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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

Trump’s Firing of Labor Statistician Isn’t Just Petty—It’s a Despotic Red Flag - Trump fired BLS economist Erika McEntarfer after a bad jobs report, echoing despots who suppress truth and crippling trust in U.S. data at home and abroa...
Slate

Help! I Always Knew My Mother-in-Law Was Cheap. But She Just Roped My Kids Into One of Her Scams. - This is infuriating.
ArcaMax

Israel No Longer Has a Right to Exist - In certain traditional societies, troublesome individuals who were perceived as threats to communal harmony were labeled as "witches." To restore calm, acc...
Al Jazeera English

Inside India’s expulsion of Bengali Muslims - A state-backed drive to deport Bengali Muslims from India is being justified and cheered on by the media.
Axios

After a historic economic week, stagflation fears are back - America is showing new signs of stagflation — inflation running hotter, the job market suffering new weakness, and economists warning both are at risk of...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “She’s become a star. It’s that face, it’s that brain, it’s those lips, the way they move, they move like she’s a machine gun.” — President Trump, talking ...
memeorandum

Hegseth's Latest Battle: Infighting Inside the Pentagon (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Hegseth's Latest Battle: Infighting Inside the Pentagon* — Defense secretary has made a series of missteps and feuded with top ge...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons Redux - Might as well start this morning’s collection of funny comics with one that didn’t make me laugh. Harry Bliss often features rural beauty, and this one bro...
Raw Story

'Terrorized' Republicans fume to Dem about 'stupid damage' done by Trump - WASHINGTON — A senior Democratic senator slammed President Donald Trump as trying to realize the "wet dream of the dirtiest players in the fossil fuel in...
Daily Dot

“His eye is perfect”: Pet owner claims mushrooms cured her dog’s cataracts - [image: pet owner claims mushrooms heal cataracts] A woman on TikTok is going viral after sharing the unexpected way she said she helped her dog’s catara...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

How the courts became the biggest roadblock to Trump’s plans - Judges issued about 35 nationwide injunctions blocking various Trump orders before the supreme court stepped in, according to independent analysis from t...
NPR's Health Shots

How surgeons build a new bladder for cancer patients like Deion Sanders - University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders announced he got a new bladder this week as part of his cancer treatment. Here's how doctors construct ...
naked capitalism

Links 8/2/2025 -
Alternet

The deep state is real — and it works for Donald Trump - *Bloomberg* journalist Jason Leopold *reported this morning* that the president’s name has been redacted from more than 100,000 documents the FBI has on ...
The Smirking Chimp

The Coming Republican Depression: How the GOP Turned America Into a Powder Keg, and Is About to Light the Match -
Salon.com

Florida is the laboratory for MAGA — and American autocracy - Journalist Robert W. Fieseler on his new book "American Scare" and how "we’re all Floridians now"
Vox

How the fight over what it means to be human has dramatically changed - Humans are the dominant species on a dying planet, and we’re still clinging to the idea that we can think our way out, invent our way out, maybe even uploa...
Off The Kuff

Hill Country flood hearings - Brutal. Kerr County’s emergency management coordinator acknowledged Thursday that he was ill and asleep when rain inundated the Hill Country community earl...
Futurism

CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI - Pink Slip Pride Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling — CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in A...
The Hill

Senate deal on nominees elusive amid Democratic anger at Trump - President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to cle...
Eschaton

Morning - Slacker Saturday
Mother Jones

America’s Top Gas Exporter Claims Massive Tax Credit for “Alternative” Fuels - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Liquefied natural gas vessels ...
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Scenic Oaks - Erin Rodriguez and her family live in Scenic Oaks, where the yards take two days to cut, but it's quiet, serene and homey. ------------------------------ Wh...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Officials’ Gaza Tour Slammed as ‘Blatantly Theatrical Display’ - "The goal is clear—to erase the truth, discredit thousands of recorded videos, and wash away the blood," said one Palestinian photojournalist.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-08-02 -
Angry Bear

Caligula or Pee-Wee Herman? - Trump isn’t a jobs creator—the jobs reports are down. So what does Trump do? He fires the Commissioner of Labor Statistics. How many jobs will shooting t...
Dissident Voice

Massive Ocean Regime Shift, Alarming - This figure shows changes in heat content of the top 700 meters of the world’s oceans between 1955 and 2023 (US EPA) A new study claims severe ocean over...
The Week

