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

Daily Dot

“Never stop dancing”: Andy Richter is currently enjoying a renaissance on “Dancing With The Stars” - [image: andy richter on dancing with the stars] The current season of *Dancing with the Stars* has everyone talking. The line-up of famous faces is extra...
Mother Jones

Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million - Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying crypto with t...
Axios

Trump sought $230M from Justice Dept. to settle past investigations of him - Before his reelection, Donald Trump wanted the Justice Department to pay him as much as $230 million in damages for past investigations — a demand that w...
Vox

A guy with a “Nazi streak” was Trump’s loyalty enforcer at DOJ - In a recently leaked group chat, it was revealed that a Republican operative named Paul Ingrassia referred to himself as having a “Nazi streak.” The leak i...
Wolf Street

The 23 Bigger Cities where Condo Prices Dropped by 12% to 28% through September - The Condo Bust is spreading, after the most extraordinary Condo Bubble maybe ever.
Al Jazeera English

US-China now in a ‘very different kind of trade war’, experts warn - China's recent expanded export restrictions on rare-earth metals was a 'power play' before Trump-Xi meeting.
memeorandum

Alarm Raised Over "An American KGB" Run Out of Gabbard's National Intelligence Office (Jeff Stein/SpyTalk) - Jeff Stein / SpyTalk: *Alarm Raised Over “An American KGB” Run Out of Gabbard's National Intelligence Office* — Group representing hundreds of former n...
The Hill

Planned Trump staffing cuts loom over National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife, Land Management - Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great La...
The Verge

YouTube’s AI ‘likeness detection’ tool is searching for deepfakes of popular creators - Starting today, creators in YouTube’s Partner Program are getting access to a new AI detection feature that will allow them to find and report unauthorized...
Raw Story

Trump accused of 'shaking down' his own government by judiciary member - A House Judiciary Committee member accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of "shaking down" his own government and called on GOP lawmakers to stand up...
Popular Resistance

OpenAI Slipped Shopping Into 800 Million ChatGPT Users’ Chats - Your phone buzzes at 6 a.m. It’s ChatGPT: “I see you’re traveling to New York this week. Based on your preferences, I’ve found three restaurants near you...
Mediagazer

Interviews with two dozen people show how Israeli soldiers targeted a Gaza hospital stairwell in August that its military knew was a hub for news organizations (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Interviews with two dozen people show how Israeli soldiers targeted a Gaza hospital stairwell in August that its military knew was a hu...
The Week

Bailouts: Why Trump is rescuing Argentina - The White House approved a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina
Political Wire

Some Trump Critics Fear They Could Be Targeted Next - “Fear is spreading among some who’ve run afoul of President Donald Trump,” NBC News reports. “A foreboding that grew out of Trump’s election victory last N...
CultureMap Houston

Growing Houston group spins up a Memorial pizzeria with date night vibes - The wait is nearly over for Memorial’s new pizzeria. *Murray’s Pizza & Wine* will open this Friday, October 24.
Futurism

Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes - "Cannot load image." The post Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes appeared first on Futurism.
Mediaite

‘Left-Wing Hack’ Reporter Feuding With Karoline Leavitt Fires Back on CNN: ‘The President Lies!’ - HuffPost's SV Date rejected the "left-wing hack" label that Karoline Leavitt branded him with, saying he must point out President Trump routinely "lies."...
Eschaton

Welp - NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Norman Solomon, Big Problems Need Big Solutions - The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn't the United States provide for the basi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘I’m not a secret Nazi’: Maine Democratic Senate candidate addresses tattoo - Graham Platner says he didn’t know historical associations of skull-and-crossbones tattoo he got on his chest in 2007 - *US politics live – la...
Courthouse News

Environmentalists challenge ‘inhumane’ Nevada horse corral at Ninth Circuit - The Bureau of Land Management relied on state permitting requirements when it approved the construction of a 100-acre off-range corral in Winnemucca, Nevad...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (October 21, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Slate

What *Hamilton*—and the Book It’s Based On—Missed About Eliza and Angelica Schuyler - How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.
Techdirt.

