Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/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

Courthouse News

EU suspends funds for Serbia over law reforms - The changes come amid several high-profile corruption investigations targeting senior government and ruling party officials, who retain good relations with...
Election Law Blog

“Top California Democrat urges change to ‘free-for-all’ primary to keep governor’s mansion blue” - The Guardian: The chair of the California Democratic party says he wants to get rid of the state’s idiosyncratic “open primary”, calling it a failure tha...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for May 1, 2026 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
naked capitalism

US Judge Calls Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement a “Filthy” Deal - Bayer got a blistering dressing-down from a Federal judge over a proposed sneaky settlement but it is not clear what happens next.
Rewire

Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion Ban - Plus, the Supreme Court guts voting Civil Rights-era protections for Black voters, and trans Idahoans fight back. The post Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion ...
The NM Political Report

U.S. House passes Farm Bill with 9 bills for ranchers, farmers from N.M.’s Rep. Vasquez - [image: Rep. Gabe Vasquez visited Adams Produce in Hatch in September, where Scott and Terry Adams run a family farm growing everything from chile and onio...
The Verge

Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic - The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
Mediaite

Fox News Host Points Out Dog That Appeared Sniff Out WHCA Suspect Seconds Before Shooting - Lawrence Jones pointed out that a dog appeared to have a hit on the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting just seconds b...
SCOTUSblog

State and federal courts jockey for power in the Roundup case and other mass public harms - *Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state.* The Supreme Court on Monday ...
Undernews

Media - *The Guardian - *The veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi *expressed concern *about “the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear” at CB...
Daily Howler

ORDINARY PEOPLE: "I believe it was a fake attack!" - *FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2026* *So said we the people: *King Charles and his once unlikely queen have gone back to jolly olde. If we could rent him as a replaceme...
Liberation News

Working people can defeat Trump! - Millions of people across the country are marking International Workers Day in the true tradition of the holiday that was born right here in the United Sta...
Texas Standard

The Onion’s acquisition of Austin-based Infowars is on hold — for now - The “status quo” of the decades-old conspiracy mill is preserved until a hearing next month.
The Hill

Pentagon reaches deal with leading AI companies for classified work - Seven of the country's major artificial intelligence firms have agreed to deploying their AI systems in the Defense Department's (DoD) classified networks,...
San Antonio Current

Study says 3 San Antonio universities face uncertain future as problems roil higher ed - [image: A top Our Lady of the Lake official said the study is based on outdated information and doesn't reflect the campus' current reality.] Three San An...
Political Wire

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day - “It is a problem I’m not on the ballot. Everyone says if I was on a ballot we’d win in a landslide. I have some of the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” — ...
Bonddad

Blockbuster initial jobless claims report suggests unemployment could decline all the way to 4.0% - - *by New Deal democrat* I wasn’t able to get to either the GDP report or the jobless claims report yesterday. I’m going to hold off on the GDP repo...
Salon.com

The future of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is in doubt - Saturday's shooting has prompted board members to consider how to fix the annual event
First Draft

What Kind Of Country Do You Want? - The never-ending struggle that makes up a lot of our history.
El Paso Matters

El Paso aerospace firm partners on drones; 600 students awarded vouchers - This week: Aerospace partnership advances drone tech as 600-plus students receive vouchers. Police seek camera grants, a media leader dies, and transit ...
San Antonio Report

Spurs owners are seeking out local businesses to work on new downtown arena - An invitation from Spurs Sports and Entertainment asks local businesses to sign up if they want jobs related to Project Marvel development. ----------------...
Progressive.org

Waking Up the Possums - As the Democratic Party’s favorability plummeted, party leaders clung to restoration and moderation over transformation and progressivism.
Futurism

Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way - They've had enough. The post Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way appeared first on Futurism.
Democracy Now!

