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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

San Antonio Current

Ted Cruz says he told Trump 3 separate times he doesn’t want Supreme Court appointment - [image: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz speaks during a conservative conference.] U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, this week said he’s told President Donald Trump on three...
Scheerpost.com

Progressive Upset in New Jersey: Analilia Mejía Wins Big, Challenging Trump—and the Democratic Establishment - Backed by Sanders and running on unapologetic progressive politics—including sharp criticism of Israel—Mejía’s decisive victory signals a shifting politica...
Al Jazeera English

Arsenal to embrace ‘privilege’ not pressure of Man City Premier League tilt - Arsenal travel to Manchester City knowing their Premier League could be eradicated by next Wednesday.
Axios

Trump tells Axios he expects Iran deal "in a day or two" - President Trump told Axios that U.S. and Iranian negotiators will probably meet this weekend, and he expects them to hammer out a final deal to end the w...
The Daily Poster

Congress’ Midnight Warrantless Spying Vote And What It Means For Your Privacy - A fight over the FISA surveillance law is heating up in Washington after a dramatic late-night vote. Watch David Sirota talk with Ken Klippenstein about wh...
Alternet

DOJ removes prosecutor who refused to quickly indict Trump foe John Brennan - Former CIA Director John O. Brennan is among the foes of President Donald Trump who has been the target of a probe by the Trump-era U.S. Department of Ju...
Mediaite

Jen Psaki Shuts Down Democrats’ 25th Amendment Hopes for Trump: ‘It’s Not Going To Happen’ - MS NOW host Jen Psaki dumped some cold water on Democrats' 25th Amendment hopes for removing President Donald Trump from office. The post Jen Psaki Shuts...
Salon.com

Steven Soderbergh’s AI contradiction - Soderbergh is "mystified" over AI backlash, but his latest film, "The Christophers," proves art needs a human touch
The Week

‘The modern world has made us ill-equipped’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
memeorandum

Boston Loves Illegal Immigrants So Much, It Uses Our Tax Dollars to Pay for Their Spa Days (Amy Curtis/Townhall) - Amy Curtis / Townhall: *Boston Loves Illegal Immigrants So Much, It Uses Our Tax Dollars to Pay for Their Spa Days* — The only thing Democrats like mor...
CultureMap Houston

Houston firm creates an eco-friendly escape on historic Texas tract - When Scott Frankel completed construction on his ranch property less than an hour’s drive West of Houston, the premier luxury home builder knew that the pr...
Independent Political Report

Meredith Hays Resigns as Libertarian National Committee Region 4 Representative - Meredith Hays has resigned as the Region 4 Representative to the Libertarian National Committee, with alternate Mimi Robson moving into the role. In a m...
Glasstire

Ramona Residency Artist Mothers Announced for 2026 & 2027 - The Ramona Residency in Houston has announced its 2026 and 2027 cohort of resident Artist Mothers. The residency program, founded in 2024 by Houston art...
Futurism

Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails - "Starlink reliance exposed limitations under multiple-vehicle load." The post Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When...
Election Law Blog

“Harmeet Dhillon racks up another defeat in voter data grab” - Adam Klasfeld: After helping push Donald Trump’s lost cause as one of his 2020 campaign lawyers, now-Justice Department Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhillo...
Capital & Main

What Could a Republican Governor Get Done in Deep-Blue California? - Experts say he would likely face a recall, but could still wield power through appointments, vetoes and regulatory boards. The post What Could a Republic...
Political Wire

Weekly News Quiz - This week’s news cycle has been unusually volatile, from fresh turmoil in Washington — including the resignation of Eric Swalwell — to escalating tensions ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US Senate votes to repeal Biden-era ban on mining near Minnesota wilderness area - Measure passed 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ban on mining near renowned Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness The US Senate narrowly voted on Thursday to ...
Vox

The Iran war isn’t hitting your grocery bill — yet - The aorta of the global energy economy has been clogged for more than a month now. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway connecting th...
Courthouse News

Title IX investigation undone by hearing officer’s social media - ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia Polytechnic student’s Title IX sex discrimination lawsuit will proceed against the university because he presented sufficient evi...
Mediagazer

Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday) - Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: *Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $5...
Eschaton

