Brains and Eggs: Sunday 'Category 5' 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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

memeorandum

New Judiciary Democrats Analysis Reveals Trump's Corrupt Pardon Spree Cheated Crime Victims of $1.3 Billion (House Committee on the Judiciary) - House Committee on the Judiciary: *New Judiciary Democrats Analysis Reveals Trump's Corrupt Pardon Spree Cheated Crime Victims of $1.3 Billion* — Trump...
DeSmogBlog

Pioneers of Europe’s Citizen-led Solar Revolution Sound Alarm Over ‘Corporate Capture’ - This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For decades, advocates of renewable energy have argued that solar panels and wind tu...
Earth 911

Sustainable Alternative Lawns - The suburban lawn is a potent symbol of the American dream, and many people can’t... The post Sustainable Alternative Lawns appeared first on Earth911.
Crooked Media

ICE Raids, Military Force on American Soil, and the Fight for Justice in America - The post ICE Raids, Military Force on American Soil, and the Fight for Justice in America appeared first on Crooked Media.
Daily Dot

“The most awful nausea I’ve ever experienced”: Texans recommended to “avoid alcohol and caffeine” this summer - Texas residents may need to avoid two popular beverages this summer, as extreme heat makes enjoying alcohol and caffeine hazardous. Why should Texas resi...
San Antonio Current

Need Cheap Psychics in 2025? Here Are the Top 10 - Need psychic insights but don’t want to break the bank? Well, it’s natural to be concerned that those minutes might rack up the cost.
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “So much of this is the same story told again. Once upon a time we didn’t know better, and we bought all the happy talk about Iraq. But every single […]
naked capitalism

Via the False Claims Act, NIH Creates Another Weapon for Ideological Enforcement at Universities - Universities are loath to take NIH funding due to "evil" grant terms that make ideological non-compliance subject to False Claims Act damages
The Verge

SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground - Late Wednesday night at about 11PM CT, SpaceX was about to perform a static fire test of Ship 36, ahead of a planned 10th flight test for its Starship, whe...
Counterpunch

The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works - The cold truth is this: political violence works. The assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota state legislators remind us again that v...
Mediagazer

SoftBank-backed Spotter, which fronts cash to YouTubers for a cut of revenue, is facing significant challenges due to YouTube's shift toward Shorts, and more (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg) - Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: *SoftBank-backed Spotter, which fronts cash to YouTubers for a cut of revenue, is facing significant challenges due to YouTube'...
Al Jazeera English

Devi Khadka: The woman leading the fight against wartime sexual violence - In Nepal, Devi Khadka confronts her past while challenging those in power who seek to erase wartime rape from history.
Portside

Zohran Mamdani’s Messaging Machine Is a Model To Emulate - Zohran Mamdani’s Messaging Machine Is a Model To Emulate Mark Brody Thu, 06/19/2025 - 01:33
jobsanger

Retail Spending Is Down For The Second Month In A Row -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2478: Metal Wood - Episode: 2478 Metal Wood: the Evolution of Wooden Golf Clubs. Today, metal wood.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Easy regime change in Tehran is a nice idea. But look to history: it’s a near-impossible one | Martin Kettle - No one doubts the malignity of the Iranian government, but if we forget the tragedies of interventions past, we’ll make the same mistakes On the eve of t...
The Week

The seven strangest historical discoveries made in 2025 - From prehistoric sunscreen to a brain that turned to glass, we've learned some surprising new facts about human history
The Hill

Earth is absorbing too much sunlight: It’s a waking climate giant - A brighter Earth won’t solve every problem, but without it, every other climate effort will fall short.
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: Joe Dope - It was clear to US Army leaders after the blitzkrieg of 1939-1940, where German tanks overran first Poland and then most of Western Europe in a matter of w...
Courthouse News

EPA must revisit decision to not revise industrial pollution standards - Wastewater regulations for oil refineries and chemical plants haven't been updated in nearly 40 years.
Antiwar.com

Trump, War, and the Constitution - Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it choose...
Raw Story

'This is wrong': MAGA lawmaker begs Trump admin to 'reverse' latest cut - Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is breaking ranks with the Trump administration over its decision to eliminate a suicide hotline option for LGBTQ+ youth – callin...
The Grayzone

US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels - Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special...
Mediaite

‘This Is Actually Not Parody’: CNN’s Abby Phillip Reacts to Blowup Between Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson - CNN's Abby Phillip appeared highly entertained by wild clips from Tucker Carlson's interview with Sen. Ted Cruz. The post ‘This Is Actually Not Parody’: ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump’s threats against Iran and the criminalization of US foreign policy - Trump, who pledged to rule as a "dictator on day one," acknowledges neither international law nor the American Constitution and asserts his right to kill a...
Techdirt.

Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ - Back in May, we talked about a change that Nintendo made to its EULA that essentially amounted to “We’ll brick your console if we don’t like how you use it...
OpEd News

Gavin Newsom's Speech: A Great Political Marker of Our Time - "Do not give into him." These are the closing words of California Governor Gavin Newsom's televised address from Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
Popular Resistance

Mohammad Marandi: This War Was Supposed To Break Iran - The Israeli attack on Iran continues. Since Friday, IDF jets and missiles have hit sites across the country, carrying out targeted assassinations of key ...
The Greanville Post

SABBY SABS SHOW: TRUMP TURNS ON TUCKER, DR. UMAR SNITCHES, MARANDI & MEHDI CRUSH PIERS, BRIAN BERLETIC JOINS - EDITOR—Must watch video with an enormous amount of first-class material demonstrating the hypocrisy of the West and its media presstitutes (like the notori...
Workers World

Black lives matter! Migrant lives matter! - [image: Black lives matter! Migrant lives matter!] During the summer of 2020, the U.S. was engulfed in widespread protests that brought hundreds of thousan...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
El Paso Matters

EPISD trustees adopt budget with $6 million deficit, approve pay raises for next school year - Trustees approved a compensation plan that would give EPISD employees a raise for the first time since 2022 – but will also increase how much employees ...
Alternet

CEO of sole American smartphone manufacturer has bad news for Trump's new phone company - Earlier this week, the Trump Organization (President Donald Trump's family-run business) unveiled its latest business venture – a smartphone that the com...
Brad Blog

What 'Anti-War President'? MAGA Civil War Erupts Over Trump and Iran: 'BradCast' 6/18/2025 - Last night on BlueSky, "Driftglass", our OG blogger pal and semi-regular round-tabler on this program observed: "The BradCast is always a three course meal...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio swears in younger, more partisan mayor and City Council - Led by Mayor Jones, San Antonio's City Council now ranges in age from 24 to 52, and several new members come from activist backgrounds. --------------------...
The Daily Poster

Is Trump’s Energy Czar Lying About His Solar Past? - Energy Secretary Chris Wright submitted a resume to Congress with what appears to be false information about working in solar energy. He’s repeated the cla...
Salon.com

"You will find a husband": Charlie Kirk tells 14-year-old girl to get an "MRS degree" - A teen asked Kirk for his advice on going to college. He told the girl to get married
Axios

The U.S. could join Israel's war with Iran to deploy this 30,000-pound bomb - The U.S. is in possession of the world's most powerful non-nuclear bomb. Data: Royal United Services Institute; Graphic: Kavya Beheraj/Axios A 30,000-pound...
Claytoonz

Warrantless Goons - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Deadline Politics

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen Arrives In Tehran; First Western Journalist To Enter Country Since Start Of Latest Conflict With Israel, Network Says - CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen filed his first report on Wednesday after arriving in Tehran, reporting on hearing anti-aircraft gunfire as well as the sounds of p...
Scheerpost.com

The Chris Hedges Report: Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson) - The rich are severed from the rest of us — materially through gated communities and jets, and psychologically through the bubbles they exist within.
Grist

In Georgia, a runoff looms for Democrats after primary results for public utility commission seat - In a state with rising energy bills, the race is key for its climate future.
ArcaMax

A Midnight Assassin, Masked Agents And Rising Political Violence - A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targ...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 15 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Juneteenth is on Thursday, June 19, which means those who want to celebrate will find plenty of events happening across Houston this weekend. We’re talking...
Socialist Alternative

Largest Day Of Protest In US History Takes Aim At Trump & ICE: What Now? - On June 14, Socialist Alternative members from Los Angeles to NYC joined alongside millions of ordinary people to protest Trump’s authoritarian regime and ...
Environment Texas

2025 Hurricane season coverage: Data, resources and interview opportunities - Info from PIRG, Environment America, their Atlantic & Gulf Coast state groups and Frontier Group about enviro, health, consumer concerns hurricanes pose....
Angry Bear

