Brains and Eggs: Sunday "Participating in Democracy" 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

Bonddad

Repeat home sales through April confirm housing market is well on its way to rebalancing - -* by New Deal democrat* Yesterday the existing home sales report showed continued deceleration in YoY price increases to 1.3%, along with an increa...
The Verge

Nintendo’s wheelchair basketball game will be out in August - Drag x Drive is the next Switch 2 exclusive to get a release date. Nintendo, via its Nintendo Today news app, announced that the 3 v 3 wheelchair basketbal...
Al Jazeera English

How much have US wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan cost? - More than 20 years of US wars have directly killed an estimated 940,000 people and cost the US $5.8 trillion.
The Hill

Trump rips CNN, MSNBC on White House lawn: 'Scum' - President Trump on Tuesday tore into mainstream media outlets he says have covered the U.S. military's strike on Iran over the weekend inaccurately and unf...
Raw Story

This longtime Republican was always wrong — until now - Update: I’m told that the following message, which I received earlier today, purporting to be from Liz Cheney, is a hoax. She didn’t send it. It’s an exc...
Daily Howler

THE PLAYERS: He says that he said, "Don't go in!" - *TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025* *Except he didn't say that:* Last Friday, in Morristown, New Jersey, there he went again! Almost surely, the decision to bomb I...
OpEd News

Why We Urgently Need a Progressive Policy Infrastructure - The right created a policy promotion infrastructure over 50 years ago. The left still has not created one. It must be done now, with urgency.
Courthouse News

Sidebar: Obergefell, 10 years later - It’s been 10 years since a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage in the landmark case Obergefell v. Hodges, but a fresh...
memeorandum

Parents rally, LGBTQ+ groups push back on online child safety bill (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - Will Oremus / Washington Post: *Parents rally, LGBTQ+ groups push back on online child safety bill* — The Washington Post's essential guide to tech pol...
Daily Dot

Women are defending their boyfriends’ niche hobbies like their lives depend on it in aggressively wholesome TikTok trend - [image: 3 panel: Left: Woman threatening camera under caption reading "My husband wants to show you some of his Pokemon cards collection. You BETTER be n...
Eschaton

God Bless Iran - A funny thing for a US president to say. I spent my whole life assuming I'd be arrested for saying such a thing (not quite, but...). (this was earlier, obv...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump swears in outburst at Israel and Iran over ceasefire violations – video - Donald Trump said that Israel had to 'calm down' after it and Iran violated a ceasefire he tried to broker. 'Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they ca...
naked capitalism

Downgrading Uncle Sam, Not America - An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies' approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
San Antonio Current

San Antonio officials say local film industry poised to expand due to new state subsidies - City officials said San Antonio could be poised to attract more TV and movie productions after Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday signed Senate Bill 22, which ope...
Mediaite

CNN’s Harry Enten Dunks on Tucker Carlson After Revealing MAGA Loves Trump’s Iran Strike: ‘He Doesn’t Speak for the Majority’ - Harry Enten argued MAGA voters made it clear that Tucker Carlson does not speak for the majority of them by approving of Donald Trump's Iran strikes. The...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Waco adult education program faces budget uncertainty under DOGE cuts - President Donald Trump’s massive proposed budget cuts and executive order targeting the Department of Education are putting pressure on adult learning prog...
Glasstire

Book Review: “Border Documents” by Arturo Soto - The U.S.-Mexico border has been a site of great tension and controversy for a long time. Often characterized as a place of random violence, drug traffick...
El Paso Matters

Equity audit finds EPISD has work to do on disparities despite strides, Familias Unidas questions report’s ‘fidelity’ - Once completed, the consortium conducting the audit will develop an improvement plan that offers recommendations on how EPISD can address equity gaps. ...
Houston Public Media

Sen. Joan Huffman joins GOP field vying to succeed Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general - In her announcement, Huffman framed herself as the most experienced candidate, pointing to her time as a prosecutor, judge and chair of key Senate committees.
Second Nexus

MTG Goes Off On Trump Over Iran Attack—And Warns Of What Could Happen Next - Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized President Donald Trump in a lengthy post on X following his unilateral decision to bo...
The Week

