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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Last post for a few days...

I'll try to get back here no later than Saturday with news of my Friday commute from Houston to Dallas, and other musings about Rita.

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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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Techdirt.

eBay To GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen: Um, No - It might be time to do a wellness check on GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. We had just discussed Cohen’s announced bid to have GameStop buy eBay as part of an abs...
Texas Standard

Will Texas get another MAGA attorney general? Or something new? - Four candidates are set to make their case to voters in primary runoff elections for Texas Attorney General.
naked capitalism

Spanish Politics Take the International Stage: Pedro Sanchez vs. Isabel Ayuso - Spanish politics enters the global stage in Mexico. A clash of progressives vs. conservatives where many have underestimated Pedro Sanchez
Mediagazer

BET partners with microdrama company aTwist, formerly known as Microco, to develop and distribute the latter's series across linear and digital platforms (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter) - Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter: *BET partners with microdrama company aTwist, formerly known as Microco, to develop and distribute the latter's ...
Vox

Why the anti-abortion movement is disappointed in Trump - If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they’re pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US. Despite the headline victories they’ve...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Tens of thousands in national 24-hour strike in Belgium against austerity; protests continue across Iran over wages and conditions;
The Progressive Wing

5/14 News Roundup and Open Thread - I’ll step in for LD.
Futurism

OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google - AI companies are tech companies — and they're vaccuming up your most personal secrets. The post OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Inf...
ArcaMax

Decluttering Till Death Do We Part - Margareta Magnusson was an artist in Stockholm who wrote a bestselling book, "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning." Decluttering, the removal of unnec...
Al Jazeera English

‘Absolutely no fuel’: Cuba hit by blackouts, protests amid power outages - Large parts of eastern Cuba were plunged into darkness in the latest round of nationwide electricity shutdowns.
Undernews

Senate - *The Hill - *The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution sponsored by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to suspend senators’ pay during future gover...
Raw Story

'It's just time': Trump's Border Patrol chief resigns amid sex worker allegations - U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks announced his resignation Wednesday, effective immediately, in an exclusive interview with Fox News correspondent Bil...
memeorandum

Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway* — Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE backed Affinity Partners in hopes of...
The Week

Neanderthal tooth suggests dentistry much older than thought - The discovery edges back the foundation of dentistry by at least 40,000 years
Ian Welsh

It Doesn’t Matter What Europe’s GDP Is - Well, mostly. Krugman shared this chart, as part of an argument that it’s ridiculous for Europe to be scared of Russia: GDP indicates the value of the part...
Daily Cartoonist

Senior Strippers Club Welcomes Ralph Steadman on His 90th Bday - Ralph Steadman, born on May 14, 1936, becomes a member of The Daily Cartoonist’s Senior Strippers Club.As Mr. Steadman notes in his website’s biography his...
El Paso Matters

El Paso city population drops by 2,209 in 2025, largest decline in Texas, new census estimates show - New U.S. Census estimates show the city of El Paso’s population fell by more than 2,200 people from 2024 to 2025, marking its largest recorded annual de...
SCOTUSblog

The ongoing fallout from the court’s redistricting rulings - Plus, the court is expected to announce at least one opinion this morning. Don’t miss our live blog.
The Conversation

Why a growing number of Trump supporters are experiencing voter’s remorse - Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again...
First Draft

Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Pick Yourself Up - This time: Pep talk, the interior decorator in chief, reality show transportation secretary, and The Clownfish does 60 Minutes
Countercurrents

Israel Killing at Least One Palestinian Child a Week in West Bank: UNICEF - Occupied West Bank (QNN)- UNICEF said Israeli forces have killed an average of at least one Palestinian child every week in the occupied West Bank since th...
Axios

The next phase of AI cybersecurity still needs humans - Anthropic and OpenAI's cyber-capable AI models may still require significant human expertise to operate effectively, according to new findings from users...
Earthworks

Big Oil’s Big Methane is still a Big Problem - Updates to the Global Methane Tracker 2026 confirm what Earthworks has been saying for more than a decade – the … The post Big Oil’s Big Methane is stil...
Alternet

