Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Is What" Funnies

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

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

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

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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

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Checking In -
Daily Dot

Benny Johnson slobbers over stock gains days after telling worried viewers ‘losing money means nothing’ - [image: benny johnson] Right-wing influencer Benny Johnson is catching flak online after changing his tune on President Donald Trump's proposed, sweeping...
Mediaite

Dan Abrams Dumps Ice Cold Water on ‘Left-Wing’ Media’s Handling of Trump Controversies: Right ‘So Much Better Than the Left at Milking a Scandal’ - Dan Abrams marveled at the "left wing media" fumbling numerous scandals involving Trump while "right wing media" milks controversies for all they're wort...
The Hill

House Democrats warn Musk must leave government role by May 30 - Dozens of House Democrats are demanding President Trump confirm that Elon Musk will leave his role in the administration by May 30. A group of 77 lawmakers...
Raw Story

'This wasn't the strategy': CNN host challenges GOP lawmaker to his face over Trump claim - CNN's John Berman challenged Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) after the Florida Republican claimed that President Donald Trump was following a thought-out stra...
Axios

"Market manipulation": Democrats scrutinize Trump's posts ahead of tariff pause - Democrats are bashing President Trump for sharing market advice with his Truth Social followers Wednesday hours before announcing a 90-day pause on most ...
Futurism

Harvard Professor Quietly Gives His Lab Workers His Entire Salary Every Year - As billionaire tech moguls ravish public research funds and startups siphon knowledge workers into pie-in-the-sky venture capitalist schemes, one profess...
Bonddad

March CPI: this is the report we have been waiting for - * - by New Deal democrat* In March, with the exception of the usual problem child of shelter, almost every other component of consumer prices was ta...
SCOTUSblog

Will the court overturn a 1930s precedent to expand presidential power, again? - [image: Will the court overturn a 1930s precedent to expand presidential power, again?] [image: Will the court overturn a 1930s precedent to expand preside...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on April 3: Jpmorgan Chase Bank vs Natalie I. Torres - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Aleshia Renee Huffman and Jpmorgan Chase Bank against Natalie I. Tor...
Courthouse News

From tea trays to Jaguars, tariffs upend UK exports - Prime Minister Keir Starmer is eyeing using a Big Tech tax as leverage while keeping retaliatory tariffs in reserve if a deal with the U.S. doesn't come th...
Al Jazeera English

Activists turn US embassy pond blood red in London - Greenpeace activists in London have turned the US embassy’s pond blood red in protest of arms sales to Israel.
Texas Standard

Austin-area teens say you don’t have to be 18 to get involved with Texas politics - Pflugerville ISD students Kyra Newton and Farah Sabah have testified before school board members and state lawmakers. Now, they want to help fellow teenage...
Election Law Blog

An Important Reminder about the Special Danger of the Chris Krebs Trump Announcement - Politico: A president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the tradit...
Mother Jones

Some States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Now Industry Is Fighting Back. - This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were a...
Slate

A Key Fight Over the Most Infamous Police Project in the Country Is Coming to a Head - The story of Cop City is both deeply local and intensely emblematic of national trends.
San Antonio Report

‘48 hours’ will feature San Antonio man whose mother went missing and was later found dead - A San Antonio man whose mother went missing and was discovered at the center of a brutal homicide will be featured in “48 Hours” Saturday. ----------------...
Undernews

- Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation
Salon.com

“Suffering from the whims of a madman”: MAGA measures the true cost of Trump’s tariffs gamble - The president caves in on tariffs in under a week — but it may be too late
memeorandum

OPM lacks funds to relocate 'significant' number of remote employees in return-to-office plans (Jory Heckman/Federal News Network) - Jory Heckman / Federal News Network: *OPM lacks funds to relocate ‘significant’ number of remote employees in return-to-office plans* — The Office of P...
Daily Howler

