Brains and Eggs

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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Raw Story

New details emerge after deadly Mexican Navy plane crash off Texas coast - At least five people were killed, and one remains missing after a Mexican Navy aircraft crashed off the Gulf Coast near Galveston, Texas, on Monday, offi...
Mediagazer

An interview with Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester about the outlet's £4.99/month paywall, for which sign ups are "slightly ahead" of expectations (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *An interview with Manchester Evening News editor Sarah Lester about the outlet's £4.99/month paywall, for which sign u...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US drops plan to deport Chinese man who helped expose abuse of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, say activists - Decision comes amid growing public support for Guan Heng – who secretly filmed detention facilities in China – after he illegally entered US by boat The ...
memeorandum

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison (Zeteo) - Zeteo: *Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking ‘60 Minutes’ Story on His Torture Prison* — Weiss touted El Salvador's brutal leader ...
Axios

Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway files to run for Congress - George Conway, the prominent Republican lawyer-turned-prolific critic of President Trump, filed paperwork Monday to run for an open U.S. House seat in Ne...
Mediaite

‘You’re Lying Right Now’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Gets Cornered by Guest About Trump Official Who Claimed ‘Nazi Streak’ - A CNN NewsNight guest called out commentator Scott Jennings during a tense exchange about the state of the MAGA movement. The post ‘You’re Lying Right No...
Countercurrents

MGNREGA and VB G RAM G in the Shadow of Rural Discourse - For nearly two decades, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has remained one of the most consequential social security interventions...
Techdirt.

Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games - I guess I’m a masochist, so here we go. In my recent post about Let It Die: Inferno and the game developer’s fairly minimal use of AI and machine learning ...
Al Jazeera English

Trump unveils ‘Trump-class’ battleships for US Navy’s ‘Golden Fleet’ - The US president says the new vessels will ensure naval dominance and include AI and laser technology.
The Greanville Post

DR JIM KAVANAGH – ISRAEL IS BREAKING THE TWO PARTY SCAM & BONDI BEACH ATTACK OR FALSE FLAG? - GARLAND NIXON—Summary In this extensive discussion, Garland Nixon and Dr. Jim Kavanagh delve into the complex and contentious issues surrounding Zionism, A...
Slate

The Luka Trade and the Other Biggest Sports Surprises of the Year - The Luka Doncic trade shook the world, and so did a few other of our biggest stories from the past year.
Deadline Politics

‘60 Minutes’ Segment Pulled By CBS News Chief Bari Weiss Surfaces Online - The 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss appeared across social media on Monday afternoon, when a Canadian outlet repo...
The Hill

Cannon keeps Jack Smith’s classified records report under wraps for now - U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday lifted restrictions on the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s findings from his investigation into ...
Political Wire

Here’s the ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Bari Weiss Killed - “Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file s...
The Verge

The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here - The Federal Communications Commission has banned new drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the US unless the Department of Defense or t...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Dec 24–30, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Dec 24–30, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 12/22/2025 - 20:01
Consortium News

Israeli Cabinet Approves 19 New Apartheid Colonies in Occupied West Bank - The move boosts the illegal expansion drive in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians — at lea...
Brad Blog

Have a Holly Jolly Somehow - So, we're standing down from both The BradCast and Green News Report until after the new year for a much needed brain break --- for a brain that is breakin...
ArcaMax

‘You look great’ - I was sitting in the waiting room of a doctor’s office last week when someone I hadn’t seen for many years came in. When he saw me, he said “Bob! How are y...
Popular Resistance

Reasons Black/African People Should Be In Solidarity With Venezuela - While we are all aware that the US government has increased its hybrid war on its domestic population in the form of ICE, the national guard, cutting SNA...
Courthouse News

States sue White House over gutting of consumer watchdog - The attorneys general say the federal government has relied on a faulty legal opinion in its decision to withhold funding from the Consumer Financial Prote...
Houston Public Media

At least 3 dead after plane crashes near Galveston Causeway, authorities say - The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico wrote in a social media post that an aircraft from its department, conducting a medical support mission with a nonpro...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Would you be gay for an hour for one billion dollars, Nancy Mace is so unpopular & other holiday news briefs - * Editor's note* - *Some folks may see the above video as offensive, but I disagree. It's from the Facebook group All African LGBTQ We Have Rights Too a...
Vox