Techdirt Podcast Episode 435: An Insider’s View Of Decentralized Social Media - Support us on Patreon » As you know, we talk a lot about decentralization and protocols over platforms. When it comes to decentralized social media in part...
Salon.com

“He must be eliminated”: Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter arrested for alleged Jeffries death threat - The top House Democrat said it was more evidence the rioters "should never have been pardoned"
slacktivist

Home missions - White Christians in America once responded to immigration with "home missions" to welcome (and seek to convert) their new neighbors as the "mission field" ...
Second Nexus

Robert De Niro Epically Unloads On 'Invasive Species' Trump And His MAGA Cronies In Blistering Rant - In an MSNBC interview Sunday, actor Robert De Niro spoke about MAGA Republican President Donald Trump. The interview occurred the day after an estimated...
Undernews

Donald Trump - NYT: Donald Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him *- **Republicans against Trump*...
Church and State

Trump: Again, Showing His Russian Asset Status! - All it seems to take is another long telephone meeting with Putin for that familiar quick change of mind on the part of Trump!
The Greanville Post

The long-suppressed Korean War report on U.S. use of biological weapons released at last - JEFFREY KAYE—Not long after I published the PSB document and accompanying article, scholar Stephen Endicott wrote to remind me that he and his associate Ed...
World Socialist Web Site

The north of Cyprus, a strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean, holds presidential elections - The results of the elections held in Northern Cyprus amid regional power struggles and imperialist domination plans will certainly not bring any solution t...
NPR's Health Shots

Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say - A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. c...
Mondoweiss

Exclusive: New Hamas crackdown on Gaza militias will be ‘largest yet,’ security source says - [image: Members of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during the handover of the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz to the Red Cros...
San Antonio Current

Report: Sources allege San Antonio U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales had affair with staffer prior to her fiery death - The Daily Mail reports Gonzales, a married father of six, had a relationship with staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, who died after setting herself ablaze. ...
Reform Austin

Ron Nirenberg Considering Run for Bexar County Judge Against Peter Sakai - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg recently confirmed to KENS 5 he is considering running f...
Crooked Media

When Power Pulls the Plug - The post When Power Pulls the Plug appeared first on Crooked Media.
Deadline Politics

Trump Cools On Possible Diddy Pardon Over Risk Of MAGA Blowback - EXCLUSIVE: It seems Donald Trump won’t be springing Sean Combs out of prison any time soon. After months of consideration of a pardon for his old NYC party...
Ballot Access News

New York City Republican Council Member Publishes Op-Ed in Favor of Ranked Choice Voting - Frank Morano, a Republican member of the New York City council, has this op-ed boosting Ranked Choice Voting. … Continue reading →
Texas Standard

WNBA growing pains include head coach shuffles, contract strife with players - Several teams fired their head coaches after the most recent season, including the Dallas Wings.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Who (or what) is The Big Weekend Show? - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025* *An imitation of life: *Our kingdom for access to WordPad! As we continue to settle our sudden formatting problems, it occur...
Counterpunch

- The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
The Conversation

King, pope, Jedi, Superman: Trump’s social media images exclusively target his base and try to blur political reality - Campy, exaggerated and partisan, many White House social media posts target the president’s base. But the communications approach may pose a risk to democr...
The Daily Poster

Count Your Fingers — The Consumer Product Safety Commission Is Counting Its Days - An anti-amputation mandate for table saw safety was recently withdrawn by the defanged Consumer Product Safety Commission.
WhoWhatWhy

Investors Managing $3T in Assets Urge Countries to Stop Deforestation - [image: climate crisis, global warming, fighting deforestation, investors, $3T fund] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recomm...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: 36-Minute Trials & No Jury - Watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many infirm, hustled through this mass-injustice process will be a defining moment in the U.K....
First Draft