Housing construction looks even more recessionary - – by New Deal democrat Because no data will be released tomorrow due to the Federal holiday, I am going to defer a deeper look at the very important hou...
SCOTUSblog

Watching environmental law get eclipsed by Skrmetti - The courtroom is quite full today as we near the end of the term. A key reason for that is this is the last day for in-person admissions to the […] The p...
Progressive.org

The Past, Present, and Future - In 'Prose to the People,' Katie Mitchell celebrates Black bookstores and their contributions to liberation.
Election Law Blog

“NJ Justices Nix Redistricting Challenge, Draw Rare Dissent” - Bloomberg “The New Jersey Supreme Court rejected a challenge to municipal political district drawing, short-circuiting litigation that could have led to ...
The Texas Signal

Texas Democrats Strategize A Path Forward - Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger appeared with several North Texas elected officials to discuss the future of the Democratic Party
Slate

Everyone Is Upset About Pedro Pascal and Dakota Johnson’s Buzzy Rom-Com. Are You People OK? - Is the film "broke guy propaganda," or a depressing fantasy of luxury? Depends who you ask!
Mother Jones

FDA Approves “Breakthrough” HIV Drug - On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a highly effective, injectable drug to help prevent the transmission of HIV, according to its manuf...
Rio Grande Guardian

Delta Area leaders unite in big push for medical center - The idea was brought up at the Delta Area Summit by Elsa City Manager J.J. Ybarra. The post Delta Area leaders unite in big push for medical center appe...
NPR's Health Shots

Screen addiction and suicidal behaviors are linked for teens, a study shows - The study, published in JAMA, followed teens for years and evaluated addictive behaviors, as well as suicidality.
Futurism

Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization - Kristi Noem, the gun-loving former South Dakota governor who now runs Homeland Security, was rushed to the hospital earlier this week for a severe allerg...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Dissident Voice

Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those wh...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “TrumpTempted by the Neocons” - LIVE 5 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: In an uncertain world in an uncertain time, you can count on the “DePtogram show with political cartoonist Ted...
Second Nexus

VA Doctors Can Now Refuse To Treat Veterans Who Are Democrats Or Unmarried Thanks To Trump Order - Per an executive order from President Donald Trump, the Department of Veterans Affairs has introduced revised guidelines for VA hospitals nationwide, rem...
Reform Austin

From “Gay Frogs” to Fraud Claims: Alex Jones in Hot Water with Sandy Hook Families - Alex Jones, the Infowars host notorious for spreading conspiracy theories, is under renewed legal scrutiny as a U.S. bankruptcy trustee accuses him of mo...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Common Dreams

Statement on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report - The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report: “This report shows that ...
Church and State

Does the Existence of Atheists Prove There is a God? - Why do theists keep asking already answered questions? I don’t really know and I’m not sure they do, either.
Sludge

‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit in GOP Megabill Would Fuel School Privatization - A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would allow school voucher fund donors to lower their taxes beyond the cost of their donations.
The AltWorld

Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? - Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? The post Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? appeared first on TheAltWorld .
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Appoints Members to New Financial Standards Committee - The Libertarian National Committee has appointed Adrian F Malagon and Kathy Yeniscavich to its new Financial Standards Committee, which was established a...
Glasstire

Bookended: Austin’s Music Scene Illustrated - There is no denying that Austin’s music scene is one of a kind. From dive bars to multi-day festivals, the city’s various stages have been graced over th...
American Prospect

On Iran, It’s Trump vs. MAGA - Today on TAP: What happens when a failing dictator is on the ropes? He imagines winning World War III.
Capital & Main

Can Gov. Gavin Newsom Make Californians Healthier? - Advocates worry that soft drinks, candy and other ultra-processed foods bought with government funds via EBT cards may be in his sights. The post Can Gov...
Undernews

Social Security - *CBS News - *Social Security is on track to deplete its trust funds by 2034, one year sooner than previously forecast, when the federal retirement prog...
Wolf Street

Fed Sees Hotter Inflation for Longer, Higher Unemployment, Slower Growth, “Dot Plot” Shifts More Hawkish but still Sees 2 Cuts in 2025. QT Continues - “Uncertainties” rule. Wait-and-see amid inflation fears and slowing growth.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Times tries to explain the growing debt! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2025* *Also, Times tries to explain arrests:* Even at the highest journalistic levels, simple explanation isn't real easy. As a mat...
Consortium News

