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

Eschaton

Does Coverage Reflect This - Do you think most people are aware of the actual views of American Jews? Does news coverage reflect that? Do Dem members of Congress, who often justify the...
Mediaite

Bill Maher Torches ‘Bizarre’ Trump-GOP ‘Obsession’ With Taking Away Health Care — Then Van Jones Bashes Dems - Bill Maher went off on President Donald Trump and Republicans over their "bizarre obsession" with taking away healthcare — but CNN's Van Jones hit Democr...
Raw Story

'Smile and wave, boys': New videos show ICE agent's taunt as mayor arrested - Rep. LaMonica McIver’s patience was wearing thin. It was May 9, and McIver and two of her House colleagues were waiting to be escorted into Delaney Hall,...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s Grasshopper Lies Heavy unveiling new album focused on its brutal side - [image: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy has released its seventh full-length album.] The band will play a release show for the eight-song LP Heavy on Sunday, ...
Salon.com

Hamas agrees to Trump’s Gaza plan, but Israel keeps bombing - Hamas says all hostages will be freed under Trump’s terms, even as Israeli airstrikes continue and doubts mount
WhoWhatWhy

Facism, Now: Regime’s Blackhawk Helicopter Descends on Chicago Apartment Complex - [image: ICE raid, apartment, Chicago] Let’s stop talking about ‘slippery slopes’ and ‘possibilities’ of a fascist takeover. Facism, Now: Regime’s Blackhaw...
Mediagazer

About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell what is true and what is not (Pew Research Center) - Pew Research Center: *About 25% of US adults say they use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for news, and 33% of them say they generally find it difficult to tell...
Daily Dot

“I have a 100% success rate doing this”: Budgeting expert reveals word-for-word script to get your internet bill reduced - [image: Woman looking into camera under text reading, "The exact script you'll need to save on your Internet bill."] As internet bills continue to climb,...
naked capitalism

Henry Moon Pie: Time to Support a Reader-Supporting Site - Reader Henry Moon Pie describes how he came from Kos to Naked Capitalism and why he stayed.
Political Wire

Vance Emerges as Frontman in Shutdown Fight - “The White House has increasingly made Vice President JD Vance the face of the government-shutdown fight, turning to a messenger who so far has taken a lig...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Shouldn't the public be told about this? - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025* *Also, please send the specialists in:* The week's exhaustion having been conquered, we'll start today with a question, then ...
The Verge

Ecovacs’ Deebot X8 and X9 Pro Omni robovacs have hit a new low price - Robot vacuums that mop well rarely come cheap, but thankfully, some of our favorite models are receiving a significant discount ahead of Amazon’s next Prim...
memeorandum

Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S. (Chris Geidner/Law Dork) - Chris Geidner / Law Dork: *Supreme Court lets Noem end legal status for many Venezuelans in the U.S.* — The majority gave virtually no reasoning. The ...
Futurism

Chinese Military Investigates What Would Happen If They Shot the Same Target With Three Rapid-Fire Nuclear Missiles - That's gonna leave a mark. The post Chinese Military Investigates What Would Happen If They Shot the Same Target With Three Rapid-Fire Nuclear Missiles a...
Undernews

Word - Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are working without pay while House Republicans get paid for refusing to work. - *Bernie Sanders*
Reform Austin

“Not Safe, Not Hosting”: Trump Issues World Cup Ultimatum - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… President Donald Trump issued a warning Thursday that U.S. cities hosting 2026 World Cup matche...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Not sure what’s happening’: US national parks in limbo as shutdown drags on - Some parks are closed, some are trying to function with a skeleton staff – and visitors and employees are frustrated Kim Nachazel had been looking forwa...
Slate

My Teenage Crush Was Mystifying and All-Consuming. Decades Later, I Finally Understand Why. - He was the rare combination of an annoying teenage boy and kid whose understanding of life went far beyond his years. I was smitten.
San Antonio Report

SAWS customers could see rate increase next year to fund water treatment plant improvements - The San Antonio Water System plans to ask for a rate increase next year to help fund its $3.2 billion in improvements by 2030. -----------------------------...
Mondoweiss

