Brains and Eggs: 'Asked and Answered' Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Ballot Access News

Hawaii Elections Office Uses Random Method to Decide Order of Political Parties on Primary Ballot - Hawaii holds primaries for all qualified parties, but the primary ballot is the same for all votes. It is a single piece of paper, with each party having i...
Eschaton

Mills Out - I've avoided getting sucked into the Platner discourse, as my beautiful mind is already occupied by too many things, but Schumer recruiting Mills was an ...
Bonddad

Stagflationary real personal income, real spending on durable goods were recessionary in March, but consumers and manufacturers haven’t retrenched - * - by New Deal democrat* Personal income and spending are among the most important monthly indicators of all, because they give us a detailed look a...
The Conversation

What Trump’s post as a Jesus-like figure tells us about political messianism - Democracy cannot thrive, or even survive, when its leaders see themselves as godlike and divide citizens into believers and heretics, a scholar writes.
Infidel753

Walpurgisnacht - Today and tonight make up a traditional companion festival to Samhain (Halloween). April 30 is the point on the Earth's orbit exactly opposite to October...
Al Jazeera English

Why is India turning to crocodiles and snakes to ‘fence’ Bangladesh border? - India wants to the border with Bangladesh badly — even if it takes venomous snakes or crocodiles.
jobsanger

ICE Is Conducting Racial Profiling (With The Supreme Court's Blessing) -
Brad Blog

Corrupt SCOTUS Undermines U.S. Constitution, Guts Last Remaining Protections of Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 4/29/2026 - It’s a grim day. Tune in for today’s BradCast for the full story. I’ll keep it brief here. [Audio to today’s show follows this summary.] In short, after te...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers and young people in Canada and India urge participation in International Online May Day Rally - The International Committee of the Fourth International and its daily publication, the *World Socialist Web Site*, are organizing the International Online ...
Mediagazer

Sources: Amazon executives, including MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins, have discussed rebooting The Apprentice for Prime Video, with Donald Trump Jr. as the host (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Sources: Amazon executives, including MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins, have discussed rebooting The Apprentice for Prime Video, with ...
Courthouse News

Fight over ‘Italy’s #1 brand of pasta’ in hot water - Consumers claim the statement “Italy’s #1 brand of pasta” on Barilla’s pasta products deceives customers about where its pastas are made.
Alternet

Fox News host: Trump's agenda could cost Republicans everything - Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume is one of the Network’s most serious voices. And on Wednesday he very seriously declared Congress likely lost ...
Political Wire

Amazon Discusses ‘Apprentice’ Reboot - “First it bought the Melania documentary. Now Amazon is discussing a potential reboot of The Apprentice, the reality TV show that once starred Donald Trump...
Workers World

On the Toboso Massacre in the Philippines - [image: On the Toboso Massacre in the Philippines] Workers World condemns the massacre of 19 Red fighters and unarmed New Peoples Army members by the Armed...
SCOTUSblog

Court considers whether Trump administration properly ended temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian nationals - The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided in *Mullin v. Doe* over the Trump administration’s efforts to strip citizens of Haiti and Syria of their prote...
The Hill

Trump says US government's Intel stock made the country $30B in last 90 days - President Trump said on Wednesday that federal stock holdings in Intel generated over $30 billion over the last several months, after he authorized the U.S...
Daily Cartoonist

Ashraf Omar Trial Begins May 10 - Cartoonist Ashraf Omar will be tried in Egyptian court beginning May 10. He’s been detained since July 2024 on four charges. According to his lawyer, three...
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, which means fanboys all around the city will be hitting all the comics stores, scooping up free titles. Over at the “Feed ...
Axios

Exclusive: Senators interrogate AI firms on China safeguards - Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) are demanding answers from major tech and AI companies over concerns that employees with ties to Chi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Chaos as Policy: The Attack on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation (NSF) - *Friends:* *This is actually a very big deal—and not in the routine, bureaucratic sense that Washington often invites us to ignore. The wholesale dismissal...
Deadline Politics

Despite Trumpworld Outrage And FCC Scrutiny Of Jimmy Kimmel, Immediate Changes Unlikely At ABC Stations - Outrage moves at the speed of social media in the Donald Trump era, but the wheels of media regulation turn far more slowly. That is the main takeaway from...
Claytoonz

Hamberder Royalty - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Election Law Blog