TRUST: High achievers say the strangest things! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025* *Elon Musk, come on down:* With substantial regularity, highly accomplished people say the darnedest things. They may say, an...
The Root

H&M Responds to Viral Video of Manager Karen Kicking Two Black Girls Out of New Mexico Store For...No Good Reason - Shopping while Black? Allegedly, an H&M store in New Mexico wasn’t having it when it came to two Black shoppers. The video of the dated incident has take...
Texas Observer

Forgotten Crossings at the Edge of Texas - Editor’s Note: Author Richard Parker died early last month, days after publication of his book The Crossing. “My dad was a person that loved learning abo...
Second Nexus

Unbothered People Explain How They Became Immune To A-Holes - Being able to walk away from toxic people is a skill. Too many of us have wasted too much time in life on people who drag us down. It's not up to us to c...
The Verge

What’s on your desk, Allison Johnson? - Allison Johnson is the smartphone reviewer for The Verge, along with, as she says, “a bit of telecom on the side, which means I am a professional phone use...
Rewire

She Was Tracking Post-‘Roe’ Abortions. The Government Just Pulled Her Funding. - Diana Greene Foster, who was behind the landmark Turnaway Study, wanted to study the health and economic impacts of the loss of abortion access. The post...
First Draft

Cronies In Cruelty - Relationships thrive on having things in common. Sometimes, it's hobbies or sports. Other times, it's corruption and cutting off essential services.
Democracy Now!

Columbia Prof. Marianne Hirsch: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Reminds Me of Growing Up Under Authoritarianism - Columbia University professor Marianne Hirsch’s new article in *The Forward* is titled “I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil’s...
Bracing Views

Trumpus I - W.J. Astore An Old Penny Teaches Me a Lesson A few months ago, I sorted through some old pennies. I know: Who does this anymore? Aren’t pennies obsolete? D...
Political Wire

Tariff Man Folded - Eurointelligence: “What happened is that the bond markets had become dysfunctional as investors suffered heavy losses from the crash in equity markets, and...
The Week

The micro-cheating phenomenon - Relationship buzzword covers a host of 'seemingly small betrayals'
NORML

North Dakota: Senate Lawmakers Reject House-Backed Bill Reducing Marijuana Possession Penalties - [image: North Dakota Marijuana Laws][image: North Dakota Marijuana Laws]Thirty-two Senate Republicans and one Democrat voted against the bill, which would...
Techdirt.

Trump FCC Prepares To Destroy Whatever’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits - During Trump 1.0, his captured FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipar...
Common Dreams

Sore Losers: House Republicans Vote to Limit Nationwide Injunctions Against Trump's Unlawful Actions - Today, House Republicans passed the No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA), which would sharply limit federal district courts’ ability to do their jobs and issue n...
Mediagazer

The China Film Administration says it will "moderately reduce the number of American films imported" due to US tariffs and allow more "films from the world" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: *The China Film Administration says it will “moderately reduce the number of American films imported” due to US tariffs and ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Why did Trump U-turn on tariffs and is the market reaction justified? - The president’s pausing of some tariffs has sent shares soaring but levies on imports remain at the highest level since the 1930s - US politics live –...
Alternet

GOP’s defense of 'Dear Leader' Trump’s 'idiocy' resembles famous suicide cult: analysis - Critics of President Donald Trump often describe the MAGA movement as a "cult," arguing that Trump supporters behave like cult members when they express ...
Space City Weather

With calm Houston weather, we take a very early look at hurricane season - In brief: Sunshine for days in Houston. To be honest, there is very little to discuss with respect to Houston’s weather forecast. We expect sunshine, warm ...
Vox

Trump just made it harder to have a kid in America - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Having a baby is expensive. You ...
ArcaMax

Trump's Toxic Reach Stops Cold at the Canadian Border - This trade war with Canada is not the first. Forty-five years ago, Maine potato farmers piled rotten potatoes at their state's borders with New Brunswick. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

