Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

GOP-led House passes controversial 'show your papers' bill that would affect 146M people - US House approves bill mandating proof of citizenship for voting in federal elections by Ashley Murray, Pennsylvania Capital-Star February 11, 2026 WAS...
Mediaite

Trump Flat-Out Threatens Republicans — After 6 Jump Ship to Tank Key Tariff Vote: You Will ‘Seriously Suffer the Consequences’ - President Donald Trump blatantly threatened congressional members of his party on Wednesday, warning that “any Republican” who voted against his tariffs ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US House backs bid to block Canada tariffs in rebuke of Trump - Republicans join Democrats in objecting to national emergency US president declared to impose tariffs The US House on Wednesday voted to rescind tariffs ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Bisexual Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn blasts her haters: 'They hate to see woke b**ches winning'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn has a message for her haters. *Bisexual figure skater flaunts gold medal at her haters: “They hate to see woke b***hes ...
Scheerpost.com

Inside the New Epstein Files: What the Unredacted Names Reveal About America’s Ruling Class - In this second installment of our weekly deep dive into the Epstein files, Robert Scheer and media scholar Nolan Higdon unpack a wave of newly unredacted d...
The Verge

Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch - Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but develope...
The Hill

Trump threatens 'consequences' for Republicans who voted against tariffs on Canada - President Trump threatened "consequences come Election time" for Republican lawmakers who oppose his administration’s tariffs on U.S. trading partners. “An...
Deadline Politics

FTC Chairman Warns Apple Over News Choices On Its Aggregation Site - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning letter to Apple, calling on it to review its curation of news articles to see if its Appl...
The NM Political Report

State Senate votes down Clear Horizons Act, opening door for next gov to change state’s climate, enviro policies - Seven Democrats joined with Republicans in the State Senate Wednesday to defeat keystone climate legislation to codify some of the country’s most ambiti...
memeorandum

House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate (NBC News) - NBC News: *House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate* — The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in a...
Eschaton

Party Balloons - Two big pops to the reporters who ran with "cartel drones" instead of party balloon. LOL NYT: Trump administration officials have warned for months abou...
Vox

Credit card theft, penis injections, and other weird scandals from the 2026 Olympic Games - Generally speaking, the athlete stories that come out of the Olympic Games are about the countless hours spent on the ice, on the slopes, and at the gym; t...
Courthouse News

California commits $90 million to Planned Parenthood in wake of federal cuts - Republicans criticized an aspect of the bill making the grants exempt from the state's Public Records Act, saying it will exacerbate fraud accusations.
El Paso Matters

El Paso airport closures spur fear, confusion – and questions - “The show’s over,” an EPPD officer at El Paso airport said after the FAA flight restriction was lifted. Though it lasted only seven hours, the disruptio...
The Week

The plan to wall off the ‘Doomsday’ glacier - Massive barrier could ‘slow the rate of ice loss’ from Thwaites Glacier, whose total collapse would have devastating consequences
Slate

Don’t Try to Deny It: One Olympic Sport Totally Looks Like Gay Sex - Finally, at least a couple of Olympic athletes are willing to admit it.
Al Jazeera English

Italy advances migration bill, including naval blockades - Measures would let authorities impose a 30-day blockade on sea arrivals if there is a 'serious threat to public order".
Environment Texas

How did the fish cross the road? - Wildlife crossings aren’t just for animals such as deer and elk. Fish also benefit from wildlife crossings. The post How did the fish cross the road? app...
Houston Public Media

Harris County seeks restraining order against federal government to halt FEMA layoffs - The filing -- part of a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California with other government agencies last year -- seeks an order that would restrict...
Sludge

These Cities and States Hold Contracts With ICE - More than a dozen governments, many with “welcoming city” policies, still hold active contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
CultureMap Houston

Texas-based actor James Van Der Beek dies at 48 - Actor James David Van Der Beek has died, according to an announcement on his social media. He was 48 years old.
ProPublica