Filipinos reject Israeli tourism amid the Gaza genocide - [image: The Coconut Trees View Deck in Siargao, Philippines in April 2023. (Photo: Michael Angelo Luna/Wikimedia)]Siargao, a small island in the Philippine...
NPR's Health Shots

Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader - After warning Congress for months about premium spikes, the leader of the country's insurance commissioners — a Republican from North Dakota — says he's ho...
Election Law Blog

“Democracies in the Age of Fragmentation” - Here is an excerpt from my essay this week in NYU’s Democracy Project series of essays on challenges facing democracy today, both here and elsewhere: Wr...
Al Jazeera English

India vs Pakistan – ICC Women’s World Cup: Match time, handshake row, rain - While both teams want to 'focus on the game', regional politics may take the attention away from cricket in Colombo.
The Hill

Noem: NFL ‘won’t be able to sleep at night’ over Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the NFL will not be “able to sleep at night” over its decision to pick Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the...
Axios

MAGA wages campaign to redefine "hate" after Kirk killing - MAGA activists have launched a crusade against two of the nation's most storied civil rights watchdogs, accusing them of smearing conservatives as extrem...
The Greanville Post

Under Trump, Criticism Is Now Criminal - JIM NAURECKAS—Speaking of Nazi comparisons, people heard similarities between the eulogy given by chief Trump advisor Stephen Miller at Kirk’s funeral and ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 29 - October 3 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. All of the high frequency data that I gather in those posts comes from ...
Daily Cartoonist

A Three Ring Comic Strip Circus - The Failure of G. B. Trudeau My childhood dream, like the popularity of print newspapers, inevitably faded. I had long been bewitched by the comics pages f...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: What’s More Punk Than The Public Library? - A library lends a hand to local journalism, Amazon pays up for its Prime scam, agencies band together to save farmers, and legislators take aim at health c...
Grist

At least 170 US hospitals face major flood risk. Experts say Trump is making it worse. - At many of these facilities, flooding from heavy storms has the potential to jeopardize patient care, block access to emergency rooms, and force evacuations.
Angry Bear

Opportunities for Labor has been Changing - High Income is still going gang busters. Lower Income is giving up the ground they gained early on. “The Two-Speed Economy Is Back as Low-Income American...
ArcaMax

Israel Is Finished - Dying regimes do funny things. Dying superpowers plan for a future that never comes. I have a 1992 Soviet ruble note, redesigned the year before. Consideri...
Glasstire

One Work, Short Take: Raychael Stine at Cris Worley Gallery - “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ― Oscar Wilde Because our world is rife with animus, political violence, and innumerable deeds of intolerance and h...
Mother Jones

Climate Scientists Raise a Middle Finger to Trump’s Censorship Efforts - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers across the United ...
The AltWorld

Trump Really IS Picking Up Right Where Biden Left Off in Ukraine - ▪️WSJ/Reuters confirm the US is continuing to aid Ukraine in striking targets deep inside Russia which is […] The post Trump Really IS Picking Up Right W...
Vox

The AI-generated actress that has Hollywood panicking - Could a badly named, synthetic starlet really be coming to a theater near you? Tilly Norwood hopes so. No, that’s not the name of a Hollywood executive or...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Official Caught Texting Plans To Send ‘Top Tier’ Military Unit to Major City: Report -
Skeptophilia

Birdwalking into the Miocene - From the One Thing Leads To Another department, we have: a cute little fuzzy mammal from Madagascar, some thoughts about genetic drift, and a period of g...
Off The Kuff

UT considers accepting a protection racket - Choose very carefully, y’all. The Trump administration has asked the University of Texas at Austin to agree to a “set of operating principles” — which repo...
Scheerpost.com

Who’s Really Encouraging Attacks Like the One on a Synagogue? Look to Our Leaders - The attack in Manchester is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy bein...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 4 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o He thinks the trees are doing it wrong. What is this strange thing rollin...
High Country News

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs. The post The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral appeared first on High Countr...
Crooked Media

