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

Infidel753

Video of the day -- Dara O'Briain - These days it's sometimes comedians who feel most free to speak the truth. Irish comedian Dara O'Briain has plenty of truth to offer here.
memeorandum

A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing Demands (Walter Olson/The UnPopulist) - Walter Olson / The UnPopulist: *A Manhattan Institute Manifesto Would Give this President Sweeping Power to Force University Compliance with Right-Wing D...
Mediaite

‘It’s Time to Go After People’: Trump Vows to Start Prosecuting Obama for ‘Treason’ - President Donald Trump called for the prosecution of former President Barack Obama and others, saying from the White House that it's "time to go after pe...
Raw Story

'Making Straws Great Again!' GOP's latest distraction tactic gets swamped by MAGA ridicule - President Donald Trump was promptly ridiculed Tuesday after the Republican Party celebrated the White House’s war on paper straws in a social media post ...
Political Wire

New York Already Has City-Owned Grocery Stores - “Of the dozens of policy proposals in Zohran Mamdani’s platform, few have generated as much debate as the Democratic mayoral nominee’s call for city-owned ...
Eschaton

Lunch - Eat
Second Nexus

Nancy Mace Dragged After Completely Missing The Mark With Trump-Themed Coldplay Kiss Cam Meme - South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mace was widely mocked after she tried to boast about President Donald Trump's economy by posting a meme o...
The Week

Bangladesh plane crash kills at least 25 children - A fighter jet experienced a mechanical failure and crashed into a school in Dhaka
Al Jazeera English

Trump administration says the US will leave the UN cultural agency UNESCO - The White House cited 'anti-Israel rhetoric' and 'woke, divisive' causes as the reason for the US's withdrawal.
The Verge

Microsoft says Chinese hacking groups are behind SharePoint attacks - Some of the attacks that targeted organizations using an exploit in Microsoft’s SharePoint server platform over the last few days have been linked to hacki...
The Daily Poster

Families Feel The Back-To-School Spending Squeeze As Feds Cut Education Funding - As the Trump administration freezes billions of federal funds earmarked for public schools, a startling number of parents say they can’t afford back-to-sch...
Alternet

'A lot of money': Analysis details how Trump’s 'dumb ideas' will cost taxpayers a fortune - Columnist Bill Press tells the Hill he misses the days when Democrats and Republicans were party adversaries, but not enemies. Those were the days when a...
Salon.com

Your favorite band’s favorite band gets its due - “Shouting Out Loud" chronicles the rise of The Raincoats, a pivotal punk band pulled from obscurity by Kurt Cobain
Daily Dot

“You sing like five words of each song”: Justin Timberlake skewered as videos of phoned-in tour performance in Romania flood social media - [image: justin timberlake concert tour romania] *Romanian fans* express their disappointment with singer *Justin Timberlake's recent tour stop* at the *E...
Vox

How Trump is making America hungrier - One of the most far-reaching cuts to federal programs in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a provision that will largely shift the cost of ...
Slate

The Man I’m Seeing Liberated Me in Bed. Now It’ll Be Our Downfall. - It was amazing—until it wasn't.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Among the Tragically Missing… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Amo...
Rio Grande Guardian

Ask the Expert: Breathe Better, Sleep Better - Ask the Expert, Dr. Juan Ortiz, shares what could interfere with quality sleep. The post Ask the Expert: Breathe Better, Sleep Better appeared first on R...
Election Law Blog

“Kenneth Chesebro and the Ethics of Election Subversion” - Sung Hui Kim has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the role of attorney Kenneth Chesebro in orchestrating the “fake ...
The Hill

Bernice King on Trump releasing MLK files: Now do Epstein - Bernice King, the youngest daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., weighed in on President Trump’s decision to release hundreds of thousands of docume...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
CultureMap Houston

Southwest Airlines shares new details on assigned seating program - Texas-based Southwest Airlines has nailed down the details and date for its new assigned seating program: January 2026. According to a release, travelers w...
Axios

House flees Washington amid turmoil over Epstein fallout - The House is leaving Washington a day early for it's five-week August recess after tensions erupted over efforts to force release of the Jeffrey Epstein ...
Courthouse News

Inspection fees - SCRANTON, Penn. — Mortgage company Fay Servicing faces two class claims related to inspection fees it charged property owners whose form mortgage agreement...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

89th (2025) Texas Special Legislative Session on Disaster Preparedness, Redistricting, and the Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana - * Friends,* *If you can’t make it to the Texas State Capitol this week for the hearings, you can still follow along via the Live Broadcast Session Calen...
San Antonio Current

