Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Democracy's Boundaries" Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Election Law Blog

On Blexit’s efforts to urge Black voters to leave the Democratic Party - The Washington Post has a fascinating, relatively short podcast exploring larger questions about where Black voters fit within the two-party system throu...
Scheerpost.com

The Rich Freakout After New York Election? - I can attest to this statement: my rich friends are freaking out—both about his threat to their way of life and, for many, what they call his “anti-Semitic...
Futurism

Man Cryogenically Freezes Wife, Gets New Girlfriend in the Meantime - "I still need to move on with life." The post Man Cryogenically Freezes Wife, Gets New Girlfriend in the Meantime appeared first on Futurism.
Techdirt.

Fans Of Open Access, Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chained Libraries - When books were rare and extremely expensive, they were often chained to the bookcase to prevent people walking off with them, in what were known as “chain...
Progressive.org

The Baristas Take On the Billionaires - A new documentary film puts the movement to unionize Starbucks workers back in the spotlight.
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (November 19, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
San Antonio Current

Go, Bam, Go: Jesse Rodriguez, San Antonio’s low-profile boxing champion faces his toughest test yet - [image: At a time when other boxers run their mouths, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez lets his fists do the talking.] The SA fighter will take on Argentina’s Fernan...
memeorandum

Trump shrugged off Khashoggi's killing. This is a new low (Jodie Ginsberg/The Guardian) - Jodie Ginsberg / The Guardian: *Trump shrugged off Khashoggi's killing. This is a new low* — Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered in a Saudi consulate. Th...
The Greanville Post

The Destruction of Democracy in the EU on The Protagonists. - EDITOR—The Destruction of Democracy in the EU. The EU has recently announced a Democracy Shield - to monitor "information manipulation." It also includes...
Raw Story

This big gamble could seal Trump's fate — but the case hangs by a thread - The stalled Georgia case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen allies accused of trying to invalidate the results of the 2020 election was...
Second Nexus

Zac Efron's Puzzled Reaction To Brother Dylan's Scores On 'Dancing With The Stars' Has Fans Cackling - Between Robert Irwin, Alix Earle, and Dylan Efron, this season of *Dancing with the Stars* is the season that just keeps on giving! But at the November 1...
Mediaite

‘So Bizarre’: Fox’s Mark Levin Baffled by Trump’s Middle Eastern Alliances - Mark Levin expressed his bafflement over President Donald Trump's close relationships with the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. The po...
The Week

Ted Cruz teases big 2028 moves - The Texas Republican is playing his cards close to his chest, even as others in Washington start looking for hints about the arch-conservative’s future
Political Wire

Judge Resumes Criminal Inquiry Into Trump Officials - “A federal judge said Wednesday that he plans to ‘promptly’ move ahead with an effort to find out which Trump administration officials were responsible for...
Courthouse News

AstraZeneca takes a shot at immunity from Covid injury case - The pharmaceutical company argues it is protected from any and all claims under the congressionally approved Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.
Al Jazeera English

New US peace plan for Ukraine involves Kyiv ceding land, weapons: Reports - Terms of the US-drafted, 28-point framework to end the war closely track Russian demands, according to news reports.
The Verge

I’m out of reasons to recommend Apple’s M1 MacBook Air, even at $600 - This is just a little public service announcement ahead of Black Friday. Walmart will once again tout the M1 MacBook Air as an unbeatable deal for laptop s...
The Hill

Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding facing new charges; reward in case rises - The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday a $15 million reward for information on former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who faces new charg...
Mediagazer

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times) - Jin Yu Young / New York Times: *The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has p...
Vox

The US-Saudi relationship is too big to fail…for now - The most shocking thing about President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday was that anyone was shock...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.19.25) - Please listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom, E.B. White, Mark Silk, Becky Garrison, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Abby Vesoulis.
Texas Standard

Gov. Abbott released 1,400 pages of emails about Elon Musk. Most are blacked out. - Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.
CultureMap Houston

Veteran Houston chefs fire up new pizzas at Rice Village cocktail bar - One of Houston’s foremost pizza experts is once again slinging pies. *Lee’s*, the companion cocktail bar to Rice Village restaurant Milton’s, is now servin...
Slate

It’s a Landmark Trial on the Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War. It’s Also Not What You Think. - In Germany five men will stand trial. Millions of victims, past and future, are watching.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: "Only when we share the same facts..." - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2025* *But how can we hope to do that? *Given the journalistic and cultural chaos within which our nation now flounders and flai...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s plan to impose semiconductor tariffs may be delayed, sources say - Officials are reportedly taking their time on US president’s long-promised chips plan to avoid a rupture with China US officials are privately saying tha...
Daily Dot