This F*cking Guy | Stephen Miller: Everything You Didn’t Know About His Sh*tty Past - The post This F*cking Guy | Stephen Miller: Everything You Didn’t Know About His Sh*tty Past appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

Mustardy beans and hazelnuts recipe - Nod to French classic offers zingy, fresh taste
jobsanger

Trump/Patel Discriminate Against The LGBTQ Community -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1451: Inventing the Library - Episode: 1451 Inventing the free public lending library: socialism in books. Today, we invent the library.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Time Of The Season - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Scale of Australian military exports to Israel exposed - The *Declassified Australia* report is an unanswerable exposure of the Australian Labor government’s active involvement in Israel’s mass murder of Palestin...
Informed Comment

“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts:” Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:17 - Quatrain 17 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme that kingly glory quickly fades. XVII. They say th...
Workers World

Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal - [image: Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal] Resistance News Network posted the following Hamas Movement’s response to the proposal from Pre...
Courthouse News

Gavin Newsom is chasing the Victory Royale — in Fortnite and in politics - His gameplay won’t make a montage, but the California governor’s appearance on the popular “Fortnite Friday” livestream is his latest social media foray as...
Techdirt.

“His Audience Was Really Trump”: How New FBI Lead Used His Missouri AG Role To Wage A Culture War - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. After a fight with a Black student in a St. Louis suburb le...
The NM Political Report

Gov signs 3 of 4 special session bills to soften impacts of federal cuts - [image: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham] [image: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham] By Alex Ross, NM Political Report New Mexico lawmakers concluded a two-...
OpEd News

When Bible Readers Like Charlie Kirk Ignore Its Class-Consciousness - Charlie Kirk inverted the teachings of Jesus who identified God with the poor, the dispossessed, and the oppressed.
Alternet

Trump official caught texting plans to send 'top tier' military unit to major city: report - One senior official in President Donald Trump's administration was recently seen texting about sensitive military plans to one of Defense Secretary Pete ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 3, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | October 3, 2025 barry Fri, 10/03/2025 - 22:23
The Root

Brutal Video of Baltimore Bouncer Using Chokehold on White Man Divides Internet - Baltimore police want to identify the Black bouncer who put white man in chokehold and shattered a window with his head in a brutal clip that's going vir...
Wolf Street

It Took the Longest Time to Sell a Home since at Least 2016, if it Sold at all, in Many Markets - Examples: California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona. In other states, homes still sell faster than before Covid, such as New York a...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
Popular Resistance

Israel Is Committing Genocide In The Gaza Strip - 7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties...
Ian Welsh

David Petraeus’ Disgusting Dialogue With Syria’s al-Julani - By Nat Wilson Turner Last week at the 2025 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City, Ahmed al-Sharaa, President of the Syrian Arab Republic, appeared as on...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Trump to remove protected status from Venezuelan nationals - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon once again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals of t...
Counterpunch

Ending Nuclear Colonialism w/ Leona Morgan - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Leona Morgan about nuclear colonialism in the Southwest and beyond. Leo...
The Texas Signal

Texas Vignette Returns For A Seventh Year - A groundbreaking woman-only artist art fair runs again this weekend in its new permanent facility in the Dallas Design District
Consortium News

Trump Orders Israel to Stop Bombing Gaza - In a surprise move, Hamas has formally agreed to Trump’s peace plan and is prepared to release all hostages. In response, the U.S. president ordered Israel...
Claytoonz

Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them - 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...
Progressive.org

Recognizing the Value in All Humanity - In 'Silent No Longer,' Robert Stack explores the lasting effects of the institutionalization of people with disabilities.
Independent Political Report

New York Libertarians to Hold 2026 Nominating Convention in October - The Libertarian Party of New York will meet later this month for its 2026 nominating convention, where members will select a slate of candidates for stat...
El Paso Matters

Texas higher ed leader praises El Paso progress, says challenges remain - Wynn Rosser, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board commissioner, praised El Paso’s K-12 to higher ed pipeline, but said more work is needed to prepa...
Deadline Politics

Treasury Department Considers Minting $1 Trump Coin - The Treasury Department has been considering drafts of $1 coins that feature Donald Trump’s image, designed to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the sig...
The Militant

