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

ArcaMax

Can Democrats Come Back? They Already Are. - During a summer when the popularity of Donald Trump fell to abysmal lows -- and strong disapproval of his presidency achieved record highs -- those dire wa...
Popular Resistance

More Than 425 Arrested As Protesters Defy Ban On Palestine Action In London - More than 425 people have been arrested at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. Defend Our Juries, who organised ...
Raw Story

'Bizarre': Model drops bombshell claim about Epstein making her dress as a nurse for Trump - New allegations came out on Saturday about Donald Trump and his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. Model Cleo Glyde spoke to The Daily Beast about Epstein, w...
memeorandum

USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump's attendance at U.S. Open (The Athletic) - The Athletic: *USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump's attendance at U.S. Open* — The United States Tennis Association asked broadc...
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,291 - Here are the key events on day 1,291 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration begins new Ice operation in Massachusetts - A Department of Homeland Security official confirmed the action in a statement, blaming mayor’s sanctuary policies The Trump administration has targeted ...
OpEd News

Trump rebrands the Departemnt of Defense the Department of War - The mindset at the Department of Defense, now the Department of War, is all in the placeset, with the missile on the right
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso cannot keep excusing abuse of women in public life - El Paso’s tolerance of public harassment and character attacks against women leaders must end. The post Opinion: El Paso cannot keep excusing abuse of w...
Election Law Blog

Should Representative Ronny Jackson’s Lawyers Be Sanctioned for Filing a Frivolous Federal Lawsuit Attacking California’s Proposed Ballot Measure Redrawing Congressional Districts? - This ridiculous complaint went nowhere even before federal district judge Matthew Kascmaryk given that Rep. Jackson could not prove irreparable harm befor...
Mediaite

Bernie Sanders Blasts Elon Musk at Mamdani Rally: ‘We Are Not Going to Allow’ Tesla Boss to Become a Trillionaire - Sen. Bernie Sanders said he and Zohran Mamdani "are not going to allow" Tesla CEO Elon Musk to become the world's first trillionaire. The post Bernie San...
Portside

Washington, DC, Residents Protest Against Trump - Washington, DC, Residents Protest Against Trump Dave Sat, 09/06/2025 - 19:13
The Hill

Annunciation School principal details deadly Minneapolis shooting in letter to Vance - The principal of Annunciation School sent a letter to Vice President Vance pleading for intervention after a deadly shooting occurred on the church grounds...
Idavox

NY Attorney General Sues VDARE & Peter and Lydia Brimelow for “Self-Dealing and Abuse of Charitable Assets” - Looks like the announcement that VDARE was shutting down was a ruse! And we are... The post NY Attorney General Sues VDARE & Peter and Lydia Brimelow for...
Daily Dot

“Refuel anxiety”: Survey suggests Gen Z is scared to pump their own gas, but the internet can’t agree if it’s actually true - [image: gen z scared of pumping gas] Older generations express shock at a survey revealing that Gen Z may be hesitant to fill up their own car with gas. ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 1 - 5 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My latest “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The high frequency data continues to be buoyed by financial ind...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Loses Mind and Threatens Chicago with Military Intervention - [image: Donald Trump, Flag, Department of Labor] Donald Trump on Saturday made it clear that he wants a military takeover of Chicago. What are you going to...
Eschaton

Saturday Happy Hour - Enjoy
Futurism

Boat-Attacking Orcas Are Back for Vengeance - Pods of killer whales are once again attacking boats along the coast of Spain, striking fear into the hearts of local sailors. As Live Science reports, t...
Salon.com

West Point scraps Tom Hanks award amid political tensions - Officials cite focus on military priorities, but the award remains on the website, signaling mixed messages
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: August 31st – September 6th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, AT&T was hypocritically calling for Section 230 reform and astroturfing the FCC in support of Trump’s attack on social me...
Dissident Voice

