Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Hill

5 questions surrounding ousted Fed governor Lisa Cook - President Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook raised a host of questions over the unprecedented nature of his decision. Chief among...
Vox

The bigger plan behind Trump’s attempted Fed firing - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
memeorandum

Trump officials discussing ownership stakes in defense firms, Lutnik says (Amy B Wang/Washington Post) - Amy B Wang / Washington Post: *Trump officials discussing ownership stakes in defense firms, Lutnik says* — The commerce secretary said there is a “mon...
NPR's Health Shots

State collaboration on public health messaging could build trust - NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Robbie Goldstein about a meeting of public health leaders of eight states to discuss possible partnership on issues such a...
Mediagazer

KPop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's "most popular film of all time", surpassing Red Notice, based on views in the first 91 days of release (Katie Campione/Deadline) - Katie Campione / Deadline: *KPop Demon Hunters becomes Netflix's “most popular film of all time”, surpassing Red Notice, based on views in the first 91 d...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio man publicly questioned by mayor about his hourly wage fires back in newspaper op-ed - A San Antonio man whom Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones asked about his hourly age during a City Hall press conference last week lambasted her in an Express-News op...
Raw Story

'This was no accident': DOGE under fire after report 300M Social Security numbers exposed - A new whistleblower complaint is alleging that employees of the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans' Social Security data at risk by upload...
Salon.com

Trump celebrates Cracker Barrel backlash - President Trump want to "make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again" after Republicans claim the chain went "woke"
The Verge

Microsoft locks down a building after protesters get inside president’s office - Microsoft has temporarily locked down a building at its headquarters after protesters managed to get inside the office of the company's president. Current ...
Second Nexus

Trump Dragged After Claiming Maryland Governor Gave Him Dubious Compliment In Private - MAGA Republican President Donald Trump has a long history of telling unsubstantiated stories about "big, strong men" approaching him "with tears in their...
The Week

Book reviews: 'The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction—and a Search for Relief' and 'Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of "Born to Run"' - The search for a headache cure and revisiting Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album on its 50th anniversary
Mediaite

5 Wild Moments From Trump Cabinet Meeting That Lasted Longer Than The Godfather - President Trump discussed a number of topics, including D.C. crime, Taylor Swift, and dictatorships during a 197 minute cabinet meeting The post 5 Wild M...
Courthouse News

Pennsylvania ordered to count undated mail-in ballots ahead of midterms - The ruling comes as Trump announced a questionably legal effort to eliminate mail-in voting altogether.
Daily Dot

“No thanks”: Spotify announced a new DM feature, and social media is making the same joke - [image: spotify direct messages announced dms] A feature long wished for by some Spotify users is finally arriving in the app: DMs. As it turns out, many...
Eschaton

115 Dems - Genius stuff. A group of House Democrats hope they have the solution to a policy issue that has long plagued the Democratic Party: immigration reform. ...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (August 26, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Futurism

SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions - For years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been stridently glib when his rockets explode during tests, quipping that the blasts were "just a scratch," a "minor ...
OpEd News

Are health services sensitive to needs of young persons in all their diversities? - Please consider the below article based on insights from 9 youth leaders from diverse backgrounds, such as, living with hearing disability or deafness, liv...
San Antonio Report

Texas universities could see fewer international students amid immigration crackdown, reports say - An enrollment drop could cost the Texas economy hundreds of millions of dollars, the reports say. ------------------------------ Texas universities could se...
Political Wire

Researcher Who Distorted Data in Election Integrity Role - “A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss...
Daily Cartoonist

State of Illustration 2025: Anxiety Rising, Income Is Not - The annual survey from Hireillo (Hire an Illustrator) has released its annual State of Illustration 2025 report, drawing on survey responses from 1,500 ill...
Al Jazeera English

At least 34 Colombian soldiers kidnapped after clashes with FARC dissidents - Defence minister says soldiers taken while evacuating area after a military operation that killed 11 rebels.
Mondoweiss

Israel wanted to punish a Palestinian village. So it destroyed 10,000 of its olive trees. - [image: Palestinian residents of al-Mughayyer inspect damage caused by the three-day Israeli siege on the village, August 25, 2025. (Photo: Anne Paq/Active...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump says he wants ‘nothing less than $500m’ from Harvard as feud continues - ‘Don’t negotiate with them, they’ve been very bad,’ Trump tells education secretary in cabinet meeting Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administrati...
Slate

