Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Lawn Odor" Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Futurism

Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths - "Our study suggests that living near a [nuclear power plant] may carry a measurable cancer risk." The post Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Li...
memeorandum

'I did nothing wrong': Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein abuse in deposition (Emily Brooks/The Hill) - Emily Brooks / The Hill: *‘I did nothing wrong’: Bill Clinton denies knowledge of Epstein abuse in deposition* — Former President Clinton said he “did ...
Mediagazer

Roger Lynch says Condé Nast revenue in 2025 was ~$2B, 85% of which came from its seven largest brands, and Google accounted for only ~25% of visits to its sites (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times) - Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: *Roger Lynch says Condé Nast revenue in 2025 was ~$2B, 85% of which came from its seven largest brands, and Google accou...
Political Wire

Be Careful What You Normalize - As Bill Clinton answers questions from lawmakers about Jeffrey Epstein today, it’s not just another chapter in a scandal that refuses to die. It will be a ...
Second Nexus

Riley Gaines Roasted After Claiming U.S. Olympians Who Criticized Trump 'Hate America' In Mind-Numbing Rant - Former NCAA swimmer-turned-conservative darling Riley Gaines was widely mocked online after she criticized U.S. Olympians who have been critical of the T...
Courthouse News

Pakistan is in ‘open war’ with Afghanistan after latest strikes, defense minister says - Tensions have been high for months, with border clashes in October killing dozens of soldiers, civilians and suspected militants.
Undernews

Immigrants - *Trump administration is detaining and questioning refugees already admitted to the US*
CultureMap Houston

Houston restaurateur dishes on swapping Tex-Mex for new retro steakhouse - Restaurateur Ford Fry surprised Houston diners when he announced in January that he was closing his *Tex-Mex restaurant Superica* and replacing it with *Sta...
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, March 4 - We will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs abou...
Houston Public Media

Beyonce’s mother’s gumbo at the rodeo: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Raw Story

This soulless 2028 hopeful just signed a deal with the devil - If there was ever any doubt that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is nothing more than Donald Trump’s glorified messenger boy, look no further than his sma...
Al Jazeera English

England keep Pakistan T20 World Cup hopes alive by beating New Zealand - England seal top spot in Group 2 at T20 World Cup in Super Eights stage with four-wicket win against New Zealand.
Mediaite

Local Cops Urge Parents to Check Lunch Boxes After Kid Shows Up at School With a MARTINI - Police in South Fulton, Georgia, were forced to issue a warning to parents after a child showed up at school with a canned martini in their lunch box. Th...
Mondoweiss

New Israeli poll shows young Jewish voters most right-wing, fanatically religious, and pro-genocide in Israeli history - A poll conducted by Israel's Channel 12 found the half a million new Jewish Israeli voters are the most right-wing and religiously fanatic in Israel's hist...
Bonddad

Construction spending mainly flat nominally and declining in real terms, except for AI data center-related Boom - * - by New Deal democrat* Before I get to the main object of this post, there was a little kerfluffle in the financial markets this morning about a “...
The Greanville Post

DEADLY Crisis Hits USS Ford, Iran War BLOWS BACK on Trump | Larry Johnson & Patrick Henningsen - DH—The deployment of significant air and naval assets, including 30% of the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 fleet stationed far from Iranian targets, is criticized a...
Eschaton

Shooting Our Own Dudes - The "scary Mexican drone" thing is just some nonsense, but they have all cooked their brains on their own bullshit. The U.S. military used a laser Thursd...
Novara Media

Kamala Harris’ Support for Gaza Genocide Cost Democrats Votes in 2024 - An internal autopsy by the US Democratic party found Kamala Harris lost significant support in the 2024 election because of the Biden administration’s poli...
The Verge

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots - It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance a...
Dissident Voice

Of Monks and Oligarchs - One of the things I have learned in my more than seven decades of life is that everything has its opposite. For instance, you wouldn’t know up if there w...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Anger at Detroit police U-turn over officers’ call to border agents - Police chief accused of caving to Republican demands by reversing decision to fire implicated duo A Detroit police department decision to reverse course ...
San Antonio Current

17 measles cases reported in El Paso, including 13 at ICE detention facility - [image: Camp East Montana, the largest Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detention center, sits on Fort Bliss land in El Paso, Texas.] Earlier in Febru...
The Hill

Does RFK Jr. care that babies will needlessly die under his vaccination policies? - Federal employees, Kennedy said, were promoting the “mass poisoning” of the American public. Then, in 2025, measles exploded, with more than 2,200 cases ac...
Deadline Politics

After Netflix Drops Warner Bros. Bid, GOP Senator Cancels Planned Antitrust Hearing - With Netflix dropping its bid for Warner Bros., the company no longer will face the additional scrutiny of a key Senate panel next week. The chairman of th...
Greg Palast

