Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Off to Beantown

Posting will be sporadic to non-existent through the holiday weekend as the lovely Mrs. Diddie and I take some vacation time in Bahstin.

Try to get by without me.

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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

Futurism

White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbing, Instead of Looking Brave, During Arrest - The White House edited a protester's face to make it look like she's sobbing. The post White House Uses AI to Alter Protester’s Face So That She’s Sobbi...
Courthouse News

Somali asylum-seeker denied immigration benefits - FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled an immigration judge properly found a Somalian immigrant permanently ineligible for Immigration ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Council meeting to discuss ICE operations descends into chaos - [image: Council goes into emergency recess on Thursday afternoon.] Council has already called two emergency recesses as the capacity crowd inside the cham...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest - Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted ...
Mediaite

‘Gross Abuse of Power’: Minneapolis Mayor Condemns Trump DOJ for Indicting Protesters Who Stormed Church - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) condemned the Department of Justice on Thursday after the arrest of two community organizers behind a church protest. T...
Salon.com

“Horrific”: ICE detained 5-year-old to use as “bait” to ensnare family seeking asylum - The child and his father were reportedly transported to a facility in Texas
Eschaton

Would You Like To Try That Again, James - Obviously that they're constant shameless liars isn't good, but he did feel some pressure to walk this back a bit. Speaking at the White House, Vance appe...
Techdirt.

Since Last May, ICE Officers Have Been Told They Don’t Need Warrants To Enter Homes - The thing afforded the highest protections of the Fourth Amendment is a person’s home. This isn’t even a controversial statement. It has been that way ever...
Mondoweiss

How Israel and the U.S. are using the ‘shock doctrine’ to impose a new administration in Gaza - [image: Ali Shaath, head of the new National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, or the so-called "technocratic committee," meets with committee memb...
Raw Story

Trump biographer says president believes his own hype — and it could sink the GOP - President Donald Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff delivered a blunt warning this week, arguing that Trump’s genuine belief in his own rosy economic rheto...
Mediagazer

Bari Weiss says she's stepping away from her podcast for a "few short months", citing her "huge responsibility" and opportunity at CBS News (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter) - Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: *Bari Weiss says she's stepping away from her podcast for a “few short months”, citing her “huge responsibility” and opport...
memeorandum

Vance: Trump administration will, when 'justified,' discipline ICE officers who make 'mistakes' (Christian Datoc/Washington Examiner) - Christian Datoc / Washington Examiner: *Vance: Trump administration will, when ‘justified,’ discipline ICE officers who make ‘mistakes’* — MINNEAPOLIS ...
Deadline Politics

Judge Rejects Justice Department Effort To Charge Don Lemon After He Covered Minnesota Anti-ICE Protest Inside A Church - A magistrate judge has rejected Justice Department efforts to charge Don Lemon, who has faced threats of criminal prosecution by Trump officials after he l...
Novara Media

Trump’s Real Estate Scheme for Gaza Revealed at Davos - Jared Kushner reveals there’s no plan B for “peace” in Gaza. Plus: Andy Burnham’s path to PM has become a step clearer, Zack Polankski calls for Palantir t...
Scheerpost.com

Inside the CIA’s Blind Spots: John Kiriakou on Torture, Greenland, and the New Imperial Playbook - Posted by Joshua Scheer Welcome to Deep Focus, where former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou cuts through the fog of official narratives and ans...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: We continue to beat a dead horse! - *THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026* *Ty Cobb is plain spoken: *Ty Cobb isn't a medical specialist. He's a high-end Washington lawyer who worked under President ...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio advances discussion on a centralized jail diversion and recovery system - A CCR from Councilmember Teri Castillo advanced Tuesday as officials expressed support for a centralized diversion and recovery system. --------------------...
Houston Public Media

Winter weather could impact turnout for special election runoff in 18th Congressional District - About 4,000 out of 400,000 registered voters in the Houston district, or 1%, had cast ballots after the first day of early voting Wednesday.
The Verge

Fable is coming to PS5 when it finally launches this fall - Xbox showed off new footage of its Fable reboot during its Developer Direct on Thursday and announced that the game is set to launch this autumn for Xbox, ...
NPR's Health Shots

Heart disease deaths declined. And here's how to reduce your risk of the #1 killer - An annual report from the American Heart Association shows deaths from heart disease and stroke are down, encouraging news after the rate went up in the ea...
Axios

A small group of Dems looks to break from their party on ICE funding - A handful of House Democrats are readying to break with their party's leadership and vote for a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security ...
naked capitalism

What Davos 2026 Can Tell Us About the World That Is Coming - Davos 2026 points to a new world order—technocratic, executive and corporate—powered by AI and digital currencies
First Draft

