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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

Al Jazeera English

Train slams into crane that collapsed onto railway line in Brazil - Video shows the moment a train collided with a crane that had fallen onto railway tracks in Brazil.
Raw Story

Obama roasts Trump’s gold-drenched White House with brutal Saddam Hussein comparison - Former President Barack Obama took a brutal swipe at President Donald Trump's taste in decor, and critics of the president couldn't get enough. Obama app...
Alternet

Jeanine Pirro accused of serious 'crimes' by Reflecting Pool target - D.C. Attorney General Jeanine Pirro and her office stand accused of serious "crimes" relating to their handling of the Reflecting Pool case, as laid out ...
Political Wire

Vanity Fair Told to Remove Jared Kushner Excerpt - “Chad Mizelle, an attorney representing Jared Kushner, demanded that Vanity Fair take down a recently published book excerpt alleging that President Donald...
Election Law Blog

“In Second Term, Trump’s Justice Dept. Submits to His Election Demands” - NYT: The Justice Department is sharply intensifying efforts to intervene in the midterm elections, goaded by a president unfettered by even the limited ...
Mother Jones

Voters Are Begging Trump to End the War in Iran - The US and Israel’s war on Iran, ongoing since February, has never been particularly popular. But two new polls show that as voters prepare for the Novembe...
Daily Cartoonist

Upcoming Screenings for Democracy Under Siege - A follow up to our story earlier and the mentioned in Mike’s column today – there is a free streaming screening of the Democracy Under Siege documentary Oc...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — ‘War on the West Bank’ - A convenient killing of IDF soldiers days before Israeli election; Will Iran war resume after U.S. vote? and Zelensky persists. Ray McGovern & Matthew Hoh....
memeorandum

What Happens if Trump Doesn't Like the Midterm Results? (New York Times) - New York Times: *What Happens if Trump Doesn't Like the Midterm Results?* — Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day. — We're less than two ...
The Daily Poster

AIPAC Is Spending Millions — Just Not Under Its Own Name - A Lever investigation traces how the Israel lobby is routing millions through groups promoting women, reproductive rights, and Latino candidates — and how ...
Slate

My Ex Is Encouraging My 12-Year-Old to Wear an Offensive Halloween Costume - He won't listen to reason.
Mondoweiss

Brazil’s election is a referendum on Israel, and the last hurdle for Latin America’s pro-Israel right - Brazil’s Oct. 25 presidential runoff is a referendum on Israel and the final test of Latin America’s rightward swing, with Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro offeri...
The Greanville Post

Why is China not attacking Taiwan? (Full version) - RW—I think by now, very few people disagree that Xi is someone with a keen sense of mission, whether you like his mission or not. So what’s his mission? I ...
Mediaite

Here Are All the Times Trump Has Praised His Favorite CNN Star — Despite Network Hammering Him with Cratering Polls - President Donald Trump's new favorite media star appears to be data analyst Harry Enten and he works for the unlikeliest of places: CNN. The post Here Ar...
Novara Media

The Mao Era – Catastrophe or Necessity? - No one is disputed like Mao. Was he a mass murderer, a Communist hero, a charlatan, or a great poet? The saviour of the peasants, or the man who extracted ...
Ballot Access News

Paul Schimek, Supporter of Top-Two Initiative in Massachusetts, Denigrates Minor Parties in an Op-Ed - The Commonwealth Beacon has this article by Paul Schimek in support of Massachusetts’ top-two initiative. He writes, “What about third parties? They don’t ...
Courthouse News

Protests surge through France in “Act II” of mass mobilizations - A student demonstration has snowballed into a nationwide movement, testing authorities as efforts to contain the unrest fuel fresh controversy.
OpEd News

Re: ' -Melania' s' ceasefire negotiation - If you believe that Melania Trump negotiated a cease-fire agreement in Ukraine, I have a bridge that is still for sale in Brooklyn.
Wolf Street

Treasury Market Gets to Breathe: AI Companies Front-Loaded Debt Sales and, Loaded with Massive Cash to Spend, Step Back from the Bond Market - Conniptions in the Treasury Market calm down. *Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line*, says the WOLF STREET dictum, not even the Treasury Market.
Daily Howler

