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

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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

The Verge

The Nintendo GameCube is about to get its due - Before this morning, I knew I was going to buy the Nintendo Switch 2 but I didn’t know when. After watching Nintendo’s Switch 2 Direct today, in which a pu...
Raw Story

‘Brazen alternative history’: CNN fact-checker shocked by Trump's Rose Garden claims - President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden remarks as he touted his “liberation day” tariffs on Wednesday were littered with falsehoods, according to CNN’s in-...
Mediaite

There’s a Glaring Omission on the White House’s List of Trump’s New Tariffs - President Donald Trump announced a long list of new tariffs on Wednesday, and observers swiftly noticed a rather glaring omission. The post There’s a Glar...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio parts with with Public Works director amid persistent construction woes - After 33 years of working as Public Works Director and City Engineer, Razi Hosseini is stepping down. ------------------------------ San Antonio parts with...
Houston Public Media

‘What gets measured gets fixed’: HISD Super Mike Miles advocates for reforming state school rating system - The state agency is seeking to raise its standards for schools, making it more difficult for them to obtain higher scores.
memeorandum

Scoop: Becerra jumps into field to succeed Newsom (Politico) - Politico: *Scoop: Becerra jumps into field to succeed Newsom* — FIRST IN POLITICO: HEADED SOUTH — President Donald Trump has named bomb-hurling Republi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s wall of tariffs is likely to raise prices and cause chaos for business - President promised liberation yet may have plunged the US into recession and the world into an economic scramble Donald Trump is finally making good on h...
The NM Political Report

Governor, others call Trump tariffs ‘a massive tax increase’ - Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and others said President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs and ongoing trade war will hurt the economy and American consu...
Slate

Why House GOP Leadership Pulled Out All the Stops to Kill This Vote–and It Backfired - House GOP leadership fought as hard against this as they have against anything.
The Week

Critics’ choice: Restaurants worthy of their buzz - A fun bistro, a reservation worth the wait, and a modern twist on Mexican dishes
Al Jazeera English

Why is Pakistan deporting Afghans? - Islamabad says about three million Afghans must leave the country this year.
Grist

How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs could kill American innovation - The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same to clean tech.
CultureMap Houston

Historic Hill Country restaurant reopens after 2-year renovation - The historic *Stagecoach Inn* in the Central Texas town of Salado is once again welcoming guests to the dining room.
Eschaton

Better For My Blood Pressure At Least - I don't think it will improve anything except my mood, but I will be glad for Elon to be (if!) less of a main character in The Politics Show. (I have no ...
Texas Standard

New children’s book ‘Mistaco’ gives families ‘a fun way to share their mistakes together’ - “You just want to have a really fun story. But bringing in mistakes – it’s like folding it into the taco.”
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: We thought M. Gessen made a nice choice... - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2025* *...with respect to that one key word:* We thought M. Gessen made a good observation with respect to a small bit of language. ...
Axios

Trump announces new tariffs, the highest import taxes since the 1800s - President Trump announced a baseline 10% tariff on U.S. imports, with steeper reciprocal levies on goods from a slew of other nations, including Europe, ...
slacktivist

Honk and holler as we go - The tariffs are coming and, along with them, the exemptions and exceptions made possible by kickbacks, bribes, and payoffs to the administration.
Techdirt.

Trump’s Buddies At Andreesen Horowitz Want To Help Buy TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space - We’ve noted more times than I can’t count that the push to ban TikTok was never really about protecting American privacy. If that were true, we would pass ...
The Root

Hmm...All The Shots Drake Might Be Taking at Kendrick Lamar in His New Music Video - It’s been nearly a year since the lyrical war of words kicked off between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Although neither has released a proper diss track in ...
Mediagazer

Users complain that three well-known sites that help avoid paywalls, including archive.is, redirected them to Russia's RT for at least five days as of Tuesday (Brendan Ruberry/Semafor) - Brendan Ruberry / Semafor: *Users complain that three well-known sites that help avoid paywalls, including archive.is, redirected them to Russia's RT for...
Salon.com

