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

memeorandum

Kennedy Must Resign (Bernie Sanders/New York Times) - Bernie Sanders / New York Times: *Kennedy Must Resign* — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health o...
Courthouse News

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The Guardian (U.S. news)

Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say - Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention Lawyers are demanding the release of...
Vox

The real problem with kids’ diets today - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Are American kids eating the wro...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Saturday Morning Cartoons - Constant Readers know how I sneer at talk about Gen X and Gen Y and all that. The Baby Boom was about a large number of kids coming at roughly the same tim...
naked capitalism

Links 8/30/2025 -
Salon.com

Donald Trump is conservatism’s realization — not its betrayal - He gave the GOP permission to be themselves, says historian Allan Lichtman
Political Wire

Trump Starts to Turn on the People He Handpicked - “After months of pushing out career government officials and Democratic holdovers, President Trump is starting to turn on some of his own picks,” the Wall ...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 30 August 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o When a toddler falls down while playing, he always runs to mommy. If you ...
Futurism

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars - If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally publis...
The Hill

Democrats, Republicans mull over potential conventions ahead of 2026 midterms - Both major political parties are considering holding large-scale gatherings ahead of the midterm elections, underscoring the stakes next year as President ...
Eschaton

Morning - Is he dead yet?
Mother Jones

Antarctica Is in Extreme Peril - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much si...
Al Jazeera English

A music teacher uses Gaza’s relentless soundtrack of war to resist Israel - Palestinians have had to cope with the sound of Israeli drones overhead for years before Israel's current war on Gaza.
Off The Kuff

What the Lege has done since redistricting - Just a couple of headlines to ponder, now that the redistricting bill has been signed. Texas House greenlights ‘bounty hunter’ abortion pill ban Texas Hous...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Aug. 30, 2025 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Raw Story

These two factors — and no others — will lead to Trump's defeat - Despite the inarguably awful actions this administration has taken during its first eight months in office, Donald Trump remains largely impervious in th...
Scheerpost.com

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former “revolutionary” now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil.
NPR's Health Shots

As drug deaths hit a 5-year low, Trump continues to cite fentanyl as major threat - Drug deaths in the U.S. are at their lowest level since March 2025, according to federal data. Trump continues to cite fentanyl as justification for polici...
The Week

5 bullseye cartoons about the reasons for mass shootings - Artists take on gun worship, a price paid, and more
Crooked Media

CDC You Next Tuesday - The post CDC You Next Tuesday appeared first on Crooked Media.
ArcaMax

How the White House Takes Power from Congress - Russell Vought is the ultimate Trumper. The head of the Office of Management and Budget just anointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to wind down the U....
Mediagazer

Hurricane Katrina's 20-year anniversary prompts at least seven new documentaries, as well as reflections on criticisms of the press coverage after the storm (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review) - Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: *Hurricane Katrina's 20-year anniversary prompts at least seven new documentaries, as well as reflections on cri...
World Socialist Web Site

South Korean president holds first summit with Trump - The main purpose of the meeting was to provide Lee an opportunity to assure Trump that his three-month-old administration would continue to fully back Wash...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Next stop: The 'Vlog.' Because some things just need to be shared, period. - *Friends:* *I write to let you know that I'm stepping into "vlogging" (video blogging) as a way to carry forward ideas, struggles, and hopes—my next step...
jobsanger

RFK, Jr Is Imposing His Anti-Vaccine Agenda On Americans -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1428: Men and Self-Destruction - Episode: 1428 Why do men self-destruct and die sooner than women? Today, men self-destruct.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Words - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

“The Bird is on the Wing”: FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:7 - Stanza 7 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám talks about how little time we have here on earth, and the...
Mediaite

Kellyanne Conway Gleefully Says Trump Is ‘Taking Control’ of American Institutions: ‘Arts and Sports and Entertainment’ - Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway praised President Donald Trump for "taking control" of various aspects of American life. The post Kellyanne Conway ...
The Root

Black Celebs Who Fought Cancer and Lived to Tell About It - Comedian Nephew Tommy is the most recent celeb to celebrate his cancer-free status. Let's take a look at some other famous faces who have similar triumph...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: The Media’s Israeli Atrocity Treadmill - News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the ...
Techdirt.

