Brains and Eggs: Tinsel Toons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Trump's Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote (Brett Meiselas/MeidasTouch) - Brett Meiselas / MeidasTouch: *Trump's Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote* — As fuel costs climbed and comme...
Raw Story

Jack Smith waving 'proverbial finger' at MAGA could spur 'severe consequences': analyst - Former special counsel Jack Smith got a resounding cheer from Salon's Troy Farah on Wednesday — who noted that he is actually meting out "consequences" t...
Futurism

RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions - "If somebody tells you, 'Masks work, trust the experts,' AI may tell you otherwise." The post RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors ...
Mediagazer

A judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets October 6 to close the acquisition (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *A judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets Octob...
Crooked Timber

The Office: A sort of conjecture about why some US sitcoms are the way they are. - People here often ask me what part of England I grew up in, which isn’t a particularly easy question – I was born in the north, but then lived in South Wal...
Mediaite

Charlie Kirk Show Hosts Awkwardly Backpedal After Getting Ripped for Praising Senator’s Viral Fail - Andrew Klovet and Blake Neff were forced to walked back their initial celebration of Sen. Schitt's attempt to trap former special counsel Jack Smith in a...
IVN

Independent Voters Decide Elections. What Do They Get in Return? - Independent voters have become a decisive force at the ballot box. The next question is whether that influence can translate into lasting political power.
ArcaMax

Let the Word Go Forth: The Trump About Trump - WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump is not just a bad president. "King" is too good a word for the likes of him. What Trump truly is shall be written in the end. An...
Alternet

WSJ: Republicans' 'last-ditch' fix for the economy has been a failure - On Wednesday, Senate Republicans’ “last-ditch” attempt at showing voters the party is trying to address the affordability crisis failed when a bill relat...
Common Dreams

Senate Quashes Johnson’s Congressional Insider Trading Ruse - The U.S. Senate defeated House-approved legislation today that would have allowed all members to retain their conflicting stock investments and continue ...
Political Wire

Paxton Secures $20 Million Ad Buy - “Ken Paxton, the Republican Texas Senate nominee, announced a new $20 million ad buy in the state ahead of November’s crucial election,” Politico reports. ...
Mondoweiss

American Jews’ continued support for Israel is very bad for Jews. We must wake up. - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a dinner in the Blue Room, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the White Hou...
Slate

How Trump’s Big Mouth Sabotaged His Press Ban - The legal rubber met the authoritarian road last week with a full-frontal assault on the fundamental freedom of the press.
The Week

Will the farm crisis deliver the midterms to Democrats? - Tariffs, war take toll on farm finances
Eschaton

"Whatever Happened" - WHAT HAPPENED? The government believes that Iran played a part in the RAF Fairford incident which resulted in five men being arrested and then bailed, Pr...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
San Antonio Report

‘The stakes are high’: Debate over trauma levels, readiness pits Methodist Healthcare vs. Brooke Army Medical Center - San Antonio officials, military leaders and local healthcare providers are fighting over how an upgraded Methodist Healthcare trauma center would impact Br...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Games Trump & Liberal Media Play - We are looking at a dysfunction that transcends the contest for power between liberal authoritarians — politely called “centrists” these days — and their r...
The Verge

The AI Tamagotchis are coming - While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI compan...
Techdirt.

Ban Kids From Social Media And They’ll Just Chat In Public Radio Podcast Comments - Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify a...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Anthropic OpenAI, Meta, SpaceX Sign Trump ‘Self-Policing’ AI Accords Amidst Financial Follies While Oracle Is Left Out - Anthropic's S-1 filing is uglier than expected as they and other AI players sign Trump's "self-policing" AI accord.
San Antonio Current

Elon Musk said he wants to build an Austin-to-San Antonio tunnel. That’s news to officials in both cities. - Tech billionaire Elon Musk has concocted another grandiose stunt. On social media platform X, which he owns, Musk last week teased plans by his Boring C...
Angry Bear

Meddling or Reality? - I always read New Deal democrats daily reports on the economic state of the United States. In this report, it appears the numbers have changed from earli...
Salon.com