"A People's History of Invisible India": Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights - On International Workers’ Day, we take a look at the state of workers’ rights and freedoms in India, where pressure on fuel supplies from the U.S.-Israeli ...
Raw Story

Epstein bombshell leads expert to wonder if death was hoax: 'Was this all a ruse?' - A CNN legal analyst said a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein raises serious new questions — even about whether or not he's still alive. ...
Consortium News

Palestine Action Defendants Address Jury Directly - In a rare move, five pro-Palestine direct-action defendants dismissed their lawyers and delivered impassioned speeches about Britain’s role in Gaza genoci...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr ‘Launches’ His Bogus FCC ‘Review’ Of ABC Broadcast Licenses And It’s Just Pathetic And Stupid - Brendan Carr’s FCC claims to be moving forward their their plan to “review ABC’s broadcast licenses” because Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about the president’s...
Debunking Christianity

Why I Abandoned Christianity, Part 1 - *Two compelling reasons that are hard to refute* *1. **The Arrogance of Theology* I grew up on the very flat prairie of northern Indiana: the land w...
The Progressive Wing

5/1 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments below.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: May Day, For Those Who Celebrate It - Today is May Day, which is International Workers Day, aka Labour Day, marking the Haymarket Square Riots, which began May 1, 1886, and culminated in the ex...
memeorandum

Nebraska faces challenges as first state to impose Medicaid work requirements under GOP bill (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill) - Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill: *Nebraska faces challenges as first state to impose Medicaid work requirements under GOP bill* — Nebraska on Friday is set...
Vox

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is capitalist art that hates capitalist art - The Devil Wears Prada is one of the great millennial fairy tales. Released in 2006, the year before the financial crisis and Great Recession would come f...
Mother Jones

Welcome to the Insecurity-Industrial Complex - Affordability is the new buzzword. It’s yapped by politicians and pundits across the spectrum. It’s as popular as a new TikTok dance. And it’s genuinely an...
The Socialist

Robert Bresnahan Net Worth 2026: $36.4M & Controversial Stock - Table of Contents Robert Bresnahan’s Financial Snapshot From Entrepreneurship to Public Service A Portfolio Built on Diversification Recent Market Maneuver...
Earth 911

5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards - Every year, Americans toss out about 17 million tons of textiles, and most items left... The post 5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards a...
NPR's Health Shots

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Trump's new pick for the role - NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams about President Trump's latest nominee for the role, Dr. Nicole Saphier.
Novara Media

Israel Just Committed Piracy Off the Coast of Europe – and Got Away With It - [image: Global Sumud Flotilla]More than 200 activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) lost all contact with the outside world on Wednesday night, when t...
The Week

Quiz of The Week: 25 April – 1 May - Have you been paying attention to The Week’s news?
Scheerpost.com

I Served My Country, But It’s Leaving Me High and Dry - The social safety net is frayed and full of red tape. But we learned during the pandemic that it doesn’t have to be. James Lee OtherWords Take it from a ve...
The Root

New Details on How D4vd Allegedly Killed Celeste Rivas - D4vd allegedly used a chainsaw to dismember the body of Celeste Rivas after she was killed. Read more...
Off The Kuff

Texas Politics Project poll: Talarico leads again - It’s becoming a trend. Democrat James Talarico leads both Republicans vying to face him in the November U.S. Senate contest, according to a new poll releas...
Eschaton

Morning - Get a life!
ProPublica

8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections - The post 8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? - The post Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Axios

Asian Americans report highest anxiety as U.S. debates identity and immigration - Asian Americans report higher levels of anxiety than any other racial group in the U.S., a new survey finds. *Why it matters: *As Washington hardens its ...
Grist

Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever - The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.
Mediagazer

A US appeals court reverses its 2024 decision, now ruling that Netflix's use of videographer Tim Sepi's 66-second clip in Tiger King constitutes fair use (Gene Maddaus/Variety) - Gene Maddaus / Variety: *A US appeals court reverses its 2024 decision, now ruling that Netflix's use of videographer Tim Sepi's 66-second clip in Tiger ...
High Country News

The dark legacy of the atomic age is still playing out in New Mexico - [image: Family photographs hang on the wall in Andrea Carrillo’s mother’s home in Tularosa, New Mexico. Carrillo’s sister died of cancer a few years ago, a...
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...
Counterpunch

