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

Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, 'Get out of our city!' (Chicago Tribune) - Chicago Tribune: *Federal immigration agents deploy tear gas on Northwest Side streets as Chicagoans bellow, ‘Get out of our city!’* — Federal immigrat...
Al Jazeera English

ASEAN summit in Malaysia: Who’s attending and what to expect - The Cambodian-Thai border conflict and the US trade war will feature prominently at Southeast Asian bloc summit.
Raw Story

'Straw that broke the camel's back': Ex-prosecutor warns Pam Bondi her law license at risk - Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche should watch out, according to a former prosecutor. Andrew Weissmann, a former senior prosecutor for special counsel Robert M...
Mediaite

Zohran Mamdani Slams Trump’s Republican Party: ‘Only Agenda’ Is ‘Cruelty and Punishment’ Towards Muslims and Minorities - NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani slammed President Trump and Republican lawmakers nationwide, saying their "only agenda" is "cruelty and punishment...
Deadline Politics

Kamala Harris Floats Idea To Run For President Again; Says She’s “Not Done” With Politics: “It’s In My Bones” - As former Vice President Kamala Harris continues her international book tour promoting the political memoir 107 Days detailing her candidacy for POTUS, she...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New Jersey officer charged after going out for pizza instead of responding to shooting - Sgt Kevin Bollaro accused of misconduct and falsifying report after blowing off investigation of a double homicide A New Jersey officer has been charged ...
Space City Weather

A second round of storms will likely pass through Houston tonight, but we have some questions - In brief: After Saturday morning’s storms the atmosphere needed some time to recharge. It appears that is now happening, raising the possibility of more st...
Mondoweiss

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ traps Gaza in limbo - [image: President Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others after disembarking Air Force One at Ben Gurion Internatio...
The Hill

Trump calls lack of Russia-Ukraine peace progress ‘very disappointing’ - President Trump on Saturday said the lack of progress toward peace between Russia and Ukraine amid their more than three-year war is “very disappointing.” ...
Undernews

Money - * Robert Riech - *The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Param...
Dissident Voice

How can the British Establishment maintain credibility in proscribing a non-violent direct action group as a terrorist organization? - In proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, along with criminalizing many of those who have challenged this government policy decision, ...
Daily Dot

Woman shocked to learn the cost of diapers in 2025: “How is it legal?” - [image: price of diapers shocked tiktoker] A childless woman trying to pitch in during the government shutdown found out how much diapers cost. TikTok ...
Slate

I Will Go to Great Lengths to Keep My Son From Wearing This Horrible Halloween Costume - My husband isn't exactly backing me up.
Courthouse News

Running water can be a constitutional right, says First Circuit - An agency that deprived a town of water for 42 straight days may also have deprived it of due process, the court held.
Mother Jones

From Texas to Tennessee, Even Trump Country Is Marching Against Trump - It’s been a week since an estimated 7 million people across 50 US states and the District of Columbia—and countless others all over the world—took part in ...
Alternet

Trump’s quest for 'quick and easy' victory will likely end in bitter disappointment: historian - U.S. President Donald Trump continues to order military strikes against Venezuelan boats that he claims are transporting illegal drugs bound for the Unit...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: October 19th – 25th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, hypocrisy was on full display as the GOP went from whining about net neutrality to supporting Trump’s attack on social me...
OpEd News

Israel returned Palestinian bodies stuffed with cotton to hide organ theft according to Gaza doctors - This article talks about the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian prisoners
The AltWorld

And the Chinese Five-Year caravan strolls on - In the global chessboard, Beijing will keep stressing the power of the “multilateral trading system.” As in […] The post And the Chinese Five-Year carava...
San Antonio Report

Accomplished artisan leads pastry program at Bakery Lorraine - One year after founding pastry chefs left, Bakery Lorraine has filled the spot with a chef who comes with a sparkling pedigree: Jenn Riesman. --------------...
First Draft

Caturday: All Finn, All The Time - Meow from Finn.
The Verge

Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too - Right now, there are robots stocking convenience store shelves in Japan. We haven't embraced that tech here in America yet, but it's hard to imagine 7-11 o...
Eschaton

