Brains and Eggs: Independence Day 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

Counterpunch

Free Rümeysa Öztürk Protest in Vermont - I got on the city bus relatively early on the morning of April, 14, 2025. The sun was shining, but the temperature was only a couple degrees above freez...
jobsanger

A Cartoonishly Evil Legal Position -
Crooked Media

How RFK Jr. Has Already Reshaped Public Health - The post How RFK Jr. Has Already Reshaped Public Health appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president | Rafael Behr - By claiming that any regulation is censorship, the White House is bullying Britain to abandon online safety laws and digital taxes Compared with many cou...
Daily Dot

‘Same company that makes Costco’s’: Expert picks up a bag of Sam’s Club dog food. Then he shows what you should be looking for on the ingredients list. Does it pass the test? - [image: 3 panel image: a dog eating, a person in a warehouse explainiing, the exterior of a Sam's Club store.] You might be used to reading the label on ...
The Week

Sudoku medium: April 16, 2025 - The Week's daily medium sudoku puzzle
memeorandum

Border deployment vehicle accident kills two service members, third in critical condition (Tara Copp/Associated Press) - Tara Copp / Associated Press: *Border deployment vehicle accident kills two service members, third in critical condition* — Two service members deploye...
Deadline Politics

Most Canadian Thing Ever: Election TV Debate Rescheduled For Hockey Game - Even with the pain of Trump tariffs and threats of becoming the 51st state, Canada’s approaching election is moving aside for the Canadiens. Wednesday’s pr...
Al Jazeera English

Kashmir’s famed saffron faces devastating new terror: Porcupines - Kashmir's saffron farmers are losing 30 percent of their crop to the rodents as deforestation pushes them into farms.
Informed Comment

Europe was Hottest Ever Recorded last Year, and is Heating up Faster than any other Continent - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Copernicus Climate Change Service (abbreviated as C3S) has just issued The European State of the Climate for 2024. These...
Antiwar.com

Trump and Netanyahu Plot Gaza’s Future Without Palestinians - It’s difficult to describe how deranged reality has become On Monday, the leaders of the two governments most responsible for a seemingly endless stream of...
Krebs on Security

Funding Expires for Key Cyber Vulnerability Database - A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is i...
Courthouse News

With Trump administration’s approval, court axes credit card late fee cap - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a rule last year limiting late fees to $8, but on Monday it joined a coalition of industry groups in asking...
The Hill

Hong Kong's postal service to stop shipping goods bound for the US due to 'bullying acts' - Hong Kong's postal service announced that it had halted item mail services by sea and will pause the acceptance of air postal items containing goods bound ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Refugee prison boat cruelty highlights bipartisan scapegoating of immigrants - The Ombudsman’s report contained shocking pictures of the primitive, unhygienic and cramped cells in which captured asylum seekers have been held indefinit...
Mediaite

AP Hits Back at Trump After Being Kicked Out of White House Press Pool: ‘A Grave Disservice to the American People’ - The Associated Press (AP) hit back at President Donald Trump on Tuesday after being kicked from the White House press pool. The post AP Hits Back at Trump...
Raw Story

'No interest': CNN analyst torches Trump admin. for 'weakest facilitation in history' - The Trump administration’s refusal to follow a court order and make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador sent CNN le...
Mediagazer

A look at the FCC's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as broadcasters, ISPs, and others send in deregulation wishlists (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) - Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: *A look at the FCC's “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as broadcasters, ISPs, and othe...
Techdirt.

Enshittification King David Zaslav Continues To Fail Upward With Yet Another Pay Raise - We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever con...
Political Wire

Democratic Official Plots to Take Down Party Incumbents - “Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a...
Alternet

Astronomers listened to the ‘music’ of flickering stars – and discovered an unexpected feature - The “music” of starquakes – enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many stars – can reveal far more i...
Workers World

Hamas calls April 18-20 global solidarity‘Gaza cries out to you’ - [image: Hamas calls April 18-20 global solidarity‘Gaza cries out to you’] The following call, “Gaza cries out to you – A global solidarity week to support ...
Wolf Street

Nvidia Makes Mess Afterhours, Discloses $5.5 Billion in Charges due to US Export Restrictions on its H20 Chip for China - Stock down 6.5%, Nasdaq futures down 1.5%.
TalkLeft

Trump's Illegal Runaway Train - Will the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for Trump voters? When they protest in...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
Popular Resistance

Birthing A New International Order - Writing in his cell as a political prisoner in fascist Italy after World War I, the philosopher Antonio Gramsci famously declared: “The crisis consists p...
The Verge

