Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Warrior Ethos - I am summoning all of you, my readers, to hear a short speech on Tom Baker-era Doctor Who and select 1970s progressive rock bands. Defense Secretary Pete ...
Courthouse News

European defense ministers agree to press on with ‘drone wall’ project as airspace violations mount - NATO jets scrambled on Sept. 10 to shoot down a number of Russian drones that breached Polish airspace, in an expensive response to a relatively cheap threat.
The Verge

The Social Network sequel has a new title and release date - When knew that Aaron Sorkin was working on a follow-up to The Social Network, and now we know what the movie will be called and when Sony plans for it to d...
Wolf Street

Inflation Is in Services despite Powell’s Denials: PCE Price Index for Core Services Accelerated Further. Durable Goods Prices Fell for 2nd Month - The 12-month overall PCE & core PCE price indices, which the Fed uses for its target, are worse than a year ago.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78 - Shakur spent decades exiled after she was convicted of killing a state trooper in 1977 and escaped from prison On 25 September, Assata Shakur, a former m...
Houston Public Media

Harris County’s sheriff alleged a man in Humble was waiting to fire on deputies. That may not be the case - Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Tuesday that Kenyon Colemen was found armed in a wooded area after deputies responded to a "possible fake/swatting call." The sher...
Futurism

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face - Too litle, too late. The post Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face appeared first on Futurism.
memeorandum

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents (Hailey Fuchs/Politico) - Hailey Fuchs / Politico: *Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents* … These new files are notable in that they suggest all three powe...
Daily Dot

“Real as hell for this”: Zach Woods slams comics for taking gigs at the Riyadh Comedy Festival - [image: Left: Comedian Zach Woods looking into the camera. Right: Skyline nighttime view of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.] Actor and comedian Zach Woods recently...
Slate

My Husband Has Taught My 4-Year-Old to Do Something Truly Disgusting. His “Explanation” Is Insulting. - Oh come on.
Al Jazeera English

What’s next for relations between Turkiye and the US? - Donald Trump hints at lifting sanctions on Ankara buying F-35 jets during meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Liberation News

Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman - Her determination and unbreakable spirit was much loved, and inspired the phrase 'Assata taught me.'
alicublog

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

Podcast: Stargate betting big on the borderland as part of $165 billion New Mexico data center - Days after Doña Ana County moved forward with a data center campus in Santa Teresa amid residents’ water and electricity concerns, we learn it’ll be par...
Mediaite

Assata Shakur, Tupac’s Godmother Who Was on FBI’s Most Wanted List, Dies in Cuba - Assata Shakur, the godmother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur and a convicted cop killer on the FBI's most wanted list, has died in Cuba, where she had so...
Axios

Hegseth says soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota will keep their medals - U.S. Army soldiers who took part in the 1890 slaughter of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee will keep their medals posthumously, Defense Sec...
The Hill

Unjust, dangerous: Government shutdowns make correctional officers work without pay - Federal correctional officers are being forced to work without pay during a government shutdown, putting lives at risk and causing financial hardship for t...
San Antonio Current

Fall Film Frenzy: 10 must-see movies this season - [image: Leonardo DiCaprio stars in One Battle After Another, which is due out later this month.] From blockbusters to award contenders, there's no shortag...
WhoWhatWhy

Getting a Covid Vaccine Will Be Different This Year: What to Know - [image: health, medicine, preventative care, CDC, Covid vaccination 2025] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by ou...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration to Enact Sweeping Pharmaceutical Tariffs, Expected to Announce New Phase in Drug Pricing Plan - President Trump is expected to announce a next step in his plan related to “most favored nation” drug pricing, potentially including an unpublished Cente...
NPR's Health Shots

RFK Jr. 'rejects' a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases - Global health leaders expressed dismay at Kennedy's objection but vowed to move forward without the support of the U.S.
Second Nexus

Pete Davidson Perfectly Calls Out People Who Hate That Pedro Pascal Is In Everything Now - Until recently, Pedro Pascal was the internet's #1 "daddy." But it seems now some people think he's a bit overexposed—and *SNL* alum Pete Davidson isn't ...
Raw Story