Trump Goes Full Orwellian In Effort To Reshape The Smithsonian - When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign. It usually characterizes an action, an individual or a society that is suppressing freedom, par...
Alternet

'They need to go away': Trump ramping up attacks on his own appointees - President Donald Trump isn't just attempting to fire or remove government officials who have served under his predecessor. — he's also set his sights on ...
Popular Resistance

What Do You Fear The Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done? - On 12 August, Samar Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture above, posted on her Instagram account that her son’s close...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | August 29, 2025 barry Fri, 08/29/2025 - 20:49
Ballot Access News

News Story About Potential for No Labels Party in Arizona - This news story explores whether No Labels, a qualified party in Arizona, could become a political success. … Continue reading →
Progressive Army

Cursos de Mercancías Peligrosas por Vía Aérea en la Aaaci - Cursos de Mercancías Peligrosas por Vía Aérea Modalidad Presencial Del 08 al 12 de Septiembre 09 a 14:30 hs Modalidad Virtual Del 15 al 22 de septie...
San Antonio Current

Texas House advances bill to levy stricter penalties on camps following the Hill Country flood - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House overwhelmingl...
Daily Dot

“Gutted half the place”: Homeowner says he poured $120k into fixing up his house—only to face tripled taxes after reassessment - [image: Left: White house seen between large trees on a green lawn. Right: Man in his garage in a white cap, caption overlay reads, "Can't afford it anym...
Axios

Most of Trump's tariffs are not legal, court rules: what to know - A federal appellate court on Friday upheld a lower-court ruling that invalidated most of President Trump's global tariffs, *The big picture: *The ruling...
Liberation News

Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35 - In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the ADA being signed into law, we share an excerpt from the book "Disability and Empire: Class, U.S. Imperialis...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 Labor Day Weekend - News, Views, and Music…the bar is open.
Workers World

Trump’s Venezuela drug war gambit and the militarization playbook at home - [image: Trump’s Venezuela drug war gambit and the militarization playbook at home] Solidarity activist Michelle Ellner takes stock of the Trump administra...
Election Law Blog

Missouri: “Kehoe calls lawmakers to redraw congressional map, make it harder to amend constitution” - St. Louis Post Dispatch: After weeks of internal talks and a pressure campaign by President Donald Trump, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday called lawma...
The Daily Poster

Cannibalism At The Pharmacy Counter - CVS Health systematically undercut its competitor Rite Aid while lining up to buy the failing pharmacy chain for parts, a new lawsuit alleges.
OpEd News

The Separation of Powers - As the TrumpRepubloFascists/P2025 try to establish a form of fascist government in our nation, it becomes clear that a central element of their attack is t...
The AltWorld

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former “revolutionary” now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies […] The post From Revolution to Revival:...
Claytoonz

Flag Desecration - 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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Grok And Google AI Are Far More Credible Than MSM Despite Some Bias - The popularity of Artificial intelligence is growing fast, for better or worse. In the past few months I became more aware of it, starting when I notice...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas clean air programs - Cuts would eliminate programs that will help residents breathe easier The post STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas cle...
San Antonio Report

Project Marvel’s visionary Lori Houston retires from City Hall - San Antonio's Assistant City Manager Lori Houston, a driving force behind many of the city's largest projects, is exiting her role at City Hall. -----------...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Beard Award winner dishes on his big night, his next restaurant, and more - On this week’s episode of “What’s Eric Eating,” chef Thomas Bille joins CultureMap editor Eric Sandler to discuss his restaurant Belly of the Beast. Bille ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Full house - The scene here is a blandly typical revival meeting, which might make sense if every character in this story hadn't just lost all of their children.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
ProPublica

Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
The Verge

Showrunner wants to turn you into a happy little content prompter for the ‘Netflix of AI’ - As one of the cofounders behind Oculus Story Studio, Edward Saatchi knows how hard it can be to sell people on new tech that bills itself as revolutionary....
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Pushes Back Against J.D. Vance on Guard Deployment - The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin issued a statement opposing Vice President J.D. Vance’s suggestion that the National Guard could be deployed to Milwau...
Mondoweiss

The problem with Hamas equating the Gaza genocide to the Holocaust - [image: Palestinians bury the bodies of 110 people killed by Israeli attacks in a mass grave in the Khan Younis cemetery, November 22, 2023. (Photo: © Moha...
Wolf Street

Core Services PCE Inflation Spikes (Not Tariffed), Durable Goods Inflation (where Tariffs Hit) Turns Negative Month to Month - Services are where two-thirds of consumer spending goes. And that’s where inflation is. But it’s no longer in rents.
Church and State

Opus Dei tries to play the victim card in ongoing human trafficking case - Federal prosecutors have already formally requested that Opus Dei’s second-most senior official be summoned for questioning about his role.
Progressive.org

