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

The Week

Australia weighs new gun laws after antisemitic attack - A father and son opened fire on Jewish families at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, killing at least 15
Futurism

The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably - "If we were serious, we would pull this tool immediately." The post The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal...
Mediaite

Two House Republicans Rip Trump’s ‘Disrespectful’ Rob Reiner Post - Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) both condemned President Donald Trump for his Monday morning post. The post Two House Republ...
The Verge

Google’s turning off its dark web monitoring service that scoured data breaches for your info - Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Go...
Houston Public Media

Man stops Spring ISD bus before pointing weapon at driver and students, constable says - No injuries were reported, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman, who identified the man suspected of wielding the weapon as being 20...
Project Censored

A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts - This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern an...
Axios

Trump says Rob Reiner's death caused by "Trump derangement syndrome" - President Trump blamed the late Rob Reiner's death Monday on the director's political views, saying he died from a "mind crippling disease known as TRUMP...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #08: Birds & the Cosmos - Katherine is back to chat Trump's bad brain, somehow another update on N*zz*, and the billionaires playing Monopoly with Warner Bros.
Independent Political Report

U.S. Pirate Party to Host 2026 National Conference in Boston - The United States Pirate Party will host its 2026 Pirate National Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, following several weeks of member voting. The conf...
memeorandum

Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he'd do it again despite being 'riddled with bullets' (Sydney Morning Herald) - Sydney Morning Herald: *Hero who wrestled gun from terrorist says he'd do it again despite being ‘riddled with bullets’* — Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero byst...
Salon.com

“I Love LA” wrestles with Zillennial ambition - Rachel Sennott’s HBO Max comedy is a generational manifesto for the post-girlboss era
The Hill

Trump’s chaos is ceding the critical mineral space to China - Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is working on legislation to strengthen the U.S. critical mineral supply chain and reduce reliance on China, by creating a tax ...
Daily Dot

Kim Kardashian’s addition to Fortnite divides gamers, but even critics agree the meme references work - [image: kim kardashian skin in fortnite] Kim Kardashian popped up in *Fortnite *this week, and the internet reacted fast to her addition to the popular v...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 121: Dec. 15, 2025 - Today's puzzle has nine pears.
Capital & Main

I Wanted the Holidays to Drown Out Trump. Then He Spewed His Miserable Racism Again. - We have to call out the increasingly blatant bigotry of the right — like President Trump’s calling Somali Americans “garbage” — or risk accepting it as t...
Mother Jones

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. - This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story as soon as th...
Raw Story

First GOP lawmakers condemn Trump over Rob Reiner post: 'I challenge anyone to defend it' - A Republican lawmaker challenged his colleagues to condemn a social media attack by President Donald Trump against Rob Reiner. The president suggested th...
Political Wire

Big Majorities Disapprove of Trump’s Recent Pardons - A new Economist/YouGov poll finds 66% of Americans disapprove and 15% approve of the pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, who had been charged...
Al Jazeera English

Palestinians in Gaza fear rain as war-damaged buildings collapse - Storms in Gaza have caused war-damaged buildings to collapse, killing civilians and leaving many Palestinians afraid.
Eschaton

The Great Centrist Hope - Every single person who supported Cuomo in the primary should be making groveling apologies for their momentary (hah) lapse. They could've united around an...
Texas Standard

The three stories that defined Texas energy in 2025 - Plus: What are the trends to keep tabs on in the new year?
Bonddad

What do vehicle miles traveled and gas usage tell us about the economy? - -* by New Deal democrat* Today is the last day of our data drought before the onslaught of delayed reports that begins tomorrow with the November jo...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Looming federal cuts could devastate Alaska’s fight against overdose deaths - Law enforcement and public health experts worry that potential cuts to resources that save lives and stop the flow of drugs into the state could raise ov...
Dissident Voice

Where is it Leading? - Note: This article was being completed just before the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. A previous article ─ T...
Mediagazer

The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe) - Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe: *The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory prev...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Blames Rob Reiner’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” In Raging Attack On Film Director Even After His Tragic Death - Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to comment on Rob Reiner’s death, and somehow found a way to attack the film director and even blame him for hi...
San Antonio Current

Trump’s immigration crackdown is about creating fear for more than migrants - [image: ICE agents arrest a suspect during an enforcement action.] With a $28 billion yearly budget, ICE is now the country's largest domestic law enforce...
Undernews

