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

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

Raw Story

'This is the one': MSNBC sets stage for Trump to get hit with major veto-proof revolt - Donald Trump may end up facing a veto-proof revolt when it comes to the Epstein files, according to a MSNBC panel. MSNBC's The Weekend took questions fro...
Salon.com

“Landman” shows why Taylor Sheridan’s NBCUniversal deal could reshape TV drama - As Billy Bob Thornton’s Texas tirades draw a growing audience, we wonder if NBC will take that as a hint
Slate

I’m Obsessed With Figuring Out Why My Wife Isn’t Into Sex. I Think I’ve Found a Clue. - I asked Reddit and Quora about it, and got some pretty interesting responses.
Rallblog

Shutdown Surrender Is Political Suicide for Democrats - Democrats think they run against Republicans. Republicans think they run against Democrats. When swing voters existed as a significant segment of the ele...
The Hill

Khanna says Trump ‘losing his MAGA base’ over Epstein files - Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) claimed Sunday that President Trump is “losing his MAGA base” over files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as cont...
memeorandum

The Grift Bubble — A Political Theory of American Collapse — How does a country burst? (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about) - Timothy Snyder / Thinking about: *The Grift Bubble* — A Political Theory of American Collapse — How does a country burst? To answer this questions, ...
Ballot Access News

Chile Presidential Election - Chile holds a presidential election on November 16. Eight candidates are on the ballot. If no one gets 50%, there will be a runoff on December 14. Chile is...
Eschaton

Mommy He Hit Me Back - I don't know what will happen with Venezuela, but I guarantee most of our glorious thinkfluencers will consider any retaliation to be an act of war, and no...
The Verge

The best gifts for dads that have everything (but deserve more) - What do you get the man who says he has everything? It's a tough question - and one you have a limited amount of time to answer, given the holidays are nea...
Undernews

- Child Psychologist Reveals 7 Signs Your Child Is Gifted
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Mediaite

‘Big Smokescreen!’ Thomas Massie Accuses Trump of ‘Last-Ditch Effort’ to Cover Up Epstein Files - Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned whether President Donald Trump is making a "last-ditch effort" to conceal the DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein. The post...
Dissident Voice

Hive Collapse - It is a poisonous pollen that is In the air, like sin, clear, in lieu Of us atoning. Bees barely buzz As the wind drips virulent nectar That clots in our...
San Antonio Report

Eat Wit Yo Eyez draws customers to kitchen no one can see - Marcel Brady runs a ghost kitchen called, "Eat Wit Yo Eyez." Despite its invisible nature, customers pour in for $1 wings on Wednesdays. -------------------...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Gio Reyna and Sergiño Dest: X-factors that could fuel the USMNT World Cup - With returns to fitness and form, Mauricio Pochettino has two creative players capable of fine flashes to overcome difficulty Mauricio Pochettino hugged ...
Houston Public Media

Fire engulfs former power plant in Galveston County, police say - The fire erupted in the 5500 block of Texas Highway 146, near the intersection of Avenue J and 29th Street in the Bacliff and San Leon area, according to t...
Mondoweiss

From the Favelas to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape Brazilian relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine - Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country's economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel's links to Brazil's domest...
Al Jazeera English

Zelenskyy says Ukraine working on new prisoner exchange with Russia - Exchanges have been the only progress of any note in negotiations between the two countries in the nearly four-year war.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Calls For Late Night Host Seth Meyers To Be Fired — And This Time, FCC Chairman Reposts POTUS’ Demand - During a weekend in which he has raged at critics, Donald Trump lashed out at Seth Meyers, as he has done before, while calling on the NBC late-night host ...
Futurism

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children - Would you trust an AI chatbot with your children? The post Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children appeared first on Futurism.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Back to Business' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spec...
Daily Dot

“This went way better in his head”: Walmart manager gathers team for “motivational” meeting, then gives…a K-pop lip-sync - [image: Walmart manager dancing] If you’re hunting for creative ways to fire up your staff before a long shift, one Walmart manager has a suggestion—but ...
El Paso Matters

