Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Texas Observer

Racism Wrapped in Rural Warmth - Rural Texas wears a friendly facade. You know everyone, and everyone treats each other so kindly, but, if you’re Black, you just ignore the stares when y...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump says he is firing Fed governor Lisa Cook in escalating attack on bank’s independence | First Thing - Cook has said that Trump has no authority to remove her from the job over over allegations she committed mortgage fraud. Plus, a look at the AI-led agenc...
Houston Public Media

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans evacuees changed Houston — and Houston changed them - It’s hard to know how many people made Houston their permanent home after the destruction in Louisiana, but they changed the culture in the Texas city.
Mediaite

Laura Loomer Breaks With Trump in Rare Public Split Over China Student Visas - Loomer branded Chinese students “CCP spies” and argued that the “basic math” of the policy undermined the administration’s deportation efforts. The post ...
Political Wire

Chairman of Corporate America - “To President Trump’s many roles, formal and self-designated, add a new one to the list: chairman of all boards,” Axios reports. “The president has assumed...
Salon.com

Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian is intellectual violence - He's not just "whitewashing" museums. It's a full-on project of white racial erasure
memeorandum

Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post) - Dan Lamothe / Washington Post: *Trump order calls for broader National Guard role in domestic unrest* — The president's new directive was issued as he ...
Vox

America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying RFK Jr. - For decades, the American public, the federal government, and the medical community have been nearly unanimous: Vaccines are important because they save li...
The Smirking Chimp

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN... Or Children, Women, Gay People, People of Color, the Homeless People, or the Uninsured -
Axios

Trump ignites Fed war - President Trump moved to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook last night*.* - *Why it matters:* It's legally unclear if the president has that power. So Tru...
Raw Story

'Chump at the table': Dems can't get enough as Trump sparks new right-wing civil war - WASHINGTON — After a slow start, President Donald Trump has been ramping up the pace of judicial nominations — but it remains to be seen if his recent pu...
Off The Kuff

The HISD and HCC lineups - The filing deadlines have passed for HISD and HCC, so this seems like as good a time as any to look at who is running for what. Note that the deadline for ...
Daily Dot

“Install a Ring cam ASAP”: New renters stunned by threatening letter taped to their door hours after moving in - [image: Handwritten note on lined paper in all capitals reading, "Hey. Its day 1 for you and you've already interrupted ALL of your neighbor's lives."] A...
Eschaton

Morning - What is distracting us from our kitchen tables today?
Slate

Help! My Wife Nearly Sabotaged Our Daughter’s Soccer Team. I Can’t Let This Happen Again. - It's upsetting everyone.
Mother Jones

Texas Flood Relief Took a Back Seat to Trump’s Redistricting Demands: “It’s a travesty.” - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, flash floods along the Guadal...
San Antonio Report

As San Antonio makes progress at Animal Care Services, one key metric gets left behind - The city has been hiring more officers to get dogs off the street, but more officers means more crowding at the pound. ------------------------------ As San...
Mediagazer

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker) - Alex Barasch / New Yorker: *A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 ...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

Maine’s Populist Senate Candidate Thinks We Are in a New Gilded Age - Graham Platner’s challenge to Susan Collins and the Democratic establishment could remake a bruised and aimless Democratic coalition.
Scheerpost.com

How ‘Human Rights’ Became Western Weapon - Under their terms, in return for recognition of the latter’s political influence over Central and Eastern Europe, Moscow and its Warsaw Pact satellites agr...
Progressive Army

Crece el déficit comercial con China y Brasil - En los primeros siete meses del año el déficit comercial con Brasil y China, los dos principales socios, alcanzó un rojo de US$ 9.725 millones. Comparado c...
Al Jazeera English

‘Food, jobs, hope’: Mozambique seeks investment route to economic recovery - President Daniel Chapo launches $40m fund for small businesses at 60th annual Maputo International Trade Fair.
NPR's Health Shots

When hospitals and insurers fight, patients get caught in the middle - About 90,000 people spent months in limbo as central Missouri's major medical provider fought over insurance contracts. These disputes between insurers and...
ProPublica

