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

Counterpunch

The Dutch Elections and the Lonely Grave of Spinoza - A simple, lonely grave behind the Nieuwe Kerk in the centre of The Hague is a monument to Baruch de Spinoza. Only very determined admirers visit from tim...
jobsanger

The Battle Over What It Means To Be And American -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3007: Elastic Chair - Episode: 3007 Samuel Gragg’s Unusual Chair. Today we look at an elastic Chair.
The Week

Crossword: November 4, 2025 - The Week's daily crossword
Axios

Watch: Netflix drops "Sesame Street" trailer for iconic show's first season on platform - Netflix released Monday the trailer for "Sesame Street's" first season on the platform after being dropped last year by Warner Bros. Discovery. *The big ...
Portside

Israel’s Top Military Lawyer Arrested After She Admitted Leaking Video of Soldiers’ Abuse - Israel’s Top Military Lawyer Arrested After She Admitted Leaking Video of Soldiers’ Abuse Ira Tue, 11/04/2025 - 00:41
Al Jazeera English

Worker dies in Italy after rescue from partially collapsed medieval tower - The Romanian worker was trapped for hours under the rubble following the partial collapse of Rome's Torre dei Conti.
Informed Comment

Israel didn’t silence Palestinian Journalists Alone; We Helped - by Tony Rigopoulos A few days ago, in a full room at the opulent gardens of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna — once home to the Habsburgs — during the 75th Wo...
Mediaite

Majority of Trump Ballroom Donors Recently Faced Federal Enforcement Actions: Report - The majority of the corporate donors to President Donald Trump's ballroom are facing or have recently faced federal enforcement actions, according to a r...
Courthouse News

Proximity to people leaves sea otters tainted with ‘forever chemicals’ - Canadian researchers find higher concentrations of PFAS in sea otters near shipping routes and coastal cities.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘They take the money and go’: why not everyone is mourning the end of USAID - When Donald Trump set about dismantling USAID, many around the world were shocked. But on the ground in Sierra Leone, the latest betrayal was not unexpec...
Mediagazer

Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards (Rob Golum/Bloomberg) - Rob Golum / Bloomberg: *Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards* — Digi...
memeorandum

Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party (Aaron Zitner/Wall Street Journal) - Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal: *Divided Democrats Hope Attacking the Trump Economy Unites Party* — In Virginia, New York and New Jersey, Democrats...
The Hill

Mace lambasts Charleston airport for its security after alleged tirade - Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) criticized Charleston International Airport (CHS) security after a police report filed last Thursday alleged she blasted officers ...
World Socialist Web Site

Fatal Cobar explosion part of broader trend of accidents in Australian mines - The Endeavor incident that killed two workers last week is far from an isolated tragedy. It is part of a growing pattern, in Australia and globally, of pre...
Techdirt.

Japan Patent Office Rejects Key Patent Application In Nintendo’s ‘Palworld’ Lawsuit - Nintendo and the Pokémon Company’s lawsuit in Japan against PocketPair, makers of the hit game Palworld, is still ongoing. As we’ve reported previously, th...
Raw Story

'Totally above board!' Dems mock GOP strategist's defense of Trump crypto pardon - A pair of Democrats mocked a GOP strategist's defense of one of President Donald Trump's latest controversial pardons during an interview on CNN. Trump ...
Political Wire

Democrats Hope Attacking Trump Economy Unites Party - “President Trump, who promised to use his business savvy to bring down everyday costs, is facing discontent over his handling of the economy and inflation....
ArcaMax

Pregnant and Postpartum Women Face Neglect and Abuse in ICE Detention - *Names have been changed to protect identities Shackled and chained while miscarrying, denied prenatal care, given inadequate food and water -- these are t...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on.
Crooked Media

Chicago Fights Back - The post Chicago Fights Back appeared first on Crooked Media.
Brad Blog

Last Call(s) Before Election Day 2025: 'BradCast' 11/3/2025 - As the Federal Government shutdown enters its second month --- now almost certain to become the longest in U.S. history --- it's Election Day tomorrow in t...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonists Drawn to Clay Jones - Peezy, the pizza rat, is editorial cartoonist Clay Jones‘ dingbat that appears in his political cartoons. Clay is making tremendous progress on his road ba...
Popular Resistance

US Court Questions Legality Of British Journalist’s Detention - A US federal court has raised "serious questions" about the legality of detaining pro-Palestine British journalist Sami Hamdi, according to a legal advoc...
Wolf Street

