Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps. (Lauren McGaughy/ProPublica) - Lauren McGaughy / ProPublica: *Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.* — Musk, ...
Daily Dot

Man roasted on X for berating DoorDasher over minor mishap - [image: Left: Man holds smartphone with DoorDash app on Google Play. Right: Screenshot of a conversation between a rude man yelling at his DoorDash deliv...
The Verge

Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify - On Monday, the long-running indie rock band Deerhoof made an announcement: it was pulling its music from Spotify. The impetus was Spotify founder Daniel Ek...
Mediaite

‘President Trump Has Something to Crow About’: CNN Anchor Marvels at Strong Jobs Report - President Donald Trump has "something to crow about," CNN anchor Sara Sidner declared after seeing the jobs report for June. The post ‘President Trump Ha...
Al Jazeera English

Diogo Jota: What happened to the Liverpool and Portugal football star? - The football world remains in shock after tragic road accident involving Liverpool forward Diogo Jota and his brother.
Political Wire

Another Bonus Quote of the Day - “We met with President Trump, and, you know, he did a masterful job of laying out how we could improve it, how he could use his chief executive office, use...
Courthouse News

Stepping back from Senate, Thom Tillis vows to call balls and strikes. What about his crucial Judiciary Committee vote? - The North Carolina Republican, who just announced his retirement, has broken prominently with Trump on at least one nominee — but it remains to be seen whe...
Election Law Blog

“Here’s how Zohran Mamdani’s 50K-strong volunteer army pulled it off” - Interesting interview with the field director of the Mamdani campaign at City & State NY about the nature of their ground operation: It wasn’t just the T...
Axios

Trump's envoy plans nuclear talks with Iran in Oslo next week - White House envoy Steve Witkoff is planning to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Oslo next week to restart nuclear talks, according to two ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston hospital performs first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S. - A team at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, led by Dr. Kenneth Liao, successfully performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the United States e...
Eschaton

And How Does That Work - Axios: Hospitals have "just gotten absolutely smoked, so much so that quite frankly there's no way that these cuts go into effect," according to Treyz. ...
Raw Story

White House moves back signing ceremony for budget bill as Dems continue delay - Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has been speaking on the House floor for over three hours as part of a last-minute desperate effort to delay pas...
Houston Public Media

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s order suspending asylum access at the southern border - The ruling was a win for immigrant advocacy groups that sued over the president's order, which they say put thousands of lives at risk.
Mother Jones

What $100 Billion in New ICE Funding Looks Like - President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic agenda, which seeks to inject plutocratic ideology and disdain for the poor into nearly every corner of American...
NORML

Cannabis Freedom Isn’t Free - [image: A close-up of a large legal cannabis flower with a soft-focus US flag in the background][image: A close-up of a large legal cannabis flower with ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Top Atlanta cop consulted for tech firm providing surveillance software to city - Marshall Freeman promoted software and owned stake in company while working for police, violating disclosure laws, says ethics office A top Atlanta polic...
Mediagazer

Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Committee to Protect Journalists: *Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody d...
Slate

Help! I Have a Big Relationship Secret I’m Keeping From All My Friends. But I’m Not Sure I Can Do It Anymore. - This is becoming too much to bear.
SCOTUSblog

The Braidwood decision and HHS - This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. In Ke...
The Hill

Raskin on Trump 'ugly' remark: Not everyone can live up to his 'exquisite' level of 'handsomeness' - Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a vocal critic of President Trump, shot back with sarcasm after the president seemingly called him "ugly" in a post online. “I s...
Rallblog

What’s Wrong with the Democrats? They Need More Democracy - What’s wrong with the Democrats and how can the party be fixed? When an insurgent outsider candidate from the party’s progressive left defeats a moderate...
Bonddad

Jobless claims remain neutral - - *by New Deal democrat* In addition to the jobs report, because this is Thursday we also got the latest jobless claims numbers. To wit, initial cl...
DeSmogBlog

Drax Wood Pellet Plans Axed in California - Drax’s plans to source wood pellets from Californian forests have been shelved in what campaigners are hailing as an “historic victory”. The Yorkshire-ba...
Dissident Voice

The Perfect Islamophobic Storm - A familiar violence is brewing in the heart of Europe. The numbers reveal only what has surfaced so far. A quarter of the voting population now openly su...
El Paso Matters