Trump isn't mentally ill — it's far worse - Dear public figures, media folks, and journalists, please do not suggest that President Donald Trump is crazy. It is not helpful and, in fact, it is hurt...
Rallblog

Blue Dot Makes a Point | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Space City Weather

As early heat peaks and humidity returns, we take a quick moment to thank the City of Houston - In brief: Today should be the hottest day of the next week or so in Houston, with low 90s possible. Then, as humidity and clouds pick up some, we’ll see wa...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Estimating the GOP Edge from Redistricting: A State-by-State Accounting, with Caveats - Our best guess is a Republican gain in the high single digits from redistricting, with the potential for that to grow or shrink based on the actual resul...
Consortium News

Unasked Questions About the War on Iran - The media ignore the evidence as they regurgitate the official narrative that manufactures consent for U.S.-led wars, writes Alison Broinowski. By Alison B...
NPR's Health Shots

A brain-controlled system may help listeners with hearing loss cut through the noise - A hearing system that monitors brain waves could help people with hearing loss communicate in noisy environments.
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Bizarre Antics Aren’t Flying Anymore — and There’s a Reason for That: Analysis -
Eschaton

Morning - Thackeray Thursday.
Scheerpost.com

Hantavirus, AI, El Niño, Anarchism And The Future - Nate Bear Do Not Panic I used to follow an anarchist guy. Subscribed to his substack. He declared publicly that my writings inspired his own. Then a few mo...
ProPublica

A Unique Oregon Law Allows It to Block Healthcare Deals. In Five Years, the State Hasn’t Done So Once. - The post A Unique Oregon Law Allows It to Block Healthcare Deals. In Five Years, the State Hasn’t Done So Once. appeared first on ProPublica.
The Daily Poster

Will The Strait Of Hormuz Sink The American Empire? - David Sirota asks what Trump's war is really costing us.
Portside

Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances - Trump Says He Doesn’t Care “Even a Little Bit” About People’s Finances Mark Brody Thu, 05/14/2026 - 02:15
Counterpunch

The Age of Post-Truth - We are living, indubitably, in an age of post-truth — an era in which falsehoods, distortions, and manufactured narratives often prevail over facts and r...
jobsanger

Trump's Nightly Social Media Rants Show He Is Mentally Unwell -
Informed Comment

Mr. Trump goes to Beijing: No Progress likely on Hormuz - Progress over the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely, but Chinese and US economic incentives align over the longer term
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: McKay Otto at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art, Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
The Hill

President Obama on Iran: 'We pulled it off without firing a missile' - Former President Obama is making the case for diplomacy with Iran amid the ongoing conflict, pointing to the 2015 nuclear deal as evidence that Tehran’s pr...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: May 2026 - Sawatsky: Sexual pain in Christian Women | The Asexual Agenda – Okay, so this is for my journal club, and I wrote up the discussion notes. But I have a fe...
Brad Blog

Do Dems Have the Courage Required to Restore and Reform American Democracy? (Do You?): ‘BradCast’ 5/13/2026 - It’s been a rough couple of weeks for the nation’s pro-democracy forces as “the ghost of the Confederacy” rises again in the White House, the Congress, the...
Popular Resistance

New School Students Sanction Group Over Israeli Military Program - Ryder Glickman’s first day as chair of The New School University Student Senate (USS) was an eventful one. His inaugural act was to call a vote on a firs...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump-Xi summit live: US president preparing to meet China’s leader with trade, Taiwan and the Iran war set to dominate talks - Ahead of the crucial talks, security has been heightened in Beijing, with the US president set to meet Xi at the Great Hall of the People *The Trump-Xi s...
Courthouse News

Kids claim child labor law violations at Roblox - Roblox faces claims of using children to develop and test games without paying them.
Claytoonz

Trump Think - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Antiwar.com

When Killing Becomes Commonplace - “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Last...
San Antonio Report

