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

DHS shutdown 'all but certain' as senators prepare to skip town: report - A partial government shutdown is considered "all but certain" after senators said they were preparing to leave Washington, D.C., for the week. Sen. Susan...
memeorandum

Trump repeals EPA's ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes (Ella Nilsen/CNN) - Ella Nilsen / CNN: *Trump repeals EPA's ability to regulate climate pollution, teeing up a legal battle with global stakes* — Federal agencies Donald T...
The Verge

Two powerful, OLED-equipped gaming laptops are hundreds off - Whether you’re considering a 16-inch gaming laptop, or a more compact 14-inch model, there’s a deal with your name on it happening right now at Best Buy. T...
Futurism

It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon - Mortifying. The post It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Childre...
First Draft

We Wuz Robbed - We were robbed, both of a gold medal and of the chance to not have real creeps taking the glory.
Eschaton

The Discourse - I think it is probably correct to observe that the Sensible Centrists think Hasan Piker and Nick Fuentes are two sides of the same coin . "Horseshoe theory...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio airport seeking applicants to portray its new mascot - SAT hasn't yet unveiled the details about its new mascot, but the concept isn't as odd as it might sound. The post San Antonio airport seeking applican...
Slate

Help! I Agreed to Live With My Boyfriend’s Family to Save Some Money. But It’s Come at an Extremely Creepy Price. - Prudie says: “I would go as far as to say, stop having sex during everyone’s waking hours.”
Techdirt.

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn’t Do What DHS Says It Could, Deployed It Anyway - The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually slid...
Mediaite

Karoline Leavitt Shares a CNN Clip to Pitch the Popularity of Voter ID Laws - Trump makes it clear as day almost everyday that they are no fans of CNN, but Karoline Leavitt took to sharing a clip from the network to back voter ID l...
Salon.com

The shrunken ambition of Ryan Murphy’s “Love Story” - A decade after "The People v. O. J. Simpson" comes an empty romance whose existence hangs on the Kennedy name
Common Dreams

Repeal of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Will Have Devastating Impact - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today revoked its long-standing, science-based conclusion that planet-warming greenhouse gases threaten pu...
The NM Political Report

Promising to keep “naming names,” Stansbury shares list of “prominent names” from FBI Epstein files - New Mexico’s U.S. Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury says she will “name names” of prominent persons improperly redacted from the Epstein files by the U.S....
The Week

Bondi, Democrats clash over Epstein in hearing - Attorney General Pam Bondi ignored survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and demanded that Democrats apologize to Trump
Political Wire

Byron Donalds May Have Had Someone Else Vote for Him - “Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) may have improperly allowed another member to cast two votes for him on Friday morning, a serious violation of House ethics rule...
The Hill

US troops withdraw from al-Tanf military base, Syrian army takes control - United States troops withdrew from a key military base in southeastern Syria as the Syrian army took control, shedding the U.S. presence in the country dep...
Mediagazer

US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices (Axios) - Axios: *US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voi...
NPR's Health Shots

Olympic athletes push their bodies to the limit. Should we? - Elite athletes often push through pain to achieve victory. But, everyday exercisers need to distinguish between soreness which is normal and pain which is ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: John Feffer, Trump Goes Rogue as a Globocop - A mere 15 years ago, during an epoch that now seems as distant as the Paleozoic era, an American president attempted to use military power to prevent a dic...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Quiet Minnesota suburbs turned into conflict zone by ICE crackdown - Activity of immigration agents has left no part of the state unscathed even as border czar says surge would be ending In one suburb of Minneapolis, the s...
Second Nexus

MAGA Rep. Blasted After Saying Republicans Are Now 'Investigating' Bad Bunny's Halftime Show - In an interview with Real America's Voice, Missouri Republican Representative Mark Alford said House Republicans are now "investigating" rapper Bad Bunny...
The Daily Poster