Congressional insider warns Mike Johnson's delay is about the Epstein files—not a shutdown - Punchbowl News reported Friday morning that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) may not bring lawmakers back to the U.S. Capitol all next week. The government is...
Capital & Main

Assault on Accessibility Initiatives Hits Early Career Scientists Hard - The Trump administration’s cuts to programs supporting people with disabilities are part of a broader assault on DEI. The post Assault on Accessibility I...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Can you tell your Summer Tanager from your Red-necked Phalarope? - The birds are migrating south for the winter, even though it feels like anything but winter at the moment. This means, as we have mentioned before, it’s ...
Undernews

Word - * Barack Obama -* It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't...
Alas, a Blog

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

Five former Observer journalists launch the Nerve, a culture publication partly funded with their redundancy money, as part of Beehiiv's Media Collective (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *Five former Observer journalists launch the Nerve, a culture publication partly funded with their redundancy money, as...
Political Wire

Brief Comey Indictment Prompts Questions - “The indictment of James Comey, the former FBI director, was just two pages long and contained so little detail that it was hard for legal experts to asses...
Techdirt.

Verizon Remains On The Legal Hook For Illegally Spying On You And Selling Your Movement Data (For Now) - For decades, major U.S. wireless providers have collected sensitive customer movement and location data (often down to the meter), then sold it to a long l...
The Week

Trump declares new tariffs on drugs, trucks, furniture - He's putting tariffs of 25% on semi trucks, 30% on upholstered furniture, 50% on kitchen and bathroom cabinetry and 100% on certain drugs
The Greanville Post

A New and Darker McCarthy Era Descends with the Night - ED CURTIN—The American oligarchic political system that is endlessly debated and fixates people’s attention is a contronymal system that contains positive ...
Reform Austin

Policy Uncertainty at Angelo State Over LGBTQ and Trans Topics - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Faculty at Angelo State University are expressing confusion and concern over a set of vague and...
CultureMap Houston

New Houston office tower soars with wellness perks and Discovery Green views - Downtown Houston’s *Norton Rose Fulbright Tower,* the new, eye-catching, 28-story building adjacent to *Discovery Green*, is a *Biophilic*-design-lover’s d...
Election Law Blog

This Week at the NYU Democracy Project - This week’s essays include the following: Today, with an international perspective, from Cora Chan on Liberal Enclaves inside repressive regimes. Cora is...
Independent Political Report

New Mexico Liberal Party USA Affiliate, State Democrats Issue Joint Statement Condemning Trump on Free Speech - The Libertarian Party of New Mexico has joined the Democratic Party of New Mexico in issuing a joint statement condemning President Donald Trump for what...
Dorf on Law

Clever, (Economically) Ignorant Liberals - One of my pet peeves is the reflexive self-flagellation that we see so often among US liberals, with all of their "to be fair" overcompensation for darin...
naked capitalism

Matt Stoller: Naked Capitalism – Hunting for the Truth - Naked Capitalism is essential for knowing what is really going on.
See You In 2020

The KKE opportunists want us to de-mobilize amid imperialism’s offensive. We must go on the advance instead. - “All forces to the defense of the city of Lenin!”—1941 poster When the Communist Party of Greece and its associated organizations promote the “neither W...
Dissident Voice

Was that the Best the “Civilised” World Could Do? - For the last 77 years the West has watched Israel devour Palestine, plunder its resources and mercilessly kill and maim its citizens. They finally say ‘w...
Salon.com

Jimmy Kimmel was meant for this moment - In the tradition of late-night confronting cultural flashpoints, ABC's host is the free speech champion we need
The Root

Mariah Carey Explains Her Shade Toward Muni Long’s Performance in the Most Mariah Way Ever - Mariah Carey and singer Muni Long shared a viral moment in March. Now, we finally know the real deal behind it! Read more...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: We'll be posting early this afternoon! - * FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025* *It's one of those medical Fridays: *You're right! It's the third Friday in the three-week cycle again! We'll post about ...
Bonddad