Zuckerberg’s antitrust testimony aired his wildest ideas in Meta’s history - Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyoneâ€™s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Is Nancy Mace trying to dog whistle her way to the SC governor's mansion? - Rumor control is that SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace is considering a run for Governor. If it's true, then the recent tweet she sent out might give an indi...
Undernews

- * Judge Scolds Government for Doing ‘Nothing’ to Return Deported Man*
Daily Cartoonist

Ann Telnaes: Press Freedom Talk - ‘I believe that editorial cartoonists are vital for civic debate and have an essential role in journalism’ Political cartoonist Ann Telnaes was the feature...
Portside

A Coalition of Hundreds of Employers Is Asking the Trump Administration To Override the NLRB and Dictate Labor Law - A Coalition of Hundreds of Employers Is Asking the Trump Administration To Override the NLRB and Dictate Labor Law Greg Tue, 04/15/2025 - 19:43
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on April 8: Synchrony Bank vs Michelle D Lingan - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Ross Brendel and Synchrony Bank against Michelle D Lingan on April 8...
Mother Jones

In First Post-Presidency Speech, Biden Calls to Treat Disabled People With Dignity - On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first public speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference of A...
Ballot Access News

Working Families Party is Very Unlikely to Nominate Andrew Cuomo for Mayor, Even if He is the Democratic Nominee - The Working Families Party of New York city is extremely unlikely to nominate Andrew Cuomo for Mayor in this year’s election, even if he wins the Democrati...
Houston Public Media

Houston NAACP chapter calls for removal of Humble ISD superintendent following ‘lynch’ comment - The racially charged comments made by Brown, who was hired as superintendent in January, came to light during a school board meeting last week after a dist...
Futurism

Convoy of Gas Guzzling Trucks Imposes Blockade on Tesla Dealership - What happens when you combine an electric vehicle oligarch with coal rolling trucks, neo-Nazis, and a nation that confuses commerce with patriotism? A mi...
The Greanville Post

How Bernie Sanders condemns genocide in Gaza without actually condemning it - MUSA IQBAL—Igniting a voter base that was once turned off from political participation, the 83-year-old left-wing politician has cemented his public image ...
Vox

The demands Harvard refused - This story appeared in the Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Claytoonz

Home Grown Tyranny - 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...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump signs executive action to lower drug prices - The action is intended to build upon the existing program for Medicare drug price negotiations, which was created by the Inflation Reduction Act that passe...
Axios

Mistakenly deported man will be removed from U.S. if he manages to return: DOJ - If the Maryland man erroneously deported to El Salvador manages to return to the U.S., he will be detained and removed from the country, the Department o...
San Antonio Report

Mayor Ron Nirenberg: ‘It’s been the privilege of my life’ to serve - In one of his last public engagements as mayor, Ron Nirenberg told business leaders and city officials he is proud of the economic development strides the ...
Common Dreams

Groups Challenge Unlawful Termination of Global Labor Rights Programs - Today, the Solidarity Center, Global March Against Child Labour, and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), represented by Public Citizen Litigation...
Texas Observer

Opposition to Abbott’s Vouchers Plan Includes Conservatives - Brian and Joy Roberts are not public school advocates. The co-founders of the Grayson County Conservatives, based in the deep-red county on the state bor...
CultureMap Houston

Surprise Houston neighbor was No. 1 fastest-growing U.S. city in the last decade - It's no secret that Houston's population is growing faster than most other metros in the U.S., but now a surprising Houston-area neighbor has been named th...
slacktivist

Soon we’ll be shipbuilding - There's a huge fortune to be made manufacturing tents and barbed wire and shackles and chains for the authoritarian regime. ProPublica looks at one profite...
The NM Political Report

Unvaccinated child is first case of measles in Doña Ana County - By Matthew Reichbach State health officials reported the first case of measles in Doña Ana County, the most populous county in southern New Mexico. The ...
Slate

Is the Supreme Court About to Make Police Violence Much Worse? - The case arose from the fatal shooting of Ashtian Barnes, who was pulled over by Officer Roberto Felix on a Texas toll road in 2016 for an unpaid toll.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: The attorney general said one thing! - *TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2025* *Blue journalists said quite a few others:* Tomorrow, we'll be back to full services. For today, here's something we noticed. ...
Salon.com

"Father of the year": White House mocks man wrongfully deported to El Salvador - Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt refused to show any sympathy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported man
The Root