Trump’s war on windmills, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Progressive.org

The Push to Make U.S. College Students Climate Literate - Students and professors at universities across the country are pushing for general education requirements to equip students to combat climate change.
San Antonio Current

VIA offering park and ride service from 4 locations for 2025 Alamo Bowl - [image: VIA Metropolitan Transit wants customer feedback on planned changes to its bus routes.] The matchup between TCU and USC will kick off at 8 p.m. De...
Dissident Voice

Security Is Indivisible — and History Matters - Chancellor Merz, You have spoken repeatedly of Germany’s responsibility for European security. That responsibility cannot be discharged through slogans, ...
San Antonio Report

‘Humongous loss for our community’: Texas orders Eastside charter school to close - Essence Prep was only open for four years on San Antonio's historically disadvantaged East Side. Its leaders say that wasn't enough time. ------------------...
CultureMap Houston

Houston nonprofit's Storybook Gala channels classic romance - *What:* 2025 Storybook Gala: Romeo and Juliet
High Country News

Western Washington faces a long recovery after record-breaking flooding - An unusually swift series of atmospheric rivers hit the region, worsened by warm temperatures. The post Western Washington faces a long recovery after r...
Salon.com

“Disregard of the law”: Schumer asks Senate to pursue legal action against DOJ over Epstein files - The initial release of the long-sought files was widely panned, including by Epstein's victims
Mother Jones

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt - New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where ...
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Applauds Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Executive Order - Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila has issued a statement applauding President Donald Trump’s move to reclassify marijuana from a Sched...
Daily Dot

“We all know why”: Kim Kardashian becomes one of Fortnite’s most-used skins ever - [image: Kim Kardashian Fortnite skins] The Fortnite crossover economy has a new juggernaut: Since launching on Dec. 13, the Icon Series Kim Kardashian ou...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Second Nexus

Bowen Yang Shares Poignant Post Amid His Sudden Departure From 'SNL' After Seven Seasons - There was not a dry eye at 30 Rock during Bowen Yang’s final *Saturday Night Live* episode, which aired this past weekend. Hosted by his *Wicked** co-sta...
Wolf Street

Carry Trade at Risk: Japan’s 10-Year JGB Yield Hits 25-Year High, Yield Curve Steepens, Finance Ministry Verbally Props Up Yen - Ridiculously-behind Bank of Japan is trying to deal with a huge multi-decade monetary mess without crashing global markets.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

New College of Florida 'Statement on the Removal of Books and Library Materials' is Not Credible by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *New College of Florida ‘Statement on the Removal of Books and Library Materials’ Is Not Credible* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.December 22, 2025* *I ...
NPR's Health Shots

GLP-1s don't always work for weight loss. Researchers are trying to figure out why - GLP-1 weight loss drugs have transformed obesity treatment, but not everyone loses lots of weight. Researchers say figuring out why is the key to the futur...
The Texas Signal

The New Laws Of Texas - Many of these new laws represent a mix of hot button issues, like restricting access to reproductive health and bathroom use based on sex and not gender id...
Ballot Access News

Chris Powell, Oklahoma Libertarian Activist, Publishes Article Explaining how Top-Two Injures Minor Party and Independent Candidates and Voters - Chris Powell, a Libertarian Party activist in Oklahoma, has this article explaining the damage top-two systems do to minor parties and the voters who want ...
Futurism

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves - Wheels of steel. The post Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves appeared first on Futurism.
The NM Political Report

Flu hospitalizations eclipse COVID as flu season hits New Mexico - Just in time for some of the busiest days for travel and family get-togethers, flu season is hitting New Mexico hard. National flu surveillance published...
Church and State

Trump is driving the US into creating world disorder!!! - Democrats take over the US House of Representatives, but will that party have enough votes to take over the Senate to indict Trump.
Glasstire

Graduate Student Cohort Selected for 2nd Annual Exhibition at Dallas Contemporary - Dallas Contemporary (DC) has announced eight graduate student artists selected for In the Works, the second annual DC NTX Graduate Student Program exhibi...
OpEd News

US strikes ISIS sites in Syria, while UK sanctions Syrian militias - This article talks about the US military operations in Syria against ISIS
Democracy Chronicles