A growing city, a tight budget and a new arena on the horizon. How will the 2027 bond be shaped? - As they consider a bond program, officials consider how dollars would be directed to projects within the planned sports and entertainment district downtown...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 15 things to do in Houston this weekend - Bowls! Bowls! Bowls!
Deadline Politics

Spencer Pratt Says Security Team Advised Him Not To Stay In Pacific Palisades Trailer Featured In Campaign Ad - Spencer Pratt defended his featuring of a trailer on his burned out Pacific Palisades property and telling viewers, “This is where I live.” On Wednesday, T...
The NM Political Report

NMDOJ agrees to stop enforcement of HB9 in response to USDOJ lawsuit against New Mexico anti-ICE laws - [image: Raúl Torrez] A lawsuit by Federal officials to block New Mexico’s new law forcing the closure of ICE detention centers scored its first victory We...
Political Wire

Justice Department Considers Settling Trump’s IRS Lawsuit - “The Justice Department is discussing whether to settle President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in the coming day...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Refuses to Enjoin Illinois 5% Petition Requirement for Independent Candidates for U.S. House - On May 11, U.S. District Court Judge Sara Darrow refused to enjoin the Illinois 5% petition requirement for independent candidates for U.S. House. Flowers ...
Mother Jones

Interior Secretary Claims Ignorance of Trump’s July 4 “Vanity Projects” - Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has taken a lead role in promoting President Donald Trump’s particular plans to mark America’s 250th anniversary. That inclu...
San Antonio Current

Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas for a year - [image: Construction for OpenAI’s Stargate Milam County data center in Burlington, Texas on May 4, 2026.] A rural Texas county on Tuesday approved a one-y...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs - Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversati...
Workers World

China’s glowing Avatar plants and saltwater rice - [image: China’s glowing Avatar plants and saltwater rice] A researcher with a tray of self-illuminating plants at a laboratory in China’s Anhui province. F...
Capital & Main

While Pentagon Spends Billions on War, Military Families Say They’re Getting Short-Changed - Spouses of deployed military say they’re struggling with the costs of child care, groceries, housing. The post While Pentagon Spends Billions on War, Mil...
Slate

How Do the Sex Scenes in *Off Campus* Stack Up to *Heated Rivalry*? Let’s Evaluate. - If you’re jonesing for another visit to “the Cottage,” this might scratch the itch.
Progressive.org

Utah Housing Model Is the Wrong Way To Go - A new report suggests the state's plan to centralize homeless services could be doomed to fail.
Independent Political Report

Nebraska Democratic Senate Primary Won by Candidate Expected to Back Independent Dan Osborn - Cindy Burbank won Nebraska’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, running as a placeholder candidate with the intent to withdraw and support in...
slacktivist

12-year-olds rescue runaway school bus - Get rid of all the panel debates among political consultants on cable news and replace them with more reporting on stories like this one.
Project Censored

Stephen Miller Owned Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock at Time of ICE Contract - Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor, owned up to $250,000 in Palantir stock when he entered his role. On June 24,...
Houston Public Media

Air Alliance Houston to expand program along Gulf Coast, despite federal funding cuts - The environmental watchdog is bringing its awareness campaigns to Galveston, Corpus Christi and other parts of the region, after fundraising to replace a t...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Time of Rage: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Blake is still playing it safe! - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2026* *Cupp says it's Trump being Trump:* CNN's Aaron Blake is a good, decent person. He's also a perfectly capable political journal...
Church and State

Why I Abandoned Christianity - There’s also politics involved in the creating of so many different brands of the church—easily now more than 30,000.
Novara Media

Revealed: ‘WesForLeader’ Website Updated on Monday Night - [image: Wes Streeting on Downing Street having met the prime minister for a coffee which lasted 16 minutes, 2026. Photo: Reuters/Jaimi Joy]A website allege...
Mondoweiss

The EU has finally agreed to sanction violent Israeli settlers, but critics say the measures do not go nearly far enough - [image: Gathering in support of Israel in front of the European Parliament in Brussels in the wake of the October 7 attacks, October 11, 2023. (Photo: Wiki...
Bonddad

