Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Watch Trump sign executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America - The US president signed order on 27 August amid growing trade war with Canada after the US enacted tariffs against its northern neighbor Continue reading...
Alternet

Alito sends MAGA’s 'circling vultures' into a rage - Many MAGA Republicans are hoping that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, now 76, will retire — thus giving President Donald Trump a chance to nomin...
The Week

Shrinking rivers force tough decisions in the US and Europe - From the Colorado River to the Danube, drought and heat take a toll
CultureMap Houston

Jacob Elordi shines in post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars - There has never been a shortage of post-apocalyptic films in movie history, with the genre proving popular since it allows viewers to confront fears about ...
naked capitalism

The Modern West Belongs to Valle-Inclán’s Esperpento, Not Nolan’s Odyssey - Nolan distorts classical myth to preserve heroic grandeur; Valle-Inclán’s esperpento deforms it to show that the ideal has decayed into satire.
Salon.com

HBO Max is sacrificing its credibility to vertical video - The latest streamer to adopt short-form content is doing it all wrong
Al Jazeera English

How California is preparing for Donald Trump’s midterm election scrutiny - Trump has accused the state of 'cheating'. But election officials say they are using outreach to combat misinformation.
WhoWhatWhy

Don Jr.’s Investment Firm Is About to Miraculously Lose Some Documents - [image: Donald Trump Jr., 2024 AmericaFest, Phoenix Convention Center] If you were riveted by the investigations into Hunter Biden, you're going to love th...
Futurism

Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light - Riiight. The post Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light appeared first on Futurism.
Texas Standard

What does it mean to be a Texas Republican in 2026? It depends who you ask - As Republicans prepare for the party’s first national midterm convention in Dallas, we asked Texas Republicans what — and who — defines the Lone Star State...
Raw Story

Firestorm as 'lying' Trump official uncorks 'insane' comments about child deaths - One of President Donald Trump's leading health officials was assailed by critics for casting doubt about the measles-related deaths of people in Pennsylv...
Mediagazer

Former BBC news chief Deborah Turness, who left after Trump accused the BBC of bias in a documentary, joins Independent Talent Group to launch a creative studio (Jesse Whittock/Deadline) - Jesse Whittock / Deadline: *Former BBC news chief Deborah Turness, who left after Trump accused the BBC of bias in a documentary, joins Independent Talen...
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: The Roots of Capitalism - Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. By Vijay Prasha...
Houston Public Media

What does it mean to be a Texas Republican in 2026? It depends who you ask - As Republicans prepare for the party's first national midterm convention in Dallas, we asked Texas Republicans what — and who — defines the Lone Star State...
ArcaMax

Few Democratic Socialists Are Blue Collar. Most Everyone Knows It - Classic Labor Day imagery shows men wearing hard hats and tough women in uniforms. These are Americans who did not build their muscles at a wellness club. ...
Texas Observer

Will a Coalition of ‘MAGA Moms’ Rally Behind Gina Hinojosa’s Bid for Texas Governor? - Last Sunday at a venue in the Austin suburb of Kyle, Merideth Keller delivered a speech to local attendees that took square aim at a man she once voted f...
Mondoweiss

After two decades, Palestinians prepare to vote for a new political leadership. But will it change anything? - [image: Hamas political chief Khalil al-Hayya, third from right, meets with representatives of Palestinian factions in Cairo. (Photo: Hamas/via Telegram)]H...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: The fear created by immigration enforcement is real — and we can’t ignore it - Visiting people at immigration detention centers and seeing unaccompanied migrant children in court – often alone – left a mark on an El Paso university...
Undernews

Alaska's name problem - *TNR - *The top four vote-getters in Alaska’s nonpartisan primaries make it to the general election. The fourth is yet to be determined. But what we alre...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico cattle growers say Trump’s always changing beef policies are “troubling” and send “wrong signal at the wrong time” - [image: The 2026 Feeding the Economy report revealed New Mexico’s food and agriculture industry has an economic impact of $50 billion. According to the lat...
San Antonio Current

Trump immigration crackdown worsening Texas restaurants’ labor shortage - Texas restaurants are the latest businesses to warn that the Trump administration’s mass-deportation crackdown is cutting into the bottom line. A new ec...
Mediaite

‘Pretend I’m On the Ballot!’ Trump Puts Himself Front-and-Center in Midterm Plea to GOP Voters - President Trump made a midterms appeal to Republicans as he expressed concern over the possibility of them not showing up to vote in full force in the mi...
OpEd News