Destruction of Hamas is key to ending threat of new Holocaust - On Sept. 29, President Donald Trump announced his 20-point plan to end the fighting in Gaza. It would take Israel’s defensive war to decisively defeat Hama...
Church and State

Trump’s reign of error must be stopped - The recent farce at the Defense Department was a total embarrassment. It was a gross violation of national security.
Lowering the Bar

Court: Complaint That Spends 79 Pages Praising the Client Shall Be Rewritten - Not the "short and plain statement" Rule 8 requires, and also irritating.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Mamdani Before Mamdani - On our live show, David and writing fellow Naomi Bethune discuss Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the expiration of Microsoft’s Windows 10, and the government shu...
CultureMap Houston

Top Houston designer's 5 best tips to adopt the buzzy Cluttercore trend - Cluttercore is the newest home aesthetic craze taking over social media feeds far and wide. For diehard minimalists, the act of discarding an object is eup...
Duck of Minerva

The State of the Union is Grim - The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy tha...
Dissident Voice

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council - On Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025, the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and Panama that would create a so-called “Gang Suppress...
Capital & Main

Repairing the Future - Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations. The post Repairing the Future ap...
Dorf on Law

"It Would Be Too Expensive, Pour Moi": Academia Edition (Law & Society, Part 2) - Some of the people who have been targeted by the Trump regime as "foreign enemies" have been academics. Early this year, two graduate students from Tuft...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
Second Nexus

Eric Stonestreet Hilariously Calls Out 'Modern Family' Costars For Having Mini-Reunion Without Him - Eric Stonestreet is keeping the *Modern Family** chaos* alive—even when he’s left out of the group photo. Earlier this week, Jesse Tyler Ferguson *posted...
Texas Observer

Trump’s ICE Has Arrested a Pillar of the Dallas Muslim Community. I Grew Up Hearing His Calls for Compassion. - When I saw Marwan Marouf’s face plastered on my Instagram feed, under bright red letters announcing he’d been arrested and detained by Immigration and Cu...
Texas Standard

Wall Street really likes Rick Perry’s nuclear-powered data center company - Fermi America, which launched earlier this year and went public this week, wants to build a nuclear complex to power AI data centers.
Earthworks

New Mexico Bonding: Holding Oil and Gas Financially Accountable - New Mexico is a land where world-class biodiversity meets millennia of cultural heritage, with more than 20 national parks and … The post New Mexico Bon...
The Progressive Wing

10/3-7News Roundup and Open Thread - The leaves are definitely falling in the Catskills. No frost yet though. It’s been very dry (except one stormy day) since the end of August so it’s a very ...
Space City Weather

Houston will slowly welcome back some humidity this weekend - In brief: Hot weather will persist with increasing humidity this weekend. Shower chances remain low but even those will increase a tinge as we go through t...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Extract Demonstrates Superiority Over Opioids in Patients With Chronic Back Pain - [image: cannabis oil extract][image: cannabis oil extract]"These results affirm the longstanding experiences of patients, many of whom either reduce or e...
The Conversation

Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen - Commuters have complained about SEPTA’s poor conditions and unstable funding for nearly a century.
Debunking Christianity

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - *“Christianity is peddling an inferior product…”* Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a prominent lecturer in post-Civil War America, and he voiced ...
Democracy Now!

Israel Detains 440+ Global Flotilla Activists; Italian Unions Strike in Protest - The Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces Thursday as its dozens of vessels approached the shores of Gaza. In response to the detention o...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump’s Forever War” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou dissects the Trump administration’s drama...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Leading Off - The post Leading Off appeared first on D Magazine.
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Hum of Bees - American writer and landscape architect Elizabeth Lawrence captured the the quiet charm of a late... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Hum of Bees appea...
ProPublica

Before Tom Dundon Agreed to Buy the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Accused the Company He Created of Predatory Lending - by Tony Schick and Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oreg...
Crooked Timber

Paper reactors and paper tigers - (I wrote this piece a week or so ago, meant to do a bit more work but haven’t got around to it. Hence slightly dated allusions) The culmination of Donald T...
Brad Blog