Did We Lose - New name for the Strait.
SCOTUSblog

The Brazilian Federal Supreme Court - Welcome to SCOTUSblog’s recurring series in which we interview experts on different supreme courts around the world and ask about how they compare to our...
Houston Public Media

‘I just lost my confidence in you’: Lina Hidalgo grills flood control director over delayed bond projects - The $2.5 billion flood bond approved by Harris County voters in 2018 — which has since been encumbered by an 8% inflationary cost increase — immediately pr...
Raw Story

Majority of New Yorkers say city heading in right direction under Trump enemy Mamdani - As he has done numerous times before, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday rejected the notion that democratic socialism has limited appeal out...
The Verge

Ghost orchid in the machine - Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the secondhand machines Rachel Youn sources to create their kinet...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio City Council passes zoning, code changes for private detention facilities - San Antonio approved zoning rules for private detention facilities in a 9–2 vote, despite concerns over legal limits and limited impact. -------------------...
Bracing Views

The Social Media Echo Chamber - When the Rabbit Hole Becomes an Information Silo BILL ASTORE APR 16, 2026 If you’ve spent time on social media, you know it can be quite unsocial. Profane...
The Hill

More Americans are buying groceries using buy now, pay later: Survey - Nearly a third of buy now, pay later users have used the loans for groceries — double the share from two years ago.
Mondoweiss

Trump may want out of the Iran war, but the first round of negotiations showed the challenges ahead - [image: Vice President J. D. Vance at the 2025 AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 21, 2025. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)]It's clear the Trump ad...
Debunking Christianity

Does the Splintered, Bickering Church Represent Gospel Jesus? - *Tough question, since there are major disagreements about gospel Jesus* In the article I posted here on 27 March 2026, I commented on the book by Karl...
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: The Petrodollar & the War on Iran - The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences ...
Undernews

Middle East - *NBC News - *New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the U.S. war with Iran on Wednesday, saying it has inflated costs in New York City that were already h...
Mother Jones

A Republican Dark Money Group Blankets Virginia With Deceptive Mailers Ahead of Redistricting Vote - Beginning in early March, Virginia voters, particularly members of the Black community, began receiving mailers that compared a proposal by Democrats to te...
NPR's Health Shots

Why scientists are nervous about fungi - They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resi...
Daily Howler

DIAGNOSIS: Baker quoted the nutcase Jones... - *FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026* *...disappeared Gupta and Trump: *As we start, let's be fair to the New York Times—and to Peter Baker, a highly skilled synthesi...
First Draft

Proposal: Better Men In Our Politics - Democrats are not immune from horrible men in our midst, but we deal with them much better than Republicans do.
The Conversation

Trump sidelined Congress’ authority over war on Iran – and lawmakers allowed it, extending a 75-year trend - Congress has refused to exercise oversight of the Iran war, with Republicans nixing Democrats’ attempts to exercise legislators’ power over military engage...
Democracy Now!

Aliya Rahman v. DHS: Disabled Woman Dragged from Car Files Claim over Violent Arrest in Minneapolis - Aliya Rahman, a Minneapolis resident who was violently detained by ICE officers in January during “Operation Metro Surge,” filed a federal tort claim again...
Bonddad

March industrial production mainly continues stagnant trend - - *by New Deal democrat* Since I didn’t get to it yesterday, let me say a few words about yesterday’s industrial production report for March this mo...
El Paso Matters

El Paso GOP congressional candidates file no finance reports; SISD oversight nears end - This week: Republican candidates mills campaign finance filings, Socorro ISD oversight to conclude, solar grants open, climate projects advance. The pos...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel - As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting ...
Space City Weather

Throwing it back to more early-spring like weather by Sunday in Houston - In brief: Drought conditions have begun to improve across Houston, and that should hopefully continue with more rain expected on Saturday and next week. It...
ArcaMax

As Gas Prices Keep Rising, My Electric Car Keeps Saving Me Money - Gasoline prices have surged to their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has me feeling pretty good about my electric vehicle purchase. I kno...
ProPublica

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women - The post Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women appeared first on ProPublica.
Novara Media

Europe Only Has Six Weeks’ of Jet Fuel Left, Says Energy Chief - Europe only has about a six-week supply of jet fuel left before shortages caused by the Iran war will force airlines to begin cancelling more flights, the...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Erratum and Suchlike - We should probably go a little easy on Pete Hegseth, who never said he was quoting Ezekiel when he whipped out that prayer the other day. What he said was ...
Rallblog