Remembering a Dolly Fellow Musician Who Liked Beer - Dolly Parton represented a golden age of country music which included Johnny Rodriguez, Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, Tammy Wyne...
Eschaton

Deport Geddy Lee, Too - I'm curious which goods they have in mind: (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration's top trade negotiator suggested the US ought to consider banning some...
Daily Howler

REFUSALS: The president's parents saved the world! - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026* *So says the sitting president: *We had planned to focus our reports this week on Michelle Goldberg's column for the New York...
Bonddad

Heavy truck sales and durable goods orders also confirm an expansion is underway - - *by New Deal democrat* There was more evidence yesterday that, far from sliding into recession, this year we came our of last autumn’s “mini-reces...
Scheerpost.com

Hoping For Smooth Sailing With The Sea Gulls And Thoreau - Edward Curtin Here where I sit once again looking easterly to the vast sea, the wind and the waves and winding vistas along the north Atlantic coast drown ...
Sludge

Private Equity Execs Bankroll Super PAC Backing Moulton vs. Markey - Partners at major private equity and venture capital firms wrote the largest checks to Advance Progress, which is working to unseat Sen. Ed Markey in the S...
The Texas Signal

Law Banning Certain Drag Shows Unconstitutional - This is the second time that Judge David Hittner ruled Senate Bill 12, which passed in 2023 in the Texas legislature, was too broad for enforcement
First Draft

The Beef Beef - 1984: Where's the beef? 2026: Where's the beef from?
Angry Bear

Trump May Have Received His Mail-In Ballot Wish - There are two different opinions on whether Tr__p can do this or not. Here is one opinion by SCOTUS Justice Ketnji Brown Jackson. As the piece says, elec...
Rallblog

Canada Retaliates Against U.S. with 50% Tariffs | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Space City Weather

Showers and thunderstorms possible in Houston region today and this evening - In brief: We actually have some dynamic weather to talk about in today’s forecast! Due to a boundary moving in, the region will see some shower and thunder...
Krebs on Security

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia - Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating th...
NPR's Health Shots

Rwandans love their milk bars. The health minister wishes they'd drink a little less - A big glass of moo juice — no, make that several glasses a day — is common in Rwanda. Is that too much of a good thing?
The Smirking Chimp

The Naked Trump -
Off The Kuff

Drag ban ruled unconstitutional again - Maybe this time it’ll stick. Texas once again cannot enforce its restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge on Tuesday declared a 2023 la...
Slate

My Sister Asked Me for a Huge Favor. I Never Did It, But Uh, Now I’m Getting All the Credit. - This isn't going to end well.
San Antonio Report

Bexar County proposed budget blames $1.3B in property value loss on widows of disabled veterans - Bexar County proposed budget blames $1.3 billion in property value loss on the widows of disabled veterans - data paints a different story. ----------------...
Crooked Media

Will Data Centers Cost Republicans the Midterms? - The post Will Data Centers Cost Republicans the Midterms? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Progressive Wing

8/27 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Keeping It Classy: A Revised Model for Forecasting Seat Swing in Midterm Senate Elections - The growing connection between presidential and Senate results has given Republicans a structural advantage in Senate elections, but the Senate is still ...
The Daily Poster

The Billionaire Building The Democrats’ New Machine - We peel back the curtain on one billionaire’s effort to move the Democratic Party more to the center during this midterm season and the upcoming presidenti...
Infidel753

Democracy in action - Three weeks ago, commenting on this post at Annie Asks You blog, I said: *Also not surprising that the MSM and political leadership are mostly ignoring th...
Counterpunch

It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones - The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack ...
memeorandum

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform (Mike Masnick/Techdirt) - Mike Masnick / Techdirt: *Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform* — ...
World Socialist Web Site

Amid earthquake disaster in Venezuela, US stages talks between puppet government and right-wing opposition - The abject subservience of both sides of the table was summed up by the *Financial Times*, which reported that the government made no mention whatsoever of ...
Informed Comment

Hormuz Blockade drives Indonesia to seek to Halt all Oil Imports, install 100 GW Solar - A new 100 gigawatts of solar would reduce emissions by 140 million tons of CO2 per year.
Workers World

PDF of August 27 issue - [image: PDF of August 27 issue] Download the PDF Editorial: Response to Guardian letter on Iran Which side are you on? Mundo Obrero: Beneficios, catástrofe...
See You In 2020

The Luigi phenomenon, the anti-data center movement, & the petty bourgeoisie’s role in our class war - Above: oil painting of Luigi, made by a Reddit user two years ago. In these last couple years, since Trump 2.0 brought an acceleration of the war on the...
Courthouse News

Feds schedule Kratom derivatives as opioids - Certain strains of Kratom have been found to be as much as 20 times stronger than morphine.
Techdirt.