FALL FUNDRAISER DAY 4 - Venmo! Or Paypal! Or Patreon! Thanks to all!
Futurism

The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives - "The feeling is once bugs are worked out that AI will begin to have major impact on storyline direction." The post The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Sto...
Edinburg Politics

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

Ireland Elects an Independent President - On October 24, Ireland elected an independent president, Catherine Connolly. She is the first independent to win the presidency of Ireland, except in the f...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #ResetRoulette - [image: Factory reset, Roulette, data wiping, data security, old phones, devices] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturd...
Axios

AI is about to supercharge cyberattacks - U.S. companies are up against a ticking time bomb: Thanks to AI, hackers are on the verge of launching fully automated cyberattacks that can move faster,...
Daily Cartoonist

Miss Cellany’s Scattershot Saturday - Updates on political cartoonist Clay Jones and Dick Tracy writer Mike Curtis, remembering Jules Feiffer and the WWII life of Charles Schulz, cartoonist Pau...
Mediagazer

State of Local News report: in the past four years, monthly pageviews at the 100 largest newspapers fell by 45%+, and only 11 experienced any readership growth (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab) - Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab: *State of Local News report: in the past four years, monthly pageviews at the 100 largest newspapers fell by 45%+, and onl...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The very strange state the nation is in! - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2025* *Yesterday's report:* The world isn't going to come to an end because the East Wing is no longer standing. It's also possib...
The Root

Things From Back in the Day Black Kids Don’t Do Anymore, Thanks to the Internet - From sleepovers to scraped knees, we’ve compiled a list of nostalgic memories that defined growing up before Wi-Fi took over. Read more...
CultureMap Houston

Pat Green's restaurant reveals new Houston home and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a new home for The Rustic. Plus, an Astros legend's ranch hits t...
Reform Austin

Cards Against Humanity Settles Trespassing Case Against SpaceX - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… SpaceX has settled a trespassing lawsuit filed by the makers of the satirical card game Cards A...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 20 - 24 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This is a good time for a reminder that very little of the high freque...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I’m the speaker and the president.” — President Trump, quoted by the New York Times, noting how he’s marginalized Speaker Mike Johnson.
Election Law Blog

“Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey” - NYT (and DOJ Press Release here): The Trump administration said on Friday that the Justice Department will monitor polling sites in California and New J...
Houston Public Media

Saturday morning storms knock out power for more than 100K in Houston area - Heavy overnight rainfall caused some localized flooding. More rain was expected later Saturday.
Glasstire

A West Texas Travelog: A Yarn on Art & Gardening - Marfa is a meeting of the vast and very small. Small in the sense of community, a created zone where people gather to make sense of the endlessness aroun...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Grist

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country - Three specimens were discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: AI Power Hogs Hit A Thunder Roadblock - A state wants Big Tech to pay up, other states power down price-fixing robots and slash drug prices, and scammers get a taste of justice.
NPR's Health Shots

Opinion: Ask your doctor if the World Series is right for you ... - Prescription drug ads were once banned on broadcasts. But companies argued that infringed on free speech, and the drugs could help people. The FDA now perm...
ArcaMax

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He's Winning? - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opp...
Angry Bear

“average increase of $2,300 in annual costs due to Trump’s tariffs” - If you were thinking an increase in inflation was not going to happen. I can not imagine why you would think such. We have a president who is ill-equippe...
Vox

What a pastor saw ICE do to protesters outside Chicago - The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview located outside of Chicago has become a focal point for protesters who want to resist the ...
naked capitalism

Links 10/25/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Get to the Bottom of This’: Lawsuit Aims To Fully Expose Trump-Epstein Relationship -
Skeptophilia

A voice from the static - There's a fallacy out there that is a little on the tricky side, even more so because it appears so straightforward at first. It's called the *single-cau...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews - This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition. By Patr...
Crooked Media

Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention - The post Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Early voting Day Five: A brief comparison - Final EV total 2021 = 114,060 Final EV total 2017 = 60,974 Day Five EV total 2025 = 63,969 So less than halfway through early voting this year, we have exc...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. *Note*: There will be no image round-up post this coming week. o o o o o These cat...
Scheerpost.com

Yanis Varoufakis & Grace Blakeley: Why Everything Feels Broken - By Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis / DiEM 25 In this discussion recorded in Athens, Grace Blakeley and Yanis Varoufakis expose how our so-called democr...
Reveal

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

Roasted squash and apple soup recipe - Autumnal soup is full of warming and hearty flavours
jobsanger

Social Security Gets A 2.8% Boost (But That Won't Cover Inflation) -
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 24, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | October 24, 2025 barry Sat, 10/25/2025 - 00:21
Informed Comment

Iraqi Kurdistan aims at 3 Gigawatts of Solar, as Households and Villages Rush to Rooftop Panels - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi Kurdistan is developing an interest in sustainable energy, despite being an oil exporter via Kirkuk. Solar provides li...
World Socialist Web Site

FBI arrests NBA coach and player in sprawling sports betting and gambling probe - The arrest and indictment of 34 individuals, including Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, by the FBI for...
Common Dreams

Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them - Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept man child is facing growing resistance, sublime to ridiculous, to hi...
Wolf Street

Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy - CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020. Food prices are nothing to be trifled with.
Workers World

China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games - [image: China refuses to play Trump’s “art of the deal” games] by Carlos Martinez Carlos@agent_of_change There is only one side responsible for sabotaging ...
The Greanville Post

UNREDACTED: How The 5 Richest People In The World Have Bought All American Media - LEE CAMP—The video presents a critical and satirical analysis of the ongoing consolidation of American media ownership by a handful of ultra-wealthy billio...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A First: 100,000 Page Views in Seven Days, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - A First: 100,000 Page Views in Seven Days Friends, This week, *Texas Ed Equity* crossed a threshold I never expected: more than 100,000 page views in ju...
Liberation News

‘We’re not giving up our freedom — not without a fight’: In memory of Black trans revolutionary Miss Major - Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better world.
Popular Resistance

Seven Theses On The Gen Z Uprisings In The Global South - The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked with faded graffiti from the estallido social (social uprising) of 2019. Years later, t...
Progressive.org

‘The Librarians’ Centers the Educators Fighting Book Bans - A new documentary centers the voices of librarians resisting censorship.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Councilwoman Sukh Kaur searching for new chief of staff - The search comes after current chief of staff Ryan Salts violated the city's Code of Ethics during Kaur's reelection campaign. The post San Antonio Coun...
Rallblog

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He’s Winning? - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general o...
The NM Political Report

USDA: Emergency funds will not be used for SNAP during shutdown - [image: shutdown] [image: shutdown] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says emergency funds won’t be used to provide SNAP payments to states if ...
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
Texas Standard

Indoor farms were a hot investment, but they keep shutting down - Eden Green Technology in Cleburne is the latest one to close.
Independent Political Report

No Labels Party of Arizona Rebrands as Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona has officially changed its name to the Arizona Independent Party, following approval by the Arizona Secretary of State’s o...
slacktivist

LBCF: When the Pawn … - Wherein the authors -- and characters -- abandon the conspiracy-thriller subplot with which they have grown bored and turn, instead, to their fantasy of th...
Church and State

Trump: does he ever honor a promised deal? Examples? - We have passed the point about what the vast majority of American people stand about Trump who is acting in a dangerous manner.
SCOTUSblog

Oral argument live blog for Wednesday, November 5 - On Wednesday, November 5, we will be live blogging as the court hears oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. The post Oral argument live bl...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: a 22-Year-Old Widow and Her Children - Help Noor and her kids out.
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Second Nexus

Former White House Historian Offers Dire Warning After Entire East Wing Is Demolished - Fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, Congress was already arguing about how much money to spend on what was then called the “*President’s H...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
The Texas Signal

A Dallas Church Paints A Rainbow - Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas is responding to a government decree by painting a staircase the colors of the rainbow
Capital & Main