Ptolomy’s Maps: Inventing Modern Map Design in the 2nd Century - So why didn’t Ptolomy divide each parallel equally? There’d be no point to. In Ptolomy’s day, no one had a way to determine longitude. So what would be the...
The Week

How climate change is affecting Christmas - There may be a slim chance of future white Christmases
Daily Howler

MONDAY: We're so old that we can remember... - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025* *...when Paul Krugman wrote about this:* On December 13, the New York Times ran a guest essay concerning the cost of health i...
Common Dreams

Trump’s Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley’s Electricity Exports - In a formal protest filed today with the U.S. Department of Energy, Public Citizen challenged an application to export electricity by the Wall Street ban...
Grist

Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he’s moving to kill it. - The Trump administration has halted five already approved offshore wind projects despite rising electricity demand.
Daily Cartoonist

The Joy of Dilbert - “The joy of Dilbert: Scott Adams brightened our lives by mocking everyday indignities” James Bovard of The New York Post writes a eulogy for the still-livi...
Undernews

Worst airports for Christmas flight delays revealed -
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Democrats Looking to Coast on Anti-Trump Sentiment - Democratic Party leadership is sending signals that they intend to coast on anti-Trump sentiment rather than serious self-examination, open primaries, and ...
First Draft

An Underdiscussed Factor In The Affordability Debate - More and more of the simple things are economically untenable for American families.
El Paso Matters

As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases - District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, d...
slacktivist

We never burned witches. We burned slaves. - We misremember what happened in Salem because we want to forget what happened in New York City.
Reform Austin

TEXRail Expansion Takes Key Step Forward With Revised $33M Contract - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Plans to extend Fort Worth’s TEXRail line are moving ahead, with Trinity Metro authorizing a re...
World Socialist Web Site

Unite calls off Greater Manchester tram drivers’ strike against fatigue to push through shoddy agreement - “It’s not a victory”, as the Unite union claims, “Nothing has changed”, tram drivers tell WSWS reporters.
The Root

How White Christian Nationalism Co-Opted Nicki Minaj - OPINION: Christ was a significant topic during Nicki Minaj's appearance with Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA event, but both He -- and Nicki -- were to...
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Top Texas environmental stories of 2025: flooding, water and clean energy infrastructure grow, new state parks, polluters held accountable - The post RELEASE: Top Texas environmental stories of 2025: flooding, water and clean energy infrastructure grow, new state parks, polluters held accounta...
Liberation News

Who stands to benefit from a U.S. war on Venezuela? - If Trump's war drive reaches its conclusion and an all-out conflict begins, huge numbers of people in Venezuela and the United States will suffer greatly. ...
The Daily Poster

Who Stole The Slopes? - Corporate power has made winter sports like skiing and snowboarding the activities of the rich and famous.
Election Law Blog

“Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office” - NYT: Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion proje...
Angry Bear

Two important employment indicators from November: one says continued expansion, the second recession - – by New Deal democrat This is going to be a sparse week for data, with the exception of tomorrow’s long-delayed Q3 GDP report, and jobless claims on W...
The AltWorld

MAGA civil war ERUPTS as Netanyahu heads to Washington | Ep. 141 - MAGA civil war ERUPTS as Netanyahu heads to Washington | Ep. 141 The post MAGA civil war ERUPTS as Netanyahu heads to Washington | Ep. 141 appeared first...
The Progressive Wing

12/22-28 News Roundup & Open Thread – Plus Holiday favs Tunes - Hello! Still plenty of news swirling. Later in the week, we can post our fav holiday tunes on Xmas Eve and Xmas day. Join us in the comments below the jump.
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 22, 2025: Best of Texas Standard’s and The Texas Newsroom’s reporting - 2025 saw no shortage of important stories covered by Texas Standard reporters and our friends across The Texas Newsroom. We’re highlighting a few of them t...
Capital & Main

Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics - A president with strong Christian support is driving an aggressive crackdown on immigrants who are disproportionately Catholic. How is this playing out i...
Bonddad

Two important employment indicators from November: one says continued expansion, the second recession - * - by New Deal democrat* This is going to be a sparse week for data, with the exception of tomorrow’s long-delayed Q3 GDP report, and jobless claim...
NORML