Israel’s War on Iran Has No Future - M.K. Bhadrakumar predicts that Netanyahu, by underestimating the Islamic Republic’s powers of resistance, will meet the same fate as Saddam Hussein in the ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Need a General Strike: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The way to stop war and authoritarianism is to say enough is enough
Rewire

For Black Women in Texas, Juneteenth’s Promise of Freedom Remains Unrealized - State control over reproduction in Texas didn't end with slavery in 1865. Today’s draconian abortion laws and bounty hunts keep Black women in reproducti...
Ian Welsh

The Real Reason For French Collapse At The Outset Of WWII - [image: The Real Reason For French Collapse At The Outset Of WWII] I doubt one in ten of you know the importance of the Battle of the Marne? Quite simple,...
Vox

The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained - It was obvious, if you listened to the Supreme Court’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti last December, that the Court would vote — most likely al...
The Root

Remember Christian Keyes? Former Tyler Perry Accuser’s Video Resurfaces Following New Sexual Assault Lawsuit - Keyes, who was in Perry's 2005 film 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman,' became a trending topic once again this week, Read more...
WhoWhatWhy

US Researchers Are Speaking Up for Science in Local Newspapers - [image: science, research, federal cuts, pushback, op-eds, newspapers] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our r...
Mondoweiss

Rogue States: The illegality of the U.S.-backed Israeli attacks on Iran - [image: Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump at the Ben Gurion airport in May 2017. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom GPO)]The attack on Iran is just the latest cri...
Liberation News

Trump order threatens right to even life-saving abortion care - The executive order is likely to have very real impacts as hospitals determine when and how to administer life-saving healthcare.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Libertarian Party Petition Got a Boost at “No Kings” Rally - The Arkansas Libertarian Party is currently circulating its petition to regain its party status. It needs 10,000 valid signatures. On Saturday, June 14, ...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions - The post Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Texas Standard

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program - Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about o...
Bonddad

Housing construction looks even more recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* Because no data will be released tomorrow due to the Federal holiday, I am going to defer a deeper look at the very importa...
Discourse

Abolishing ICE Is the Least We Can Do - And it needs to be a red line in our politics once again.
First Draft

We’re Looking For The Guy Who Did This - This is a rant about Dollar Store Gilead.
Democracy Now!

"What Authoritarians Do": NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse - New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an obser...
The Conversation

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions - The legacy of Darnella Frazier recording George Floyd’s murder is visible in today’s Latino communities using smartphones to witness the violence and aggre...
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather: The rest of June should see near-normal temperatures - In brief: You probably don’t need to check the weather forecast every day, at least for the next few days, as our pattern looks to remain fairly consistent...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Vindictive President’: Senator Tackled by Trump’s FBI Calls Him Out in Blistering Speech -
Skeptophilia

Signals from the ice - I was maybe sixteen years old when I first read H. P. Lovecraft's atmospheric and terrifying short story "At the Mountains of Madness." Unique amongst h...
Off The Kuff

The other redistricting matter - Here’s a story from the Fort Worth Report on the redistricting trial going on in El Paso, with a focus on the effect in Tarrant County. Federal judges in E...
ProPublica

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs - by Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, Medill Investigative Lab We are still reporting. *If you are a current or former FDA employee or someone in the i...
High Country News

Trump quits deal with Northwest tribes to restore salmon - [image: An aerial view of the lower granite dam on the Snake River.] The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks th...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Columbia Funding Cutoff Update and Reprise - I continue to be on break, so today I'm running another "classic" column from my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series--my first foray into the Trump a...
Informed Comment

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous ...
See You In 2020

The pro-resistance stance on Palestine has been vindicated, & this must translate into support for Iran - The developments we’ve seen since October 7 have provided us all with tremendous lessons in what it means to wage a liberation struggle. In which pract...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration hit with two major court losses in attacks against trans community and DEI' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Judge blocks Trump anti-trans passport policy* - *The trans community gets a major win in court against the Trump Administration.* *Judge deems Trump'...
Trivial Knot

How I Made an EP - I have finally released a new EP titled Unrelenting Introspection. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. It’s only 14 minutes long. It’s xenharmonic dark a...
slacktivist

