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

Mediaite

‘I Have Lost All Faith’: Veteran Israeli Journo Urges Netanyahu to Explain ‘What The Hell’ The Strategy Is - "Conservative journalists in Israel, pro-Netanyahu journalists—are writing angrily that Netanyahu has to speak and explain what the hell is going on." Th...
Courthouse News

Tribal casinos lose round in fight over cardroom banked games - The Sacramento County judge's ruling is tentative, with an attorney for the tribal casinos arguing Friday why she should change her mind.
Daily Dot

“Age of Scorpius” author blasted on Goodreads and BookTok after viral hype fizzles - [image: the age of scorpuis audra winter booktok] Debut author Audra Winter managed to do what most self-published writers only dream of: turn her first ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Election Law Blog

SCOTUSblog column on “Justice, Democracy, and Law” - Here’s the first of a periodic column I will be doing for SCOTUSblog. It comes with this introductory description: The biggest questions in constitutiona...
Alternet

'I didn't accept': Epstein reportedly bragged about rejecting Trump White House job offer - Just days after President Donald Trump's first election victory in 2016, he reportedly called his longtime friend, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a...
CultureMap Houston

This is how big Houston apartments get for $1,500 a month in 2025 - Houston renters on the hunt for a roomy new apartment for $1,500 a month won't have to compromise too much on space compared to last year, according to a n...
Raw Story

Trump crackdown hits legal wall with new ruling - In the latest legal blow to the Trump administration, a federal judge in Rhode Island has prohibited officials from setting new restrictions on grants is...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (August 8, 2025) - Today: We discuss the rising cost of homeowners’ insurance, talk with former senior FBI official Katherine Schweit about her new book, and much more.
Slate

Trump Wants to Win the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s About to Make Two Wars Worse. - The president seems prepared to hand Putin a major victory.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding - University of California president says ‘a payment of this scale would completely devastate’ public university system The Trump administration is seeking...
Salon.com

Secret Trump order authorizes military strikes on drug cartels: report - Order raises possibility of "direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels,” NYT reports
memeorandum

JD Vance mutes criticism, practices diplomacy in British visit (Natalie Allison/Washington Post) - Natalie Allison / Washington Post: *JD Vance mutes criticism, practices diplomacy in British visit* — On a visit Friday with UK Foreign Secretary David...
NPR's Health Shots

China has declared war on the chikungunya virus. How much of a threat is it? - The mosquito-borne disease is sweeping through a province in southern China, which is taking strict measures to quash the outbreak.
The Hill

Trump versus the District of Columbia - The DOJ opened an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James {beacon} FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS are patrolling the streets of Washin...
Techdirt.

Trump’s War On Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge The Administration - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second presidency, ...
Al Jazeera English

Here’s why the UN is negotiating a treaty to end plastic pollution - Negotiations are under way at the UN to reach a legally-binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
San Antonio Current

Rep. James Talarico mulls U.S. Senate bid as his profile rises amid Texas Democrats’ redistricting standoff - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. State Rep. James Talarico has...
First Draft

Darling Be Home Soon - Cheers to John Sebastian.
OpEd News

Russia will not be forced into peace, interviewed with Dragana Trifkovi - This interview is with Serbian geopolitical and analyst Dragana Trifkovi to talk about the latest developments between USA and Russia
Mediagazer

Stephen Colbert, whose late show is scheduled to end on CBS in May 2026, directly pitches Netflix and Amazon during his last show before a summer break (Peter White/Deadline) - Peter White / Deadline: *Stephen Colbert, whose late show is scheduled to end on CBS in May 2026, directly pitches Netflix and Amazon during his last sho...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: Each evening, it's strangers in the night! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2025* *Hello Stranger, an origin story:* Every night, there they are: *Strangers in the night!* They bring their mission to cable new...
Political Wire

Trump’s Team Expands Search for Fed Chair - “President Trump’s team is reviewing new contenders to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, with a longtime economic consultant and a past Fed pres...
Capital & Main

National Weather Service’s Plan to Hire Crucial Staffers After Mass Layoffs Will Be Too Late for Wildfire Season - Key California weather forecast offices will remain "criminally understaffed" while new hires get on board, former NWS meteorologists warn. The post Nati...
The Week

DHS preps for major ICE expansion, rankling local law enforcement - As the Trump administration positions ICE as the primary federal police force, its recruitment efforts have been met with less-than-enthusiastic responses
The Verge

ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it - OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will...
Progressive.org

Let Voters, Not Politicians, Decide Elections - Nothing good can come from President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race. What’s happening in Texas is a travesty for democracy.
Futurism

Hubble Captures Glorious New Image of That Mysterious Object Cruising Into Our Solar System - As the comet 3I/ATLAS plummets through our Solar System, NASA's good old Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visito...
Wolf Street

