Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Gallery of the Absurd

I've added some really interesting things in the blogroll lately, but none more so than Gallery of the Absurd. Go look around, and don't miss Celebrity Endorsement Idea No. 645.

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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

Futurism

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War - So much for banning it "effective immediately." The post After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War appe...
Infidel753

Some background on Iran - Iran is one of the world's oldest civilizations, its history going back long before the beginning of Islam. The first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus th...
Salon.com

DOJ admits to removing nearly 48,000 Epstein files from database, including Trump allegations - The files, including allegations against Trump, are expected to be returned to the database after review
Techdirt.

Daily Deal: The Complete Raspberry Pi And Alexa A-Z Bundle - Learn Raspberry Pi and start building Amazon Alexa projects with The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle. Catered for all levels, these project-base...
Raw Story

Failed casino magnate takes biggest gamble yet - Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.
Liberation News

Central African Republic tackles high maternal mortality while the U.S. ranks high in maternal mortality rates for Native and Black women - Within the U.S., working women are demanding an investment in our overall health. That includes investment in both healthcare and people’s daily living – a...
Houston Public Media

Sylvia Garcia withstands Democratic primary challenge in redrawn 29th Congressional District - In November, Garcia will face off against the Republican nominee, Martha Fierro, who ran unopposed in Tuesday's primary election.
The Verge

Google isn’t waiting for a settlement — the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead - In November, Epic and Google jointly proposed a settlement that would change Android's fate globally without cracking open Google's Android monopoly quite ...
The Hill

Dem vet goes after ‘chickenhawks’ promoting Iran strikes - Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday went after those Republicans who are adopting tough language to promote the Iran conflict without ever having served in...
Mediaite

MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera Presses Iranian Minister on Citizens Being Blocked From the Internet - MS NOW Anchor Ana Cabrera asked a top Iranian politician why the country was blocking its citizens from using the internet as it is being bombed The post...
Courthouse News

$47M settlement with Hawaiian utility approved - SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in California preliminarily approved a $47 million settlement with Hawaiian Electric Industries, which was sued by investor...
Wolf Street

U.S. Gasoline Demand Fell Further amid Long-Term Structural Shift: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption - Even as miles driven rose to a record.
CultureMap Houston

Talarico wins Texas Senate Dem showdown while Republicans head to runoff - DALLAS (AP) — State Rep. James Talarico topped Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in an expensive and fiercely contested Texas Senate Democratic primary that o...
The Week

Georgia dad guilty in son’s alleged school shooting - Colin Gray allowed his son access to a gun he used to kill two high school students and two teachers in 2024
Mother Jones

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future - When agents came to his workplace armed with guns, gas canisters, and artificial intelligence, Abdikafi Abdurahman Abdullahi, known as Kafi, fought back wi...
memeorandum

Tim Walz accuses the Trump administration of singling out Minnesota amid fraud allegations, immigration crackdown (Hailey Fuchs/Politico) - Hailey Fuchs / Politico: *Tim Walz accuses the Trump administration of singling out Minnesota amid fraud allegations, immigration crackdown* — Minnesot...
The Daily Poster

Betting On Armageddon - Following a viral call-out from The Lever’s David Sirota, Polymarket has removed a market for predicting nuclear detonation.
Eschaton

Lunch - Very busy with things. Life is complicated sometimes.
Undernews

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Capital & Main

After Years of Gains, GOP Pushes to Roll Back Chemical Regulations - In Texas, environmental activists and experts raise the alarm about the impact on the state's petrochemical industry. The post After Years of Gains, GOP ...
Consortium News

Other Avenues to Try, to Stop the War on Iran - A “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the U.N. General Assembly can counter the Security Council’s failure to act, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Tru...
Axios

The labor market is finally stabilizing, data shows - New private sector data shows signs of life for a labor market that's stabilizing after a dismal year for hiring. *Why it matters:* It's a welcome develo...
Mondoweiss

Palestinians in Gaza fear famine returning as Israel cuts off food amid Iran war - [image: Displaced Palestinian families attempt to secure food from a charity kitchen in Nuseirat refugee camp amid food shortages after Israel restricted a...
Al Jazeera English

New Zealand annihilate South Africa to reach T20 World Cup final - Finn Allen hits fastest century at a T20 World Cup as New Zealand crush South Africa by nine wickets to reach final.
Mediagazer

CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King signed a new deal, providing some stability at CBS News; source: King's current contract is worth ~$15M and runs through May (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King signed a new deal, providing some stability at CBS News; source: King's current contract is worth ~...
Deadline Politics

Gayle King Will Stay At ‘CBS Mornings’ As She Renews Deal With Network - Gayle King will remain at CBS Mornings after she signed a new deal that will have her staying at the Paramount-owned network. King said in a statement, “Ru...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

House opens inquiry into Texas lawmaker over alleged affair with aide - Tony Gonzales allegedly had affair with Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, who later died after setting herself on fire - US politics live – latest upd...
Political Wire

John Thune Pushes Trump to Endorse Cornyn Early - “Senate Majority Leader John Thune urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to deliver a swift endorsement of Texas Sen. John Cornyn to potentially forest...
Scheerpost.com

Debunking the Lies of the Iran War - Mitchell Plitnick for Mondoweiss When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many of us knew, and argued loudly, that the American public was being lied t...
San Antonio Current

Mayes Middleton, Chip Roy advance to runoff for GOP attorney general nomination - [image: From left: State Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, are running in the Republican primary for Texas attorney gene...
Sludge

Trump Quietly Invested Millions in Bank Securities, Late Ethics Filing Shows - The President recently disclosed more than a hundred late trades made since May of last year, nearly all in banks and financial institutions.
Vox

Scientists have been underestimating sea levels — for decades - Humans are a coastal species. More than one in ten people in the world live within three miles of the shore, and about 40 percent of us live within an hour...
Dissident Voice

The Unbreakable Message - There is a physics rule that changes everything about how we think about secrets. It goes like this: you cannot observe a quantum system without disturbi...
Bonddad

Strongly positive ISM services report for February gives the best economically weighted reading for the economy in a year, (but also with a big dose of inflation) - * - by New Deal democrat* If Monday’s ISM manufacturing report was good (but with a dose of inflation), today’s ISM services report for February was ...
Trivial Knot

Bad Puzzles - What is the difference between a puzzle and a real world problem? A puzzle is devised by someone, generally with the intent of making a pleasant experience...
Election Law Blog

Rethinking Preclearance in the Age of Trump - With Monday’s shadow docket decision in Malliotakis v. Williams, the Staten Island NYVRA case, the Supreme Court has doubled-down on its resistance to lo...
ProPublica

Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts - The post Kristi Noem Misled Congress About Top Aide’s Role in DHS Contracts appeared first on ProPublica.
Slate

You Thought Your Breakup Was Bad? Try Getting Dumped by Your Co-Worker. - You can’t go no-contact with someone you share a printer with.
SCOTUSblog

Birthright citizenship: an empirical analysis of supposedly originalist briefs - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
Glasstire

NALAC Announces Open Call for “Meet the Moment” Social Change Grants - The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) has announced an open call for its 2026 Individuals and Ensembles Meet the Moment Grant. Fun...
naked capitalism

Can Sheinbaum Avoid A Death Spiral After the El Mencho Killing? - Why Sheinbaum is likely to find that decapitating cartel leaders is no more likely to succeed than Israeli decapitation has in the Middle East.
NORML

Study: Lifetime Cannabis Use Not Associated With Cognitive Decline or Dementia Risk in Older Adults - [image: an older man with short grey hair and a long grey beard sits at a table holds a lighter to a clear glass bong to smoke legal cannabis][image: an ...
Daily Howler

SURROUNDINGS: On Friday night, Joe Biden spoke! - *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2026* *A few hours later, it started:* As the midnight hour approached last night, there he went again. As of last Friday, he had ...
Novara Media

No Evidence Iran Is Building Nuclear Bomb, Says UN Atomic Energy Chief - There is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear bomb, the head of the UN’s atomic energy agency has said, despite claims by Israel and the US that the...
Ecosophia

The End of the Bureaucratic Era - For several years now I’ve had readers ask me from time to time about my opinion of the current media and investment frenzy surrounding so-called Artificia...
First Draft

The Murder Of Innocents - Trump and Whiskey Pete murdered scores of children. Where is the national outrage?
El Paso Matters

Jazmine Ulloa discusses El Paso history, La Nube hosts Wine and Wonder - Jazmine Ulloa discusses her new book on El Paso’s history while La Nube hosts an adults-only Wine and Wonder evening, leading a packed week of culture a...
Democracy Now!

