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

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

The Verge

Disney will stop reporting its streaming subscriber numbers - Disney announced that it will no longer report on subscriber numbers for its streaming services in its quarterly financial reports, following in the footst...
The Week

Eighty years after Hiroshima: how close is nuclear conflict? - Eight decades on from the first atomic bomb 'we have blundered into a new age of nuclear perils'
Axios

Trump's envoy Witkoff meets Putin ahead of ceasefire deadline - White House envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours at the Kremlin on Wednesday. *Why it matters:* The meeting took pla...
Raw Story

Trump's Texas ploy to boost GOP numbers could 'backfire hard' on Republicans: strategist - As Texas Republicans continue their efforts to redraw the state’s congressional district map in a way to boost GOP numbers in Congress, all at the behest...
memeorandum

Democrats draw up plans to retaliate if Republicans gerrymander Texas — but they face legal hurdles (NBC News) - NBC News: *Democrats draw up plans to retaliate if Republicans gerrymander Texas — but they face legal hurdles* — California is eyeing a ballot initiat...
The Hill

Two 15-year-olds arrested in connection with DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' beating in DC - Two teenagers were arrested in connection to the attempted carjacking of a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer known as “Big Balls.” ...
Political Wire

GOP Senator Changed Child Rape Law After Relative Charged - “Last year, an 18-year-old Utahn was staring at the potential of years in prison, accused of having sex with a 13-year-old,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports....
ArcaMax

Trump's Rap Sheet vs. the People - Donald Trump's conquering of the country is complete. The blows he's inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal. The president fired the ...
Courthouse News

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Mediaite

Joe Scarborough Laughs Out Loud as He Mocks ‘Scared’ Texas GOP for ‘Rigging the Maps’ - Scarborough laughing at Texas Republicans, accusing them of “rigging the maps” because they’re “scared” of being “crushed” by the Democrats in the midter...
Common Dreams

ICAN chief at 80th Hiroshima commemoration calls for immediate action to eliminate nuclear weapons - Melissa Parke, the Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, attended the 80th Hiroshi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Gaza from the sky – a landscape of rubble, dust and graves | First Thing - The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive. Plus, travels in Trump’s Flori...
NPR's Health Shots

With $1K in cash aid, he built a life-changing barbershop. Now cash aid is under fire - This man in Mozambique is one of many who've received a cash sum with no strings attached. The Trump administration has criticized and curtailed the practi...
Al Jazeera English

Russia eyes Ukraine’s ‘fortress belt’ after fall of Chasiv Yar - Ukraine's woes mount with a deadly assault on Kyiv, capture of an eastern city and difficult battle in the north.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: It’s A Hump Day After All - I would assume that these guys don’t talk much about work at home, but, then again, I don’t know what they would talk about. Maybe they don’t talk at all. ...
Dorf on Law

Practicing Law Institute SCOTUS Roundup Today: I Preview My Skrmetti Remarks - Today, I'll be participating in the 27th annual Practicing Law Institute Supreme Court Review--as I have done for each of the past 26 years. It is almost...
ProPublica

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. - by Joel Jacobs ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published...
Houston Public Media

NRG Energy receives up to $216M state loan to construct new natural gas units at Houston power plant - The units, to be built at the TH Wharton Power Plant in Northwest Houston, will be designed to generate 456 megawatts of electricity for the region.
Infidel753

The right decision - Today is the eightieth anniversary of the US use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima. A view has become entrenched in some circles that this action was ...
Mother Jones

Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe. - United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the Gaza Strip, home to roughly 2 million P...
naked capitalism

Links 8/6/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Top Trump Officials Call Emergency Meeting To ‘Craft Unified Response’ to Epstein -
Rio Grande Guardian

Moreno: IDRA’s beloved President Emerita has passed away - A tribute to Dr. María “Cuca” Robledo Montecel, the former president and CEO of the San Antonio-based Intercultural Development & Research Association. ...
Salon.com

Bondi’s phony Obama probe exposes Trump’s fears - Even MAGA struggles to care about Trump's efforts to distract from his long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
Vox

Trump’s tariffs have pissed off the right’s favorite “pervert” - Unfortunately, we have to talk about Bronze Age Pervert. The pseudonymous writer, widely identified as a Romanian-American political theorist named Costin ...
Skeptophilia

Old as the hills - In northwestern Australia, there's an administrative region called Pilbara. Even though on a map, it looks kind of long and narrow, it's *big*. The area...
Mediagazer