You'll Never Guess What Happened to Michael Jordan's Long Lost Ferrari - From his shoes to his jerseys to his love letters to his teenage girlfriends, anything former NBA great Michael Jordan has ever touched is considered a t...
Second Nexus

El Salvador President Slammed After Claiming He 'Doesn't Have The Power' To Return Maryland Dad To U.S. - The fate of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains unknown even after a White House visit by El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. During a press ...
El Paso Matters

Walmart gunman will go to Texas state prison after guilty plea, not federal facility like ‘supermax,’ official says - Because Patrick Crusius was initially arrested by state law enforcement, he’ll at least start serving his life sentences in state prison, a spokesperson...
Church and State

Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist - According to a top board member of Allianz SE, the climate crisis is on a path to destroy capitalism as we know it.
OpEd News

The Hudson River helicopter crash and future crash dangers from fatigue crack failures? - Fatigue crack failures are prompted by repetitive loads, or vibrations, over and over. Helicopters are massive vibration machines. Therefore, fatigue was a...
Discourse

This Is Why You Don’t Play Footsie with Fascists - Gretchen Whitmer’s attempt to laugh off her embarrassing Oval Office photo-op only makes things worse.
Texas Standard

Bill would prevent Panhandle property owners from giving land to wildlife refuge - Republican politicians and an interest group have sown fear over a voluntary process.
Glasstire

Review: “Traversing Boundaries: 12 Contemporary Female Artists of India” - Boundaries and borders exist in many distinct yet overlapping ways: physical, emotional, psychological, cultural, and societal. When artist, educator, an...
Rio Grande Guardian

RioPlex in Houston – Eddie Treviño, Jr.’s remarks from the podium - Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., gave an impassioned speech at RioPlex's Texas Port to the Stars FDI Summit at the Westin Galleria in Houston. ...
American Prospect

How States and Cities Might Repel Trump’s Police State Crimes - Today on TAP: Which may be the only way to stop Trump’s suspension of the Bill of Rights
Reform Austin

Sen. Middleton Announces AG Bid - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, on Tuesday afternoon announced that he will run for Texas at...
Dissident Voice

Trump Posts Press Release with Fabrications - On April 15th, President Trump posted as “News” on his White House website, “These Sick Criminals Are Who Democrats and the Legacy Media Are Defending”, ...
Mondoweiss

Palestinians fear Gaza’s largest cemetery has been destroyed. Not even our dead can have peace. - [image: Palestinians visit the graves of their relatives after Eid al-Fitr prayers at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza City on March 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar A...
Consortium News

Palestinian Resistance in an Orwellian World - In Palestine, Israel has been the executioner and the United States has been the executor of ethnic cleansing and genocide, though it is those who uphold i...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Space War - Our warfare focused Coffee Break: the dangers of militarizing space
The Grayzone

El robo electoral de Daniel Noboa consolida el control de cárteles y corporaciones sobre Ecuador - El presidente Daniel Noboa parece haber robado las elecciones de Ecuador. Ahora se dispone a consolidar el control de un sistema que ha beneficiado a los...
First Draft

Fuck Yeah, Harvard - Not everything sucks: Harvard president Alan Garber says no to MAGA extortion.
Idavox

Trump, Bukele, and the Battle Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation - Americans who still believe in that we should live by the Constitution – and even... The post Trump, Bukele, and the Battle Over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s ...
Election Law Blog

“In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative” - Adam Liptak for the NYT: The Trump administration’s compliance with court orders started with foot-dragging, moved to semantic gymnastics and has now arr...
Angry Bear

About those law firm agreements - There’s a paywalled post over at TPM. Here are the nut grafs: “In other words, the notional agreements don’t appear to have any of the basic blocking and...
Progressive.org

Two Radical Lives With Race at the Center - In 'An Ordinary White' and 'A Continuous Struggle,' racial consciousness spurs two very different paths into radical politics.
The Daily Poster

Mr. Zuckerberg’s Very Expensive Day In Court - Meta's CEO was flanked by a cabal of $2,000-an-hour attorneys as he testified in the company's federal antitrust trial yesterday.
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Marijuana Legalization Advocates Are the Majority. It’s Time to Act Like It - [image: Legalize Marijuana Activism][image: Legalize Marijuana Activism]Regardless of whether you live in a red or blue state, or in a jurisdiction where ...
Capital & Main

