Brains and Eggs: "The Replacements" Funnies

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

‘This Is Monumental’: Legal Experts Weigh in on Shocking Diddy Verdict - Legal experts reacted to news of Sean "Diddy" Combs's verdict on Wednesday by mostly chalking it up to a major win for the rapper. The post ‘This Is Monu...
Raw Story

House Dems expose GOP members are missing in action for key vote: report - House Democrats revealed a big problem for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday morning: he has temporarily lost his majority. The very narrow sprea...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Discord Server? (Four Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for July 2, 2025.
Glasstire

Interview: Hung Hsien on Her 70-Year Art Career - Hung Hsien is a living legend in Houston. A member of the renowned Fifth Moon Group with work in the collections of the Smithsonian and the University of...
San Antonio Current

Inside Elon Musk’s stellar year at the Texas Capitol - This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica as part of an initiative to report on how power is wielded in Texas. Also, sign up for...
Daily Howler

ARRIVALS: When Noem told Watters a very strange tale... - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025* *...no one said a word:* Arrivals of the type under review have occurred all through human history. As Professor Knox describe...
The Hill

20 states sue over Medicaid data release to ICE officials - A coalition of 20 Democrat-led states is suing the Trump administration for sharing Medicaid data with immigration officials, arguing it violates privacy p...
Dissident Voice

Reclaiming the Forgotten: Our Elders, Our Planet - This Earth Day reflection urges us to confront two intertwined truths we too often ignore: our relationship to the environment and our treatment of the e...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs guilty on two charges but acquitted on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges – live updates - Combs was found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution, related to Casandra Ventura and ‘Jane’ The foreperson will now read the verdict. The...
CultureMap Houston

Victory Houston’s lavish Parisian bash brings in $1.8 million - Paris, anyone? Bien sûr que oui!
memeorandum

Libertarians seek partnership with Elon Musk (Andrew Howard/Politico) - Andrew Howard / Politico: *Libertarians seek partnership with Elon Musk* … “Once the capital is there, the doors get blown wide open,” Nekhaila said. — ...
Eschaton

Positive Steps - Someone sees which way the wind is blowing. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) apologized to New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Monda...
Bonddad

JOLTS survey for May still consistent with “soft landing” scenario - - *by New Deal democrat* As promised, let me parse the JOLTS survey for May, which was reported yesterday. As a quick refresher, this survey deco...
The Verge

ICE-tracking app tops App Store - ICEBlock, an app that lets users anonymously report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, has soared up App Store charts after ...
The Week

Evita: 'TikTok musical theatre' or 'total triumph'? - Rachel Zegler dazzles in Jamie Lloyd's 'radically reconceived' revival – but the plot is difficult to follow
NORML

Nebraska: Regulators Enact Emergency Rules Repealing Patients’ Access to Botanical Cannabis - [image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves][image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves]"The Commission...
Al Jazeera English

Japanese activist pledges to continue daily Gaza protests - Japanese activist Yusuke Furusawa has been protesting alone against the Gaza genocide for more than 600 days.
naked capitalism

The Rule of Law Is Key to Capitalism − Eroding It Is Bad News for American Business - It is a sad sign of the extent of libertarian propaganda that an apple-pie-and-motherhood issue like the rule of law needs defending.
Undernews

Polling - *SurveyUSA **exit poll** on NYC voters’ attitudes toward RCV:* - 96% of voters found their RCV ballot simple to complete. - New York voters contin...
Environment Texas

What’s happening with high-speed rail in Texas - Federal funding cut, but project developers press ahead The post What’s happening with high-speed rail in Texas appeared first on Environment Texas.
Political Wire

Iran Suspends Cooperation With U.N. Nuclear Watchdog - New York Times: “The decision means that international inspectors will not be able to oversee sites, as experts warn that Tehran could revive plans to buil...
Mediagazer

George Cheeks addresses Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement, saying companies often settle to avoid "the high and somewhat unpredictable cost of legal defense" (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *George Cheeks addresses Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement, saying companies often settle to avoid “the high and somewhat unp...
NPR's Health Shots