GENDER: Should Shane Gillis have used that word? - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2026* *The Five pretend to speak:* Pumpkin-fueled squirrels were stuffing their faces in these environs this morning. You can'...
Salon.com

The global rise of listening bars - When was the last time you heard a whole album in one sitting?
The Militant

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CultureMap Houston

Star chef Thomas Keller feasts in Houston and more popular stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, including an exciting visit from a star chef and the closure of an ambitious l...
Futurism

Someone Ran a Chemical Analysis of Bodega Retatrutide and Dear Lord - "It does not look anything like a peptide." The post Someone Ran a Chemical Analysis of Bodega Retatrutide and Dear Lord appeared first on Futurism.
Eschaton

BiBi The Dove - I miss the old peace-loving BiBi, the one who always showed such restraint. NYT: Was that his reputation? Amazing. He long had a reputation for being ris...
Progressive.org

In Israel, Peace Is a Losing Proposition - Israelis are set to head to the polls for the first time since the genocide in Gaza began. Despite three years of violence, only a minority of citizens wan...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The World Series of the have-nots is here. But baseball’s money problem isn’t going away | Tom Dart - Baseball’s two best regular-season teams are also among its lowest spenders. But their unlikely World Series comes with a warning about the sport’s futur...
The Verge

Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunk - Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their...
WhoWhatWhy

Election 2026: How Little We Know - [image: Georgia, election workers, hand count, ballots] Hard to know what to make of an election where an honest result would be a shocking result. Electi...
Scheerpost.com

We Beat The Trump Administration In Court - Tariq Ra’ouf, Mondoweiss. Now we’re going to the ICC to hold the U.S. accountable for the Gaza genocide. A recent lawsuit successfully challenged the Trump...
Independent Political Report

Former Libertarian Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver Endorses Stephen Villee for New Hampshire Governor - Former Libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver has endorsed Stephen Villee in his second bid for governor of New Hampshire. Villee will appear on t...
Ian Welsh

Information Overlord: Skydance + Musk, Egypt + Saudi Arabia - What I Released This Week Coffee Break: Netflix Purges the C-Suite While Larry Ellison Goes Deep to Fund Skydance — Naked Capitalism, 21 Oct. Coffee Break:...
The Progressive Wing

10/24-25 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Beautiful fall weekend in the Catskills.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 19 - 23 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While the usual recent troika of stock market valuations, low initial ...
The Hill

DOJ demands California counties identify noncitizen voters: Reports - The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday sent letters to election officials in every California county asking that they identify potential noncitizens on ...
Grist

For Black voters, climate action means little without relief from rising costs - Concerns about utility bills, data centers, and pollution show why Black Americans want action from elected officials.
Axios

As Israeli election looms, Trump advisers see opportunity beyond Netanyahu - President Trump has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday's Israeli election, but some of his advisers see opportunity for his Middle East agenda in a g...
Vox

The one thing everyone can do to fight for free and fair elections - Election Day is almost here — but even after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the election won’t really be over. The vote count will t...
The Smirking Chimp

It Begins -
naked capitalism

Links 10/24/2026 -
The Root

All The Things That Make Hampton University an Iconic HBCU - Homecoming season is officially here at Hampton University. From storied traditions to timeless legacy, here’s your essential guide to the iconic HBCU. ...
Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Five EV totals: Abbott’s lamentations - Let’s all enjoy a little Greg Abbott freakout, shall we? With his political future on the line, Gov. Greg Abbott issued his darkest prediction yet for what...
Crooked Media

Bigger Tent, Bigger Majority - The post Bigger Tent, Bigger Majority appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

Is your Medicare Advantage plan ending next year? Here's what to know - Medicare open enrollment runs through Dec. 7, and for as many as 5 million seniors, it will be important to log on and pick a new plan.
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: An ode to the East Side - When Tunette Powell moved home to San Antonio, she saw many Eastsiders had been pushed to the Northeast Side. ------------------------------ Where I Live: ...
Angry Bear