ICE Is Using Kids As Bait - ICE is taking children and deliberately mistreating them while in custody.
Mother Jones

They Fled Venezuela to Escape a Regime of Fear, Only to Relive It in Trump’s America - A little girl can’t go to the park with her parents. A mother trembles while taking out the trash. A father peeks through the blinds to see if anyone is wa...
Second Nexus

Italian Prime Minister's Sarcastic Remarks About Distancing Italy from The U.S. Resurface After Trump's NATO Gripe - Sarcastic remarks Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made earlier this month in response to calls for Italy to distance itself from the U.S. resurface...
Consortium News

Going Down, Down Under - The Australian Parliament has passed a new hate crimes law that could potentially throw critics of Israel in prison for years, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe ...
The Week

‘We know how to make our educational system world-class again’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
The Hill

Greenland's PM says terms of Trump deal unclear: 'We have some red lines' - Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said Thursday that the terms of President Trump’s deal on the future of Greenland are unclear. “Nobody else ...
CultureMap Houston

Lively new seafood restaurant rides into prime Houston location - An Arizona-based seafood restaurant has set its sights on Houston. *Buck & Rider* is the latest addition to *Central Park Post Oak*, a 17-acre mixed-use de...
Rewire

Why Conservatives Want to Ban Trans Girls from Sports (Podcast) - Here’s a hint: It’s about opening the door to keeping all women and girls out of public life. The post Why Conservatives Want to Ban Trans Girls from Spo...
Texas Observer

Uvalde Trial Raises Question of Whether Police Stop School Shootings - Earlier this month, a few dozen police officers, school district representatives, and one pro-Trump candidate for Congress crowded together in a room abo...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 22, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Polar vortex returns to slam much of the US with extreme...
Political Wire

Trump Sues Jamie Dimon for $5 Billion - “President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon in a $5 billion lawsuit filed Thursday, accusing the financial institution of deban...
Bracing Views

Building a Bigger War Hammer - Might Makes Right? BILL ASTORE JAN 21, 2026 Tuesday, I went on Judge Napolitano’s show, and we talked about several challenging issues. Among them, the Tru...
Crooked Media

Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation - The post Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Under EPA’s Zeldin, Pollution Enforcement Dying a Quick Death - Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration, according ...
Al Jazeera English

How a strategic hill decided the Thai-Cambodia ceasefire - Hill 350, a strategic high point on the Thailand-Cambodia border, was fiercely contested in fighting last year.
Angry Bear

More evidence of a positive “regime change” in jobless claims: is it tied to the immigration crackdown? - – by New Deal democrat We will get the very important personal income and spending updates for the government shutdown months later this morning, which ...
NORML

Feds Propose Amending 2nd Amendment Ban for Cannabis Consumers, Others - [image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint]The ATF acknowledges that a change in the federal ban is nece...
The Greanville Post

The best analysis on China US competition - HUA BIN—[Most leading Western "China experts"] barely realize their frames of reference, such as the Thucydides Trap or Aggressive Realism have very limite...
The Daily Poster

The Beltway Just Got A Tech Upgrade - Big Tech firms dramatically increased their federal lobbying spending once Trump returned to office.
Undernews

They ransacked the U.S. Capitol and now want the government to pay them back - Wasington Post - At least eight Jan. 6 defendants are pursuing refunds of the financial penalties paid as part of their sentences, according to a Post rev...
Bonddad

No mini-recession during the government shutdown, as consumers raided their piggy banks to spend - * - by New Deal democrat* The news from this morning’s personal income and spending report for October and November was almost all good - with one ma...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 226: “ICE: Trump’s Stormtroopers” - LIVE 2 pm Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: The DMZ America Podcast dives headfirst into one of the most explosive issues roc...
Socialist Alternative

Minneapolis Letter Carriers Demand ICE Off Postal Property! - On a frigid, sub-zero December morning, in the parking lot of the Lake Street Post Office, a group of Minneapolis letter carriers in the National Associati...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
The Texas Signal

Robert E. Howard’s Conan And The Texas Connection - The popular image of Conan is intrinsically tied to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s portrayal in the 1982 film and its sequel, which pretty much ignores how much T...
Capital & Main

On Eve of Strike, Kaiser Nurses Sound Alarm on Patient Care - More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers plan to walk out next week following months-long stalemate with Kaiser. The post On Eve of Strike, Kaiser...
Project Censored

The AI War Machine as Superorganism - Antoine Bousquet observed in The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (2022), “Pointing on the horizon is a fully ...
Dissident Voice

Bondi Beach Massacre - The aftermath of a crime has five objectives — define the crime and its extent, find out who did it, learn the motive, convict the assailant(s), and asce...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: What fewer births and an aging population mean for El Paso’s health care future - Understanding El Paso’s demographic shifts can help leaders better prepare health systems, caregiving services, and family supports to meet the communit...
SCOTUSblog