Inventory of Homes for Sale Balloons in Texas and its Big Metros: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin, San Antonio - Amazing turn of events: From desperate “housing shortage” to massive inventory pile-up in four years.
American Prospect

UnitedHealth Merger Approval Again Shows Lobbyist Power - Today on TAP: Another merger settlement allows consolidation in health care; UnitedHealth’s lobbyist was MAGA’s biggest firm.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Programming recommendation: Learn about the Wishbone - I had a little work that took me into the evening earlier this week, which meant I was watching whatever the husband who lives in my house was watching. ...
Texas Standard

Typewriter Rodeo: Degenerative AI - Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
Sludge

DSCC Took Lobbyist Bundles From Firms Reaping Rewards Under Trump - Senate Democrats’ campaign arm quietly received donations in the first half of this year from lobbyists for Palantir, Andreessen Horowitz, and SpaceX, acco...
Mondoweiss

The war without end in Gaza - [image: A boy looks up from the rubble at a plane dropping aid into Gaza.]Israel’s latest plan to occupy Gaza City reveals that the assault on Gaza is more ...
Reform Austin

Commissioners Censure Hidalgo After Chaotic Meeting on Childcare Funding - A tense Harris County Commissioners Court meeting over a proposed tax hike for early childcare programs ended with a rare public rebuke of the county’s t...
The Progressive Wing

8/8/2025-8/14/2025 News Roundup and Open Thread - The fact that she chose to be offended about them attacking her appearance instead of the puppy killing pretty much proves South Park’s point. — Visual Reb...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Providing graphic video, photos from Aug. 3, 2019, Walmart attack would make what happened clear to the public - El Paso Matters made the wrong choice in not sharing all the videos and photos it has from the Aug. 3, 2019, white supremacist attack on the Cielo Vista...
San Antonio Report

Ravello among new dining spots featured in Culinaria’s upcoming ‘Restaurant Weeks’ - It's that time again. Restaurant Weeks starts on Saturday and offers diners a chance to try out a three-course meal priced at $20-$55. ---------------------...
Axios

Democrats investigate FBI effort to "hunt down" Texas legislators - House Democrats are probing the FBI's efforts to help locate a group of Democratic state legislators from Texas who fled the state in a bid to stop Repub...
Consortium News

Breaking America’s Bonds With Israel - Taking a cue from the Declaration of Independence, M. Reza Behnam submits facts “to a candid world” that impel the dissolution of a destructive liaison. By...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Biotech vs. Science, NIH Under New Management, More on Malaria, Dreams of De-Extinction, and an Aside on the State of America - Part the First: Is This How to Do Science? San Diego, with the University of California-San Diego and the Scripps Research Institute leading the way, has b...
Second Nexus

People Reveal The Weirdest Thing Their Body Does That They Don't Understand - The body is an extraordinary thing. It's also a great mystery. We only get one body. Often, it feels like we could all use a spare. It breaks, it sha...
World Socialist Web Site

Open Letter by Jewish public figures challenges Starmer government: “Proscribe genocide, not protest” - The letter opposing the proscription of Palestine Action (PA) as a terrorist organisation has 300 signatories including human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bi...
Grist

As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer - The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 13 - Learn more about Senate Bill 13, a bill censoring library materials, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN...
WhoWhatWhy

NYC Utility Ramps Up Power Shut-Offs As It Seeks 11% Price Hike - [image: Climate change, global warming, NYC, Con Ed, electricity cost, increased shutoffs] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or ...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Piping Plover - As we cruise toward the back half of summer, let’s give it up for this miraculous little beach bird.
The Grayzone

Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives - Israel’s military leadership has acknowledged that full occupation of Gaza will cause the killing of the remaining captives. But Netanyahu’s government s...
The Conversation

3 reasons Republicans’ redistricting power grab might backfire - The attempt by Texas Republicans to gerrymander more GOP legislative districts could backfire and deliver the party dummymandered districts. A political sc...
Claytoonz

Roof-Top Idiot - 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...
Angry Bear

Prophecy - As my AB peeps know, I loves me some prophecy. As a consumer, not a producer. My wife and I play this little game. If I make a prediction, she grabs a po...
NORML

NORML’s Facebook Was Hacked - [image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard][image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard]NORML's Meta account was compromised and the spam content you...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Judge in Maryland Converts Birthright Citizenship Lawsuit Into a Class Action and Again Enjoins Presidential Trump’s Order - On August 7, U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee, converted CASA Inc. v Trump, 8:25cv-201, into a class action. This is the birth...
Mother Jones

“It’s Not Just a Texas Problem. It’s an American Problem.” - A lot of people want to get a hold of James Talarico these days. The 36-year-old Texas state representative and seminary student is a rising Democratic sta...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Israel Goes Full Gaza” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s the end of the week but there’s no end to the drama on “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou,” wh...
Deadline Politics

