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

Truths and inspirations for 1 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Banners displayed in Alaska during Put...
Progressive Army

Rosario se prepara para vivir el Santa Fe Business Forum 2025 con presencias destacadas - Desde este lunes y hasta el viernes, La Fluvial será sede de la segunda edición del Foro, que reunirá a 250 compradores internacionales, más de 1000 empres...
Courthouse News

Thousands protest in Indonesia as military deployed in capital - The leader's U-turn and Parliament's gesture to revoke some lawmaker perks may not be enough to dispel the unrest, spreading across the country.
memeorandum

Why Rivals China and India Need Each Other Right Now (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Why Rivals China and India Need Each Other Right Now* — India and China share a complicated relationship. The world's two most populous na...
Al Jazeera English

The names of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza - These are the names of 274 Palestinian journalists in Gaza killed by Israel since October 7, 2023.
Mediagazer

How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmakers, top filmmakers, and workers (Katie Campione/Deadline) - Katie Campione / Deadline: *How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmak...
High Country News

On the kill floor: How migrants are exploited for profit - [image: Photos: Getty Images; Map: USGS] In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered massive changes to the meatpacking ...
The Verge

Hell Is Us is a cryptic and ambitious meditation on the horrors of war - The opening hours of Hell Is Us are brilliantly confusing. The game tasks you with getting up to speed on a complicated civil war between the Palomists and...
Axios

Hundreds killed after 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan - A 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan on Sunday night has killed more than people and wounded over 1,5...
The Daily Poster

The Grotesque Fruits Of Your Labor - A behind-the-scenes look at what billionaires are buying with the money you made for them.
Crooked Media

Coal Survivor I 3. Strike with All Thy Will - The post Coal Survivor I 3. Strike with All Thy Will appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

My Conservative In-Laws Adore My Daughter. How Do I Push Back—Without Ruining Everything? - Boundary-setting conversations are great. But they don’t cover everything. Here’s what you need to know.
Rallblog

Veterans of Phony Wars - Donald Trump is deploying National Guardsmen and regular military troops to the streets of some of America’s safest neighborhoods, despite reports of dec...
naked capitalism

Fed Governor Lisa Cook v. Trump: “That Mortgage Document Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says” - More on the holes in the Trump allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud.
The Week

Should you downsize for retirement? Here's what to consider. - Moving to a smaller place may seem easier, but there are also some real benefits to staying put
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tennis star gives boy his cap after snatching video at US Open goes viral - Social media tracked down the young fan after a man appeared to have taken it from the boy and stuffed it in a bag - Follow our Australia news...
jobsanger

Happy Labor Day! - "All hail the American worker. On Monday, we celebrate Labor Day, an excellent reminder to honor the people who make this country run: the construction ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1430: A Concern About Genius - Episode: 1430 A concern about the complexity and danger of genius. Today, I find genius puzzling.
World Socialist Web Site

UAW local opposes US screening of director Roman Polanski’s *An Officer and a Spy* - Shamefully, Polanski’s important film has been banned from US movie theaters for six years, the product of the pressure of a sordid coalition of far-right ...
Informed Comment

Why Even “Progressive” Dem Leaders won’t Stand up on Gaza: AIPAC’s Undue Influence - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Why has the Democratic leadership shown such reluctance to take effective legislative action to halt ...
The Root

A New and Unexpected Playlist For Your Labor Day Cookout - It's Labor Day Weekend, and we have some new and unexpected artist recommendations to add to your holiday playlist. Read more...
Deadline Politics

Newsom Outflanks Trump Again In Battle Over Kamala Harris’ Security; POTUS Takes Away Ex-VP’s Secret Service Protection Just Before Book Tour - With the looming termination of Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection in the next few hours, the security of the former Vice President of the United St...
The Hill

NYT executive editor's apartment building vandalized with red paint - The Manhattan apartment building where The New York Times executive editor Joseph Kahn lives was vandalized early Friday in what appeared to be a display o...
Raw Story

Biographer reveals 'problematic' RFK Jr. is 'protection' against Trump's key weakness - One of President Donald Trump's biographers revealed on Sunday that the president may have a difficult time getting rid of one of his cabinet secretaries...
Popular Resistance

Tracing The Rise And Fall Of New Orleans Working Class - On October 24, 1892, nearly 3,000 New Orleans Teamsters, Scalesmen and Packers—known as the Triple Alliance or Triple A—walked off their jobs on the leve...
Antiwar.com

Blitzkrieg Blowback: Nazi Warlord Primed To Lead Post-War Ukraine - On February 19, 2021, almost exactly one year before Russia would invade Ukraine, President Joe Biden addressed the Virtual Munich Security Conference. He ...
Mediaite