Two Die In Pennsylvania Of Measles Marking The First Deaths Of 2026 - Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw...
Popular Resistance

The Truth Behind Trump’s Trade War With Canada - Donald Trump has restarted his trade war with Canada, and it is likely that it will blow back on the US economy. This August, Washington and Ottawa parti...
Daily Cartoonist

Events Surrounding the AAEC Convention - The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) convention is just three weeks away and events there and around it are taking shape. Members-only ...
Brad Blog

Democracy is ‘Kryptonite for Empires’: ‘BradCast’ 8/26/2026 - It’s that time of the month again on The BradCast. It’s our roundtable discussion with two of our OG blogger pals trying to make sense of whatever the hell...
IVN

Maryland Tried to Rewrite the Rules for Congressional Maps. A Judge Just Hit the Brakes. - A Maryland judge ruled that a ballot measure seeking to weaken redistricting protections violated state law and contained misleading language, but the case...
Wolf Street

How Americans Spent their Trillions of Inflation-Adjusted Dollars on Goods & Services and How that Changed since 2015 - Spending on healthcare services, which blew by housing in 2023, continues to soar. But the big splurge on recreational goods & vehicles flipped this year.
Axios

Accused 9/11 plotters to stand trial in 2028 - A military judge on Wednesday set a June 2028 trial date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
The Hill

Do Iran's latest threats to Europe have teeth? - Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Do Iran's latest threats to ...
The Greanville Post

To Restore Our Humanity We Must De-Zionize the World - NB—In January 2024, on the basis of Israeli claims that twelve UNRWA employees out of 30,000 in Gaza might be Hamas (later revised down to just four), the ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BOOM! Federal judge strikes down 2023 Texas anti-drag show law as unconstitutional - Fantastic news out of Texas! From *NBC News:* A federal judge in Texas struck down a 2023 state law Tuesday that sought to restrict drag shows, ruling ...
The Verge

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company - Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quar...
Vox

Dolly Parton was even more generous than you knew - Dolly Parton was on her way to the studio to polish off “Blue Smoke” when the SUV she was riding in collided with a sedan in a Nashville intersection in 20...
Election Law Blog

The City of Santa Monica (of All Places!) Argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Callais Decision Dooms Plaintiffs’ Claims Under the California Voting Rights Act Because Plaintiffs Cannot Prove Intentional Discrimination - One issue that election law scholars have been debating since the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais is the extent to which it affects the ...
Common Dreams

Voting Rights Groups Move to Block Newly-Finalized Mail Ballot Rule - Voting rights organizations today supplemented the complaint in their lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting to ad...
Claytoonz

Lake Ontario - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 69 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Idavox

Tim Curry, Rest in Peace - Last year, he said, “I don’t fear death. I try to avoid it, as I... The post Tim Curry, Rest in Peace appeared first on Idavox.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The American Illusion is Over: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Deadline Politics

Rob Bonta Says It’s “Telling” Meta Settled With State AGs In The Midst Of Instagram Head Adam Mosseri’s Testimony & Before Mark Zuckerberg Took The Stand - California Attorney General Rob Bonta took a victory lap following the $17 billion proposed settlement of claims brought by 51 state attorneys general agai...
Texas Freedom Network

What is Christian Nationalism? - While first coined in the 1940s, over the past decade, Christian Nationalism has become increasingly more common in American discourse. You might have re...
Capital & Main

L.A. Renters Push to Ban a Utility Billing System They Say Leaves Them Guessing - Tenants and advocates are calling for an end to a utility billing practice that they say lacks transparency and causes them anxiety by making monthly bil...
Novara Media

Brits Told to Stockpile Water and Tinned Food in Face of Extreme Weather - [image: wildfire in wales]Brits will be encouraged to store water and tinned foods as part of the government’s new emergency preparation planning campaign....
Independent Political Report