Commuting The Talented Mr. Santos - The MAGA patrimonialism, it burns.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Wonder Weapons - Every era promises a single decisive weapon. From Greek fire and the V-1 to nuclear arms, stealth, and hypersonics, new systems arrive with grand claims, t...
ProPublica

Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts Following ProPublica Report - by Avi Asher-Schapiro, Mica Rosenberg and Jeff Ernsthausen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our ...
Progressive.org

In Florida, An Out of State ID Can Lead to Deportation - Traffic enforcement plays into Donald Trump’s crackdown on non-citizen commercial truck drivers.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Possible Future is Here - We don't have to imagine what a fascist future will feel like anymore. We're living in it and it's time to defeat it before it gets worse
Alternet

Trump to kill 33,600 jobs in critical swing state that helped hand him the White House - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports there might be a reason Democrats are sticking to their guns on pressing President Donald Trump to extend health...
The Root

Ohio Man Accused of Killing Former Boss After Being Fired From Taco Bell, and the Drama Doesn’t Stop There… - One day after an Ohio man was fired from Taco Bell, prosecutors say he returned and killed his former manager, leaving him to die in a parking lot. Read ...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #0: I Don't Wanna Be (Anything) - A grand, potentially (definitely) idiotic experiment in video podcasting
Trivial Knot

Review: The Fifth Head of Cerberus - The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe is a work of anticolonialist science-fiction published in 1972. Personally, I am suspicious of anti-colonialist f...
Dissident Voice

Reversing the Truth: The Gaza “Ceasefire” and British Complicity in Genocide - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to ...
Election Law Blog

Watch Video of My Conversation with Jen Rubin: “A Potential Rights Sunset on the Horizon: Rick Hasen on Louisiana’s Redistricting Supreme Court Case” - Here, at the Contrarian. The post Watch Video of My Conversation with Jen Rubin: “A Potential Rights Sunset on the Horizon: Rick Hasen on Louisiana’s Red...
Bonddad

Redbook, Philly Fed: a whiff of consumer weakening? - - *by New Deal democrat* The government shutdown is continuing. The only significant national economic news will be the NAR’s existing home sales re...
Dorf on Law

What’s in Store for Mamdani Isn’t Pretty, But the Alternative is Worse - In my column this past Friday, "Democratic Bigwigs versus Their Own Voters, Mamdani, and the Future," I expanded on a couple of side comments that I have...
SCOTUSblog

Misusing history to limit birthright citizenship - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Rewire

Hawaii Protects Native Midwives in Legal Settlement - “We finally have a way forward to protect and pass down our sacred practices,” a Maui-based midwife said. The post Hawaii Protects Native Midwives in Leg...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Stray leadership? Why city of El Paso is again looking for Animal Services director after years of turnover, public criticism - Critics say the city should do more to keep stray animals off the street instead of relying largely on the community to foster them. Our reporters discu...
Democracy Now!

"Armed Only with a Camera": HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine - *Armed Only with a Camera*, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western...
Glasstire

Review: “Eva Lundsager: Time Is Very Quick” at Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas - For three and a half decades, Eva Lundsager has essayed nature-oriented abstraction in a variety of two-dimensional mediums. Using familiar means of abst...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Professional Cosplay Championships - I went to a costume party Saturday and a demonstration broke out. And, in case you thought “One riot, one Ranger” was a law-enforcement philosophy confined...
The AltWorld

New Painting: Larry Ellison - The subject of my latest painting is Larry Ellison, one of the empire’s nastier oligarchs. Oil on […] The post New Painting: Larry Ellison appeared first...
Space City Weather

After October doldrums, Houston’s forecast turns more dynamic with rain this weekend, and real fall weather on the horizon - In brief: Houston’s weather has been largely unchanging in recent weeks, but that pattern is about to break. We expect widespread rain showers this weekend...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Venezuela: Trump’s Iraq?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall, and producer Robby West filling in for CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, conf...
NORML