Number of El Paso children drops by 12,000 in four years - New census data reinforces a trend that is creating upheaval in El Paso County schools The post Number of El Paso children drops by 12,000 in four years...
Undernews

The big bad bill - *Cory Booker - *Here are the facts about this disastrous budget: - This bill will rip away health care from 17 million Americans, exacerbating disp...
San Antonio Current

Texas says undocumented immigrants visited local hospitals 80K times in 3 months. That’s 2% of all visits. - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas hospitals received near...
OpEd News

Letting it rain - The green of the grass and goldenrods / Is a luminous dark green / Darkening to almost black in the shadows
Texas Observer

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster - President Donald Trump’s commitment to “energy dominance” would seem to be good news for the Texas economy. But in the administration’s reversal of envir...
Democracy Now!

GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels - As we broadcast, the House was soon set to vote on the so-called big, beautiful bill before the July 4 deadline imposed by President Trump. Should the Hous...
Deadline Politics

U.S. Added 147,000 Jobs In June, Unemployment Rate Steady At 4.1% - The U.S. added 147,000 jobs in June, boosted by hiring in state government and health case, while the unemployment rate remained largely unchanged at 4.1%....
Mondoweiss

From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: The evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in the U.S. - [image: A student is confronted by a New York Police Department officer outside Columbia University on October 7, 2024. (Photo: Tamara Turki)]Counterinsurge...
The Week

Intimate Apparel: a 'gorgeous, vibrant' production - Samira Wiley is 'astonishing' in this revival of Lynn Nottage's 'exquisite' seamstress tale
The Conversation

What MAGA means to Americans - Ten years after Donald Trump launched the Make America Great Again movement, a poll offers some insight into what the slogan means to Republicans and Democ...
Rewire

SCOTUS Season Ended. WTF Was That? - Here’s what you missed on this diabolical season of *Glee* (SCOTUS Edition) The post SCOTUS Season Ended. WTF Was That? appeared first on Rewire News Gro...
First Draft

The Alligator Alcatraz Abomination - It's not just the cruelty, it's the sadism.
Techdirt.

Institutional Failure: CBS Wimps Out, Pays Trump $16 Million Bribe To Settle Baseless Lawsuit - As predicted, CBS execs have folded like damp cardboard and decided to pay Donald Trump $16 million in an incredible and historic act of cowardice. CBS, se...
The AltWorld

New Painting Video: Baby Killer Benny - I’ve got a new video featuring me painting Benjamin Netanyahu and talking about his recent assertion that […] The post New Painting Video: Baby Killer Be...
Vox

California just showed that a better Democratic Party is possible - California just demolished a major obstacle to housing construction within its borders — and provided Democrats with a blueprint for better governance nati...
Space City Weather

Surprise! There could be a few unexpected storms on Thursday - In brief: A passing shortwave will bring a decent chance of showers, and possibly a few thunderstorms on Thursday. However we expect dry weather for firewo...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Racism & Hatred Aren’t Funny - As I’m writing this, the House is in an all-night session, not so much debating Trump’s major bill as seeing which side can hold on longest. By time you re...
ArcaMax

Musk Should Return to the Democratic Party - Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new "America Party" to primary those who voted for it. He doesn...
naked capitalism

Links 7/3/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Alligator Alcatraz Isn’t Just a Prison. It’s a Mirror. And It’s Asking Us: Who Are We, Really? -
Skeptophilia

Grace under pressure - In the 1992 Winter Olympics, there was an eighteen-year-old French figure skater named Laëtitia Hubert. She was a wonderful skater, even by the stratosphe...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: Yes, there are still new cases being reported - It’s still a thing. The Texas Department of State Health Services says three new measles cases have been detected in the last week in connection to an outb...
San Antonio Report

SAISD to implement ‘turnaround plans’ for 2 failing, economically disadvantaged campuses - Hirsch Elementary and Davis Middle School, two highly economically disadvantaged campuses, will implement turnaround plans next year. ---------------------...
ProPublica

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps. - by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as s...
American Prospect

Trained Volunteers Patrol L.A. Streets as ICE Raids Intensify - Neighborhood groups monitor immigration enforcement amid rising fear and federal scrutiny.
Scheerpost.com