RioPlex’s Texas Port to the Stars FDI Summit is underway in Houston - More than a dozen consulate's offices are expected to be in attendance at the big economic development conference in Houston. The post RioPlex’s Texas P...
NPR's Health Shots

Healing soup recipes, Part 2: Definitely not your grandma's chicken soup! - A few of these global soups have unusual ingredients: A chicken that hasn't yet sung, waterleaf with dew drops, a zebu organ. Don't worry, we've got subs. ...
Infidel753

Trump caves! Trump backs down! Trump folds! - In the end, he did it *again*. After days of insisting that his idiotic tariffs were positively, definitely for real this time -- days during which the s...
Angry Bear

Treasury Sec. tries to Blame Biden and Plastics Industry Warns of Danger to Competitiveness - Will the lies ever stop? Today: Ernie Tedesch Director of Economics at Yale The Budget Lab. “Real manufacturing GDP (value-added) grew 1.3% over the 4Q e...
naked capitalism

Links 4/10/2025 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: What’s This Here Sauce? - Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground, and I’m kind of surprised that anybody had time to respond, given that Dear Leader pulled the plu...
The Smirking Chimp

Potential ‘Knives Out’ for MAGA Republicans Following Trump’s Trade War Implosion -
Skeptophilia

The last whisper - The last two posts have been about biological extinction; today's, to continue in the same elegiac tone, is about language extinction. A study in *Ethnol...
Crooked Media

Real Men Love Tariffs, Elon Gets Cyberbullied, Meta Whistleblower Testifies - The post Real Men Love Tariffs, Elon Gets Cyberbullied, Meta Whistleblower Testifies appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Paxton officially running against Cornyn - The campaign no one asked for. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday he will challenge U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s midterm elections...
ProPublica

An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole. - by Richard A. Webster, Verite News This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispa...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: Democrats Favored on What Starts as a Small Battlefield - History suggested Democrats would be favored to flip the House in 2026 as soon as Donald Trump clinched the presidency in 2024, Little that’s happened ov...
Scheerpost.com

DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for ‘Antisemitism’ - “You are not welcome here,” read a chilling statement from a top DHS official.
American Prospect

The Great Trump Crash? - Emergency warnings are lighting up all over financial markets, solely because of Donald Trump.
Grist

Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying anyway - The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber produc...
Dissident Voice

A Financial Coup: How the Deep State Is Using Manufactured Crises to Seize Power - What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle ...
Glasstire

Lynn Castle to Retire from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas - Lynn Castle, the longtime Executive Director of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) in Beaumont, has announced her upcoming retirement. Ms. Castle ...
Workers World

PDF of April 10 issue - [image: PDF of April 10 issue] Download the PDF. Download B&W version. Millions tell Trump, Musk: ‘Hands off!’ Tariffs, the stock market and the working cl...
Counterpunch

My Immigrant Father “Stole” American Jobs: Another “Confession” from a Child of Mexican Immigrants - On November 14, 2024, I “confessed” that my late Mexican immigrant mother, Carmen Mejía Huerta, “stole” White American jobs. My mother’s “high crimes and...
Portside

Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold) - Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold) Mark Brody Thu, 04/10/2025 - 01:54
World Socialist Web Site

NSW public hospital doctors speak out over unsafe and worsening conditions - “There’s no way to pretend there isn’t enough money. Everyone seems to have money for a war but not for health.”
Consortium News

Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome - In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago. By John W...
jobsanger

Trump Is The Worst President On The Economy In U.S. History -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2447: Simple But Brilliant - Episode: 2447 The Special Theory of Relativity in Einstein’s Own Words. Today, simple but brilliant.
Informed Comment

Macron: France to Recognize the State of Palestine amid Gaza “Crime” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – French President Emmanuel Macron visited El Arish in Egypt on Tuesday to see refugees from Gaza with his own eyes. He then a...
Antiwar.com