August personal income and spending: positive, but with several important yellow flags and revisions - * - by New Deal democrat* Personal income and consumption is one of the two big monthly reports on the state of the average American, in addition to ...
ArcaMax

The Making of 'Gina School' Offers a Lesson in Collaboration - When artist and writer John Guillemette posted his "illustration outtakes" from the upcoming book "Gina School" by Gina Barreca on Instagram, I knew I had ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 232: “Killer Squirrel Terrorizes Bay Area” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan bring you a bizarre and alarming story gripping San Rafael, California. A rogu...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 11 - *It’s a bankrupt chapter: no verifiable history, but cult promotion* For centuries Christian clergy have pushed the claim that the gospels are authenti...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion Groups To Spend $4.5 Million To Secure Michigan’s U.S. Senate Seat for Republicans - "Michigan women and families deserve better" than the presumptive Republican nominee for Senate, said a Michigan Democratic Party official. The post Ant...
Space City Weather

A lengthy stretch of calm weather to close September for Houston - In brief: A lengthy stretch of quiet weather will settle into Houston. No rain is expected over the next week, and temperatures look warm for this time of ...
First Draft

The Polarization Is Simply Democracy Vs. Autocracy - America is divided right now and it should be.
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies - The post Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies appeared first on The Texas Observer.
SCOTUSblog

SCOTUStoday for Friday, September 26 - Today marks five years since President Donald Trump formally nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We’re celebrating by telling you a...
Democracy Now!

"They're Assassinating People for No Reason": Cuban Minister Condemns U.S. Strikes in Caribbean - As the Trump administration escalates its pressure campaign on Venezuela, we speak with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who is in...
Texas Standard

Texas Democratic Party launches expansion plan aimed at ending decades-long statewide losing streak - The party’s executive committee approved a strategic effort that involves shifting its headquarters to Dallas, while maintaining an office in Austin and op...
Vox

The massive stakes of the big federal housing bill, explained - The US has a lot of layers of government. Some would say too many. I would say too many. Here in Washington, DC, we mercifully only have a city government ...
The Conversation

A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change - The public’s relationship with news is defined more by its skepticism of the profession than by its impressions of journalists or media outlets.
Glasstire

“Natural Mystics” at The Warehouse, Dallas - The Warehouse in Dallas has been around since 2012 but became an official nonprofit in 2024 to expand the organization’s mission of educating the public ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Weekend Roundup - It’s a good day to round up a few topics that have been waiting for a good day to be rounded up. BTW, some people solve this rebus immediately while others...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Energy Secretary Aims to Claw Back Billions Slated for Clean Energy Projects - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright...
Bracing Views

Competitive Consumption as America’s Pastime - The Real American Way BILL ASTORE SEP 24, 2025 Competition can be a good thing. Think of sports, for example. Would victory have any meaning without compet...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: A Liberal Fantasy of Palestine - The problem is the west established a state in the middle east which holds as its foundational ideology that the people who were living there before that s...
San Antonio Report

New city task force to target housing needs for veterans, seniors, disabled residents and LGBTQ+ youth - San Antonio’s planning committee advanced a task force to address housing shortages for veterans, seniors, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ youth, with ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘The Entire Indictment Can Fit in a Tweet’: Trump DOJ Mocked Over ‘Garbage’ Comey Case -
Skeptophilia

The constancy of constants - One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about this when I was a f...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Michael McDonough - We finish up our week with HISD candidates with Michael McDonough, who is challenging incumbent Trustee Kendall Baker in District VI. McDonough recently re...
ProPublica

Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened - by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
American Prospect

Justice Department Turmoil Bubbles Up to the Surface - While DOJ continues to weaponize the legal system, the resignation of Pam Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, signals possible accountability for pay-to-...
Scheerpost.com

In Move That Could Bring In NATO, Spain Joins Italy in Sending Rescue Ship for Sumud Gaza Aid Flotilla - “The government of Spain requires that international law be observed and that the right of our citizens to navigate the Mediterranean in conditions of secu...
Progressive Army

El déficit comercial con Brasil y China supera los USD 10.000 M en lo que va del año - En los primeros ocho meses del año el déficit comercial con Brasil y China fue de USD 4.583 millones y USD 6.104 millones, respectivamente. Así, el interca...
OpEd News