The quiet cost of scheduling every conversation - What’s lost when spontaneous communication declines?
Axios

Fed watchdog clears former chair Powell in renovation probe - A Federal Reserve watchdog found no criminal wrongdoing by former chair Jerome Powell in its investigation of the central bank's expensive headquarters r...
Ballot Access News

Four North Dakota Republican Legislative Candidates Who Lost Their Primaries Now Say Their Primary Opponents Should Not Have Been on Primary Ballot - North Dakota held its primary elections on June 9, 2026. Now, four Republican legislative candidates who lost their primaries are suing, arguing that their...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Prime Minister Burnham claims “strong indications” Iran played role in RAF Fairford incident, as unanswered questions pile up - Events over the days since the five arrests saw revelations throwing a question mark over heavy suggestions of Iranian involvement, and even over whether t...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Drought-State Dem Accepts Data Center Cash - “I can walk and chew gum at the same time,” said New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland.
Undernews

Europe's deadly heat wave - *Inside Climate News - *A series of deadly heat waves from May to August overwhelmed Germany’s healthcare and emergency response systems and led to an e...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding. - The ACLU argued in court that Trump administration officials broke the law by defying a judge’s order and sending 100 Venezuelan men to a notoriously bruta...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism, by Paul Edwards, Ph.D., September 2026 issue, Science, Technology, & Human Values - *Friends,* *I urge you to read this deeply concerning and important essay by Dr. Paul N. Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Information, History, and Science...
Election Law Blog

“Trump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict voting” - Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: The Trump administration has made last-minute changes to key absentee-voting forms for U.S. citizens living abroad, raising concer...
The Hill

Sabato's Crystal Ball shifts 11 House seats in Democrats' favor - Election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball on Tuesday shifted 11 House seats toward Democrats as the country inches closer to the November midterm elections...
Wolf Street

Not Even the Massive Changes of Methodology Can Get PCE Inflation Back into the Bottle - Those changes in methodology knocked the PCE price index down, but even the new-and-improved version remained far above the Fed’s target.
Capital & Main

In Colorado, the Majestic Ponderosa Pines Are Dying - A historic drought, climate change and a tiny beetle put 600,000 acres of pine at risk. Already, their gray skeletons line the highways. The post In Colo...
El Paso Matters

Tibor Schaechner, El Paso’s last living Holocaust survivor, dies at 98 - Tibor Schaechner survived forced labor and several close encounters with death during the Holocaust before moving to El Paso in 1961 and raising three d...
CultureMap Houston

Stylish tavern known for 'World's Coldest Martini' adds 2 Houston locations - A restaurant known for its oysters, cheeseburger, and serving “The World’s Coldest Martini” will soon add two more Houston-area locations. *Hudson House*, ...
Daily Howler

HEALING: Who would behave the way Trump does? - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026* *We don't love Friedman's answer:* We Americans! Assuming we escape disaster, we'll need to know how to heal. What ki...
Al Jazeera English

Why is Hegseth cutting 20 percent of US general and admiral positions? - The overhaul could reshape the US military as Hegseth faces scrutiny over senior officers’ removal.
NPR's Health Shots

After failed execution, health workers say Tennessee's method flouts medical ethics - After a botched lethal injection in May, dozens of Tennessee medical professionals told the governor that healthcare professionals shouldn't help with exec...
Vox

The astonishing gap between America’s fastest- and slowest-building cities - The Soviet Union famously churned out tens of thousands of new apartment buildings in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s — some assembled in as little as 12 days — ...
SCOTUSblog

Justices to consider when, if ever, federal district courts may review disputes over veterans’ benefits - On Monday, in *Johnson v. United States Congress*, the Supreme Court will revisit a 52-year-old ruling on judicial review of veterans’ benefits decisions...
Novara Media

UK Universities Set to Strike in ‘Last-Ditch Fight Over Existential Cuts’ - [image: A lecturers' protest in 2022 in London. Photo: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire]University lecturers are set to walk out over “existential” cuts and cour...
Bonddad

