Brains and Eggs: Sunday 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

Raw Story

Trump boasts he ordered another lethal strike on a cartel boat in international waters - Another strike has been carried out on a boat that President Donald Trump claims is an imminent threat to the United States. On Truth Social, Trump anno...
memeorandum

Capitol agenda: Republicans to reveal funding bill, testing Democrats in shutdown showdown (Mia McCarthy/Politico) - Mia McCarthy / Politico: *Capitol agenda: Republicans to reveal funding bill, testing Democrats in shutdown showdown* — Republicans are getting ready t...
Courthouse News

Pilgrims turn Spain’s Santiago de Compostela into the world’s latest overtourism flashpoint - Santiago is the latest global destination where longtime residents have grown embittered by the overtourism transforming their community.
Mediagazer

MI5 admits it unlawfully obtained communications data from ex-BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney's mobile phone in 2006 and 2009 (Michael Savage/The Guardian) - Michael Savage / The Guardian: *MI5 admits it unlawfully obtained communications data from ex-BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kea...
Political Wire

Suspect Sent Text Saying He Was Going to ‘Take Out’ Kirk - FBI Director Kash Patel said that Tyler Robinson had sent a text before the shooting, saying he had an opportunity to “take out” Charlie Kirk and “he was g...
Mediaite

JD Vance Instructs Americans to Tell on Bosses of People ‘Celebrating’ Murder of Charlie Kirk: ‘Call Their Employer’ - Vice President JD Vance passionately urged Americans to call the employers of the "terrorist sympathizers" who are celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder The ...
Eschaton

America's Worst Newspaper - The Washington Post. I don't think this was true even 5 years ago, but now we have reached the point where the influence of legacy media outlets is almos...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s annual A Conversation With the Constitution will examine Probable Cause and Due Process - [image: This year's A Conversation with the Constitution will focus on the 4th and 5th Amendments.] The free conversation, scheduled for Wednesday, will i...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (September 15, 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.
Daily Dot

10 details you might have missed at the Emmy Awards - [image: emmy awards details you missed] The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards took place last night and featured some exciting (and surprising) wins. Hosted by ...
CultureMap Houston

More than 30 Houston bars are selling $7.13 drinks for Texas Cocktail Week - Houstonians with a taste for well-made drinks will be busy this week. The inaugural *Texas Cocktail Week* is taking place at bars across the city through t...
The Verge

The Supreme Court is Google’s last hope to avoid an Epic reckoning in October - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is done with Google, and Google won’t be happy with the result. On Friday, the court completely denied its petition to h...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: FDR learned about human suffering! - *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025* *Or so PBS said: *"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore." ...
Salon.com

“They’re trying to hunt people down”: Immigrant fatally shot by ICE agent mourned in Chicago - Residents of the Chicagoland suburb of Franklin Park grieved over the death of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
ArcaMax

Trump’s Phase 2 now begins - We are now witnessing the start of what might be seen as Phase 2 of Trump’s efforts to eradicate political opposition. Phase 1 has centered on silencing cr...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Lied to Qatar” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Start your week with DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou, where political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA...
The Hill

Trump weighs in on 'terrible reports' of Dallas man's beheading - President Trump on Sunday weighed in on the “terrible reports” of a Texas man’s beheading and pledged to pursue justice for the victim and his family, who ...
Futurism

FBI Carelessly Incinerates Large Amount of Meth, Sending Workers to Hospital - You work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and you're sitting on two pounds of seized meth that you need to get rid of. So what do you do? Burn it...
Second Nexus

Trump Brutally Dragged After Making A Hilariously Stunning Admission About 'Smart People' - MAGA Republican President Donald Trump, while speaking Sunday in a luxury suite at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, said he is not liked by "smar...
Progressive.org

Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers - The American Federation of Teachers president discusses her new book, the attacks on public education, and what we can do about it.
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Techdirt.