Wisconsin's 1849 law does not ban abortion, the state Supreme Court rules - After years of litigation following the *Dobbs* decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, with their liberal majority, ruled that the state's 176-yea...
Mother Jones

Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII - In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, glanced at his phone and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He’d been inadvertently included ...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Profiting From Genocide - Chris Hedges breaks down a damning new UN report by Francesca Albanese exposing how tech giants, arms manufacturers, banks, and universities are profitin...
Daily Dot

Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary revives story of how “Mansfield Bars” on semi-trucks came to be - [image: mariska hargitay next to a video still of her mother jayne mansfield - mansfield bars] More than five decades after *Jayne Mansfield’s* tragic de...
Second Nexus

Things People Initially Found Attractive About Their Partner That Now Annoy Them - Being in a relationship can be wonderful, but it's not without its ups and downs. In order for it to work, we have to allow it to grow and change over t...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Celebrate the Fourth with fireworks, music, parades, more - Plan your week with fireworks, concerts, parades and cultural happenings — including the Tejano Music Festival, Cool Canyon Nights and FC Juárez Bravos ...
Houston Public Media

9-year-old girl dies after being left unattended inside hot car in Galena Park, sheriff says - The mother of the child was working at a complex in the area and allegedly left the child unattended inside of the car for most of the day with water and t...
Daily Cartoonist

2025 Rex Babin Memorial Award Call For Entries - The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) has opened the window for submissions to compete for The 2025 Rex Babin Memorial Award for Excelle...
Futurism

Apple's AI Research Has Failed So Spectacularly That It's Considering Just Letting OpenAI Power Siri - For the past few months, Apple has been mired in a tangled legal web of its own making. When the tech giant released the iPhone 16 back in September of 2...
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s executive order: Work on new voting system guidelines is already in motion” - From Vote Beat: Several provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order on elections have run into obstacles in court. But others are quietly movi...
World Socialist Web Site

Starmer thrown a lifeline by collapse of Labour rebellion as his gutted welfare reform bill passes - The figures of yesterday’s parliamentary vote on the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments Bill speak to two things: the weakness of Keir Sta...
Rio Grande Guardian

Reyna: Federal funding cuts could lead to poverty going back up in the RGV - In a podcast with the Rio Grande Guardian, Mario Reyna spoke about poverty, federal funding cuts, manufacturing clusters, RioPlex, and The PossAble Dream...
First Draft

Pour One Out For America - We had a good run.
Texas Observer

How Republicans Are Willfully Endangering Immigrant Kids - Trudy Taylor Smith is senior administrator of policy and advocacy with Children’s Defense Fund-Texas. I want you to imagine a toddler appearing in court ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, July 2 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: The post The mornin...
The Conversation

What damage did the US do to Iran’s nuclear program? Why it’s so hard to know - A scholar of intelligence and strategy explains why battle damage assessments are so challenging – and why the process has become politicized.
Deadline Politics

Paramount Global Blasted For Settling Donald Trump’s ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit: “Threatens Journalists’ Ability To Do Their Job,” WGAE Says - Paramount Global is already facing sharp criticism over its decision to settle Donald Trump’s lawsuit over the way that CBS’ 60 Minutes edited an interview...
Vox

The One Big Beautiful Bill is one big disaster for AI - To hear many smart AI observers tell it, the day of Wednesday, June 25, 2025, represented the moment when Congress started to take the possibility of advan...
Techdirt.

Ted Cruz’s Dumb Plan To Punish States That Regulate AI By Withholding Broadband Grants Falls Apart - While the GOP budget bill continues to include no limit of corrupt garbage that will kill millions of Americans (the cuts to Medicaid and rural hospitals b...
Scheerpost.com

Iran Damaged 33,000 Structures in Israel - “The Israel Tax Authority has received applications for financial assistance for nearly 33,000 damaged structures,” reports the Israeli daily Haaretz.
Space City Weather

A little dust, a few sporadic showers, but mostly Houston’s forecast will bring sunshine and summer-like heat - In brief: Houston’s weather will largely deliver sunshine and humidity through the holiday weekend, although we cannot entirely rule out a few sporadic sho...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 172: “Decoding Coolness” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Today, on “The TMI Show” with hosts Ted Rall with Robby West filling in for Manila Chan, we’re identifying th...
ArcaMax

