Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

The Utah GOP Surrenders to Public Unions (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *The Utah GOP Surrenders to Public Unions* — Republicans bow to union pressure and repeal their ban on collective bargaining for g...
Vox

Yes, your anger and forgiveness can coexist - Open almost any conversation about wrongdoing in America, and the idea of forgiveness will not be far behind. It’s one of our most cherished cultural idea...
The Verge

Rivian’s AI pivot is about more than chasing Tesla - RJ Scaringe is sitting in Rivian's Palo Alto offices, explaining why the adventure-themed EV company suddenly decided to build its own self-driving cars, w...
naked capitalism

Links 12/20/2025 -
Futurism

NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While - Same. The post NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While appeared first on Futurism.
Political Wire

Trump Gets Sidetracked in Speech on the Economy - “President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy,” CNN reports. “He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her linger...
Salon.com

The madness of George Will: Last lonely never-Trumper forges on - Legendary Washington Post columnist bailed on GOP over Trump — but hasn't changed his mind about anything else
Crooked Media

What Comes After Trump? - The post What Comes After Trump? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Paxtons agree to unseal divorce records - Well, well. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, have agreed to unseal their divorce case after a group of media organizations requested...
The Hill

Where Trump's polling stands at end of first year back in office - President Trump is closing out the first year of his second term with a slight rebound in his approval ratings, but the numbers are still far lower than wh...
Slate

The Radical Power of Assuming Good Faith - Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales tells David Plotz why trust, purpose, and transparency can make the internet — and our institutions — better.
The Smirking Chimp

What Bondi Beach and Brown University Reveal About Stopping Gun Violence -
Raw Story

This ferocious assault is appalling — but it will ruin Trump too - Last month, Donald Trump explained away his hoarse voice by saying he “blew his stack” shouting at stupid people. He must have been looking at himself in...
ProPublica

A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay - The post A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay appeared first on ProPublica.
Al Jazeera English

MSF urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death - At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trickle release of Epstein files on a Friday signals move to bury Trump ties - The justice department is using a variety of tactics to try to obfuscate the US president’s connection to the sex offender The justice department’s parti...
Daily Dot

Gen Z made up a holy war between “glovers” and “sliders” on TikTok and now it’s devolving fast - [image: Left: Man with his face painted white and black, in a black shirt, text overlay reads, "When its the year 1 AK (after kirk) and the great war bet...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 20 December 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Today was the deadline for the release of the Epstein files, *all* of them...
Mediagazer

The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilities; subscribers get unlimited access (Nicholas Henriquez/New Yorker) - Nicholas Henriquez / New Yorker: *The New Yorker has digitized its full archive covering 100 years, including covers and adding upgraded search capabilit...
Courthouse News

Vacation rentals - WAILUKU, Hawaii — A group of Maui residents say that a recently enacted bill phasing out transient vacation rentals in the county conflicts with their vest...
The Week

5 fairly vain cartoons about Vanity Fair’s interviews with Susie Wiles - Artists take on demolition derby, alcoholic personality, and more
jobsanger

Trump Wants A Country Dominated By White Male Christians -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1492: Necessity in the Siege of Paris - Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris. Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Twilight - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Countercurrents

Terrorism & Religious Labels! - Whether it is killing/injuring of one person or more, be it in Bondi Beach (Sydney, Australia) or elsewhere, whatever be the ethnic background of victims a...
See You In 2020

As AI speeds up capitalist society’s collapse, the hinterland is where we must look to find our way out - When pundits talk about AI’s disruptions of jobs, as a rule they focus not on the actual working families who are being impacted, but on the “creative c...
Informed Comment

UN’s IPC: Gaza out of Famine for Now, but Severe Malnutrition Continues, as Newborn dies of Hypthermia - The bad news is that in October and November 2025, "the majority of the population continued to face high levels of acute food insecurity
Mediaite

Trump Brags About Suing the Government and Declares, ‘I Hereby Give Myself $1 Billion’ - Speaking at a rally on Friday night, President Donald Trump bragged about his demand that the U.S. government give him a huge payout, and said he would b...
World Socialist Web Site

*Jacobin *magazine denounces left-wing criticism of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani - Following Mamdani’s fundraisers with billionaires and decision to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, *Jacobin* insisted that left-moving worker...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | December 19, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | December 19, 2025 barry Fri, 12/19/2025 - 23:10
Dissident Voice

US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale - In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Techdirt.