August personal income and spending: suddenly, the downturn in real pesonal incomes has vanished; everything is sunny and upbeat - - *by New Deal democrat* Along with the employment report, real income and spending are probably the most important monthly reports as to the health...
Glasstire

A Wake for Austin’s grayDUCK Gallery - This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from t...
Deadline Politics

Ahead Of Tonight’s CNN Gubernatorial Debate, Steve Hilton On No Federal Tax Credits This Year, ParaBros Politics, L.A.’s Next Mayor & California’s Spirit - “People actually want to be in California and in L.A. particularly, and so I think we don’t have to go crazy,” says gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on...
Ian Welsh

Joe Biden’s Three Genocides in Four Years: Ukraine Part 4 - I’m back again to bury the Biden legacy. Once again, I have to remind readers why I’m bothering with this when the Corrupt Dotard Donald Trump is in full-o...
WhoWhatWhy

Explaining Journalism to an 11-Year-Old - [image: Donald Trump, barred, major media, CNN, Politico, MSNOW] Why does journalism matter? And how do you communicate that to a sixth grader? Explainin...
Independent Political Report

New York Conservative Party Reelects Gerard Kassar to Fifth Term as Chair - The Conservative Party of New York State has reelected Gerard Kassar as chair for another two-year term, with Republican President Donald Trump praising ...
Scheerpost.com

Reporting Of The RAF Fairford Arrests Blows The Idea Of A ‘Free Press’ Out Of The Water - Jonathan Cook Substack When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons ev...
First Draft

Up Schmitt’s Creek - He wanted the Hawks; reality gave him the bird.
Socialist Alternative

Can A “Blue Wave” Stop Trump? - As the midterm elections approach, Trump’s approval rating has sunk to its lowest level yet. There’s no shortage of offenses souring working people on Trum...
Democracy Now!

80 Years After Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Leads Assault on ICC & International Law: Wolfgang Kaleck - Eight decades after the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal...
The Conversation

As AI political deepfakes go viral, lawmakers struggle to keep up – 2 states’ laws show limits of what they can do - Most states require warnings on AI-generated political ads, but studies show these disclosures do little to alter people’s willingness to share the content...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Cartoons and the Cornell 7 - The matter of the Cornell 7 is the sort of viral case that offers a chance to discuss a critically important issue, but also offers the chance to go spinni...
Rallblog

NYC Mayor Targets Fictional Anti-Semitism | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas ...
The Root

Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Gives His Side of the Story - Michael Desronvil speaks publicly for the first time since the jury deadlocked and the trial ended without a verdict. Read more...
Mother Jones

When Trump Opened Bears Ears Land to Mining, the Hobbyists Swooped in - This story, originally published by Grist in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It didn’...
Houston Public Media

The week in politics (Sept. 30, 2026) - On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And we learn how the Trinity River has shaped the politics, econ...
Rewire

The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion - Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans childre...
The Smirking Chimp

Legal Experts Expose the Glaring Hole in GOP Attacks on Jack Smith -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Stefanie Bord - Moving out to HD126, we get to meet Stefanie Bord, who is the kind of person who sees a problem and decides to do something about it. After getting degrees...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot - After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US When federal agents fatally shot US citizen prot...
Crooked Media

Soccer Scandal & Idiot Ambassadors - The post Soccer Scandal & Idiot Ambassadors appeared first on Crooked Media.
ProPublica

A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It. - The post A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

States want to make Big Oil pay for climate harm. Now, courts are weighing in. - New York’s "climate superfund” law has suffered two losses in court, while a U.S. Supreme Court case next week could determine the fate of similar efforts ...
Two Party Opera

Coolidgenomics - Read More
Infidel753

For Blasphemy Day - Today is International Blasphemy Day -- a day for denigrating, mocking, and denouncing deeply-held spiritual beliefs of every kind! The day is observed e...
Courthouse News

Labor union sues Kaiser - (CN) — A labor union claims the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has violated collective bargaining agreements that prohibit it from outsourcing bargaining un...
jobsanger

The Lame Duck -
Informed Comment

Vietnamese Press: US Military Withdrawal from Iraq a victory for Tehran - The brain-dead Netanyahu-Trump war on Iran was the nail in the coffin for the US troop presence in the Middle East
Dorf on Law

