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

The Verge

LG’s brilliant B5 OLED TV is already down to just $530 for Black Friday - Best Buy’s early Black Friday deals are already live, with discounts to be had on everything from smartphones and gaming PCs to wireless headphones. If you...
Courthouse News

Tanzanian President Hassan wins disputed election with more than 97% of vote, official results show - Opposition leaders decried the result as illegitimate, citing widespread irregularities, while Hassan celebrated in Dodoma, calling the outcome a testament...
Futurism

AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs - It's not looking good. The post AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs appeared first on Futurism.
Mediaite

Trump Falsely Rants To Reporters That Food Stamp Recipients Are ‘Largely Democrats’ As SNAP Cut Looms - Trump falsely ranted to reporters on Air Force One that food stamp recipients are "largely Democrats" as he pressured his opponents on the government shu...
Eschaton

Unreality - One of the unrealities that our media embraces - and it is mostly pretending not to understand things, not actually failing to understand them - is that a ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Mockingbirds singing, if you can see it! - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2025* *But also, what Seth Moulton said: *We start by thanking the ornamental pumpkins which "have brightened our pathways a while...
memeorandum

Government shutdown effects bear down on millions more people after a crucial Nov. 1 deadline passes (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News) - Alexandra Marquez / NBC News: *Government shutdown effects bear down on millions more people after a crucial Nov. 1 deadline passes* — Despite a judge'...
Raw Story

'Cat’s out of the bag': Kash Patel warned his latest slip could let terror suspects walk - FBI Director Kash Patel *announced* Friday that his agency had thwarted an alleged terrorist attack planned for Halloween weekend in Michigan, but one fo...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pandemic childcare funding is running out across the US: ‘The whole system is beginning to implode’ - In Colorado, the end of subsidies means some daycares have open slots they can’t fill – even as demand remains high On an early fall day, toddlers played...
Salon.com

Trump regime isn’t fascist, claims leading intellectual: It just looks that way - Mark Lilla claims MAGA isn't even conservative, let alone fascist. This kind of cowardice won't age well
Grist

Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis - New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and ide...
Mondoweiss

Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead. - [image: President Donald Trump at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland on July 28, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)]My ...
Axios

Scoop: Trump pours millions into Virginia, New Jersey races - President Trump's political operation is digging into its massive war chest to bankroll a multimillion-dollar voter turnout effort in the final days of t...
Al Jazeera English

Media, Money & Zohran Mamdani - In New York City, a mayoral election with stakes that extend far beyond its five boroughs.
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Vox

The Ozempic effect is finally showing up in obesity data - For years, obesity rates in the US have gone in one direction: up. From the first year it was launched, Gallup’s National Health and Well-Being Index has f...
ArcaMax

I Know Mamdani Is Too Young. I Don't Care. - In every election, the voters choose a candidate to do a job. In some races, they also have an opportunity to send a message. Sometimes, in a change electi...
Political Wire

For Your Weekend Listening - The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members. What goes up, must come down — and that’s been the tale of Donald Trump’s approval rating. Join no...
Daily Dot

From well-researched video essays to investigative documentaries on obscure mysteries, you can get lost in these 15 YouTube channels for hours - [image: youtube channels to get lost in] Redditors share their favorite YouTube channels so you can go down the rabbit hole. While TikTok’s algorithm ha...
Slate

I Babysit My Granddaughter. As Soon as Her Mom Leaves the House, Her Dreadful Transformation Begins. - Drama always ensues.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Weekend Downer Watch - A whole lot of Halloween-themed cartoons are now obsolete, but so, perhaps, are a flood of cartoons about SNAP benefits, given that two separate courts ord...
naked capitalism

Links 11/1/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘More Bark Than Bite’: Expert Reveals How To Dodge Trump DOJ’s ‘Election Observers’ -
Mediagazer

Swiss publisher Ringier sells its Hungarian media division, which owns 18 online publications, to Indamedia, a company linked to PM Viktor Orban's party (Louis Oelofse/Reuters) - Louis Oelofse / Reuters: *Swiss publisher Ringier sells its Hungarian media division, which owns 18 online publications, to Indamedia, a company linked t...
Skeptophilia

Weirdness one-upmanship - Thursday's post -- about a strange legend from England called the "fetch" and similar bits of odd folklore from Finland, Norway, and Tibet -- prompted se...
Crooked Media

Is AI Too Big to Fail or Too Dangerous to Succeed? - The post Is AI Too Big to Fail or Too Dangerous to Succeed? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 1 November 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Only 364 days until Halloween! Better start getting ready! o o o o o Leave the por...
Off The Kuff

The latest UT Politics Project poll also has some warning signs for Republicans - Two data points isn’t enough for a trend, but it is worth noticing. A small majority of Texans oppose the deployment of the Texas National Guard for law en...
The Hill