I Spoke with NPR’s “All Things Considered: “After Supreme Court ruling, what’s the future of the Voting Rights Act?” - You can listen at this link. The post I Spoke with NPR’s “All Things Considered: “After Supreme Court ruling, what’s the future of the Voting Rights Act?...
ArcaMax

Charles III, a Guest in Our House - The king came to town for tea, dinner and a little chat with Congress and the president. By the time you read this, Charles III's state visit may be a litt...
Lowering the Bar

“The Mistake Will Not Recur [Until Two Sentences From Now]” - [image: a fail stamp]So, you used AI to write the reply to accusations that you used AI? A bold move, sir.
Wolf Street

Regime Change: Powell, Chair of Mega-QE & “Ample Reserves Regime,” to Be Replaced by Warsh, who Wants a Smaller Balance Sheet - But Powell said he’d stay on as governor until “the investigation is well and truly over,” and promised “to keep a low profile” and support the new chair.
WhoWhatWhy

Lessons From the Correspondents’ Dinner - [image: Law enforcement personnel, Secret Service, draw guns, shooting incident, Washington Hilton hotel] Political assassination is one thing when it invo...
Portside

The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood - The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood Mark Brody Wed, 04/29/2026 - 17:09
Futurism

OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post - Mindboggling. The post OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post appeared first on Futurism.
San Antonio Current

40-year reunion for Phazez nightclub will celebrate hub of the city’s ’80s post-punk scene - [image: Phazez patrons, left to right, David Goodall, Lanie Cathcart and Scott Grimmitt belly up during a busy night and the club.] It hardly seems like 4...
Mediaite

House Democrat Busts Pete Hegseth Accusing Her of Making a ‘Partisan Point’: ‘I’m Actually Quoting You’ - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walked into a trap Wednesday when a House Democrat got him to criticize his own words from a decade prior. The post House ...
Houston Public Media

Houston ISD to transform nine campuses into AI-focused schools - An elected trustee for the district questioned the rapid expansion of the pilot program, which initially included two schools.
The Week

How much do you really save skipping gas with an EV? - While you will circumvent high gas prices, you’ll pay more for the car itself
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redistricting Check-in at the Dawn of the Callais Era - What the Callais decision may mean, and how the national House map has already changed, or not changed, so far The post A Redistricting Check-in at the D...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘A day of loss for our democracy’: civil rights groups slam supreme court ruling that weakens key part of Voting Rights Act – live - NAACP, ACLU and Democratic politicians decry 6-3 supreme court decision as ‘a profound betrayal of the civil rights movement’ - Sign up for th...
Popular Resistance

South Koreans Condemn US Attempts To Undermine Judicial Sovereignty - 96 South Korean members of parliament, belonging to different political parties, wrote a joint letter condemning what they called US attempts to interfer...
The Verge

Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs - Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report released on Wednesday...
Techdirt.

Appeals Court Dumps California Law That Would Have Banned Federal Officers From Wearing Masks - Raids and arrests around the nation by federal immigration officers all feature the same thing: a bunch of people in masks shoving people into unmarked veh...
Scheerpost.com

“‘I’m Ashamed to Be a Jew Here’: Ex-Tamir Pardo Warns Israel Is ‘Planting the Next October 7’” - The former head of Mossad, once central to Israel’s security doctrine, now argues the country’s greatest threat lies not abroad—but in the unchecked violen...
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Unveils “Working Families Guarantee” National Policy Agenda - The Working Families Party has introduced a national policy platform that it calls the “Working Families Guarantee,” compiling a list of five economic pr...
memeorandum

Exclusive: New records show paper trail of DOGE voter data pact with election deniers (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket) - Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket: *Exclusive: New records show paper trail of DOGE voter data pact with election deniers* — Newly obtained documents sho...
San Antonio Report

How San Antonio plans to push landlords into accepting housing vouchers - A city with record-high vacancies still has people struggling to use their housing voucher. Some landlords could get cash bonuses, while others are punishe...
The NM Political Report

Five candidates, one stage and a whole lot of agreement about how bad things are - [image: Deb Haaland, left, and Gregg Hull talk before a forum for gubernatorial candidates on April 28 in Rio Rancho. (Kevin Hendricks)] Tuesday night at ...
Raw Story

Hegseth team blindsided over use of secret messaging apps: 'Going to take that as a yes' - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was surprised by a question during a congressional hearing on Wednesday over whether Pentagon officials were using a secre...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law - City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
Undernews