The Fourth of July: A Bittersweet Birthday - America's 249th birthday Friday will be no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, 1863, after the Union Army wh...
OpEd News

Joie De Vivre (With One Eye on the Lookout for Panel Vans) - Review of a wonderful read about the fragility and temporality of life.
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 2 July 2025 -
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-07-02 -
Axios

Trump immigration crackdown ripples through economy - Data: Oxford Economics/Cato Institute/Deportation Data Project/CBO/DHS/TRAC. Chart: Axios Visuals President Trump's immigration crackdown is hitting key po...
Dorf on Law

The Most Partisan Court - In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democrat) took to the most important media form of the day (radio) to castigate the Supreme Court for blo...
ProPublica

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back. - by Anna Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
Skeptophilia

Mystic mountain - The brilliant composer Alan Hovhaness's haunting second symphony is called *Mysterious Mountain* -- named, he said, because "mountains are symbols, like p...
Off The Kuff

Allred 2.0 launches - He’s back. Democrat Colin Allred launched his campaign for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, making a second run at the upper chamber after failing to unseat U.S. Se...
San Antonio Report

As property values lag, San Antonio mulls raising tax rate for first time in decades - For the average home within city limits, the change would cost the homeowner an extra $57 to $67 on their annual property tax bill. ------------------------...
Angry Bear

We are led by fools - RFK Jr. has appointed a clown car to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). And it shows: “If observers were waiting for a moment...
American Prospect

Is the Republican Party a Chinese Communist Conspiracy? - The Senate GOP just voted to destroy the economies of their own districts and hand 21st century industry to a foreign adversary.
Grist

As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof. - A new report documents how cities around the world are becoming more liveable and sustainable in the face of climate change.
The Root

A Look at How Jay-Z Became The Best Dressed Rapper Alive - A look at how the "Best Dressed Rapper Alive" leveled up in fashion. Read more...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the drone that wasn't - Keep this in mind next time you see some gaga MSM story about some amazing alleged technological breakthrough in China. It is wisest to assume any such c...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Peace Prize Pipe Dream - The post Trump’s Peace Prize Pipe Dream appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The One Big Beautiful Effort to Confuse the Public and Privatize Immigration Enforcement - When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, PBS's Amna Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of wheth...
Consortium News

Iran Damaged 33,000 Structures in Israel - “The Israel Tax Authority has received applications for financial assistance for nearly 33,000 damaged structures,” reports the Israeli daily Haaretz. By J...
jobsanger

A Culture Of Disdain For Lower Courts -
Informed Comment

Misreading and Misrepresenting Iran - Eau Clare, Wi. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – On Friday, June 13th, Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear, military, and civilian targets, j...
Wolf Street

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.1% in June, Worse than Financial Crisis Meltdown Peak, after 3-Month Relapse - A Los Angeles tower, FEMA headquarters in Washington, 100-year-old tower in Manhattan join list; some delinquent loans were “cured,” including by transfer ...
Nina Illingworth

Knives Out: The Roberts Court Coronates Trump - At the end of June, the Supreme Court locked the US Constitution behind a paywall and signaled its intentions to let Trump rule as a fascist dictator. The...
Popular Resistance

‘Have Some Blood! You Like Shedding It All Over The World So Much’ - Mike Ferner, of Veterans For Peace, threw blood at the US mission to the UN today: “Here, United States, have some blood! You like shedding it all over t...
The AltWorld

Israel Supporters Are Exhausting, Insufferable Narcissists: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - My God Israel supporters are exhausting. I’ve never gotten used to it. “Wahh, Zohran Mamdani wants to […] The post Israel Supporters Are Exhausting, Insu...
Alternet

Republicans plan to install election deniers in major swing state's two bluest counties - Republicans in Georgia are taking steps to position election deniers in key oversight roles within Fulton and DeKalb counties, two of the state’s most De...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Eye of the Wave - This is a pleat-based model that I made in 2020. You can see some other examples of pleat-based models here and here. This is made with 64×64 divisions. ...
Workers World

Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know - [image: Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know] To say that Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic Party primary for mayor of New York City o...
Antiwar.com