Meanwhile. . . - *People - * Nick Reiner has been taken into custody following the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Rob and Michele were kille...
The Texas Signal

Johnson City: The Twinkliest Town In Texas - Known as the Twinkliest Town in Texas, Johnson City's annual Lights Spectacular draws four times its population every year since it started in 1989.
Mondoweiss

What are Israel Bonds, and why have they become a target for the BDS movement? - [image: Protest against Israel Bonds in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo: JVP-Philly)]In recent weeks, activists have achieved major victories in getting states to...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Election Law Blog

“Court battle begins over California’s new congressional map designed to favor Democrats” - AP News reports hearings begin today in Los Angeles in a case challenging California’s new (gerrymandered) congressional maps that are designed to favor ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging Deeper into Virginia, New Jersey Returns: Missing Nonwhite Trump Voters? Changing Coalitions in New Jersey, and More - Turnout and swing patterns in VA suggested some "missing" pro-Trump minority voters this year; "Central Jersey" gets bluer; how Govs.-elect Spanberger (D...
Daily Howler

AMERICAN REVOLUTION(S): We interrupt our planned report... - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025* *...to describe a cognitive breakdown: *We interrupt our planned report to describe a cognitive breakdown. You won't read ab...
Glasstire

What’s Another Word for Fat? Reflecting on Jenny Saville at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - Big boned. Husky. Sturdy. Curvy. Stout. Large. Over my lifetime in a fat body, I have claimed a million euphemisms and absorbed countless mean-spirited s...
SCOTUSblog

The concurrence that was really a dissent - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a cold January day in 2012, ...
naked capitalism

Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units - Time for some perspective on enhanced Obamacare subsidies costs and stakes.
Texas Observer

Mirando hacia el futuro: Los combustibles fósiles en el Valle del Río Grande - Nota del editor: esta serie fue apoyada por la Beca de Periodismo de Investigación de la Sociedad Ida B. Wells y el Centro Pulitzer. (Read in English her...
Scheerpost.com

The Far Right Triumphs in Chile - José Antonio Kast, who has promised historic tax cuts and a tougher immigration policy, will be Chile’s next president. Center-left candidate Jeanette Jara...
Second Nexus

People Share The Most Polite Ways To Say 'I Want You To Go Home Now' - Whether we're introverts, people pleasers, or highly sociable, we still all understand that feeling of being tired and wanting to say, 'That's a wrap!" a...
Courthouse News

Conservative socialism - Is giving away money the way to make people hate government giveaways?
First Draft

MAGA’S State Of Delusion - Are Team Trump's threats to invade Venezuela real or delusional?
Countercurrents

August 22, 1639: A historical precedent to Special Economic Zones - A déjà vu moment – stepping back three-and-a-half centuries from contemporary corporate dominance to the days of the English East India Company India is a ...
Democracy Now!

Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting - A deadly mass shooting at Brown University left two students dead and nine others injured on Saturday. One student, Mia Tretta, had survived a shooting in ...
Sludge

Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies - As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
Rallblog

Bloody Weekend | 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...
The Conversation

Pardons are political, with modern presidents expanding their use - Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been political or personal in nature.
Techdirt.

Literal Enshittification: ‘Smart’ Toilets Play Fast And Loose With Your Pooping Data - In the enshittification era, companies rushing to profit off the gold mine of mass commercial surveillance are routinely intent on pushing their luck. Auto...
Space City Weather

Houston records its first freeze since February as region receives glancing blow from an Arctic blast - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the city’s first freeze in 10 months, and how our region narrowly missed out on an Arctic blast. Our attention then tu...
Vox

The unexpected link between your diet and your anxiety - By May 2024, Ebony Dupas knew she had a problem. She had started to feel a mild anxiety about her sense of direction and purpose in life earlier that year,...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Miscellaneous Monday - Not sure what motivated Bennett on this one, but I know why it resonated with me. For some half a century, I imposed journalistic ethics on myself and did ...
The Root

The Full Timeline of Ebro’s Fiery Exit and Hot 97’s Sudden Morning Show Collapse - Now that the popular syndicated morning show "Ebro in the Morning" has come to an end, here's what we know so far. Read more...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: EarthX CEO Peter Simek on Cultivating Bipartisan Climate Strategies - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. For 15 years, the... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: EarthX CEO Peter Simek...
WhoWhatWhy