The Real Reason Trump Wants to Reshape the NYC Mayoral Race - Politics makes strange bedfellows. This is especially true in New York, where Donald Trump seems ready to support almost anyone in an effort to defeat Zo...
Political Wire

Pentagon Prioritizes Homeland Over China Threat - Politico: “Pentagon officials are proposing the department prioritize protecting the homeland and Western Hemisphere, a striking reversal from the military...
San Antonio Report

New Texas law reshapes San Antonio restaurant fees: who will save? - San Antonio restaurants might face a new permitting structure under SB 1008, with permit fees dropping for some but inspection costs rising. ---------------...
Mediagazer

Email: the US Tennis Association requested that broadcasters censor any possible protests or other reactions to Trump's presence at Sunday's US Open men's final (Ben Rothenberg/Bounces) - Ben Rothenberg / Bounces: *Email: the US Tennis Association requested that broadcasters censor any possible protests or other reactions to Trump's presen...
Mother Jones

Washington Turns Out to Protest Trump’s Occupation - Thousands of people took to the streets of Washington, DC, on Saturday to voice opposition to Donald Trump’s armed federal intervention in the city. The de...
Socialist Alternative

Release the Epstein Files: Fight Billionaires’ Abuse! - The Democratic Party establishment has thrown the book at Trump on everything from Russiagate, to the attempted coup on January 6 that he encouraged, to pa...
The Grayzone

AP Jerusalem chief participated in secretive Israeli govt anti-BDS event, leaked files reveal - AP’s Israel-Palestine news director, Josef Federman, has spun data to minimize the Gaza death count. Leaked documents show he appeared on a panel aimed a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Texas Mexican" Food is Memory, Identity, and Community: The Wisdom of San Antonio's Adán Medrano - *Friends:* *Mr. Adán Medrano* *I recently heard a presentation by the beloved Adán Medrano from San Antonio, a chef extraordinaire, who talks about the Ind...
Deadline Politics

West Point Alumni Group Cancels Planned Award Ceremony For Tom Hanks Amid Trump Administration Scrutiny Of Military Academies - West Point’s alumni association has canceled a planned ceremony later this month to honor Tom Hanks with one of its top awards, as the military service aca...
First Draft

Caturday: Laundry Kitty - Meow from Finn.
Angry Bear

Economically weighted ISM headline and new orders indexes back into weak expansion - – by New Deal democrat The regional Fed August indexes, including both manufacturing and general business activity, rebounded sharply, telegraphing that...
Axios

Exclusive: Robert Kraft's org holding Black, Jewish student "unity" dinners in 14 cities - An organization founded by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is hosting a series of college "unity" dinners between Black and Jewish students. *Wh...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Weakest Men: Fascism, War, and the Illusion of Strength - The Trump Administration and their political movement is built on weakness masquerading as strength
Claytoonz

Right In The Caracas - 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...
Daily Cartoonist

CBS Saturday Mornings with Mort Beetle Bailey & The Walker Bros. - CBS Mornings today helps celebrate 75 years of Beetle Bailey with an eight minute segment with The Walker Bros.: Brian, Greg, and Neal (the report even sho...
Undernews

Some facts you won't see on Fox News - *Via Gavin Newsom * 💰 Middle class families in California pay less in taxes than in states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. 👷 50 million of the 52 ...
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Switches Voters Registered in the Independent Party to “No Party” - The Louisiana Independent Party has ceased to be a qualified party, due to a legislative change earlier this year that said no party can have the name “Ind...
Alternet

'That's a lot of losses': Expert breaks down ways Trump has been 'the biggest loser' - President Donald Trump and his appointees — including Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Kristi Noem — are ha...
CultureMap Houston

James Harden's Houston restaurant gets locked out and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a celebrity-owned restaurant's recent lockout. Plus, a favorite ...
The Verge

Pocket Scion is a synth you play with plants - A few years ago, artist Modern Biology became a viral sensation when he posted videos of himself controlling a modular synth with mushrooms on TikTok. Pock...
Slate