The US Empire’s 72-Year War on Iran - The likely temporary Israel-Iran ceasefire notwithstanding, if you need proof of how despicable Donald Trump is, consider this: When asked last week if he ...
DeSmogBlog

Who’s the Fossil Fuel-Backed “Philosopher” Shaping Trump’s Megabill Clean Energy Cuts? - After Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) denounced the law once known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” largely over its proposed Medicaid cuts, which he said would t...
Portside

Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands of Progressive Politics - Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands of Progressive Politics Judy Tue, 07/01/2025 - 19:03
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Tours Everglades Auschwitz; Top MAGA Brass Revels in Its Own Cruelty - [image: Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Everglades Auschwitz] Republicans are loving "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention camp that reflects how they feel about im...
Independent Political Report

Elon Musk Threatens to Launch “America Party” Over Spending Bill - Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk floated the possibility of launching a new political party this week in response to the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a proposed fede...
Ballot Access News

New York City Board of Elections Posts Unofficial Results for 2025 Primaries for City Office - On July 1, the New York City Board of Elections posted the unofficial election results for the city office primaries of June 24. See here. … Continue readi...
TalkLeft

The Big Bad Bill Passes Senate - Only in Trump’s alternate reality version of America would Congress pass a bill where money is taken from the poor to pay the taxes of the rich If I were...
Texas Standard

Waco Surf draws surfers from all over the world to Central Texas - The park utilizes air pressure technology to create the perfect waves each time.
The NM Political Report

Landmark New Mexico oil pollution lawsuit appealed to state Supreme Court - A coalition of Indigenous, frontline, youth and environmental organizations, alongside community members, appealed to the New Mexico Supreme Court Tuesda...
Debunking Christianity

Wall Street Journal on AI - There is hope!?
Progressive.org

Keep Them On The Shelf - An interview with author Ira Wells on the fight against book banning.
The Progressive Wing

7/1-7/6 4th of July week Open Thread - Summer underway…plenty of news after the jump.
Church and State

As Historic Heatwave Grips Europe, Coalition Says ‘No to a Climate Law for Polluters’ - Croatia, France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are among the countries where near or record-high temperatures have been recorded.
Reform Austin

Texas School Districts Welcome New Funding, But Budget Gaps Persist - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Texas school districts prepare for the 2025–26 academic year, many are seeing a financial bo...
Mondoweiss

The biggest loser besides Cuomo in the NY mayoral race was The New York Times - [image: New York Times headquarters (Photo: Flickr/Jason Kuffer)]The New York Times completely failed in its effort to upend Zohran Mamdani. They are unabl...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | REMEMBRANCE | Honoring the Lives of Bernice Hecker and Jere Locke, Austin Peace and Justice Activists - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / July 1, 2025 Two remarkable advocates for peace and justice in Austin, Texas, have passed on. In 2014, I posted to The Rag...
Discourse

I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Shouldn't Buy Concentration Camp Merch - What kind of person buys an "Alligator Alcatraz" beer coozie?
slacktivist

Stop, collaborate, and listen - The lawless wickedness of ICE appeals to the lawless and to the wicked. But not to anyone else.
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Rewire

Supreme Court Weakens Medicaid and ACA: ‘Hard to Overstate the Damage’ - Analysis: Two June 2025 rulings involving Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act “contain the architecture” to dismantle America’s already fragil...
The Grayzone

Spying on Iran: How MI6 infiltrated the IAEA - Leaked confidential files indicate the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a veteran British spy who has claimed credit for sanctions o...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Ian Welsh

Verdun Then and Now - [image: Verdun Then and Now] Thirty-one years ago on my first trip overseas I visited Verdun in France. Specifically to see the battlefield of Verdun, whe...
The Daily Poster

Why Is Trump Rushing To Pass The Tax Cut Bill? - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro explains what Republicans don’t want you to know about their legislation — and how it “screws over the people who voted for ...
Claytoonz

Alligator Alcatraz - 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...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's A Robbery: Fascism as a Means for Plundering - Authoritarianism isn't just an ideology or political project. It's also an avenue for stealing your money
Salon.com

Everyone in America is a Marnie now - From "Girls" to "M3GAN," Allison Williams' roles have chronicled our culture's growing self-obsession
Common Dreams

Oxfam reaction to Spain, Brazil and South Africa launching a new coalition to tax the super-rich - In response to Spain, Brazil and South Africa’s new global coalition to tax the super-rich, launched today at the Fourth Financing for Development Confer...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Bracing Views

Remember When the Balanced Budget Amendment Was A Thing? - $37 Trillion in Debt and Counting BILL ASTORE JUN 30, 2025 With the U.S. national debt sitting at $37 trillion, it’s hard to imagine a time when Congress a...
Democracy Now!