Pope vs. Dope | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
naked capitalism

Links 4/17/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Why a President Should Never Pick a Fight with a Pope -
Countercurrents

Head of Palestinian Human Rights Group Barred From Entering France - France has rejected a visa to prominent human rights advocate and Director-General of Al-Haq, Shahwan Jabarin, who was scheduled to address the European P...
Skeptophilia

eSavior - I suppose it was a natural progression. First we had AI art, starting out with the innocent-seeming "Show me what I'd look like as a Tolkien Elf" things ...
Slate

I Did My Aunt and Uncle a Huge Favor. Now I’m Being Treated Like an Evil Landlord. - It's my house!
Crooked Media

The Gospel According to Trump - The post The Gospel According to Trump appeared first on Crooked Media.
OpEd News

The Neuropsychology of Donald Trump: A Dangerous Convergence of Personality and Power - A neuropsychological analysis of Donald Trump's leadership, examining how personality traits, emotional dysregulation, and possible cognitive decline influ...
Grist

Deep-diving robots help crack the mystery of Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice - A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a 'very violent release' of deep, pent-up heat.
High Country News

Why mycorrhizal fungi networks need more protection - Scientists say the West’s hidden biodiversity warrants more attention. The post Why mycorrhizal fungi networks need more protection appeared first on Hi...
Seeing the Forest

Starmer Bad - I live in the UK now. Over here Prime Minister Starmer has a new crisis this morning. Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as Ambassador the the Trump adminis...
Crooked Timber

Global science equity – towards solutions - What does it mean to be an academic in different parts of the world? What comes along as the same job description – a bundle of teaching, research, and imp...
Earth 911

56 Environmental Innovations in the 56 Years Since Earth Day Began - The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 — 56 years ago —... The post 56 Environmental Innovations in the 56 Years Since Earth Day Began appe...
Counterpunch

American Prisons Restrict Free Speech - Over the span of a single week at the end of March, a Michigan prisoner was found dead inside his cell in what authorities are investigating as a homicid...
World Socialist Web Site

Australia’s National Defence Strategy outlines military build-up for war against China - The document is a statement of the Labor government’s complete commitment to US-led wars globally, and above all to preparations for a catastrophic conflic...
jobsanger

Trump Commits Blunders On Top Of Blunders Because Of His Laziness And Arrogance -
Workers World

Automatic draft registration: What does it mean? - [image: Automatic draft registration: What does it mean? ] The news of automatic registration in the Selective Service System for young men between 18 an...
Informed Comment

Tucker Carlson may have Turned on Israel and Trump, but he’s no friend to Progressives or Muslims - Carlson's slam at Trump for saying "Praise be to Allah" is the height of hypocrisy given his own long history of Islamophobia
Portside

On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich jay Thu, 04/16/2026 - 23:34
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: Price Drops & Gains in 33 Big Expensive Cities, March 2026 - From the “Mansion Shortage” in AI-bubble-epicenter San Francisco infecting mid-tier home prices, to Austin & Oakland where prices plunged over 25% since 2022.
Brad Blog

U.S. Middle Eastern 'War Crimes' Then and Now: 'BradCast' 4/16/2026 - A study in contrasts across two different U.S. wars in the Persian Gulf, and shadows of accountability emerge into view on today's BradCast. [Audio link to...
Popular Resistance

Iran Blasts YouTube Ban On Lego Mockery Videos - Iran’s Foreign Ministry is accusing YouTube of trying to “suppress the truth” by banning the account responsible for a series of viral Lego-style animati...
Deadline Politics

Pete Hegseth Roasted By Gavin Newsom & Others Over ‘Pulp Fiction’ Prayer Debacle - In an administration full of SNL cold opens waiting to happen, Pete Hegseth really outdid himself this week — and Colin Jost wasn’t even in the room. Caugh...
Antiwar.com

NATO Allies Adopt Evasive Policies on US War in Iran - Trump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or eve...
Claytoonz

Rocky Penis - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Liberation News