My Supplemental Submission to the US Civil Rights Commission - My latest *Verdict *column (favorably) discusses the final report of the US Commission on Civil Rights on the topic of the federal response to campus ant...
Workers World

New York City protests condemn war criminal Netanyahu - [image: New York City protests condemn war criminal Netanyahu] Thousands of people marched through the streets of New York City denouncing Israeli Prime Mi...
Claytoonz

Trump PSA - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 34 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Brad Blog

Trump Rolls Back U.S. Fuel Efficiency Standards in the Middle of His Global Oil Crisis: ‘BradCast’ 9/29/2026 - On today’s BradCast: With his war raging, gas prices spiking, and our climate crisis getting worse by the day, the last thing you’d think he’d want to do i...
Popular Resistance

Biggest Lesson From Xi-Trump Summit Is Not What You Think - Most mainstream observers of the Xi-Trump Summit focused entirely on deliverable outcomes. Would the summit be a step toward improved US-China trade ties...
See You In 2020

The growth of the lumpen, the rise of “nomad” workers, & what reorganizing the masses will have to look like - I’ve talked many times about how U.S. communists must learn from Haiti’s popular revolution in response to the lumpenization of our society. Haiti shows...
Antiwar.com

Eisenhower and Washington Both Spoke Out Against War - “God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White H...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Portside

A Restored History of Jewish Anti-Zionism — and the Loss It Cannot Repair - A Restored History of Jewish Anti-Zionism — and the Loss It Cannot Repair Judy Tue, 09/29/2026 - 19:45
MintPress News

Iran Seizes US Submarine As Anti-Ship Missiles Inflict Soldier Casualties - Damning reports confirm dozens of casualties amongst US navy sailors and marines in Iranian attacks this month, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around - In case you weren't sure.
The Greanville Post

Setting The Stage For October - MW—Trump continues to gaslight the American public—or tries to—regarding how he’s going from one victory to the next against Iran. I’m genuinely curious wh...
OpEd News

Having Viewed Nolan's "Odyssey" a Second Time - A talk on Nolan's film "Odyssey" as well as the epic as a whole by Princeton's Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Classics Professor Barbara Graziosi.
The NM Political Report

Shocked by ‘extreme’ PNM bills, Alamogordo residents demand answers - [image: Pictured is the PNM building in downtown Albuquerque. Photo by Roberto E. Rosales/The City Desk. January 12th, 2024.] By Kevin Hendricks Alamogord...
Church and State

Trump and his tech billionaires have made a crisis that only informed voters can solve! - Again, the only route to stopping Theil and his assassins remains for those of us of all parties and persuasions who still favor democracy.
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Project Censored

The Detention Mortality Map - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, Dr. Austin Kocher comes back on the program to discuss the Detention Mortality Map, a new tool to track death...
Texas Standard

Trump administration’s reinterpretation of Endangered Species Act could weaken protections - The new directive repeals a definition of harm in regards to protected species.
Texas Observer

Houston’s ‘Living Archive’ of Migration - The first thing you see when you walk in is a dark wooden dresser covered with a white lace cloth, dozens of family photographs lying among marigold flow...
Black Agenda Report

INTERVIEW: The US is Firmly Committed to Global Hegemony - INTERVIEW: The US is Firmly Committed to Global Hegemony bareditors Tue, 09/29/2026 - 23:07 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist G...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Vote This November To Keep Marijuana Legal in Massachusetts - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]This campaign is not about promoting the health and safety ...
Bracing Views

Mordor in the USA - Deterring Our Way to Doomsday Loving the Bomb Yet Again BILL ASTORE 23 HOURS AGO It’s amazing the enormous sums of money the U.S. government spends on dest...
The Progressive Wing

9/29-30 News Roundup and Open Thread - More evidence of Blue Wave
Liberation News

Fighting for every Black child means fighting for socialism - Nikole Hannah-Jones couldn't beat the segregated education system alone. That fight requires a collective, organized struggle for working-class power.
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather: Hot for a few more days, then rainy, and then we cool off - In brief: Houston faces a couple of more days of late summer weather before a significant pattern change brings us a soggy weekend. After that we expect co...
High Country News