Sex, drugs and a royal ruckus: the US play with a future gay Prince George - The controversial off-Broadway show is a hit with audiences in New York
Futurism

AI Is Turbocharging Global Inequality - As the AI race shows no signs of slowing down, it's clear which countries started in pole position — and are poised to hold onto their lead. A new techn...
First Draft

Consider The Bigot (Pride Edition) - Inconvenient truths regarding anti-trans asshats.
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, June 24 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Coming up: On Thursda...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 166: “Will NYC Go Socialist?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Listeners of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your boredom! Today on “The TMI Show with Ted Ral...
Election Law Blog

The Supreme Court, The Political Parties, and the SuperPacs - This post is co-written with Bob Bauer, who among other roles, served as former General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee: Later this week, th...
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 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Pharr EDC wins a TEDC Workforce Excellence Award - Pharr Economic Development Corporation won the award for launching a high-impact workforce initiative designed to address the critical shortage of health...
The Conversation

Supreme Court rules Trump can rapidly deport immigrants to Libya, South Sudan and other countries they aren’t from - A federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained ...
Axios

Trump successfully pressures Israel to scale back retaliation strike in Iran - Under pressure from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu significantly scaled back planned retaliation against Iran's violation of ...
ArcaMax

No Sense of Decency: Donald Trump Unwraps a Changed America - In his book on America's hitherto most accomplished demagogue, "No Sense of Decency," journalist Robert Shogan concluded that the principal reason America'...
Political Wire

The NYC Mayoral Race Isn’t Over Today - Playbook: “Even if they lose today, Cuomo and Mamdani could still choose to run in November, either as independents or with third parties. Yes, that means ...
Mediagazer

German court overturns a ban on far-right magazine Compact, accused of inciting hatred against Jews and foreigners, saying it wasn't extreme enough to be banned (Thomas Escritt/Reuters) - Thomas Escritt / Reuters: *German court overturns a ban on far-right magazine Compact, accused of inciting hatred against Jews and foreigners, saying it w...
Techdirt.

CBS Execs Have Second Thoughts About Paying Trump Bribe Money After California Threatens Bribery Inquiry - When last we checked it with the feckless execs at CBS/Paramount, they were preparing to pay Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars to settle a completel...
Mother Jones

New York City’s Mayoral Election Is About Way More Than One City - Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. A few days after the 2024 election, Zohran Mamdani filmed the first vide...
Space City Weather

Houston faces a healthy chance of showers today and Wednesday, but nothing too serious - In brief: Showers and thunderstorms are likely across the greater Houston region today, starting near the coast and spreading inland, and Wednesday. We don...
Deadline Politics

Trump Rages At Ongoing Israel-Iran Hostilities Live On TV: “They Don’t Know What The F*** They’re Doing” - Donald Trump did little to hide his anger at continued hostilities between Israel and Iran on Tuesday, censuring the nations in expletive-embellished remar...
The Daily Poster

The Headmaster Of The AI Apocalypse - Backed by tech money and Donald Trump’s executive orders, MacKenzie Price is out to replace teachers everywhere with AI.
Vox

How summer camp became an American obsession - Summer camp. It’s where kids go every year to make friends, find their long-lost twin, or even evade a slasher wreaking havoc on the campers and counselors...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Death, Guilt and Other Funny Stuff - How funny is death? Well, the closer it comes the less I fret over it. I’m pretty healthy, but I’m in the home stretch and while I expect another decade, n...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Air Pollution Impacts Conumers Need to Know About Companies - With the rise of modern technologies and growing carbon emissions, air quality has become a... The post Guest Idea: Air Pollution Impacts Conumers Need t...
CultureMap Houston

Immersive, speakeasy-style tiki bar brings the underworld to Montrose - This year has already been a good one for Houstonians who enjoy well made cocktails, as new bars such as *Starduster Lounge*, *The Kid*, and Augustine Loun...
NPR's Health Shots

She hoped key research could help save her eyesight. Then the Trump funding cuts came - Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy...
Dorf on Law

The District Court Opinion in the AAUP Case Challenging the Columbia Funding Cutoff Gets Just About Everything Wrong - Last week, Federal District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Association of American University Professors (AAUP) and American ...
San Antonio Report