The Mets as The People’s Team - A.M. Gittlitz is an organizer, writer and the author of I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism. His latest work, Metropolitans: New Y...
World Socialist Web Site

Germany’s Morenoite RIO joins Left Party in support of war, attacks on the working class - The integration of the RIO Morenoites into the Left Party marks a further political shift to the right by this pseudo-left tendency, which can only be unde...
Informed Comment

How Netanyahu made Israel an ever more Lawless Nation - Netanyahu has embraced and legitimized Israeli "Proud Boy" culture by allying with far right extremists
Common Dreams

Telling It Like It Is - In a devastating blow to what John Lewis called “the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy,” a right-wing, illegitimate SCOTUS finally gu...
Al Jazeera English

Condemnation and protests against Israel’s raid of Gaza aid flotilla - Israel has provoked international condemnation for its interception of Gaza-bound aid boats in international waters.
Alternet

Pushing MAGA conspiracies kills your date game: study - President Donald Trump encourages his followers to believe in discredited conspiracy theories, from opposing COVID-19 vaccines to claiming former Preside...
Workers World

Protesters target ICE ‘hold site’ - [image: Protesters target ICE ‘hold site’] Centennial, Colorado Over 100 people protested on April 25 at the Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement (IC...
Popular Resistance

Israel Abducts Multi-National Civilians On The Open Sea - April 29, 2026 - Mediterranean Sea – israel’s actions tonight (Wednesday, April 29, 2026) mark a dangerous and unprecedented escalation: the abduction of...
Houston Public Media

James Broadnax executed by lethal injection for 2008 Dallas County robbery, double murder - The U.S. Supreme Court had denied Broadnax's final appeal to temporarily stop his execution and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not grant a last minute reprieve.
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Governor Formally Cancels May 16 Congressional Primary - On April 30, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry formally cancelled the May 16 primaries for U.S. House. The proclamation leaves it up to the legislature to dra...
Deadline Politics

GOP Governor Hopeful Steve Hilton Lays Out Plan To Revive California Film & TV industry - Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Thursday released his five-point plan to revive California’s sagging film and television industry, notin...
Antiwar.com

Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks - It’s getting pretty hard to tell who is more delusional: The Donald or the noisy boy band of school-yard incompetents that surround him. Either way, it’s n...
Black Agenda Report

Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran - Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran Authors Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist bareditors Fri, 05/0...
Claytoonz

Hack - 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...
ArcaMax

86 47 - When I was working my way through law school as a bartender, we used to "86" drinkers who caused trouble. The term has been around that long. It certainly ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pro family' advocate to the LGBTQ community - We are going to eliminate your marriages - Anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust wants to eliminate our legal right to marry. Just in case you need a reminder, long-time anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust an...
Wolf Street

Inflation in the Entire US economy Is Rocking and Rolling, and It’s Not Just Energy - The 6-month core services PCE inflation index, accelerating since August, hit 3.7% annualized. Chip prices and software wreak havoc amid consumer electronics.
Independent Political Report

Write-in Candidate Could Take Late North Dakota Legislator’s Spot in General Election - *This article was originally published by North Dakota Monitor on April 27, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expre...
Angry Bear

The quandary of housing: almost all signs are classically recessionary; so why hasn’t there been a recession? - – by New Deal democrat As I reiterated the other day, housing is the one long leading signal of the economy that has been soundly negative – indeed frank...
Ian Welsh

We Don’t Need Chinese Exceptionalism - Thirty years ago I knew that China would be the next “America”. The next “Britain.” The next industrial and technological hegemon. I wrote about this back ...
CultureMap Houston

Mexico City-style bar shakes up Houston with modern sips and Michelin-worthy eats - A Mexico City-inspired bar from two of Houston's most well-regarded nightlife operators will soon open its doors. *1111* will begin its soft opening this M...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is There An "Obedience to Authority" Experiment Going On In Washington? - There's no doubt that current events are providing an opportunity to study how blindly people follow orders, even illegal or unethical orders, like they di...
slacktivist