Familia and fans: Eddie Guerrero’s legacy lives on as El Paso prepares a citywide tribute - El Paso will commemorate Eddie Guerrero’s lasting influence with a Nov. 18 proclamation, celebrating the WWE icon’s cultural impact and deep roots in th...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: A Visit to The RGV - Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Nicholas Frank discuss their recent visit to the Rio Grande Valley, including stops in Laredo, San Ygnacio, McAlle...
Mediagazer

An interview with TPM's Josh Marshall on the political blog turning 25, lessons from being an outsider, staying independent, ads vs. memberships, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review) - Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review: *An interview with TPM's Josh Marshall on the political blog turning 25, lessons from being an outsider, staying...
Grist

The birth of the climate doula - In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Sunday Funday Strikes Again - Tank raises the popular question of why football coaches are better paid at Div I schools than professors, and then half answers it. Filling the stadium is...
Axios

The cities Trump is targeting with ICE crackdowns next - Fresh off its immigration raids into Los Angeles and Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security has launched its operation in Charlotte and has New Orl...
Political Wire

Trump Looms Over All Elections - Ron Brownstein: “Over the past several decades, the general trend has been that attitudes toward presidents from both parties have exerted growing influenc...
Vox

Why are there so many billionaires nowadays? - It feels like everyone’s mad at billionaires right now. Maybe it’s the disconnect between Americans struggling with grocery prices and health care premiums...
WhoWhatWhy

MAGA Marge vs. ‘Trump First’ – the Battle for the Soul of a Movement - [image: Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor-Greene] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) got a taste of the real Donald Trump this week. Will it make a difference ...
naked capitalism

Links 11/16/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Progress -
Off The Kuff

There are four lawsuits against Camp Mystic - Updating the count. The Houston family of 9-year-old Ellen Getten, who died when floodwaters overwhelmed Camp Mystic on July 4, is suing the private Christ...
Scheerpost.com

‘National Security Threat’? 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada - By Jon Queally / Common Dreams Ninety-five-year-old Richard Falk—world renowned scholar of international law and former UN special rapporteur focused on Pa...
ProPublica

Connecticut Towing Companies Frequently Value Cars Low, Allowing Them to Sell Vehicles Quickly - The post Connecticut Towing Companies Frequently Value Cars Low, Allowing Them to Sell Vehicles Quickly appeared first on ProPublica.
The Root

Tyler James Williams Breaks Silence on Trauma From ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ - Tyler James Williams has been outspoken about his unconventional childhood over the years. Now, he's spitting some serious advice to the younger generati...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Clevedon pier shadow (2007) - [image: Clevedon Pier shadow]
Infidel753

Quote for the day -- stubborn, petty and stupid - "But at least the government will be open again. There is *never any excuse* for the government to close. Let's keep this simple: shutdown politics is s...
Crooked Media

What Is the Polling Telling Us About 2026? + Gov. Andy Beshear (Crooked Con) - The post What Is the Polling Telling Us About 2026? + Gov. Andy Beshear (Crooked Con) appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

The vast horizons of the Puna de Atacama - The ‘dramatic and surreal’ landscape features volcanoes, fumaroles and salt flats
Counterpunch

The Disappearance of Public Intellectuals and the Corporate University - Public intellectuals have declined due to self-censorship, administrative demands, and corporatization of universities. Academic freedom is in sharp dec...
jobsanger

Michelle Obama Says The U.S. Is Not Ready For A Woman President -
Informed Comment

Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Kurdish Rojava and Beyond - Murray Bookchin was one of the most significant thinkers - and activists - in the 20th century
Popular Resistance

What Is Really Happening In Venezuela? - Venezuela is very divided politically, but in general, the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by previous President Hugo Chávez and continued by current Pre...
The AltWorld

On The Rapidly Spreading Delusion That AI Chatbots Are Conscious - I keep thinking about the interaction I had with a guy who angrily told me that “AI minds are […] The post On The Rapidly Spreading Delusion That AI Chat...
The Greanville Post

Trump Makes HILARIOUS EXCUSE For Hosting Fmr Al Q@eda Leader at White House - Print this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International…
Portside

Trumps 50 Year Mortgage - Trumps 50 Year Mortgage Dave Sat, 11/15/2025 - 18:45
Election Law Blog

“Thousands of ballots rejected due to new birth year law” - Daily Montanan: Voters who did not follow a new Montana law requiring electors write their birth year on the envelope of an absentee ballot had the chanc...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies - *Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuel...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
OpEd News