Americans, Not Foreign Exporters, Paid For Trump’s Tariffs - U.S. consumers and businesses footed 95 percent of the cost of Trump’s tariffs between January and August of last year.
Independent Political Report

Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts Announces 2026 Convention Details, Internal Communication Changes - The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts will meet in Worcester for its 2026 state convention, which will include a coalition-building event, and is also...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Democrats will select 3 nominees for district court judgeships - District judges wield enormous power, but voters often know little about the candidates. These are the Democrats running in three contested primaries fo...
Al Jazeera English

Corbyn alleges UK ‘complicity’ after Streeting’s admission of Gaza abuses - Jeremy Corbyn asks government minister Wes Streeting why he did not resign despite acknowledging Israeli war crimes.
Houston Public Media

UT Austin consolidates ethnic and gender studies, causing uncertainty for hundreds of students - The affected departments include African and African Diaspora Studies; Mexican American and Latina/o Studies; Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and se...
CultureMap Houston

Hope Uncorked pours on generosity for Houston cancer charity - If wine is a love language, Hope Uncorked spoke it fluently.
Courthouse News

UK nursery school worker jailed for 18 years for ‘wicked’ serial child sex abuse - Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government was considering making security cameras mandatory in nursery schools, with multiple cases of abuse coming t...
Crooked Media

McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson - The post McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson appeared first on Crooked Media.
San Antonio Report

How to find your personal sample ballot for the 2026 primary - Everything you need to know about which races are on your personal ballot, who is running and where to vote in the March 3 primary. ------------------------...
Axios

The office job decline may solve a mystery of the 2020s economy - Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Note: "White-collar core" includes finance, insurance, information, and professional and business services; Chart: Axios ...
Vox

Trump just blew up a load-bearing pillar of climate regulation in the US. What happens now? - The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health. Today, the Environmen...
Undernews

A different candidate - *Sam Smith - I get a bunch of pitches for folks running for Congress *but this one stopped me longer than usual. It's from Don Osborn who's running for S...
Capital & Main

Trump Administration ‘Wanted to Use Us as a Trophy,’ Says Minnesota School Board Member Arrested Over Anti-ICE Protest - Trahern Crews, a Black Lives Matter leader arrested by federal agents last month, described having his legs shackled and being asked if he was an “immigr...
Deadline Politics

Abigail Slater Says She’s Departing As Justice Department’s Antitrust Chief; Exit Comes As Division Reviews Netflix-Warner Bros. Merger - Abigail Slater, who has served as the head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in Donald Trump’s second term, announced her departure on Thursda...
Bonddad

Leading sector benchmark job revisions were almost all seriously negative - - *by New Deal democrat* Before I get to the main point at hand, let me make a quick note about this morning’s existing home sales report for Januar...
Daily Howler

PROOF OF LIFE: Is it time to call Jake Tapper home? - *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2026* *We pretend to listen:* This very morning, the evocative translation of the dramatic statement was banging around in our he...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Palestine Action Ban Protected Arms Industry - Channel 4’s documentary dissecting the proscription of Palestine Action revealed the impetus behind it was to protect pro-Israel and pro-arms interests, bu...
Novara Media

Activists Block Entry to Kent Arms Factory Making Drone Tech for Israel - A crowd of around 150 people blocked the entrances to a Kent weapons factory that supplies drone technology for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, preventing staff...
Dissident Voice

L’espirit Gaulois - Not much happened that day. The golden boys arrived; polished shoes, great vigor. (They tried to take what their elders sat on; wanted their cut of the u...
Project Censored

Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been re...
Election Law Blog

A Justice Alito-Authored Majority Opinion in Callais Effectively Killing Off the Voting Rights Act Might Not Get 5 Votes; What Choices Do the Court’s Conservatives Have? - Back in October, I had a post after the second oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais (currently pending before the Supreme Court) entitled How I Expect t...
Socialist Alternative