US Government’s Net Cash from Tariffs Jumps to Record $32 Billion in October - The Supreme Court could strike down a portion of the tariffs, but the Administration sees similar tariffs under different Acts. "You should assume they're ...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Endorses Cuomo, Gives NY Dems Another Reason to Vote for Mamdani - [image: Zohran Mamdani, DSA 101 meeting] In the latest sign of how scared Republicans are of Zohran Mamdani, Donald Trump on Monday endorsed former governo...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trans man 'reading Ben Shapiro to filth' is the video we didn't know we needed (but do) - Right-winger Ben Shapiro when a trans man breaks through his "debate me, dude" nonsense and breaks down his deceptions. The following video took place l...
Socialist Alternative

Venezuela In The Crosshairs Of Trump & Imperialism - Donald Trump’s second term has reignited some of the most aggressive elements of US imperialist policy towards Latin America. Speaking bluntly, US Secretar...
Slate

Did We Just Watch the Greatest Game 7 Ever? - The final game of the World Series had every Hollywood moment you could want.
Workers World

Urgent call for a week of coordinated protests to stop U.S. war against Venezuela, Nov. 15-23 - [image: Urgent call for a week of coordinated protests to stop U.S. war against Venezuela, Nov. 15-23] websource: unacpeace.org This call to action is post...
Independent Political Report

New Hampshire Constitution Party to Host National Chair Justin Magill - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire will host National Committee Chair Justin Magill at its next monthly meeting, where he is scheduled to deliver re...
Scheerpost.com

Why Capitalists Should Support Mamdani, a “Communist Lunatic” - By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost Is Andrew Cuomo experiencing a dead cat bounce? That’s the opinion of statistician Nate Silver after seeing Ka...
NPR's Health Shots

Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too - Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump ...
Antiwar.com

The War Party Is Out of Ideological Ammunition - Tucker Carlson haters lie because they have to lie. Mark Levin, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and company get on their stages and behind their microphones ...
San Antonio Report

Celebrate Texas Arbor Day at San Antonio’s Día del Árbol - SPONSORED: Join San Antonio Parks and Recreation on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for family-friendly activities and tree adoptions. ------------...
San Antonio Current

Former San Antonio Council members make final push to sway voters against Prop B - [image: Former Councilman Greg Brockhouse speaks to reporters in front of City Hall.] Politics make for strange bedfellows. Indeed, three former city cou...
CultureMap Houston

CultureMap editor's 11 favorite dishes at Houston restaurants in October - As both the city editor of CultureMap and the host of a *bi-weekly podcast about Houston restaurants*, I am one of those fortunate people whose literal job...
Environment Texas

Fall legislative briefing series - Environment America, PIRG and our state affiliates have teamed up for a series of brief, informative webinars for state lawmakers and their staff on key ...
Vox

A temporary SNAP lifeline - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Daily Dot

“Genuinely a health concern”: JCPenney salon blasted after routine brow wax and tint goes wrong - [image: jcpenney wax and tint brows gone wrong] A woman’s trip to JCPenney for a brow wax and tint didn’t go as planned—and social media viewers say the ...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Urges New Yorkers To Vote For Andrew Cuomo For Mayor Over Zohran Mamdani And Curtis Sliwa: “You Really Have No Choice” - Donald Trump urged New Yorkers to cast their ballots for his one-time nemesis Andrew Cuomo rather than the front runner in the mayor’s race, Democratic soc...
The Verge

No, ChatGPT hasn’t added a ban on giving legal and health advice - OpenAI says ChatGPT’s behavior “remains unchanged” after reports across social media falsely claimed that new s updates to its usage policy prevent the cha...
Futurism

Sam Altman Loses His Cool When Asked About OpenAI’s Minuscule Revenue - "Enough." The post Sam Altman Loses His Cool When Asked About OpenAI’s Minuscule Revenue appeared first on Futurism.
Undernews

Word - [image: A black background with white text overlay quoting President Ronald Reagan on demagogues declaring trade wars against friends while weakening the ...
The NM Political Report

Trump administration says it will comply with court order to fund SNAP, partially for now - The 559,500 New Mexicans who rely on SNAP for food assistance will get at least some of their monthly federal benefits this month, after the Trump admini...
slacktivist

More American Nazis in the news - Some Republicans are furious with Tucker Carlson for legitimizing actual Nazi and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. But you can't reject Nazis while still su...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Election Law Blog

Huntington Beach Loses Appeal, Cannot Enact Its City Voter ID Law in Contravention of California State Law - See here. From a press release: The Fourth District Court of Appeal, Third Division, issued decisions in two companion cases striking down the Huntingto...
Church and State