The Ritual Roots of Animism, Drama and Sports: The Work of Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists - Capitalist societies are known for hollow rituals. No wonder drama sculpture and sports are perceived of as 4 separate activities. But Jane Harrison argued...
NPR's Health Shots

A red meat allergy caused by ticks killed a N.J. man. Here's what to know - Researchers say they believe they've documented the first known death from alpha-gal syndrome — a red meat allergy caused by tick bites.
San Antonio Current

Ron Nirenberg finally announces bid for Bexar County judge - The former San Antonio mayor will take on Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai in the Democratic primary — and Sakai isn't too happy. The post Ron Nirenberg ...
Alternet

Evidence of Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence grow - For years, there have been whispers that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to key officials in the US and foreign governments, was inv...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation. We noted ho...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
First Draft

Caturday: What’s The Rumpus? - Meow from Rey.
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Mother Jones

Trump Finally Admits His Tariffs Raise Prices - President Donald Trump, who ran in 2024 on the promise to bring down prices “on day one,” has finally admitted that his tariffs do the opposite. On Friday,...
CultureMap Houston

Where to order Thanksgiving to-go in Houston and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a guide to Thanksgiving meals to-go. Plus, several hot restauran...
Reform Austin

Is the U.S. About to Invade Nigeria? Trump Warns of Military Action - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Relations between the United States and Nigeria have sharply deteriorated as President Donald T...
Duck of Minerva

Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility - I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of politics and governance. We live in an age of populism, risi...
Courthouse News

Once a shadowy dealmaker, former Zelenskyy associate is accused in Ukrainian corruption scandal - Prosecutors accuse Tymur Mindich of helping orchestrate a multimillion-dollar embezzlement and kickback scheme, raising fresh questions about corruption in...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for November 10 - 14 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The trends of strong retail spending, a weak US$, and strength in comm...
ArcaMax

Shutdown Surrender Is Political Suicide for Democrats - Democrats think they run against Republicans. Republicans think they run against Democrats. When swing voters existed as a significant segment of the elect...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Anti-Monopolist Takes Manhattan - Lina Khan joins forces with Zohran Mamdani, a “rent-a-bank” loophole gets plugged, a legendary river is unleashed, and data spies are compromised.
Angry Bear

Tariffs and Prices - Short commentary on what is going on with US prices. With Trumpian on and off policies, economic stability is difficult to maintain. Pulled this graph fr...
Socialist Alternative

Seven Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Flashing Red - A major new review conducted by the scientific laboratory at Germany’s The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in collaboration with researchers...
Skeptophilia

A handful of fragments - I've written here before about the tragedy of lost books -- and that prior to the invention of the printing press, the great likelihood is that most of t...
World Socialist Web Site

More than 1,000 artists and labels join international campaign to remove their music from Israel - No Music for Genocide and the response of large numbers of performers and musicians speak to the broad leftward shift currently under way.
Liberation News

Victory of Katie Wilson for Seattle mayor another signal of political shift in the U.S. - A Wilson victory opens the door for progressives and working people to demand that she not only fight for the reforms she promised, but go beyond them.
Workers World

Long March for Mumia! - [image: Long March for Mumia!] The following is based on a lightly edited post from Zayid Muhammad in support of the Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2025 March for Mumia: ...
See You In 2020

The struggle against the KKE is a struggle against stagnation & complacency within Marxism - To understand why myself and many other Marxists have decided to combat the KKE, one must consider the generational divide that’s coming to define our e...
Progressive.org

Talking ‘Bout a Revolution - Ken Burns’s new documentary chronicles 1776 and beyond, focusing on the roles played by enslaved people and Indigenous tribes.
Consortium News

US Inequality Is Way Past Revolution Time - New Report: The rich are richer than the Gilded Age and half of all U.S. children live in poverty, writes Lee Camp. By Lee Camp Lee Camp & Dangerous Ideas ...
Sludge

Fact Check: Musk Repeats Social Security Conspiracy on Joe Rogan Podcast - Musk recycled his claims of "massive fraud" in the Social Security program, this time saying it caused the recent government shutdown—and again, faced no f...
The NM Political Report

In Dem. primary for governor, former Las Cruces mayor talks pro-oil, anti-minimum wage agenda - Ken Miyashima is hoping to be the next governor, many of the voters he needs do not know which party’s nomination he is trying to capture. For Miyagishim...
Wolf Street

