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

jobsanger

If Nothing Else Brings Trump Down, The Economy Will -
Crooked Timber

It’s Not Socialism–It’s National Socialism - People are wondering how Trump could get away with nationalizing 10% of Intel, with plans to acquire more corporate assets for the Federal government, whil...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian higher education providers exploit childcare staffing crisis - While recent media headlines, and police and government reactions, have focused on allegations of sexual abuse, the staffing crisis in childcare is long st...
memeorandum

Minnesota woman charged for using racial slur against Black child as her fundraising tops $800,000 (Steve Karnowski/Associated Press) - Steve Karnowski / Associated Press: *Minnesota woman charged for using racial slur against Black child as her fundraising tops $800,000* — Minnesota pr...
Informed Comment

There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children* - Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump tariffs are reshaping old alliances as the global south plots its own path - Countries from Brazil to India are exploring collective resistance as Trump uses tariffs to assert political and economic power As nations in the global ...
Axios

Multiple FEMA staff put on leave after letter criticizing Trump admin - Multiple FEMA staff who signed an open letter criticizing the Trump administration's budget cuts to disaster preparedness were placed on leave Tuesday, t...
Raw Story

'Crazy for all kinds of reasons': Conservatives shred defense of Trump's tariffs - MAGA world's claim that President Donald Trump's tariffs have been good for the American economy is not based in reality, according to two conservative a...
Al Jazeera English

Australia denies Iran action due to ‘intervention’ by Israel’s Netanyahu - Israel made the claim after Australia's PM said Iran directed two attacks on a Jewish community, which Tehran denies.
Courthouse News

Federal judge pauses some Trump administration grant conditions for coalition of cities, counties - Localities across the country sued federal agencies last week, claiming they are unlawfully imposing “vague and unauthorized conditions” on grants in order...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Vowed To Find The Environmental Causes Of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying To Do Just That. - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Erin McCanlies was listening to the radio one morning in Ap...
The Hill

Putin put forward peace proposal involving Donetsk, Witkoff says - Russian President Vladimir Putin has put forward a peace proposal to end the war that involves the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, an offer that Ukraine...
The AltWorld

21 Questions About The Claim That Iran Orchestrated Antisemitic Attacks In Australia - Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Canberra will be expelling the Iranian ambassador and legislating to list […] The post 21 Q...
Daily Cartoonist

If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Toonville (Comic Strip Roundup) - With Alfredo P. Alcala, Jim Keefe, Stephan Pastis, Charles M. Schulz, Ricardo (Liniers) Siri, Bill Watterson, Brian Walker, and Scott Jerolds. An Alfredo A...
Mediaite

Town Hall Attendee Bursts Out Laughing After GOP Congressman Warns About ‘The Ottoman Empire’ - A town hall attendee burst into laughter after Rep. Josh Brecheen warned about the second coming of the Ottoman Empire and Sharia Law in the U.S. The pos...
Crooked Media

Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy - The post Three Signs Of The Trumpification Of The Economy appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

Iowa Democrat Wins Big Upset - The Downballot: “Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey won a major upset on Tuesday night, flipping a deep-red seat in the state Senate and breaking the GOP’s superma...
Popular Resistance

Eco-Solidarity And The Threat To Venezuela: Act Now! - The Trump administration is sending three warships with 4,500 marines to the coast of Venezuela, raising tensions and stoking fears of a possible US inva...
Eschaton

Tuesday Night - Rock on.
See You In 2020

The patriotic struggle of the anti-imperialist forces, & the effort to bring this struggle back into America - Something my fellow Americans must be made aware of is that around the globe, the revolutionary ideas behind 1776 are still being actively put into prac...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration returns to Supreme Court in dispute over foreign-aid payment - The Trump administration informed a federal appeals court on Tuesday evening that it has returned to the Supreme Court, seeking to pause an order by a fe...
Ballot Access News

Cleveland Plain Dealer Article About Libertarian Party’s Candidate Recruitment Plans - The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this article about the Ohio Libertarian Party and its plans to recruit many candidates in 2026. … Continue reading →
Claytoonz

Your Favorite Dictator - 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...
Deadline Politics

FCC Chair Tells Google To Get Deal Done In YouTube TV-Fox Carriage Fight; YouTube Responds – Update - UPDATED with YouTube response: FCC chair Brendan Carr put his thumb on the scale in a carriage battle between YouTube TV and Fox, telling YouTube parent Go...
The Verge