Chart of the day - The post Chart of the day appeared first on Angry Bear.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 24 October 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. One week to Halloween! o o o o o Show-off. This is kind of awkward. He didn't hav...
The Week

Boozy blackcurrant & lemon verbena meringues recipe - Fruity, creamy, and perfectly delicious dessert
San Antonio Current

Trump administration can hold immigrants in ICE custody without bond, court rules - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled detained immigrants don’t have a constitutional right to a bond hearing after they enter the country illegal...
Mediagazer

Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information) - Rocket Drew / The Information: *Utopai, an AI film studio that says it has more than 20 projects in the works, raised $60M at a $1B valuation* — While ...
jobsanger

Do The Rich Stock Market Investors Care About Our Democracy? -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1646: Who Did What By When? - Episode: 1646 Thinking about who had done what by what age. Today, who did what by when?
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: My Rival - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
See You In 2020

To stop liberal opportunists from co-opting Palestine’s struggle, we must listen to the resisters themselves - Within pro-Palestine spaces, there is a growing backlash to the problem of “anti-Zionists” who seek to protect perceived Jewish innocence. As I’ve talked...
Informed Comment

Nazis used to make fun of Jewish Names, just as Trump makes fun of Ilhan Omar’s - Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist and district leader of Berlin, taunted him as "Isidore Weiss."
World Socialist Web Site

The global rebellion of youth and workers and the war frenzy of the ruling class - The crisis that drives the bourgeoisie to war is drawing ever broader sections of the working class into struggle on a world scale.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | October 23, 2026 barry Fri, 10/23/2026 - 23:35
Deadline Politics

Karoline Leavitt Compares Katie Zacharia’s Abrupt Exit As Trump’s Press Secretary To ‘The Apprentice’: “He’s Known For … Moving On From People” - Karoline Leavitt appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday and was questioned about the short stint of her successor as Donald Trump’s White Ho...
Workers World

Pax Silica: War profiteering enters the age of AI - [image: Pax Silica: War profiteering enters the age of AI] War is the most profitable product U.S. capitalism produces. The profits are guaranteed. Philipp...
Techdirt.

Police In Guinea-Bissau Raid Offices Of Danish Anti-Vaxxers Planning CDC-Funded Unethical Study - In all of our coverage of the disastrous tenure RFK Jr. has had as Secretary of HHS, we have not yet discussed a bonkers study the CDC planned to fund in G...
Claytoonz

Champion of Pedos - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 11 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
IVN

7 Independent Campaigns to Watch in the Final Days of the Midterms - With Election Day two weeks away, seven independent campaigns for Senate and House seats are at critical moments. From Nebraska to Alaska to Montana, races...
Popular Resistance

The World Order Beyond Polarity - For three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a constant stream of publications and news reports told us that the world had acquired a single...
Lowering the Bar

Flamingo Stealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty - [image: flamingo and idiots in hotel hallway]Happily, Peachy the Flamingo has fully recovered from the ordeal.
slacktivist

LBCF: Body and Soul - Jerry B. Jenkins sat at a computer and typed these words: “Let me give you an idea how a woman thinks.” And then, alas, he kept writing.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DADDY ISSUES EDITION. - *I forgot they were good right to the end.* Getting close to zero hour, so Tubby and his goons are trying to fuck with the election. For example, he was ...
Undernews

Heat killed 50,000 Europeans - *The Guardian - *Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for ...
Glasstire

Review: Sanctuaries, Fortresses, and Spawning Grounds: The Works of Beverly Buchanan and Dionne Lee - “As they become known and accepted to ourselves, our feelings, and the honest exploration of them, become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Mobile internet tariffs in Iran rise by 40% - In its annual Freedom on the Net 2026 report, U.S.-based nonprofit Freedom House gave Iran just 9 points out of 100, placing it alongside China and Myanmar...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
The Texas Signal

Joaquin Soto Turns Twisted Metal Into Gods - The preoccupation with surviving trauma permeates most of Juan Soto’s work. He combs through junkyards looking for old cars that have the donor materials h...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