Ohio: Governor Signs Legislation Undermining Voter-Approved Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Law - [image: The flag of Ohio pulls back to reveal marijuana leaves][image: The flag of Ohio pulls back to reveal marijuana leaves]Among the more significant ...
SCOTUSblog

Redistricting cases head for rock bottom - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Mondoweiss

California’s AB 715 claims to combat antisemitism but is a direct attack on free speech regarding Palestine - [image: California Governor Gavin Newsom (Photo: Wikimedia)]Proponents claim that California’s AB 715 aims to combat antisemitism by strengthening anti-dis...
ProPublica

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did - The post The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did appeared first on ProPublica.
Ian Welsh

Western Leadership Is The Most Worthless In My Life - Which is saying something, because worthless has been in charge of the West for generations. There are no leaders in charge of any major Western country w...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison - It's not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box. There have to be consequences that keep this from ever happening again.
Democracy Now!

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado - Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break...
Scheerpost.com

Report: Netanyahu To Ask Trump To Support Another Attack on Iran - The Israeli PM is expected to make the case during a December 29 meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
The Conversation

How the ‘slayer rule’ might play a role in determining who will inherit wealth from Rob Reiner and his wife - These rules have a long history in the United States. They played a role in the notorious murders by the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson.
Alternet

New study torpedoes Trump’s claims in Supreme Court lawsuit - President Donald Trump signed countless executive orders after returning to the White House, one of which declared an end to birthright citizenship. But ...
Rallblog

Nothing To See Here! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2025 - In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many month...
Space City Weather

It’s beginning to feel not like Christmas, everywhere you go - In brief: In this morning’s post we provide an update on our toasty weather for this week. However, if the unseasonable heat has you hot and bothered, we n...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofounder Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Accelerates Ocean Solutions - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. The ocean provides half... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofound...
WhoWhatWhy

Review of a Week’s Mayhem: Oil Grabs, Mass Shootings, and a Little Wag-the-Dog - [image: Russ Baker, Founder, CEO, Editor-in-Chief, WhoWhatWhy] Ginning up a case for war with Venezuela, and a few notes on miscellaneous madness. Review ...
Dorf on Law

Remedies Revisited in the Removal Case - My latest *Verdict *column assesses President Trump's proposal to use tariff revenue to fund $2,000 payments to Americans earning under $100,000. I chose...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Crackdown on the Left Has Decades of Precedent -
Skeptophilia

The advantage of simplicity - One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is goal-oriented. You hear it all the time. Giraffes evolved longer necks so they could...
Off The Kuff

The full slate - In case you hadn’t heard. A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year, the first time in modern state history that ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 22 December 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Almost entirely, in fact. If it weren'...
Crooked Media

Our Favorite Things, 2025 - The post Our Favorite Things, 2025 appeared first on Crooked Media.
Duck of Minerva

Remembering Our Lost Colleagues - I started this post sort of confessionally. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID an...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
Counterpunch

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails - Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide currently on hunger strike in UK jails. ...
jobsanger

Trump Administration Thinks Rights Are Only For The Wealthy -
Informed Comment

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30 - Since my advent here on that first day wasn't up to me, but my unwilling departure has been firmly decreed...
Claytoonz

Limp Noodle Monument - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Antiwar.com

How Washington’s Syrian Caper Debunks the Case for Empire - Sometimes a microcosm sheds a powerful light on large-scale macro issues. That was surely the case with respect to last weekend’s news that five US militar...
See You In 2020

War on Iran & Venezuela is the U.S. banking regime’s attempt to manage an upheaval that’s beyond its scope - If the U.S. empire decides to pursue war with Venezuela or Iran, it will be risking a new level of resistance from the forces of popular revolution. Res...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Suecia violó sus propias leyes al darle el Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado - Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, e...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Workers World

12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia - [image: 12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia] Philadelphia A rally in Philadelphia on Nov. 28 kicked off the 103-mile March for Mumia to ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Rewire

FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnancy. But Doctors Call Them a Lifeline. - “Treating mental illness in pregnancy is not a luxury,” said one doctor. “It’s a necessity.” The post FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnan...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
TalkLeft

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
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...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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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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...
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...
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...
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 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.
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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...
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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Whoever did this is going to Hell

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