The Trump FTC’s War On Porn Just Ensured That Accused CSAM Offenders Will Walk Free - Well, they finally did it. A federal agency finally shattered the precarious base that upholds the edifice of prosecutions for child sex abuse material (CS...
American Prospect

The Federal Reserve Is Out of Tricks - Today on TAP: And so is Trump’s maneuver to take over the central bank. Even if he were to succeed, there is no good monetary cure for Trump’s economic car...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing - Maurene Comey alleges firing was retaliation against father, former FBI director James Comey Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor involved in cases agains...
The Week

10 concert tours to see this upcoming fall - Get ready for pumpkin spice season with concerts from big-name artists
Slate

My Grandkids Are Living Under Our Roof Now. Their Unreasonable Complaints Are Pushing My Limits. - No more amusement park visits.
slacktivist

No, Donny, these men are nihilists - Walter Sobchak was right to find nihilists deplorable, but he was wrong to think they're not dangerous.
Liberation News

Lies, damned lies and statistics: Trump’s ‘anti-crime’ campaign - Trump has made “cracking down on crime,” a centerpiece of his political appeal – but do these federal invasions really have anything to do with public safety?
San Antonio Report

Facing ethics hearing, Nirenberg says he regrets unreported gift and improper campaign photos - The former mayor's attorney asked the Ethics Review Board to dismiss the complaints citing that Nirenberg didn't intend to break the rules. ----------------...
Axios

Stephen Miller blames "terrorist networks" for Kirk's death, stoking MAGA outrage - Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, on Monday blamed "terrorist networks" for Charlie Kirk's killing, despite law enforcement saying the s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Accountability Without Justice: The Continuing Agenda to Demonize K-12 Public Schools to Set the Stage for Further Privatization - *Accountability Without Justice: The Continuing Agenda to Demonize K-12 Public Schools to Set the Stage for Further Privatization* *by* *Angela Valenzue...
MintPress News

Is Israel Behind the Assassination of Charlie Kirk? The Internet Thinks So - The assassination of Charlie Kirk has sparked widespread speculation online, with many pointing to Israel’s long history of political killings. Once one ...
Al Jazeera English

Belarus, Russia conduct joint military drills amid NATO tensions - Moscow and Minsk insist, however, that the drills are defensive, adding that Western security concerns are 'nonsense'.
Independent Political Report

Conservative Party of New York State Denounces Hochul Endorsement of Mamdani in Mayoral Race - The Conservative Party of New York State issued a sharp rebuke Monday of Governor Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani i...
World Socialist Web Site

Opening Report to the Founding Congress of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal - null
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Doomscrolling the Influencer Apocalypse - The influencer apocalypse triggered by the assassination of influencer Charlie Kirk is the biggest American moral panic since 2001, but the right-wing may ...
First Draft

When You Are A Star They Let You Do It - Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, and their rich enablers...
Reform Austin

“Operation Lone Star 2.0”: DPS arresting thousands of undocumented immigrants across Texas to aid Trump’s mass deportation - Texas Department of Public Safety officers have helped arrest more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants across the state this year, according to public rec...
Daily Cartoonist

Newsday Apologizes for Printing Chip Bok Cartoon, also a Wyoming Paper - From Newsday: On Sunday afternoon, Newsday issued a written apology, calling the cartoon “insensitive and offensive.” “We deeply regret this mistake and si...
WhoWhatWhy

Tips For Stepping Back From Screens and Starting a New Hobby - [image: tech, digital world, screen time overload, analog alternatives, hobbies, happiness] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or...
Glasstire

Calling All Goths: Open Call for Blacklight Exhibition in San Marcos - The San Marcos Art League (SMAL) has announced an open call for its October exhibition Goth & Glow, set to open Friday, October 10. For the occasion, the...
El Paso Matters

El Paso death row inmate David Leonard Wood’s appeal in 1987 killings stalls as parties seek more guidance from appeals court - A brief hearing Monday in a decades-long appeal highlighted uncertainty over what the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wanted when it sent the case back ...
Deadline Politics

Maurene Comey Sues Trump DOJ: Prosecutor In Sean “Diddy” Combs And Jeffrey Epstein Cases Claims “Politically Motivated” Firing - Maurene Comey, a top federal prosecutor whose cases included those involving Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, sued the Trump admi...
Undernews

Health - Why 1 in 6 U.S. parents are rejecting vaccine recommendations
Project Censored

Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect - This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented cens...
Sludge

Trump Allies’ Children and Niblings Cash in on Lobbying Boom - The next generation of Trumpworld lobbyists are landing major clients and scoring policy wins.
The NM Political Report

Santa Fe court launches mental health diversion program for arrestees - [image: The First Judicial District Court has announced a new program designed to divert people with severe mental illness away from the criminal justice...
The Daily Poster

