Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

Mediaite

CNN’s Kasie Hunt Calls Out Trump’s Loyalty Demands In Bill Maher Hit On Election Lies: ‘Let’s Be Real’ - Kasie Hunt called out the way Trump "commands loyalty" from Republicans in a discussion of the 2020 election and the riot Trump's election lies inspired....
Raw Story

Tim Walz unleashes after deadly shooting: ‘We’re creating a log for future prosecutions’ - Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Saturday that plans were already underway to hold ICE and immigration agents criminally “responsible” for th...
memeorandum

Frey calls on Trump to 'put America first' and withdraw federal officers after new Minneapolis shooting (Ryan Mancini/The Hill) - Ryan Mancini / The Hill: *Frey calls on Trump to ‘put America first’ and withdraw federal officers after new Minneapolis shooting* — Minneapolis Mayor ...
Scheerpost.com

Is Trump a Useful Idiot? Project 2025 Is in Power Now - Posted by Joshua Scheer With Project 2025 in full effect, Chris Hedges explains that Trump is neither necessary nor a real player. The “death grip” on our ...
Dissident Voice

Artificial Intelligence, Crime and Prisons: Mahmood Revisits the Panopticon - When does the rot start in a politician? For some, it commences the moment election to office is confirmed. Others need to become cabinet ministers bef...
Eschaton

Which Dem Senators Will Be The Designated Shiteaters - Get in line. Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadlin...
Space City Weather

The SCW Q&A: 2026 hard-freeze edition, part 2 - Here’s the best of Saturday’s Facebook Q&A with Eric. This late-morning session drew more than 400 questions, and Eric was able to get to 60 of them. You c...
The Verge

MicroSD Express cards and Anker’s travel adapter rule the deal roost this week - Welcome to the weekend, friends! We’re still in a bit of a deals lull before the Presidents Day and V-Day sales begin, the bulk of which we anticipate kick...
Futurism

Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research - "There was no undo option. Just a blank page." The post Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research appeared first on Futurism.
Socialist Alternative

ICE Murders Again—We Strike Again On Monday - This morning, just a day after tens of thousands rocked the Twin Cities with a political strike against ICE terror, Trump’s deportation machine has murdere...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “If we don’t change our approach, it will have a negative effect on the midterms, for sure.” — Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), quoted by Politico.
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis – Expand the General Strike! - The only appropriate answer to this murderous violence is to expand the general strike.
CultureMap Houston

Houston BBQ joint's new retro location sizzles in our top 5 stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, including a barbecue opening, a ramen closing, and this year's James Beard semif...
San Antonio Report

How Bexar County parents can help children in mental health crisis - Commentary: Clinician Cynthia Hernandez discusses the disorienting task of navigating what’s normal and when your child may need help when it comes to ment...
The Greanville Post

Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: This Could Break NATO: Trump, Rutte, and Europe’s Last Stand - DW—The conversation between Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson on the 2026 Davos forum centers on the evolving global geopolitical and economic landscape, hi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Shut It Down - It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
Courthouse News

Scale of Iran’s nationwide protests and bloody crackdown come into focus even as internet is out - Despite sweeping internet shutdowns, emerging reports and witness accounts are revealing the extent of Iran’s nationwide protests and the violent response ...
San Antonio Current

Congressman tries to cut pay of ICE prosecutor with racist X account to $1 - [image: The Texas Observer identified the operator of the online GlomarResponder account as James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, who works as an assistant chief coun...
Mother Jones

Breaking: Federal Agents Shot and Killed a Man in Minneapolis This Morning - Federal agents shot and killed a man in south Minneapolis on Saturday morning, sparking a new round of outrage in a city still reeling from the shooting de...
Election Law Blog

“Extreme Wealth Inequality Destroys Constitutions” - Jake Grumbach at the Democracy Project: Extreme wealth inequality has destroyed the U.S. Constitution in three ways. The first is campaign finance. Surve...
Al Jazeera English

Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on Canada over China deal - Donald Trump's threat comes after Canada reached deal with China last week on trade of agriproducts, electric vehicles.
Houston Public Media

Pressure mounts for release of 5-year-old held at South Texas family detention center; DHS defends ICE actions - A 5-year-old boy and his father are being held at the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley after their arrest in Minnesota. Lawmakers and advocate...
Undernews

How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History - *NY Times - *At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Trump administration took down an exhibit on the contradiction between Presiden...
Slate

Davos Is a Thing Again - The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting is all over the news for the first time in a while.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 19 - 23 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The trends from last year are continuing so far this year. On the plus...
The Root

When ICE Allegedly Uses Children as Bait, There Is No Moral Defense… - When ICE agents allegedly begins to use children as leverage, the debate is no longer about policy. It is about humanity. Read more...
Mediagazer

HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch) - Manish Singh / India Dispatch: *HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netfl...
Glasstire

Book Review: “Grandma Moses: A Hard Day’s Work” - Even if you haven’t seen a Grandma Moses painting in a while, you can probably conjure its general appearance: under a placid blue sky, quaint farmsteads...
Daily Howler

COGNITION(S): "One man's damaged psyche," he writes! - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2026* *But what is he trying to say?* In yesterday morning's report, as we rushed off to the medical mission, we may not have quot...
ArcaMax

Never Mind the Democrats. Get Organized. - As a leftist, I'm heartened by the reactions of the citizens of Minneapolis and its neighboring municipalities to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ass...
Grist

This Brooklyn bagel shop is saving money with plug-in batteries - Startup David Energy is giving batteries to its New York City customers to help them reduce hefty demand charges on their monthly utility bills.
OpEd News

Terrorist in Chief - Provides an alternative explanation of the so called domestic terrorism label given to Renee Good after her tragic death. It highlights that the true terro...
Vox

Minnesota officials want to find out the truth about Renee Good’s death. The federal government won’t let them. - Today, Explained will now be publishing video episodes every Saturday in audio and video, featuring compelling interviews with key figures in politics and ...
naked capitalism

Links 1/24/2026 -
Salon.com

Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE - MAGA’s whack-a-mole defense of immigration raids is backfiring
The Smirking Chimp

Minnesota’s General Strike, and America’s -
Skeptophilia

Gravitational blink - To end the week on an appropriately surreal note: no, the Earth will not "lose its gravity" for seven seconds on August 12. I found out about this rumor,...
The Daily Poster

What Does Google’s AI Know About You? - Test your knowledge of arctic misadventures, Federal Reserve troubles, and other issues that really matter.
Crooked Timber

A short post about heroin voice - This was triggered by a post over at our long-term friendly-rival blog, LGM. That post, in turn, was triggered by something stupid that Robert F. Kennedy J...
Crooked Media

The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America) - The post The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Chron overview of the District Clerk race - Pretty comprehensive and worth the read. Eight Democrats will battle it out in the March primaries for a chance to succeed Harris County District Clerk Mar...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 24 January 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o More snow and ice problems here. It's the latest innovation in non-chemic...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week, Episode 2 - We break down Davos after Trump’s Greenland retreat, Mark Carney’s speech, Zelenksy berating the Europeans and Sy Hersh channeling Ukraine War myths. Meanw...
Countercurrents

Bleakness is Relative: What Al-Haq’s Complaint Against Nir Barkat Reveals About the Limits — and Uses — of Universal Jurisdiction at Davos - Universal jurisdiction cases targeting Israeli officials — in Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, France, Germany, and elsewhere — rarely result in convictions. ...
ProPublica

Documenting an Alaska Village, Before and After the Storm That Destroyed It - The post Documenting an Alaska Village, Before and After the Storm That Destroyed It appeared first on ProPublica.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults - Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts Germany is facing calls to withdraw ...
The Week

Ryanair/SpaceX: could Musk really buy the airline? - Irish budget carrier has become embroiled in unlikely feud with the world’s wealthiest man
Ian Welsh

There Is Only One Fast Route Back After Trump - Trump’s administration is routinely ignoring court orders. It’s often refusing to let attorney’s see clients. It’s not respecting Miranda rights. It claims...
jobsanger

We Are Watching A Superpower Suicide -
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Stand - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

Old Bonespurs Spits on Graves of European NATO Soldiers who gave Lives for US in Afghanistan - Andersen said, "I mean, you can’t really fathom that this is actually something that is being said out loud. It just seems too crazy.”
World Socialist Web Site

Brutal Tyson Foods restructuring leaves nearly 5,000 jobless in Lexington, Nebraska and Amarillo, Texas - Meatpacker Tyson has shut its Lexington beef plant eliminating 3,212 jobs and laid off another 1,761 in Amarillo, reducing the plant to one-shift.
The Hill

Cruz returns to Texas ahead of winter storm after travel backlash - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Friday he is back in the Lone Star State after a viral photo showed him on a plane as the state prepared for a massive winter ...
Techdirt.