Colorado Marijuana Regulators Consider Major Changes to How Labs Test for Contaminants - The post Colorado Marijuana Regulators Consider Major Changes to How Labs Test for Contaminants appeared first on ProPublica.
Mother Jones

This “Fish-Fluencer” Telling ICE to Fuck Off Is the Best Thing You’ll Watch Today - Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to w...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court announces cases it will hear at term’s end - The Supreme Court will close out its 2025-26 term with oral arguments in cases involving immigration law, the Fourth Amendment, generic drug labels, and ...
Political Wire

White House Opens Meeting to Democratic Governors - “President Donald Trump is inviting all U.S. governors to meet with him after the White House had sought to keep Democrats out of the annual bipartisan gat...
Mediagazer

In court docs, celebs and public figures targeted by a web of reputation-smearing sites blame a publicist, a digital fixer, and a well-known Hollywood lawyer (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter) - Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter: *In court docs, celebs and public figures targeted by a web of reputation-smearing sites blame a publicist, a digital...
Rallblog

“Steve Kelley on the State of the Nation” | DMZ America Podcast | Ep 228 - LIVE 11 am Eastern THURSDAY, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: Conservative syndicated editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator St...
Wolf Street

Private Sector Ramps Up Hiring. Job Losses Mount at Federal & State Governments - How much job growth is actually needed as population growth slows dramatically?
Church and State

Supreme Court Is Going to New Lengths to Hide Its Inner Workings From Scrutiny - The new agreement now reportedly threatens legal action against any employee who reveals confidential information.
Progressive.org

Why Democrats Should Be Resisting AI - If Big Tech is already working overtime to block meaningful safeguards, why not meet the moment by standing clearly on the side of consumers, parents, and ...
San Antonio Current

Best of San Antonio 2026 nominations round now open - [image: Best of San Antonio nominations are open in more than 150 categories.] Nominations will remain open through Friday, May 1, in 150-plus categories,...
Techdirt.

Peter Mandelson Invokes Press Harassment Protections To Dodge Questions About His Support Of Jeffrey Epstein - Peter Mandelson—the former UK cabinet minister who was just sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the United States over newly revealed emails with Jeffrey Eps...
San Antonio Report

Texas Democrats push Congress for stronger local control on ICE - Texas Democrats and San Antonio leaders push Congress for local authority as City Council considers a response to ICE detention expansion. ----------------...
Popular Resistance

Iran v. US Imperialism: Interview With Navid Farnia And Nina Farnia - The protests in Iran began following a severe drop in the value of the national currency, the rial, of somewhere between 30 and 40 percent. This was cau...
The Conversation

Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is “remarkable and unprecedented” - Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s perc...
Futurism

You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Military Mega-Laser Shooting Something Down - Our head is spinning. The post You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Milita...
Second Nexus

MAGA Is Melting Down After Olympic Curler From Minnesota Speaks Out To Condemn ICE - Richard Ruohonen is a curler from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, about 18 minutes north of Minneapolis. At 54 years old, Ruohonen's first appearance at the Wi...
Salon.com

James Van Der Beek, “Dawson’s Creek” actor and teen icon, dead at 48 - The actor had shared his colorectal cancer diagnosis in November
Axios

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders is already eyeing the left's next big Democratic primary upset - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is feeling emboldened by progressives' shock victory in a New Jersey special House primary last week — and sizing up his next...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: When the sitting president did it again... - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2026* *...Tucson swept it away: *The flooding of the zone is so furious and so fast that it's very hard to keep up. Believe it o...
The Texas Signal

Despite Threats, Texas Students Continue ICE Protests - Despite the warnings from the governor and the Texas Education Agency, protests have continued at schools all over the state -- and they show no signs of s...
OpEd News

Why Not Another Half Trillion Dollars for War? - Normally, when one develops all the symptoms of a disease, the response ought not to be exacerbating the disease, but seeking to cure it. Approaches to hea...
Independent Political Report