Dark Money Groups Are Fighting To Block Veterans’ Abortion Access - Conservative operations tied to judicial puppetmaster Leonard Leo are backing a rule that would ban VA-provided abortions, even in life-threatening situati...
Capital & Main

New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans - A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how. The post New Mexico’s Billion-Do...
Alternet

'He acts like Fidel': Trump’s support with Latino voters is 'plummeting' - President Donald Trump's favorability with Latino voters is down 20 points, according to a new poll obtained Monday by Politico. The poll, conducted by l...
Consortium News

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Out-of-Control Gov’t Targets Business ‘Whistleblowers’ - The FTC targeted businessman James Douvas for ruin in $216 million lawsuit. It’s yet another case of federal officials with too much power, an unlimited bu...
Wolf Street

The Biggest Single-Family Rental Landlords and Multifamily Landlords in the US: Big Shifts Underway - Single-family giants are selling houses they bought amid the Housing Bust and shifted to new construction of build-to-rent developments. Multifamily caught...
Texas Standard

‘Operation Lone Star 2.0’: DPS arresting thousands of undocumented immigrants across Texas to aid Trump’s mass deportation - The Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by fede...
Texas Observer

The Health Penalty - The year Charles Sullivan finally started the treatment that helped manage his agonizing digestive disorder was also the year he was arrested for the cri...
Bonddad

Employment growth is dead in the water; tomorrow we will find out about production and sales - - *by New Deal democrat* With no news today, let’s take a look at why two releases tomorrow are especially important. Let me begin with employment,...
The Greanville Post

Geo. Galloway Dispatches: Charlie Kirk, the troublesome priest - GEO. GALLOWAY—The video presents a highly charged narrative surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a prominent American conservative influencer. Ge...
Dissident Voice

Five Actions that Definitively Disqualify Trump for his Coveted Nobel Peace Prize - I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars. — Donald Trump, Farewell Address, 20 January 2021 I am the Peace ...
Claytoonz

Rex Babin Award - 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...
The Root

Plot Twist! Wait, Trump Really Didn’t Cut HBCU Funding… - Wait...Trump redirects hundreds of millions in funding to HBCUs amid his attack on diversity, equity and inclusion. Read more...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Vying for Global Supremacy on a Warming, Turbulent Planet - We're No. 1 and theyre No. 2 in the world.----That was President Trumps blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Rus...
Discourse

These Dead Palestinian Kids Missed the Memo on the U.S. Hating Political Violence - Does someone want to tell their families?
Election Law Blog

“Bracket Voting: Structuring ‘Final Four’ Elections like Familiar Sports Tournaments” - I’ve posted this new article on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This essay, a contribution to the Ohio State Law Journal symposium on the important new book A...
Progressive Army

Inconvenientes operativos Impo TCA - Estimados socios, buen día TCA informa que se esta regularizando los cierres de guías en relación a los graves inconvenientes operativos que venían tenien...
Rewire

RFK Linking Tylenol To Autism Could Harm Pregnant People’s Health, Doctors Warn - Acetaminophen is one of the few drugs that pregnant people can safely use to relieve pain or fever—conditions that, if left untreated, can increase the r...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court, tariffs, and judicial consistency - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Democracy Now!

Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin - The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemi...
The Conversation

Transgender policies struggle to balance fairness with inclusion in women’s college sports - Redefining sports eligibility around gender identity risks erasing the protections that have helped women’s college sports flourish, a scholar argues.
Common Dreams

Movements Worldwide Draw the Line Against Genocide, Injustice, Fossil Fuels, and Call for Rights, Jobs, and Justice - Draw the Line is a global action (15-21 September) with widespread events taking place across the world peaking over the weekend of September 19–21, 2025...
Space City Weather

Sorry y’all, we have another week of monotonous, late summer weather (but it’s not that bad) - In brief: Houston’s sunny and warm, but not super hot weather will continue this week. As we get closer to the weekend we may see some slightly better rain...
Angry Bear

Privately Owned Public Utility and Its Impact . . . - Down where I now live in Arizona, we had waters issues. No shortage of water. Just issues with the quality of the water. There is a large abundance of wa...
Vox

Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies - Spooky season isn’t here quite yet, but you’d never know looking at the box office. The Conjuring: Last Rites, the latest installment about a (problematic)...
Mother Jones

Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process? - This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk c...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mark Heilman On Phosphorus, Waterways, And Invasive Species - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mar...
Dorf on Law