Techdirt 2025: The Stats - Every year, a little after New Years, I do a post about the previous year of Techdirt traffic and comments. You may notice that we skipped last year’s for ...
Alternet

GOP lawmakers increasingly 'jittery' about backing Trump: analysis - After a particularly turbulent week, Republicans on Capitol Hill are becoming more cautious in their support for President Donald Trump. That's according...
Daily Cartoonist

Friday Funnies Free-For- All - Where we bounce from one comic strip topic to another in a helter skelter fashion as we visit Gil Thorp, Mark Trail, Crankshaft, Legend of Bill, Dick Tracy...
Edinburg Politics

Tough new law coauthored by Rep. Terry Canales ensures that human traffickers of children and people with disabilities no longer qualify for parole - A recent state law, of which Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, help lead through the legislative process, guarantees that convicted human traffickers of chil...
Workers World

Days of action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat - [image: Days of action to Free Ahmad Sa’adat] The following is from a call for action by Samidoun Palestine Prisoners Solidarity Network. January 15 marks ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | January 23, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | January 23, 2026 barry Fri, 01/23/2026 - 20:42
Capital & Main

Yes, the Energy Transition Is Coming. But ‘Probably Not’ in Our Lifetime. - In candid interview, New Mexico Oil and Gas Association leader says the industry is good for the state's economy ... and environment. The post Yes, the E...
The AltWorld

The Magic System Of Zionism - If I spoke critically of something abusive that India was doing in Kashmir, would you expect me […] The post The Magic System Of Zionism appeared first o...
Axios

The midterms are cracking Mike Johnson's grip on House votes - House Speaker Mike Johnson's razor-thin majority is colliding head-on with 2026 campaigning, forcing GOP leaders to plead with lawmakers to show up to wo...
Progressive.org

Close the Gaps in Our Frayed Social Safety Net - If we really want to address poverty and income disparities, we need gapless welfare.
Ballot Access News

Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray Appears to Have Abandoned His Plan to Make Ballot Access More Difficult for Independent Candidates - On Friday, January 23, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray issued a press release, listing his five priorities for changing Wyoming election law in thi y...
Lowering the Bar

New York State May Allow “Dancing by Default” - Don't get too excited yet, though.
Wolf Street

Americans’ Incomes from Wages & Salaries, Businesses & Farms, Rentals, Dividends & Interest, and Transfer Receipts - But their massive capital gains, realized and unrealized, are not included here.
El Paso Matters

Is the 5-year-old Minnesota boy detained by ICE being held in an El Paso facility? - A claim circulating online says a 5-year-old boy detained in Minnesota is being held at an El Paso ICE immigration detention facility. The post Is the ...
Claytoonz

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Popular Resistance

Greenland Is Not A Prize - It is one thing to be rude to Iran or Venezuela, but it is another thing entirely to be rude to Denmark. The North Atlantic has not experienced interneci...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump expands policy banning aid to groups abroad that discuss or provide abortions - In addition to adding to the list of groups that will lose funding for providing or discussing abortion, the policy now also calls for ending aid to groups...
Church and State

America at the Mirror’s Edge - A few nights ago, I was forced to admit that I had exhausted my store of ideas for a way out of the Trumpian nightmare.
Deadline Politics

Jimmy Kimmel Says FCC’s Equal Time Crackdown Is Another Trump Administration Effort “To Squash Anyone Who Doesn’t Support Them” - Jimmy Kimmel responded to the FCC’s announcement this week that talk shows like his may be on the hook to offer equal time to political candidates, calling...
Texas Standard

Remembering J. David Bamberger: The Church’s Chicken tycoon-turned land conservationist - From fostering bat colonies to helping save endangered Texas flowers, Bamberger used his wealth to inspire others to protect the land.
slacktivist

LBCF: It could be bunnies - Wherein the Great Leader explains a mysterious, unexplainable event by explaining that it was due to an unknown and unexplained phenomenon. And everyone sa...
The Conversation

ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north - Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.
Mondoweiss

Kamala Harris’s Jewish outreach director says her campaign was right to question Josh Shapiro over Israel ties - [image: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro at a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris.]In the latest chapter in the Democrats' civil war over Isr...
Dorf on Law

Trust, International Diplomacy, and Economic Prosperity - The people who are currently running the US government have made it abundantly clear that they believe in the might-makes-right model of human interactio...
Novara Media

Labour’s DESPERATE Attempt to Block Burnham Will Backfire - Keir Starmer’s allies have some questionable tactics up their sleeves to prevent a coup by Andy Burnham. Plus: We speak to Meghan Bodette from the Kurdish ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKE IT EASY BUT TAKE IT EDITION. - *You got to spread a warnin' when the army they come in.* All honor and best of luck to the comrades in Minneapolis on general strike today. The ICE goons ...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
Angry Bear

Shutting Down Minnesota - A piece by Robert Reich is posted earlier today. Robert reports on Minnesota’s reaction to ICE’s efforts in Minneapolis to take control. ICE aggression a...
The Militant

Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract - CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporte...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to find California’s redistricting map unconstitutional - The Trump administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to block the new congressional map adopted by California voters in November. U.S. Solicitor ...
WhoWhatWhy