"One-man wrecking ball": Trump hints to White House insiders that Musk might be on the way out - A new report from Politico claims Trump is telling insiders that Musk won't be around the White House for long
NPR's Health Shots

The richest Americans live about as long as the poorest Europeans, study says - Everyone knows that Europeans tend to live longer than Americans. But a new study has a surprising twist: Even the richest Americans only live about as lon...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Conservatives Fall Well Short Again in Wisconsin Court Race; Shades of 2017 in Florida Special Elections - In Wisconsin, liberals kept control of the state Supreme Court with Susan's Crawford's 55%-45% win last night; neither of Florida's two House special ele...
Rewire

Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! - Meet *Rewire News Group*’s antidote to the current mess in Washington, D.C. The post Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! appeared first on Rewire News Gr...
Daily Dot

Keke Palmer under fire for hosting Jonathan Majors on podcast about ‘accountability’ - [image: 2 panel image showing Jonathan Majors on the left and Keke Palmer on the right. Tweet over says: ...my sister lost me. it really is one of them d...
Courthouse News

Man who had gun and knife will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh - Nicholas John Roske’s arrest spurred the House to approve a bill expanding around-the-clock security protection to the justices’ families.
Futurism

Scientists Recover Underwater Camera Designed to Snap Photos of Loch Ness Monster - In 1970, a cryptid-obsessed placed several cameras inside plastic trap boxes and sent them down to the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness in hopes of catchin...
Sludge

Trump-Tied Lobbying Firms Rake in Hundreds of New Clients - Since the 2024 election, firms founded by Trump campaign bundlers, like Ballard Partners and Miller Strategies, are seeing a rush of new corporate clients.
Mother Jones

Eric Adams Isn’t Corrupt? - After all the public groveling and taxpayer-funded trips to Mar-a-Lago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appears to have successfully prostrated himself to f...
Reform Austin

Texas Governor Faces Legal Threat Over Delayed Special Election For Congressional Seat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas politics took an unexpected turn when Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee issued a l...
Political Wire

Americans Don’t Approve of Elon Musk - A new Marquette University Law School poll finds Elon Musk with an upside down 38% to 60% approval rating. Politico: “Musk’s latest approval rating spells ...
Church and State

For $1,000 a MAGA preacher says God will be “an enemy to your enemies” + you get 6 more blessings - Send Paula White, who is a friend of Trump, $1,000 and the Lord will shower you with seven must-have “supernatural blessings”.
Undernews

Presidential update - [image: May be an image of 2 people and people golfing] *Len Nelson* -Today, on his 69th day in office, convicted felon Donald Trump played golf a...
The Hill

Hochul knocks ICE over 'just plain cruel' detention of family - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said it was “just plain cruel” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to detain a family, including a chi...
Mondoweiss

Palestine beyond the colonial logic of international law - [image: Palestinians try to go about their daily lives amid the rubble of buildings or their makeshift tents during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, in Jabalia, in...
Texas Monthly

Roar of the Crowd: April 2025 - Reader letters published in Texas Monthly’s April 2025 issue.
Alternet

'No way to put lipstick on this': Conservative calls WI Supreme Court race a 'blowout' loss - Commentator and former editor Charlie Sykes offered a warning to Republicans after liberal judicial candidate Susan Crawford handily won a pivotal Wiscon...
Progressive.org

Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Immigrants Discover the Ties That Bind - During the second week of President Donald Trump’s new administration, I traveled with a couple of Wisconsin dairy farmers and a dozen of their neighbors a...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 12: Eliminating Federal Judgeships - Today's entry in my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series differs from the usual fare in three ways. (1) It doesn't include that rhetorical question i...
American Prospect

The Democrats’ Liberation Day - Today on TAP: Cory Booker’s marathon speech showed the party that resistance might be good policy and politics.
Claytoonz

Cheesehead - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
SCOTUSblog

Justices let FDA denial of vape flavorings stand - [image: Justices let FDA denial of vape flavorings stand] [image: Justices let FDA denial of vape flavorings stand] Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday l...
Capital & Main