I Told My Girlfriend I’d Rather Abstain Than Have Mediocre Sex. Uh, Big Mistake. - Where do we go from here?
Sludge

AI Industry Picks up Crypto’s Big Money Playbook - A new AI industry group, Leading the Future, has amassed $100 million from heavy hitters like Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI with aims to knock off candida...
Ballot Access News

Utah State Court Strikes Down U.S. House District Boundaries - On August 25, a Utah state district court struck down the boundaries of Utah’s U.S. House seats. The decision is based on the State Constitution. League of...
Common Dreams

New Accountable.US Report Reveals How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hiking Grocery Prices - New research from Accountable.US finds that Trump’s tariffs are being cited as the primary factor for rising grocery costs. Nearly 90% of Americans said ...
CultureMap Houston

4 Houston companies make top 10 of H-E-B's annual Texas product face-off - It's time to update your grocery list. After spending months assessing hours of video submissions, San Antonio grocer H-E-B has narrowed down the finalists...
Dissident Voice

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 vaguely pro-Palestine sentiment, I take it as ...
Techdirt.

With Intel, Trump Continues His Race To Violate Every Clause In The Constitution By Now Arriving At The Takings Clause - Trump’s quest to stress-test every line in the Constitution continues apace, with his declaration that the government now owns 10% of Intel looking like no...
WhoWhatWhy

RFK Jr. Is a One-Trick Pony - [image: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, exercising, Pentagon Athletic Center] And it’s a dirty, deadly trick. RFK Jr. Is a One-Trick Pony originally appeared on Who...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Is Asked By Reporter About Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Engagement: “I Wish Them A Lot Of Luck” - As Donald Trump took questions at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, one reporter asked him about the big breaking pop culture news of the day: The announcement...
American Prospect

What State Capitalism Can Do—and What It Can’t - Today on TAP: Trump’s version is a joke. But even our version would have limited benefits.
Alternet

'Trial balloon': Trump slammed for trying to 'normalize the idea that he's a dictator' - For the second day in a row, President Donald Trump insisted he is not a dictator, but also insisted that many Americans would like to have one running t...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Actual numbers for actual cities! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2025* *Not that it actually matters: *As we noted this morning, there's no such thing as a real discussion in this, the most degrade...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
World Socialist Web Site

Reform UK leader Farage unveils mass migrant deportations plan - Reform UK can only be considered as a potential government due to the noxious atmosphere created over decades of Labour and Conservatives governments, comp...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory - The razing of Gaza is not only a crime against the Palestinian people. It is a crime against our cultural and historical heritage. We cannot understand the...
The Conversation

Trump’s push to fire Fed governor threatens central bank independence − and that isn’t good news for sound economic stewardship (or battling inflation) - Politicians have long coveted control over monetary policy. Good economic governance requires that they don’t get it.
Independent Political Report

Farmville Mayor Brian Vincent Affiliates with Forward Party - Farmville Mayor Brian Vincent affiliated with the Forward Party over the weekend, becoming what appears to be the first elected official in Virginia to d...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Misguided Marines - The Marine Corps’ new Pacific island strategy, articulated in its Force Design 2030 planning documents, envisions small units deployed across the Pacific i...
ProPublica

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. - by Doug Bock Clark ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publi...
El Paso Matters

Mental heath outreach for El Paso’s homeless community expanded by Texas Tech Health El Paso and Opportunity Center - Reach Resilience grant strengthens a powerful local partnership to connect more unhoused community members with psychiatric care and support The post Me...
Election Law Blog

“Pa. election conspiracy activist appointed to election integrity role at Department of Homeland Security” - WITF: A Pennsylvania-based activist tied to President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election is now overseeing election security matters for...
Axios

Trump vs. Fed hits critical point: If he can fire Cook, many others might follow - The president and the Fed have been on a collision course for months. At 8:02pm ET Monday night, the crash took place, as President Trump said he was fir...
Undernews

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Environment Texas

Congress proposes continued funding for Energy Star efficiency program - House and Senate appropriations committees propose EPA continue administering the Energy Star energy efficiency labeling program The post Congress propos...
The Daily Poster

Democrats May Finally Ban Dark Money - A proposal to rein in corporate and dark money influence will be considered at this week’s Democratic National Committee meetings.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
The Root

MI Woman Files for Two Protective Orders Against Her Ex-Husband, Weeks Later The Unthinkable Happens - Latricia Green asked "for help before this goes too far, and things are too late" in a protective order before the unimaginable happened. Read more...
Consent Factory, Inc.