"Damaging and Deadly" Heat Domes Nearly Tripled, from Europe to the U.S.: Climatologist Michael Mann - A heat wave is raising temperatures to dangerous levels across much of Europe, just days after a heat wave in North America saw over 3,000 temperature reco...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
High Country News

Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community - [image: View of the Phoenix skyline from Laveen, Arizona.] Climate change is creating a mental health crisis in Phoenix. A budding movement in the desert ...
Earth 911

Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions - Across the United States, people are already used to thinking of wildfires as seasonal rather... The post Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions appeared ...
See You In 2020

How liberal Zionists spread the “Israel created Hamas” narrative, & used it to undermine the pro-Palestine movement - *This is from a book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the Pro-Palestine Movement Failed to Stop a Holocaust, & How it ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Fund the Future: Support Academia Cuauhtli’s Growth at the ESB-MACC - *Friends,* *We are gathering signatures to show broad community support for continued funding—and future expansion—of Academia Cuauhtli, our beloved Satu...
ROAR Magazine

Wat zeggen Belgische gokfora over de ervaringen met Wolfy bonussen - Wat zeggen Belgische gokfora over de ervaringen met Wolfy bonussen Table of Contents De populariteit van Wolfy bonussen in België Klantenervaringen met Wol...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

CBS News - the Trump Administration is playing 'divide and conquer' strategy against LGBTQ community - During his first term, Donald Trump pretended to like the LGBTQ community. During this, his second term, he's not bothering to play the game. Instead, ac...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Frédéric Bastiat Was Right About "Legal Plunder" & It's Much Worse Now! - Frédéric Bastiat is probably most famous for a quote that makes the rounds occasionally on Social Media "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group ...
Sludge

Trump Flip-Flopped on U.S. Steel Deal After Lobbying Blitz by His Top Bundlers - Despite repeatedly saying he opposed Nippon Steel's takeover of U.S. Steel, President Trump reversed his stance following pressure from lobbyists who raise...
The Greanville Post

Michael Hudson: War on Iran is fight for US unipolar control of world - MICHAEL HUDSON—What is at stake is the U.S. attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of U.S. economic power, and to prevent other count...
Project Censored

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards - Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Bacon and Carolina BBQ: Breaking Down Two Key Republican Retirements - In NE-2, Rep. Don Bacon's (R) retirement pushes the seat to Leans Democratic, while North Carolina's Senate race remains a Toss-up without Sen. Thom Till...
Krebs on Security

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contac...
Capital & Main

Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids Intensify - Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny. The post Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids I...
Crooked Timber

The end of US democracy - I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Tru...
Liberation News

Trump’s budget bill: A huge gift to billionaires - There is a mad rush on the part of the GOP and Trump to get the misnamed “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Total Obliteration' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly...
Socialist Alternative

Workers Organize To Escalate The Fight Against Trump At Union Members Against ICE Meeting - Micaela is a co-president of GEO (AFT) Local 6297 in Chicago. On June 22, Socialist Alternative held a national organizing meeting to discuss how the labor...
Lowering the Bar

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases - [image: beaver release]An "underground network" of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION. - *If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right.* Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution. I thought any de...
The Militant

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast! - Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party Working people the...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Earthworks

Nickel waste floods homes in Indonesia, sparking protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel waste floods homes in ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Bud Kennedy

A year in jail for a THC snack? Texans are unhappy with Republicans | Opinion - Texans are sick of our elected officials. But probably not sick enough to get rid of any of them. We don’t like any of our state leaders, according to a … ...
Ecosophia

June 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
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...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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