Fallen Fat F*ck Angel (sonnet) - Poem for our times. In the great wheel of fire the breathiung dragon slows.
Grist

They survived Hurricane Helene. Here’s how they’re doing a year later. - The powerful storm caught many people off guard as it drove through six US states. As devastating as it was, did Helene truly change anything?
High Country News

Denver’s storied tradition of sex work, then and now - In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century. The pos...
Crooked Media

Trump Has James Comey Indicted - The post Trump Has James Comey Indicted appeared first on Crooked Media.
Two Party Opera

Three Kinds of People - Read More
Counterpunch

Sight and Sound in Berlin: Saturday at the Movies, Sunday in the Church - Movie screenings here start with short commercials: zany, wink-wink spots showing more than a little sun and skin to whet the appetite for ice cream and ...
jobsanger

Led By A Jackass -
World Socialist Web Site

Pittsburgh-area steelworkers at Edgar Thomson Steel Works support call for independent investigation into Clairton Coke Works explosion - Their silence is an indication that both US Steel and the United Steelworkers are working to cover up the explosion, and the record of the company of putti...
Informed Comment

Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas: PA Ready to Govern Gaza, Demands End to Starvation and Genocide - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas spoke remotely to the UN General Assembly on Thursday because the Trump administration den...
Alternet

'This may backfire on Trump': Comey retains 'highly regarded' DOJ official as his attorney - Lindsey Halligan — who is President Donald Trump's new acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — will be facing a particularly tough op...
Brad Blog

I Don't Know What All This Means, But I Thought You Should Know About It: 'BradCast' 9/25/2025 - September 30th: A date that will live...next week. Apparently, it all comes down to next Tuesday. On today's BradCast, among other things, we detail why Se...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: We Are All Antifa Now - Trump’s designation of the amorphous group antifa, which has no formal organization or structure, as a terrorist organization permits the state to charge...
Portside

Recognition of Palestine Is Not Enough - Recognition of Palestine Is Not Enough jay Thu, 09/25/2025 - 20:41
Workers World

Portland labor protests genocide in Gaza - [image: Portland labor protests genocide in Gaza] Portland, Oregon Hundreds of protesters, union members and activists marched to the home of the U.S. Sena...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/26/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Deadline Politics

Cable News Goes Wall-To-Wall With Coverage As Ex-FBI Director & Trump Foe James Comey Indicted - As long desired by Donald Trump, James Comey was indicted Thursday by a Virginia grand jury on charges of lying to Congress. With the fix seeming to be in ...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Democratic lawmakers compare ICE to KKK, drawing sharp Republican criticism - New Mexico Democratic lawmakers’ comparisons of federal immigration enforcement to the Ku Klux Klan have drawn sharp criticism from Republican legislator...
Progressive.org

Trump Policies Hurt Struggling Farmers - Instead of assuming that farmers will suffer in silence, the President could dedicate resources to strengthen domestic markets.
Socialist Alternative

Italy On Strike Against Genocide – Gaza City Under Hellish Attack - Under the slogans ‘24 hour general strike’ and ‘Block everything,’ the strongest day of protest in solidarity with Gaza in Italy to date took place on Mond...
Mondoweiss

No medicine, no beds, no food or water: inside Gaza City’s main hospital - [image: A view of al-Shifa Hospital, left empty after medical staff and patients were forced to evacuate due to intensified Israeli attacks in Gaza City, G...
The Rag Blog

HENRY MECREDY / REMEMBRANCE / Gavan Duffy was a scholar with a sense of humor - By Henry Mecredy / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2025 Gavan Duffy was born December 8, 1949, in Massachusetts. He passed away in Syracuse, New York, on Sep...
The Daily Poster

This Is A Reverse Stick Up - If you rob a bank, you’re probably a criminal. If you rob depositors, you’re probably a banker.
Angry Bear

How many immigrants live in the U.S.? - Answering the question as a part of: “Immigrants and the economy,” Economic Policy Institute. Just how many migrants and immigrants are living in the Uni...
Discourse