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Capital & Main

ICE Raids Push Workers Into the Shadows, Disrupting the Economy - Trump's campaign against immigrants is affecting their ability to work, hurting businesses and eroding workers’ rights. The post ICE Raids Push Workers I...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Alito files 2024 financial disclosure - Justice Samuel Alito reported reimbursement for just one trip – to speak at a Catholic university’s graduation ceremony in Ohio – in 2024. The news came ...
Dissent Magazine

The Women’s Basketball Boom - An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing...
Reform Austin

Texas Bill Could Block Public Access to Uvalde Shooting Records - A new proposal making its way through the Texas Legislature could significantly limit public access to law enforcement records, including those tied to t...
Scheerpost.com

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Tells Trump: ‘Do Not Come to Chicago’ - By CBS News Chicago Addressing reports that President Trump is planning to send the military and National Guard to Chicago, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker s...
Krebs on Security

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’ - The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fascism is Impossible Without Active Denial - Authoritarians aren't the only ones responsible for what's going on. Fascists rely on people denying the reality right in front of them to consolidate power
Bonddad

Repeat home sales indexes provide final confirmation that the housing market is in deflation - - *by New Deal democrat* Last week YoY existing home prices increased only 0.2%. Since those were not seasonally adjusted, it was apparent that the ...
Greg Palast

“If We Let FEMA Die, Americans Will Die With It.” - I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now...
First Draft

Fabric Over Freedom - Fun with flags, flag fetishes, and the fascists who never fail to fuel them.
Glasstire

A Practice of Attention - “Just as fragments of a vessel, in order to be fitted together, must correspond to each other in the tiniest details but need not resemble each other, so...
Rewire

Baby-Making Sex Can Be ‘Some of the Worst Sex People Have’ - Trying to get pregnant is a journey—and, for many couples, not always a smooth ride. The post Baby-Making Sex Can Be ‘Some of the Worst Sex People Have’ ...
Democracy Now!

Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich "Buy Their Way Out of Jail" - Among the executive orders President Trump signed Monday are two that aim to eliminate so-called cashless bail. The move threatens to cut federal funding t...
Space City Weather

A front should bring increased rain chances this weekend; We also size up the tropics with a month to go - In brief: Today’s post reviews the Atlantic hurricane season to date, and sets expectations for the remainder for Texas. We also look ahead to a front that...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 20: The Flag Burning Executive Order's Ineffective Effort to Distinguish SCOTUS Precedent - It has been several months since my last entry in the "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series. That's not because President Trump has taken any time off ...
ArcaMax

Slouching Toward Dictatorship: Trump Reigns and America Sleepwalks - Seems like only yesterday when warnings that Donald Trump qualified as a neo-fascist and that what he was selling qualified as neo-fascism guaranteed rolle...
Angry Bear

Another Bullsh*t Manufactured Crisis to Justify Chicago Invasion - “Lies, lies, yeah, baby, I can’t believe a word you say. Lies, lies, gonna make you sad someday.” Lies, liesSome day you’re gonna be lonely, But you won’...
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 Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Downfall: Fascist Capitalism Will Do Him In -
Skeptophilia

TechnoWorship - In case you needed something else to facepalm about, today I stumbled on an article in *Vice* about people who are blending AI with religion. The impetus...
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 ...
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...
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...
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

How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy - [image: A farmer harvests a wheat field with a combine harvester, next to wind turbines.] The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal pla...
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

First They Came for John Bolton - The post First They Came for John Bolton 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
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...
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...
Ian Welsh

Trump Takes Share Of US Company Profits & Pentagon Guarantees Rare Earth Prices - The US government is to take a 15% cut of Nvidia and AMD chip sale profits to China. There are also discussion of taking a 10% stock share in Intel. Meanwh...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
The AltWorld

Israel’s very existence is a war crime - What Gaza is doing is driving a stake through the heart of the United Nations, says Scott […] The post Israel’s very existence is a war crime appeared fi...
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...
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...
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...
Discourse

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

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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
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.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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