Listen: San Antonio naturalist wants you to rethink your lawn — and plant with purpose - From the history of jimson weed to backyard berries, author Monika Maeckle explores how native plants can reshape the way San Antonio grows. ---------------...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is Trying to Unconstitutionally Bomb His Way Back to Popularity -
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...
Skeptophilia

The Jerdanowitch method - Art lovers, ever heard of the Disumbrationist Movement? Begun in 1924 by painter Pavel Jerdanowitch, it shares some features with Primitivism, in that th...
Consortium News

Why Limit Iranian Enrichment Peacefully When You Can Bomb Them Instead? - A deal was limiting Iran’s enrichment of uranium until Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of it. Instead the Dealmaker bombed Iran, threatening to set the re...
Off The Kuff

Abbott vetoes THC bill and calls special session - Waited till the last minute because he’s such a drama queen. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday vetoed a contentious state ban on THC products and shortly after ca...
Slate

Help! My Husband Just Screamed at a Group of Elderly People About Politics. I’m Sick of His Antics. - I can't live in his constant doom and gloom.
American Prospect

The Parliamentarian Comes for the Beautiful Bill - A couple dozen provisions have been removed. No ruling yet on the biggest one, which could mean $3.7 trillion in fake ‘savings.’
Scheerpost.com

How the US and Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran - By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies / Common Dreams Rafael Grossi, director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAE...
DeSmogBlog

Corporate Lobbying Eroded Flagship EU Sustainability Rules – Report - Dozens of companies and trade bodies were involved in an effort to water down key sustainability legislation in the EU, according to a new report publish...
ProPublica

How Hotels, Once a Last Resort, Became New York’s Default Answer to Homelessness - by Spencer Norris, New York Focus This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with New York Focus, an investigativ...
Grist

How shrinking the EPA could make wildfire smoke even more dangerous - "It will leave communities more vulnerable."
Crooked Timber

Peaceful Terrorism? - The UK government has signalled its intention to “proscribe” the protest group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation. This will place it in the...
Infidel753

The Israel-Iran war - Twelve days into the current hot war between Israel and Iran, a clearer picture is emerging, although the ultimate outcome remains murky. Israel's priorit...
Dissident Voice

The Century of the Jew is Hot Hot Wars - Dr Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He writes extensively for various publications, including CounterPunch, Dissid...
High Country News

What Sonoran Desert fungi are teaching scientists - [image: Justin Stewart collects a soil sample in Saguaro National Park.] The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical...
Ian Welsh

A Deluge of Metanarrative Bullshit - [image: A Deluge of Metanarrative Bullshit] Anytime anyone anywhere begins an argument or uses the word “narrative” my bullshit detector goes off. Because...
Crooked Media

How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bombing Iran - The post How Trump Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bombing Iran appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Global Palestine: Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the World After the American Attack on Iran - All Israel’s policies and actions arise from one overarching ambition: completing Zionism’s 130-year project of Judaizing Palestine, which requires the d...
Portside

Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests - Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests Mark Brody Tue, 06/24/2025 - 01:18
jobsanger

The Biggest Transfer Of Wealth From The Poor To The Rich In U.S. History -
World Socialist Web Site

European powers serve as accomplices to US-Israeli war against Iran - Although the criminal character of the attack on Iran is obvious, and Merz, Macron, and Starmer fear its disastrous consequences, they unconditionally back...
Informed Comment

Trump’s Tweet isn’t Enough: Iran and the West must Deescalate the War in the Middle East - Oxford (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After thirty years of agitation, incitement, lies and provocation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah...
Antiwar.com

The Dangerous Consequences of the US Attack on Iran - On June 21, the United States committed an act of war, attacking a sovereign nation that had neither attacked nor threatened it without the approval of the...
Popular Resistance

The US-Israeli War On Iran Undergirds The Need For A Multipolar World - On June 12, just days before a scheduled negotiations session, the illegal state of Israel attacked Iran, killing top military leaders and scientists. Ir...
Alternet

'Dead on arrival': Republican shoots down GOP senator's bid to change key part of budget - Republicans in Congress are still unable to agree on a core part of H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — and the disagreement...
Brad Blog