Justices dubious about forcing actuaries to use out-of-date assumptions in assessing costs of leaving a multiemployer pension plan - Tuesday’s argument in M&K Employee Solutions v Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund showed a bench skeptical of forcing actuaries to use out-of-date...
The AltWorld

With Maduro’s abduction, the ‘rules-based world order’ is officially dead - The globe is once again being carved up into spheres of influence – but this time, European […] The post With Maduro’s abduction, the ‘rules-based world ...
Election Law Blog

Quote of the Day - “My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is no...
Slate

An Infamous Climber Made History With a Death-Defying Ropeless Summit. Now He’s on to Something Far More Perplexing. - The guy from Free Solo is about to climb one of the world’s tallest buildings. Is that foolish?
WhoWhatWhy

Newsom: Back and Forth With Trump Is ‘Deeply Unbecoming’ - [image: Gavin Newsom] Hoping to cement his frontrunner status in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary, California Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled to Davos f...
Dorf on Law

Constitutional Default Rules: Second Amendment Edition - On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *Wolford v. Lopez*. The case involves a 2023 Hawaii law that was aptly described by the Ninth Circui...
The Root

53 Years After *Roe v. Wade*, Black Women in the South Still Suffer the Most Without It - On the 53rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, health concerns for Black women are still the most pressing but the most under funded and forgotten....
Glasstire

2026 Spring Preview: Five Texas Exhibitions to See this Season - Brandon Zech and Jessica Fuentes discuss their most anticipated Texas exhibitions opening in the spring season, including solo shows by Mary Ellen Carrol...
Texas Standard

Immigrant’s death in ICE custody ruled homicide by El Paso medical examiner - Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner...
Democracy Now!

Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against "Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime" - Deadly anti-government protests continue to rock Iran in the midst of the country’s spiraling economic crisis. Thousands of civilians are believed to have ...
The Conversation

Trump’s insistence on personal loyalty from ambassadors could crimp US foreign policy - Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty must be to the US.
Space City Weather

Latest information on a hard freeze coming to Houston, with potential ice impacts on Sunday and Monday - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the likelihood of Saturday being fine to get out and about in Houston, and whether that is likely to change on Sunday....
ArcaMax

Trump Turns Us Into Villains Who Will Ultimately Lose - A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Grounds for Davos - Chappatte had the home field advantage in Davos and anticipated Trump’s disruptive arrival with this cartoon for Le Temps of Geneva, and, though it ran Wed...
Earth 911

Recycling Mystery: Silicone Products - Silicone is now found in many homes, but recycling it can be tricky. It’s used... The post Recycling Mystery: Silicone Products appeared first on Earth911.
Ian Welsh

Understanding the Competent Concierge: Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney - Carney gave an important speech yesterday, which you can read here. That lead to a lot of people praising him for his honesty in noting that the rules-base...
Vox

My new neighbors are robots - The robots in my building are multiplying. It started with one roughly the size of a doghouse that cleans the floors, and not very well — a commercial-grad...
The Smirking Chimp

Will No One Hold Trump Accountable for Handing Putin Everything He Wanted? -
Skeptophilia

On the loosh - There's a general rule-of-thumb that if you are trying to get people to believe some outlandish idea, you do *not* increase your chances of success by al...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Leah Shapiro - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
ProPublica

How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump” - The post How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump” appeared first on ProPublica.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Handicapping The 2026 State Legislative Map: A First Look - In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or ...
Grist

Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that. - Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.
Countercurrents

American, Israeli Elites: Embrace the Truth - The Board of Peace established by US president, Donald Trump, to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza will not overcome the killings in that strip or...
High Country News

‘Train Dreams’ is an ode to the lonely labor of forestry - In the new film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, I saw my own Forest Service career reflected back at me. The post ‘Train Dreams’ is an ode to the...
jobsanger

Donald Trump Is A Dream Come True For Russia And China -
World Socialist Web Site

Zohran Mamdani intervenes in effort to shut down the New York nurses strike - Mamdani’s visit to the picket line Tuesday and his collaboration with NYSNA paves the way for a snap shutdown of the powerful strike.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Another “No Kings” Weekend - Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting the situation ...
Informed Comment

Why Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership - The last 12 months have shown that Trump's party is bent on inflicting vast cruelty while aiming to crush democracy and the rule of law
Counterpunch

Vermont AFL-CIO Stands in Solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike on January 23, 2026 - The Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Board has voted to issue the following statement in solidarity with the Minneapolis AFL-CIO actions and General Strike bein...
Alternet

Republican who called Muslims 'savages' seeks terrorist designation for advocacy group - A Republican state lawmaker who had faced criticism for calling Muslims “savages” and making a series of other Islamophobic comments pushed forward his l...
Portside