A Free-Speech Nobel Nomination for Musk and Other Head-Slapping Absurdities - [image: Elon Musk, Memorial, Charlie Kirk, AZ] Elon decides whose voice is heard. A Free-Speech Nobel Nomination for Musk and Other Head-Slapping Absurdit...
Dorf on Law

The Vaporware Presidency - In the tech world, the term *vaporware *is used to describe a product that does not yet and may never exist but that a company hypes for any number of re...
Skeptophilia

Return of the Gootans - Some days, I wave the banner of critical thinking proudly and boldly, confident that we humans are capable of rational thought and decision-making, of re...
The Smirking Chimp

The Joseph Welch Award for Standing Up to Tyrants Goes To … -
Off The Kuff

Whitmire resolution passes - In the end, it wasn’t close. Mayor John Whitmire will no longer be able to get endorsements from the Harris County Democratic Party following an overwhelmi...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio trade schools labeled low earners on new federal list — here’s what they say - The U.S. Department of Education released a new economic indicator that will flag more than 1,300 U.S. colleges as having “lower earnings.” ----------------...
ProPublica

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. - The post Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

FDA commissioner on public's growing mistrust in the government's health advice - NPR's Steve Inskeep asks FDA Commissioner Marty Makary about recent controversies around the COVID and Hepatitis B vaccines, and the lack of trust in the g...
Grist

What your cheap clothes cost the planet - A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage.
Consortium News

Exploiting a Massacre to Cover Up a Genocide - Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to o...
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Is About to Turbocharge Presidential Power - The post SCOTUS Is About to Turbocharge Presidential Power appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Why Did Trump Send His Warships to Venezuela? - Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have triedeverything short of...
Wolf Street

Treasury Yield Curve Steepens Sharply, Yields from 2 Years to 30 Years Have Risen as the Fed Cut Three Times this Year - The bond market faces the duo of Inflation and Supply.
jobsanger

Trump Wants Austerity For Everyone But Himself -
Portside

Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox - Sunday Science: Star Talk With Special Guest Physicist and Musician Brian Cox Ira Mon, 12/15/2025 - 00:38
Informed Comment

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy: Revisionism, Neoconservatism, big Money and Corruption - Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed judicial reforms
World Socialist Web Site

Anheuser-Busch to close 3 breweries in the US, affecting hundreds of jobs - The closures expose claims from the Teamsters that they were protecting job security in their 2024 sellout contract.
Claytoonz

Bailout Bzzzzzz - 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...
Reform Austin

Austin Billionaire Pushes for Public Executions, Triggering Fierce Backlash - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… An Austin-based tech mogul is drawing national attention after publicly advocating for the retu...
OpEd News

Book Review: The Myth of American Idealism - Review of Chomsky's last book before he disappeared from public view due to health issues.
Popular Resistance

How The US Empire Creates Chaos To Disrupt Multipolarity - With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to cooperation, development...
Antiwar.com

Why Are American Troops Still Dying in Syria? - On December 13, 2025, two U.S. soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed near Palmyra, Syria. According to a Pentagon statement, a lone Islamic State...
The Greanville Post

Erika Kirk Does STAGED Interview & Demands Candace Owens Stop Asking Questions! - JIMMY DORE—Once Candace Owens publicly raised questions about a mysterious billionaire donor named “Pierre” and a massive, hush-hush influx of money into T...
Liberation News

Trump intensifies racist attacks on Somali community in Minnesota - The attacks on Somali communities in Minnesota are part of a long history of racist immigration policy in the United States.
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 14, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 14, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump...
Alternet

Why MAGA’s combo of anger and despair makes the movement so dangerous: analysis - In his New York Times column and frequent appearances on MS NOW, journalist David French isn't shy about attacking President Donald Trump from the right....
Ballot Access News

Missouri Wants Federal Court to Impose Sanctions on Plaintiffs’ Attorney in Redistricting Case - On December 12, Missouri’s Attorney General asked a U.S. District Court to impose sanctions on the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the redistricting case. ...
El Paso Matters