'Let the Record Show' Tells a Story of the Queer Black Attorney Who Laid the Foundation for Racial and Gender Rights - In a 1965 case to combat racial and gender discrimination in jury selection, Pauli Murray’s imaginative and visionary legal theory shows how pushing the bo...
Texas Standard

Texas youth prison director resigns following controversial multiday lockdown - Shandra Carter’s sudden departure comes weeks after KERA and The Texas Newsroom revealed the disturbing effects of an unprecedented lockdown across the age...
The Grayzone

Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack - The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located o...
Church and State

Please pay attention to this scientists’ warning - The second Warning listed changes that we need to make, including “…stabilizing and gradually reducing the population.”
Capital & Main

In Medicaid-Dependent Central Valley, Cuts Pose Political Risk for Six-Term Congressman - Rep. David Valadao voted to slash Medicaid, giving Democratic challenger Randy Villegas an opening as voters focus on affordability and health care acces...
Alas, a Blog

Nobody In Israel Said That! - Sources for all quotes used in the cartoon are at the end of this post. In a TV appearance in April 2024, Israeli-American journalist and pundit Emily Schr...
ProPublica

After Millions in Stolen SNAP Benefits, Trump Administration Moves to Fight Theft - The post After Millions in Stolen SNAP Benefits, Trump Administration Moves to Fight Theft appeared first on ProPublica.
Duck of Minerva

Proxy Patrimonialism and the Path to Pre-modernity - Patrimonialism has been making a comeback recently as a framework for interpreting Trumpian governance. Kopstein and Rauch set out masterful dissections o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

At Last, We Arrive: The French and Albanian Protests and the Revolt of the People - We’ve entered a chapter of this crisis that many of us expected
SCOTUSblog

The Ten Commandments, classroom walls, and the establishment clause - *Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its s...
Dissent Magazine

A Dream of John Berger - On what would have been his hundredth birthday, the writer, documentarian and art critic John Berger is more celebrated than ever. What is it about his w...
El Paso Matters

YISD renames César Chávez Academy, SISD draws 400-plus applicants for virtual school pilot - This week: Ysleta ISD renames César Chávez Academy, Socorro ISD draws hundreds of virtual school applicants, Trump issues Texas endorsements and UTEP re...
Rewire

Missouri Voters to Weigh in on Anti-Abortion Ballot Measure - Plus, a Planned Parenthood affiliate's staff sued over alleged retaliation, and the Supreme Court deals a blow to the Trump administration's anti-trans age...
Democracy Now!

"Dying in Detention": Al Jazeera Investigates Immigrant Deaths in California's Adelanto ICE Jail - At least 59 people have died in ICE custody since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the highest number in more than a decade. Many deaths ...
Rallblog

Rise of the Left | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: • Youth protests erupt in Albania, torching buildings and clashing with police over corruption and a Ku...
Texas Observer

Black Texans Built More than 400 Schools When the State Would Not - In 1921, the Black families of Hill Prairie, in Bastrop County, built a two-teacher schoolhouse. The Rosenwald Fund in Chicago sent $800—equivalent to $1...
Dorf on Law

Postcard From Koyasan--and a Thought on Jewish Cultural Identity - Because I am not teaching this semester, I tacked an extra week onto my fall break and have spent the last week and a half in Japan--partly touring in To...
Debunking Christianity

Would Alien Visitors Assume that Humans Are Gullible and Superstitious? - *If they listen to the clergy they certainly would!* I have this fantasy about aliens arriving on earth, looking around carefully, and being baffled by s...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Trump’s one-man war against Washington - Donald Trump has done many things this month that deserve condemnation: from abandoning Ukraine and making deals with Vladimir Putin, to running self-promo...
The Conversation

Fear-based campaign ads can grab attention, but whether they win votes is less clear - Political campaigns often use fear to play on voters’ existing prejudices and stereotypes. What that means for your vote is less predictable.
Space City Weather

Suntober continues for a bit longer, along with a bit more humidity - In brief: Drought continues to expand across the Houston area with continued sunshine. More of that to come, but we are watching some potential for rain by...
Two Party Opera