Trump Backs Off Europe Tariffs After Reaching Purported Greenland ‘Framework’ - Trump Backs Off Europe Tariffs After Reaching Purported Greenland ‘Framework’ Mark Brody Wed, 01/21/2026 - 23:19
Claytoonz

Crack in the NATO Alliance - 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...
Workers World

PDF of January 22 print edition - [image: PDF of January 22 print edition] Download the PDF When people are occupied RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED! In the U.S. Minneapolis unity vs ICE terror New...
Ballot Access News

New York State Trial Court Invalidates U.S. House District Boundaries of the Eleventh District - On January 21, a New York state trial court invalidated the boundaries of the Eleventh U.S. House district. He ruled that the boundaries violate the New Yo...
Antiwar.com

Between Conciliation and Coercion in Ukraine Policy - Reprinted from The Realist Review. Superimposing a coherent narrative where none likely exists in order to explain the policies of President Donald J. Trum...
Progressive.org

HUD Is Making a Mess of Housing Policy - When the federal government becomes unpredictable, homeless services are put at risk.
slacktivist

‘Call to Unity’ re-enactors on MLK Day - In every age, the Very Serious People have insisted that protesting injustice is far worse than injustice itself.
The NM Political Report

More restrictions or fewer rules?: New Mexico lawmakers introduce competing visions on guns - New Mexico legislators are weighing four bills that would significantly reshape the state’s gun laws, with proposals ranging from permitless carry to en...
Popular Resistance

Saudi Arabia Asserts Dominant Role In Horn of Africa, Red Sea - On December 26, 2025, Israel ignited chaos in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that he was recogn...
Church and State

Words and Men Worth Remembering - King did not focus only on racism. He died while in Memphis supporting a strike of sanitation workers striving for a better life.
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Liberation News

Silicon Valley’s AI boom is an environmental time bomb - The U.S. is home to the largest concentration of data centers globally.
Wolf Street

Pending Home Sales Plunge across the US. Midwest Sees Worst Sales on Record, Northeast 2nd Worst - For the US overall, worst sales for any December on record. The housing market took a bad turn, from already low levels.
Earthworks

One Year of Trump: Disaster & Determination to Rebuild - One year into Trump’s presidency, the administration has moved aggressively to dismantle public health, environmental, and climate protections. The Trump...
Infidel753

The Greenland crisis - Trump's sudden eruption of befuddled neo-imperialism toward Greenland has the potential to be the most damaging episode of either of his terms as presiden...
LareDOS

Congressional District 28 election promises a clown show: Trump pardons indicted seated candidate and endorses challenger - “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” ~ George Orwell
The Progressive Wing

1/21-1/22 News Roundup & Open Thread - Bernie Sanders on The Theo Von Podcast: Bernie on The Late Show and More news/videos/etc. in the comments!
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
See You In 2020

Gen Z supports Palestine’s resistance, and this will translate into a new mode of revolutionary politics - The reaction towards Palestine’s holocaust is creating a new political paradigm, one that will bring the anti-Zionist cause to victory if we guide it in...
Trivial Knot

Estimating true ratings - If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff that would float to the top would be pretty o...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ads from Atlanta influencer recruiting Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest. ...
Democracy Chronicles

Iran’s Upheaval and the Test of Global Resolve - The Iranian people have never been this resolute in their objective, which is toppling the regime. The regime has already fallen in the minds of the public.
Discourse

An Important and Exciting Update About Discourse Blog - Why we decided to go all-in on our podcast and what it means for the blog going forward.
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
Environment Texas

2026 Program Agenda - Environment Texas’ program priorities for 2026 include stopping plastic pellet pollution, expanding wind and solar energy, saving the bees, creating wild...
DeSmogBlog

As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed? - On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where i...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Idavox

J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback - Ever since Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for assaulting police officers on Jan. 6,... The post J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback appeared first o...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

America Is Rapidly Collapsing as Trump Creates His New World Order - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: East Street - [image: East Street]
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of Am...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FRAUDS ON PARADE EDITION. - *24 years? Really?* I was grateful, in this grim and gloomy week, for the laughs afforded by Evan Mandery’s story in Politico, “They Wanted a University ...
The Militant

Montreal protest: ‘Hands off Venezuela!’ - MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to a...
MintPress News

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again - From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran. The post The Regime Cha...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
Debunking Christianity

1. Horrendous Suffering 2. Catastrophic Superstitions 3. A Vicious God - *Christian theology is shattered by these three factors* For centuries, the devout—determined to preserve and protect their faith—have ignored reality....
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:25 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Daily Dot

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

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Culture and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Media Lens

Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ - After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had n...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition - Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabil...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Reform Austin

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

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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 ...
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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