‘Let All Hell Break Loose’: The Gaza Ceasefire and How We All Got Played - The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza in late January 2025 was paraded by Western media as a diplomatic breakthrough that might finally curb the ...
Popular Resistance

Trump Administration Revokes Hundreds Of Student Visas - The Trump administration has reportedly revoked hundreds of student visas, amid a widening crackdown on the U.S. Palestine movement. In recent days, doze...
El Paso Matters

Measles prevention: What to know about vitamin A, booster shots, infant vaccines, more - El Paso and Texas health officials answer common questions about measles protection. The post Measles prevention: What to know about vitamin A, booster ...
Brad Blog

Trump Blinks, Chaos Reigns, Markets Spike as Many Tariffs Remain Despite 90-Day 'Pause': 'BradCast' 4/9/2025 - On today's BradCast: "Irrational exuberance" reigned on Wall Street as of 1:18pm Eastern Time. Though, after the past week of our moronic President's idiot...
Idavox

Sam Hyde in Pittsburgh- Two Sold Out Shows - By Keystone Anti-Racist Action Yet another white supremacist soap-boxer books a comedy show in Pittsburgh.... The post Sam Hyde in Pittsburgh- Two Sold O...
The Greanville Post

Cuba will recover its electrical system - CHARLES McKELVEY—As a legacy of both the neocolonial relation with the United States as well as the cooperative and mutually beneficial relation with the S...
Ballot Access News

North Carolina State Supreme Court Stays State Court of Appeals on Unsettled State Supreme Court Race - On April 7, the North Carolina State Supreme Court stayed last week’s order of the State Supreme Court that had ordered tens of thousands of November 2024 ...
The Daily Poster

UAW’s Shawn Fain On Trump’s Tariff-pocalypse (TRANSCRIPT) - Following is an unedited, automated transcript of this Lever Time episode.
Deadline Politics

Documentary Filmmakers Reeling After Trump Administration Kills Humanities Grants “In Furtherance Of The President’s Agenda” - One by one the emails hit inboxes, on letterhead of the National Endowment for the Humanities: that grant we gave you to make your documentary? It’s cancel...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 16 best things happening in Houston this weekend - OK, we’re psyched that *Record Store Day* is happening this weekend, as vinylheads all over the city will flock to Cactus Music, Sig’s Lagoon, Vinal Edge, ...
OpEd News

Journalism and the peace dividend (reprint) - This is a reprint of an oped I wrote for the Phillipino bews site Rappler after its eeditor and founder won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. It seemed timely.
Reform Austin

Paxton Announces Bid For Cornyn’s Senate Seat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday evening announced that he will seek to unseat U.S....
The Grayzone

AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio - During an off-the-record panel, AIPAC’s CEO detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials, and how his group’s “access”...
Progressive.org

Martina Stands with Monsters - In many ways, tennis trailblazer Martina Navratilova is worse than a Trump supporter, because her heroic past serves to divide us at the exact moment when ...
The Rag Blog

ROBERT COTTRELL / BOOKS / A Trip Through the Long Movement - A Review of Thorne Dreyer’s new book, ‘Notes From the Underground’ By Robert Cottrell / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2025 Notes From the Underground: 77 Article...
Wolf Street

Trump Speaks and Stocks Spike, after Trump Spoke and Stocks Plunged (Makes You Wonder, Why even Own Stocks?) - The huge spike, following the selloff, evokes further parallels with the Dotcom Bust and Financial Crisis crash, in the middle of which similar spikes occu...
Eater Houston

Two Houston ‘Top Chef’ Alums Are Opening a Daytime Cafe and Creative Space in the Heights - [image: Chef Evelyn Garcia and Henru Lu pose for a photo in front of restaurant Jūn.] Jūn is opening during the day as Third Place, a creative space and d...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez, others call on Musk to resign effective May 30 - [image: Elon Musk] By Hannah Grover Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a New Mexico Democrat, is calling on Elon Musk to resign from his role in the federal government ef...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Blinks, Provides Market with Much-Needed Certainty (That He Is Clueless) - [image: Black and White, Donald Trump, Auto, Tariffs, Announcement] Even Donald Trump would not be able to articulate his own trade policy. But all that ma...
Claytoonz