Global Conflict - Read More
High Country News

AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry - ChatGPT and other chatbots are the latest new technology to lead to wilderness rescues. The post AI gets people into trouble in the backcountry appeared...
Common Dreams

Being There: Are These People In the Room With Us? - These truly-through-the-looking-glass days, it seems the drunk uncle you really didn't wanna ask to dinner is getting worse. Scarily and no longer mirthf...
The AltWorld

The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Preparing Another Iran Attack, And Other Notes - Well, it looks like they’re going to attack Iran again. Might be after the US midterms. Might […] The post The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Preparing An...
Brad Blog

Polling, Vote Flipping, Mail Ballot Rejections, Trump’s DOJ and Other Late Threats to the Midterms: ‘BradCast’ 10/22/2026 - We promised months ago on The BradCast that there would be plenty of bumps in the road between then and this year’s critical midterm elections. But, as lon...
Socialist Alternative

India’s Youth Revolt Again - A wave of massive youth protests has rocked India in recent weeks, confronting the right-wing Narendra Modi regime with potentially its most significant po...
Antiwar.com

Our Failed Constitution - “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/23/2026 - 04:13 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

EU Flag, Revised, no. 2 - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb …Governments do not launch wars simply because they confront domestic unrest. The fundamental causes of imper...
The NM Political Report

Okpareke’s ads don’t add up on her federal campaign finance report - [image: Didi Okpareke, a Rio Rancho pharmacist, is the Republican nominee for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District. (Courtesy of the Okpareke campaign)]...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 22, 2026* *The newly released U.S...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority - Moves in Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, and Oklahoma The post The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority ap...
DeSmogBlog

In Pictures: ‘Armageddon’ at Europe’s Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution - A version of this article was published in Euronews and Climatica Across Brittany, tractors can be seen trundling onto beaches to remove truckloads of fo...
Land Destroyer

US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands - *September 29, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - For decades, the US has leveraged its many client states as extensions of its own military, economic, finan...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Bracing Views

What Does America Value? - War and Weapons, or Schools and Hospitals? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2026 The one quote I know from Joe Biden is show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you v...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

#MAGAInYourBathroom ad blister Republicans for 'creepy' focus on trans people and public bathrooms - From *LGBTQNation: * The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young ...
Sludge

The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech - Helen Milby raises money for the New Democrats, runs a nonprofit connecting tech executives with Congress, and advises the industry-backed Chamber of Progr...
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Liberation News

The Midterm Curse Proves the Two-Party System is a Dead End - The growing desire across the country to defeat Trump and his billionaire agenda is righteous. But what will a “blue wave” in the midterm elections actuall...
Ecosophia

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited - Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits a...
MintPress News

Iran Destroys U.S. Strike Plan As Yemen Acquires Khaibar Shekan Missiles To Strike Israel - Iran’s IRGC have implemented an intensive strike strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, changing the nature of their conflict with the United States, while wo...
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
Earthworks

Hearings Spotlight Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America - Representatives from six communities dealing with the impacts of Canadian mining projects in Latin America will testify in a hearing held by the Inter-Am...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Invitation to My Sentencing Hearing - On Monday, October 26, I will return to the court where I was originally acquitted to be sentenced for a crime I didn’t commit. The public and press are co...
NORML

Poll: Candidates’ Views on Cannabis Policy Will Play a Role in Voters’ Decisions This November - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Seeing the Forest

Oligarchs Are Using Social Media To Destabilize Democracies - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Social media and other information o...
Crooked Timber

Turns out the Melbourne Mint was about Gold for India - Last week I was in the Public Records of Victoria (PROV) looking at records of the Melbourne mint. My substack about the Sydney mint by rights should come ...
Project Censored

A Spotlight on School Book Bans - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They dis...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I - From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you coul...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
Field Negro

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save AM radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Gov. Abbott directs TCEQ to halt data center permits - The post STATEMENT: Gov. Abbott directs TCEQ to halt data center permits appeared first on Environment Texas.
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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....
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...
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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