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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Hill

What to know about Charlie Kirk's memorial service - President Trump, Vice President Vance and other members of the administration will speak at a memorial honoring Charlie Kirk on Sunday, according to a prog...
The Verge

Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship - Yesterday, Disney-owned ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live "indefinitely" for a comment Kimmel made about the response to Charlie Kirk's death. The response f...
Raw Story

Trump FBI pick Kash Patel accused of committing a 'felony' in his latest hearing - Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) issued a stern warning to Kash Patel, calling out the "real crime wave" in Washington, D.C. "with the director of the F.B.I...
Slate

Something About My Wife’s Breasts Is Turning Me Off. I Didn’t Expect This! - Yikes.
CultureMap Houston

Kickoff party celebrates pets and Houston nonprofit's champions - *What:* Studio 39 Kick Off for Citizens for Animal Protection Gala
Eschaton

Lunch - eat
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court announces it will hear challenges to Trump’s tariffs on Nov. 5 - The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Nov. 5 in the pair of challenges to President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs under the International...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration asks supreme court to allow firing of Fed’s Lisa Cook - Request sets stage for historic test of presidential power as Trump pursues greater control of the Federal Reserve The Trump administration asked the US ...
Techdirt.

Facebook Flooded With Agitslop Of AI Grief Farming About Charlie Kirk - Last year, there was some talk about how AI-generated wacky images—summed up generally as “shrimp Jesus” as an example of one of the most bizarre—were taki...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
The NM Political Report

Miyagishima optimistic about chances to win Democratic nomination for governor - [image: Despite being often overshadowed by his two more high-profile opponents in the headlines, former Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima said he is conf...
Courthouse News

Trump asks Supreme Court to toss Fed governor - An appeals court rejected the president’s request to sack Lisa Cook earlier this week, but the White House has had better odds at winning emergency appeals...
Political Wire

Trump Asks Justices to Allow Firing of Fed Governor - “The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow the president to remove Lisa Cook as a Federal Reserve governor, setting up a key te...
Futurism

Mysterious Object From Beyond Solar System May Be "Seed" Traveling Galaxy and Creating New Planets, Paper Finds - Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this summer. Since then, they've b...
Texas Standard

Mortgage rates are at their lowest in nearly a year. Here’s how that impacts the housing market. - Prices are coming down mostly in regions where supply has increased, such as Texas and Florida.
Consortium News

When Tony Blair Agreed to Back ‘Terrorists’ - Blair’s government aided forces against Yugoslavia whose leaders are now on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, writes Mark Curtis. By Mark C...
Daily Dot

“Complete scam”: Woman ditches AC, buys blackout curtains, unplugs everything—her bill jumps from $300 to $360 - [image: 3 panel: Woman looking into camera, Text overlay reads, "Last month, my electric bill was $300, so I went out of my way to get blackout curtains ...
Axios

Supreme Court will hear Trump tariff case on Nov. 5 - The Supreme Court said on Thursday that it will hear arguments in a critical case that challenges much of President Trump's trade agenda on Nov. 5. *Why...
Salon.com

Democrats defend Kimmel, say FCC chair “disgraced” his office - House Democratic leaders accused Carr of abusing his power to force Jimmy Kimmel off the air
memeorandum

Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok (William D. Cohan/New York Times) - William D. Cohan / New York Times: *Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok* — Larry Ellison is already a major stakeholder in CBS and Param...
Deadline Politics

Top Oversight Democrat Says He’s Launching Investigation Of Trump Administration, ABC And Sinclair Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension - The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said that he is launching an investigation into the circumstances that led to ABC’s suspension of Jimmy K...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

In the Fire: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - Things are heating up and it's on us to ground and keep fighting.
The Week

Fed cuts interest rates a quarter point - ‘The cut suggests a broader shift toward concern about cracks forming in the job market’
San Antonio Report

After behind-the-scenes Project Marvel negotiations, Mayor Jones cracks down on city NDAs - San Antonio put new guardrails on when and how staff members and council members can enter NDAs — an issue on the campaign trail. --------------------------...
San Antonio Current

Texas cities, counties pinch pennies amid slowing economy - [image: An aerial shot shows the expanding San Antonio skyline.] Economic uncertainty, inflation, strict state limits on property tax collections and unce...
Al Jazeera English

Displaced Palestinians shelter at garbage dumps - Displaced Palestinians are pitching tents on landfill sites where they are surrounded by garbage and disease.
Undernews