Two Speeches. Two Americas. One Liar. - Trump doesn’t just tailor his message to the room. He fabricates reality from scratch for different audiences, with total indifference to being caught, as ...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our March/April 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, And so comes primary season. That time of year when Texas Democratic voters gather to, through a process about as reliable as the...
The Militant

Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’ - Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up at...
Election Law Blog

The Problem of “Family Voting” in Yesterday’s UK Election - The UK held a special election (what they call a by-election) for a parliamentary seat from Gorton and Denton. In an area held by Labour for nearly 40 ye...
naked capitalism

The Hidden Math Behind Rising Electricity Prices - How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.
Glasstire

Ecstasy in Design: Eliza Au at the Crow Museum of Asian Art & Chris Wolston at Dallas Contemporary - In sacred spaces, light filters through a latticed screen or catches in the carved stone of a medieval grotto, arriving diffused and somehow changed. In ...
The Week

Between the Rock and a hard place: Gibraltar’s new post-Brexit rules - The UK government will hope that relaxing the land border between Gibraltar and Spain will clear up the ‘last major unresolved issue from Brexit’
ArcaMax

Universities Dismantled DEI Without a Fight. Now They Owe Students Action. - Last year, following Trump's anti-DEI executive order, the Department of Education sent a letter to educational institutions. It began "Dear Colleagues," a...
First Draft

Black History Month Lives On Despite Jackson’s Death - Black history is American history: full stop.
El Paso Matters

El Paso County seeks tree volunteers; UTEP installs Narcan machine - This week: El Paso County seeks tree-planting volunteers while a naloxone vending machine launches at UTEP. Here’s a quick look at the week’s government...
Socialist Alternative

The Democrats Won’t Abolish ICE - When immigrants are under attack, what do Democrats do? Not much. At the time of writing, there is a partial government shutdown that has halted funding to...
Democracy Now!

Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024 - Cori Bush is running for Congress again. Bush previously served two terms as a Democratic congressmember for Missouri, until she was unseated in 2024 follo...
Debunking Christianity

For Good Reason, Respect for Clergy Has Been in Decline - *The clergy themselves are to blame* Many times on this blog I have wondered, “Why isn’t membership in the Catholic church down to *zero* by now?” Are...
Space City Weather

Very warm and a little less humid in Houston today, but might some rain be on the distant horizon? - In brief: It should be pretty hot in Greater Houston today, as humidity drops and the sun comes out. More warm weather continues into next week. We may als...
Angry Bear

Taking A Stand that Will Hurt - A problem of ethical values when a person of power threatens a person or company to get them to do something they want done. Typically, it is an action b...
Techdirt.

With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok - Netflix has retreated from its protracted bidding war with Larry Ellison for control of Warner Brothers, giving the Trump ally likely control of Warner, CN...
NORML

A Message From NORML’s Board Chair Honoring Black History Month - [image: Leaves of a growing legal cannabis plant on a dark background][image: Leaves of a growing legal cannabis plant on a dark background]"As Chair of ...
The Smirking Chimp

Federal Judge Threatens To Haul Trump Officials In for Violating Court Orders -
Rallblog

Cold As ICE | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Mother Jones

Agriculture Is Consuming Grasslands and Wetlands at Alarming Rates - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Agriculture is widely known to...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Friday Frivolity - But if your name is Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, your dreams just got shattered, because there aren’t enough Republicans to get you passed, or...
The Root

Chicago Woman Smiles in Mugshot After Allegedly Killing Uber Driver During Carjacking—But It Gets Worse - Montoya Perry allegedly carjacked an Uber driver in Chicago, killing him as she fled. It's what she allegedly did after some are calling sinister. Read m...
WhoWhatWhy

Tropical Forests See Bird Declines. Is Another ‘Silent Spring’ in the Wings? - [image: climate crisis, biodiversity, tropical forests, bird declines, 'silent spring' concern] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editor...
NPR's Health Shots

My doctor keeps focusing on my weight. What other health metrics matter more? - Our Real Talk with a Doc columnist explains how to push back if your doctor's obsessed with weight loss. And what other health metrics matter more instead.
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Time Is but the Stream - Thoreau wrote in Walden that “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in,” which... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Time Is but the Stream appeared first on...
Vox

What economists got wrong about Trump’s tariffs - President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs last year had been supposed to change everything — as companies retaliated against new tariffs, economist...
Salon.com

Why Congress tried to dodge a vote on war with Iran - Iran hawks are maneuvering to have their war without their fingerprints on it
Skeptophilia

The shifting sands - In H. P. Lovecraft's wildly creepy story "The Shadow Out of Time," we meet a superintelligent alien race called the Yith who have a unique way of gathering...
Scheerpost.com

