administration is plunging deeper into crisis. Trump’s second term has been devastating for worki...
Field Negro

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

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

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

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