Idaho’s Coroner System Is “Broken and a Joke.” Here Are 5 Ideas From Coroners on How to Fix It. - by Audrey Dutton ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing a...
naked capitalism

Don’t Look Away: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But the Genocide Is Being Filmed - A look at some key entries in large and tragically growing body of documentaries on Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine
Grist

Trump administration halts construction of nearly finished offshore wind farm - Ørsted’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is hit with a stop-work order over vague “national security” concerns.
High Country News

In rural New Mexico, kids paint a sonic portrait of their ghost town - Listen to the radio documentary Madrid kids made about their town. “What was it like when you came here?” Charlie aimed the microphone at his great-uncl...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 26 August 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Pluto video, click here.] At first g...
Earth 911

Germs Gone Wild: 5 Natural Cleaning Recipes To Drive Away Dirty - Many store-bought cleaning products contain toxins such as propylene glycol, ammonium hydroxide, and synthetic fragrances.... The post Germs Gone Wild: 5...
Crooked Media

Spirit Beyond Survival - The post Spirit Beyond Survival appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

Top Senate Dem Says Gaza Famine Is a ‘Shameful Black Mark on Humanity,’ Admits Party Failed To Act - Top Senate Dem Says Gaza Famine Is a ‘Shameful Black Mark on Humanity,’ Admits Party Failed To Act Mark Brody Tue, 08/26/2025 - 02:23
The Week

China is silently expanding its influence in American cities - New York City and San Francisco, among others, have reportedly been targeted
Consortium News

Australia Blames Iran for Synagogue Attack - Based on an Australian intelligence “assessment,” the Australian government on Tuesday expelled Iran’s ambassador and three other embassy officials for all...
World Socialist Web Site

Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested - The arrest of Wickremesinghe took place amid an intensifying political crisis confronting the JVP/NPP government, fuelled by emerging working-class struggles.
jobsanger

Trump Is Rewriting History - NOT Protecting It! -
Informed Comment

Dem Leaders Are Pretending that U.S. Weapons Don’t Enable the Slaughter in Gaza - San Francisco (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This week will go down in history as a time when the governing body of the Democratic Party had a ch...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: Ad Giant IPG Accused of Breaking ‘Industry First’ Climate Policy With Work for World’s Biggest Oil Company - The Financial Times published a story based on the material uncovered by this investigation. The global advertising giant Interpublic Group (IPG) is faci...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of North Carolina Denounces Federal Overreach Under Trump Administration - The Libertarian Party of North Carolina has denounced what it calls a dangerous expansion of federal power under the Trump administration, warning that r...
Daily Cartoonist

UK “Cartoonists For Gaza” Project - UK cartoonists have launched “Cartoonists For Gaza” to respond to the humanitarian crisis, they include Martin Rowson, Roger Langridge, Bryan Talbot, and m...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
The Hill

Pritzker responds to Trump's weight comments: ‘It takes one to know one’ - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Monday that personal attacks from President Trump “are just evidence of a guy who’s still living in fifth grade” after T...
Techdirt.

Too MAGA For MAGA: Ryan Walters Preps For Criminal Defense, Gets Shunned By Linda McMahon - The volume of stories about Ryan Walters, State Superintendent of Oklahoma, seems to be increasing. Walters is a Christian Nationalist by name, though the ...
Deadline Politics

Marc Maron Says “Fascism Is Good For Business” As He Slams Netflix & Dave Chappelle; Bill Maher For “Desperate Chasing Of Relevance” - Marc Maron slammed fellow comedians Dave Chappelle and Bill Maher for their politics, critiquing Netflix for siding with the former amid backlash against h...
Alternet

'Sick of all the lies': Missouri farmer erupts at GOP rep for backing 'dictator' Trump - One angry constituent in a deep-red state garnered loud applause when confronting Rep. Mark Alford (R-Missouri) over his support for President Donald Tru...
Popular Resistance

Mass Mobilizations Needed To Protect Bolivian And Venezuelan Revolutions - On August 17, in the Bolivian presidential elections, the leftwing candidates lost for the first time in twenty years. Some are calling this a continuati...
Claytoonz