Money money money money. Money. - If you want to understand white/Christian nationalism, remember what the O'Jays said back in 1973: Don't let money fool you. It'll only try to rule you.
Dorf on Law

How Much More Dead is Democracy After the Supreme Court's Outrageous Gerrymandering Ruling? - "US supreme court ‘demolishes’ Voting Rights Act, gutting provision that prevented racial discrimination." That is the headline atop *The Guardian*'s ne...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Louisiana primaries will proceed with US House races on ballot but votes ‘will not be counted’, secretary of state says – as it happened - This live blog is now closed. - Louisiana postpones primaries as states rush to redraw districts after supreme court ruling - Vo...
The Daily Poster

Mills Out, Platner Ascendant: What Maine’s Political Shocker Means For You - The surprise shake-up between Graham Platner and Janet Mills is a turning point in the fight over the Democratic Party’s future.
Bracing Views

The Rule of Aging Corporate-Friendly Lawyers - The Color that Matters in America is Green BILL ASTORE APR 30, 2026 How representative of the people is the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court? If you’re ...
The Conversation

Gerrymandering is unpopular with Florida voters – my recent survey shows why DeSantis pushed it through anyway - Florida voters don’t like Gov. DeSantis’ redistricting plans, but it doesn’t tend to be a vote-determining issue.
Capital & Main

Don’t Call It Upward Mobility If People Still Can’t Afford to Live - A living wage analyst challenges rosy claims about rising standard of living, and shows that for millions of Americans, their pay doesn’t cover the basic...
WhoWhatWhy

The Supreme Court Makes Sure the South Will Rise Again - [image: Jeff Landry, LAGOP, rally] Immediately after “their” justices gutted the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday, Republicans in southern states began plott...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When the Center Shifts: Bad Bunny and the Politics of Cultural Power, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. April 30, 2026 - *When the Center Shifts: Bad Bunny and the Politics of Cultural Power* *byAngela Valenzuela, Ph.D.April 30, 2026Bad Bunny’s Apple Music Super Bowl L...
Project Censored

Innovative Apprenticeships Address Shortages in Childcare and Early Ed - Apprenticeship programs for aspiring educators provide “classes and training alongside paid work experience to help hopeful teachers earn required creden...
Mondoweiss

United in Apartheid: What the Bennett-Lapid unity ticket tells us about the future of Zionism in Israel’s pariah era - [image: Naftali Bennett, right, and Yair Lapid, left, prepare to rotate the prime ministership during their first unity effort, on June 30, 2022. (Photo: K...
Dissent Magazine

A Constitutional Moment in Hungary? - The defeat of Viktor Orbán wasn’t primarily driven by anger over the dismantling of liberal democracy. But the new government could serve as a positive e...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Thus, it ends as it began as it begins as it ended. Or something like that. The state, and to some extent the nation, waits to se...
Krebs on Security

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for ...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 30, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Alfredo García: Patina of the HighlandsMonterroso Galle...
Space City Weather

Due to the potential for heavy rainfall, a Stage 1 flood alert is in place for all of Friday - In brief: With today’s update we are issuing a Stage 1 flood alert for Friday in the Houston area. This means mostly minor impacts, but we cannot rule out ...
OpEd News

Kidnapping our friends, piracy, Rome and more - The Zionist destruction of Lebanese villages continues as does the daily killing of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. So is the torture of 11,000 prisone...
Rallblog

The Re-Parent Trap | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
The Smirking Chimp

Please Tell Me I’m Not Becoming a Grouchy Old Man -
Countercurrents

A Protected Class Inside the State: Rethinking pensions, privilege, and fairness in public institutions - I once fought for pensions inside a public institution. Years later, I began to wonder whether we were asking the wrong question. Most people spend their w...
Skeptophilia

Heap of trouble - In my AP Biology class, we did a lab that involved extracting chlorophyll from spinach leaves. The first step was to grind the leaves into a paste with ...
Infidel753

Walpurgisnacht - Today and tonight make up a traditional companion festival to Samhain (Halloween). April 30 is the point on the Earth's orbit exactly opposite to October...
jobsanger