Live Music in San Antonio This Week: maye, God Bullies, Air Supply, Michael Seyer - Eclectic sounds will wash over San Antonio this week. Whether your musical tastes run to Latin pop, noise rock, surf rock, synth-heavy indie vibes or '80s...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Guess the Dallas Maverick - Wrong answers only: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Fleming (@chrisflemingfleming) The post Guess the Dallas Maverick appeared first o...
Houston Public Media

Texas Republicans, Gov. Abbott, were reluctant to redraw congressional maps. Then Trump got involved. - If Republicans lose control of the House in next year’s midterms, Trump’s agenda would be stalled and his remaining two lame-duck years in the White House ...
Futurism

Police Use Busted Facial Recognition System, Arrest Random Man and Accuse Him of Horrible Crime - Police in Florida are eating crow after it was revealed that a random man was wrongfully arrested in August of 2024 based on a lead generated by "artific...
Mediagazer

The EU opens a full-scale investigation into UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music over concerns the deal could negatively impact competition in the market (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) - Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: *The EU opens a full-scale investigation into UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music over concerns the deal could negative...
WhoWhatWhy

US Socked With 15 Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters During the 1st Half of 2025 - [image: Palisades Fire, Los Angeles] Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year. US Socked With 15 Billion-Dollar Weath...
Dissident Voice

Restauranting in DC - Finishing Andy Shalal’s autobiographical book A Seat at the Table (OR Books, 2025), I said to myself, “This fellow tells a great story.” I should have sa...
Bonddad

Updating transport and consumer spending since Tariff-palooza! - - *by New Deal democrat* New economic data will resume tomorrow. Since I haven’t updated the impact of Tariff-palooza! on transport and spending in ...
Daily Howler

DEAD SOULS: Barack Obama engaged in a treason? - *TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025* *Dead souls spread the word: *By now, the brilliance of the DNI had been on display for everyone to see. Mainly, though, her b...
Angry Bear

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants. - Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are payin...
ProPublica

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches - by Heather Vogell and Topher Sanders ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soo...
Mother Jones

“The Mosquitoes Are Getting Worse”: Life Inside Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz Detention Camp - Earlier this month, Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, joined several state lawmakers on a tour inside Alligator Alcatraz. When Eskamani ...
Undernews

What the big bad bill will really cost - *NBC News - *President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill” will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report f...
naked capitalism

Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About the De Facto Asian NATO - Japan and Australia are finally questioning US exploitation. But what can they do about it?
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Texas agriculture commissioner outlines aid for flood-hit rural communities - The Texas Department of Agriculture is deploying resources to help farmers and ranchers recover from the Hill Country floods.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 185: “Los Angeles Times, R.I.P.” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Things get personal on today’s “The TMI Show” with hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan, diving into what looks lik...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court case that incited violence - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of ...
First Draft

Crock, Stock, and Barrel - In which Don Jr.'s brand power puts some holes in the holdings of MAGA-blinded investors.
Rewire

Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increased After State Bans, Researchers Find - The *Dobbs* ruling "slowed people down, but it hasn’t decreased their determination to get that care." The post Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increase...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Stephen Colbert declares ‘gloves are off’ as cancelled Late Show host takes aim at Trump - In his first show since The Late Show was cancelled, Colbert addressed rumours the show was axed to please Trump Stephen Colbert declared to Donald Trump...
Democracy Now!

"Life After": Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves - As the federal government begins to implement some $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts called for in President Trump’s budget bill passed by the Republican-led Co...
Techdirt.

Republicans Take A Hatchet To What’s Left Of U.S. Public Broadcasting, PBS Emergency Alerts - Authoritarian assholes really don’t like public broadcasting. They don’t like it because, in its ideal form, it untethers journalism from the often pervers...
Glasstire

We Will Protest As Long As We Carry Breath: An Interview with Gregg Deal - “We will protest as long as we carry breath.” This powerful declaration closes artist Gregg Deal’s performance film The Last American Indian on Earth, e...
Democracy Chronicles

On The Basic Problem of US Democracy - We are a tired and busy population trying to understand the news and what’s happening our world through the prism of our own understanding and bespoken rea...
ArcaMax

Empire Falls: Trump Revs Up the Reign of Terror, and It's Working - "Fear is the tool of the tyrant," wrote suddenly former Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey to her colleagues after she was abruptly fired by Attorney Ge...
Mondoweiss

When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’ - [image: Palestinians mourn their loved ones who lost their lives at Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, including a child suffering from severe malnutr...
The Root

The Shocking Criminal Enterprise That Landed an Atlanta Rapper Life in Prison…and His Mama Locked Up Too - A decade after Ca$h Out exploded on the Atlanta rap scene, he was accused of doing the unthinkable. Read more...
Space City Weather