“So clearly evil”: Waymo co-CEO says robotaxi fatalities are a matter of “when” not “if” - [image: Waymo self driving taxi driving in downtown San Francisco. Tweet text overlay reads, "I genuinely think anyone who voluntarily gets into one of t...
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
San Antonio Report

University Health approves framework for artificial intelligence adoption in hospital - The University Health Board of Managers approved the county hospital system's first policy for adopting artificial intelligence technology. ----------------...
Salon.com

Texas Republicans started a national redistricting arms race. They may be losing - With Texas’ map blocked by a federal court, California Democrats are emerging victorious — pending SCOTUS ruling
Eschaton

Bending Towards Justice - It isn't perfect, but 2010 me would definitely enjoy hearing about Larry's later in life humiliation. Harvard has started a new review of ties that its fo...
Popular Resistance

Tribes File Federal Suit Over Prosecution Of Hunting, Fishing - The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Cherokee Nation have filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
Rallblog

The Death of the Landline Will Kill You - When you visit Mark Twain’s house in Hartford, you may be told about his telephone. It was one of the first phones in the country, so he could neither ca...
DeSmogBlog

Pathways Alliance Sponsored a ‘Summer School’ Program in Saskatchewan - Pathways Alliance, a lobby group most recently known for pro-pipeline billboards, also sponsored what they termed a carbon capture summer school in July....
Liberation News

Why is Trump threatening to invade Nigeria? Is it really to ‘protect Christians’? - Nigerians view Trump’s threats as a classic form of imperialist intervention under the guise of “protecting Christians from persecution.”
WhoWhatWhy

Keeping Key Climate Pledges ‘Would Avoid Nearly 1C’ of Global Heating: Analysis - [image: Climate crisis, global warming, COP30, renewable energies, keeping pledges] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recomme...
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Post–9/11 Method’ - Ultra-Zionist Minister Ben–Givr wants the Zionist state to kill Palestinian prisoners of war. But there is a straight line between Washington’s post–9/11 a...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Hasbara Ain’t Cheap, Musk, Ellison, Saudis, All Tapped - The practitioners of Hasbara are desperately ratcheting up their control of American corporate and social media and with Oracle's Larry Ellison suddenly ta...
Mother Jones

The Anti-Vax Movement’s Wildest Claim Yet: Polio Wasn’t So Bad - Even in the house of horrors that is vaccine-preventable illnesses, polio stands out as particularly terrifying. Before the rollout of the vaccine in the 1...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Latino Conservatism - The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Lati...
World Socialist Web Site

New data reveals hidden patterns of deprivation within inner London by factoring in housing affordability - The Thatcherite policies enacted by Conservative governments in the 1980s greatly exacerbated the UK’s historic north-south inequality divide. But they als...
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
El Paso Matters

El Paso families turn to FAFSA info sessions for help with 2026-27 financial aid - Local colleges helped dozens of families complete the 2026-27 FAFSA and learn about grants, scholarships and aid options, including guidance for mixed-s...
Undernews

Federal Judge Orders Some Texas Schools to Remove Ten Commandment Posters -
The Daily Poster

Crime, Then Dine - As Congress defied the president and voted to release the Epstein files, Trump welcomed the Saudi crown prince and top business allies for a ritzy White Ho...
Ian Welsh

The Promise Of Automation and Abundance - For a long time after the Industrial Revolution, many thinkers believed that automation would lead to us living lives of leisure. Twenty your work weeks, o...
Axios

Scoop: Trump plan asks Ukraine to cede additional territory for security guarantee - The new Trump plan to end the war in Ukraine would grant Russia parts of eastern Ukraine it does not currently control, in exchange for a U.S. security g...
Independent Political Report

North Carolina Forward Party Hosting Town Hall With Newly Elected Affiliate Members - The North Carolina Forward Party is hosting a virtual town hall event next month featuring two local Forward-aligned officials elected in November from t...
Greg Palast

Epstein and Larry Summers. Palast Investigates - Palast tears open the newly uncovered emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein — emails in which the very-married Summers leans on the convicted pr...
Ballot Access News

Federal Election Commission Compiles 2026 Congressional Primary Dates - The Federal Election Commission has an updated list of 2026 congressional primary dates. See it here. Thanks to Tony Roza for the link. … Continue reading →
Capital & Main