Life Under Trump: Migrants Win Asylum, Yet Remain Locked Up - Russians who fled their homeland could be held in U.S. custody for years while ICE pushes back on the decision to grant them freedom. The post Life Under...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Disinformation ‘Normalised’ on French TV and Radio, Report Finds - Climate disinformation was routinely broadcast in news programmes across French TV and radio in the first three months of 2025, with 128 verified cases i...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Wrong is Wrong: On Lawlessness, Cruelty, and Clarity - We're living in a new era and it's on us to look at the world with a new set of eyes
Bonddad

The state of the short leading indicators: why there’s no “recession watch” - yet - *- by New Deal democrat* Over the weekend, in my high frequency “Weekly Indicators” post, I wrote that in the past month, the bulk of the short lea...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Harvard takes a $2B hit after defying Trump administration—Today is a Proud Day in Our Nation's History - *Friends:* *I wish there were more universities standing up to this bald, partisan agenda, and ever so glad to see Harvard University taking a stand and w...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, April 15 - [image: The morning read for Tuesday, April 15] [image: The morning read for Tuesday, April 15] Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news article...
Grist

Looking to create effective climate change policy? Ask the community. - In Seattle, community assemblies are gathering frontline community members to set their own policies around extreme weather.
Texas Monthly

One of the Most Effective Programs to Reduce Child Hunger Is Caught in DOGE Limbo - Jeremy Everett, who piloted the initiative at Baylor University, is working hard to make sure kids get fed this summer. The clock is ticking.
Sludge

Republicans Are Just Wrong About the SAVE Act and Real ID - Whether they are being purposefully misleading or don’t understand their own bill, Republicans like Byron Donalds, amplified by Elon Musk, are spreading mi...
Debunking Christianity

Luke's Gospel Rejects Matthew's Previous Gospel!! - Luke's Gospel begins with this preface: 1 Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as th...
MintPress News

Iran’s Military Presence in Sudan: UAE-Israel Plot Backfires - From normalization to confrontation, Sudan has become Iran’s latest front against Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. The post Iran’s Military Presence in Sudan: UAE...
Eater Houston

The Saddest Houston Restaurant Closings to Know This April - [image: A pizza topped with ricotta, pepperoni, cheese, and tomatoes.] Grace Pizza & Shakes in the Heights didn’t last long. | Grace Pizza & Shakes It’s...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 117: “Deported Accidentally On Purpose” - Streaming 10 AM Eastern this morning, but you can listen/watch any time afterwards: On The TMI Show, Ted Rall and Manila Chan expose the shocking contrad...
Democracy Now!

"The Dark Money Game": Director Alex Gibney on How Citizens United Ushered in "Legalized Corruption" - A new set of documentaries directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney premieres April 15 and April 16 on HBO. The films in *The Dark Money Gam...
The Conversation

A need for chaos powers some Americans’ support for Elon Musk taking a chainsaw to the US government - Burn it all down? For some Americans who feel they’ve lost social status, that’s exactly what they want DOGE to do.
Liberation News

Myth vs. fact: Are cuts to trans health research beneficial to the working class? - [image: Thousands march to demand trans rights and liberation. Liberation photo]Great discoveries in medicine were made because marginalized groups were in...
Space City Weather

A front will bring slightly drier air today and Wednesday before rather windy and warm weather returns - In brief: Last week we spoke about a brief reprieve in strong winds over the area. It now appears as though that reprieve will end on Thursday, with gusty ...
ArcaMax

Balderdash Express: The Anti-Weaponization Guy Weaponizes Everything in Sight - There simply is no balderdash that Donald Trump hasn't elevated to an art form, a point so obvious by now that it's ceased to register. Lately, the Balderd...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Don’t You See What’s Happening?’ Experts Call Trump’s Latest Moves ‘Full Blown Fascism’ -
WhoWhatWhy

A Legacy of Resistance Lives on in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ - [image: Joy Banner, Jo Banner, Descendants Project] At the site of the largest slave revolt in history, a new generation is fighting for a cleaner future. ...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 14: Incarcerating U.S. Citizens in Foreign Prisons - The Trump regime has chosen defiance over compliance with the federal court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the inhum...
Skeptophilia

When the saints go marching in - My mom was an extremely devout Roman Catholic, and I still recall her instructing me to "pray to St. Jude" when I was worried about a bad outcome. At som...
Off The Kuff

An early progress report on the new DA - Sounds good so far. Harris County’s jail population declined 6% since February, and District Attorney Sean Teare secured more than $7 million in funding fr...
Progressives Chat

Flashbacks 1975 and 1995: Karen Ann Quinlan … Oklahoma City Bombing - This week marks two milestone Flashback anniversaries of past historic events which had impact on many people here in the United States. The calendar was...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 15 April 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Saudi cube post, click here.] ...
Scheerpost.com