Trump's call for end to filibuster faces GOP headwinds - President Trump's fresh push for Republicans to abandon the Senate filibuster is showing little sign of success, even as lawmakers struggle to find a way o...
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Southside - Victoria Zendejas Palacios lives with her husband in her childhood home in the Southside. She says the community she has is irreplaceable. ----------------...
Scheerpost.com

Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes - “[The department officials] said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on these vessels to do the strikes, they just need to prove a con...
WhoWhatWhy

Dissecting Donald Trump’s Justification for (Maybe) Starving Americans - [image: EBT, SNAP, sign] Even though the law and a court order compel Donald Trump to make food assistance available to tens of millions of Americans, he d...
NPR's Health Shots

How one legal team is building support for people with cognitive disabilities - The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilit...
OpEd News

my feminine ideal (poem) - A poem inspired by California and the lovely and comely and powerful Angela Davis. Peope see her walk by and go, "Now there goes agency."
The Week

Salted caramel and chocolate tart recipe - Delicious dessert can be made with any biscuits you fancy
High Country News

Hosts with the most - Holding board meetings and meeting the challenges. The post Hosts with the most appeared first on High Country News.
Mother Jones

An Atrocity of War Goes Unpunished - In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecut...
Consortium News

CN at 30: CN Launches 30th Anniversary Fall Fund Drive - Consortium News was born on Nov. 15, 1995. Help us kick off the next three decades with a generous donation during our 30th Anniversary Fall Fund Drive. By...
The AltWorld

Five Takeaways From Ukraine’s Encirclement - Putin is once again extending an olive branch to Zelensky and Trump in his latest goodwill gesture […] The post Five Takeaways From Ukraine’s Encirclemen...
jobsanger

Democrats Finally Understand The Biggest Issue Is Making Life Affordable -
See You In 2020

The KKE’s “Israeli people are also a victim” position, and what we gain from combating it - As communists, the thing we gain from countering the KKE’s labor Zionist position is to put to rest a highly damaging, anti-Palestinian trend within our...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1466: Vegetable Physiology - Episode: 1466 An old botany book for young girls changes scientific thinking. Today, a young student forms a scientific theory.
Dissident Voice

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence - Your rulers want you to depend on machines to do your thinking for you. They want you relying on AI to do your reasoning, researching, analysis, and writ...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: The Beast In Me - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Senate confirms Trump nominees to head US safety agencies as worker protections face the axe - The confirmation of former UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head OSHA and long-time Republican operative Wayne Palmer to oversee mine safety presa...
Informed Comment

With China’s Help, Saudi Arabia is Deploying Solar Power Faster than any Country in History - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Jeffrey Beyer and Stephen Gitonga of the UN Development Program present an overview of Saudi Arabia’s full court press to ge...
Techdirt.

When AI And Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How They Interact - Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps th...
The Greanville Post

The US Intra-Oligarchy Struggle Intensifies - ROGER BOYD—The dire position of the US government’s finances, together with the need to intensify exploitation and looting at home in the face of increasin...
Alternet

Trump admin punishing inmates for protesting Epstein accomplice's 'VIP treatment': report - President Donald Trump's administration is now reportedly coming down hard on federal inmates for speaking out against the DOJ's apparent soft treatment ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | October 31, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | October 31, 2025 barry Fri, 10/31/2025 - 22:07
Workers World

Palestinian factions condemn ceasefire violations, hold U.S. responsible for massacres - [image: Palestinian factions condemn ceasefire violations, hold U.S. responsible for massacres] Resistance News Network posted the following statements on ...
Popular Resistance

The World Economy’s Centre Of Gravity Shifts To Asia - On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in t...
Wolf Street

Banks Borrow Record $50 Billion at Fed’s New SRF amid Hot Repo Rates, ON RRPs Spike to $52 Billion in Opposite Direction - Month-End Liquidity-Palooza: Banks finally used the new & improved SRF the way the Fed has been exhorting them to use it to keep a lid on repo rates.
Reform Austin

Texas Leaders Urge Abbott to Act Amid Federal SNAP Shutdown - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… With federal SNAP benefits set to stop this weekend due to the ongoing government shutdown, Gov...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
San Antonio Current

Pro-arena PAC asks former San Antonio resident Eva Longoria to get folks to the polls - The Spurs-aligned Win Together PAC’s tapped Hollywood actress and one-time San Antonio resident Eva Longoria for a last-minute pro-arena social media me...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Sits Down With Norah O’Donnell For ‘60 Minutes’ Interview, His First Since Suing CBS - Donald Trump sat down with Norah O’Donnell on Friday for an interview for 60 Minutes, marking his return to the program after declining to participate in i...
Glasstire