After Two Years Of War & Genocide: How Can the Palestinians Win Liberation? - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
SCOTUSblog

Text, history, and party presentation - A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. As has been observed by Rory Little at SCO...
naked capitalism

Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled? - Troubling global warming updates from the authoritative James Hansen.
Glasstire

Top Five: February 12, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Jamal Cyrus: how you soundInman Gallery (Houston)Februa...
WhoWhatWhy

To Blow Out the GOP in the Midterms, Democrats Have to Develop a Winning Message - [image: AOC, Bernie Sanders] Democrats can win (relatively fair and free) midterms solely on the weakness of Donald Trump and the GOP. But if they managed ...
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
ArcaMax

Nudity Is the New Submission - Some listeners who are not entirely sold on Chappell Roan's artistry brush off her songs and bawdy stage persona as "campy and loud." They see a flashy, at...
The Root

Florida Day Care Workers Allegedly Tortured Kids, But Their Next Move Was Even More Sickening, Cops Say - Three Florida day care workers are accused of smacking young kids and "torturing" them so often, the children began to "expect it." Read more...
Rewire

Why I Masturbate on Valentine’s Day - A guaranteed orgasm is better than waiting for a box of chocolates that may never arrive. The post Why I Masturbate on Valentine’s Day appeared first on...
Democracy Now!

"I Was Just So Disgusted": Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic - As we continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked o...
Angry Bear

Coffee for your brain - I started drinking coffee when I was in high school. Back then, it was either instant coffee or percolator coffee. One Christmas when I was in college, m...
The Conversation

Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE America Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote - The House has passed a bill to require proof of citizenship for voting. Although it likely won’t become law, the bill raises constitutional questions.
Space City Weather

Valentine’s Day continues to look rainy, with thunderstorms possible - In brief: In today’s post we provide some timing details on what to expect with Saturday’s front, which should bring a line of storms along with it. We als...
Rallblog

ICE Gone Wild in El Paso | 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...
Mother Jones

Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacio...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Constitutional Nightmare’: Expert’s ‘Eerie Warning’ on Trump’s Plan To Rig the Midterms -
Infidel753

Some straight talk on who I am, and why I'm not a political blogger - First, some personal history. Long-time readers already know some of this, newer ones probably not. I don't know whether I've ever had what most people w...
Earth 911

Taking Your First Bite of Upcycled Food: Understanding the Certification - In 2023, U.S. households, retailers, and restaurants wasted approximately 73.9 million tons of food—about 31%... The post Taking Your First Bite of Upcyc...
Skeptophilia

Echoes of the ancestor - One of the most persuasive pieces of evidence of the common ancestry of all life on Earth is genetic overlap -- and the fact that the percent overlap get...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Todd Ivey - I’ve said before that I almost always end up doing more interviews for a given cycle than I originally planned for, for a variety of reasons. As such, toda...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing: The Outlook for Electoral Accountability in 2026 - Midterm elections often act as a brake on presidential power, but extreme partisan polarization calls into question whether the 2026 midterm will serve i...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Attorney General Speaks - In case you missed it, Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in order to throw an astonishing Mean Girl Hissy Fit because Repre...
ProPublica

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. - The post Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won’t lower prices - There’s no two ways about it: Eating more beef is bad for the planet and the climate.
Countercurrents

UAPA: Permanent Emergency and the Erosion of Liberty - The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967—better known as UAPA—has today become the most powerful weapon in the hands of the Indian state in the name ...
Portside

How the U.S. Weaponizes Starvation and Aid in Gaza & Cuba - How the U.S. Weaponizes Starvation and Aid in Gaza & Cuba Mark Brody Thu, 02/12/2026 - 03:05
The AltWorld

Russia Sees Through US “Diplomacy” and Washington’s Continued Pursuit of Global Domination - Recently Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made revealing comments regarding continued US global ambition for domination across […] The post Russia ...
Wolf Street