L.A. Can Rein in Illegal Short-Term Rentals, Says Longtime Airbnb Watcher - With the Olympics approaching and housing in short supply after recent fires, the city is moving to crack down on illegal rentals. The post L.A. Can Rein...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: American Freefall - The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades. By Patrick Lawrence Special t...
First Draft

Operation Whitewash Preps Its Second Coat - Thanks to DJT's insecurities, the subversion of standards at the highest levels of the Pentagon continues.
Deadline Politics

Amazon Joins List Of TikTok Suitors As App Deadline Looms - Amazon is among the suitors for TikTok as the digital platform nears a closely watched deadline to restructure its operations, a source with knowledge of i...
WhoWhatWhy

The One Thing You Have to Know for the April 5 Trump Protests - [image: Donald Trump, Tax Cuts, Hurt, Veterans] The protests planned for April 5 will bring out an incredibly diverse anti-Trump coalition, so what should ...
Vox

The Supreme Court struggles with whether to wound Medicaid to spite Planned Parenthood - Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic should be one of the easiest cases the Supreme Court will decide this year. A federal law requires every state’...
Ecosophia

Parsifal: The Solution Assessed - As we saw two weeks ago, Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal makes use of most of the same symbols as The Ring of the Nibelung, and thus provides a mordan...
World Socialist Web Site

Netanyahu steps up assault on Israel’s legal authorities, confirms no end to Gaza genocide - Israel’s Attorney-General Galia Beharav-Miara has greenlighted war crimes against the Palestinians. As she acknowledged in her defence, she gave her legal ...
Eater Houston

Here Are Houston’s 2025 James Beard Award Finalists - [image: A cityscape has the James Beard Award medal imposed on it, and a travel brochure.] Illustration by Lillie Allen Houston lands four nods this year...
Second Nexus

MAGA Senator Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud With Epic Freudian Slip About Medicare - Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy was widely mocked following his inconvenient slip of the tongue during a CNBC interview as he mused about findi...
NORML

Maryland: Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Tax Hike in Budget Bill - [image: Maryland marijuana legalization][image: Maryland marijuana legalization]"Marylanders already pay a premium tax on retail cannabis products. Raisi...
The Daily Poster

Health Care Giants Say It’s Too Costly To Protect Your Privacy - Amid hacks of patient data, the medical industry is trying to block a rule requiring cybersecurity upgrades.
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 199: “Is It Time To Leave the USA?” - Live 12 noon Eastern and Streaming Afterwards: Hosts Ted Rall and Scott Stantis dive into a heated question: Is the United States veering toward fascism ...
Glasstire

“The Inbetweeness”: An Interview with Huakai Chen - Huakai Chen (陈华铠) (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist currently residing in San Antonio, TX. Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Huakai Chen...
Common Dreams

Hearing Watch: Senators Consider Trump’s Latest Big Oil Shilling Choice to Oversee America’s Public Lands, Katharine MacGregor - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold its confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of...
Election Law Blog

“Senate Republicans set to bypass parliamentarian on Trump tax cuts” - Alexander Bolton for The Hill: Republicans are set to make the audacious play of bypassing the Senate parliamentarian and moving forward with a budget re...
Wolf Street

Oh Elon! Tesla Deliveries Plunge as Musk Crushes One of the Most Successful Consumer Brands - Are they still selling any Cybertrucks?
Dissident Voice

Inspiring Pitch - Last Friday night, I went out to support a friend’s oldest boys. They had a high school rugby match in Bedford, Texas. It was a great evening for it, and...
Rio Grande Guardian

Vera: Starr County is being transformed by unity, and we’re poised for tomorrow - Starr County Judge Eloy Vera delivered his 2025 State of the County Address from the Julable Events Center in Rio Grande City. We have exclusive video co...
The AltWorld

They Tell You The Houthis Attack Ships, But They Never Tell You Why - None of the people applauding Trump’s war on Yemen because “the Houthis are attacking ships” will tell you why the Houthis […] The post They Tell You The...
naked capitalism

New Gallup Poll Finds Health Care Affordability Falling: One-Third Cannot Afford Care - More bad, if predictable, news on the US health care front.
Bonddad