Has it been a fairly mild summer in Houston? The answer may surprise you. - In brief: After Houston’s hottest summer day so far, more heat is likely to persist today through Thursday. A tropical disturbance (that will not develop) ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Things We Must Never Dare Say - It has come to this. There are differences. The Third Reich was specifically rounding up Jews, while the Trump administration continues to say it is only a...
Earth 911

7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wrecking the Environment - You might think your daily home habits are harmless, but some quietly contribute to environmental... The post 7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wreck...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Launch SA director talks resources, trends in small business - On July 18, Launch SA director Matthew Espinoza sat down on the podcast bigcitysmalltown to talk more about the small business scene. ----------------------...
The Smirking Chimp

So Much for Socialism -
DeSmogBlog

Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report - Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at...
Skeptophilia

Weathering the storm - Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a school board b...
Off The Kuff

Start of the special session flooding roundup - Just a reminder of why we’re supposedly here, the non-THC reason. Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr Co...
Progressive Army

Carnet ATA, BL digital y otros avances que prometen transformar la operatoria aduanera - Cynthia Yaworski, socia gerente de un estudio de comercio exterior, analiza cómo herramientas innovadoras pueden agilizar procesos y reducir barreras al in...
American Prospect

There’s No Safe Place for Legal Immigrants in Trump’s America - As Trump’s deportation gangs continue snatching people after scheduled court hearings, more are opting to stay home. But that comes with its own dangers.
Scheerpost.com

Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump - Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.
NPR's Health Shots

Summer surge in COVID cases appears to have begun, epidemiologists say - This summer's COVID-19 surge appears to have begun, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Grist

Rising seas, vanishing voices: An Indigenous story from Martha’s Vineyard - In "Nothing More of This Land," writer Joseph Lee reflects on being Wampanoag in a place shaped by colonization.
High Country News

In Wyoming, forestry work is female - [image: Monica Elliot, crew lead of the Friends of the Bridger-Teton’s Forest Corps, chainsaws a downed tree.] In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Fo...
Common Dreams

Own Goal: Throwing Spaghetti At the Desperate Wall - Flailing to distract once-loyal cultists who've turned unexpectedly unruly on the murky matter of bestie Jeffrey Epstein - "The people are revolting!" - ...
Crooked Timber

The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People - The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging ...
Counterpunch

To Resist Injustice in Gaza and the Wider World - Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021, he became an American citizen. C...
jobsanger

"Repeal" Should Be The Core Message For Democrats In 2026 -
Deadline Politics

Patrick Soon-Shiong Says He Plans To Take The Los Angeles Times Public - Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, said that he plans to take the publication public. In an appearance on The Daily Show, Soon-Shiong...
World Socialist Web Site

After massacring Gaza aid seekers, Israel escalates bloodshed with assault on Deir al-Balah - Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that at least 130 Palestinians were killed Monday and over 1,000 wounded across Gaza, as Israeli troops assaulted the city ...
Informed Comment

25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths” - The foreign ministers of 25 nations, including much of Europe along with Japan, Canada and Australia, have issued a Joint Statement demanding that the Isra...
Trivial Knot

Critical thinking as community value - Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an i...
Brad Blog

Not a Drill! Trump Gutting News Media and Press Freedoms from Right to Left, Public to Private: 'BradCast' 7/21/2025 - It is not some dystopian Orwellian future. It is now. Our wannabe-dictator President is --- successfully! --- assaulting and undermining free speech and pr...
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge - In New York City, the battle has been joined between Democratic Party elites and the voters they are increasingly committed to suppressing, between money a...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Jul 23–29, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Jul 23–29, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 07/21/2025 - 21:02
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. Comment on anything interesting below. I value everyone's input.
Workers World

Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians - [image: Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians] By Penny Freedom New York City In the early evening of July 17,...
Claytoonz

Obama Treason - 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...
Antiwar.com

NATO’s Proxy War against Russia Becomes Increasingly Reckless - The strategy that the United States and its European allies have adopted to use Ukraine as their military proxy in a war to weaken Russia has always involv...
The NM Political Report

Medicaid Explainer: Does Anyone Really Know How this Important Program Operates? - [image: Dede Feldman] [image: Dede Feldman] Commentary & AnalysisDede Feldman served as a state senator from Albuquerque’s North Valley under three gove...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again. *Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the ...
The Conversation

Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference - Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former law...
Sludge

Palantir Gives Millions to Reagan Library as Its Defense Contracts Skyrocket - The Trump-tied defense contractor has given more than $5 million since 2023 to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, a nonprofit led by GOP establishm...
The Greanville Post