5 inexcusably hilarious cartoons about Ghislaine Maxwell angling for a pardon - Artists take on the circle of life, Ghislaine's Island, and more
Deadline Politics

50 Cent Gloats As Trump Nixes Pardon For “Half-Innocent” Diddy, For Now - Donald Trump believes Sean “Diddy” Combs is “half-innocent” out of his sex-trafficking trial, but there will be no presidential pardon right now for the mu...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 2 August 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Not everyone can do these moves. He keeps bringing friends home with him....
The Verge

BougeRV’s portable solar fridge is quietly annoying - Keeping humans alive at home in post-agrarian societies requires refrigeration. Meat bags on the move must either load up a cooler with ice for a soggy wee...
Crooked Media

Feel the Burn Bag - The post Feel the Burn Bag appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

Clapper’s Claptrap - The former U.S. director of national intelligence told CNN new Russiagate revelations were “nonsense” and “absurd” but he wasn’t challenged on any details ...
Wolf Street

Tariff Cash Is Rolling In, Hits $28 Billion in July - At this pace, tariffs will raise an additional $230 billion in corporate taxes a year. US nonfinancial corporate profits spiked to $3 trillion a year.
Counterpunch

Through the Eyes of Lee Miller - When the US entered the war, Miller went back to work for American Vogue and followed the D-Day landings into France. She was no embedded reporter. In fa...
World Socialist Web Site

US Israeli ambassador Mike Huckabee praises IDF and GHF killers in visit to Gaza - The visit by Huckabee and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff was aimed at providing cover for the ongoing genocide and forced starvation campaign.
jobsanger

We Can't Deal With Climate Change Until We Save Our Democracy -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1416: Technology on Hold - Episode: 1416 Technology on Hold: ideas that return after a long time. Today, technology on hold.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Summer Wind - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Common Dreams

Defend the Homeland, Get A Brown Shirt! - Still insanely claiming they're arresting "the worst of the worst" gardeners, roofers, abuelas and taco-makers - and eager to spend their shiny new billi...
Informed Comment

Britain, which created the Israeli-Palestinian Mess, will Finally Recognize Palestinian State - Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The dam has burst. Netanyahu and his far-right regime have gone too far. Public pressure on politicians in ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Passiflora Ornata with Spirals - Looking through my old photos, here’s one from 2014. It’s a variant on the Passiflora Ornata, of which I have an example here. The long points, instead o...
Techdirt.

Smart Home Device Maker Renders Devices Dumb Unless A New Subscription Is Paid For - This isn’t going to stop happening unless governments finally get involved to do their most basic job: protect their citizens. This habit among digital and...
Workers World

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine exposes two-state solution - [image: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine exposes two-state solution ] Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Marwan Abdel-Al mad...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | August 1, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | August 1, 2025 barry Fri, 08/01/2025 - 22:24
Mediagazer

Derk Sauer, a Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times and later supported Russian journalists in exile, died at 72 from sailing accident injuries (The Moscow Times) - The Moscow Times: *Derk Sauer, a Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times and later supported Russian journalists in exile, died at 72 from ...
The Root

Kim Kardashian Wants Us to Wear Shapewear on Our Faces, But an Expert Tells Us the *Real* Deal - Kim Kardashian just added a face wrap to her Skims shapewear line, but is it actually effective or just more snake oil? Read more...
The Grayzone

Canada still arming Israel despite official ban, report finds - In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be ai...
SCOTUSblog

Court asks for new briefs in Louisiana redistricting case - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon instructed the parties in a Louisiana redistricting dispute to file new briefs on whether the creation of a second ...
OpEd News

Gaza gripped by catastrophic famine amid prolonged U.S. inaction - This article talks about the latest developments in Gaza and the starvation of the people of Gaza
WhoWhatWhy

Faced with a Dismal Jobs Report, Trump Finds Comfort in a Conspiracy Theory - [image: Donald Trump, JD Vance] Donald Trump reacted to a terrible jobs report by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts in ...
slacktivist

LBCF: yes I said yes I will yes - Wherein Rayford Steele learns the magical incantation that saves his soul.
Independent Political Report

No Labels Arizona Reboots After Ninth Circuit Decision - No Labels is making a resurgence in Arizona following a recent court decision that reaffirmed the rights of members to recruit and support candidates acr...
Rio Grande Guardian