'Anti-War' Trump Attacks a Mid-East Nation on False Claims About WMD: 'BradCast' 6/23/2025 - It all sounds a bit too familiar to those of us on The BradCast who covered the last time a Republican President forced the U.S. into a "Forever War" in th...
The Root

Expert On Big Development for Black Man Whose Dreads Were Shaved Off by Prison Officers - Damon Landor just got some good news for his 2020 complaint. Read more...
The AltWorld

What Will Moscow and Beijing Do? - What Will Moscow and Beijing Do? The post What Will Moscow and Beijing Do? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Workers World

Anti-Trump protest draws 1000 in Idaho - [image: Anti-Trump protest draws 1000 in Idaho] Coeur d’Alene, Idaho The average person in the U.S. probably hasn’t heard of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. If they ...
Salon.com

"The 12 Day War": Trump says Israel, Iran have reached tentative ceasefire agreement - The president shared the news of a possible ceasefire on Truth Social
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...
Ballot Access News

Hawaii Governor Signs Bill to Permit Nomination Petitions to be Filed Electronically - On June 6, Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed HB 134. It directs the state elections office to develop a system by which candidates may file nomination peti...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Secretary Rollins proposes rescinding protections for roadless forests - The Roadless Rule protects 58.5 million acres of national forests from new roads and commercial logging The post STATEMENT: Secretary Rollins proposes re...
The Texas Signal

Abbott Vetoes Funding For Summer Food Program - The governor issued several vetoes over the weekend, including a budget item that secured millions for a summer food program
Claytoonz

Trump Bribe Blow Up - 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...
slacktivist

Mazes and Monsters: The ‘prophets’ are DMs - The New Apostolic Reformation is a fantasy role-playing game. The "prophets" and "apostles" are its DMs.
Wolf Street

Condo Sales Drop to Lowest in the Data, Supply Highest since Housing Bust. Single-Family Home Sales Below 1995, Supply Highest since 2016 - Demand destruction on an epic scale, after the price explosion. And inventories are piling up.
WhoWhatWhy

GOP Congresswoman Blames the Left for Her Run-In With Florida’s Abortion Law - [image: Cammack] Kat Cammack doesn’t blame the Republicans who passed the six-week abortion limit for throwing her miscarriage treatment into legal limbo —...
Reform Austin

Houston Sen. Joan Huffman Enters Texas AG Race - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Houston Republican Sen. Joan Huffman on Monday announced her candidacy for Texas attorney gener...
Progressive.org

The Pulpit Is on the Precipice of the Schoolhouse Steps, and People Are Fighting Back - Local resistance is blocking state legislation to bring Christian nationalism into public schools.
Church and State

Citizens United has ceded our democracy to our rich oligarchs - Since its enactment in 2010 Citizens United allowed political candidates to receive unlimited contributions from corporations and rich individuals.
Common Dreams

Over 170 State Legislators Tell Senate to Reject Trump Billionaire Tax Giveaway that Shifts Costs To States - Today, Americans for Tax Fairness organized and sent a letter from 174 state legislators across 23 states to Senate leaders of both parties. The letter u...
Independent Political Report

Liberal Party USA Affiliate Seeks to Register Massachusetts Ballot Designation - The Liberty Alliance of Massachusetts is working to establish a new political designation in the state before the end of the year. The organization, affi...
Undernews

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Sludge

GOP Flip-Floppers Back Trump’s Unauthorized Iran Attacks - The same lawmakers slammed Biden last year for bombing the Houthis in Yemen without seeking prior authorization from Congress.
Texas Observer

Can Economic Populism Win Back the Rio Grande Valley? - As a rainstorm rolled in last Friday evening, hundreds of people eagerly filed through metal detectors at an 1,800-seat performing arts center in McAllen...
Mondoweiss

Republicans, AIPAC Dems unite in support of Trump’s war - The vast majority of the Republican party and a number of hawkish Democrats are rallying around Trump’s war on Iran.
Angry Bear

May existing home sales show prices stabilizing, inventory continuing to increase towards its historical range - – by New Deal democrat The first part of this week is all about more housing data. This morning started out with existing home sales, which although t...
See You In 2020