Getting to the root of health: Reflections from Cuba by a U.S. healthcare worker - The people of the U.S. deserve a system that actually works for us, and the Cuban people deserve to run theirs without a genocidal blockade. We can’t settl...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/17/2026 - 02:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
The Militant

Campaign to expand reach of ‘Militant,’ books, Fighting Fund -
slacktivist

The white evangelical Bible in the news - Isaiah chapter 1 is in the Bible. No really, it's biblical. Samuel L. Jackson's speech in Pulp Fiction, however, is not.
The AltWorld

From Dunks To Drones: The NBA Has an Israel Problem - As the NBA playoffs tip off this weekend, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, and Stephen Curry are under […] The post From Dunks To Drones: The NBA Has an Israe...
Progressive.org

What’s Old Is New Again in Utah - State officials want to usher in an ‘accountability era’ for homeless services by reviving a particularly sordid chapter of U.S. history.
MintPress News

Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow Role In the US-Israeli War on Iran - Behind claims of neutrality, the UAE has emerged as a key player in the war on Iran — providing surveillance, hosting operations, enabling strikes from i...
Dorf on Law

It Doesn't Matter That Nobody Understands Stock Market Swings (Even Though Stock Markets Matter) - Two of the major US stock indices hit record highs yesterday (and are up again today, although markets are still open), even as the Iran war looks more a...
Texas Standard

After Artemis II, when do astronauts land on the moon? - NASA has one more launch planned before it returns astronauts to the lunar surface. Here’s an overview of the Artemis mission.
Angry Bear

President Donald J. Trump Appears to melt down on social media? - The stress of being who he is and how he conducts himself to others and the social media may be catching up with him. Cartooning himself as a person bein...
See You In 2020

Socdems want “socialism” that excludes the rural workers. Communism is what can truly rescue America. - The plans of the “democratic socialists” can at best bring increased living standards for the workers who are able to enter the most privileged labor st...
Ballot Access News

California Secretary of State Releases Statewide Voter Guide - The California Secretary of State sends every registered voter a Vote Guide. Candidates for statewide state office can pay to have a statement in the Guide...
Socialist Alternative

From Coast To Coast: Socialist Alternative Is Building For May Day Action - We are now just two weeks away from May Day, which more and more labor leaders and organizations are calling a day of “No Work, No School, No Shopping.” Th...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Common Dreams

Jared Golden Joins Republicans to Sink Iran War Powers Resolution - On Thursday, the House failed to adopt a war powers resolution to end the war in Iran. Notably, Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) sided with a majority of Republi...
The Root

Why Bill Bellamy’s Latest Message to Black Women Has the Internet Heated - While many people love Bill Bellamy for his comedy, he's sadly coming under fire for his latest joke and message to Black women. Let's get into it! Read ...
Earthworks

Indigenous Communities Demand German Automaker Respect Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - by Jan Morrill, Earthworks, Member of the SIRGE Coalition & Edson Krenak, Cultural Survival, Member of the SIRGE Coalition Guarani … The post Indigenou...
Rewire

The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pills (Podcast) - Conservatives are running a multi-layered campaign to try and ban abortion pills entirely. The post The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pi...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters - U.S. Senate vote puts beloved wilderness area at risk of toxic pollution The post STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters a...
Dissent Magazine

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers - The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned ...
Ian Welsh

China Thinks Ahead To Reduce Its Reliance On Petroleum - Near the start of the war I noted that the real issue with petroleum shortages wasn’t gasoline, it was diesel, bunker fuel (ships) and jet fuel. Diesel is,...
Texas Observer

‘La Gordiloca’ Lost at the Supreme Court but Won in Laredo - It’s the day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to revive her lawsuit against the local officials who orchestrated her arrest nearly a decade ago, and...
Sludge

Spouse of Intel Committee Member Makes Timely Quantum Stock Purchase - MAGA Rep. Greg Steube’s spouse bought stock last month in a quantum computing company whose share price boomed when it reached a technical milestone and wa...
The Progressive Wing

4/16-17 News Roundup & Open Thread - During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about aid for Israel. More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, et...
Discourse

Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Anti-War Ally - Liberals are hyping Carlson's opposition to the Iran War. All they’re doing is boosting an unrepentant, pathologically dishonest bigot.
WhoWhatWhy