Microsoft hosts emergency press conference after protesters ‘storm a building’ - Microsoft president Brad Smith hosted an impromptu press conference on Tuesday afternoon, just hours after protesters gained access to a building at the co...
Salon.com

As measles exploded, West Texas officials looked to CDC scientists. No one answered. - Emails show overwhelmed West Texas officials asking the CDC how to respond to the explosive outbreak
Mediagazer

Disney sues Sling TV for allegedly violating their carriage deal by including Disney's networks without permission in the new mini-bundles launched in August (Dade Hayes/Deadline) - Dade Hayes / Deadline: *Disney sues Sling TV for allegedly violating their carriage deal by including Disney's networks without permission in the new min...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Fight for Higher Education: A Minority Perspective on both the Liberal University and President Michael Roth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - The Fight for Higher Education: A Minority Perspective on both the Liberal University and President Michael Roth *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 26, ...
Black Agenda Report

Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? - Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? bareditors Wed, 08/27/2025 - 05:38 Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Antiwar.com

When the Russia ‘Experts’ Get It Wrong - The Western punditariat’s commentary on Russia is spectacularly ill-informed. This should be expected from mainstream journalists whose employment relies o...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump - "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - SOME folks will probably claim that this comment by Trump from a recent cabinet meeting is being taken out of context. Uh no. He may be talking specif...
Workers World

D.C. martial law criminalizes Black people - [image: D.C. martial law criminalizes Black people] Janisse Miles gave the following excerpted remarks at an August 22, 2025, Workers World Party meeting i...
Daily Dot

“And people say animals don’t have feelings”: Georgia Aquarium visitor captures footage of fish swimming together after shark passes away - [image: georgia aquarium taroko shark dies] A touching scene at the Georgia Aquarium has gone viral, capturing millions of hearts online. You might wan...
Portside

The Low-Wage 100 - The Low-Wage 100 Judy Tue, 08/26/2025 - 19:29
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Futurism

After Their Son's Suicide, His Parents Were Horrified to Find His Conversations With ChatGPT - Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lif...
CultureMap Houston

16 Houston restaurants compete in CultureMap's Top Taco Tournament - As part of this year’s *Tailgate*, CultureMap’s celebration of everyone’s favorite way to get in the game day spirit, we’re asking readers to determine the...
Wolf Street

Manufacturing of Durable Goods on Rebound in the US - Boeing & jet engine makers are part of it. And the other part of it is the rest of manufacturing.
Houston Public Media

Houston Congressman Al Green, drawn out of his district, eyes run for 18th Congressional District in 2026 - Green, a Democrat, has long represented Texas’ 9th Congressional District. But under a new map passed by Texas lawmakers, at the request of President Donal...
Progressive.org

A Safe and Welcoming Home - It's not a housing crisis. It's a landlord crisis.
Slate

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Just Got Engaged. I Have Questions. Thanks to Years of Swiftology, I Also Have Answers. - I’ve spent years in the Swiftie mines preparing for this moment.
Environment Texas

What the ExxonMobil case means for clean air in Texas and beyond - And how our members, advocates and attorneys prevailed in a 15-year legal case The post What the ExxonMobil case means for clean air in Texas and beyond ...
The Week

What to know before turning to AI for financial advice - It can help you crunch the numbers — but it might also pocket your data
Mother Jones

Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives - You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and counting, br...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Sells Alexandria Headquarters for Approximately $650,000 - The Libertarian National Committee has sold the Libertarian Party’s national headquarters at 1444 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, for roughly $650,0...
El Paso Matters

UTEP, EPCC, Texas Tech Health El Paso among hundreds of Hispanic-Serving Institutions threatened by federal grant cuts - Ending Hispanic-Serving Institutions grants could cost Texas universities millions, limiting opportunities for Hispanic and first-generation students wh...
Debunking Christianity

Round Two Edits On My Paper Concerning Atheist Morality - I received a huge endorsement from Philosopher Jersey Flight on X. What a nice thing to hear! It happened on the same day I finished the first round of e...
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...
Undernews

Word - [image: Image] Via Paul Dunfee
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
The Root

Why Everyone is Convinced A$AP Rocky Is Denzel Washington’s Lowkey Son! - Thanks to a new interview from Spike Lee and newly resurfaced photos, many online are thinking Washington and Rocky might need to take a DNA test! Read m...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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.
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.
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...
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...
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Web of Debt

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The Greanville Post

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Field Negro

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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...
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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

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

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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Morning Consult

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TXElects

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Dandelion Salad

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The Intercept

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

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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

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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

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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

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...
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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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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

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

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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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Latino Decisions

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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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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Please don't scare me like that again

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