‘We’re the Resistance’ - A refugee and immigrant advocate reflects on how to cope with the ICE raids in Los Angeles. Amid the trauma, she says, there is also reason for hope. The...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Dorf on Law

Two Questions About Political Questions - In my essay on this blog on Monday, I criticized Justice Alito's statement during the oral argument in *Louisiana v. Callais* characterizing *Rucho v. Co...
El Paso Matters

Fire Department receives $4.4 million FEMA grant; residents urged to drop off drugs - This week: The El Paso Fire Department receives federal grants to bolster ranks. Residents are encouraged to safely dispose of unused medications. Plus,...
Greg Palast

Venezuela: When I met with Chavez and Maduro - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
NORML

Older Adults Increasingly Identify as Cannabis Consumers - [image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling into a joint][image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling ...
Rewire

Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffing Season - How queer folks can find “chemical comfort in cuddling” without all the Hallmark trappings. The post Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffi...
Democracy Now!

"Criminal Justice Is Criminal": New Film Is "Musical Indictment" of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail - The new short film *Criminal* highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill....
The Conversation

Influencers could learn a thing or two from traditional journalism about disclosing who’s funding their political coverage - Creators who conceal financial support while weighing in on matters of interest to their funders are falsely presenting themselves as independent voices.
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
ProPublica

Meet ProPublica’s 2025 Class of Emerging Reporters - by Talia Buford ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
High Country News

Inventing habitats - [image: The endangered Gila topminnow is now thriving in a section of the Santa Cruz River near downtown Tucson that was dry until just a few years ago.] ...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 2 of 4) - On the longer time scale that we feel in nature, the violence of colonial capitalism seems almost fleeting. ‘Mother Nature will outlast all of this’, Barka...
Counterpunch

King of the North Sea: The Glories of Göteborg Organ Culture - —Göteborg, Sweden. The Christianization of Scandinavia took place over a few hundred years and was completed by the early 12th century thanks to Sigurd t...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/24/2025 - 07:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Brad Blog

Exiled NOAA Scientists Resurrect Critical Billion-Dollar Disaster Database: 'BradCast' 10/23/2025 - The first six months of the year in the U.S. featured the costliest weather and climate-related disasters on record. The "good news", however, as we discus...
Antiwar.com

The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela - When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off Ve...
Environment Texas

Diverse interests unite to protect Texas waterways from plastic pollution - Fishermen, oyster harvesters, and tourism advocates join Environment Texas in urging new state standards to curb plastic pellet pollution and protect coa...
See You In 2020

The NGO left’s decline, boutique America’s collapse, & the chaotic reality our ruling class has created - Boutique society, the hipster layer in the imperial power structure, is going through a slow-motion unraveling. It’s not going to simply vanish, but it’...
Duck of Minerva

Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) - After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some val...
Texas Observer

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft by their employers—and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been...
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Sludge

Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine - Comcast, CVS, Boeing, and other major corporations have made PAC donations to the Florida Republican despite his repeated calls for violence against Muslim...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race - MN-SEN moves to Likely Democratic, and a look at how many voters skip the down-ballot VA statewide races The post Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Oops! Inaccurate birth certificate proves how anti-trans policies can harm student athletes - Some of us told folks that these anti-trans policies would have unintended consequences. From *LGBTQNation: * In Arizona last week, a cisgender male ...
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Worth in the Age of Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A new episode of The Check-In
MintPress News

Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey - Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestine voices. ...
Krebs on Security

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M - Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian crypto...
Ecosophia

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the No Kings Rally in Chicago - We should take personal account of our lives from time to time and the way we treat others. We are holding our leaders to this same evaluation.
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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: *...
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*.
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...
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...
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...
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

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Campaign for America's Future

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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.

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The Socialist

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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

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Nina Illingworth

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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

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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...
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

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Equality Texas

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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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

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Grits for Breakfast

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

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

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

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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

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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 ...
Salon.com

Gangbanging in media land - The New Republic busts a cap in the New York Times' backside for ho-ing out on Iraq.

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, August 04, 2008

Edouard headed right at Houston

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