Israeli Settlers Killed Palestinian American Teen in Rising Assault on West Bank - Loved ones are mourning Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a US citizen born in Philadelphia who was shot by Israeli settlers.
Off The Kuff

2026 primary early voting Day Ten: One more day to go - One more time from Derek Ryan. Turnout Comparison Based on the data I have, here is where things stand through Wednesday: -856,191 people have voted in the...
Slate

Slate SoundBites for Feb. 27, 2026 - Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
San Antonio Report

Eyewitness to history: The integration and progression of San Antonio restaurants - San Antonio once refused to serve Blacks at city lunch counters. Today, Black chefs shape its food scene attracting national recognition. ------------------...
ProPublica

5 Investigations Sparking Change This Month - The post 5 Investigations Sparking Change This Month appeared first on ProPublica.
Daily Howler

STATE OF THE (DIS)UNION: This tilts toward what we've been talking about! - *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026* *How far will they go, we've asked:* On this somewhat disturbing day, we'll be away from our sprawling campus until mid-after...
The AltWorld

US Using “Diplomacy” as Pretext not to Prevent its War of Aggression Against Iran - The US is using supposed “negotiations” it has no interest in actually succeeding as a pretext for […] The post US Using “Diplomacy” as Pretext not to Pr...
Grist

The culture war is coming for your electricity - Utah Republicans are calling for an energy "divorce" from blue states. A major utility just granted part of their wish.
High Country News

How people are helping breeding frogs dodge cars - [image: A volunteer holds a northern red-legged frog before releasing it.] Meet the volunteers shuttling northern red-legged frogs across a 4-lane highway...
Ian Welsh

Friday Morning Highlights and Lowlifes - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Couple of random notes this Friday morning, mostly economics related, some silver news and my personal reaction to portions of the dis...
Two Party Opera

How Are You Enjoying Your Downfall of America? - Read More *TONIGHT!* Join me for a surprise *animated presentation of Two Party Opera* as part of this month's Show & Tell Screening Spectacular in Los An...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Dangerous War Games - The post Trump’s Dangerous War Games appeared first on Crooked Media.
Countercurrents

Ghar Wapsi and the Politics of Reaction: A Dangerous Dialectic - Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Whenever object A exerts a force on object B, object B s...
jobsanger

Are We Ignoring The Danger That AI Could Pose? -
Counterpunch

World of Art Dutch Painting - I opened the PDF for Dutch Painting expecting to find yet another book about Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— the familiar canonical Dutch figures. No doubt...
World Socialist Web Site

From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means - The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performativ...
Informed Comment

Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates - The article confirms the Ministry of Health estimate that about 56% of violent deaths were among children, women and elderly men
Consortium News

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba - Oil shipments to Cuba have virtually stopped, writes Marjorie Cohn. Lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential ...
Brad Blog

Loser Trump's Unlawful Tariffs, Failed Media Company, Corrupt SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 2/26/2026 - We're getting caught up on today's BradCast with a whole bunch of stuff, from the dark Trump secrets still buried in unreleased Epstein Files, to his lies,...
Workers World

Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti - [image: Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti] Sara Flounders — a Workers World contributing editor, who helps coordinate the Inte...
Alternet

Family member warns Trump’s cognitive decline 'only going to worsen' as US braces for war - Trump’s niece Mary Trump confessed on CNN that her uncle’s mental impairment is more obvious than ever, and the aging president does not need to be leadi...
Progressive.org

The Right to Discriminate - States are fighting to overturn rules meant to help trans youth.
Ballot Access News

New Mexico Ballot Access Bill Dies - On January 22, the New Mexico House Rules Committee ruled that HB 135 cannot be considered in the 2026 session. Bills in even years can’t be considered unl...
Environment Texas

Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly - The post Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly appeared first on Environment Texas.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Portside

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March - Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March jay Thu, 02/26/2026 - 19:12
Antiwar.com

How To Bring Peace to Ukraine - There is always an urgency to put an end to war. But there is a growing urgency to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. That urgency was expressed in Ukrain...
See You In 2020

The Epstein class has an Israeli-backed plan to weaponize organized crime, & terrorize the people into submission - When it comes to the long-term designs of the Epstein class, an insightful resource is the Israeli-backed psyop book Bronze Age Mindset. Its author, the...
Earthworks

Delfin LNG Pipeline Explosion Underscores Dangers of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure, Casts Doubt on Project Viability - In February, a gas pipeline in Southwest Louisiana, part of an offshore liquified “natural” gas (LNG) export project expedited by … The post Delfin LNG ...
Claytoonz

Pam Pedo Protector - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Free Booker Ngesa Omole! - We demand the immediate release of Booker Ngese Omole, the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya, who was unjustly abducted by Kenyan po...
Popular Resistance