The American Catholic Church is Shrinking Because of Bad Politics - One U.S. hierarch is even an enthusiastic MAGA supporter. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the prelate of Wall Street, is openly pro-Trump.
Progressive.org

What Might New York City’s Education System Look Like Under Zohran Mamdani? - The city’s $40 billion K-12 public education system has been under mayoral control since 2002. Mamdani wants to end that.
Reform Austin

Uncertain Future: HIV Programs Face Deep Funding Cuts in Congress - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Congress struggles to resolve the ongoing budget standoff, advocates, and lawmakers, are exp...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court in Texas Dismisses Second Attempt by Congressman Ronny Jackson to Stop California Redistricting Measure - On October 31, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, dismissed a second lawsuit filed by Congressmember Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) t...
Mother Jones

Report: ICE Shot a US Citizen Trying to Help Kids - For the second time in a little over a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles, California. This ti...
Second Nexus

Jackie Kennedy's Grandson Slams Julia Fox's 'Disgusting' JFK Assassination Halloween Costume - Of all the *2025 Halloween costumes* in the world—from Labubus to K-pop Warriors to Glindas and Elphabas—Julia Fox went with the one soaked in presidenti...
ProPublica

Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony - The post Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony appeared first on ProPublica.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday* *. You...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: The latest non-denial denial! - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 20* *Kash Patel pretends: *Back in September, it was reported that Tom Homan had once accepted a bag of $50,000 in cash from underco...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
OpEd News

Why 1929 Will Not Happen Again - A Great Depression will not happen again because of deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, Social Security and Uber.
Discourse

Discourse Pod #02: Elections Preview! - Paul Blest joins us for an early look at some key 2025 and 2026 races
Consortium News

Obama’s Election-Eve Call to Mamdani - The former president had an obvious reason to favor the Democratic frontrunner in the New York mayor’s race with a weekend call, writes Corinna Barnard. Ma...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: MAGA Civil War – America First vs. Israel First - A major MAGA civil war has erupted pitting Tucker Carlson against what Nick Fuentes calls "Israel First" Republicans.
First Draft

America’s Punk Ass Institutions - A legacy of cowardice will haunt some of our elite institution's leadership for years.
The Conversation

Congress has been dodging responsibility for tariffs for decades – now the Supreme Court will decide how far presidents can go alone - The Supreme Court’s trade case isn’t just about tariffs. It’s about who sets economic policy in a democracy.
El Paso Matters

Only 4% of El Paso County voters cast early ballots in the Nov. 4 election. Here’s what’s on the ballot and where to vote Tuesday. - Early voting saw 24,202 total in-person and mail-in votes – a typically small turnout for an off-year election with no major candidate races on the ball...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing confirms regional Feds’ reports: prices up, production improves slightly, employment contracting - - *by New Deal democrat* The ISM manufacturing and services reports assume heightened importance this month in view of the continuing federal govern...
Texas Standard

Trump administration ordered to resume SNAP; USDA to tap contingency fund - SNAP funding, also called food stamps, expired on Saturday.
Common Dreams

Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years - The corporate and billionaire donors to Donald Trump’s gaudy ballroom project are beset by conflicts of interest, according to a new Public Citizen repor...
Alternet

'Scared' ex-generals stay silent over fear Trump will use rare military law against them - A military law that allows prosecution against ex-generals and retired senior military officers who speak out with "contemptuous" statements against Pres...
NORML

Election Day Decisions Could Reshape Cannabis Markets on the East Coast - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Bracing Views

More and More War - What Happened to Diplomacy and the Rule of Law? BILL ASTORE Last week, I talked to Judge Napolitano about the Russia-Ukraine War, the Trump administration’...
Angry Bear

Delays in ACA Healthcare Insurance Pricing - I have been looking around for more information, accurate information on the forthcoming increases in ACA healthcare insurance costs. I have yet to find ...
The Daily Poster

The American Dream’s New Premium Hike - Homeowners insurers are relying on artificial intelligence to raise your rates and boost their profits.
The Root

Internet Blasts Louis Vuitton’s New $3,000 Bag That Looks a Lot Like One With Dark, Painful African History - The Black internet is calling out Louis Vuitton for seemingly trying to make a profit from a symbol of pain to many Africans. Read more...
Capital & Main

Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses - Impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times has been "dire." The post Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors...
Project Censored

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity - In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiograph...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Ohio House Map: Democrats Get a Better Map than Expected - The map gets better for Republicans, but Democrats still have a path toward defending all of their current seats The post Rating the New Ohio House Map: ...
The Greanville Post

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet - MATT SIMON—The two ocean heat waves started like those we experience on land, with the atmosphere warming things up. Indeed, the ocean has absorbed 90 perc...
Dissident Voice