Spying on Iran: How MI6 Infiltrated the IAEA - Leaked confidential files indicate the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a veteran British spy who has claimed credit for sanctions on ...
NPR's Health Shots

GOP governors stay silent amid plans to slash Medicaid spending in their states - In 2017, when President Trump tried to repeal Obamacare and roll back Medicaid coverage, Republican governors rallied against it. Now, as Trump tries again...
Grist

Trump’s tax bill could be a major win for Big Ag. Everyone else? Not so much. - The bill is a bailout for commodity growers and leaves small farmers — and US consumers — out to dry.
High Country News

When wildfire hits your doorstep - A Diné writer confronts how to offer a hand from far away as tragedy strikes on the Navajo Nation. The post When wildfire hits your doorstep appeared fi...
Counterpunch

Valor in the Face of Inhumanity - Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta and her family were first displaced just four days into the war, on October 11, 2023. She told me, “They bombed our neighborhood in...
jobsanger

Taxes Should Be Raised - Not Cut (Especially On The Rich) -
World Socialist Web Site

Due to speak on the genocide in Gaza, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is censored in Switzerland - Following the publication of a devastating report detailing the involvement of major international concerns in the genocide in Gaza, a meeting to be addres...
Workers World

PDF of July 3 issue - [image: PDF of July 3 issue] Download the PDF Message from Tehran ‘Iran will resist, will fight back’ Zohran Mamdani’s victory: What we know and don’t know...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

Trumpism holds all Men are Created Unequal and most should be Denied Life, Liberty or the Pursuit of Happiness - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Declaration of Independence has been made a dead letter by the Trump regime as we celebrate the 249th anniversary ofthe ...
WhoWhatWhy

Abrego Garcia Alleges Torture in Court Filing - [image: Terrorism Confinement Center Tecoluca, CECOT, troops] In a new court filing, the attorneys of Kilmar Abrego Garcia allege that he was tortured whil...
Portside

When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun - When the Helping Hand Holds a Machine Gun Mark Brody Wed, 07/02/2025 - 23:00
Futurism

Tesla Bros Are Begging Polymarket to Change the Rules So Elon Musk's Disastrous Robotaxi Launch Doesn't Lose Them a Ton of Money - Tesla bros, it turns out, can be pretty sore losers. On the crypto-based prediction hub Polymarket, some of the automaker's diehards can't accept that th...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Alternet

'Morally and fiscally bankrupt': House Republican scorches Trump's bill ahead of vote - The House of Representatives is poised to vote soon on H.R. 1 — President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," or BBB — and one Republican member...
Popular Resistance

Profiting From Genocide - War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 4...
The Greanville Post

The Empire of Lies Must Fall - THE FRONTIER MAN—What comes after the Empire of Lies has fallen—not just as a system, but as a story? What lies ahead is not merely political upheaval but ...
Crooked Media

Zohran Mamdani’s Fight For NYC feat. Brad Lander - The post Zohran Mamdani’s Fight For NYC feat. Brad Lander appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rio Grande Guardian

Hernandez: Rotary ‘Unites for Good’ - Elaine Hernandez, district governor for Rotary International in South Texas, responds to commentary from Prosperity Task Force Coordinator Mario Reyna on...
Wolf Street

Despite Ugliness at Stellantis, Nissan & Tesla, New Vehicle Sales in Q2 Rose to the Best Q2 since 2021. But June Stalled - Cybertruck may be entering automotive history as the most expensive failed model ever.
The Root

Flint’s Water Crisis Ends With A Major Development - This milestone marks a record for one of the worst water crises in the nation's history. Read more...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: The Genocide Profiteers - In her latest report, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese demands that more than 1,000 corporate entities sever ties with Israel or be held accountable f...
Antiwar.com

This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War - President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israe...
Common Dreams

Designed To Enact Suffering - Plunging to new lows of "cartoonish cruelty" in our fascist reality show, MAGA perps just voted for our "most deeply immoral piece of legislation," depri...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters going on hiatus until July 8 - A photo of me and my GLAAD award (Outstanding Blog - 2017) Unless something interesting happens *(like Elon Musk and Stephen Miller getting caught gettin...
The Grayzone

Best-selling apps made by Israeli spies revealed - Some of the most frequently downloaded Apple and Google apps were developed by Israeli spies and war criminals, generating billions in revenue for the ap...
Ballot Access News