Another Near-Record Hot Year Is ‘Warning Shot’ From Shifting Climate - [image: limate crisis, global warming, science, near-record heat, 2025 record] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended ...
Texas Observer

Trump’s Plan for Venezuelan Oil Raises Prospects of Paramilitary Violence - This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Si...
Bracing Views

What Is Blitzkrieg? - And how much does the U.S. spend on weapons and war? BILL ASTORE JAN 23, 2026 Last January, I published “My Father’s Journal,” which recounts my dad’s expe...
Debunking Christianity

Horrendous Suffering Cannot Be Ignored in Guessing about God - *Religious delusions no longer serve the needs of humanity* *In my article here last week*, I described three brick walls that Christian theology colli...
Second Nexus

Singer And Actor Troye Sivan Speaks Out After Plastic Surgeon Says He Should 'Re-Twinkify' Himself - Out of all the unsolicited advice that circulates online, being publicly critiqued for aging may be one of the most jarring, especially when it comes fro...
Rewire

It Just Got Harder for LGBTQ+ People to Address Harassment at Work - The EEOC voted Jan. 22, 2026 to delete a 200-page document on workplace harassment matters amid a push to prioritize cases brought by white men. The post...
Democracy Now!

"Kings and Pawns": Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America - Today marks the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death on January 23, 1976. The actor, singer, athlete and scholar was once famous around the world, but ...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Showdown - Just weeks away, the Republican and Democratic primaries for the Texas Senate race have captured national attention
Rallblog

Club Med Gaza | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Earthworks

Standing In It Together: What One Toxic Tour Reveals About Life Near Oil & Gas Development - A Toxic Tour is a guided, on-the-ground visit that brings tribal leadership, agency staff, and community members directly to areas … The post Standing I...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Nothing In Vain - Aristotle, who saw purpose and design in everything, wrote in several different works that “Nature... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Nothing In Vain appe...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
High Country News

The Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater have a surprising link - [image: Meteor Crater, Arizona (circa 1980).] Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona's huge impact crater. The po...
Counterpunch

Not So New: Machines that Play - In early 1746, the parfumier and glovemaker Pierre Dumoulin left his native Lyon and headed north towards Germany. He was on his way to foreign lands to ...
See You In 2020

We’re seeing the death of a productive mode, and it’s creating an underclass who will build the next civilization - Everything that we’re seeing happen today is whiplash from when capitalism had to give up its old mode of production, and surrender to the flow of histo...
Brad Blog

Mr. Smith Testifies (Publicly) in Washington: 'BradCast' 1/22/2026 - Hey! Another busy day on The BradCast! What are the odds? [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] No, you're not hallucinating. Former Special Coun...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/23/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

The American Police State Has Arrived - In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout history,...
The NM Political Report

ICE policy under fire: Bregman threatens criminal charges for unlawful ICE detentions - [image: Sam Bregman, district attorney for New Mexico's Second Judicial District, sent a letter Wednesday to Bill Shaw, an Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
Common Dreams

Under EPA’s Zeldin, Pollution Enforcement Dying a Quick Death - Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration, according ...
NORML

Feds Propose Amending 2nd Amendment Ban for Cannabis Consumers, Others - [image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint]The ATF acknowledges that a change in the federal ban is nece...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
Project Censored

The AI War Machine as Superorganism - Antoine Bousquet observed in The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (2022), “Pointing on the horizon is a fully ...
LareDOS

GTFOM - “That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you,” but...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Handicapping The 2026 State Legislative Map: A First Look - In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Another “No Kings” Weekend - Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting the situation ...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
The Progressive Wing

1/21-1/23 News Roundup & Open Thread - Bernie Sanders on The Theo Von Podcast: Bernie on The Late Show and More news/videos/etc. in the comments!
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
Trivial Knot

Estimating true ratings - If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff that would float to the top would be pretty o...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ad account of Atlanta influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest. ...
Democracy Chronicles

Iran’s Upheaval and the Test of Global Resolve - The Iranian people have never been this resolute in their objective, which is toppling the regime. The regime has already fallen in the minds of the public.
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks - A new Internet-of-Things botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed de...
Discourse

An Important and Exciting Update About Discourse Blog - Why we decided to go all-in on our podcast and what it means for the blog going forward.
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
DeSmogBlog

As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed? - On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where i...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Idavox

J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback - Ever since Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for assaulting police officers on Jan. 6,... The post J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback appeared first o...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of Am...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Environment Texas

House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards - Bill passed in the House creates water and energy efficiency loophole for shower heads. The post House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards appe...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

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Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Moron Majority

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

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

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

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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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