Newsom Nuisance - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The AltWorld

Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility - Whenever I see someone going out of their way to denounce the Palestinian resistance while expressing some […] The post Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empa...
The Verge

YouTube TV could lose Fox channels this week - With the start of the NFL season looming, it’s also a window where many TV contracts are up for renewal, and on Monday evening, YouTube TV and Fox sent out...
Election Law Blog

“In Private Deal, the D.N.C. Covered $20 Million in Harris Bills Post-Election” - NYT: Not long after Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, her senior advisers and the Democratic National Committee struck a handshake deal. Ms. Harris ...
Antiwar.com

‘Russiagate’ and the Anchorage Meeting - Reprinted from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord with permission. Most commentators are reporting accurately that President Trump abandoned his p...
Wolf Street

New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further as Inventory Glut Grows. In the South, Inventory for Sale Hits New Record - Homebuilder Lennar’s average selling price has dropped by 19.5% from the peak three years ago.
Futurism

Trump Embraces Socialism, Nationalizes Failing Chipmaker - President Donald Trump has, for some reason, buying a 10 percent stock in the troubled chipmaker Intel, a bizarre move that seems to suggest he agrees wi...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Everything about Donald Trump this week has been an "ick". The media is all over his health issues. The Irish Star has been unrelenting . - The ick s...
Workers World

Solidarity with Palestine Action! - [image: Solidarity with Palestine Action!] In July, the solidarity group Palestine Action was “proscribed” — banned — by the British government for alleged...
San Antonio Current

Texas Attorney General sues San Antonio's Paper Tiger for stopping officer from bringing gun inside - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Paper Tiger, alleging the San Antonio music venue illegally blocked a police officer from bringing a service we...
CultureMap Houston

Michelin-starred Houston restaurant opens location in New York City - One of Houston’s *Michelin-starred restaurants* is taking on the Big Apple. A second location of *Musaafer* has opened in New York City’s TriBeCa neighborh...
Progressive.org

Katrina Was Bigger Than a Hurricane - The disaster helped accelerate the overdose epidemic, a public health crisis that rages on to this day.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Impossible Choices of Love: A Mother’s Hope as We Search for Our Own by Cesar Cruz | Medium | August 24, 2025 - *Friends,* *I invite you to take a few minutes to read Dr. César Cruz’s first sermon. It is powerful, tender, and deeply moving.* *Here is what I shared...
El Paso Matters

PHOTOS: David Dorado Romo brings borderland history to life with El Paso Matters Book Club - El Paso author and historian David Dorado Romo discussed “Borderlands and the Mexican American Story” at the Mexican American Cultural Center on Aug. 21...
Mondoweiss

Israeli army says it ‘does not target’ journalists, after targeting and killing 5 journalists - [image: Five journalists were among 20 people killed in a double-tap Israeli airstrike on the Nasser Hospital on August 25, 2025. (Credit Image: © Abed Rah...
Second Nexus

Daniel Dae Kim Sparks Debate With Nuanced Take On 'Overcorrection' In 'Ethnic-Specific Casting' - Daniel Dae Kim has spent years quietly—sometimes loudly—dragging Hollywood for the double standards Asian American actors face. The *Lost* and *Hawaii Fi...
Sludge

Torres Invested in Weapons Makers as He Backed Billions in Arms for Israel - The congressman's office tells Sludge the defense contractor stocks were bought by an independent manager and that he will no longer be buying individual c...
Church and State

Trump’s Chicago dictatorship in rapid expansion - Dictators always use some lever to control the weary into allowing them extraordinary authority. Trump is using claims of crime and violence.
OpEd News

Live Aid: The Day The Music Mattered - On July 13, 1985, music wasn't just entertainment--it was a global call to action. From Queen's legendary performance to Bono's defiant chants, Live Aid un...
Brad Blog

Before the Fall... - We will be off from The BradCast and Green News Report this week, for a much-needed, end-of-Summer break until after the Labor Day holiday. As always (and ...
ArcaMax