Republican Party Sues Arizona for Letting Overseas Voters Register Even if they have Never Lived in Arizona - On June 30, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Arizona filed a lawsuit in state court, to stop overseas voters from being allowe...
Salon.com

“This ain’t justice”: Kohberger pleads guilty to 2022 murders of 4 Idaho college students - Kohberger entered a plea deal for the murders of four Idaho students and faces four consecutive life sentences
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Alligator Alcatraz: A Monument to Cruelty in the Heart of the Everglades," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Alligator Alcatraz: A Monument to Cruelty in the Heart of the Everglades* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *It's time to resurrect the term necropoliti...
Claytoonz

Bribed In 60 Minutes - 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...
Ian Welsh

Prices of Both Housing And Rent Are Decreasing In China - [image: Prices of Both Housing And Rent Are Decreasing In China] In 2016, Xi said that houses were for living in, not for speculating. The Chinese governm...
Reform Austin

Sen. Nathan Johnson to Enter Attorney General Race Amid Turmoil in Office - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas State Senator Nathan Johnson is expected to formally announce his candidacy for Attorney ...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico’s PFAS claim against Air Force base advances as federal bellwether case - A federal judge last week opened the door to New Mexico’s pursuit of its ongoing civil case against Cannon Air Force Base for environmental and public he...
Discourse

Rest In Pieces, G/O Media - Say what you will. It increased shareholder value.
Sludge

Coal Tax Break in Senate Bill May Benefit Jim Justice - A new tax break for a specific kind of coal company stands to benefit a GOP senator who had expressed reservations about the bill’s Medicaid cuts.
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Nekhaila Says Libertarian Party Has Approached Elon Musk - Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila said in a Politico interview Tuesday that the Libertarian Party has attempted to contact tech entrep...
slacktivist

The sun’ll come out, tomorrow - I just stick out my chin, and grin, and say ... (that this is a fundraising post).
Progressive.org

Reasons to Celebrate the Fourth of July - We're living through what will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most shameful periods in U.S. history. Let's use the holiday to affirm our commitmen...
Texas Standard

Texans could face higher costs, fewer services under Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ - The bill is moving quickly through Congress and could reshape life for millions of Texans.
Second Nexus

Rob McElhenney Just Shared A Video Explaining His 'Kinda Douchey' Decision To Legally Change His Name - What's in a name? A lot, apparently. To be fair, a name represents a lot of things: a person's identity, the family they originate from, and possibly eve...
Church and State

How Dangerous Is Christian Nationalism? - Christianity is not a religion for them so much as a tool that is useful for gaining and keeping political power - and perverting democracy.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: The analysts screamed and tore their hair... - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2025* *...when Staphanie Ruhle got it wrong:* Last night, at the start of her program's second segment, MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle decid...
Angry Bear

JOLTS survey for May still consistent with “soft landing” scenario - – by New Deal democrat As promised, let me parse the JOLTS survey for May, which was reported yesterday. As a quick refresher, this survey decomposes t...
See You In 2020

Project Esther aims to criminalize Palestinian solidarity. This must strengthen our support for Gaza’s resistance. - There is only one path forward for the pro-Palestine movement: to defy the efforts at destroying our solidarity with the resistance, and build the unit...
Bud Kennedy

Ban Texans from running as Republicans — or voting? Behind the French fracas | Opinion - The Texas Republican Wrestling League has returned for another season, with castoffs and outsiders grabbing at the seasoned old pros while everybody imitat...
Capital & Main

‘It’s Time to Ring the Alarm Bell’ - Labor leaders say a May Supreme Court decision could turn the agency that protects workers into a rubber stamp for President Trump. The post ‘It’s Time t...
MintPress News

Starlink’s Secret War: How Musk Is Powering a Covert Campaign Against Iran - Musk may be beefing with Trump online, but when it comes to toppling Iran’s government, they’re perfectly aligned. The post Starlink’s Secret War: How Mu...
Liberation News

Trump once again tightens the US blockade on Cuba - Trump’s June 30 executive order reinstated all the sanctions against Cuba that Biden had lifted, and implemented new measures against Cuban companies with ...
Infidel753