Planned Idaho Congressional Debate to Feature Independent Sarah Zabel - *This article was originally published by Idaho Capital Sun on August 24, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ...
The Root

Surprising New Development in Mary Mary Singer Tina Campbell’s Divorce - As Mary Mary's Tina Campbell's divorce proceedings continue, new details about her finances have emerged. Let's break it down. Read more...
Ecosophia

August 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Stories behind UT’s now-closed ethnic and gender studies departments, by Lily Kepner, Staff WriterAug 24, 2026 - *Friends:* *I want to call readers’ attention to an important and deeply concerning piece by Austin American-Statesman higher education reporter Lily Kepne...
Ballot Access News

Two Green and One Republican Statewide Candidates in Arizona Accused of Fraud in Order to Obtain Public Financing of Their Campaigns - So asserts Arizona Mirror. It does not appear that any indictment has occurred. Here is a electionlawblog.org post from Rick Hasen. Also, thanks for Richar...
SCOTUSblog

The orders docket, why it matters, and this term’s criminal law orders - The Supreme Court divides its website for official writings by the justices into two main parts: “Opinions of the Court” and “Opinions Relating to Orders...
The AltWorld

China-Japan Tensions on the Rise - Sino-Japanese relations are widely described as being in their most confrontational phase since diplomatic normalization in 1972, […] The post China-Japa...
Democracy Now!

"Most Americans Are Getting Poorer": Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats - Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. Reich wrote in a p...
The Conversation

Tiny house villages are increasingly responding to the homeless crisis in America’s fast-growing cities - As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives to housing are supporting communities lef...
Bracing Views

On Violence - The Slow Strangulation of Compassion and Empathy in America BILL ASTORE AUG 21, 2026 Today I ran across this brief description of a new movie, “Mutiny,” th...
Dorf on Law

Party Loyalty as a Legitimate Factor in Constitutional Law Cases or Legal Realism run Amuck? - *Author Disclaimer*: *The ideas expressed below may at first blush be deemed off the wall crazy by many of our readers. I would sincerely ask that before...
Political Wire

Lawyers Gear Up as Trump Threatens Election Officials - “The Trump administration in recent weeks has warned states that it would withhold federal funding and even arrest and prosecute election officials if nonc...
Church and State

‘Anti‑ageing’ protein shown to slow cell growth is key in longevity - Our DNA carries our genetic information. Genes are pieces of DNA, and many of them are responsible for making proteins.
ProPublica

The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco - The post The Costly Blunders in the Army’s $533 Million Fiasco appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The great American road trip is in peril - Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.
Two Party Opera

Big Things - Read More
High Country News

Arctic drilling in Alaska won’t get environmental review in new proposal - The Interior Department will soon publish a ‘categorical exclusion’ that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum...
jobsanger

A Lovable Legend Is Gone -
Debunking Christianity

Speaking of Someone Who Deconverted Away From Christianity, Choose Me! - We are currently speaking of conversion and deconversion stories, yes? Well, I received this email today: Hi, I'm ______. I read mostly books...
Antiwar.com

Why Iran Ruffles the Feathers of the United States - Strip away the diplomatic briefings, Congressional hearings and the endless cable news loops about centrifuges, regional proxies and cyber attacks, and you...
Portside

Trump’s Legacy: An Unchecked Presidency and a War That May Outlast Him - Trump’s Legacy: An Unchecked Presidency and a War That May Outlast Him Judy Tue, 08/25/2026 - 19:24
LareDOS

Laredo-born Josephine Sacabo showcases her internationally recognized body of work with THE RIGHT TO DREAM – regreso a mi pueblo - Homecoming retrospective opens August 28, 6 p.m., at TAMIU FPA Gallery
Crooked Timber

Why Ceuta is European, and what came of it - Ceuta, the small Spanish enclave on the coast of North Africa, has been in the news lately. And I’ve seen a couple of articles mentioning that Ceuta has b...
Black Agenda Report

The Guardian Open Letter Exposed: Margaret Kimberley & Dhoruba Bin Wahad Speak Out - The Guardian Open Letter Exposed: Margaret Kimberley & Dhoruba Bin Wahad Speak Out bareditors Wed, 08/26/2026 - 02:57 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Edi...
slacktivist

When everything is broken, we can mend it if we try - "You can't be that hateful and still be happy," Dolly Parton said. She wanted everyone to be happy, which is why, today, everyone is sad.
MintPress News