¿Tiene razón el presidente Trump sobre el Smithsonian? - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Progressive.org

Wes Jackson Considers the Deep Roots of Our American Crisis - In a new film, the prairie prophet’s lifelong search for sustainability offers solutions straight from the soil.
Undernews

Two federal judges order Trump regime to continue funding SNAP - *Axios - *Two federal judges today ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. In separate cases,...
Church and State

Even starving children won’t break the population taboo - Increasing food production might have outpaced population for a while but this doesn’t refute its impact.
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Invalidates President Trump’s Executive Order on Voter Registration and When Ballots Must be Received - On October 31, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an opinion in League of United Latin American Citizens v Executive Office of the Pre...
ExChristian.Net

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Believe in God: Which God? There's 18,000 Gods! - In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson revisits a previous statement he made about not believing in God. Astrophysicist/TV Host Tyson expanded on the quote by...
CultureMap Houston

Hill Country property rumored to have buried treasure hits market for $9.9M - There’s gold in them there hills — at least according to legend. A new $9.9 million ranch listing in the Hill Country community of Vance is rumored to incl...
Election Law Blog

Federal District Court Issues a Permanent Injunction Barring the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from Altering the Federal Form to Register to Vote to Require Documentary Proof of Citizenship, as Trump Purported to Order - You can find the careful and well reasoned district court opinion at this link. From the introduction: The first question presented in these consolidated...
The NM Political Report

Judges order feds to fund SNAP after lawsuit by NM Atty. Gen. and others - Two federal judges on Friday ruled that the Trump administration must use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to cover the cost of SNAP benefits to 42 ...
Texas Standard

Judge gives Trump administration until Monday to have a plan for SNAP benefits - Judge Indira Talwani acknowledged this will leave millions of people without assistance starting Saturday. Two dozen Democratic-led states had sued over th...
ProPublica

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks - The post DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks appeared first on ProPublica.
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Endorsed Nearly 800 Candidates in 2025 Elections - The Working Families Party this year has endorsed almost 800 candidates nationwide, with the majority of them appearing on New York’s November 4 election...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Daily Poster

Alito’s Oil Investments Pollute Contractor Accountability Case - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has not recused himself from a case that could stop states from holding federal contractors accountable for climate dama...
Ian Welsh

The New Cold War Is Taking Form - We’re near the end of our fundraiser, and now about $1,100 out from our fundraising target. If you read regularly and value the site and have the money to ...
Second Nexus

Billie Eilish Calls On Billionaires To 'Give Your Money Away' Before Announcing Huge Donation Of Her Own - Speaking at the *WSJ *Innovater Awards, Billie Eilish called on billionaires to "give all your money away" and asked them, "why are you a billionaire?" a...
The Conversation

The shutdown – and the House’s inaction – helps pave Congress’ path to irrelevance - With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ‘The People’s Chamber.’
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
The Texas Signal

The Many Fronts Of The Abortion War - The Texas bill targeting abortion medication is just one layer in a multi-pronged approach to restricting abortion
The Root

5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About ‘Scary Movie’ - While 'Scary Movie' went on to be a box office success in 2000 and is widely loved now--let's look at some little known facts about the film! Read more...
Capital & Main

People With Disabilities Struggle to Secure Accessible Housing After Disasters Like the L.A. Fires - Devastating wildfires in Southern California disrupted thousands of lives, including those of vulnerable people who continue to search for a place to cal...
El Paso Matters

From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Godzilla’: UTEP professors team up to explore science, ethics and pop culture in new course - A new UTEP course called “Monster-ology” will connect science and literary analysis through different media to help students explore ethics, technology ...
Counterpunch

An Important Message to CounterPunch Readers - The post An Important Message to CounterPunch Readers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Common Dreams

Confidence Falls, Prices Rise as Millions Confront a Trump-Imposed Health and Hunger Crisis - It may be Halloween, but families have been feeling relentless price frights since Inauguration Day. Inflation remains stubbornly high, and President Tru...
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Assault on Knowledge: How the University has Become a Battleground for Truth - *Friends:* *Thanks to Brant Bingamon for his unblinking, multi-voiced account in the Austin Chronicle. Posted below is his deeply reported piece, “Right-Wi...
SCOTUSblog

Being a justice doesn’t make you a policy expert - Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Lawyers have long played an outsized ...
Bonddad

An appreciation of the Angry Bear blog - - *by New Deal democrat* Yesterday we were supposed to find out how much the economy grew (*if* it grew) during the 3rd Quarter, via the GDP report....
NORML

Clinical Trial: Daily Use of Plant-Derived Cannabis Extracts Improves Cognition in Dementia Patients - [image: A droplet of oils drips from the medicine dropper over a bottle of cbd oil next to a flowering cannabis plant][image: A droplet of oils drips fro...
Rewire

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study - Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rig...
Democracy Now!