ESPN signs a deal to show the WWE's biggest live events, including WrestleMania, from 2026; sources say ESPN will pay $325M on average per year for five years (Alex Sherman/CNBC) - Alex Sherman / CNBC: *ESPN signs a deal to show the WWE's biggest live events, including WrestleMania, from 2026; sources say ESPN will pay $325M on aver...
WhoWhatWhy

Troubling Interview Shows Trump Lives in a Fantasy World of His Own Design - [image: Donald Trump, CPAC, MD] One of the key jobs of presidents is to face facts and make tough decisions based on them. But, since Donald Trump rejects ...
Off The Kuff

Quorum break Day 2 roundup: Paxton hauls out a big threat - He seems destined to fail, but we’re going to go through the motions anyway, I guess. Attorney General Ken Paxton will ask for a court ruling declaring vac...
Slate

Help! My Family Is Going to Lose Their Minds When They See My Dramatic Transformation. Uh, Not in a Good Way. - I don't want to hear it.
Eschaton

Morning - once again
San Antonio Report

San Antonio police investigate hate crime after Castle Hills graffiti spree - Under Texas law, prosecutors can seek harsher penalties when they can prove a crime was motivated by bias or prejudice ------------------------------ San An...
Angry Bear

Killing us softly - mRNA vaccines proved transformational in the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, they’ve allowed a rapid pivot to attack new variants. They saved tens of mill...
American Prospect

When Federal Funding Doesn’t Show Up - The Trump administration has denied legally obligated funds to thousands of organizations dependent on federal grants, causing layoffs, service cuts, and m...
Scheerpost.com

How City-Owned Grocery Stores Can Tackle Food Insecurity - As private grocers abandon low-income neighborhoods, Zohran Mamdani’s public ownership proposal offers a solution to market failures.
Progressive Army

Récord de TEUs en Mar del Plata: terminal de contenedores crece 41% en operaciones - La terminal de contenedores movilizó 5.492 TEUs en lo que va del año, con mejoras en conectividad, infraestructura y servicios clave para el comercio exter...
Grist

Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise - Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
Crooked Media

Trump Torches Every Ally - The post Trump Torches Every Ally appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

Repair or Replace: Which Is Best For You And The Environment? - Chances are you currently have one or more appliances or devices in your house in... The post Repair or Replace: Which Is Best For You And The Environmen...
OpEd News

We All Cried Never Again, But Shoah Nuff - Review of the legacy of Shoah, 40 years later. The truths are under strife.
Rallblog

Government Gets Interesting - When government offices like courthouses and ICE offices become traps for unsuspecting deportation victims, how long will it take before Trump weaponizes...
Counterpunch

As Gaza Starved, NPR’s Coverage Expanded but Didn’t Get Any Better - Before the third week of July, when mass-starvation alarms finally started sounding, only a tiny minority of Americans were focused on the crimes against...
jobsanger

Politicizing Statistics Will Come Back To Haunt Trump -
World Socialist Web Site

*Souleymane’s Story*: “I don’t know why I came to France” - The phrase “precarious work” may be metaphorical in some cases, but in the unstable and perilous existence Souleymane leads the “precariousness” is real an...
Informed Comment

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám I - British man of letters Edward FitzGerald translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám from two Persian manuscripts and published it in 1859. He had substantial ...
Techdirt.

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control - This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a fe...
Daily Dot

“They’re petrifying the Labubus!”: An English tourist attraction is doing something new with the Labubu trend: turning them to stone - [image: petrified labubus] Labubus are the latest trend, but one tourist attraction in the UK is making sure the craze lasts for millions of years. Know...
Deadline Politics

Trump Thanks Casey Wasserman For Olympic Medals: “Can I Say That I Won Them Athletically?” - It’s not the Nobel Prize, but Donald Trump was still pretty excited when Chairman of the 2028 L.A. Olympics organizing committee Casey Wasserman handed him...
Popular Resistance

Solidarity And Actions By US Civil Society For A Nuclear Free World - As this is the commemoration of horrific deaths and wounding of hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago in 1945, as an Ame...
Brad Blog

Banana Republican: Trump Shoots the Labor Statistics Messenger: 'BradCast' 8/5/2025 - Just in case we've been unclear previous on The BradCast: We are now officially in Banana Republic territory in the U.S., with El Presidente pulling one of...
Trivial Knot

NSFW and defensibility - Earlier I wrote about Itch.io delisting NSFW content. Here’s some followup discussion. I’ve been impressed by how quickly gamers mobilized around this. The...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

America owes drag queens a huge apology - America owes drag queens a huge apology. Drag queens have had to endure a long season of being mispresented, taken out of context, threatened with of v...
Alternet