United States Unipolarity vs China’s Multipolarity - The United States is waging a new cold war against China. This has been openly admitted in Washington for several years. The First and Second Cold Wars a...
The Daily Poster

Lifestyles Of The Rich, Famous, And Epstein-Connected - Newly released files show that while private equity giant Apollo Global Management was milking companies dry, founder Leon Black was spending millions on a...
Wolf Street

AI, the Immigration Crackdown, and Mind-Blowing Overhiring in 2020-2022 Are Now Rattling the Labor Market - Despite only tepid job creation by the private sector, unemployment remains historically low.
The NM Political Report

Supreme Court removes New Mexico judge from the bench - [image: NMPR_default] The New Mexico Supreme Court ordered a McKinley County magistrate judge off the bench this week, ending a months-long saga between t...
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground - Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground. By Zayd Ayers Dohrn; W. W.Norton & Company, 2026 By Jonah Raskin ...
OpEd News

The State of the Nation: Feb. 25, 2026 - This column is framed by 2 "Yogi-isms:" "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." And, "It's never over 'til it's over." One begins the essay, the ot...
Rewire

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos - A sex toy has become a symbol of resistance in Minnesota and beyond. The post How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Independent Political Report

Detroit Regional Chamber Poll Shows Tight Three-Way Race in Michigan Gubernatorial Election - A Detroit Regional Chamber/Glengariff Group poll finds Michigan’s 2026 gubernatorial election has developed into a competitive three-way contest, with in...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Tourism - Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue. The post Trump’s Deport...
Alas, a Blog

Two Quick Thoughts On AI Art and Artists - I’m not as anti-AI as a lot of my cohort (lefty artists). I’ve never been morally against art made by remixing other artists’ work, so it’s hard for me to ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

What to Watch for in the Texas Primaries - The 2026 primary season will begin next week, with Texas being the biggest event of the night. Both sides have nationally-watched primaries for the seat ...
Texas Standard

Scandal surrounding Rep. Tony Gonzales sends tremors through contested political frontier - The fallout from allegations involving Rep. Tony Gonzales is reverberating across a pivotal congressional district with implications for power, accountabil...
Project Censored

No Press, No Choice: Lessons from Djibouti’s Scripted Election - Zineb Haddaji For Washington, Djibouti is not just another ally. It is a strategic hinge point on the Red Sea corridor, positioned beside one of the busi...
Sludge

AIPAC Donor-Tied Group Drops Six Figures for Foushee - A mysterious super PAC, Article One PAC, has spent $600,000 supporting Rep. Valerie Foushee in the NC-04 Democratic primary against challenger Nida Allam.
Axios

The Epstein files keep toppling the powerful. The latest: the man who runs Davos. - World Economic Forum leader Børge Brende announced his resignation Thursday, the latest casualty of the Epstein files fallout rocking business, politics ...
Dorf on Law

Kansas Bans Driving While Trans - As of today, transgender Kansans whose driver's licenses denote their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth (as was previously permitte...
The Conversation

How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US - As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the integri...
Infidel753

Who I am, part 2 -- ancestry and culture - My "who I am" post two weeks ago, which I started with the goal of explaining why I'm not a political blogger or activist, ended up necessarily being part...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT's restructuring makes Texas less inclusive and more divided, by Alicia Perez-Hodge - * Friends:* *I urge you to read this opinion on the dissolution of Mexican American and Latino Studies (MALS) at UT written by a highly respected member ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
The Texas Signal

Legal Challenges For Texas Muslim Organizations - In the past several months, Paxton and his office have been quite busy filing lawsuits against developments with ties to the Islamic community
Church and State

Donald Trump makes the worst speech of his career. Is it politically fatal? - The majority of voters disapprove of the way President Trump is approaching every single one of his priority issues.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Enough with this Fascist Mess: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Idavox

ICE is silencing the children of migrant children - There’s a reason why Trump didn’t mention I.C.E. all that much during his State of... The post ICE is silencing the children of migrant children appeared...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Ecosophia

February 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...
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
Crooked Timber

Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 2 - Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a Europ...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #16: The DNC's Secret 2024 Autopsy, Kash Patel at the Olympics, and War With Iran (w/Katherine Krueger) - Also: Wuthering Heights and the East Coast blizzard!
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
The Progressive Wing

2/23-27 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting the week up here with plenty of snow.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind - Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
Common Dreams

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? - The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "tru...
Bracing Views

Why We Fight Wrongful Wars - Ours Not to Reason Why BILL ASTORE FEB 22, 2026 If you’re looking to “your” military to resist wrongful wars, you’re looking in the wrong place. I should k...
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
DeSmogBlog

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show - When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a w...
Unlimited Hangout

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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...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
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. —...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
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 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, June 07, 2020

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