California Brings Former CDC Staff On To Do The Work RFK Jr. Refuses To Do Nationally - With national public health being run by RFK Jr., or run into the ground if you prefer, it’s been left to individual states to figure out where and how to ...
Alternet

Trump drove GOP rep into retirement after 'series of public humiliations': NYT - New York Times reporter Annie Karni writes Rep. Elise Stefanik, (R-N.Y.) was willing to be a team player for President Donald Trump, but that didn’t help...
Workers World

12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia - [image: 12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia] Philadelphia A rally in Philadelphia on Nov. 28 kicked off the 103-mile March for Mumia to ...
Daily Cartoonist

DePaul and Weigel to Continue The Origin of The Phantom - “For those who came in late.” The Phantom Story: A lone survivor of a pirate raid is washed ashore on a Bangalla beach and vows to fight injustice. But wha...
Popular Resistance

First We End The War, Then We Restart The Factories - In mid-November 2025, at a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conference in Saudi Arabia, Basher Abdullah, an adviser to Sudan’s ...
WhoWhatWhy

DOJ Ignores Epstein Transparency Law - [image: Lisa Phillips, speaks, news conference, Epstein survivors] In defiance of a law requiring the Trump administration to release all its Epstein files...
Undernews

Word - [image: Image] Via Proud Native Americans
Axios

U.S. conducts strikes on ISIS targets in Syria in retaliation for killing of American soldiers - The U.S. military conducted air strikes on Friday against dozens of ISIS targets in Syria in retaliation for the attack that killed three U.S. soldiers n...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio seeks ‘project honcho’ to oversee Project Marvel - Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said overseeing the massive downtown redevelopment project is too much to add to any existing city leader's plate. ------------------...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico cannabis industry cheers Trump’s rescheduling order - [image: President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order directing federal agencies to speed up the process of reclassifying marijuana as a drug...
San Antonio Current

A 144-year-old home from New Braunfels’ German settlement period is for sale - A two-story home recently listed in New Braunfels for $1.1 million represents a chance to own a piece of the city’s history — literally. The Texas-Germa...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: Hunger Strikes & Court Cases - Prisoners are now in serious danger and thousands of entirely peaceful protesters in the U.K. face life-changing terrorism charges simply for speech in fav...
NPR's Health Shots

White House announces new round of drug-price deals - Fourteen companies in total have now reached what the administration calls most-favored-nation pricing deals.
Deadline Politics

‘Good Night, And Good Luck’: Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson Sign Off From ‘CBS Evening News’ - John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois signed off as co-anchors of the CBS Evening News on Thursday, as the network retools its evening broadcast under new news...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: It's right there in the DSM-5! - *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025* *Is there any way this could be dangerous?* It was once believed that an earlier potentate had named his horse to a seat in t...
CultureMap Houston

Meet the men behind River Oaks' new destination for bowls and broth - On this week’s episode of “What’s Eric Eating,” *Honest Mary’s* founder Nelson Monteith and COO Andrew Wiseman joined CultureMap editor Eric Sandler to dis...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Requires Mississippi to Hold Some State Supreme Court Elections in 2026 - On December 19, U.S. District Court Judge Sharion Aycock ordered Mississippi to hold elections for some State Supreme Court seats in 2026. The same judge h...
The Greanville Post

The Hundredth Beach Attack, But The Only One White People Care About - INDRAJIT—White* people have gotten way too comfortable with war from afar. I'm not saying that people within the White Empire have any particular control, ...
Democracy Chronicles

An Interview With the Illinois Green Party’s Eyde Arndell - Right now, the most concerning issue in our country and Illinois is masked, armed ICE agents terrorizing our communities completely disregarding the rule o...
Capital & Main

‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis - In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest. The post ‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Election Law Blog