Israel Tangled In Spiderweb As Army Braces For West Bank Explosion – Iran War Blunts Expansion - Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic off...
Progressive.org

Homeschooling Hate - The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home.
Liberation News

Gary needs long term solutions to decades of neglect – NIPSCO pay up! - NIPSCO is making millions off of decades of neglect, now residents are saying it’s time for NIPSCO to pay back what was stolen!
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock - Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything
Mother Jones

Deal /No Deal, Trump’s Iran Contradictions - On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180. After ...
NORML

FBI: Nearly 1 in 4 Drug Arrests Nationwide Are for Marijuana Possession - [image: a hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a young white person in handcuffs][image: a hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in fr...
Greg Palast

4.7 Million Will Lose Their Vote — Today We Counterattack - Leading up to the 2024 election, 4.7 million Americans were wiped off the voter rolls, a daylight robbery of democracy, an outcome not based on the will of...
Dissent Magazine

The Confessions of Rachel Cusk - Autofiction collapses the distance between creator and product. But in her latest novel, *Life of M*, Rachel Cusk seeks an escape from this confessional ...
Edinburg Politics

Terrence Howard, an Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur, honored with city proclamation for his surprise visit to Edinburg, reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED FROM LEFT: Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur Terrence Howard, and Edinburg First Lady L...
Glasstire

To-Do Lists & Travelogs: Flipping Through Felice Cleveland’s Zines - For years, the Houston-based artist and arts administrator Felice Cleveland has been making a variety of zines, offering them online as well as at zine f...
Ian Welsh

If You Want Companies To Behave Well You Have To Punish Decision Makers - Regular readers will know that China has been going after billionaires hard. So much so, in fact, that the number of billionaires is dropping in China. Bac...
Rewire

Planned Parenthood’s Funding Ban Ended—But Money Isn’t Flowing In Every State - Congress blocked large family-planning clinics that offer abortions from billing Medicaid for one year, starting July 2025. Thirteen months later, Planned ...
Media Lens

4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ - If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Look Cool; Vote DSA - 12 x 18 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb It’s all in the name – Democrats first, Socialists second (if at all). If you want to see what the DSA is rea...
Trivial Knot

Our “luxury” apartment - For the past few weeks, my husband and I have been apartment searching. That’s right, we’re renters! Not sure if readers find that surprising. But when ...
Socialist Alternative

Nolan Wells Should Have Turned 19: We Demand Answers - On July 6 on the coast of Horn Island, Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black student in Mississippi, was found dead facedown on a beach. After his body was fou...
The Militant

Organize, build protests to demand US hands off Cuba - 1,000s attend events in Cuba to back its nat’l sovereignty HAVANA — Thousands of people across Cuba paid tribute to the revolution’s central leader, Fidel ...
Discourse

What If We Kissed at Karen Bass’ ‘Do Not Park Here’ Sign? (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Thanksgiving wins, that Jon Ossoff video, that Oliver Larkin video, and boy oh boy, that miserable Karen Bass video
Lowering the Bar

Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Ticket - It also agreed to waive part—but not all—of the fee.
Project Censored

The Next Dark Pattern - Lily Minh Wass There’s a saying that goes, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” The digital platforms we rely on daily have built...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / LABOR / Time to Consider a Four-Day Workweek - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2026 Mike Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University, comments on Juliet B...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes - The post NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes appeared first on Environment Texas.
The Grayzone

ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal - The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned fro...
Unlimited Hangout

How “Argentina’s Elon Musk” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia - Javier Milei’s administration has been showcasing Patagonia to Silicon Valley executives, culminating in OpenAI’s ‘Stargate Argentina’ announcement. The ...
Duck of Minerva

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic - Did the pandemic durably change our pedagogy in International Relations (IR), or were pandemic-induced changes only temporary measures with which we have s...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus of the GPUS Hosts August 2026 Steering Committee Election - The Young Ecosocialist Caucus Steering Committee is holding an election for five positions: Caucus Co-chair Green Party US National Committee Delegate Gree...
Earthworks

Golden Gifts, Sweetheart Deals, and Demands for Investigations - The Trump Administration’s corruption and self-dealing went on full display during the August 7 Critical Minerals Roundtable at the State Department. Th...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Field Negro

The united marks of America. (The great American con) - It's official, the Trump administration is now the worst in the history of America. How could it not be? Consider what is happening with the following: ...
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Extraction Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Extraction Everything is extraction ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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