My Girlfriend Would Be Attracted to Me If, and Only If, I Cut Off a Body Part - Otherwise, she thinks I'm "disgusting."
Glasstire

Flower Shop Art Studio at Presa House Gallery: “Only Dust Knows What’s Left Behind” - Jesús Treviño inaugurated the Flower Shop Art Residency in 2023, inspired by initiatives such as Cultivarte Laredo, the Daphne Art Foundation’s Artist-in...
Daily Howler

THE DEAD: It's general over Blue America! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025* *The paralysis afflicting the dead:* In Thursday morning's report, we detailed the disappearance of Jeffrey Epstein's victi...
The Root

These R&B Groups Had Members Who Couldn’t Stand Each Other - From The Temptations to Xscape, we're looking at some of our favorite groups whose internal conflicts led to their breakup. Read more...
Mondoweiss

Activists and residents are banding together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard - Most New Yorkers are not aware companies contributing to the Gaza genocide operate in their backyard, but at least two are housed in the city-operated Broo...
SCOTUSblog

Group of small businesses calls on Supreme Court to decide tariffs case - A group of small businesses challenging the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in a series of executive orders urged the Supreme Court to provide ...
Independent Political Report

2025 National Party Chair Questionnaire: Jolly Mitch Davilo, Captain of the U.S. Pirate Party - The Outsider Media Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing public understanding of and participation in underrepresented po...
The Daily Poster

Sirota’s Signals: John Roberts Doesn’t Wanna See You In Court - Plus, how social media shortens your life, a reclusive billionaire’s private bridge, and the Biden legislation that quietly fueled mass foreclosures.
Grist

States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline - Federal tax credits have brought project costs down 30 to 50 percent, advocates say.
Progressive.org

Don’t Let Trump Destroy Higher Education - I know firsthand how college can transform lives. Capitulating to authoritarian intimidation will rob future generations of that chance.
Scheerpost.com

The United Nations Turns Eighty - At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more cl...
Vox

How Ireland wrote the modern story of progress - One of my vacation habits is to take along a book about the place I’m visiting — which is how I found myself on Ireland’s spectacular Atlantic coast last m...
NPR's Health Shots

A look at the dramatic week in the world of vaccines and RFK's Senate hearing - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense questioning during this week's Senate hearing as frustration, confusion, and anger grew among lawmaker...
The Smirking Chimp

The Court Said Trump Was Above the Law — And Now 11 People Are Dead at Sea -
naked capitalism

Links 9/6/2025 -
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs: How to Stop Israel Starving Gaza - Even in the face of American intransigence, the world can act — and the U.S. government will stand naked and alone in its criminal complicity with Israel. ...
Skeptophilia

The lure of the unknown - Carl Sagan once said, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." I think that's one of the main things that attracted me to science as a ...
Off The Kuff

The CD18 lineup - Wednesday was also the filing deadline for the CD18 special election. Amanda Edwards has a photo of the SOS proclamation that includes a listing of the can...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-09-06 -
Infidel753

Link round-up for 6 September 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Magic tricks startle cats. Some people take things too literally. Sweet ...
Crooked Media

Congress Falls into an RFK-Hole - The post Congress Falls into an RFK-Hole appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

Should Britain withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights? - With calls now coming from Labour grandees as well as Nigel Farage and the Tories, departure from the ECHR 'is starting to feel inevitable'
jobsanger

The Greatest "Own Goal" In Modern Foreign Policy -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1432: Decisiveness - Episode: 1432 Thoughts in dispraise of decisiveness. Today, let’s not decide.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian Labor government moves to bar access to key political documents - Labor’s bill, personally championed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is the most serious attack on the Freedom of Information laws for decades.
Workers World

Rally blasts Trump’s migrant detention - [image: Rally blasts Trump’s migrant detention] Tacoma, Washington Some 500 people rallied at the Northwest Detention Center on Sept. 1 to protest Trump’s...
Informed Comment