Bazan: Pharr Bridge Second Span should be ready by Jan. 2026 - The construction workers are about to start working nights, says Pharr Bridge Director Luis Bazan. The post Bazan: Pharr Bridge Second Span should be re...
Undernews

Donald Trump - * ABC -* The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump's two impeachment proceedings from an exhibit on the...
The Texas Signal

Map Drop - As this newsletter is going out, I’ve been watching the first redistricting hearing since the actual map was released on Wednesday. The Chair of the Comm...
CultureMap Houston

Houston nails ranking as No. 2 U.S. city for retail construction in 2025 - Get ready for a gigantic cartload of new shopping opportunities in Houston. A new report indicates the equivalent of 21 Walmart supercenters is under const...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question - The Supreme Court just issued this order: Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, a...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich bill targets New Mexico’s wildfire insurance crisis - New Mexico homeowners facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and policy cancellations could benefit from federal legislation aimed at understanding how w...
Claytoonz

Stolen Women - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Progressive.org

From Wreck to Riches? - Thomas M. Nelson's second book explores the political and socioeconomic reverberations of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: The gentleman's conduct gets stranger and stranger! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025* *Just look somewhere else, press says: *To our eye and to our ear, President Trump's behavior has been getting stranger and stra...
Lowering the Bar

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time” - [image: sea cucumber]Sea cucumbers would breathe a sigh of relief, if they had lungs.
Church and State

Too many humans on earth means the likelihood of the already well started 6th Mass Extinction - The numbers on the planet have exceeded 8 billion and seemed likely to add another 2 billion before 2100, these numbers are simply not sustainable.
ProPublica

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Next Billionaire Show Palace - On our live show, David and Gabrielle Gurley break down a proposed stadium deal for the Washington Commanders NFL team, which uses public dollars but colle...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' communications director exits after less than a week on job - First-term San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' communications director, Gary Cooper, has left after serving less than a week on the job, both he and the M...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Mohammed and Rima - Can you help this family out?
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Marking Time: Looking Forward and Looking Back - In a fascist time, decency is everything.
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Push Camp Safety Reforms After Deadly Hill Country Floods - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In the aftermath of the catastrophic July 4th floods that claimed 137 lives, including 27 campe...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party Changes Its Tune; Now Looking to Run Candidates in Arizona in 2026 - The national No Labels party fought hard against candidates trying to run under its banner other than its 2024 presidential ticket, which never materialize...
Mondoweiss

U.S. and Europe play games with a Palestinian state while Israel starves Gaza - [image: President Donald Trump motorcades with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer from at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, en route to Glasgow P...
Texas Standard

Officials scramble to stop flesh-eating pest advancing toward Texas - Texas lawmakers are lobbying for millions of dollars to fight the New World Screwworm.
Second Nexus

MAGA Rep. Gets Brutally Ripped After Claiming Biden Defenders Are 'In A Cult' - Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky and chair of the House Oversight Committee, made headlines *this week by accusing* President Joe Biden...
Capital & Main

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids - Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids. The post Border Patr...
Bonddad

A note on ISM manufacturing and construction spending - - *by New Deal democrat* I don’t have time to write a complete report on the ISM manufacturing index for July, and the construction spending report ...
Dorf on Law

Social Security Privatization Fantasies and Conservatives' Insanity - How is it possible that Social Security was in the news again this week? One answer is that the accumulated outrages of the past six-plus months are mos...
Ian Welsh

Don’t Make Buddies With The Christian Right - This piece from Amfang is worth highlighting. The Iranian Revolution was supposed to be a victory for the people. In 1979, millions rose up and toppled the...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Steve Witkoff’s Gaza Vacation” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On “DeProgram” with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the world’s focus is...
MintPress News

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Our SMU Issue Is Here - For the last several years, SMU has tried to position itself as Dallas’ school. And now, with Kevin Jennings leading the university’s best team in 40 yea...
DeSmogBlog

BlackRock Pivots from Sustainability Evangelists to Fossil-Fuel Funders - Claim to be verified: BlackRock offers its global clients sustainable investment products, which allegedly exclude fossil fuels. Context: In the first qu...
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
Glasstire

Two Visions: Alex Da Corte’s “The Whale” and Robert Peterson’s “Somewhere in America” - Alex Da Corte: The Whale at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 2, 2025 – September 7, 2025 What makes a painting a painting? This is the central…...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
The AltWorld

Exposed: CIA’s Secret Network of 885 Fake Websites Revealed - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA’s secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and […] The post Exposed: CIA’s Secret Network o...
El Paso Matters

El Paso homeowners face city property tax hike; UTEP trims budget over federal cuts; unemployment rate increases - In El Paso news this week: How the city is misrepresenting a proposed tax increase, why UTEP is making budget cuts, and what wage record the El Paso met...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
The Conversation

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? - The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for reparations. But getting to that ...
Democracy Now!