Minneapolis Shows Us Anarchism at Work - *This article was originally published by Emma Arcadia on February 3, 2026, in Assigned Media and is republished here with the express permission of both...
Novara Media

Starmer Under Fire for Elevating SECOND Paedophile Apologist - Starmer called into question AGAIN Plus: Anthropic safety lead offers a chilling warning, and ‘Prince’ Andrew’s Ex In CARCRASH Interview. With Michael Walk...
Undernews

How we compare to Europe - *Gandalv:* MAGA USA does not get to lecture the rest of us on how to live
First Draft

The Ham Sandwich Rebellion - MAGA DOJ's performative indictment attempt fails.
Consortium News

Call Trump ‘Detention Camps’ by Their Real Name - History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. History isn’t whispering: it’s sho...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Crisis of Credibility Edition - The crisis of credibility faced by Western elites as they try and fail to patch over the bursting abscess that is the Epstein files release heralds somethi...
Angry Bear

January jobs report: superb monthly gains, but the birds came home to roost for 2025 - – by New Deal democrat This is the month the birds came home to roost, at least for the year 2025. While the month over month numbers were almost all pos...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Stamped “DO NOT READ”: When a University like Texas Tech Tells Its Students What Not to Learn, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Stamped “**DO NOT READ**”: When a University like Texas Tech Tells Its Students What Not to Learn* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *February 11, 2026...
Glasstire

Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival Announces Open Call for November Events - Luminaria in San Antonio has announced an open call for its annual Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival. Taking place in November, the festival brings to...
Common Dreams

Revised Data Paints a Grim Picture of 2025 Jobs Market - Today’s delayed report shows the United States added even fewer jobs in 2025 than previously reported. Total job creation in 2025 was revised down from 5...
The Daily Poster

Empty Homes, Full Refunds - Colorado lawmakers just struck down a bill that would’ve allowed the state’s mountain towns to tax empty vacation homes.
Dissident Voice

Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba - Electric motorcycles are Cuba’s response to the fuel crisis. Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her ha...
The Root

Step Into The World of ‘Sinners’ In This New Warner Bros. Studio Tour Exhibit - Warner Bros. Studios has now it possible for fans to take a closer look at all the magic of 'Sinners' in this new installment! Let's take a look! Read mo...
Texas Standard

Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate - Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
The Smirking Chimp

no Chimp today due, to circumstances -
Election Law Blog

“Trump DOJ Asks US Attorneys for Judicial Impeachment Fodder (1)” - From Bloomberg Law: A Trump Justice Department official is soliciting examples of perceived judicial activism from all US attorneys’ offices to inform p...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
NORML

South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Bills That Sought To Dismantle State’s Voter-Initiated Medical Cannabis Access Program - [image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol][image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol]Over 18...
Daily Cartoonist

The Weatherbird is 125 - The world’s oldest continuously published newspaper comic is 125. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Weatherbird first appeared on the paper’s front page on Febru...
Texas Observer

How Radioactive Oil and Gas Waste Could Lie Beneath a North Texas Elementary School - Editor’s Note: This story was produced in collaboration by Truthdig and the Texas Observer. On a cold winter morning in Johnson County, at the southweste...
Discourse

Do You People Understand How Fucking Dumb You Look - Melting down over Bad Bunny...say it with me...LOSER BEHAVIOR.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part Two - The Great Wheel of the symbolic phases of the Moon, as noted already, is the central mandala of Yeats’s Vision. Two months ago, in the last installment of ...
Dorf on Law

Will Trump v. Barbara End Stare Decisis? - Recall at issue in Trump v. Barbara is President Trump’s Executive Order that purports to deny citizenship to children born in the United States to non-c...
Liberation News

The Unsung Women of Black History - This year marks 100 years of Black History Month. Here are 7 must-know women that have shaped not just Black History, but the entire Black Radical Tradition.
Mondoweiss

Israel just started legalizing its annexation of the West Bank. Here’s what that means. - [image: An Israeli flag overlooking an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Taken from the Israeli Herodian national park in the West Bank. (Photo: ...
Bonddad