After Him, the Deluge: Trump Creates a Tough Environment for GOP’s 2028 Hopefuls - [image: Trump, RNC 2024,] At the rate he is going, Donald Trump will leave a political and economic wasteland in his wake that will be extremely difficult ...
Off The Kuff

So when would a CD23 election be? - Your move, Greg. The sprawling 23rd Congressional District of Texas is now without a voting representative in Washington D.C. after U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales...
Infidel753

Meditation #19 -- dream journey - One night in dreams I drifted up, I left myself behind, Abandoning the world itself, the green and warm and kind, To fly as fast as thought toward the outer...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Places We’re Watching as Virginia Votes on a Pro-Democratic House Map - Next week, Virginia will vote on a ballot measure that would, if passed, allow Democrats to impose a gerrymander--if the state Supreme Court doesn't inte...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Libs of TikTok fails in attempt to generate problems for USC's drag show event - *Editor' note - I was aware of this so-called controversy when Libs of TikTok sent out its initial tweet. I chose not to write about it because I didn't...
Church and State

Harvard Expert Says She Is ‘Certain’ Price Tag of Trump’s Illegal Iran War Will Hit $1 Trillion - “I am certain we will spend $1 trillion for the Iran war,” Bilmes said. “Perhaps we have already racked up that amount.”
The Texas Signal

The Targets For A Landmark Texas Case - Why many Republicans are clamoring to reverse a decades-old Texas case that established that undocumented children could attend public schools
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We're Reaching the Moment of Truth: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Emilio Zamora on Art, Memory, and Movement: A Conversation We Cannot Miss - *Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Emilio Zamora on Art, Memory, and Movement: A Conversation We Cannot Miss* *“The young Chicano and C...
Project Censored

Fewer Vaccine Mandates Result in Fewer Doctor Visits for Kids - Every year, schools remind families to keep up with their children’s vaccines. But according to Sarah Carr for the Hechinger Report, the recent rise in v...
NORML

Massachusetts: Legislation Doubling Marijuana Possession Limits Sent to Governor - [image: massachusetts marijuana laws][image: massachusetts marijuana laws]"Massachusetts voters and politicians prefer legalization and regulation over a ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive - Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist p...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
Trivial Knot

War mismanagement, in Helldivers - Helldivers 2 is a game that takes a significant amount of inspiration from Starship Troopers, being basically a satire of fascist propaganda. Players take ...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition - Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
The NM Political Report

Sam Bregman’s campaign laid off staff ahead of finance deadline - [image: Sam Bregman] By Pat Davis — In the days leading up to a critical fundraising deadline, Sam Bregman’s campaign for governor laid off staff in areas...
Duck of Minerva

The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy - The US and Israel’s war on Iran and regional instability threatens to disrupt critical global migration patterns. These serve as vital pressure release val...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE preliminarily approves social studies TEKS, reading list - Your April SBOE Rundown Texas Freedom Network, our Teach the Truth coalition, Texas Rising students, and other education advocates organized a strong, un...
The Grayzone

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Media Lens

Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire - Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how t...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: The MAGA Plan to ‘Take Out’ Progressive Leaders Worldwide - A few weeks ago, Viktor Orbán reminisced about the election of the current American president before a cheering crowd at a conference in Budapest organiz...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Texas Environmental News

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Lowering the Bar

Still Illegal to Drive (a Horse) Under the Influence in Kentucky - [image: riding a horse backwards]One of the few states where this is pretty clear.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales to help fight decision by Trump Administration to cut $7.4 million from HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability in the Valley - The non-profit Holistic Organic Practical Education (HOPE) for Small Farm Sustainability, headquartered in Harlingen, on Monday, March 30, 2026 announced t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
LareDOS

Laredo Center for the Arts vandalized: the violent disarray of so tranquil a place for the arts bespoke a disconcerting rage - Person of interest in custody
TalkLeft

Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her - The rumors are true. Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, one of his personal lawyers from his criminal trial in New York and a former federal...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

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Idavox

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Reading the Pictures

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Two Party Opera

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Moron Majority

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Daily Dot

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

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Rio Grande Guardian

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

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

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ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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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...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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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

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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

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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
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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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Downwinders at Risk

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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...
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The Contributor

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Bayou Brief

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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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Thursday, June 05, 2008

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