Jeffrey Sachs: Giving Birth to the New International Order - The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
Media Lens

Global Charade: Israel, Palestine And The ‘Rules-Based Order’ - The post-WW2 ‘international rules-based order’ that supposedly underpins global affairs in the interests of peace, democracy and prosperity has always been...
ProPublica

Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself - by Amy Yurkanin ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing ar...
Earth 911

Family Movies for Earth Day and Every Day - Earth Day is great for raising awareness, but it isn’t helpful if we only think... The post Family Movies for Earth Day and Every Day appeared first on ...
The AltWorld

Will Trump Fold on Iran the Way He Did on China? | Ep.73 - Will Trump Fold on Iran the Way He Did on China? | Ep.73 The post Will Trump Fold on Iran the Way He Did on China? | Ep.73 appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Project Censored

Testing a new show - The post Testing a new show appeared first on Project Censored.
Ian Welsh

"The Chief Justice Has Made His Ruling Now Let Him Enforce It” - So, basically, the Supremes ruled 9-0 that Trump had to obey a lower court when they court said to return the hairdresser Trump sent to prison in El-Sal...
The Texas Signal

The Puppeteer Against Border Militarization - Kill Joy is part of ACLU Texas’s new artist in residence program. Born in Odessa to Filipino immigrants, she heads the Kitchen Table puppet collective, a l...
The Progressive Wing

Open thread April 14-16 Tax Daze - When we pay our taxes the government should use them to help us. The clowns in power at this time are without a clue.
Rewire

Opinion: These Are 5 Things You Should Know to Safely Access Abortion Care in 2025 - In an ever-changing abortion access landscape, it's crucial to know how to protect your privacy and well-being when seeking care. The post Opinion: These...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: The Light of an Older Heaven - And then the light of an older heaven was in my eyesand when my vision cleared, I saw Titans. — Alan Moore Today’s Occasional Paper comes to us from the Ja...
High Country News

The crusade to end federal public lands in New Mexico - [image: The Florida Mountains in Luna County. Molly Montgomery/Searchlight NM] Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition t...
Bracing Views

Revive Democracy! - W.J. Astore Replacing an older suicide vest with a newer one is not a sound plan We are losing the struggle for the heart and soul of our country. That muc...
See You In 2020

The state of the revolutionary counter-offensive, & its prospects for defeating imperialism’s global assault - Above: fighters from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Just a month ago, the anti-imperialist struggle was in a much worse place when it cam...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Zero Day' Toons - The spokesperson for Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China is trolling Trump. [image or embed] — Hoodlum ???? (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 10...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Open Letter To Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and J.D. Vance - I appear to be on a bit of an open-letter spree these days. This one is not one I wanted to write. It isn’t satirical, or particularly funny. And the timin...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

GOP + DNC = ZFG - If you’re a Liberal or Progressive who, at this point, is still furiously bitching about why the Democrats won’t “do something” about all this, then you’re...
The Militant

Quebec gov’t mounts new attack on religious freedom - MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school worke...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Respecting the Decision - This cartoon was co-written by me and Grace, drawn by me, and colored by Frank Young. Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! This one is...
LareDOS

Saturday Morning press conference launches 55th Earth Day Celebration - National organizations to headline press conference on the banks of the river! Laredo Encuentro - “Nuestra Planeta, Nuestro Poder, Nuestro Río” - to featur...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Decide Who Owns Banana Taped to Wall - [image: banana taped to wall]Well, the concept of a banana taped to a wall, at least.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DISAPPEARING JUSTICE EDITION. - *A little light for the dark,* How are you liking Life in These (Former) United States? I’m keeping tabs on Judge Xinis hearing an assistant U.S. Atto...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/11/2025 - 19:24 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Earthworks

Increasing US Mining While Reducing Oversight Puts Frontline Communities at Further Risk - On March 20, 2025 President Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production. The post Increasing ...
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 ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: April 2025 - Conspiracy | Contrapoints (video, 2:40 hours) – Back in 2016, Contrapoints got a reputation for “deradicalizing” people who fell down the alt-right pipelin...
Bud Kennedy

‘Hands Off!’ anti-Trump protests drew crowds. But did Texas Republicans know? | Opinion - A couple of thousand marchers protested against government chaos last weekend in marches from downtown Dallas to small-town Granbury, and Texas Republicans...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 - We recently put out a digital call for stories from teachers, students, parents, and community members who have been positively impacted by public educat...
Unlimited Hangout

The Katie Halper Show - The Katie Halper Show.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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
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...
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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