'Too early': Trump refuses to fully throw his weight behind JD Vance as his successor - President Donald Trump refrained Tuesday from fully endorsing Vice President JD Vance as his anointed successor for the 2028 race, only saying he would “...
Workers World

Philadelphia: Movement fights racist censorship of slavery - [image: Philadelphia: Movement fights racist censorship of slavery] Philadelphia In May, Trump issued an executive order calling for Interior Secretary Dou...
Antiwar.com

No, Nuking Cities Did Not Save Lives - Reprinted From World Beyond War It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that n...
Consortium News

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Enduring Myth of Hiroshima & Nagasaki - After the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki On Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, there then ensued a U.S. propaganda campaign to claim the slaughter of...
Election Law Blog

Quote of the Day on the Future of the Voting Rights Act in the Supreme Court (Hoping Luis is Right Handed Just in Case) - “To me, this is it . . .I would bet my left arm that they will tell us that Section 2 is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.” –Professor Luis Fuente...
Claytoonz

Gerrymandered Balls - 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...
Portside

600+ Journalists Renew Call To Let Foreign Press Enter Gaza As Israel Begins ‘Full Conquest’ - 600+ Journalists Renew Call To Let Foreign Press Enter Gaza As Israel Begins ‘Full Conquest’ Judy Tue, 08/05/2025 - 19:33
El Paso Matters

Fact check: Did a recent El Paso oil refinery flare violate Texas environmental regulations? - A power outage at El Paso’s Marathon refinery caused hours of flaring and thick smoke — prompting questions about whether it broke pollution rules. The ...
CultureMap Houston

French-trained Houston chef revives shuttered Heights restaurant - A veteran Houston chef is reviving a well-located Heights restaurant. *Savoir* will reopen under the leadership of chef Jose Hernandez.
Ian Welsh

Why China’s Big On Open Source - Yesterday we discussed Chinese vs. American AI. The big difference is that a lot of China’s AI is Open Source. Not just Deepseek, but: In addition to Baidu...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Futurism

ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed - Months after OpenAI was warned about the potential harms ChatGPT can cause its users — particularly those predisposed to mental health struggles — the co...
Progressive.org

Detention Designed to Crush Body and Mind - Lawyer Gheed Kassem, who represents Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, speaks about the fight for the rights of Palestinian detainees.
Undernews

Mankeeping -
Reform Austin

Texas Attorney General Paxton will ask courts to vacate Democratic lawmakers’ seats - Attorney General Ken Paxton will ask for a court ruling declaring vacant the seats of any lawmakers who are not back to work by Friday, he said in a pres...
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies: Our Drunken Sailors’ Debts in Q2 2025 - The long-defaulted federal student loans come out of the shadows of government forbearance.
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Offers Creepy Prediction For Sydney Sweeney's Future—And People Are Weirded Out - Fox News personality Jesse Watters offered up another creepy hot take about the object of his obsession, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump. This tim...
Independent Political Report

Green Party National Committee Fills Steering Committee, Secretary, and Treasurer Positions - The Green Party National Committee held a series of leadership elections over the weekend, voting to fill four co-chair positions on the Steering Committ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Welker went from "rigged" to "wrong!" - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025* *Normalization forever:* We said we were going to do it, and so, by gosh, we will. Our observation involves the questions Kri...
San Antonio Current

Whataburger celebrates King of the Hill’s Hulu comeback with limited-time deal - Dang it Bobby — King of the Hill is back — and Whataburger is marking the occasion the Texas way: with a burger discount and a dash of nostalgia. The fast...
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Interim Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Morton Meyerson’s email signature - I was very fortunate to receive a few emails from Morton Meyerson over the years. One of them is the most cherished “fan letter” I have ever gotten (or, ...
Discourse

BREAKING: OLD MAN ON ROOF - Why on roof? What happen?
Capital & Main

Is President Trump Sacrificing Infrastructure to His Anti-DEI Obsession? - In his first term, Trump promised to build new roads, bridges, airports and railways. This time he seems more invested in tearing things down. The post I...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Heinrich leads fight to halt federal job cuts threatening New Mexico’s $9 billion lab economy - [image: Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque] [image: Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque] New Mexico’s senior senator is leading national legislation to ...
DeSmogBlog

New Global Market for “Plastic Credits” Threatens Livelihoods at Kenyan Dump - This article was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. At Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, men, women and children scramble over vast mountains...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Texas Standard

Donald Trump says FBI ‘may have to’ get involved in ending Texas quorum break - U.S. Sen. John Cornyn had called for the FBI to help “locate and arrest” Texas Democrats who left the state on Sunday afternoon.
Mondoweiss

B’Tselem’s flawed report on Gaza names genocide but evades the law - [image: Palestinians carry aid supplies through a decimated Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on August 2, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]B’Ts...
Space City Weather