The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - Critics say this is a test case for privatizing public lands. The post The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscape...
The AltWorld

Top Ethiopian Officials Confirmed The Existential Stakes Of Their Country’s Latest Conflict - Top officials assessed that Eritrea is directly supporting the rebels in battle and that they’re all being […] The post Top Ethiopian Officials Confirmed...
LareDOS

San Ygnacio, Texas: en aquel entonces and now - In 1951 a group of Zapata and San Ygnacio residents, ranchers, farmers, business owners, and veterans formed the Executive Committee for the Preservation o...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Recent articles show how Republicans are using transphobia to distract women, LGBs from harmful policies' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Editor's note - two leading items in this evening's news brief post should be a clue to transphobic LGBs, and women that their anti-trans hysteria is be...
Sludge

Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr. - The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their infl...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Live Video Dispatches Mailbag Q&A - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
slacktivist

Daughters of Adam and Sons of Eve - This is a story about a boy who needs his mother told by a man who never quite got over being a boy who needed his mother. It is a story about a son of Eve...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Trump admin greenlights dirtier, less efficient vehicles - The Trump administration announced Monday that it will loosen minimum fuel economy standards for American cars. The post STATEMENT: Trump admin greenligh...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Access Excess - 10 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 696kb I can’t even begin to pretend to care about the Donster kicking MSNOW (the artist formerly known as MSNBC) ...
Greg Palast

The OG of Political Documentary - Yes, that's me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I'm celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert ...
Krebs on Security

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hac...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: End Times Fascism - Matt and Sam talk to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their new book, *End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World*.
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Progressive.org

Donald Trump’s Loyalty Problems - Trump has appointed individuals willing to provide fawning approval of his every whim.
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Militant

Seattle hotel workers strike wins substantial gains - SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the ...
Trivial Knot

About interest rate hikes - Recently, the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 0.25% (CNBC). It may not seem like much, but it heralds further increases in interest rates, a...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Debunking Christianity

Never Think about the Religion You Were Taught as a Child? - *Yes, DO THINK about it: study and research it ceaselessly!* At the Methodist church I attended as a child in rural northern Indiana, every Sunday servi...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Duck of Minerva

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Leader In Reproductive Rights Reaches Milestone - Jane's Due Process may be changing names, but their central mission: supporting Texas teens in accessing reproductive health care, remains the same
Earthworks

A mineração suja da Sigma não vai salvar nosso clima - Manifestantes pedem justiça climática na Nasdaq Read in English Em uma decisão descaradamente fora de contexto, a Sigma Lithium foi … The post A mineraç...
The Grayzone

Top Nepal court demands answers after gov’t arrests analyst for sharing Grayzone exposé - Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised re...
Discourse

The World Ed Sheeran Wants to Live in No Longer Exists (w/Katherine Krueger) - Plus: A touching tribute from Project Mohammed
Ecosophia

September 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Media Lens

‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore - English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar. With over 128 million followers on Spotify, he ranks as the platform’s second most-followed artist, sur...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Life as a Thought Criminal - What follows is a timeline of events that have transpired since I published The Rise of The New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021),...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE HIM MAD EDITION. - *Like The Streets? Sleaford Mods? Then this might be for you! * Maybe I’m just contrary -- I won’t say “contrarian,” that’s obviously a synonym for “dor...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Progressives Chat

2026 Republicans Must Lose - We are not quite six weeks out from the November 3, 2026 general election. The 2026 United States midterm elections are favored to end up Democratic majo...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2026 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings related to their business, including two that were fatal, one of these was a suspect shot and killed by the poli...
Web of Debt

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Counterpunch

A Rupture in Israeli Security Politics: Can the Palestinians Exploit It? - Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies. The f...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Avedon's Sideshow

And a heart all plated with chrome - This picture of Craggy Gardens in the Blue Ridge Mountains was posted by M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) here. "NYT's Embarrassing Anti-DSA Meltdown: D...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

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

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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Skeptophilia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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