“Explainer: Can the Federal Government Force States to Hand Over Citizens’ Voter Information?” - Very helpful explainer from Derek Clinger of the State Democracy Research Initiative. The post “Explainer: Can the Federal Government Force States to Han...
The Conversation

As DOJ begins to release Epstein files, his many victims deserve more attention than the powerful men in his ‘client list’ - Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred...
Scheerpost.com

Big Pharma Is Making Mexico Sick. Medicine and Supply Shortages Are Rampant. - Mexico manufactures medical devices and medicines, but the majority are exported, leaving residents facing shortages.
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
OpEd News

Three Americans killed in Syria exposes security weakness - This article talks about the terrorist attack on the US military in syria
Reform Austin

Questions Surround Texas A&M Student’s Death: Family Pushes for Fresh Investigation - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The family of Brianna Aguilera, a 19-year-old Texas A&M student who died after falling from a 1...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: After a challenging 2025, El Paso builds toward a shared future - From parks and public health to civic engagement, El Paso’s progress in 2025 shows how local leadership and community participation can shape a resilien...
Mother Jones

MAGA Is Eating Itself Alive - Sometime this week in an undisclosed location, two powerful figures sat down for tense negotiations, hoping to end a cold war that had, in recent days, tur...
Wolf Street

Single-Family Home Prices Barely up YoY, Condo Prices Fall, Highest Supply for Nov in Years, Sales at Housing Bust Levels - The beginning of the 4th year of demand destruction in the resale market after the price explosion from mid-2020 to mid-2022.
Socialist Alternative

Ukraine: A War That Defined an Epoch - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
Dorf on Law

The Left's Conventional Wisdom about Last Year's Election Results Is Still Wrong, No Matter How Much They Repeat It - With two weeks of holiday disruptions (and, one hopes, loads of joy and love) ahead of us, I expect this to be my last new *Dorf on Law* column of 2025. ...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
The Daily Poster

Confessions Of The Retired And Powerless - Mitt Romney’s reversal on taxes comes only after he's given up the power to fix the problem he fortified.
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s request in dispute over immigration judges - The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Trump administration in a dispute over a policy limiting speaking engagements by immigration j...
Second Nexus

Woman Freaks Out After Getting Stuck In Entry Pod At Her 24-Hour Gym—And It's Pure Nightmare Fuel - This may not be the most innovative thought, but sometimes it's true that if it's not broken, you don't need to fix it. That wasn't how the 24-hour gym ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Boutros Boutros Carpathia - Even good writers would not have been able to escape the trap that Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye set for themselves here in "Left Behind."
Mondoweiss

The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel - [image: Photo released by House Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, showing Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. (Phot...
Texas Standard

Longhorn Ballroom celebrates 75 years of music history with big plans for the future - The Dallas venue, now on the National Register of Historic Places, has hosted a diverse array of acts – from Bob Wills and Nat King Cole to the Sex Pistols...
Angry Bear

Children Without Legal Representation - If you wish to know what takes place when people of Mexico face a judge to determine their fate? Here is a partial story of Lucy and a few children facin...
Rallblog

We’re Workers Too - From an economic standpoint, governments look at citizens as workers, consumers or both. Most people, of course, are both: we work and earn, and we spend...
The Root

Why Timothée Chalamet, Druski’s Latest Internet Shenanigans Has Some Black Folks Inviting Him to the Cookout - Timothée Chalamet went viral after this one unforgettable moment with Druski has some Black folks online inviting him to the cookout! Read more...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Announces State Leadership Changes - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has shifted its state leadership following the resignation of Justin Miramonti as chair, with former Vice Chair Tim Tea...
Common Dreams

Trump Ends Year on Voters’ Naughty List As Rising Unemployment and Snowballing Prices Crush Holiday Spirit - As 2025 comes to a close, Americans are taking stock of an economy that looks nothing like what Donald Trump promised. Instead of lower prices and stable...
Claytoonz

Ho Ho Ho Hoax - 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...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where the Bodies are Buried: The Hidden DNC Autopsy - The DNC is choosing to hide what went wrong in 2024 and, in turn, is making future failure much, much likelier
Bonddad

The “gold standard” QCEW through Q2 suggests little if any employment growth this year - - *by New Deal democrat* The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Glasstire

African American Museum, Dallas Receives $250k Grant for New Conservation Lab - The African American Museum, Dallas (AAMD) has announced the establishment of the Harry Robinson Jr. Research and Conservation Lab, projected to open in ...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Democracy Now!