"Unprecedented Power Grab": Trump & Texas Try to Create 5 More GOP House Seats with New Gerrymander - President Trump is pushing for a major redrawing of Texas’s congressional districts to favor Republicans and shape the outcome of future elections, includi...
Space City Weather

Slightly less hot weather and a more active weekend of showers expected for Houston - In brief: Unsettled weather will return to Houston today through Sunday or Monday. Isolated heavy downpours are possible in spots, along with some locally ...
Popular Resistance

Human Rights Obligations At Canadian Embassies Dead On Arrival - Over the winter, hundreds of demonstrators in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia denounced a Canadian gold mine owned by Aris Mining in the eastern Andean...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.4 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Rewire

Without Public Notice, U.S. Olympic Officials Exclude Transgender Women From Competing - The committee's move—a break from global standards—is intended to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender women from wom...
Antiwar.com

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy - When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmir...
Skeptophilia

Halting the conveyor - Today we have three stories that are absolutely horrifying in juxtaposition. The first is a paper that came out a couple of days ago in *Nature*, describ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Progressive Army

Simplifican la importación de alimentos e insumos industriales - ARCA redujo la cantidad de trámites que se requerían para esas importaciones, además de eliminar el régimen de información para el transporte de caudales L...
Grist

Can protecting nature be nonpartisan? - A conservative push for environmental stewardship clashes with federal policies that expand drilling, logging, and deregulation.
High Country News

What the presence of sheep means to the Diné - [image: Flocks grazing on the range, Tolani Lakes, Leupp, AZ, 1936. 87.45.189. Reproduction of gelatin silver print. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Archive...
See You In 2020

The NGO left is attacking Burkina Faso, but it won’t convince the masses to hate Traoré‘s revolution - Washington’s regime change network has launched new attacks against Burkina Faso’s revolutionary government, with LGBT rights being the focus of the pro...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Friends and Enemies - As July drew to a close, the fascist Trumpenreich focused on identifying friends and marking out enemies; knives are being sharpened, and The Skinny was ...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Brad Blog

The Art of the Corrupt, Phony, Unlawful, Pretend Trade Deal: 'BradCast' 7/31/2025 - As discussed on today's BradCast, there are a few things you should know about all of these supposed Donald Trump "trade deals" you have been hearing about...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Stock Trading Ban for Lawmakers, With Trump Exemption - In a contentious hearing, a Senate committee narrowly voted to advance a bill that would ban lawmakers from trading or owning stocks, digital assets, and o...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace - 'I'm a proud transphobe.' Social media - 'That ain't all you are, honey.' - Congresswoman Nancy Mace (Rep- SC) has made a complete ass of herself online again. FALSE: I am not quitting Congress. TRUE: Proud transphobe. pic.tw...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
The Daily Poster

How Big Tech Powered A Justice Department Coup - After a secret lobbying effort, Trump’s Justice Department ousted staff and reversed course on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed megamerger.
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / It’s flooding down in Texas - Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far differe...
Texas Observer

‘Shaky’ Audio Series Is a Messy, Real Look at Disabled Life - There are many words you could use to describe Nicole Tompkins, the disabled protagonist of “Shaky,” Audible’s recent 9-part comedy audio series: passion...
Project Censored

The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand - In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Footprint - While pets can impact the natural world, there are actions you can take to reduce... The post Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Car...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Crooked Timber

Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job. - At the Sydney Gleebooks launch of Graeme Turner’s new book Broken, an audience member said: I spend more time on admin than doing my job. I raised the micr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
Alas, a Blog

Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones - I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing r...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Stinque

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

Honoring Cannabis Trailblazers in the Disability Community: A Disability Pride Month Reflection - [image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabis leaves][image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabi...
LareDOS

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Liberation News

Nicaragua: A revolution that lives - Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans filled the streets of Managua and many other cities around the country to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista...
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
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...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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