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q4 2025 - One of the most fundamental changes resulting from the Financial Crisis was the transfer of mortgage risk from banks to taxpayers.
Counterpunch

Will Cuba Survive? - Since the triumph of their revolution in 1959, Cubans have infuriated U.S. leaders with their specialized genius in overcoming catastrophe, whether it ta...
jobsanger

Media Must Expose The Trump/MAGA Voter Fraud Lie -
World Socialist Web Site

Pentagon weapons test forces closure of El Paso Airport - The seven-hour shutdown was ordered by the FAA out of concern that US military anti-drone weapons might hit commercial air traffic.
Informed Comment

The Iranian People between the Violence of the State and the Violence of Empire - People were gunned down in a systematic way during these protests on a scale unseen since the 1980s
Workers World

PDF of February 12 print issue - [image: PDF of February 12 print issue] Download the PDF WW Commentary What Trump’s racist video reveals In the U.S. Houston students rally for kidnapped c...
High Country News

New Mexico demands fix for federal nuclear waste management - The state will also fine the Department of Energy millions for violating groundwater standards. The post New Mexico demands fix for federal nuclear wast...
Brad Blog

'Let the Kids with Asthma Suffer': Trump to Reverse EPA's Landmark 'Endangerment Finding': 'BradCast' 2/11/2026 - There is, as usual, too much going on at once. That is, of course, by design of the sick, criminal gangster in the Oval Office. But it means that some of t...
Alternet

Conservative demands Trump explain why he's protecting Epstein associates - National Review writer Noah Rothman admits Democrats are tearing President Donald Trump to shreds for clinging to friends and confidants of convicted sex...
Claytoonz

President Poopy Pants - 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...
The Greanville Post

THE PRINCE OF DORKNESS - PAUL EDWARDS—From Harry Truman, who used atomic bombs on prostrate Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of innocents, to Bush, Obama and Biden, with their ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. House Passes Bill Requiring Voters to Prove Citizenship When Registering to Vote, and to Show Photo I.D. Before Voting - On February 11, the U.S. House passed HR 7296, the “Save America Act” which requires people who wish to register to vote to show proof of citizenship, and ...
LareDOS

Ice melts. - Eventually.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Bisexual Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn blasts her haters: 'They hate to see woke b**ches winning'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn has a message for her haters. *Bisexual figure skater flaunts gold medal at her haters: “They hate to see woke b***hes ...
Scheerpost.com

Inside the New Epstein Files: What the Unredacted Names Reveal About America’s Ruling Class - In this second installment of our weekly deep dive into the Epstein files, Robert Scheer and media scholar Nolan Higdon unpack a wave of newly unredacted d...
Antiwar.com

1953 Redux – Neocons Want To Saddle Iran With the Son of the Persian Stalin - It’s getting a little old at this point, but as the Deep State log rolls for another U.S. attack on Iran, it is promoting a new Iranian national savior, on...
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Sludge

These Cities and States Hold Contracts With ICE - More than a dozen governments, many with “welcoming city” policies, still hold active contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Church and State

Supreme Court Is Going to New Lengths to Hide Its Inner Workings From Scrutiny - The new agreement now reportedly threatens legal action against any employee who reveals confidential information.
Progressive.org

Why Democrats Should Be Resisting AI - If Big Tech is already working overtime to block meaningful safeguards, why not meet the moment by standing clearly on the side of consumers, parents, and ...
Popular Resistance

Iran v. US Imperialism: Interview With Navid Farnia And Nina Farnia - The protests in Iran began following a severe drop in the value of the national currency, the rial, of somewhere between 30 and 40 percent. This was cau...
The Texas Signal

Despite Threats, Texas Students Continue ICE Protests - Despite the warnings from the governor and the Texas Education Agency, protests have continued at schools all over the state -- and they show no signs of s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Stamped “DO NOT READ”: When a University like Texas Tech Tells Its Students What Not to Learn, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Stamped “**DO NOT READ**”: When a University like Texas Tech Tells Its Students What Not to Learn* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *February 11, 2026...
Texas Standard