The BBC Isn’t Failing. Its Job Is to Obscure the UK’s Partnership in Israel’s Genocide - JON COOK—The BBC has not failed. It has done exactly what it is there to do: help the British government conceal the fact that there is a genocide going on...
Independent Political Report

New York State Conservative Party Calls to Revoke Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofits Accused of Defying Immigration Law - The Conservative Party of New York State called on federal and state officials Monday to revoke the tax-exempt status of a handful of nonprofit organizat...
Environment Texas

Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beach closures and contaminated water before you swim - 5 essential steps to protect your family from unsafe water at Texas beaches this summer The post Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beac...
OpEd News

Reforming global financial architecture is critical for gender equality and right to health - Please consider the below article based on insights from noted feminist and development justice leader Sai Jyothirmai Racherla. She strongly advocates for ...
Progressive.org

Immigration Spying Has an Inglorious Past - Today's surveillance of immigrants in the United States has roots in nineteenth-century discriminatory policies.
El Paso Matters

Has your family been affected by EPISD school closures? We’d like to hear from you. - El Paso Matters wants to hear from El Paso ISD families who have been affected by school closures The post Has your family been affected by EPISD school...
Church and State

The Epstein Affair won’t ice Trump – his policy failures will: Trump’s support on issues weakening - For 10 years, the Teflon Don Trump has shrugged off scandal, fraud, felonies, cons, grift, sexual assault, and poor grammar.
Ian Welsh

The Serious Starvation Deaths Are About To Begin In Gaza - I’ll keep this one brief. Almost no food or water has gone into Gaza for months. What I’m seeing is that it’s hit the crisis point. I’d expect a few hundre...
Reform Austin

Texas Revenue Estimate Holds Steady Ahead of Special Legislative Session - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock has confirmed that the state’s Biennial Revenue Estimate...
Crooked Media

No Strings Attached - The post No Strings Attached appeared first on Crooked Media.
Popular Resistance

46 Years On, Nicaragua’s Youth Still Lead The Revolution - One of the questions I’m asked most frequently about Nicaragua is: “Does the revolution have a future?” Forty-six years ago, a popular revolution led by ...
Earthworks

Labor Unions and Human Rights Defenders Demand Respect for Xinka People’s Right to Say “No” to Escobal Mine - 133 civil society organizations and Canadian coalitions are standing in solidarity with the Xinka People. The post Labor Unions and Human Rights Defender...
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How “Italy’s Donald Trump” Introduced Naomi Campbell to Jeffrey Epstein - With the Trump administration having mismanaged the release of new information about the Jeffrey Epstein case, Unlimited Hangout investigates some import...
The AltWorld

Zelensky and Netanyahu: Is Trump prepping to axe his allies? Ep. 97 - Zelensky and Netanyahu: Is Trump prepping to axe his allies? Ep. 97 The post Zelensky and Netanyahu: Is Trump prepping to axe his allies? Ep. 97 appeared...
Ballot Access News

Canadian Electoral Reform Organization Causes 128 Candidates to File for House of Commons Special Election, as a Protest - Canada is holding a special election on August 18 to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons, in the Battle River-Crowfoot district in Alberta. Canadian bal...
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
MintPress News

Scottish Zionism’s Inner Circle: The Caledonian Cousinhood That Bankrolls Occupation and Genocide - A century-old web of intermarried families has bankrolled Israel’s most powerful support network in Scotland. This is the untold story of the Caledonian ...
Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow - Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up. The post On the Navaj...
Project Censored

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance - In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’...
Wolf Street

Where Americans Spend their Trillions a Year on Goods and How that Changed Over Time - Where they spend has changed dramatically, with only two winners that gained share among the retailer categories. The rest lost share, some are getting wip...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day - On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compro...
Discourse

Prepare For Ol Donny Trump to Wriggle Out of This One - What do people expect the Epstein scandal to actually lead to?
Dorf on Law

Meet the New Republican Party; (Mostly) Same as the Old Republican Party - Over the last several months, I have repeatedly encountered news stories reporting on the ostensible irony that some policy that the Trump administration...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s attack dogs are working to cancel Zohran, & the danger is that he’ll respond by giving up BDS - *This is from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocaust, & How I...
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
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. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On - Neocons and Weapons Makers Are Happy BILL ASTORE JUL 19, 2025 Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 202...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
slacktivist

LBCF: Still not creepy enough - "Creepy" and "numinous" don't mean the same thing. But they kinda FEEL the same way. And you won't find either on in Left Behind.
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...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Texas Monthly

First Hit by a Tornado, Then by the Flood: “I Feel Like Our Family Is Cursed” - For a Central Texas family, two natural disasters nearly three decades apart have destroyed homes, taken loved ones, and turned life into a bad dream.
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
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...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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