Killing in the name of (again. still.) - Rudolph, Hill, Roeder, Boelter. Recalling the political violence that forced me to understand that none of my mentors believed what they were saying.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Black Agenda Report

US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire - US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire bareditors Wed, 06/18/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Garland Nixon
Lowering the Bar

Drunken Mule-Rider Accused of Assault With Deadly Raccoon - [image: raccoon sticking out his tongue]Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn't going to stick.
NORML

Study: Daily Cannabis Consumers Exhibit Few Changes in Simulated Driving Performance Compared To Controls - [image: marijuana driving simulation][image: marijuana driving simulation]Daily consumers demonstrated improvements in SDLP (standard deviation in lateral...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
The Progressive Wing

6.17-20 Open Threads - Hello you all. 🙂 Well, expect the worse and hope for the best. Looks like Israel is picking a fight with Iran. Endless stupid war. Will it ever stop? The ...
Infidel753

The true global conflict - In many ways World War II looked like two separate wars happening coincidentally at the same time. Germany and Japan were allies, but did almost nothing ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Earthworks

The Tip of the Iceberg - Last year, we celebrated the coordinated efforts of Larimer County and Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) to hold … The post The ...
Project Censored

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space - Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as ...
Bracing Views

Demonizing the Opposition - The Abyss Beckons BILL ASTORE JUN 15, 2025 Demonizing the opposition is a conduit to murderous crimes. There is no excuse for it. I remember hearing Judge ...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A "Rare Bird" in the Academy: Why We Need Better Data on Faculty Diversity - *Friends: I’ve always told my students that I am a “rare bird” in the academy. By this I mean that there are still so few Latina or Latino professors tea...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Media Lens

The ‘Selfie Yacht’ – Greta Thunberg And The Merchants Of Smear - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – prot...
Progressives Chat

Latest Developments… - *Over the last few days:* *• Israel struck Iran and Iran struck Israel.* Naturally, there are tweets on X weighing in. And there are defenders of Israel ...
Idavox

NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, Suprise! - Sigh … Atlantic Nationalist Club it’s trying something stupid again. The fact that we know... The post NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: The Pork Reich Eyes an Army - As the Trumpenreich tries to occupy LA, the Pentagon is considering a proposal to give the Gestapo a standing army to prosecute the regime's fascist agen...
Debunking Christianity

New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil - Inside the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" will be the first ever full chapter on "The Emotional Problem of Evil."
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Strasbourg cathedral - [image: Strasbourg cathedral]
LareDOS

City investigates taste, odor in municipal water supply - Public assured it is safe to drink: “an aesthetic issue, not a health hazard”
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THE JACKBOOT FITS, WEAR IT EDITION. - *I mean.* Used to worry on Friday the 13th but we’re not feeling too lucky anyhow; every week it seems Tubby’s mob pushes a little harder against the fo...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Bud Kennedy

Could GOP Texas redistricting wipe out a Democrat in Fort Worth? Never say never | Opinion - Could Texas and local Republicans draw Democrats completely out of state or local office? Of course they could. Would Republicans want to? Absolutely. That...
Edinburg Politics

Seven UTRGV professors release book detailing the history of Valley politics: Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider’s Perspective to Regional Politics - Scholars from around the world are fascinated with the Rio Grande Valley, a region whose political beliefs often are covered by newscasts and newspapers, b...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
The NM Political Report

80 years after Trinity, Tularosa Basin continues fight for compensation - Tina Cordova has spent about two decades fighting to bring government compensation to the generations of people in the Tularosa Basin who have suffered t...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Just a reminder to my readers that this blog will be on hiatus until June 18. I’ll continue to put comments through on the previous open post when I have t...
Field Negro

Caption needed. - I need a caption for this pic. I'll start: *Thanks for giving sixty of my fellow Afrikaners refugee status Mr. President. * *No problem, Elon. Than...
The Militant

Protest killing of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC! Fight against Jew-hatred! - SWP candidates speak out against shootings in DC The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco o...
Avedon's Sideshow

Arise, ye prisoners of want! - "The Old Church by the River" is by Frits Thaulow (1847-1906). You can find more of his work here. "Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the B...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
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...
GreenSource DFW

Volunteers pick up trash for the love of it - *The Hagens in Arlington have made a game of picking up trash with their grandchildren. Photo by Jim Domke.* May 22, 2025 By July 4, the yearly spring G...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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Sunday, September 08, 2019

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