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate - Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
NORML

South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Bills That Sought To Dismantle State’s Voter-Initiated Medical Cannabis Access Program - [image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol][image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol]Over 18...
Texas Observer

How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School - Editor’s Note: This story was produced in collaboration by Truthdig and the Texas Observer. On a cold winter morning in Johnson County, at the southweste...
Discourse

Do You People Understand How Fucking Dumb You Look - Melting down over Bad Bunny...say it with me...LOSER BEHAVIOR.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part Two - The Great Wheel of the symbolic phases of the Moon, as noted already, is the central mandala of Yeats’s Vision. Two months ago, in the last installment of ...
Dorf on Law

Will Trump v. Barbara End Stare Decisis? - Recall at issue in Trump v. Barbara is President Trump’s Executive Order that purports to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to non-c...
Liberation News

The Unsung Women of Black History - This year marks 100 years of Black History Month. Here are 7 must-know women that have shaped not just Black History, but the entire Black Radical Tradition.
Mondoweiss

Israel just started legalizing its annexation of the West Bank. Here’s what that means. - [image: An Israeli flag overlooking an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Taken from the Israeli Herodian national park in the West Bank. (Photo: ...
Ian Welsh

The China Super Boosters Are Super Tiresome - I stand second to few in my admiration for how well China has done. But the super boosters are super tiresome. If China had been a small nation, the best t...
The Progressive Wing

2/11 -2/12 News Roundup & Open Thread - “I wonder whether Trump is completely crazy and delusional or just a pathological liar—if this is the greatest economy in the history of the world, God ...
Crooked Timber

The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth - Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned wit...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: February 2026 - This month, the ace journal club discussed an article about gender detachment. And I wrote an article on the game design of my game. Epstein Files Reveal ...
See You In 2020

The danger of revolutionary retreat, & the counter-offensive the workers must wage - The biggest threat facing the working class movement is a willing retreat by the labor and labor-aligned forces. This is apparent from how Shainbaum’s g...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

This World is Insane: The Check-In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
The Rag Blog

DAVE ZIRIN / CULTURE / Bad Bunny Steals the Show - Bad Bunny in Los Angeles, California, on October 11, 2019. Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / February 10, ...
Bracing Views

“Guardrails” - The New Dishonest Word of the Moment BILL ASTORE FEB 09, 2026 I’ve been noticing a new word of the moment: “guardrails.” President Trump is smashing the gu...
Black Agenda Report

What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) - What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) bareditors Wed, 02/11/2026 - 01:35 Jemima Pierre, BAR Edito...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Grayzone

US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims - A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund - Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp Eur...
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
Green Pages News

Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth - Author’s Note: This essay was originally published in New Green Horizons on November 9, 2025. A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the Uni...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
TalkLeft

Big Day for Bad Bunny: He'll Knock it Out of the Park - I may not care for football but I will be watching this afternoon to see Bad Bunny's half time show, which he'll sing in Spanish. He is probably the bigg...
Field Negro

Monkeying around. - A shockingly racist trope *(to some)* depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes was posted by the current president from his person...
Debunking Christianity

Here is a Visual of the Book "God and Horrendous Suffering" - In case you need a visual this is a very B.I.G. book! 600+ pages! Just released! You’ll get your money's worth. Get it. Review it. Laud it. Praise it. L...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LEMON, IT'S WEDNESDAY EDITION. - *Sabor.* Here’s where I'd repeat the 30 Rock What A Week joke except I assume even people who never saw the show know that one by now because every week i...
The Militant

Fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! - Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working clas MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched ...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Georgia - Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Geo...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Moron Majority

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The Disorder Of Things

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

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Dandelion Salad

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

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two Party Opera

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Unlimited Hangout

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