January jobs report: superb monthly gains, but the birds came home to roost for 2025 - - *by New Deal democrat* This is the month the birds came home to roost, at least for the year 2025. While the month over month numbers were almost a...
WhoWhatWhy

Kyiv Fights the Cold With Emergency Shelters and Hard-Earned Fortitude - [image: Three ice fishermen, frozen, Dnipro River, Kyiv] For many in Kyiv, the outages have revived an old wartime calculation: How long can you endure bef...
Ian Welsh

The China Super Boosters Are Super Tiresome - I stand second to few in my admiration for how well China has done. But the super boosters are super tiresome. If China had been a small nation, the best t...
ArcaMax

The Country at a Crossroads - There are no innocent bystanders in Donald Trump's America. Seeing what we've seen lately -- blood spilled in snow, and a vile post depicting a former pres...
Rewire

Sex Workers Fear Border Patrol’s New Social Media Requirements Could Make U.S. Travel Off Limits - Certain travelers may soon have to disclose years of their online history to the U.S. government. The proposed policy could ensnare sex workers in its dr...
The Progressive Wing

2/11 News Roundup & Open Thread - “I wonder whether Trump is completely crazy and delusional or just a pathological liar—if this is the greatest economy in the history of the world, God ...
Democracy Now!

"Devastating": Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push - In a victory for the fossil fuel industry, a set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases ...
Crooked Timber

The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth - Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned wit...
Space City Weather

A weak front sags into Houston today, and on Valentine’s Day will Houston say ‘Be mine’ to rainfall? - In brief: In today’s update we discuss a weak front that will work its way into Houston today. We also look ahead to a soggy Valentine’s Day, and then ampl...
Earth 911

How Smart Lighting Can Cut Energy Waste in Commercial Buildings - Smart lighting is a type of intelligent lighting system that uses sensors, automation, and connected... The post How Smart Lighting Can Cut Energy Waste ...
Skeptophilia

Watching the clock - If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The First L...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Jarvis Johnson - I’ve said before that the Republican-pushed mid-decade redistricting was partly about getting more Republican seats in Congress, but also partly about redu...
Countercurrents

Thirty Is Not a Deadline: The Silent Anxiety of Arranged Marriage - A woman’s thirtieth birthday is often overlooked in many households. There is oversight. The cake has been cut. We have extinguished the candles. People ex...
Grist

Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development - For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
High Country News

The coming failure of Glen Canyon Dam - As Colorado River negotiations build toward a Feb. 14 deadline, few are talking about design flaws in the dam that holds back Lake Powell. The post The ...
Crooked Media

Will Epstein Files Take Down the British Government? - The post Will Epstein Files Take Down the British Government? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Trump’s Politics and a Declining US Capitalism in 2026 - A year into Trump’s second term clarifies what his presidency aims to accomplish. On the one hand and widely overemphasized are his initiatives and their...
World Socialist Web Site

Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979 - On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
jobsanger

The Largest Tax Increase As A Percent Of GDP Since 1993 -
Informed Comment

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36 - That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: February 2026 - This month, the ace journal club discussed an article about gender detachment. And I wrote an article on the game design of my game. Epstein Files Reveal ...
See You In 2020

The danger of revolutionary retreat, & the counter-offensive the workers must wage - The biggest threat facing the working class movement is a willing retreat by the labor and labor-aligned forces. This is apparent from how Shainbaum’s g...
Workers World

What Trump’s racist video reveals - [image: What Trump’s racist video reveals] There is absolutely no denying that Donald Trump is a bonafide white supremacist whose mission is to turn back t...
Brad Blog

Trump's Presidency Now About Little More Than Racism, Corruption, Culture War Nonsense: 'BradCast' 2/10/2026 - We usually stay out of most of the "culture war" nonsense on The BradCast, because that's what most of it is: nonsense. Republicans love it, of course, bec...
Alternet