Is there a silver lining to these darkening clouds? - As a child, I was bullied and harassed for being short. I remember feeling powerless and vulnerable. I also recall my shame. I directed much of my anger at...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Campos-Duffy plays the card again! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2025* *Margaritas and human misconduct:* On Sunday's morning's *Fox & Friends Weekend*, Rachel Campos-Duffy got to talking—once again...
The Conversation

Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later - The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency leadership on the ground.
Ballot Access News

Lawsuit on California Top-Two System Will Have Zoom Status Conference on October 24; Public Will be Able to Watch - On August 25, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney set a zoom status conference for Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, 3:24cv-8308. This is the lawsuit fil...
First Draft

A Conspiracy Theory About Conspiracy Theories - We have become Conspiracy Nation.
The Root

‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Dish on What It Takes to be True Bad Boys - The two stars are back at it again for the latest installment of the beloved film franchise. Read more...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez leads new immigration and border plan by House Democrats - House Democrats on Monday unveiled a comprehensive immigration and border security framework aimed at breaking years of partisan gridlock on one of the n...
WhoWhatWhy

New Scientific Analysis Quadruples Count of Giraffe Species in Africa - [image: science, nature, biodiversity, African giraffes, species] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our reader...
Angry Bear

NFTs and The Greater Fool Theory of Investing - Years ago, my chairman became an NFT enthusiast. At one point, he assured me “I’m not joking.” I responded: “That’s what I’m afraid of.” NFTs are a manif...
Capital & Main

Forest Service Cuts Leave Firefighters Mowing Lawns While Morale Craters - Crews say layoffs and resignations have left them stuck with duties far from the fire line. The post Forest Service Cuts Leave Firefighters Mowing Lawns ...
Reform Austin

For their walkout, Texas Democrats get national attention — and partisan retribution at home - When Texas House Democrats returned to the Capitol after walking out over the GOP’s new congressional map, they were cheered by supporters as bulwarks of...
Project Censored

Power & Exploitation: DC Overreach & Global Labor Injustice - In the first part of the program, DC organizer Natacia Knapper joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss Trump’s takeover of DC, what makes DC particularly vuln...
Bonddad

New home sales: the final shoe in the housing sector has dropped - *- by New Deal democrat* In this month’s report on new home sales for July, the most important news was at the tail end, which I’ll get to last. As...
Bracing Views

War, the Intelligence Community, and the Deep State - Judging Freedom in America BILL ASTORE AUG 24, 2025 Last Tuesday, I appeared again on Judge Napolitano’s show. We talked about the Russia-Ukraine War and P...
Dissident Voice

Bolivia: Unprincipled Left Split Causes Electoral Debacle - A man looks at newspapers front pages the day after presidential and legislative elections in La Paz, Bolivia At the general election on August 17 2025, ...
Rewire

Why We’re Winding Down Our Executive Dysfunction Newsletter—and What Comes Next - A note from *RNG*'s editorial director. The post Why We’re Winding Down Our Executive Dysfunction Newsletter—and What Comes Next appeared first on Rewire...
Common Dreams

ACLU Statement on Attempted Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda - This morning, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested at his ICE check-in appointment. The government intends to deport him to Uganda, a country with which Abr...
Undernews

Polls - * USA Today - *Twice as many Americans say they strongly disapprove of President Donald Trump's second term than those who strongly approve, according ...
Glasstire

Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio Announces Open Call for Texas Artists - Contemporary Art Month (CAM) in San Antonio has announced the open call for its 40th anniversary CAM Perennial exhibition. Annually, CAM invites curators...
Discourse

Andrew Cuomo's Constant Humiliation Is One of the Only Good Things Happening These Days - It's beautiful.
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court and Trump’s tariffs: an explainer - When the justices meet for their “long conference” on Sept. 29, one of the cases that they will consider is a challenge to the tariffs that President Don...
Crooked Timber

Dogs bite men (and a little girl). - My friend was bitten by a dog this summer. For British readers: being bitten by a dog elsewhere in the world isn’t merely painful, scary and shocking. It b...
Democracy Now!