Horrifying Viral Video Shows Missing Boy Walking Along Theme Park’s Elevated Monorail Tracks - Horrifying video of a young boy walking along a theme park's elevated monorail tracks has gone viral on social media. The post Horrifying Viral Video Sho...
Political Wire

Trump Tariff Case Ups Ante at Supreme Court - “The Supreme Court has flirted with a flurry of Trump administration matters in recent months, but the battle over the president’s sweeping global tariffs ...
Eschaton

Cindy Who - Not that I expect anything from Trump's people, but that Biden's people and all senators stopped taking her calls is.. a lot. This is the team. The ones m...
Daily Dot

“Turn this up!!”: Class action lawsuit filed by Amazon customers who discovered they don’t own the media they “bought” - [image: prime video class action lawsuit] Amazon customers filed a class-action lawsuit after discovering they had purchased a viewing license, not the a...
Crooked Timber

The crash of 2026: a fiction - Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s...
Claytoonz

Vaccines and Blockheads - 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...
NPR's Health Shots

An emergency room doctor describes what the changes at the CDC could mean for public health - The Trump Administration has made significant changes to the departments in charge of public health. Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician who...
Daily Cartoonist

A Few Notes on Comical Strips from Now and Then - There have been more than a few references to comic strips on the funny pages lately. As has always been the case, most recently shown in Back to B.C. when...
Mondoweiss

In Israel, ‘animals in human form’ may be killed - [image: A woman holds up a sign with ‘Too many terrorists in prison’ written on one side and ‘Kill them all’ written on the other during a rally in Tel Avi...
Church and State

Labor Day in the Gilded Era – An Open Letter - America is faltering - but its laborers remain steadfast on this Labor Day. May their voices rise until you cannot silence them.
Salon.com

MAGA faithful push back on Trump’s call for 600,000 Chinese students in US universities - A White House aide later clarified the US not changing their current student visa numbers, despite Trump’s remarks
Portside

‘Alien: Earth’ Is One of the Best Shows So Far This Year - ‘Alien: Earth’ Is One of the Best Shows So Far This Year Marti Sun, 08/31/2025 - 15:51
Alternet

'Psychos': Outrage grows as pardoned J6 rioter says he'd do it again - Ryan Nichols Sr., a man who was convicted for his actions during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and later pardoned by President Donald Trump, p...
San Antonio Report

Chef Luca Della Casa turned ‘Food Network’ loss into an elevated win - Luca Della Casa advanced to the finals of "Food Network Star" 11 years ago, but lost. But heartbreak turned into a big break: Nonna Osteria. ---------------...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is BernardoVerda passing along a quote about a specific speech issue that has (ridiculously) been ...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for August 31 - “Trump did not invent the fact that it’s expensive to be an American parent—and often expensive in absurd ways—but he sure is not helping the situation. Tr...
Election Law Blog

California Legislature Moves to Allow Gig Workers to Engage in Collective Bargaining After California Appellate Court Accepted the Argument in Our Amicus Brief in the Prop. 22 Case That Prop. 22 Could Not Bar Legislature from Doing So - This is gratifying. Back in 2022, I filed an amicus brief in the California Court of Appeal with Professors Joey Fishkin and Franita Tolson, along with c...
Mother Jones

Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls - It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed, laughed,...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 31, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon David Pilling and Heba Saleh in Cairo, August 25 2025 [Financial Times, via Fundi...
Angry Bear

Three “no bills” in trying to Charge Sydney Lori Reid - My words of advice to anyone, do not inject yourself into anything involving the police if you can avoid it. You will go to jail. You will go to court. Y...
See You In 2020

The Atlanticist ideology behind our elite’s Israel obsession, & the far right’s backward “Jewish question” explanation - *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...
Space City Weather

Houston may see heavy rainfall on Sunday and Monday. We are issuing a Stage 1 flood alert - In brief: We interrupt your Labor Day weekend just to reinforce our messaging that widespread rainfall is likely today and Monday, and there is a risk of e...
Ballot Access News

Forward Party Will Try to Elect a Police Commissioner in Newtown, Connecticut - Neil Chaudhary, a former member of the Police Commission of Newbury, Connecticut, will run in November 2025 for his old position. But this time he is runni...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Third Trump Term? A Tipping Point?: Dispatches Mailbag - It's time to answer more reader questions and get into the issues of the time.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

'Chilling Attempt to Evade Accountability': Trump to Boycott UN Human Rights Review--Time for Action! - *Friends, Students, Community Members, and Colleagues:* *The Trump administration has once again turned its back on global human rights accountability—th...
Dissident Voice

Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps - The Fourth Estate may not be in a good way, corrupted and compromised as it is, but in some instances, it remains the only light cast over the predations...
Undernews

Trump's niece on living with that guy - *Dr. Mary Trump - *Friends, I never needed political pundits or psychologists to tell me that my uncle Donald shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office....
Futurism

J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI - AI Americana The American clothing brand J. Crew is under fire after it was revealed that the company used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and create a...
El Paso Matters

Breakfast burritos to birria tacos: Behind the scenes of El Paso school cafeterias amid new USDA guidelines - As the USDA pushes for lower sugar and sodium levels, school food service employees are balancing nutrition standards with student preferences while ser...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Shots and Prayers' Toons - A good enough toon in a general sense, I suppose. But the sign should read "CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS OFFER..." So, yeah, toons like this are part of the p...
Glasstire

Review: “Alex Da Corte: The Whale” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth - Alex Da Corte won the 2022 Whitney Biennial with his video installation ROY G BIV, an hourlong deeply idiosyncratic art-historical fantasia, which sees t...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Movies Set In New Orleans - The Crescent City goes to the movies. Pass the popcorn.
Grist

Trump administration gives coal plants and chemical facilities a pass - In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emissions rules.
WhoWhatWhy

RFK Jr. Takes a Chainsaw to the CDC to Implement His MAHA Agenda - [image: Robert F Kennedy Jr, RFK Jr, MAHA, CDC] The HHS secretary’s team of quacks and conspiracy theorists now leading the department are pushing out the ...
Vox

The Covid revenge policy - In his first term, President Donald Trump touted the “medical miracle” of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine that he helped deliver to market through the unpreceden...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Why Trump Is Doomed -
Scheerpost.com

Juan Cole: Türkiye Bans Israeli Ships, Goods At Its Ports, Halts Cargo Overflights, Declares Gaza a Genocide - By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his country would completely cut econ...
Common Dreams

Sandwich Guy Redux: In Your Fascist Face - When Pigs Fly Dept: The "remarkable failure" of prosecutors to indict the D.C. "hero with a hero" who hurled his sub at a neighborhood thug prompted glad...
OpEd News

Let There Be Light - The African continent has for eons, and by legions, been characterized as 'dark' and 'uncivilized'.
CultureMap Houston

Former Killen's employees open new barbecue joint and more top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a new barbecue joint from industry vets and a new ice house in...
The Grayzone

EU science grants are funding Israeli military tech, data shows - The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants since the start of the Gaza genocide....
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 25 - 29 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat * My “Weekly Indictors” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The most significant benefit of these high frequency indicators is to ale...
Wolf Street

30-Year Treasury Yield Stuck Near 5% on Inflation Fears, but 6-Month Yield Drops, Sees Rate Cuts, Long End of Yield Curve Steepens a Lot, Mortgage Rates still over 6.5% - The bond market’s reaction to cocktail of inflation fears, potentially lax Fed, and Mississippi River of new debt flowing into the market.
Progressive.org

Global Sumud Flotilla Prepares to Set Sail to Gaza - Organizers are leading the largest civilian attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
San Antonio Current

ACLU, other groups sue to block Texas' DEI ban on K-12 public schools - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The American Civil Liberties ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We show you again what the poor fellow said! - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025* *We advise you to pity the child: *This morning, we want to show you, once again, what the "poor fellow" said. Before we do...
ArcaMax

How This Nature Preserve Ended Up Named for Logging Company Founder - When you think of the people who protect forests, loggers don't usually come to mind, but the Dale and Jackie Riddle State Nature Preserve in Athens, Ohio,...
Skeptophilia

The universal language - Sometimes I have thoughts that blindside me. The last time that happened was a couple of days ago, while I was working in my office and our puppy, Jethro, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Texas Standard

Amid pending lawsuits, Texas Gov. Abbott signs Republican-backed congressional redistricting bill - The plan redraws Texas’ congressional districts, potentially shifting several seats from Democratic to Republican control in the 2026 midterms.
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...
The AltWorld

La chute de l’Arménie et le «corridor Trump» - La signature de l’accord de paix entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan, qui a eu lieu à Washington le […] The post La chute de l’Arménie et le «corridor Trump...
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...
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...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
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...
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 ...
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
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...
Earthworks

Testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency’s proposed rescission of its 2009 Endangerment Finding - Hello, my name is Lauren Pagel, and I am the Policy Director at Earthworks. We work with communities impacted by … The post Testimony to the U.S. Enviro...
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...
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...
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

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

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
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...
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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