"The Secret Agent": Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil's Military Dictatorship - Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, *The Secret Agent*, and the history that inspired it. The film is se...
The Conversation

Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority - At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers’ held the power to declare wa...
The Progressive Wing

3/4 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
The Root

Ray J’s Mom Shuts Down Hoax Talk, Confirms The Singer’s Devastating Heart Diagnosis - While some people may be skeptical about Ray J's heart health, his mom is silencing critics once and for all. Read more...
Space City Weather

Much needed rain is coming this weekend to Houston, but how much? - In brief: In today’s post we review the last six months of precipitation across Texas (spoiler alert, it’s been very dry). We then look ahead to warm and m...
WhoWhatWhy

GOP’s TX Senate Primary Heads Into Overtime, Progressives Flex Muscle in NC - [image: John Cornyn, microphone, speaking] The start of the primary season showed that very little is going right for the GOP. GOP’s TX Senate Primary Hea...
NPR's Health Shots

Why supporting a shelter for women is now 'kind of radioactive' - That's how researcher Beatriz Garcia Nice describes the new U.S. stance under the Trump administration to programs addressing gender-based violence.
Rallblog

Iran’s Plan: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast | 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...
ArcaMax

The President That Plays by No Rules - Donald Trump breaks every rule in the book, and he's never read the book of rules. Time after time, Americans see he's constitutionally unable to follow th...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: March Forth Unto Hump Day - Kim is losing her column and we’ll see where that leaves her. But her editor’s comment about not touching the comics is timely, because with Zits going int...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Map Appliance Power to Identify and Tame Your Home’s Top Electricity Consumers - In a perfect household, every appliance would run with zero waste. In reality, the U.S.... The post Guest Idea: Map Appliance Power to Identify and Tame ...
Dorf on Law

Thanks to Anthropic for Exposing the Trump/Hegseth Plans for Mass Surveillance and Killer Robots - In my latest *Verdict *column, I discuss Anthropic's refusal to bow or bend to pressure from the Trump administration to allow its AI products to be used...
Skeptophilia

The war of choice - Back in the fifth century C. E., things had been looking pretty hopeless for the Jewish people in the Middle East for nearly three centuries. The Bar Kok...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Foreign Policy Has No Rules -
Off The Kuff

2026 primary results: Statewide - We have to start with this: The Texas Supreme Court suspended a district court’s decision Tuesday to extend voting by two hours in Dallas County and ordere...
Media Lens

‘Operation Epic Fury’ – Anatomy Of A War Of Aggression - Commenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got...
Countercurrents

US and Israel Assault on Iran on Fifth Day, Death Toll Nears 800 - Tehran (QNN)- US and Israeli assault on Iran have continued into a fifth day on Wednesday, with the death toll in Iran approaching 800 as Tehran carries ou...
Grist

Arizona’s water is drying up. That’s not stopping the data center rush. - Though tech companies are secretive about their water usage, Arizona’s 150-plus data centers and chip factories use a tiny fraction of the state’s supply.
High Country News

Coyotes and cougars and rats, oh my! - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Coyotes and cougars and rats, oh my! appeared first on High Country News.
San Antonio Report

LaHood, Texas House incumbents fend off challengers - Incumbents faced well-funded primary challengers, including an expensive race for state Rep. Marc LaHood in District 121. ------------------------------ LaH...
Crooked Media

Did Israel Push Trump into War with Iran? - The post Did Israel Push Trump into War with Iran? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Seeing the Forest

The Tech Industry – Enshittification (video) - Make people dependent enough … and then? MAKE IT SHITTY! This brilliant video sums it up: WAY back when I was at Be they had a great new OS called BeOS. Fa...
Counterpunch

Boys With Toys Try to Blow Up Iran - Once again, the United States and Israel have launched an unlawful war of aggression against another country. Once again, US and Israeli officials claim ...
jobsanger

The World Is Seeing The Rise Of A Mad Emperor -
World Socialist Web Site

Australian Labor government accuses Iran of “antisemitic” attacks to justify Trump’s criminal war - The revival of bogus claims that Iran orchestrated firebombings on Australian soil is the Labor government’s original contribution to the deluge of propaga...
Texas Observer

Abbott-Endorsed Honey-Dealer Bids Sid Adieu - On the Friday before the Texas primary election day (with early voting all but over), Donald Trump visited Corpus Christi and—among other things—dished o...
Informed Comment