How Employers and Labor Groups Are Trying to Protect Workers From ICE - Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to shield employees from immigration raids. Th...
The Root

Ray J and Dr. Umar Johnson Are Beefing … Over a Woman - If you didn't have Ray J and activist Dr. Umar Johnson beefing on your 2025 BINGO card, you're not alone! Let's get into this surprising news. Read more...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Smoking Linked to Significantly Reduced Alcohol Intake - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Mondoweiss

The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza - [image: Security Council adopts resolution 2803 during the UN Security Council meeting on November 17, 2025, approving U.S. President Donald Trump's "peace...
Dissident Voice

The UN Has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza - Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had d...
Infidel753

A battle won, but not yet the war - After months of Trumpian stonewalling, things are moving fast. The bill to release the Epstein files passed both the House and the Senate yesterday, and...
Dorf on Law

Attempts to Destroy Higher Education in the US (and in one state in particular) Started Long Ago - Yesterday's *Chronicle of Higher Education* included an essay by John W. White, who is an education professor at the University of North Florida. Titled...
Workers World

COP30: Fossil fuel profits vs. Indigenous people - [image: COP30: Fossil fuel profits vs. Indigenous people] One of the boats traversing the Amazon River basin carrying delegates to the People’s Summit in B...
Deadline Politics

Stephen And Evelyn Colbert Riff On WNYC At New York Public Radio Event; President LaFontaine Oliver Says “You Can’t Defund The Truth” - Stephen Colbert and wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert opened up about early relationship stress at a New York Public Radio fundraiser — namely who of the then long...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes: Six Moves Toward Democrats, Although Topline Remains Close - There are seven rating changes this week, including three in states that held elections earlier this month, New Jersey and Virginia, plus another two in ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
SCOTUSblog

Birthright citizenship and American exceptionalism - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Common Dreams

Hundreds of Lobbyists Try to Clawback Medicare Drug Price Negotiations, Win Trump’s Favor - Big Pharma and its allies have taken corporate influence in Washington to new heights, hiring more than 500 lobbyists this year in an attempt to pass thr...
Texas Observer

New Report Highlights the ‘Fatal Flaws’ Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions - Sitting in a Brazoria County courtroom in 1994, Anthony Graves, a Black man, looked at his nearly all-white jury. He was on trial for a murder he didn’t ...
Bonddad

Partially updated jobless claims data suggest unemployment rate at or near top end of 2025 range - - *by New Deal democrat* There was no new official data reported this morning, including the normal monthly report on housing permits, starts, and c...
Glasstire

Video Paintings & Media Diet: A Conversation with Lauren Klotzman - Ever since Lauren Klotzman and I met, I felt like we were arriving at a similar site from two completely different paths. We share an interest in vintage...
ArcaMax

Trump Plays in the Wrong Key -- Again - WASHINGTON -- Seeking spiritual solace, I washed ashore at the John F. Kennedy Center's concert hall. Yes, I loved the crashing chords of the "Organ Sympho...
Krebs on Security

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap - An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet's top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were ab...
First Draft

A Pig On A Plane - He literally belongs in a sty.
Democracy Now!

"Data Crunch": AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals - A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity...
Alternet

'There is no MAGA': Conservative media site warns end is near for 'Trump’s personal party' - Conservative news outlet Washington Examiner explains the Republican party's "shellacking" in the November elections as fallout from what happens "when a...
Space City Weather

The forecast for the week of Thanksgiving is finally coming into better focus, and it looks festive - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the ongoing, record heat Houston is experiencing this month. We also look ahead to increased rain chances by Thursday ...
NPR's Health Shots

World Toilet Day is today! Um ... is that really the best name? - Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day — officially declared by the United Nations to bring attention to the 3.4 billion people who live without "safely managed sanit...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday on My Mind - Crabgrass is set in an unspecified past and Tahuid Bondia is reading my mind, because I was just thinking of how, when I was a kid, every boy had a jackkni...
The Smirking Chimp

Honor and Shame in the Era of Trump and Epstein -
Skeptophilia

The weeping woman - Yesterday's post, about the remarkable similarities between mythological gods and goddesses in cultures widely separated in space and time, prompted my c...
Off The Kuff

Federal court blocks Texas mid-decade gerrymander - Wow. Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel rul...
ProPublica

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. - The post “Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

How a billionaire’s plan to export East Texas groundwater sparked a rural uprising - As fast-growing cities and suburbs scramble for new water sources, farmers in East Texas are turning to government regulation to keep their wells from runn...
High Country News

‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural touris...
Crooked Media

What’s the Story We’re Telling? + Sen. Ruben Gallego (Crooked Con) - The post What’s the Story We’re Telling? + Sen. Ruben Gallego (Crooked Con) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year - Simple shifts to greener versions of the products you already use can save you more... The post 13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year appear...
Counterpunch

One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands? - There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that they need a...
jobsanger

Trump's Shocking Corruption Continues Unabated -
The AltWorld

Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than Expected - The emerging result is a “return to history” in the sense of former regional leaders restoring their […] The post Japan Might Challenge China Sooner Than...
Informed Comment

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies - Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy
Brad Blog

Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Week? Month? Year? Life?): 'BradCast' 11/18/25 - Things are not going well for the President of the United States. As revealed by the mostly breaking news stories covered on today's BradCast, today may be...
Portside

Labor Movement Cheers As House Members Force Vote To Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights - Labor Movement Cheers As House Members Force Vote To Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights Greg Tue, 11/18/2025 - 19:57
Antiwar.com

Vice President Vance Can Win the America First Youth by Prioritizing Gaza Peace - The second phase of President Trump’s fragile 20-point Gaza peace deal appears to have stalled. Implementation of the first phase of the peace plan was mo...
The NM Political Report

‘Corruption of the highest degree’: Heinrich, Leger Fernández start repeal of $500,000 payout provisions for senators - Two members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are taking the lead in repealing a provision of the recently passed government funding bill that a...
Reform Austin

Texas in the Spotlight: FEMA Review Panel Considers Major Relocation - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A federal review panel appointed by President Donald Trump is evaluating whether the Federal Em...
Wolf Street

Social Security Fiscal Year 2025: Trust Fund Balance, Income, Outgo, Deficit, and Interest Rates - The deficit doubled, as benefit payments spiked in part due to the expansion of Social Security, while income rose only slowly.
Black Agenda Report

Trinidad and Tobago in the Crosshairs of U.S. Imperialism - Trinidad and Tobago in the Crosshairs of U.S. Imperialism bareditors Wed, 11/19/2025 - 03:43 Clau O'Brien Moscoso Erica Caines
OpEd News

Will governments make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out from Treaty meets? - Please consider an important article around intergovernmental treaty meetings on climate and tobacco control (UNFCCC and WHO FCTC) where Big Polluters and ...
See You In 2020

The class war’s next phase, MAGA’s role in this war, & how it shows Marxists must navigate rural America - I have chosen to emphasize the MAGA movement, and to use imagery which relates to that movement, because this is necessary for breaking Marxist discours...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Conversation

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump - President Donald Trump’s base has supported him through countless controversies. But they split from him over the release of the Epstein files. Why does MA...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
The Texas Signal

Texas Congressional Maps Blocked - The ruling, authored by Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown is a sharp rebuke for Texas Republicans in the state house and senate
Duck of Minerva

Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern - On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack aga...
Angry Bear

August construction spending: strong nominal headline masks neutral real trend in the deep rear view mirror - – by New Deal democrat The good news is, with the end of the government shutdown, economic data reporting resumed this morning. The bad news is, we are ...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #05: Staring Into the Epstein Files Abyss - Katherine Krueger joins us to root through latest doc dump on the political elites' favorite convicted child sex offender
Rewire

Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands - Should we trust relationship advice that comes from AI? The post Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands appeared firs...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites - What's being exposed is bigger than Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. It's the failure of American institutions
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Progressive Wing

11/17-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Some mid-November news.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Teachers allowed slurs and food to be hurled at gay student, alleges one of three lawsuits filed against Catholic high school' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Catholic Teachers Allowed Slurs and Food Hurled at Gay Student, New Lawsuit Alleges* - *And this is just one of three lawsuits against the school:* *...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Movement For Socialism In The Age Of Trump 2.0: Socialist Alternative Convention 2025 - Over a weekend in early November, more than 250 socialists gathered in Maryland for the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention. Our members traveled far fro...
Church and State

Good reasons for feeling helpless? Any solutions? - I remain confident that Trump’s record has reached a new level of immorality that even the dullest among us, may vote correctly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to clean up plastic pellets across the state - Staff and coalition partners help stage four events in Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston The post Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2025 - I’m later than usual with this link roundup. Not apologizing, just observing. Last month, on The Asexual Agenda, I published “From definitions to motivati...
Project Censored

News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse - We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
The Grayzone

The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits - In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Sunday "Democracy's Boundaries" Funnies

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