Weather - *Newsweek - *Nearly two-thirds of the United States is now in drought, according to the latest U.S. Drought Monitor data, with dry conditions stretching ...
Novara Media

America’s Special Relationship Is With Israel Not U.K, Ambassador Admits - King Charles is charming Trump in Washington, and two men have been stabbed in an antisemitic attack in Golders Green, London. Plus: We speak to Green Part...
The Socialist

Greg Abbott Net Worth 2026: $28 Million from Law & Politics - Table of Contents The $7.8 Million Settlement: An Unconventional Bedrock From Judge to Governor: Greg Abbott’s Public Service Earnings Greg Abbott’s Divers...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, The Trauma and the Terror Among Us - America's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been receiving lots of scrutiny right now from journalists and ordinary citizens like me -- and for goo...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Sitting president poses with gun! - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2026* *Supreme Court wrestles with race:* We're so old that we can remember last weekend, when people were upset about the attempt ...
The Texas Signal

Under New Ban, Drag Performers In Texas Assess Risks - Ever since Senate Bill 12 went into effect, drag performers in Texas have had to walk a fine line with their craft
Vox

This is what it takes to become Trump’s attorney general - It’s been a big week for the Trump Justice Department, beginning with the arraignment of an alleged would-be presidential assassin on Monday. Just one day ...
First Draft

Evict Cosplay Kristi - You say Cosplay Kristi; I say Squatter Kristi. Let’s call the whole thing off.
The Daily Poster

This Rule Could Slash Drug Prices — If Democrats Run On It - Lawmakers say they want lower drug prices — but a simple fix has been sitting on the shelf for years, blocked by pharmaceutical lobbying.
The Root

What Well-Known Black Men Are Saying About Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson’s Split - Mase, Stephen A. Smith and Joe Budden are among the well-known men who are weighing in on the end of Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson's relationship...
Mother Jones

Hegseth to Congress: We Have No Iran Plan, But Give Us 1.5 Trillion Anyway. - For the first time since the US began bombing Iran two weeks ago, our military leadership testified before a congressional committee today. The main takeaw...
Salon.com

“I Shot Andy Warhol” channels our rage - 30 years on, Mary Harron's groundbreaking film about Valerie Solanas blisteringly reflects a society gone awry
Consortium News

Flotillas Tell the World Gaza Hasn’t Been Abandoned - With another break-the-siege flotilla now en route, Eman Abu Zayed, a writer in Gaza, says that hope — despite its weight — keeps finding its way across th...
Capital & Main

With Promises of Money, Controversial Gas Pipeline on Navajo Nation Passes First Hurdle - Pipeline would cross 234 miles of tribal land in New Mexico and Arizona. Committee hearing schedule catches community group off guard. The post With Prom...
El Paso Matters

EPCC, UTEP auto-graduation program quietly awards associate degrees to eligible students - EPCC and UTEP collaborate on an auto-graduation program that awards associate degrees to eligible students, often without their knowledge, boosting cred...
Slate

A Dying Man Is Trying to Guilt Me Into Having Sex With Him. I Just Might Do It. - It's not like I'd be donating a kidney.
Texas Standard

US Supreme Court weakens key pillar of Voting Rights Act, opening the door for Texas to redraw political maps - While the court did not strike down the provision entirely, Justice Elena Kagan said Wednesday’s ruling made Section 2 of the VRA “all but a dead letter.”
Common Dreams

Supreme Court Eviscerates Last Remnants of Voting Rights Act, Opening Door ti Jim Crow Gerrymandering in Red States - Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision striking down a congressional map in Louisiana with a second majority-Black district. This decision guts Secti...
Texas Observer

As License Plate Readers Expand in Texas, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back - Last week the City of Kyle, a fast-growing Austin suburb, interrupted a string of recent victories won by local activists to thwart the further expansion...
Countercurrents

J. C. Daniel: The Dream That Built a Cinema - On 27 April 1975, J. C. Daniel passed away in obscurity. Today, he stands as the foundational figure of an entire cultural universe—Malayalam cinema—whose ...
Ecosophia

War In Heaven? - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via...
NPR's Health Shots

The Trump team is quietly eliminating U.S. support for birth control abroad - Congress has allocated more than $500 million for family planning work internationally. The Trump administration hasn't spent it — and the consequences are...
naked capitalism