Urgent Action Needed To End US Marijuana Arrests - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
ArcaMax

Bag Man: Meet Tough-Talking Tom Homan, Crime Fighter - As the first and only convicted felon to serve as president, Donald Trump's claim to be concerned about crime in America is a somewhat compromised one. And...
Media Lens

Reversing The Truth – The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ And British Complicity In Genocide - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to be...
The Smirking Chimp

What Should We Do NOW? -
Skeptophilia

Resurrection - The environmentalists tell us "extinction is forever," and that certainly seems unarguable. Once a species is lost, evolution will never recreate it. You...
Off The Kuff

Lawsuit filed against app age verification law - I have three things to say about this. A Texas student group and two high schoolers are suing to block a new state law that would require everyone — adults...
San Antonio Report

Faces of CityFest 2025: San Antonians weigh in on downtown Spurs arena, Project Marvel - We asked San Antonians to share their perspectives on how the Spurs have shaped the city — and got their thoughts on Project Marvel. -----------------------...
Angry Bear

Unprepared - Preparing for old age needs to start when you’re young. Life habits of regular exercise, healthy diet, regular medical and dental check-ups, challenging ...
Scheerpost.com

Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic Chemicals Near the Rocky Mountains - One of the prohibited substances can cause cancer; new state law forced operators to identify chemicals.
Grist

Why Democrats aren’t talking about climate change much anymore - Make way for the "cheap energy" agenda.
High Country News

Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. - Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride. The post Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. appeared first on Hi...
Earth 911

Green Living Tips for Fall - As the brilliant colors of early fall fade in the northern U.S. states, many of... The post Green Living Tips for Fall appeared first on Earth911.
Two Party Opera

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Portside

Bernie Sanders Fiery No Kings Speech in DC - Bernie Sanders Fiery No Kings Speech in DC Mark Brody Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:21
Common Dreams

Utter Desecration: Walking Wrecking Balls, All Of 'Em - In a perfect, ghastly metaphor for the state of our "democracy," J.D. and Drunken Pete just oversaw an "artillery fiasco" at a Marine celebration when a ...
jobsanger

Appeals Court Doesn't Believe The Trump Administration Lies -
Informed Comment

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Right Wing Repression and Principled Resistance - By Mehmet Rakipoğlu and İbrahim Özcoşar | – Exeter, UK and Mardin, Türkiye (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In the aftermath of 7 October 2023 – wh...
Idavox

Crowned Fools: MAGA Misfits and Proud Boys Get Royal Treatment While Protesting No King Rallies - Despite how much they lectured all of us about defending free speech and the not... The post Crowned Fools: MAGA Misfits and Proud Boys Get Royal Treatme...
Brad Blog

Celebrating 'No Kings': 'BradCast' 10/20/2025 - There are a lot of ongoing --- even worsening --- nightmares right now. But, before this past remarkable weekend recedes into the annals of history, let's ...
Antiwar.com

It Was Never a Gaza ‘War.’ The ‘Ceasefire’ Is a Lie Cut From the Same Cloth - Ceasefires stick because the two sides in a war have reached military stalemate – or because the incentives for each side in laying down their arms outweig...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Federal judge to block Trump from erasing trans people from states' sex education curriculum' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With **Trump's Trans Ban* - *Basically, the Trump Administration was...
Workers World

Somerville for Palestine initiative is on November ballot - [image: Somerville for Palestine initiative is on November ballot] Somerville, Massachusetts “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” This c...
Independent Political Report

Workers Party Endorses Joseph Tache for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts - The Workers Party of Massachusetts announced this week it has endorsed Joseph Tache, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation running for U.S. ...
The NM Political Report