February JOLTS report: “soft landing” so far, but indications of further weakness ahead - *- by New Deal democrat* Along with all the other reports, yesterday the JOLTS survey was updated for February. This survey decomposes the employmen...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Science Festival, Borderland BeerFest, Big El Paso Fair - From hands-on science exhibits to craft beer and carnival rides, here are family-friendly events happening this week. The post El Paso events: Science F...
LareDOS

LC, City of Laredo, Workforce Solutions to host April 10 Laredo CARES Spring Job Fair - Pre-register at bit.ly/sprn25
ProPublica

Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments - by Jesse Coburn ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Southeast Texas Record

Citizen-only voting passes Texas Senate, now heads to House - A resolution that would help ensure only United States citizens can vote in state elections has passed the Texas state Senate. Read more…
Democracy Now!

Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand - Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has expelled hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers to El Salvador without due process to be detained...
ArcaMax

The Tragedy Joe Biden Brought Upon Us - WASHINGTON -- Read it and weep. I mean the newspaper. Every single day, it brings tidings of despair to those who cherish the civilian institutions and age...
Space City Weather

This forecast is for the birds, and also the weekend weather looks unsettled - In brief: Today’s post discusses high winds expected over the Houston region this week, and our warm temperatures. Depending on clouds, some locations may ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Musk Is the Biggest Loser’: Social Media Erupts As Dem Wins Big in WI Supreme Court Race -
Skeptophilia

The shadow of misrule - One of the most interesting figures from English history is King Henry II, who ruled from 1154 until his death in 1189. Henry was the first of the Planta...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Welcome Break in the Foolishness - Well, nobody’s perfekt, and Mother Anderson couldn’t have seen how April Fools Day was going to play out on this continent. Whether Elon wanted to buy vote...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: Moving around the state - And we have some new counties to add to the board, too. The measles outbreak that began in the South Plains region of Texas rose to 422 cases and spread to...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
Scheerpost.com

Trump DOJ to Seek Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione - Calling the death penalty "an intolerably cruel and unusual punishment," one socialist writer said that the European Union should offer the alleged assassi...
Crooked Media

Happy “Liberation Day” to All Who Celebrate - The post Happy “Liberation Day” to All Who Celebrate appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Disorder Of Things

Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology - This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Pro...
Counterpunch

The Collapse of Liberalism - I attended Rashid Khalidi's course, History of the Modern Middle East, 20 years ago and still think about it. Amid Columbia's sea of polished and top-of-...
jobsanger

The Largest Tax Hike In United States History -
Trivial Knot

Origami: Jagged Bomb - I’m going to the East Bay Origami Convention this weekend! I’ll be teaching this model. I specifically designed the model in order to teach it. Normally,...
Informed Comment

Women and Workers voting in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race defeat the Richest Man in the World - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The richest person in the world couldn’t buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which was won by liberal Susan Crawford, ...
Antiwar.com

War, Doublethink, and the Struggle for Survival: Geopolitics of the Gaza Genocide - In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global powers su...
Infidel753

Crawford wins! - Susan Crawford, a liberal candidate known for her support of abortion rights and net neutrality, has won a ten-year term on the Wisconsin supreme court, b...
Popular Resistance

Veterans For Peace Delegation Visits Nicaragua - In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven members of Veterans For Peace (VFP) visited Nicaragua in mid-to-late March as an official ...
Ballot Access News

Crawford Defeats Schimel, Musk Supported Candidate for Supreme Court in Wisconsin, and the Voter Photo ID Referendum Passed - Here are the results from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. … Continue reading →
Liberation News

Exxon, Essequibo and imperialism - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.
Brad Blog

Federal Judge Dismisses Long-Running Challenge to Georgia's Unverifiable, Insecure Voting System: 'BradCast' 4/1/2025 - A legal fight for the integrity and public oversight of elections in the Peach State has been running in federal court for nearly eight years now. As we've...
The Greanville Post

Everyday in America is April Fool’s Day - EDITOR—John Rachel offers a biting satire of the pile of huge lies that buttress US legitimacy as an exemplary republic before American and international p...
Portside