Biden Budget Expert Warns Mass Firings During Shutdown 'Extremely Illegal': 'BradCast' 10/2/2025 - On today's BradCast: Republican insistence on skyrocketing health care costs for tens of millions of Americans as of January 1 continues to keep much of th...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/03/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Antiwar.com

Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors? - In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets ...
Environment Texas

Keep an eye out for monarchs - Monarch butterflies have begun their migration to warmer weather The post Keep an eye out for monarchs appeared first on Environment Texas.
See You In 2020

The next attacks the hegemon is planning, & the new workers alliance we’ll need to combat them - Above: from the 2025 International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow. In the face of the new provocations that Washington plans to carry out, one of our most...
Common Dreams

Weird Drivel and Loser Shit: This Looks Like Terrible - Our authoritarian theater lurches on amidst the forging of a police state by an avenging "Peace President," equally deranged and malignant, who conflates...
Project Censored

“Censorship Is So 1984”: Annual Banned Books Week Celebrates the Right to Read - By Mickey Huff and Cameron Samuels The American Library Association (ALA), Unite Against Book Bans (UABB), and other members of the Banned Books Week Coa...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Asmaa and Her Daughters - Help a displaced mother and her little girls.
Sludge

The Leo Network Behind Virginia’s Attorney General - Jason Miyares’ political rise is intertwined with Leonard Leo’s conservative machine, from shared consultants to millions in outside spending and a persona...
Rewire

The Supreme Court Gears Up for Another Unprecedented Term (Podcast) - Why the justices will soon be back to work wreaking havoc on democracy. The post The Supreme Court Gears Up for Another Unprecedented Term (Podcast) appe...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Missouri House Map - Missouri Republicans recently passed a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give them an additional seat in the state's House delegation. We are assuming t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'GOP lawmaker once accused trans people of harming kids. He just pled guilty to child porn charges' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Former SC legislator (and Moms for Liberty's 2023 'Legislator of the Year') RJ May recently pled guilty to child porn charges. May in the past has accused...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - Working through the emotional and psychological toll of the fascist military stunt
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
Bracing Views

Fat Generals Are the Problem! - Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2025 The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the a...
Liberation News

(Video) Why Trump wants to cancel free speech: He’s trying to change the form of government - The Trump White House is criminalizing left and liberal organizations as part of Project 2025’s effort to impose a new right-wing political system in the U...
slacktivist

‘Whoever does not love does not know’ - It's partly "sheer public apostasy" and an explicit rejection of morality. But that means it's also partly genuine incomprehension.
Dissent Magazine

The Battle Over Civil Society - An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
Greg Palast

Mom would’ve kicked Pete Hegseth’s a** - On Tuesday, our newly-dubbed “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth told our military’s top brass that they must restore the "male warrior spirit" to the armed fo...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Laughter from the Empyrean - Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is c...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 1, 2025* *I have been refl...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
Idavox

South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms for Liberty Pleads Guilty to Child Porn - Another day, another right-winger on his way to prison for what he accusing others for... The post South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms ...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees with Lower Courts that a Voter May Vote Provisionally if Original Ballot was Defective - On September 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with lower courts that when a voter’s original postal ballot is not counted due to the voter having ...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

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Democracy Chronicles

Facebook is Losing its Chance to be a Force for Democracy - Sarah Wynn Williams pitches her idea that Facebook has great power for good in the world, an idealism she eventually loses as she works in policy for Faceb...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
The Grayzone

‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC - In a meeting with US antiwar figures, Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian forecasted a more intense round of conflict with Israel and the US, and slammed Was...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH-AND-CARRY EDITION. - *Absolutely not my kind of thing, but I like it.Know what I mean?* Let’s see, what were the new nightmares of the past week? Well, last Sunday they had...
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Trivial Knot

Hell is Us: War and emotional distance - Hell is Us is a recent action adventure video game, with an emphasis on puzzles and exploration. I really like the game, but this is not a review. See oth...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
The Socialist

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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.
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

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

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...
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...
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...
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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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
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...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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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