Who's the Grossest Member of the Trump Administration? - A true question for the ages—sound off in the comments!
Claytoonz

Ace-Toe-Mine-Autopen - 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...
Trivial Knot

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

Disobedient India Gets Visit from US “Gen Z©️” Color Revolution - Al Jazeera sings the praises of “Gen Z©️” violence hitting India’s Ladakh region. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/25/bloodiest-day-how-gen-...
Church and State

Religion should be private - Are the Commandments a “cornerstone” of our legal heritage? Are American laws in any sense based on them?
Ballot Access News

Florida 2025 Restrictions on Initiative Petitioning Delays Health Care Initiative - According to this story, an ongoing statewide initiative petition drive in Florida will not be able to qualify for the 2026 ballot. This is because of the ...
Project Censored

Killer Humans, Killer Robots - The media idolizes AI weapons manufacturer Palmer Luckey, the Millennial owner of Anduril. Fox News hypnotizes its Boomer audience with Luckey’s Hawaiian...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Textbooks, Truth, and Justice: Lessons from the Reject the (Racist) Text Campaign Before the Texas SBOE, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Textbooks, Truth, and Justice: Lessons from the Reject the (Racist) Text Campaign Before the Texas SBOE* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *In this Nov...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Back to the Senate: Defeated Senators Who’ve Returned to Office - While several defeated senators are attempting, or considering attempts, to return to the Senate, such efforts have only been successfull a handful of ti...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Earth 911

Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas - One of the most universal truths in the world is that children love crafts. Virtually... The post Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas...
Texas Freedom Network

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

“How Can You Not Be Romantic About Baseball?” - Fans of the Dodgers and fans of the Yankees–that would be me–know we are witnessing two of the greatest young men to ever play the game of baseball. But do...
The Grayzone

Palestinian kids’ author: New York Times ‘put a target on my back’ with Grayzone smear - New Jersey area Jewish leadership described a factual Grayzone report about Charlie Kirk’s falling out with Netanyahu as “hateful, divisive, and antisemi...
Antiwar.com

Moldova: The Next Front in the West’s Confrontation With Russia? - Moldova’s September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions....
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk wannabes get laughed off of HBCU campus, mocked on Twitter - Two Charlie Kirk wannabes got laughed off of an HBCU campus when they tried that "debate me, bro" nonsense. As we move further away from the awful sit...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

Beastly Christianity - Here's a much, much better example of Black South African pastors preaching from the book of Revelation. It had nothing to do with "Rapture" folklore.
NORML

Tell NORML What Matters Most to Cannabis Consumers - [image: NORML Membership Survey][image: NORML Membership Survey]Your feedback helps shape the future of cannabis freedom. The post Tell NORML What Matter...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living with the Lies: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We've entered a new chapter in the fascist takeover. We have to adjust accordingly.
Sludge

Congressional Staff Mingled With AI Giants Over Summer Break - House and Senate staffers were given sponsored trips over their August recess to attend conferences and company tours with Google, Meta, Palantir, and SpaceX.
Ecosophia

September 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Congressional Shake-up - The redistricting saga has left many Texas congressional members and candidates in a peculiar game of political musical chairs
Idavox

No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Political Ideologies Terrorists! - Why we aren’t worried about what Trump is trying to pull. Civil Liberties Defense Center... The post No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Pol...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
Infidel753

An eventful week - A lot has happened in the last few days -- so I thought I'd do a quick overview. The funniest item is something that *didn't* happen. A passel of goofy ...
DeSmogBlog

‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers - As the Trump administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reas...
LareDOS

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

9/23-9/28 News Roundup & OT - Three current late night comedians announce Kimmel’s return to late night. Fallon’s Tonight Show is behind a paywall but if found on YT, it will get posted...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Advice on DIY, low-tech solutions and larger investments in energy-efficient technologies; Oct. 1 is nationwide Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE G...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Crooked Timber

The care economy, or radical economic growth? - I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. M...
Edinburg Politics

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

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State - How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
nonsite.org

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

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

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
MintPress News

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

[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support *Dissent*.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Field Negro

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

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

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

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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