Iran is fighting a Techno-Guerrilla War, as the US and Israel fight a Conventional One - The US and Israeli decapitation strikes, killing over 40 high-ranking Iranian officials, have not had the desired effect
Texas Standard

Winners, losers and runoffs: How Texans’ November ballot is shaping up after the primaries - From the governorship to the U.S. Senate race to attorney general, here’s who we know will face off for statewide offices in November — and who’s heading t...
The Grayzone

Epstein Army: Jeffrey Epstein helped place 18-year-old woman in ‘elite IDF unit’ - Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked his connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite Israeli paratrooper unit. The ...
Alternet

Trump's Israel ambassador makes profane joke to staff avoiding bombardments - President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, implied in a message sent to embassy staff sheltering in place that they should have sex wh...
Brad Blog

No Way Home: Trump's Iran War a Spreading, Chaotic, Deadly, Disaster: 'BradCast' 3/3/2026 - Amid life in war time, we are forced to jam several hours worth of news into today's tightly-packed, 57-minute BradCast. Join us, won't you? [Audio link to...
Workers World

Countrywide protests slam U.S. war on Iran - [image: Countrywide protests slam U.S. war on Iran] As of this writing, U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have murdered over 555 Iranians. One Zionist airstrike ...
Popular Resistance

Attack On Iran Also An Assault On United Nations - On Feb. 16, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council warning that the United States was on the verge of tearing up the United...
Portside

How To Dismantle a Concentration Camp - How To Dismantle a Concentration Camp Judy Tue, 03/03/2026 - 19:59
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump admin hangs banner of anti-LGBTQ influencer Charlie Kirk outside Ed. Dept' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Charlie Kirk *Trump admin hangs banner of anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk outside Ed. Dept*. - *The Trump Administration is joining conservatives in ...
Claytoonz

Baby-Eating Lizard People Murderers… and Hillary - 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...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #17: War With Iran Is Here and It's Even Worse Than We Imagined (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Rafi returns to help us go deep on the madness that has been decades in the making
Antiwar.com

They Are Still Lying About Iraq - They are still lying about the Iraq War. The lack of shame exhibited by the US government as it lies about Iraqi improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...
Progressive.org

The Right Expands Its Campaign to Censor College Professors - PEN America called 2025 ‘a year of catastrophe for higher education,’ but professors are fighting back against censorship.
Black Agenda Report

Epstein Class vs. Iran: "They’ll Blow Up the World" - Epstein Class vs. Iran: "They’ll Blow Up the World" bareditors Wed, 03/04/2026 - 04:58 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Dr. Gerald Horne Bett...
Socialist Alternative

Stop the Imperialist Offensive Against Cuba! - After the US military intervention in Venezuela, Cuba is in the crosshairs of US imperialism. Trump wants to impose historic defeats on the peoples of Lati...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
Ian Welsh

Khamenei Is Responsible For Every Single Iranian Death - There’s a lot to admire about Khameini. He was personally brave (fought in the Iran/Iraq war on the front lines), he was well educated, and within the limi...
Church and State

Major US military interventions since Korea 1953 - The gutless GOP failed to stand up since Trump’s attempted coup on January 6, 2021 which he should’ve been tried and incarcerated.
The AltWorld

US Betrays Gulf Allies as Air Defenses VANISH | Ep. 163 - US Betrays Gulf Allies as Air Defenses VANISH | Ep. 163 The post US Betrays Gulf Allies as Air Defenses VANISH | Ep. 163 appeared first on TheAltWorld.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Chief Justice: Supreme Court offers a civics program for students - By Chief Justice David K. Thomson, New Mexico Supreme Court — The Supreme Court of New Mexico launched a program in 2021 to help young people learn abou...
Ballot Access News

Jon Slavet, Republican, Says He Won’t Run for California Governor - On March 3, Joe Slavet, a Republican businessman from Silicon Valley who had been running for Governor of California, announced that he won’t run. He had b...
Independent Political Report

Nebraska Legal Marijuana NOW Party to Hold Contested U.S. Senate Primary - The Nebraska Legal Marijuana NOW Party will have a contested primary for the state’s U.S. Senate seat later this year after two candidates filed to seek ...
Angry Bear

What is the effect of Oil and Gasoline Prices on the US economy? - If you have been reading and earlier commentary Oil Prices are Up, you will get a pretty idea of what is happening with Oil Prices since Trump decided to...
Democracy Chronicles