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

A Masterful Gambit, Mr. President! - The return of five-dimensional chess.
Mondoweiss

Israel targeted my colleague in an airstrike, claiming that he was a Hamas fighter. Israel is lying. - [image: Hassan Eslayeh in Nasser Hospital after his attempted assassination by the Israeli army. (Photo: Social Media)]Israel targeted my colleague, Hassan...
Church and State

Gutless Tech, GOP, CEOs and Congress Let Trump Run Wild! - Trump’s criminal behavior with respect to our laws and our Constitution is well established, but his incompetence grows daily.
The Conversation

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence - Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instrumen...
MintPress News

Weaponizing DEI: Inside the Trump-Backed Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity - The Heritage Foundation and its allies claim to fight antisemitism through DEI reforms—but their real goal is silencing pro-Palestinian voices and disman...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (4.9.25) - Take time to listen to Rebecca Solnit, John Oliver, Monica Hesse, Masha Gesen, Jeff Sharlet, and George Orwell.
DeSmogBlog

Conservatives Will Lift BC Tanker Ban, Pierre Poilievre Tells Oil CEOs at Rally - If anyone was doubting that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre would give the oil industry exactly what they want, he helpfully provided a visual aid a...
Ian Welsh

China Cuts The Legs Out Underneath The US LNG Industry - [image: China Cuts The Legs Out Underneath The US LNG Industry] I didn’t see this coming: In a move that stunned traders, analysts and policymakers alike,...
Sludge

Trump Picks Apollo Co-Founder’s Son for DFC After Firm Shows Interest in X Debt - Apollo eventually purchased the debt at nearly full price, helping to bolster X's flagging valuation.
The Texas Signal

The LGBTQ+ Representation At The Dallas Art Fair - While the Dallas Art Fair has always been a preeminent place for Texans to experience the imagination and creativity of artists in all kinds of spaces, thi...
Texas Monthly

Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid Versus John Cornyn Is Fueled by Failure - The Texas attorney general’s multiple scandals won him enough fans to support a primary challenge to the state’s senior senator.
Liberation News

(Video) Trump wages tariff war on the world, but China won’t be bullied - Last week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on the rest of the world.
Capital & Main

Democratic and Republican Lawmakers Work to Undermine Voter-Backed Wage and Sick Leave Laws - Legislators from both parties and in multiple states are rolling back wage hikes and paid sick leave policies approved by voters. The post Democratic and...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Preliminaries - In the autumn of 1917 William Butler Yeats was at a turning point in his life and his two careers, the public one and the other, secret one. In his public ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 114: “Did a Ukraine RPG Plot Almost Take Out Trump?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern + Streaming 24/7 After: In this episode of The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan examine the case of Ryan Wesley Routh, charged...
Dorf on Law

Enumerating a Post-Dobbs Pathway (cross-posted at Balkinization) - N.B. Repeating its pattern of illegally cutting funds to universities without following ANY of the statutorily mandated steps, yesterday the Trump admin...
Earth 911

Do Metal Roofs Save Energy? - The popularity of metal roofs has soared in recent years because of their durability, energy... The post Do Metal Roofs Save Energy? appeared first on Ea...
The Disorder Of Things

Women, Peace, and Security as Argument and Tension - Today’s piece for our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is from Laura Sjoberg. Laura is Professor of International Relations at the University of O...
Trivial Knot

Macroeconomics with Peter Navarro - Back when I started working in finance in 2020, I remarked to a colleague that I felt pretty ignorant about all this finance stuff. So they suggested a bas...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 121 security holes in its Windows operating systems and software, including one vulnerability that is alr...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