The inflationary, “K”-shaped T—-p economy - - *by New Deal democrat* There are times when the economy is undergoing such a profound shift that there is suddenly a lot to say. This is one of th...
WhoWhatWhy

‘A Country That Doesn’t Exist’ Is Drawn Into a Perilous Middle East - [image: Omar Ahmed, Ismail Bihaya, dazed, Hargeisa, Somaliland] Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has given the breakaway state long-sought visibility. It...
The Root

Every Stunning Black Look From the Cannes Film Festival - We're looking at the hottest fashions spotted in and around the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Read more...
Duck of Minerva

Whither Scottish progressivism? - Much of the discourse about the recent UK local elections had to do with the decline of Labour under Keir Starmer and the worrisome rise of the far-right R...
The AltWorld

Will US-Israeli aggression against Iran resume? - What does the return of the first Yemeni drone to bomb Eilat mean? President Donald Trump called […] The post Will US-Israeli aggression against Iran res...
NORML

Georgia Expands Patients’ Access to Medical Cannabis Products - [image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis][image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis]Following t...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Third Quarter - With this post we have left behind the halfway mark on our journey around the Great Wheel of the lunar phases, the primary symbol of Yeats’s symbolic syste...
Texas Observer

Why My Texas Town Took Action Against Flock Cameras - Just a few months ago, the smart home device company Ring paid millions of dollars to run a seemingly innocuous Super Bowl advertisement about finding lo...
Angry Bear

Inputs To Climate Change - Lloyd Alter is my go to person when I wish to pick up on learning more about the environment we live in, global pollution, and what he is seeing in the w...
Common Dreams

Wholesale Horror: Producer Price Index Spells Disaster for Economic Outlook as Trump’s War in Iran Drags On - Trump’s war in Iran is now bleeding through the wholesale pipeline. April’s Producer Price Index (PPI) report shows wholesale prices rose 6% over the pas...
Wolf Street

Producer Price Inflation Explodes as the Services PPI Blows Out on Top of the Energy Price Spike - This is a massive amount of inflation that companies are passing on to each other through much of the economy.
Democracy Now!

Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader - Salah Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian immigrant, green card holder and president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, has been...
Rewire

White Men Are Finally Catching a Break: Opinion - Hi, journalist John Q. Whiteman here, and I wrote this op-ed about diversity hires. (Yes, this story is satire, but it's based in reality—and Imani Gandy...
Dorf on Law

Priorities for a Project 2029 - My new *Verdict *column addresses the question of what can and should be done to mitigate the damage from the Supreme Court's further destruction of the ...
Earth 911

Santa Marta May Be the Moment the World Started Walking Away From Fossil Fuels - Fifty-seven countries representing roughly a third of the global economy walked into a coal port... The post Santa Marta May Be the Moment the World Star...
High Country News

The billionaires’ club at the center of America’s public lands fight - A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump. The post The billionaire...
Off The Kuff

Two Congressional runoff polls - Make of them what you will. Rep. Christian Menefee leads Rep. Al Green by 7 percentage points heading into the final days of the runoff, according to a new...
Socialist Alternative

Can “Future Industries” Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis - 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the “Two Sessions” (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, ...
Grist

Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech - Fervo Energy's IPO could raise $1.8 billion in one of the largest renewable energy public offerings ever, signaling growing investor confidence in clean en...
Crooked Media

Jane Fonda’s Favorite Husband with Taylour Paige, Chris Schleicher and Gus Hickey - The post Jane Fonda’s Favorite Husband with Taylour Paige, Chris Schleicher and Gus Hickey appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Who I am, part 3 -- the non-religious life - My two recent quasi-autobiographical posts (on why I'm not a politics blogger and my ancestry and culture) covered a lot but omitted a point which is unus...
Mediaite

Mother of Fourth Grader Shocked by ‘Horrific’ Letter From MAGA Congresswoman To Son: ‘You Attacked a Child’ - Rep. Virginia Foxx responded to a letter from a fourth grader by telling him he had been propagandized by a teacher who is "indoctrinating you." The post...
Environment Texas