Supreme Court Justices Weigh Monsanto Bid to Block Warning Lawsuits in Glyphosate Litigation - A good recap of the Monsanto glyphosate case now before the Supreme Court, including its broader implications.
Glasstire

Texas Collectors Open Marble Falls Arthouse - The Texas Hill Country has a new, architecturally designed contemporary art venue. The Marble Falls Arthouse opened to the public on Saturday, April 25, ...
Mondoweiss

Palestine emerges as central issue in a key Pennsylvania Democratic primary - [image: Chris Rabb takes a photo with a supporter at a vigil outside Sen. John Fetterman's Philadelphia office on February 27, 2026. (Photo: Instagram/chri...
Rewire

Sex Workers Remember Victims of Gilgo Beach Killer: ‘Our Sisters’ - Opinion: The media portrays sex workers as a plot point in Rex Heuermann’s story. But we know violent men, and public conversations should center our voi...
The Progressive Wing

4/29 News Roundup & Open Thread - Young people in Vermont and across the country are, for good reasons, worried about the future. Our job: make it better.
Democracy Now!

"We Are Bombarding America's Forests with Roundup": Despite Cancer Fear, Trump Admin Pushes Herbicide - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether thousands of cancer patients can keep suing the manufacturers of the p...
Space City Weather

Houston hit 90 degrees Tuesday, but the heat will break this weekend - In brief: Houston faces one more ‘hot’ day before temperatures begin to moderate. There is a low-end chance of showers and thunderstorms today and Thursday...
Rallblog

Attack of the Normies! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we ...
slacktivist

The literary puzzle of Isaiah 1 - The compositional chronology of the Bible presents some interesting puzzles. But the stuff about widows, orphans, and justice for the oppressed is still no...
Dorf on Law

Supremely Partisan: How the Conservative Justices are Destroying the Voting Rights Act to Further the Interests of the Republican Party - Any day now, the Supreme Court is going to issue its decision in the complicated election law dispute *Louisiana v. Callais*. There is no suspense as to ...
ProPublica

FIFA Could Make Billions From the World Cup. Host Cities Will Get Little in Return. - The post FIFA Could Make Billions From the World Cup. Host Cities Will Get Little in Return. appeared first on ProPublica.
The AltWorld

Our Rulers Take So Very Much And Give Us So Very Little - Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid […] The post Our Rulers Take So Very Much An...
The Smirking Chimp

King Charles Delivers Royal Backhand to Trump in Historic Address -
Skeptophilia

The Estes method - In somewhat the same vein as yesterday's post, which was about the capacity of subsonic standing waves to induce the sensations we often associate with a...
Off The Kuff

TPOR poll: Talarico leading both Cornyn and Paxton - This will never get old. Democratic state Rep. James Talarico is leading both of his prospective Republican opponents in a new poll of Texas’ U.S. Senate r...
Grist

One night a year, humans command this march of frogs and salamanders - The first warm, wet spring night sends frogs and salamanders from the forest, bearing fresh evidence of threats from warming winters, drying pools, and tra...
Crooked Media

The Famesick Monster with Tony Goldwyn and Rheeqrheeq Chainey - The post The Famesick Monster with Tony Goldwyn and Rheeqrheeq Chainey appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Grayzone

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equ...
Counterpunch

American Press Freedom on the Brink - As World Press Freedom Day (May 3) nears, it’s a good time to step back and assess how journalists and news outlets are faring in our current media clima...
Informed Comment

China’s Surging Cleantech Exports are dethroning Oil - China’s solar exports doubled in a month, rising to a record of 68 gigawatts in March. 50 countries broke records for imports of Chinese panels
See You In 2020

People’s Forum hosts neocons & Democrats, revealing a consolidation of the pro-reformist forces - There is evidence that the “red liberal” tendency within left politics is now being directly assimilated into the Democratic Party itself. We have reaso...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s First 100 Days: Where Does NYC Stand With A Socialist Mayor In Office? - It’s been nearly four months since Zohran Mamdani officially became mayor of New York City. When running for mayor, Zohran was focused intensely on an affo...
Ian Welsh

Distributing Resources Based On Jobs Is Outdated And Stupid - I want to spend more time writing about the baseline assumptions of our political economy. One of the worst is that people have to work to get resources. “...
Liberation News

Unite to beat back Trump’s racist attack on Haitians and all TPS holders! - We demand permanent legal status for Haitian immigrants!
Antiwar.com