The Steve Witkoff “peace deal” psyop was what got us war with Iran. The antiwar movement must learn from this. - To understand how our government was able to start this war with Iran, we have to look at how the Trump White House sold a false promise of “peace.” An...
The Grayzone

Meet the Israeli fanatic running Ted Cruz’s office - After Ted Cruz’s humiliation by Tucker Carlson, attention has focused on a top staffer of the self-proclaimed “leading defender of Israel in the United S...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-26 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Capital & Main

Sanewashing the President - Since his return, newsrooms have downplayed Trump’s decline, helping normalize a presidency defined by incoherence, paranoia, and cruelty. The post Sanew...
Discourse

The Biggest Lies We're Being Told About the Iran War - Warning: there are a lot of them.
Bracing Views

I’ll Slug You, and If You Resist, I’ll Slug You Harder - U.S. Strategy in Iran BILL ASTORE JUN 22, 2025 U.S. messaging to Iran, courtesy of President Trump, is quite simple: We slugged you (with our bombing attac...
Rewire

Opinion: How Pharmacists Could Save the Lives of Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder - Getting naloxone to the pregnant and postpartum people who need it is hard. Pharmacists can help. The post Opinion: How Pharmacists Could Save the Lives...
Democracy Now!

Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University - *Democracy Now!* was there when Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his family over the weekend after being released on bail by a federal jud...
Progressives Chat

U.S. Bombs Iran - As reported by *USA Today*, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, “President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nu...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
The Greanville Post

JEREMY KUZMAROV COVERT ACTION EXPERT – TRUMP PALANTIR CONNECTION – CIA FUNDED JAPANESE KILLERS - GARLAND NIXON—An in-depth discussion of America's criminal intel agencies record, and the US Empire's sordid operations in all continents in pursuit of heg...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hetero Awesome Festival' flops hard, attracting only dozens - Hetero Awesome Festival, an Idaho event created to pushback against June being designated as LGBTQ Pride Month, took place on Friday and Saturday of last...
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...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Trump’s unprovoked war against Iran is based on lies - In the coming days, people will be taking to the streets across the country and around the world to say: “No war on Iran!”
NORML

Texas Expands Patients’ Access to Medical Cannabis - [image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary][image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary]The new law opens the Texas Compassionate Use Program to include those sufferin...
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 ...
Socialist Alternative

Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars: NO War With Iran - On June 21, US warplanes dropped its “bunker buster” bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, including one heavily fortified site, Fordo, that is critical to...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

NO WAR: Avoiding Disaster at the End of Empire - We must avoid this unnecessary and cruel war.
The NM Political Report

Test for formatting - This report is supported by NM Political Report, a nonprofit newsroom working to increase New Mexicans’ engagement in politics and public policy. Submitt...
Trivial Knot

Coming out as political action - Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age ...
Lowering the Bar

Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person” - [image: you tube video of man's AI trying to argue appeal]Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.
alicublog

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIFE-RAFTS IN THE FLOOD EDITION. - *The Spanish guys working on the building down the street played this.They know what's good.* I'll be less attentive to the collapse of the Republic ove...
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/20/2025 - 06:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
Project Censored

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partne...
Earthworks

Ammonia 101: What is Blue Ammonia and Why You Should Care - Author: anaïs peterson The oil and gas industry is constantly shifting and creating new ways to justify its existence and … The post Ammonia 101: What i...
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ecosophia

A Brief Guide to Status Panic - Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
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 ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
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...
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
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.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
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 ...
The Militant

Protest killing of Israeli Embassy staffers in DC! Fight against Jew-hatred! - SWP candidates speak out against shootings in DC The following is based on a statement sent to Consulate Generals of Israel Los Angeles and San Francisco o...
Reading the Pictures

The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair - What's in a photo op? Trump's psychopathic corruption of American power. The post The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair appeared first on Reading The Pictures.
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Media Roots Radio - Media Roots Radio.
TalkLeft

FBI Interviews James Comey Re: Social Media Post - Former F.B.I. Director James Comey was escorted to the Secret Service offices today for a voluntary interview about a social media post he wrote: On Thur...
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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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Sunday, August 07, 2022

Sunday "Participating in Democracy" Funnies

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