Genocide Scholars: Israel is Committing a Genocide in Gaza, and we Should Know - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the last day of August, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a scholarly body with more than 500 mem...
Krebs on Security

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republica...
Wolf Street

Bessent Blasts the Fed for QE, its “Perverse Incentives” for Fiscal “Irresponsibility,” “Wealth Effect” Policies, “Class and Generational Disparities,” Failure on Inflation… Oh I So Agree - “This harmful cycle concentrated national wealth among those who already owned assets”: Bessent.
See You In 2020

Hitlerism despises the rural & working masses the same way that radical liberalism does - Hitler is anti-popular anarchism in disguise. He and his movement were nothing more than a rebranding of the individualistic, nihilistic, and idealistic ...
San Antonio Current

A rare and secluded dome home is now for sale in San Antonio - [image: A rare dome home for sale in San Antonio.] A rare geodesic dome home has hit the market in a wooded area north of Stone Oak, and the unusual dwell...
The Texas Signal

Houston Maritime Museum Reopens Where City’s History Began - The Maritime Museum is incredibly elegant, easily the fanciest of Houston’s little quirky museums (or maybe the quirkiest of the fancy museums)
Counterpunch

Replace the State! w/ Sasha Davis - In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Sasha Davis about his new book, Replace the State: How to Change the Wo...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Will Eric Adams Get His Biggest Bribe Ever?” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Tune in for hard-hitting analysis on the DeProgram show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleb...
Lowering the Bar

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts - [image: pond standoff]People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
slacktivist

LBCF: Episode IV - Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants.
The NM Political Report

Special session won’t include ban on ICE private prisons after all - Although an adviser to Lujan Grisham told lawmakers a few weeks back that Lujan Grisham might put such a proposal on her call for a special session, Mich...
Texas Standard

New box set celebrates 50 years of the blues - Antone’s in Austin has nurtured blues music since it opened in 1975. The new album combines historic tracks, along with some new ones.
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: It gets on your nerves - I do these occasional posts about science papers. Some are just for fun. But sometimes — honest! — there’s an underlying connection to the greater Crooke...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Politics and Policy of AI - On our live show, David talks with Bryan McMahon and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis about the limits and hazards of the current state of artificial intelligence, and w...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
Capital & Main

California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory Labor Traffickers - Lawmakers poised to expand protections to hundreds of thousands of temporary migrant workers. The post California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory La...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Bobby, you are sick, physically and mentally…but don’t make everyone else as sick as you. - RFK fils, my (former?) friend and co-author is, no doubt, threatening my life, your life and your not-yet-born great-grandchildren’s lives by blocking mRNA...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Barking Owl - Headphones on. Volume all the way up.
ProPublica

New Uvalde Records Reveal How the School District Changed Course on Supporting Police Chief - by Lexi Churchill, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
Dorf on Law

Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth? Part 2: Mindless Chaos and Economic Pain - Yesterday, I inaugurated this new "Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth?" series. Admittedly, the titular question might seem rhe...
Second Nexus

Channing Tatum Reveals The Huge Toll Losing 65 Pounds For His Latest Role Took On His Mental Health - *Heads up, dearest readers: this article includes discussion of weight loss, body image, and extreme dieting for film roles.* While promoting his upcomin...
Texas Observer

Embattled Texas Oilfield Waste Company Fined After Worker’s Death - Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the e...
Earthworks

In the Race to Build the Country’s First Deepwater Port, the Bluewater Texas Terminal is in Last Place - It’s been five years since the Port of Corpus Christi granted lease approval and pipeline easement for Phillips 66 and … The post In the Race to Build t...
The Conversation

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military - A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions...
Common Dreams

U.S. Job Market Plummets Under Trump’s Leadership: 70% Lower Job Growth, Unemployment Highest in Nearly 4 Years - The first jobs report after President Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner for “rigging data” showed that regardless of who’s in charg...
Progressive Army