SCW Q&A: Cool-ish summer, Gulf energy, NWS cuts, site donations, app crashes - Once again, you’ve asked and we’re answering. Here’s our latest Q&A. Got questions of your own? Hit the Contact link at the top of the blog, or leave a que...
The Root

August 2025 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read - The summer may be almost over, but great books by Black authors are still coming in hot. Read more...
The Daily Poster

Trump Is Holding On To $360 Million In Americans’ Refunds - Regulators won hundreds of millions in refunds for U.S. consumers — now the Trump administration is set to terminate them.
Dissident Voice

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - What follows is a revised and updated version of an essay from my 2020 book, Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. “The greatest evil is not now done in ...
Sludge

The Democratic Firm Cashing In on Fear - A firm called Mothership Strategies, founded by former DCCC leaders, is making millions off scamming Democratic donors.
Bonddad

“Recession Watch” instituted for US economy, as economically weighted ISM indexes indicate present contraction - * - by New Deal democrat* Two months ago, in response to the new orders components of the economically weighted ISM manufacturing and services indexe...
NORML

Federal Survey: No Changes in Marijuana Use by Adolescents, Young Adults - [image: teen marijuana use falls][image: teen marijuana use falls]SAMHSA’s data is consistent with statistics compiled by other government agencies findi...
SCOTUSblog

It is not a 3-3-3 Supreme Court - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...
Glasstire

The Weight of What Remains: David Adickes and the Pursuit of Permanence - Every family has its private signals. Ours unfolded on the highway, where anticipation built not from destination, but from a game played in glances. Hol...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
First Draft

Truth and Consequences - In which the messenger gets the axe, 'cause if you want to run a respectable authoritarian regime, you can't let agencies just go around publicizing the tr...
Rewire

Doctors Left Idaho After Abortion Ban, Study Confirms - According to the study, Idaho lost more than one-third of its practicing obstetricians. The post Doctors Left Idaho After Abortion Ban, Study Confirms ap...
Democracy Now!

Texas Showdown: Dem. Lawmakers Flee State to Stop Gerrymandering, Warn Trump Will Try It Again - More than 50 Democrats in the Texas Legislature have left the state to block the passage of a new congressional map, which was gerrymandered to give Republ...
Texas Observer

Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’ - Manning the main switchboard for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System requires skills akin to a symphony conductor. Beginning in 2006, Marlon As...
High Country News

How to become a bird - A Montana man finds kinship in living with pigeons. The post How to become a bird appeared first on High Country News.
See You In 2020

The genocide’s perpetrators are pretending they’ve won, but the resistance has already doomed Zionism - “Salute the martyrs first,” Abu Manu, 2009 The media’s supposed awakening on Gaza from these last few months, where many commentators have suddenly star...
The AltWorld

Zorros chinos, tiburones americanos, roedores europeos - El “laboratorio BRICS” tiene un espíritu creativo inagotable y en constante adaptación. Siempre vence a la demencia […] The post Zorros chinos, tiburones...
Project Censored

Oppression as Policy: Israel, Sanctions, and the Global Cost of Control - In the first part of the program, Dr. Shir Hever joins us to discuss Israel’s disinformation economy, the zombie economy that is held together by nothing...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (cont’d.) - Sexual predators like Jeffrey Epstein serve the same vital function as the kitten-burners and the Satanic baby-killers. They provide both absolution and li...
The Grayzone

US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader - The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
The Conversation

The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone - A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted by Presid...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
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...
The Texas Signal

House Democrats Leave State, Denying A Quorum - The Democrats left the state on Sunday afternoon and began arriving at various destinations across the country including Chicago, Boston, and Albany.
Unlimited Hangout

Grand Theft World - Grand Theft World.
Ballot Access News

Texas Democratic Party Legislators Leave Texas to Temporarily Halt Special Redistricting by Republicans - Here is the story from Bloomberg. … Continue reading →
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: juvenile woodpecker - [image: Juvenile woodpecker]
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Failure of the MAGA Fantasy Industrial Complex with Jared Yates Sexton - A conversation with myself and Wajahat Ali about MAGA, fascism, narratives, and the power of popular culture to radicalize and fight back
The Militant

‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’ - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, tol...
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
Lowering the Bar

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time” - [image: sea cucumber]Sea cucumbers would breathe a sigh of relief, if they had lungs.
MintPress News

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's ...
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.8 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Liberation News

En Illinois, los centros de datos disparan las tarifas eléctricas - [image: Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to secure nuclear power from the Clinton, Illinois, power plant (pictured) for its growing...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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