Trump regime turning back on facts - *NY Times - *When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming ...
Mediaite

Trump Calls on Friendly Reporter Who Asks British PM If the UK Is ‘Still a Christian Country’ - Donald Trump called on a friendly reporter during a press conference in the UK Thursday who complemented him on being a "proud Christian leader." The pos...
Dissident Voice

Why Do Men Watch Porn? A Feminist and Queer Analysis - The dominant neuroscientific discourse on male porn addiction is underpinned by a moral pedagogy that tacitly assumes a normative sexual baseline: that t...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Eric Ross, The Pentagon Never Needed a License to Kill - The renaming of the Defense Department should have surprised no one. Donald Trump is an incipient fascist doing what such figures do. Surrounded by a coter...
Mother Jones

The Global Far-Right Is Making Charlie Kirk a Martyr - After last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, hundreds of people gathered in front of Berlin’s American embassy to honor him with a candlelight...
Project Censored

The Trouble with Tradwives - Lori Bindig Yousman “Tradwives” are having a moment. Amidst the rejection of “lean-in” culture and “girl boss” backlash, a host of popular social media a...
Grist

Wildfire smoke could soon kill 71,000 Americans every year - The haze may already kill 40,000 people in the U.S. each year — the same number who die in traffic crashes. Climate change will only make matters worse.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Public education is under attack. We need to stand up for safe and healthy schools - Texas schools are under attack, but El Paso can build a stronger future The post Opinion: Public education is under attack. We need to stand up for safe...
Election Law Blog

“Aligning Constitutional Law” - I just posted this paper, written for the Ohio State Law Journal’s symposium on my book, “Aligning Election Law.” The paper explores how the principle of...
Popular Resistance

All Eyes On Gaza! All Hands On Deck! - The activist organization Veterans For Peace, with chapters in over 100 U.S. cities and several international chapters, is calling for urgent action to e...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Colorado Announces First Signer of 2026 Federal Candidate Pledge - The Libertarian Party of Colorado announced this month that Hope Scheppelman is the first candidate to sign its Federal Candidate Pledge for Liberty for ...
Mediagazer

Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter: *Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates hig...
Common Dreams

US-UK tech pact: UK Government must “stop selling us out to big business,” campaigners say - *Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now said:* "Trump’s state visit is being used to cement the power of the Big Tech oligarchs and their super ri...
Daily Howler

PRETENDERS: On what meat is Red America fed? - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2025* *We'd seen this stew served before: *Last Wednesday, the fact that Charlie Kirk had died was announced at roughly 5 p.m. E...
naked capitalism

Trump UK State Visit Demonstrates That the Power Elite Has Drawn Up the Drawbridge Over Safety Fears - The handling of Trump's UK state visit confirms elite insecurity and safety fears. Like many Trump and UK/EU moves, crackdowns may backfire
Houston Public Media

Amid jeers at city council meeting, Mike Miles reports improvements in Houston ISD - It was Miles’ second meeting with the Houston City Council since he was appointed as HISD superintendent by the Texas Education Agency in 2023.
Daily Cartoonist

Rotary Cartoon Awards 2025 - The Chinese have their water torture and the Australians, well the National Cartoon Gallery anyway, have their own form of torment. This year’s Rotary Cart...
Second Nexus

People Explain How They Deal With A Sexless Marriage - All couples worry about the spark in their relationship going out. Luckily for most, it doesn't take a lot for that spark to be easily re-ignited. For o...
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue higher YoY trend - - *by New Deal democrat* We are in the part of the year when, post-Covid, likely residual seasonality has resulted in a declining trend in new joble...
First Draft

Shecky’s Quick Hitters: Bluster & Bullshit Edition - Of Robert Redford, Crazy Eyes Kash Patel, the Insult Comedian, the Emirati grift, JB Pritzker, American Peron, and Bozo.
Rewire

Vaccine Guidelines for COVID, Measles, and Hepatitis B Under Review by CDC Panel - Experts worry the panel could vote to change science-backed vaccine guidance for these viruses, all of which can pose a severe threat to pregnant people ...
Scheerpost.com

Slamming ‘Fascist Tactics’ of Trump, Mahmoud Khalil Fights Judge’s Deportation Decision - A member of his legal team noted that “the immigration prosecutor, judge, and jailer all answer to Donald Trump, and that one man is eager to weaponize the...
Democracy Now!