Congress Must End FISA Section 702 - On April 17th, Congress voted to pass a brief 10-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This sets the new expira...
Progressive.org

‘ICE Fishing’ in Minneapolis - In January, photojournalist Wali Khan documented ICE’s assault on the Twin Cities.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Sorry Family Research Council. SPLC may be indicted for now, but you're still a hate group (and I have the 'receipts' to prove it.) - The Southern Poverty Law Center is in the news because a grand jury indicted it last week on federal charges. What it looks like to a lot of people is a...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2026 - Censored Press News Truthout ran an excerpt from Terms of Servitude by Omar Zahzah (The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, 2025). The article, Palestini...
NORML

Maryland: Governor Signs Bill Into Law Providing Employment Protections for Firefighters’ Off-Duty Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"This legislation set...
Environment Texas

Ten ways bees are smarter than you think - These pollinators may be small, but their intelligence is both surprising and incredible. The post Ten ways bees are smarter than you think appeared firs...
Sludge

Netflix Raised Prices After Pocketing a $2.8 Billion Windfall - Anti-monopoly advocates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren tell Sludge the timing of the price hikes undermine the streaming service’s argument that it does n...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Peter Thiel and the Antichrist - Matt and Sam discuss Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and what they reveal about his politics and this political moment.
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands - That’s the actual name of the paper. Isn’t that great? Here’s a prologue: a post I wrote a while back about the Portuguese Man-o’-War. (It’s kind of long ...
Earth 911

About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash - Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a new Earth911 series, Where Waste Comes... The post About That $3,000 Bag of Groceries in Your Trash appeare...
High Country News

Wildfires are torching state budgets - Oregon allocated $10 million for the 2024 wildfire season. It cost more than $350 million. The post Wildfires are torching state budgets appeared first ...
Church and State

The real issues will persist after Trump is gone - My latest book, the seventeenth, explores how President Trump and his allies have broken virtually all of our established norms.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Broken Contract: Cole Allen and Radicalization at the End of Liberal Democracy - Saturday's attempted assassination felt different for a variety of reasons
Angry Bear

Europe, Ukraine, and Iran; and Trump’s impaired emotional/cognitive relationship to negative consequences - This is a speculative post. I don’t have any expertise in foreign policy. I just want to clarify my own thinking, and posting is a way to force myself ...
Bracing Views

How Much Is Enough for National Defense? - $600 Billion Seems Reasonable BILL ASTORE APR 26, 2026 What is the right amount of money to spend on national defense? It’s not an easy question because an...
Debunking Christianity

A Toast/Tribute to Dr. David Madison - Here was a toast to David Madison when he completed his 300th post here at Debunking Christianity. Now after achieving *500 posts* we offer him this toas...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BACK IN THE SADDLE EDITION. - *Let's take the temperature down a bit.* Yeah, been a few weeks since I did this -- sorry about that, life’s a bitch and sometimes it's hard to get it o...
The Militant

US troops, ships, warplanes out of the Middle East now! - President Donald Trump announced an indefinite extension of the U.S. ceasefire with Tehran April 21, but said the U.S. blockade of ships to and from Irania...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Black Agenda Report

The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka - The State of Trump’s Union: Geopolitical Economy Hour with Ajamu Baraka bareditors Fri, 04/24/2026 - 20:50
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
The Greanville Post

Post 39— Paths of Glory - Paths of Glory Lead But to the Grave This was always about civilization. “A…
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / HISTORY / Where on earth was The Rag? - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2026 Inspired by Earth Day and also published in Alice Embree’s Substack. The Rag, Austin’s beloved underground ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Texas Freedom Network

Andrew Edmonson’s Life of Advocacy Lives on Through TFN - David Andrew Edmonson – known as Andrew, or Andy, to friends and family – was a fierce advocate and “force to be reckoned with,” as his younger sister Sa...
Earthworks

A “Good Neighbor” with a Toxic Legacy - What do toxic geysers and shiny new playgrounds have in common? The sensible answer is: Nothing. But in the rural … The post A “Good Neighbor” with a To...
Krebs on Security

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty - A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated iden...
Seeing the Forest

A Starmer-Mandelson Scenario - If you are up-to-date on the Starmer/Mandelson scandal, skip to below. US readers: When Trump was about to take office (the second time) Prime Minister Sta...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
LareDOS

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport - The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 y...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It's good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

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

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

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

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WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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