Meet George Retes, Disabled Army Vet to Sue Trump Admin over Unlawful ICE Detention - We speak with George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran who is taking on the federal government after he was detained by ICE for three days...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory - Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The W...
Space City Weather

There are a few (very slight) hints of fall in the forecast - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the hints of forthcoming fall weather in our forecast, and also discuss the possibility of additional weather balloons...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (8.25.25) - Please listen to David M. Perry, Rebecca Solnit, Donna Ladd, Marissa Franks Burt, Albert Burneko, and Samantha Hancox-Li.
Dorf on Law

Retaliatory Prosecution - The FBI search of John Bolton's home and office was authorized by a warrant issued by a federal magistrate judge, which means that the magistrate judge fou...
Skeptophilia

Tall tales and folk etymologies - My master's degree is in historical linguistics, and one of the first things I learned was that it's tricky to tell if two words are related. Languages a...
Ian Welsh

Yeah, America’s Gone Fascist - I think we can put a peg in this. For years everyone’s being “we’re going fascist.” It’s done. It’s over. The US has gone fascist. Purges of the military, ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace suffers embarrassment when only eight people show up for her campaign speech - Nancy Mace This embarrassment couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. I can only hope that this is a sign of how things are going to be not only...
See You In 2020

Russia’s operation has led the masses to be radicalized, but it’s up to us to take advantage of this - At least since Washington started the conflict in Syria, we’ve been living through what’s essentially a third world war. And as Mao predicted, when a th...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Simulation of Resistance: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're being fed a pale imitation of resistance and democratic action by people determined to keep the status quo
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! - Thousands of U.S. troops on board a flotilla of warships are headed towards the waters off the coast of Venezuela in a blatant and unprovoked act of aggres...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Clears Texas Senate - The final vote on redistricting happened after Republicans in the State Senate thwarted a filibuster by Senator Carol Alvarado
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Really, Really, Really - Oh, f’crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he got back into off...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

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Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
The Progressive Wing

8/22-28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Trump and Cuomo are true buddies.
Environment Texas

Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer - Plastic pellets are polluting our beaches and harming wildlife. The post Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer appe...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Debunking Christianity

Oh the Irony: Religion Is Shooting Itself in the Foot - *Disbelief and atheism are on the rise* A few years ago I had the misfortune of attending a First Communion service at a suburban Rhode Island Catholic...
Unlimited Hangout

The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek - The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek.
The Rag Blog

RICHARD CROXDALE / ABORTION RIGHTS / Lone Star Three - By Richard Croxdale / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2025 [This article was originally published at People’s History in Texas (PHIT) and was cross-posted to The...
NORML

Federal Appeals Court: Medical Cannabis Consumers Shouldn’t Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights - [image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a table next to a black handgun][image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a t...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Attorneys General: The Top Races to be “Top Cop” - Key battleground states feature state Attorney General races this cycle, with Democrats playing defense in a number of key battleground states The post S...
The Daily Poster

Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Could Explode Next Year - A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
Krebs on Security

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years - A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and o...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Marcos Silva, former Executive Director of Rio Grande Valley LEAD, selected to help guide South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs - Dr. Marcos Silva, Ed.D., has been named Executive Director of the South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs. A longtime leader in education and w...
Ecosophia

The Narrative Trap - One of the experiences I’ve had tolerably often, over the more than nineteen years that I’ve been writing these weekly essays, is the discovery that a seri...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
Rio Grande Guardian

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Web of Debt

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The Greanville Post

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Bud Kennedy

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Reveal

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Moron Majority

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Southeast Texas Record

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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The Disorder Of Things

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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

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Free & Equal

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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

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Border/Lines

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Green Pages News

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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The Intercept

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The Stars Hollow Gazette

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Texas Environmental News

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Shadowproof

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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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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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

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Tribune of the People

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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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

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Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

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Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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Bayou Brief

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Washington Babylon

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Liberal America

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Popehat

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epic.org

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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

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INSIDER - politics news

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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

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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

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Art Killing Apathy

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Defend our Movements

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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

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Austin 360

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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

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Modern Democracy

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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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Dr. King speaks out against the Iraq war

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