"The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya": Al Jazeera Film on Israel's Abduction & Torture of Gaza Doctor - A powerful new documentary produced by *Fault Lines* on Al Jazeera English tells the story of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the Palestinian pediatrician and direc...
The Conversation

Trump administration is threatening liberal foundations and nonprofits after Kirk’s death – but proving wrongdoing by any of them would be very hard - When foundations provide grants, they’re engaging in a protected free speech activity that entitles them to certain privacy rights.
Glasstire

Top Five: September 18, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s 2025 Fall Preview picks, please go here. 1. Untitled Art Houston George R. Brown ...
Space City Weather

After our latest dry spell, how did the greater Houston region do this summer with rainfall? - In brief: In today’s post we dive into the precipitation Houston recorded this summer. Most of the region got significantly less than normal, but we’re not...
Vox

How to rediscover your creativity in 3 simple steps - You might not consider yourself a creative person anymore, but you almost certainly were at one point. Among childhood’s many blessings is the freedom to p...
ArcaMax

Who Is Going to Buy Elon Musk's Cars? - The Tesla board has offered to make Elon Musk the planet's first trillionaire if he meets certain milestones in rocketing the automaker to new glory. Did M...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Celebrates As Free Speech Takes Another Blow With Kimmel Suspension - [image: Jimmy Kimmel] Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is off the air indefinitely because he made fun of Donald Trump and his employer wants to appe...
Workers World

Workers, farmers in France open ‘blockade’ struggle - [image: Workers, farmers in France open ‘blockade’ struggle] On Sept. 10, a half-million workers and farmers in France held blockades in the morning, mass ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Outrageous Attack on Free Speech’: ABC Hit With Severe Backlash for Pulling Jimmy Kimmel -
The Daily Poster

The Real Reason They Pulled Jimmy Kimmel Off Late-Night - This censorship isn’t about jokes — it’s about serving corporate interests.
NPR's Health Shots

Former CDC director says she was fired for resisting pressure from RFK Jr. - Susan Monarez, the ousted director of the CDC, testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the health secretary pressured her to rubber stamp vaccine policies...
Skeptophilia

Mechanical brain transplant - New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brain fragments in petri dishes a...
The Root

SC Prison Employee in Trouble for Sneaking This Ridiculous Amount of Grillz…Yes, *Those* Grillz…to Inmates - A South Carolina prison employee isn't accused of smuggling drugs or cell phones, but an accessory that inmates probably don't even need. Read more...
Crooked Media

Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination - The post Inside the MAGA Reaction to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Andrew White to run for Governor again - A second go-round. Houston’s Andrew White, son of the late Gov. Mark White, on Tuesday filed initial papers to run for governor again, hoping to stop Gov. ...
ProPublica

Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation — Even in the State Where It Started - by Anna Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published....
American Prospect

The Plutonomy Is Still Going Strong - For the last 20 years, analysts have known that this is an economy by and for the rich.
Progressive Army

Presupuesto 2026: la llave para reposicionar a la Argentina en el comercio internacional - El Presupuesto 2026, con metas de equilibrio fiscal, baja inflación y crecimiento económico, puede sentar las bases para que la Argentina recupere previsib...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
High Country News

The joyful responsibility of cutting fish - My favorite job reminds me that working together is everything. The post The joyful responsibility of cutting fish appeared first on High Country News.
Portside

Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome? - Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome? Mark Brody Thu, 09/18/2025 - 02:46
Counterpunch

Alliance for the Wild Rockies Stops the Chop in the Colville National Forest - Once again the Alliance for the Wild Rockies caught the Forest Service breaking the law, took the agency to court, and won. This time a Washington federa...
See You In 2020

Gaza, the 680,000 death estimate, and what it looks like to resist your own annihilation - Image from the PFLP. The extermination campaign against Gaza’s people is the fulfillment of every anxiety about engineered depopulations, apocalypses, o...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian PM fails to finalise neo-colonial defence treaty with Papua New Guinea - Labor is attempting to secure de facto control over the foreign and military policy of Pacific states, to align them fully with Washington’s preparations f...
jobsanger

An Appalling Assault On Free Speech -
Informed Comment

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15 - Stanza 15 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has for its theme a denial of the afterlife and resurrection. XV. And those ...
Alternet

'Wrong and dangerous': Karl Rove slams Trump for using Kirk's death to crack down on left - In the week since prominent far-right activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down, President Donald Trump has been consistently blaming the American left for t...
Claytoonz

The Times Strikes Back - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Brad Blog