ICE Is Conducting Racial Profiling (With The Supreme Court's Blessing) -
Brad Blog

Corrupt SCOTUS Undermines U.S. Constitution, Guts Last Remaining Protections of Voting Rights Act: ‘BradCast’ 4/29/2026 - It’s a grim day. Tune in for today’s BradCast for the full story. I’ll keep it brief here. [Audio to today’s show follows this summary.] In short, after te...
Lowering the Bar

“The Mistake Will Not Recur [Until Two Sentences From Now]” - [image: a fail stamp]So, you used AI to write the reply to accusations that you used AI? A bold move, sir.
Portside

The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood - The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood Mark Brody Wed, 04/29/2026 - 17:09
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redistricting Check-in at the Dawn of the Callais Era - What the Callais decision may mean, and how the national House map has already changed, or not changed, so far The post A Redistricting Check-in at the D...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law - City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Revolution of the Soul: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
The Texas Signal

Under New Ban, Drag Performers In Texas Assess Risks - Ever since Senate Bill 12 went into effect, drag performers in Texas have had to walk a fine line with their craft
Ecosophia

War In Heaven? - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via...
The AltWorld

Our Rulers Take So Very Much And Give Us So Very Little - Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid […] The post Our Rulers Take So Very Much An...
The Grayzone

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equ...
See You In 2020

People’s Forum hosts neocons & Democrats, revealing a consolidation of the pro-reformist forces - There is evidence that the “red liberal” tendency within left politics is now being directly assimilated into the Democratic Party itself. We have reaso...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s First 100 Days: Where Does NYC Stand With A Socialist Mayor In Office? - It’s been nearly four months since Zohran Mamdani officially became mayor of New York City. When running for mayor, Zohran was focused intensely on an affo...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
NORML

Maryland: Governor Signs Bill Into Law Providing Employment Protections for Firefighters’ Off-Duty Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"This legislation set...
Environment Texas

Ten ways bees are smarter than you think - These pollinators may be small, but their intelligence is both surprising and incredible. The post Ten ways bees are smarter than you think appeared firs...
Sludge

Netflix Raised Prices After Pocketing a $2.8 Billion Windfall - Anti-monopoly advocates including Sen. Elizabeth Warren tell Sludge the timing of the price hikes undermine the streaming service’s argument that it does n...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands - That’s the actual name of the paper. Isn’t that great? Here’s a prologue: a post I wrote a while back about the Portuguese Man-o’-War. (It’s kind of long ...
Church and State

The real issues will persist after Trump is gone - My latest book, the seventeenth, explores how President Trump and his allies have broken virtually all of our established norms.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BACK IN THE SADDLE EDITION. - *Let's take the temperature down a bit.* Yeah, been a few weeks since I did this -- sorry about that, life’s a bitch and sometimes it's hard to get it o...
The Militant

US troops, ships, warplanes out of the Middle East now! - President Donald Trump announced an indefinite extension of the U.S. ceasefire with Tehran April 21, but said the U.S. blockade of ships to and from Irania...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
The Greanville Post

Post 39— Paths of Glory - Paths of Glory Lead But to the Grave This was always about civilization. “A…
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 ...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / HISTORY / Where on earth was The Rag? - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 23, 2026 Inspired by Earth Day and also published in Alice Embree’s Substack. The Rag, Austin’s beloved underground ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Texas Freedom Network

Andrew Edmonson’s Life of Advocacy Lives on Through TFN - David Andrew Edmonson – known as Andrew, or Andy, to friends and family – was a fierce advocate and “force to be reckoned with,” as his younger sister Sa...
Seeing the Forest

A Starmer-Mandelson Scenario - If you are up-to-date on the Starmer/Mandelson scandal, skip to below. US readers: When Trump was about to take office (the second time) Prime Minister Sta...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
LareDOS

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport - The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 y...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It's good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
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...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
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...
Web of Debt

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Unlimited Hangout

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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...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

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Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

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Two Party Opera

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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...
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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

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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

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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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