Last chance to stop the vile budget bill - Blogger Annie has a post up with reminders of what is at stake, and what can still be done to defeat this thing (the House needs to vote on it again since ...
Socialist Alternative

Reject Trans Healthcare Bans — Fight For Free Healthcare For All! - In June, the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s total ban on gender-affirming care for young people was the biggest setback to LGBTQ rights in ...
Ecosophia

Climate Change: An Unwelcome Future - The audience reaction to the last two essays I’ve put up here turned out to be something of a surprise to me. A month and a half ago—has it been that long ...
Debunking Christianity

AI Review of "Is Atheism a Religious Faith? A Definitive Answer" - Out of the blue AI reviewed this paper of mine at *The Secular Web*. Here is the review: *Overview* John W. Loftus's work, "Is Atheism a Religious Faith? ...
Glasstire

Interview: Hung Hsien on Her 70-Year Art Career - Hung Hsien is a living legend in Houston. A member of the renowned Fifth Moon Group with work in the collections of the Smithsonian and the University of...
Environment Texas

What’s happening with high-speed rail in Texas - Federal funding cut, but project developers press ahead The post What’s happening with high-speed rail in Texas appeared first on Environment Texas.
Dorf on Law

The Most Partisan Court - In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democrat) took to the most important media form of the day (radio) to castigate the Supreme Court for blo...
Nina Illingworth

Knives Out: The Roberts Court Coronates Trump - At the end of June, the Supreme Court locked the US Constitution behind a paywall and signaled its intentions to let Trump rule as a fascist dictator. The...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Eye of the Wave - This is a pleat-based model that I made in 2020. You can see some other examples of pleat-based models here and here. This is made with 64×64 divisions. ...
The Progressive Wing

7/1-7/6 4th of July week Open Thread - Summer underway…plenty of news after the jump.
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | REMEMBRANCE | Honoring the Lives of Bernice Hecker and Jere Locke, Austin Peace and Justice Activists - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / July 1, 2025 Two remarkable advocates for peace and justice in Austin, Texas, have passed on. In 2014, I posted to The Rag...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Why Is Trump Rushing To Pass The Tax Cut Bill? - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro explains what Republicans don’t want you to know about their legislation — and how it “screws over the people who voted for ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's A Robbery: Fascism as a Means for Plundering - Authoritarianism isn't just an ideology or political project. It's also an avenue for stealing your money
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

Remember When the Balanced Budget Amendment Was A Thing? - $37 Trillion in Debt and Counting BILL ASTORE JUN 30, 2025 With the U.S. national debt sitting at $37 trillion, it’s hard to imagine a time when Congress a...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
Earth 911

Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions - Across the United States, people are already used to thinking of wildfires as seasonal rather... The post Plan Ahead for Extreme Air Conditions appeared ...
ROAR Magazine

Wat zeggen Belgische gokfora over de ervaringen met Wolfy bonussen - Wat zeggen Belgische gokfora over de ervaringen met Wolfy bonussen Table of Contents De populariteit van Wolfy bonussen in België Klantenervaringen met Wol...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Frédéric Bastiat Was Right About "Legal Plunder" & It's Much Worse Now! - Frédéric Bastiat is probably most famous for a quote that makes the rounds occasionally on Social Media "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group ...
Project Censored

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards - Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are th...
Krebs on Security

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contac...
Crooked Timber

The end of US democracy - I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Tru...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Total Obliteration' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly...
Lowering the Bar

Authorities Question Unlicensed Beaver Releases - [image: beaver release]An "underground network" of unauthorized beaver releasers is at work.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANYTHING THAT CAN'T GO ON, WON'T EDITION. - *If I’m not mistaken I’m surely right.* Still recovering from surgery, I woke up late this morning to the smell of burning Constitution. I thought any de...
The Militant

Defend Israel’s battle to prevent another Holocaust!US troops, bases and warships out of the Mideast! - Click below for printer-friendly pdf of this statement Statement issued June 25 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party Working people the...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Earthworks

Nickel waste floods homes in Indonesia, sparking protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel waste floods homes in ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

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

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

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

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Duck of Minerva

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

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

Es nuestro momento de luchar por la promesa de la democracia - Ahora nos toca a nostoros luchar para defender y ampliar los derechos que los valientes de otros tiempos lucharon para ganar. Nada me llena más el corazón ...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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