J.K. Rowling throws hissy fit after John Oliver nukes hysteria about trans athletes - Comedian John Oliver calls out the hysteria about trans athletes for the lie that it is and gets (former gay ally and present transphobe) *Harry Potter* ...
Web of Debt

McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks - President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic ...
Texas Freedom Network

Public Schools Matter: How Texas Families’ Stories Are Fighting Voucher Schemes - Spring is in the air, and we at TFN are feeling the love…the love Texans have for public schools! We recently put out a digital call for stories from tea...
LareDOS

Annual LC Car Show returns with classic cars - April 12 event at South Campus benefits scholarships
Unlimited Hangout

The Katie Halper Show - The Katie Halper Show.
Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka on What the Hands Off March Left Out - Ajamu Baraka on What the Hands Off March Left Out bareditors Wed, 04/09/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Project Censored

PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants - According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl su...
Duck of Minerva

Unreal climate ‘realism’ - It’s hard to keep track of the problems confronting Americans these days. But, just in case a reminder is needed, climate change is still a thing. Casual o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Conversation with David Roth - Defector's own David Roth stops by to discuss the Trump Administration, careless and destructive billionaires, and the need for something more
Debunking Christianity

A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964) - A Classic with a Renewed Relevance: Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1964): *Figure 1:* My copy of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1964) by R...
Seeing the Forest

China Didn’t Take American Jobs - Trump says other countries took advantage of the US. He says they “took” manufacturing and jobs from thee US. This is just not what happened. American Comp...
The AltWorld

Why US-Israeli carnage won’t end until they implode | Ep.72 - Why US-Israeli carnage won’t end until they implode | Ep.72 The post Why US-Israeli carnage won’t end until they implode | Ep.72 appeared first on TheAlt...
Progressives Chat

Election 2025: What These ‘Specials’ Mean - The last two weeks, ending March and beginning April, here in 2025 saw outcomes in Special elections which are indicators of what will likely play out in...
Crooked Timber

Trump’s Tariffs, McKinley, and the Bonapartist Executive - With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of tarif...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s new strategy: elevate controlled opposition figures, silence those who truly challenge it - What does it tell us that so many prominent “progressive” and “dissident right” figures can make statements which challenge the Zionist entity, without ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not trying to pretend - Hydra VIII by Sebrina Seck is from a collection of Iconic Muse Women by European artists. So, this was the part where I fell and broke my hip, which rathe...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2025 - Walmart had another eight shootings related to their business, most if not all on their property in March 2025 with two people killed in two incidents i...
Campaign for America's Future

¿Qué hace falta para que gane la resistencia? - Una ola de resistencia se levanta. ¿Qué hará falta para que ganemos? Dondequiera que miremos, una ola de resistencia se levanta. Mi corazón se llena de ale...
The Militant

‘Workers need to take political power into our own hands’ - SWP candidates get hearing for working-class program DELANO, Calif.— Norton Sandler, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, launched hi...
The Progressive Wing

3/5-10 News Roundup and Open Thread - Lot of April showers here this weekend.
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #167 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: things are getting stupider all the time.
alicublog

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EMPIRE BUSTERS EDITION. - *What say we just vibe on into the weekend?* *And the winner is… Crash! * My mother had a saying for times like this: “Who did it and ran?” I thought of...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

April 3, 2025 Update on the Crucial Work of Texas AAUP and Texas AFT in the Texas Legislature - *Friends,* *I can't say enough about the excellent leadership we have in Texas fighting the good fight for higher education, meaning the right to learn, ...
Bud Kennedy

In ‘largest red county’ in U.S., Tarrant Democrats struggle with cash, candidates | Opinion - For once, some Democrats are being careful with money. So naturally, that comes as a shock. The low-profile Tarrant County Democratic Party made headlines ...
Dissent Magazine

The Degradation of Big Law - By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administra...
High Country News

The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts - [image: Workers adorn Leatherman the mule with a Forest Service beanie.] Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in t...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Nina Illingworth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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