Judges in El Paso Electric rate case recommend smaller rate increase, less profit for utility - The bill increase proposed by El Paso Electric may be reduced after judges overseeing the rate case sided with customers, suggested lowering rate hike. ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'WTF?' Toons - ...HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY!... ...to my fellow Missourian-turned-Los Angelino...the legendary Dick Van Dyke!... ...and be sure to watch this video, if you hav...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Are You On The FBI’s Naughty List? - Google wined and dined lawmakers, the Epstein files yield new revelations, and more from The Lever this week.
Angry Bear

New Deal democrat’s Weekly Indicators for December 8 – 12 - Weekly Indicators for December 8 – 12 – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While there were no significant changes...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- standing strong alone - Yes, Europe can secure its own future without the increasingly unreliable US. France has shown the way.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses - [image: Southviille houses]
CultureMap Houston

Beyoncé-loved Houston brunch spot expands and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with new locations of hot brunch and burger spots. Plus, a Houston en...
ArcaMax

Everyone Must Get Droned - The Achaemenid Persian Empire. Byzantium. The Ottomans. Ancient Rome. All these regimes wielded immense power relative to their contemporaries. They domina...
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...
See You In 2020

Zionism & anti-communism are part of a British effort to hold back the American revolution’s completion - To figure out how to defeat America’s financial dictatorship, and end Zionist settler-colonialism, we must investigate the British empire’s role behind ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Libs of TikTok and founder Chaya Raichik blasted on social media for alleged Epstein Files hypocrisy - The bigoted site Libs of TikTok and its founder Chaya Raichik got the proverbial taste of their own medicine this week for the harm they have caused the...
The AltWorld

Europe is just buying time on their path to erasure - Europe is just buying time on their path to erasure The post Europe is just buying time on their path to erasure appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Environment Texas

Tips for wasting less this holiday season - Waste less and celebrate more during the holidays. The post Tips for wasting less this holiday season appeared first on Environment Texas.
The NM Political Report

Vasquez warns funding crisis endangers Bosque del Apache’s vital role in local economy - U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., visited the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge on Dec. 6 to assess the impact of federal budget cuts and staffing...
Church and State

America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal” - Bondi also ordered the FBI to go back as far as 5 years in their investigations of our social media posts, protest attendance, and other activities.
DeSmogBlog

Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States - Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new rep...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION. - *Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.* It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some go...
The Militant

Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is ...
Common Dreams

Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Coalition Partners Demand Democratic Leadership Call to Stop Arming Israel at DNC Winter Meeting - A broad coalition of progressive organizations led by Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action), alongside Palestinian and allied organizations, launche...
Workers World

Hegseth is ‘the killer’ … and this is not a Netflix series. - [image: Hegseth is ‘the killer’ … and this is not a Netflix series.] The author is a Venezuelan consultant, international analyst, former Director of Inter...
NORML

Media Reports: White House Decision on Marijuana Rescheduling May Be Imminent - [image: marijuana rescheduling][image: marijuana rescheduling]"While such a move potentially provides some benefits to patients, and veterans especially,...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
Rewire

These Four Supreme Court Cases Could Upend U.S. Democracy and Human Rights (Opinion) - If SCOTUS sides with the Trump administration and its Republican allies, the damage “will take lifetimes to repair.” The post These Four Supreme Court Ca...
slacktivist

LBCF: Going to the UN - Rapture Christians hate and fear the United Nations, but they don't hate and fear it enough to bother learning the slightest thing about what it actually i...
High Country News

Colorado wolves are on the move - Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders. The post Colorado wolves are on the move appea...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/12/2025 - 05:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Progressive.org

Living in Dangerous Times - How much longer will people be taken in by the propaganda emanating from a party that controls every branch of the federal government, yet insists it is po...
Socialist Alternative

Founding Conference Kicks Off New Left Party in Britain - On the last weekend in November, over 2,000 Your Party members gathered in Liverpool to establish what is already the largest socialist party in Britain si...
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead - We're living in the Mad King era
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
The Grayzone

US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mo...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition - Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 ...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Democracy Chronicles

The Best Replacement For Mercator World Maps - Don’t let the hype and bullshit convince you that Equal-Earth is the best, or is a scientific optimization, or that there’s anything new about it. No other...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
MintPress News

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers - MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers. The post Stop...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
The Progressive Wing

December 9-14 News Roundup and Open Thread - December continues cold in the Northeast.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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