Why is the Media and Mob so Anti-Israel? - How the anti-Israel narrative has become so dominant in our era needs explaining, whatever our feelings on the Middle East. Even if you dislike Israel, wha...
Environment Texas

Why your RV should have solar panels - Over the past two decades, RV ownership in the United States has grown dramatically. More than 10 million households now own a recreational vehicle. The...
Bracing Views

Quick Thoughts on the Iran War - Can We Contain and Extinguish the Fire, or Will It Become a Raging Inferno? BILL ASTORE MAR 03, 2026 Here are some macro ideas and thoughts about America’s...
The Greanville Post

DIMITRI LASCARIS: Did Iran shoot three US warplanes? - DL—On March 1, after a video surfaced of a U.S. F-15 crashing to the ground in Kuwait, the Iranian, Kuwaiti and U.S. militaries issued competing claims abo...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Dissent Magazine

Response to “The Conquerors of Tomorrow” - A letter to the editor.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Wouldn’t Take Much for 2026 to be a Big Year for House Incumbent Primary Defeats - Typically, only a handful of House incumbents lose renomination in a given year. But with several big House primaries already set for Tuesday, that also ...
Rewire

Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care - In Minneapolis, intense immigration enforcement is disrupting HIV care for Latino communities, a group already disproportionately affected by the virus. ...
LareDOS

Tu Casa Gráfica prepares for papermaking workshop March 15 in San Ygnacio - Register now! Participation limited to 10
Crooked Timber

Golden (missed) opportunities - She told me she’d be ten minutes late, which was fine. But when it was nearly twenty minutes I messaged – where are you? Shall I walk towards you? My daugh...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Ad Wars - The blockbuster Senate race in Texas has tallied millions of dollars in ad spending. And for the five leading candidates, the gloves are off.
See You In 2020

Framing Luigi was how Epstein’s accomplices hoped to put a lid on the backlash to their crimes - Every sign points to Luigi Mangione being innocent, and to Brian Thompson’s slaying having been done by a team. I’m not even talking about the idea that...
Two Party Opera

Triple Digits - One of the longest-running gags in 2PO is making a Washington/Eye comic on the repeat digits (111, 222, 333…). Now that we’re past 999, it’s its own wild r...
Project Censored

Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories - First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and kill...
Common Dreams

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) today...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How We Got to War and Where We're Going: Bourbon Talk Q&A - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Dispatches from the Underclass

Trump Kills Khamenei — Iran Hits Back | Regime Change War Day 2 - The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East. After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washingt...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom in Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom * *in Texas Higher Education* *You may listen to ...
Idavox

US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call for Regime Change - The first casualties reported by Iran were those from strikes on an elementary girls’ school.... The post US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call ...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

When Genocidal Governments Label their Victims As Terrorist! - Since October 7th Social Media has gone viral with atrocities committed by Israel, including many confirmed by credible sources, and among these claims ...
MintPress News

Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout - War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trum...
Field Negro

The Epstein War has begun. - I have a friend who bought this really nice sports car a few years back, and he wouldn't let his nineteen year old son at the time get within a hundred...
Krebs on Security

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? - In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TOO GRIM TO BE FUNNY & VICE VERSA EDITION. - *Ry Cooder doesn't get enough love.* If the actions of this administration weren’t so harmful to actual human beings, I could enjoy them as living satire...
Debunking Christianity

"Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian - "Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian is Secular Web's Editor's Choice, Kiosk Article! Congrats goes to Edouard who is t...
Alas, a Blog

The Alpha Wolf - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. And just look at how adorable the wolf pups she drew are! The term “alpha wolf” was coined in 1947 by biologist ...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
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...
Earthworks

We Caught Shell Polluting in PA, again! Our Partner did, too. - Since opening in November 2022 the Shell Plastic Plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania has been wrought with malfunctions and violations. … The post We C...
Greg Palast

Two Speeches. Two Americas. One Liar. - Trump doesn’t just tailor his message to the room. He fabricates reality from scratch for different audiences, with total indifference to being caught, as ...
The Militant

Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’ - Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up at...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank - Nigel Farage is preparing to fly more than 3,000 miles from his UK constituency to address an anti-climate U.S. think tank with close ties to Donald Trum...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Unlimited Hangout

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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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
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...
slacktivist

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