Government Sold $694 Billion of Treasuries this Week, Debt Hits $38.2 Trillion, Treasury Yields Rise Further, Shift to T-Bills Begins - Long-term Treasury yields under pressure, amid large auctions of notes and bonds, despite shift to T-bills.
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
Church and State

‘Change is happening, it’s just painfully slow’ - “Climate is our biggest war” says Ana Toni, chief executive of COP30. Hopes are high. Expectations are low.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
Texas Standard

New list serves up 100 of Houston’s best restaurants - The Houston Chronicle’s rankings features a wide price range and hearty helping of the diversity found among the city’s cuisine.
LareDOS

No more fat Generals and Admirals, No more Beardos! - Hegseth's comedic arrogance: In Vietnam he would have made a very ineffective platoon leader and kept in the rear
Second Nexus

Meghan Trainor Slams Backlash Over Her Weight Loss—And Reveals She 'Didn't Believe' Body-Positive Message In 'All About That Bass' - It may have been “all about that bass” in 2014, but in 2025, it’s apparently all about Meghan Trainor’s weight loss, or so the internet has decided. Onc...
Common Dreams

Citizens Groups and Experts Warn Federal Officials that Recent Trump Executive Orders Would Decimate Standards for Radiation Exposure - Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal offic...
SCOTUSblog

Justices evaluate limits of the compassionate-release statute - In Fernandez v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, argued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes permissible grounds for...
Capital & Main

Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So. - Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations. The post Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil...
Independent Political Report

Mike Collier Announces Independent Bid for Texas Lt. Governor in 2026 - Mike Collier, a former two-time Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, has announced that he will seek the position again in 2026, this time m...
Daily Howler

THE DISAPPEARED: What happens on the Gutfeld! program? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025* *And why does it get disappeared?* A highly unusual thing takes place near the end of Amanda Hess's profile of the *Gutfeld**...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Rewire

Immigrant Women More Exposed to Breast Cancer Risks At Work - Occupations predominated by immigrant women came with significant exposures to cancer-linked chemicals, a new study finds. The post Immigrant Women More...
Space City Weather

Autumn eludes Houston over the next several days with near record warmth early next week - In brief: Near record high temperatures will settle in over Houston, along with a burst of high humidity early next week. Our next front is penciled in for...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Democracy Now!

How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory - Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani’s history-making campaign, grounded in community organ...
The Conversation

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress - The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign pr...
Texas Observer

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance - On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate existence. Against the best efforts of the state, they’re sti...
Dorf on Law

The Unwarranted Freakout Over the Cert Petition Seeking Overturning of the Same-Sex Marriage Right - On Monday, the Supreme Court denied a *certiorari *petition by Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples. In...
High Country News

Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty. The post Can AI transl...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Antiwar.com

Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide - Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations o...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict - BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaus...
slacktivist

‘Political violence’ and Johnny and Nina - You can run on for a long time, run on for a long time, run on for a long time, but sooner or later ...
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Krebs on Security

Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad - Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers im...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Earth 911

11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey - After the plates are cleared today, we bet you’ll have at least one thing left... The post 11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey appeared first on Earth9...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
The Grayzone

White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show - Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they cle...
ExChristian.Net

Former pastor gets maximum sentence after thousands of child pornography images found - *GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - * A former youth pastor in South Carolina has been sentenced to federal prison after appearing in court on Tue...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
The Texas Signal

Immigration Policies Take A Toll On The Texas Economy - Almost a quarter of ICE arrests have occurred in Texas, inflicting widespread reverberations on the state's economy
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
DeSmogBlog

Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his ‘Passion’ for Science - Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most a...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Environment Texas

Forget Black Friday, join us for National Clothing Swap Day - Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by hosting your own clothing swap for National Clothing Swap Day. The post Forget Black Friday, join us for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Project Censored

#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal age...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
NORML

Veterans Are Still Being Denied Medical Cannabis Access - [image: A closeup of a military uniform with a cannabis leaf patch on the sleeve representing marijuana and veterans issues][image: A closeup of a milita...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Earthworks

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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...
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...
The Socialist

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

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

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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 ...

Show All

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sunday Funnies

Search This Blog