Play in the Joints - Earlier this year, I was honored to deliver the Dyson Distinguished Lecture at Pace University. My invitation arrived before the second Trump administrat...
The Smirking Chimp

America Is in Danger of Becoming Numb to Violence -
Skeptophilia

Nerds FTW - There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of accepted this without qu...
Crooked Media

How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality - The post How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

A pair of CD18 polls - I am just passing these along out of curiosity. Special election polling is very tricky since you just don’t know what the electorate will look like. These...
Scheerpost.com

Miller Says He and Trump Will Use Law Enforcement to ‘Dismantle’ the Left After Kirk Shooting - “Trump explicitly threatened to use the state to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Kirk’s murder,” said New Republic writer Greg Sargeant.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
ProPublica

We Investigated How Oil Companies Take Millions From Mineral Owners. Now, Some Lawmakers Push for Change. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. ...
NPR's Health Shots

Millions of Americans expected to lose health coverage over the next decade - In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, 1 in 3 people already lack health insurance. That's expected to get worse as President Trump's spending cuts take ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 15 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Dog vs home intruder. The right-wing activist-fr...
Grist

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections - Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
Crooked Timber

The Peter Principle, and the unintended consequences of financial work motivation - You’ve probably heard of the “Peter principle”: that employees get promoted until they reach a job they are no longer good at. And in political philosophy,...
High Country News

Invasive fruit fly hits the Yakama Nation’s huckleberry fields - Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nati...
Portside

Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead. - Sunday Science: Happy Birthday, LIGO. Now Drop Dead. Ira Mon, 09/15/2025 - 03:20
jobsanger

Vaccines Don't Just Save Lives - They Also Save Money -
Informed Comment

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A: September 14, 2025 - The first Bourbon Talk Political Q&A since November 2024.
Popular Resistance

Super Predators, Born Criminals, And The Black Misleadership Class - There is nothing more bipartisan in the United States than a racialized crime panic. Neither Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump makes a direct ...
The Texas Signal

Checking In With Houston’s Viral Anti-Trump Sign Guy - The viral social media star known as "FunSignGuy" on TikTok has thousands of followers thanks to the signs he protests with in Northwest Houston
Antiwar.com

Albert Einstein, Palestine, and Israel Today - Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and influential scientists of all time. His theories and equations regarding time, energy, space, and gravity are...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 14, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Process knowledge is crucial to economic development Henry Farrell, Sep 02, 2025 [Programmable Mutter, via Th...
The AltWorld

How did the Doha attack depose two Israeli legends? - We recognise its downsides and risks… What are its four benefits? What do we want from the […] The post How did the Doha attack depose two Israeli legend...
Counterpunch

An Occurence in Orem: Notes on the Murder of Charlie Kirk - + Back in 2003, during peak post-9/11/Iraq War patriotic fever, when, as Dylan said of the McCarthy Era, “as long as you don’t say nothing, you can say ...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party of Arizona May Change its Name to Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona, which is ballot-qualified, is asking its members whether the party should change its name. Voting is still underway, but th...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'False Narrative' Toons - ...HELPFUL REMINDER... IN OTHER NEWS...DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always re...
See You In 2020

The USA’s terror campaign against its own people, & the anarcho-Nazi ideology that it’s using for this - The U.S. ruling class is working to normalize the kinds of violent chaos that we’ve recently been seeing, and Ukraine’s fascist movement provides the mo...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City - [image: Zohran Mamdani seen on stage at a campaign event. (Photo: Zohran Mamdani campaign)]In taking a stance against Israels' genocide in Gaza and its Zio...
Bracing Views

The End Game for Gaza - Using Old Tools of War BILL ASTORE SEP 12, 2025 I’ve taught military history “from Plato to Nato,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technolo...
TalkLeft

Bad Bunny and Open Thread - Bad Bunny, who is finishing up a two month residency in Puerto Rico where he sold out 30 shows, is about to embark on a world tour of Latin America, Eur...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is - Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. H...
Workers World

Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar - [image: Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar] The Islamic Resistance Movement–Hamas issued the following statement in response to Israel’s bombing ...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Church and State

Trump now pulls a TACO on Chicago! - This use of the crime issue to propel his authoritarian agenda certainly equates with all of his other standard approaches.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
The Grayzone

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence prov...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Krebs on Security

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions - In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materializ...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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, ...
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

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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...
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

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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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