"Mamdani of the Midwest": Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis? - Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumb...
Rallblog

I Know Mamdani Is Too Young. I Don’t Care. - In every election, the voters choose a candidate to do a job. In some races, they also have an opportunity to send a message. Sometimes, in a change elec...
Texas Observer

A PRAYER for Brody & Rhys - May the world not die of bread or a lost Messiah or the oil smeared desert or a fire washed sky but ripen into childhood— the heart’s crocodiles turned c...
Space City Weather

A forecast with few tricks for Houston, but many treats - In brief: Today’s post discusses what may be our nicest Halloween forecast, ever. We also talk about the potential for some showers on Saturday (more likel...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Races to Watch in the Virginia House of Delegates - In addition to the three marquee executive races, all 100 seats of the Virginia House of Delegates will be up this November, and many of these districts ...
Angry Bear

GM Backing Away from EV – Electric Vehicles - GM backs away a bit from it Electric Vehicle (EV) strategy. Manufacturing capacity was there. Sales was not there yet. If anything, this foray into EV ma...
slacktivist

LBCF: A routine flight - Does the authors' Bad Writing result from their immoral view of the world? Or does their immoral view of the world result from Bad Writing? Yes.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: How Communities Can View Real-Time Satellite Images to Respond to Natural Disasters - Every year, regions of the world are hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes or... The post Guest Idea: How Communities Can View Real-Time Satellite ...
Dorf on Law

Say it ain't so, Chauncey - The news that NBA Hall-of-Famer and current Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, former NBA player Damon Jones, ...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 3 of 4) - In the Wilcannia cemetery a lot of plastic is on display. This cemetery is an important local monument not because it celebrates the working class, because...
Brad Blog

A Pretty Weak 'Strongman': 'BradCast' 10/30/2025 - On today's BradCast: For a guy who believes he's a strongman, or wants to be one --- in a nation where too many have fallen for that idea as well --- the P...
Antiwar.com

Whitewashing the Gaza Gas Exploration - The Quest for Gaza’s Energy, Part 2 Read part 1 here In 2019, UNCTAD (the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) reported that the occupied te...
LareDOS

District 6 marks Día de los Muertos with festivities, Glow Run and Catrina contest - Nov. 1 Central Park event welcomes all
Environment Texas

Where do butterflies go in the winter? - In the fall, butterflies begin some of the most epic and iconic journeys in the animal kingdom The post Where do butterflies go in the winter? appeared f...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] How Will Zohran Govern? - A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/31/2025 - 02:32 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Discourse

Birds of the Week: Verreaux's Eagle and Tropical Royal Flycatcher - A titan of South America and a titan of Africa are sharing the crown this week for a big, bold Halloween spectacular.
DeSmogBlog

The Labour MP Rubbing Shoulders With the Far-Right - Labour is facing pressure after one of its MPs joined forces with a far-right group in attacking the party, DeSmog can reveal. Over recent months, Graham...
Project Censored

AI Warlord: Eric Schmidt - In August, Foreign Affairs published Alphabet-Google billionaire Eric Schmidt’s essay “The Dawn of Automated Warfare”—co-authored with Greg Grant of the ...
Socialist Alternative

Argentina: Far-Right Milei Secures Win—Lowest Turnout Since 1983 - Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei managed to secure an unexpected victory for his party, La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in midterm electi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's Time to Close Ranks: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The disaster has arrived. It's time to come together.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
The Grayzone

Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was hailed by Western governments and media as the savior and rightful leader of Belarus. But leaked emails reveal her increasin...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace's backtrack on gay marriage support proves that she is a political opportunist with the integrity of a dead slug - *How it went:* *Nancy Mace in 2021:* In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Mace explained that while she’s voting against the Equalit...
TalkLeft

Hurricane Melissa Redirects towards Cuba - Hurricane Melissa is one for the history books. Melissa is leaving Jamaica and headed to Cuba. As if Cuba doesn't have enough problems right now, 900,00...
Krebs on Security

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies - Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a...
Green Pages News

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

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

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” - Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Re...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

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

10/27-Nov 2 News roundup & OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments below.
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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, ...
Liberation News

Trump intensifica la agresión contra Venezuela - Los pueblos de Nuestra América necesitan paz y estabilidad a través de la cooperación regional, no otra guerra imperialista. La clase trabajadora de Estado...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Field Negro

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

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
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...
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...
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 ...
Free & Equal

Erectile Dysfunction - Summary Erectile dysfunction is a common and treatable condition that can significantly impact a man’s self-esteem, relationships, and overall well-being...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Sunday, August 10, 2008

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