New forecasts: wind and solar to continue to grow - New federal energy forecasts show wind and solar energy continuing to grow in 2026. The post New forecasts: wind and solar to continue to grow appeared f...
The Greanville Post

The Paradigm Shift Of War: America’s Loss (Part I) - INDRAJIT—The old defensive paradigm of 'America' (which enabled it to be so offensive) was 'America'. They spent hundreds of years invading and genociding ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Hobby Lobby funding campaign of lies and junk science to eliminate same-sex marriage - Hobby Lobby (first pic) is funding the efforts of Katy Faust (second pic) and her 'Greater Than Campaign' to eliminate marriage for gay couples. Faust an...
See You In 2020

The Fuentes/socdem pro-Democrat alliance, & the working-class movement that will sweep it away - *Above: American communists celebrate Victory Day in 2026.* We are facing off against an alliance between the covertly Zionist right, and the Atlanticis...
Election Law Blog

“Missouri Supreme Court rules redistricting map meets constitutional requirements” - KSHB: The Missouri Supreme Court issued opinions Tuesday in two cases concerning the state’s latest redistricting map. Both opinions found the map meet...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

As Ethnic Studies Comes Under Attack, UCSB’s ÉXITO Program Builds the Teachers We Need, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Tomorrow, I’ll have the privilege of speaking with an extraordinary group of students affiliated with the University of California Santa Barbara ÉXITO Pro...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition - Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding securit...
OpEd News

Wrestling with the Pig: Pope Leo's Dangerous Pivot from Souls to Sociology - Wrestling with the Pig: Pope Leo's Dangerous Pivot from Souls to Sociology - From the Africa tour to the Trump feud, the American Pope is abandoning tradit...
Discourse

The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is Pro-Boss Propaganda - The Discourse Pod Movie Club returns for this special subscribers-only episode
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Seven Year Anniversary Mailbag Episode - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about post-Trump politics, the meaning of Zohran Mamdani, the fate of liberalism, and more.
Crooked Timber

The text is not the product - Academics, especially in the humanities, produce texts, and they teach students to produce text. This is a standard assumption, often taken for granted, an...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Your Questions Answered: What is Redistricting and Why Should We Care? - The Supreme Court recently made a ruling that blows open the door for states and localities to create discriminatory voting maps. Here’s what you need to k...
Media Lens

‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself - Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, i...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation hosts Soil Painting Workshop Sat., May 16 - Workshop led by artist/educator Sandra S. K. Amoabeng
Bracing Views

Is the Iran War Really About Iran? - America’s descent into authoritarianism and fascism BILL ASTORE MAY 10, 2026 Can you win a war that isn’t really about the country you’re fighting? Where t...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Seeing the Forest

They Meant It - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. In 2005 I wrote a post titled “They Mean It” that warned about Chris...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Liberation News

How a high court ruling guts Black voting districts - Voting rights were hard won by a mass movement in the streets. Today, mass action is needed to defend these rights.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - These are crazy times, people. But those of us who know saw it coming. It's sad to say, but there is a real possibility that in the next ten years Ame...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is that true? - As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one a...
The Texas Signal

The Austin Comic Creator With A Mouse-eye Apocalypse View - Mac Smith just wrapped a wildly successful Kickstarter and production for the latest entry in his Scurry universe, a dystopian world full of anthropomorphi...
The Militant

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants - Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day....
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/08/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Rad...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Warehouse Plans - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 536kb If you’re the kind of person who’s up to their goddamn neck with seeing millions impoverished and immiserat...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
Edinburg Politics

From blank canvas to lasting legacy: McAllen’s Nikki Rowe High School celebrates resilient young artists during art contest awards ceremony - A well-attended crowd filled Nikki Rowe High School’s gymnasium on Thursday evening, April 30, 2026 for the awards ceremony of the “A Soul’s Journey: The R...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
MintPress News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

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

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WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 “...
Salon.com

“After Neverland,” R. Kelly’s CBS meltdown, and the insidious patterns we refuse to see - The two specials hosted by Oprah and Gayle King are accidental companion pieces showing how abuse and abusers work
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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