Solicitud de intervención urgente a IATA sobre TCA - Estimados socios, buenas tardes IMPORTANTE: En relación a los graves problemas operativos que están sucediendo en TCA desde la puesta en marcha del nuevo p...
Rewire

Why Research On Pregnancy-Safe Medications, Already Scarce, Could Soon Dwindle - "Removing or reducing ongoing investments in healthy pregnancies poses a danger to much-needed efforts to reduce excessive rates of stillbirths as well a...
Democracy Now!

Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown - Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for p...
Space City Weather

Houston’s pre-fall fling pauses this weekend before resuming for a couple more days early next week - In brief: Houston will see more humid weather this weekend with rain chances re-entering the forecast slightly today and tomorrow and more so on Sunday as ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
High Country News

Acknowledging the hands that feed us - [image: Hollywood & Vine Ink, charcoal, gouache and acrylic on produce boxes, 97.5 x 63.5 inches, 2022. Photo by Yubo Dong.] Narsiso Martinez aims to dign...
Ian Welsh

What Is Post-Modern Thought? - Until I went back to graduate school 12 years ago, I really had little exposure to post-modern thought. Let’s just say after getting my master’s I’m very f...
Seeing the Forest

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

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
Church and State

ToolAI will be more than just a tool – it will be a new kind of intelligence - When AGI matures into Superintelligence, it will give birth not only to the self-created new species, but it will also begin our own evolution.
Brad Blog

RFK Jr.'s War on the Science of Public Health: 'BradCast' 9/4/2025 - The Trump Administration is at war against science (and reality) on at least two different fronts, both of which we dig into on today's BradCast. One is th...
Antiwar.com

Manufactured Famines in Gaza Began Almost Two Decades Ago, So Why Haven’t They Been Halted? - On Friday, August 22, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the global famine watchdog, declared widespread famine in Gaza. The IPC is r...
Reform Austin

New Texas Laws Targets Hemp THC Products and Gendered Restroom Bill - On August 15, Texas lawmakers started a second special session to review and come up with a resolution concerning the Hill Country flooding, THC products...
Sludge

House Group Pushes for Vote to Ban Congressional Stock Trading and Ownership - Some Republicans in a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have given the speaker until the end of the month to bring a new unified bill to the floor, or th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump DOJ reportedly looking to ban trans Americans from owning guns' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking to Ban Trans Americans From Owning Guns *- *I am NOT a fan of guns, but I do understand the need of them for the sake of ...
DeSmogBlog

Understanding Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War on Renewable Energy - “This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the province’s sky-high elect...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
NORML

Analysis: Consumers Are Twice as Likely To Use Unregulated Delta-8 THC Products in Jurisdictions Without Adult-Use Cannabis Markets - [image: delta-8 search][image: delta-8 search]"The lesson is clear: Placing marijuana products behind the counter keeps cannabis out of the hands of youn...
Dissent Magazine

Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt w...
Project Censored

Dignity Over Detention: How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms - By Elizabeth Insuasti In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. Whil...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
The AltWorld

Clash of Civilizations - Clash of Civilizations The post Clash of Civilizations appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration - Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Bracing Views

The Seven Habits of a Highly Defective Country - And what to do about it BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2025 Welcome back, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend. It’s grim times in America. Perhaps grimmest...
Alas, a Blog

You Only Think You Liked It! - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
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...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/7 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
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 ...
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...
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.
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*—...
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...
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...
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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nonsite.org

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La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

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GreenSource DFW

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Two Party Opera

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Nina Illingworth

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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

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Bud Kennedy

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Field Negro

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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Land Destroyer

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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

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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

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The Disorder Of Things

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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

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BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

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

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Robert Reich

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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

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Morning Consult

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

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Dandelion Salad

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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

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Texas Environmental News

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

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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

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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

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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