Expand Availability of Life-Saving Narcan - August 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day. It's time to make Narcan easily accessible to all.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Alleging Mortgage Fraud While Generating Mortgage Fraud - On our live show, David and writing fellow James Baratta discuss the bid to allow crypto as part of the mortgage underwriting process, and more.
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Help Duaa's Parents - 'Our only hope now is to move them to safety.'
Sludge

Pharmaceutical Industry on Pace for Record Lobbying Spending - Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly and other drug giants are spending record amounts on lobbying as they fight the Trump administration on vaccine policies and more.
Second Nexus

Comedian Matt Rife Sparks Backlash After Defending Sydney Sweeney From 'Absolute Garbage Losers' - Matt Rife has had quite a summer of controversies. One week, he’s tanking an *e.l.f. Cosmetics ad* campaign so badly it sparked a boycott, and the next h...
Texas Observer

New Texas Map Starts Game of Political Musical Chairs - After two weeks spent outside state lines—marked by a surge of national media attention and, then, a struggle to keep their fight in the limelight—Texas ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
WhoWhatWhy

Wild Bees Visit Different Flowers To Balance Diet - [image: science, nature, insects, bees, diet research, discovery] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our reader...
NORML

Federal: House Lawmakers Reintroduce Legislation Removing Cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act - [image: The MORE Act][image: The MORE Act]"This legislation embodies the wishes of more than two thirds of the American public, and will create a federal...
Brad Blog

Cynical Hypocrisy Behind Right-Wing Billionaire's Opposition To CA's 'Election Rigging Response Act' - To Right-Wing Billionaire Charles T. Munger, Jr.: Despite the fact that you, along with former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, supported the 200...
El Paso Matters

Turning point: Pellicano Drive expansion in far East El Paso nears restart – but how long before it’s finished? - Pending agreements now finalized have cleared the way for construction to resume on Pellicano Drive – a long-awaited project to improve traffic and acce...
Capital & Main

In Trump’s Push to Fire Fed Governor, a Curious Target - In seeking to oust Lisa Cook, President Trump attacks a likely ally on interest rates who happens to be the first Black woman in the job. The post In Tru...
Daily Howler

THE DUEL: "Typical chick," the cable star said! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025* *Before that, he gave us our monsters:* The new column by David Brooks appears beneath a touchy-feely headline. Brooks has be...
Dissident Voice

Antarctica on Alert! - Over the past year, several studies about highly dangerous signals of Antarctica on the edge of major abrupt change have appeared in scholarly publicatio...
Undernews

Anti-Trump Protest Locations on September 1 -
Angry Bear

Will Democrats get the blame for a government shutdown? - In my last post I discussed how the Democrats might use whatever leverage they have in the upcoming congressional budget negotiations. Here I want to cir...
Dorf on Law

No, He Is Still Not an Evil Genius (Just Evil) - The US's slide into post-constitutional chaos continues. In the midst of it all, it is especially frustrating to find that people who are not at all fan...
Glasstire

Recent El Museo del Barrio Acquisitions Include Artworks by Two Texas Artists - El Museo del Barrio in New York City, has announced recent acquisitions by 39 artists, two among them from Texas. With the mission to present and preserv...
Bonddad

July real income and spending rebound, keeping the expansionary trends intact - - *by New Deal democrat* Last month I concluded: “This was a very weak report, although not negative. If there were not distortions from the front-r...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court and flag burning: an explainer - President Donald Trump wants to prosecute flag burning, but can he make that happen without violating Supreme Court precedent? Trump contends it’s possib...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 4 - *Matthew 7: A good start, then cult severity and bragging*It might be a good idea to compile a list of the *Top Ten Bible Texts that Christians Ignore*—...
Rewire

Trans Texans Face Yet Another Attempt To Ban Them From Bathrooms - Through testimony and a Capitol bathroom sit-in, trans Texans, activists and a constable argued that the state’s latest bathroom bill doesn’t make anyone...
Democracy Now!