"Terror & Fear": Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery - The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with *The New York Times* reporting that off...
The AltWorld

The strong return of the Islamic State - What is the most significant threat to America and the new Syria? And what are the causes […] The post The strong return of the Islamic State appeared fi...
Space City Weather

After today Jack Frost is gonna get lost - In brief: It is chilly across Houston this morning, with some outlying areas falling all the way into the upper 30s. Most of us are in the lower 40s. This ...
Texas Observer

A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish - The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Things are dark, and likely to get much darker. Our po...
ArcaMax

Santa Has Equity Issues. Here's How Parents Can Help. - The holiday season is a generous one. More than half of U.S. adults report donating or having plans to make charitable donations by the end of this year, a...
Skeptophilia

Taken by the flood - Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, *The Drowned Cathedral*, and I started to wonder what legend had given rise t...
Grist

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas - No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.
High Country News

Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek honestly - To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust. The post Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek hones...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature - Today’s quote is from American writer Steven King. In his novella The Mist he wrote,... The post Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature appear...
Counterpunch

The Classroom as a Battleground: Italy’s Students Rise Against Genocide - In Italy, the bell that signals the start of the school day has recently sounded like a call to arms—not for war, but against it. While the Italian gover...
Ian Welsh

We Don’t Have To Live In Hell - A friend of mine once used the metaphor of “The Lords of Hell” to describe most of the world. There are a few people with lots of money and power, a few bi...
Brad Blog

Old Man Shouts at People from White House for 20 Minutes, and Other End of Year Observations: 'BradCast' 12/18/2025 - My ears are still ringing after the President of the United States spent about 20 minutes barking at me last night. But the show --- in this case, the fina...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Insane claim about children's penises highlights Trump Administration effort to ban healthcare for trans kids - Trump official Mehmet Oz voices a wild and absolutely ridiculous claim about creating children's penises as a part of the administration's effort to ban g...
Environment Texas

BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee proposes selling off public lands - Amendment #3972 threatens national parks by allowing their sale to private owners. The post BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee proposes selling off public lands ...
Antiwar.com

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy - Since early 2023, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed...
Progressive.org

Are We Celebrating America’s 250? - Celebrating our country under the Trump Administration feels tough, but doing so is an important act of resistance.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Church and State

Before trips to Mars, we need better protection from cosmic rays - And finally, the trip to Mars is planned for the 2030s. But there’s an invisible threat standing in the way: cosmic rays.
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
The Texas Signal

An Economic Reality Check In Texas - The president claimed that Texans will begin feeling the impacts of his economic policies next year, a cold comfort for the millions experiencing the pinch...
NORML

President Trump Takes Executive Action to Federally Reschedule Marijuana - [image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf background][image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf backgr...
Rewire

My Holidays Look a Little Different This Year (Thanks, Portia)—Podcast - We're both not holiday people, but we're reimagining the season for ourselves. The post My Holidays Look a Little Different This Year (Thanks, Portia)—P...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Crooked Timber

L’Établi (2): the book - Having watched the film, I thought I’d get Robert Linhart’s book off the shelf and finally read it. I think I bought it in Oxford in the early 80s. To remi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Unlimited Hangout

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

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Wikipedia C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 17, 2025* *In 1960, renowned, Waco, ...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado - By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened ...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: It’s an act of war! We reject Trump’s naval blockade on Venezuela - This is a siege designed to cause economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis as a precursor to all-out war by the United States.
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
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...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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Campaign for America's Future

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ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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Texas Freedom Network

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Moron Majority

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Reading the Pictures

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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 ...
Two Party Opera

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American Prospect

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WAWG Blog

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Progressive Army

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

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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

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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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

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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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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

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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...
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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 ...
Novara Media

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Border/Lines

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

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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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

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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...
Dandelion Salad

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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
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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

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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

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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

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Eclectablog

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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

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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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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I want the G.I. Jew with the Kung Fu grip

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