Opinion: Protecting the Freedom to Read: A Call to Action for New Mexico - [image: NMPR Legislators] [image: NMPR Legislators] By Senator Antoinette Sedillo-Lopez, Senator Harold Pope, and Representative Kathleen Cates The pos...
Bracing Views

The Enemy Within - America’s Overseas Wars Have Come Home BILL ASTORE OCT 20, 2025 America’s overseas wars, with all their capricious and vicious violence, have indeed come h...
Texas Observer

ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account - Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey made an unannounced visit to a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility on Monday in an ef...
Project Censored

Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused - In the first part of the program Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo for this year’s ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Shadow President: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. - *Friends,* *Every empire has its architects. In this vein, I urge you to read Andy Kroll’s extraordinary investigative report in ProPublica co-published ...
Capital & Main

The Farm-to-School Model Is Under Threat - Federal rollbacks are leaving farmers and schools struggling, but local investment is helping Tucson’s program endure. The post The Farm-to-School Model ...
The Progressive Wing

10/20-26 News Roundup & Open Thread - Cuomo clings to his own failings. Here’s a clip of someone correcting Cuomo in an interview this morning. Notice one of the corrections was subtle, the oth...
Ian Welsh

Has China Put America Into the pre-WWII “Japan Trap?” - Most modern weapon systems require rare earths to manufacture, including expendables like missiles and drones. Rare earths are less mined than they are ref...
DeSmogBlog

The Methane Hunters of Melendugno - This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For centuries, farmers in Melendugno, a town located at the tip of southern Italy’s b...
Infidel753

No Kings - See reports and images from the No Kings rallies in St Petersburg FL, Tiverton RI, Kalamazoo MI, and here in Portland OR, where the downtown rally drew fo...
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 ...
See You In 2020

George Jackson knew state terror like this was coming, & he gave us clarity on how to resist this terror - To George Jackson, it was obvious that the USA had already been a fascist state, and that this state would revert to open terror as soon as a threat to ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pe?zenas]
Democracy Chronicles

Executive Immunity and Institutional Erosion - Unchecked executive power threatens democratic institutions in the US, demanding urgent civic response.
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Earthworks

In West Texas, Residents Face Drought, Proposals for More Pipelines - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post In West Texas, Residen...
The Texas Signal

Thousands of Texans Take To No Kings Protests - Texans from every part of the state took part in peaceful No Kings protests to push back on many of the policies from the Trump administration
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS EDITION. - *You still need a drugstore to cure my cough.* Getting this Friday ‘Round-the-Horn (which often turns into Saturday ‘Round-the-Horn or even Sunday ‘Round...
Lowering the Bar

Nirvana Beats Former Baby’s Lawsuit (Again) - [image: Cropped version of the Nirvana album cover]Please appeal again.
The Militant

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust - Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized fo...
Sludge

Schumer Lines up Behind Centrists in Senate Primaries - In Michigan and Minnesota, Schumer’s reported favorites align with AIPAC’s endorsements and the crypto industry's supporters.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 6 - *Bad theology in the Old Testament* Not too long ago I saw a video: a conservative woman being interviewed by a man who wanted to know her opinion abou...
Krebs on Security

Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk - Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messa...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 17, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 17, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/17/2025 - 06:21 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
LareDOS

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez awarded APHA’s 2025 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health - SaludAmerica!
Greg Palast

Palast, Hartmann Speak in San Diego, LA this Friday, SaturdayTwo evening talks — plus Palast at No Kings this Saturday - Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 2 - In Part 1, we discussed the NRx technocrats’ ideas and how they have influenced the city-state model that seeks to capitalise on the global proliferation...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders - Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of part...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
MintPress News

Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal - Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cem...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Ecosophia

The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude - Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s i...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
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...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
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...
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
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...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
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.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geneesmiddelinteracties tussen Cialis en Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline - Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline Penicilline G Benzathine en Procaïne Penicilline zijn vormen van antibiotica die veel worden gebruikt om ...
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.
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...
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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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