Kristi Noem Didn’t Laugh Off ‘South Park’ Satire: “It Never Ends, But It’s So Lazy” - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wasn’t laughing at being spoofed on South Park, calling the portrayal of her as “so lazy.” On the most recent episo...
Crooked Timber

Political Disclosure in the College Classroom - The latest podcast produced by the Center for Ethics and Education focuses on political disclosure in the classroom. I think a lot of CTers will find it in...
Liberation News

The racist roots of redistricting plans in Texas - The right to fair elections is under attack in Texas.
The Root

How George Mason University’s Black President Got the Last Laugh Against Trump’s DEI War - Gregory Washington became the first Black president to George Mason University in 2020, but when Trump got into office, his title was at risk. Read more...
Dissident Voice

The Power of Future Thinking - In conversation about the global future with with Professor Zhang WeiWei of Fudan University — one of the most respected, outspoken and productive Chines...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: A Plumber’s Art, Cowboys, and a Sea of Dimes - The post Strangest State: A Plumber’s Art, Cowboys, and a Sea of Dimes appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Glasstire

Austin Goes to the Movies - When the Paramount Theater in downtown Austin screened Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood in 35mm earlier this summer, it was abuzz with hun...
Bonddad

Applying Prof. Edward Leamer’s pre-recession progression paradigm to the present - - *by New Deal democrat* Twenty years ago Prof. Edward Leamer gave an important speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole, WY, retreat called “Housing IS the...
Undernews

Former GOP Georgia Lt. Governor becomes a Democrat - *Occupy Democrats - *Georgia's former Republican Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan enrages MAGA world by switching parties to become a Democrat in a stunnin...
Rio Grande Guardian

Mayor Cowen and consultant Admire discuss Brownsville Downtown Renaissance Master Plan - Brownsville leaders say the master plan marks the beginning of a transformational initiative aimed at revitalizing the Brownsville’s historic core. The...
SCOTUSblog

Justice, democracy, and law - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 3 - *Matthew 6: Yet more deeply flawed Jesus-script * In my article here last week, I mentioned that the Sermon on the Mount is treasured by Christians as t...
Democracy Now!

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want "Accountability & Justice," Not Political Grandstanding - Jess Michaels lives with the PTSD from her 1991 assault by the serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She is part of a national chorus of voices calling on...
Dorf on Law

How the Hell To Teach Constitutional Law in 2025: Twenty Questions and No Answers - Constitutional law professors across the country are starting to prepare their syllabi for the upcoming year. At my school, we have two three-credit cour...
Rewire

Groups File Suit to Declare Montana’s Right to Abortion Is Unconstitutional - The state Supreme court rejected the "last-minute" argument, while groups say every amendment passed since 1978 has been "deficient." The post Groups Fil...
Space City Weather

A rather typical early August weekend awaits Houston while we take a detailed look at the tropics - In brief: Hot and humid weather with daily shower chances awaits Houston over the next several days, typical for August but perhaps encroaching on 100 degr...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Bracing Views

America the FUBAR - An Ailing, Flailing, Failing Empire Lashes Out BILL ASTORE AUG 06, 2025 Hello Everyone: Here’s my latest article at TomDispatch.com. Whereas my articles fo...
Vox

The hidden forces ruining youth sports - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. When Aly was a little kid, “spor...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Trump l’Oeil - The difference between trompe l’oeil and Trump l’oeil is that the first is an artistic technique that relies on the skill of the artist to create an illusi...
ArcaMax

Bringing Women's Stories to the Forefront in a Forbidden World - You never know where an opportunity might take you, but there are just some people you trust when they call. For me, one of those people is Gina Barreca. S...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Becoming Nobody-But-Yourself - The poet e.e. cummings offered this advice to students but it applies to anyone who... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Becoming Nobody-But-Yourself appear...
Skeptophilia

The four-alarm fire - I present to you three recent articles with a linked theme. The first is about a study at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research in Aus...
The Smirking Chimp

What Blue States Should Do if Red States Super-Gerrymander -
Off The Kuff

Quorum break Day 4 roundup: So what is the FBI doing? - Nobody knows. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn announced that the FBI has granted his request to investigate and locate the Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the st...
ProPublica

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals - by David Armstrong, Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
Scheerpost.com

Dockworkers in Italy Win Against Arms Shipment to Israel - Dockworkers in Italy secure victory as shipping companies announce return of Israeli-bound weapons cargo to its point of origin.
Progressive Army

La CERA detalla su agenda para impulsar la competitividad del sector y propone una Estrategia Nacional Exportadora - La Cámara de Exportadores de la República Argentina (CERA), una asociación civil sin fines de lucro con una trayectoria que se remonta a 1943, ha reafirmad...
High Country News

Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions - In the face of federal cuts, volunteers, businesses and others help keep programs afloat. The post Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions ...
Crooked Media

Trump Goes Bananas - The post Trump Goes Bananas appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Smoke and Pianos - The evening light was a sickly sepia. The haze from the wildfires gave the clapboard houses on the steep hillside above one of Ithaca’s many gorges a sim...
jobsanger

The Top 10% Are Doing Great In This Economy - The Bottom 90% Are NOT -
Informed Comment

War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza - This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian population of Japan in August 1945. Prior to that, the U.S. ...
Portside

The Trump Administration Tried To Silence Mahmoud Khalil, so I Asked Him To Talk - The Trump Administration Tried To Silence Mahmoud Khalil, so I Asked Him To Talk jay Thu, 08/07/2025 - 22:30
Brad Blog

Trump's Wars Against Clean, Renewable Energy and American Democracy on VRA's 60th Anniv: 'BradCast' 8/7/2025 - It's a tough call on today's BradCast as far as which is worse: the stupidity or the outrage in response. (It's the stupidity, stupid.) But we report, you ...
Popular Resistance

Atomic Bombings At 80: How US Spies Secured The Hiroshima Uranium - Since the first use of a nuclear weapon in Hiroshima 80 years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the story of where the uranium for the bomb came from and the c...
Antiwar.com

Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide - Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispe...
The NM Political Report

Luján secures $12 million for New Mexico health, education projects - [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján has secured more than $12 million in federal funding for New Mexico projects focused on health care, workforce training a...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Slap in the face: Air Force to deny retirement pay to trans soldiers being kicked out by Trump Administration' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service* - *Just another way the Trump Administration is k...
The Daily Poster

Do As We Say, Not As We Gerrymander - By fighting gerrymandering with gerrymandering, Democrats are betraying their own democratic principles.
slacktivist

That time I helped sell racist T-shirts at a street festival - It was my first day in a new town and a street vendor was selling racist T-shirts. So I decided to "help."
The AltWorld

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to […] The post Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS ap...
Lowering the Bar

Constitution Deleted - [image: wayback machine image showing disappearing text]Is somebody practing for the big day?
Independent Political Report

Green Party Marks 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Renewed Call for Nuclear Disarmament - The Green Party of the United States commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this Thursday with a call for nuc...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
MintPress News

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent. The post Israe...
Workers World

Lancet study shows: Economic sanctions can kill like bombs and bullets - [image: Lancet study shows: Economic sanctions can kill like bombs and bullets] Two documents together explain the lethal effect of economic sanctions app...
Unlimited Hangout

From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy - The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-...
Ian Welsh

Autarky Sure Looks Good - So, Trump has decided to raise tariffs on India to 50% (who knows if he actually will), over their imports of Russian oil. Meanwhile: Senators Lindsey Grah...
Common Dreams

Siccing the FBI On State Lawmakers Who Oppose Trump’s Agenda Sets Dangerous Authoritarian Precedent - Today, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced that the FBI has agreed to track down Texas state lawmakers who left the state to resist state Republicans’ e...
Project Censored

The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment, and democracy. The detrimental combin...
DeSmogBlog

Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival - James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Previewing the 2026 Secretary of State Races - About half the states will hold secretary of state elections next year, with key contests coming in presidential battlegrounds The post Previewing the 20...
See You In 2020

The resurgent popular revolutionary struggle, & its path to defeating the USA’s world war schemes - *Above: protesters in occupied Korea gathered at the National Assembly after last year’s attempted coup* In December 2024, when south Korea’s President ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
Ecosophia

Talking Back to Flying Heads - As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is ...
Edinburg Politics

With key governments in South Texas using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, taking leadership role to stop use of such a practice by local politicians - With key governments in South Texas for years using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, is taking a leadership role to ...
Environment Texas

Austin’s $6.3 billion budget targets water, energy, and parks upgrades - Proposed FY 2026 plan boosts investments in clean energy, tree planting, wildfire preparedness, and water conservation amid financial constraints The pos...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
The Texas Signal

The Time-Traveling Manga From a Rising Black Artist - Golden Mist follows a young man named Kai who is part of a legendary martial arts dynasty destined to save the world
Krebs on Security

Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? - On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old adm...
Infidel753

The right decision - Today is the eightieth anniversary of the US use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima. A view has become entrenched in some circles that this action was ...
Trivial Knot

NSFW and defensibility - Earlier I wrote about Itch.io delisting NSFW content. Here’s some followup discussion. I’ve been impressed by how quickly gamers mobilized around this. The...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Nina Illingworth

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

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
The Militant

‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’ - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, tol...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

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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...
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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