MAGA Exploiting Kirk's Death as Their 9/11: 'BradCast' 9/17/2025 - Today on The BradCast (my last until next week, see "NOTE" below), a full week after the awful murder of Republican activist Charlie Kirk, the political ra...
The Greanville Post

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - MAX BLUMENTHAL—The Grayzone has spoken to five people with intimate knowledge of Kirk’s meeting with Ackman, which was held in early August. According to o...
Antiwar.com

Ukraine’s Embrace of Suicidal Nationalism - Reprinted from The Realist Review. The recent assassination of the Ukrainian neo-fascist politician Andriy Parubiy are a grim reminder of the far-right or...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Nancy Mace's latest attempt to exploit Charlie Kirk's death fails' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Nancy Mace *Trying again to raise her profile by exploiting Charlie Kirk's death, Rep. Nancy Mace began a war of words against another Congressional repr...
Reform Austin

Texas Rep. James Talarico Runs Against Colin Allred for Senate - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… State Rep. James Talarico is making appearances across Texas after officially launching his bid...
Mondoweiss

As Israeli annihilation of Gaza City advances, residents choose between death and displacement - [image: The Israeli army has ordered Palestinian to leave Gaza City as it launches its ground invasion, September 16, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images...
Progressive.org

Curbing Our Enthusiasm - When cities fail to maintain their sidewalks, they create major accessibility issues for disabled people like me.
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York Ci...
Discourse

Let's Try Not Being Absolute Cowards For a Change - A new group of consultants wants Democrats to sell out the most vulnerable in service of a faulty strategy.
slacktivist

‘My Dear Wormw–‘ … No. Just stop. - Laura Robinson on why Screwtape is so good and its imitators are so bad. Plus some grave visits and that discussion of Pentecostal historiography you've al...
Texas Observer

News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case - This article was first co-published by The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica. A group of state and national media organizations, including The Texas Newsroom...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Fed Cut: A Warning Sign?” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou read the tea leaves behind the Federal Re...
Church and State

How the Vatican Supports Trump’s Cruelty - More than 14 million people could die by 2030 as a result of USAID cuts, including 4.5 million children younger than 5 years old.
The AltWorld

AIPAC’s Hatred - AIPAC’s Hatred The post AIPAC’s Hatred appeared first on TheAltWorld.
The Texas Signal

Texas Tees Up A Nationwide Abortion Showdown - "What we are seeing in Texas is part of a national plan to restrict access to abortion care nationwide, and it’s deliberate"
Wolf Street

This Fed Meeting Must Have Been a Circus - Amid only one dissent, FOMC Cuts by 25 basis points. “Dot Plot” sees 50 basis points in additional cuts in 2025. Risks shift to labor market. QT continues.
Ballot Access News

Quinnipiac University Poll for New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Includes Libertarian and Socialist Workers Candidates - On September 17, Quinnipiac University Polls released a poll for the November 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial race. Four candidates are on the ballot, and th...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’ - Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents...
Ian Welsh

American Billionaires Are Competing To Be King Shit of Turd Island - You may have heard that Tesla’s board has proposed giving Elon Musk a one trillion dollar payday. Tesla is falling apart, and the ostensible theory is that...
Angry Bear

August industrial production: overall neutral trend continues - – by New Deal democrat So much is imported that industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness * *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph...
Sludge

Following Sludge Report, SKDK Says It’s Dropping Its Israel Contract - The Democratic PR firm was under contract with Israel to build a social media bot program, but says it never worked on such a program.
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- there's nothing out there - This is the best and most thorough discussion of this topic that I've ever seen. No, the fact that there are "billions and billions" of stars, planets, g...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Bracing Views

The Department of War Is Back! - But Victoryless Culture Remains Also at TomDispatch.com. BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval...
Dorf on Law

For Trump, Racism and Homophobia are Features, Not Bugs: "Monkeypox" Edition - Donald Trump has a penchant for bestowing and changing names--from "Little Marco" to the "Gulf of America." Some of Trump's statements and actions regard...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / Political Commentary / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal - Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center hosts open house for West Laredo Clinic - Residents invited to meet staff
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Liberation News

‘One space, one people, one destiny’: Two years of the Alliance of Sahel States - The roots of the AES were formed out of military coups that sought sovereignty as a rallying cry from the mass mobilizations taking place against French pr...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
DeSmogBlog

What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences - Of the many health impacts linked to fossil fuels perhaps the most gruesome is chimney sweep testicle. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, chimne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Edinburg Politics

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Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

"Arlen, move him more to the left."

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