"Race Against Time": 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Docuseries Reckons with Aftermath - Twenty years ago today, on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in southeastern Louisiana, tearing through the Gulf Coast with catastrophic for...
Space City Weather

Some reflections on Hurricane Katrina as a soggy weekend looms - In brief: In today’s post we take a look back at Hurricane Katrina, and what has changed in the 20 years since then. Additionally we discuss a front that w...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Life Pours Back - Poet Robert Macfarlane savored the resilience of nature in a time when many think it... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Life Pours Back appeared first on ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Performative Nonsense’: Vance and Leavitt Get Schooled on ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Argument -
Skeptophilia

Life, complexity, and evolution - Next to the purely religious arguments -- those that boil down to "it's in the Bible, so I believe it" -- the most common objection I hear to the evoluti...
Crooked Timber

When will the sun set on the USA? - I was recently part of an online discussion that asked this question. People were talking about industry, democracy, civil society, world leadership, you n...
Grist

Disasters destroyed their homes. Then the real estate ‘vultures’ swooped in. - “We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they're taking advantage of tragedy.
High Country News

How a Utah wildfire created its own tornado - [image: The Deer Creek Fire created a pyro-vortex east of Moab, Utah, as it burned in mid-July.] Firefighters were caught in a pyro-vortex last month on t...
Deadline Politics

“White House Fight Is On”: Dana White & Donald Trump Seal The Deal For UFC At America’s 250th Anniversary D.C. Bash Next July 4th - The art of the deal met the art of the Octagon today, and the July 4, 2026, UFC match at the White House is officially on — at least according to Dana Whit...
See You In 2020

The liberal deep state is preparing to strike back, & Trump has weakened the people’s defenses against this - The myth about Trump 2.0 representing something genuinely anti-establishment has had a lot of damaging repercussions. One of them is that the Gaza genoc...
Ian Welsh

Is Consciousness Reality’s Organizing Principle? (Beyond Biocentrism, by Lanza and Berman) - Quantum mechanics is seriously weird. The majority of us have a model of the world based primarily on Newtonian physics. We believe in cause and effect. Th...
LareDOS

Killam’s Don Quixote Exhibit returns to the Laredo Center for the Arts with immersive experiences and an expanded educational reach - Exhibit open to the public Sept. 5 through Oct. 24
Antiwar.com

The Decline of American Diplomacy - Reprinted from The Realist Review. A few years ago at a panel discussion at Washington DC’s venerable Tabard Inn, I spotted a face I hadn’t expected to se...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Attempts to blame trans community for mass shootings foiled by buzzsaw of truth - On Wednesday, this country yet again experienced the tragedy of a mass shooting, Two children were killed and 17 others were wounded when a lone gunma...
Greg Palast

Trump Fires FEMA Whistleblowers on Katrina Anniversary - Be afraid. The Trump Administration has “put on leave” — effectively fired — 35 experts from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for signing a l...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book *The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer*.
Reform Austin

FBI Probes Minneapolis School Shooting as Anti-Catholic Hate Crime - The FBI has opened a hate crime and domestic terrorism investigation into Wednesday’s school shooting at Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis, w...
The Texas Signal

The Bathroom Bill Arrives In Texas - There were many horrible, nasty and plainly false statements made. But one member’s speech truly stood out
Alas, a Blog

At Least The Fruit Subscription Services Run On Time - For the record, it’s a myth that Mussolini made the trains run on time. From Snopes: The Italian railway system had fallen into a rather sad state during W...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Hell No, Bibi, We Won’t Go!” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The IDF wants to finish off Gaza. But they have a problem: refuseniks! Some Israeli soldiers are refusing t...
Common Dreams

Global: Amnesty launches ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing - Amnesty International has launched a new briefing titled *‘Breaking up with Big Tech**’* calling on governments to rein in the power of Big Tech companie...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico Land Office proposes updated geothermal leasing rules - [image: State Land Commissioner Stephanie Garcia Richard at the groundbreaking of a community solar project in Valencia County.] [image: State Land Commis...
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
Krebs on Security

Affiliates Flock to ‘Soulless’ Scam Gambling Machine - Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and...
Project Censored

Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines - There is a universal tendency among mankind to think of all things as being like themselves, and to transfer to every object the qualities they are famil...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Bracing Views

Autonomous Killer Drone Swarms - “New Forms of Domination and Oppression” BILL ASTORE AUG 27, 2025 Just what we need: autonomous killer drone swarms powered by algorithms and AI. Part 3 of...
The Conversation

How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come - Research shows that Supreme Court justices affiliated with the group are more consistently conservative than other justices, meaning they seldom deviate fr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting - Iowa Democrats had another strong special election showing this week, and broke the GOP's state Senate supermajority. Some recent news out of Utah makes ...
TalkLeft

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
DeSmogBlog

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor - Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog ...
Ecosophia

August 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...
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...
Trivial Knot

Selling out as a game dev - Moon Garden Optimizer is now listed on Steam. You can still play the game in browser for free on Itch.io, but the Steam version will be paid and have expan...
Black Agenda Report

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

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

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Consent Factory, Inc.

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

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Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Texas Monthly

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

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Media Lens

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ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
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...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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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