Four Bills From House GOP Lawmakers Affecting Federal Employees - Four Bills From House GOP Lawmakers Affecting Federal Employees Greg Tue, 04/01/2025 - 20:38
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Fox News pundit mocks co-host for criticizing illegal deportation of 'gay barber'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Fox News pundit Jesse Watters *Jesse Watters Mocks Co-Host For Criticizing Deportation of Innocent Man: ‘You’ve Been Talking About This Gay Barber For We...
Workers World

Build protests to defend students! - [image: Build protests to defend students!] Workers World calls on all students who have citizen rights in the United States and who identify with the righ...
See You In 2020

This is just the start of the crackdown. How we respond now will determine how ready we’ll be for what’s coming. - Art by Debashish Chakrabarty What do you do when your government has shown it only intends to keep attacking the people more viciously as time goes on? ...
High Country News

Forest Service pauses commercial huckleberry picking in Gifford Pinchot National Forest - The berries are a critical resource for the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation and have become a big market of the Pacific Northwest food industry. The p...
The Texas Signal

Global Reproductive Experts React To Texas Arrests - While the news of the first criminal charges against the Texas abortion ban sent shockwaves around the state and country, many global reproductive rights e...
Discourse

The Martyrdom of Luigi Mangione - The Trump administration is doing everything it can to turn him into a saint.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Danza Mexica Ceremony on April 8, 2025 at 12 Noon in the Outdoor Rotunda, Texas State Capitol - ****PLEASE SHARE WIDELY**** *Friends,* *Next Tuesday, April 8th at noon, please join Texas State Rep. Christina Morales (Houston, Dist. 145) in celebrat...
Texas Observer

Carlton Carl, 1945-2025 - Carlton Carl passed away on March 25, 2025, in Austin. Born on September 20, 1945, in Houston, Carlton was the younger of the two Carl Boys, born to Cla...
DeSmogBlog

Doug Ford’s Policies Increased Ontario’s Energy Dependency on U.S., Say Experts - As Donald Trump’s unjust trade war with Canada heats up, Canadian politicians are advocating less economic dependence on energy exports to the United Sta...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Conversation with Sarah Kendzior - Live Wednesday April 2nd at 8pm ET - I'll be discussing Sarah's new book The Last American Road Trip and our worsening crisis
Idavox

Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A White Supremacist, to Shoot ‘N—–’ After Incident At Free Concert - All they told her was that she could not be in a certain part of... The post Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A Wh...
Angry Bear

Manufacturing Index returns to Contraction - ISM manufacturing index returns to contraction as the front-running of tariffs has ended – by New Deal democrat [Note: I’ll report separately on constru...
The Conversation

Why a presidential term limit got written into the Constitution – the story of the 22nd Amendment - No president is supposed to serve more than two full terms. That rule became part of the US Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
Dissent Magazine

Will Federal Workers Rediscover Their Militancy? - Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences.
The Grayzone

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal - Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war ef...
Ian Welsh

LePen Being Banned From Running For President Is Not Lawfare - [image: LePen Being Banned From Running For President Is Not Lawfare] I should note that this was NOT my original assumption. I assumed this was like Geor...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
Bracing Views

Surprise! Institute of Peace in Shutdown - W.J. Astore Meanwhile, Institute of War Is Going Full Throttle Surprise! America’s Institute of Peace (USIP), admittedly a think tank that is neither that ...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Iowa - Official state motto: We Squat Atop Missouri.
Project Censored

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History - In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk...
Crooked Timber

Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life. Reading Kopenawa and Albert’s The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman from the perspective of economic philosophy - What is it that people desire when they desire riches? It may seem strange that once all basic needs are fulfilled, individuals would continue to strive fo...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adoption of Low-Carbon Concrete with Eco Material Technologies’ Grant Quasha - As trade dynamics shift and tariffs reshape supply chains, construction companies must rethink how they... The post Earth911 Podcast: Accelerating Adopti...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31-4.4 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Weil vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wor...
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
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...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
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...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
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 ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
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...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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