In the Time of the Open Secret: Palestine and the Fundamental Choice of Our Era - “Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the exp...
Space City Weather

SCW Q&A: La Niña, drought talk, blue nights, ozone days, king tides, open forum - This month we’ve got a jam-packed SCW Q&A for you, with topics ranging from the eventual demise of La Niña to mysterious high tides to a new forum where yo...
DeSmogBlog

Fique de Olho Nestes 8 Termos de Greenwashing do Agro na COP30 - The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 26 November 2025 Alimentos e agricultura estarão no centro dos holofotes na próxima...
SCOTUSblog

President Trump’s tariffs v. the Supreme Court’s duties - Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. When Pres...
Glasstire

Review: Erick B. Salazar’s “Closer to Now: Under the Effect of Form & Color” at the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum - In 2018, the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum opened with the goal of promoting the culture of South Texas. Erick B. Salazar, a Rio Grande Valley nati...
Rewire

Cities Could Dramatically Cut Childhood Poverty With New Tax Credits, Research Finds - A new report says cities could make a big difference with a relatively small investment. The post Cities Could Dramatically Cut Childhood Poverty With Ne...
Ian Welsh

The State Of Play In Late 2025 - Let’s run thru the important points: Domestically in the US the only issue that really matters is affordability. Food, housing and medicine. This will domi...
Democracy Now!

Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump's Threat to Strike Nigeria - We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made...
Texas Observer

Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder - Texas has grown a bumper crop of book authors and, with that, an ever-expanding list of literary festivals. San Antonio’s sprawls around its towering tom...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Most Silicon Valley... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation ...
Dorf on Law

Some Major Questions for Wednesday's Oral Argument in the Tariff Case - On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two consolidated cases that present the question whether President Trump's imposition of tarif...
The Smirking Chimp

Make America Radioactive Again? Yes, if Trump Has His Way -
Skeptophilia

Searching for Rosalia - Remember how in old college math textbooks, they'd present some theorem or another, and then say, "Proving this is left as an exercise for the reader"? Wel...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Threatens to Invade Nigeria” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explain why Wednesday’s landmark hearing ...
Off The Kuff

Election Day for November 2025 is tomorrow - From the inbox: The Harris County Clerk’s Office (HCCO) reminds registered voters that Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the final opportunity to ...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
Grist

Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit. - As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
High Country News

For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm - [image: Power lines and a transmission tower in Tuolumne County near Groveland, California.] Years ago, the state’s largest utility rolled out a power out...
See You In 2020

“Bronze Age Pervert” is Zionism’s psyop for selling war on Venezuela, & only Marxism can defeat this psyop - “Create popular power, transition to the Communal State”—Photo by Rachael Boothroyd, venezuelaanalysis.com. To find the role that “Israel” has in the Ve...
Krebs on Security

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody - A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Ita...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Personally Resisting Fascism: Audio From A Collapsing State - It's time we check in with each other as the onslaught continues.
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
Mondoweiss

Like Gaza, Israel is threatening to destroy the Lebanon ceasefire - [image: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends the commemoration of the army martyrs in Yarzeh, Beirut, Lebanon, on July 31, 2025. (Photo: Lebanese Preside...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Infidel753

People power in California - A California union is showing the whole country's politicians how it's done. SEIU-UHW, a major union of healthcare workers, is acting to get an initiativ...
The AltWorld

Short Memories Regarding Agreement-Incapable America - ▪️Recent US-Chinese talks regarding the array of tariffs, restrictions, sanctions, and other financial, economic, and diplomatic measures […] The post Sh...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
The Texas Signal

The Many Fronts Of The Abortion War - The Texas bill targeting abortion medication is just one layer in a multi-pronged approach to restricting abortion
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 3 of 4) - In the Wilcannia cemetery a lot of plastic is on display. This cemetery is an important local monument not because it celebrates the working class, because...
LareDOS

District 6 marks Día de los Muertos with festivities, Glow Run and Catrina contest - Nov. 1 Central Park event welcomes all
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] How Will Zohran Govern? - A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/31/2025 - 02:32 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Liberation News

Cuba resiste huracán y obtiene una contundente victoria en la ONU - La sociedad socialista cubana, organizada para poner a la gente por encima de todo, es la clave de la supervivencia del país. Quienes vivimos en las entrañ...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov 3 News roundup & OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments below.
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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 ...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
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...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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.
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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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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...
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.
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

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 ...
Salon.com

The radical politics of “Dancing With the Stars” - The show unites right-wingers and gay-rights advocates -- and may be the most subversive show on TV

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