'Circular firing squad': Trump's Religious Liberty Commission derailed by 'infighting' - A recent meeting of President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission rapidly devolved into a shouting match between commission members over the issu...
Claytoonz

Worst Cupid Ever - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar: Iran Forces US Navy to RETREAT, Trump in SHOCK as Russia & BRICS Step In - DH—Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss reports of US Navy in retreat as Iran's war maneuvers send Trump scrambling for a face saving move. Meanwhile, Ru...
Portside

“Ice Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti - “Ice Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti Judy Tue, 02/10/2026 - 19:59
Capital & Main

New Mexico Again Debates Greenhouse Gas Reductions as Snow Melts - Lawmakers table bill to expand use of oilfield wastewater and shoot down another that would restrict drone use around “critical” infrastructure. The post...
Antiwar.com

Trump Should Revive the JCPOA To Prevent War With Iran - When Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States, he famously declared that his “proudest legacy will be that of a p...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

This World is Insane: The Check-In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
The Rag Blog

DAVE ZIRIN / CULTURE / Bad Bunny Steals the Show - Bad Bunny in Los Angeles, California, on October 11, 2019. Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / February 10, ...
The AltWorld

It Begins: This Is Their Plan For 2026 (and they’re not hiding it) - This video confronts a hard truth many prefer to ignore: Bitcoin’s future is being quietly shaped not […] The post It Begins: This Is Their Plan For 2026...
Bracing Views

“Guardrails” - The New Dishonest Word of the Moment BILL ASTORE FEB 09, 2026 I’ve been noticing a new word of the moment: “guardrails.” President Trump is smashing the gu...
Black Agenda Report

What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) - What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) bareditors Wed, 02/11/2026 - 01:35 Jemima Pierre, BAR Edito...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Grayzone

US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims - A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and ...
Ballot Access News

Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect, Says California Democrats Should Act Against Top-Two System - Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect, here writes that California Democratic legislators ought to work to repeal California’s top-two ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
Dissent Magazine

Vindictive Federalism - For decades, national policies have compelled states to pare back eligibility and benefits for social programs. Under Trump, federal austerity has become...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund - Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp Eur...
NPR's Health Shots

This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms - Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 10 February 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the food video post, click here.] ...
LareDOS

Dan Clouse memorializes the small town milieu that was Laredo, the place that formed us - Nostalgia is complicated
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
Green Pages News

Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth - Author’s Note: This essay was originally published in New Green Horizons on November 9, 2025. A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the Uni...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Project Censored

Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda - First up, Mickey and Eleanor dive into some critical media literacy, including AI-generated videos and images that ping our confirmation biases, making i...
TalkLeft

Big Day for Bad Bunny: He'll Knock it Out of the Park - I may not care for football but I will be watching this afternoon to see Bad Bunny's half time show, which he'll sing in Spanish. He is probably the bigg...
Field Negro

Monkeying around. - A shockingly racist trope *(to some)* depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes was posted by the current president from his person...
Debunking Christianity

Here is a Visual of the Book "God and Horrendous Suffering" - In case you need a visual this is a very B.I.G. book! 600+ pages! Just released! You’ll get your money's worth. Get it. Review it. Laud it. Praise it. L...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LEMON, IT'S WEDNESDAY EDITION. - *Sabor.* Here’s where I'd repeat the 30 Rock What A Week joke except I assume even people who never saw the show know that one by now because every week i...
Socialist Alternative

Union Leaders Call For Nationwide General Strike—All Out To Get Strike Ready - “We all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be focusing on strike readiness. This is the fundamental check on capitalism. The greates...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How We Would Rate the Democrats’ Proposed Virginia Gerrymander - Virginia Democrats finally unveiled a proposed partisan gerrymander on Thursday night that is intended to elect 10 Democrats and 1 Republican if implemen...
The Militant

Fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! - Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working clas MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched ...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Georgia - Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Geo...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Moron Majority

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The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
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 ...
Border/Lines

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
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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