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

Futurism

Billboard Says at Least One AI-Generated “Artist” Is Charting Every Week Now - AI slop is taking over music charts. The post Billboard Says at Least One AI-Generated “Artist” Is Charting Every Week Now appeared first on Futurism.
Raw Story

'Yikes': Shock as new poll shows Dems with 'largest lead for either party' since 2018 - Political observers were shocked over the weekend after a new poll revealed what one reporter called "the largest lead for either party on the congressio...
Al Jazeera English

How labour unions in Europe can help end Israel’s genocide in Gaza - Industrial protest action is a potent tool that can disrupt war supply chains and force governments to act.
Axios

Bessent: U.S. faces broader recession risk without more Fed cuts - Some portions of the economy are already in a recession, and others could fall into one without more interest rate cuts, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...
El Paso Matters

How El Paso’s Mental Health Court integrates recovery in criminal justice system - The El Paso County prison diversion program aims to keep people with mental illness from returning to the criminal justice system. The post How El Paso’...
Salon.com

Hollywood loves a comeback, the Dodgers just delivered one - 11-inning Game 7 of chaos, records, and confetti, the Dodgers delivered box-office baseball over Blue Jays
memeorandum

Three killed in US military strike on alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Three killed in US military strike on alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean* — Defense secretary announces a new strike on alleged dr...
Daily Dot

18 easy conversation starters that actually work in real life - [image: Left: Florida welcome center in rest area or rest stops for cars and trucks. Text overlay reads, "Tell someone to look up their birthday followed...
The Verge

Why the Zune never killed the iPod - The Microsoft Zune is mostly just a footnote in tech history. Microsoft spent years - and vast sums of money - trying to create a true competitor to Apple'...
Eschaton

What's Happening Here - Odd. BOSTON -- There was an explosion early Saturday at Harvard Medical School that appears to have been intentional, but no one was injured, authorities ...
Daily Cartoonist

Prince Valiant Montage Sources 2 - As Prince Valiant continues its historical summarizing so we will continue to follow the sources as Mark Schultz and Thomas Yeates draft Cullen Murphy and ...
The Hill

Harris rallies with Newsom in support of California redistricting - Former Vice President Harris rallied with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday in support of redistricting in the Golden State. “So, listen, I want...
Mediaite

‘Thank You to the President’: Nicki Minaj Praises Trump for Condemning Nigeria’s Treatment of Christians - President Donald Trump got some surprising praise, on Saturday, from rap star Nicki Minaj — who has largely stayed apolitical in recent years. The post ‘...
Bracing Views

The Vanishing Ideal of Public Service - Of Sharks and Chum BILL ASTORE OCT 27, 2025 Remember when politicians had some notion of public service? That ideal now feels positively antediluvian. What...
First Draft

The Tingler (1959) - A campy horror classic starring Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln, and Philip Coolidge. Produced and Directed by...
Grist

Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change - As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates...
Mondoweiss

Like Gaza, Israel is threatening to destroy the Lebanon ceasefire - [image: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends the commemoration of the army martyrs in Yarzeh, Beirut, Lebanon, on July 31, 2025. (Photo: Lebanese Preside...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Close Enough' Toons - From 2017. But timely all over again... ...HALLOWEEN LEFTOVERS... ...AND THE REST... NEWSWEEK: "Donald Trump’s Approval Rating is Underwater in 12 States H...
WhoWhatWhy

The Establishment’s Message to Democratic Voters: Curb Your Enthusiasm - [image: Zohran Mamdani, mayor, New York City, Graham Platner, Senate Maine] There are Democratic candidates running on platforms voters are genuinely excit...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump policies spur economic anxiety in US Republican heartland: ‘Tariffs are affecting everything’ - Rural US towns reel as policies like tariffs cause global manufacturing companies to reconsider major investment projects For decades, a line of storefr...
Vox

We can have growth while fighting climate change - Climate stories usually start the same way: fire, flood, loss, collapse. The charts are grim. The vibes are worse. But there’s another story in the numbers...
Slate

My In-Laws Have a Mean-Spirited Habit When It Comes to My Husband. I Want to Give Them a Piece of My Mind. - They're doing it to my daughter, too.
Mediagazer

FanDuel Sports plans to stream select live local NBA and NHL games on apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, and Prime Video for free starting in mid-November (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) - Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: *FanDuel Sports plans to stream select live local NBA and NHL games on apps like Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, and Prime Video f...
NPR's Health Shots

They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away - Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching ...
Political Wire

Trump Tells Ilhan Omar to Leave the Country - “President Trump went after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for her Somali heritage, urging her to leave the country in a social media post, reprising an attack he ...
naked capitalism

Links 11/2/2025 -
Scheerpost.com

Patrick Lawrence: Zohran Mamdani and His (Our) Enemies - What makes this election especially interesting to me, my years in Manhattan long over, are the still-larger questions a runaway victory for Mamdani would ...
The Smirking Chimp

Dispirited Trump Knows Republicans Are ‘Going To Lose’ in 2025: Report -
Off The Kuff

Final November 2025 early voting: A lot of people voted early - And here’s a look at the final early voting totals. Final EV total 2025 = 212,104 Final EV total 2021 = 114,060 Final EV total 2017 = 60,974 A lot of peopl...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County voters weigh venue tax measures, Texas Constitutional amendments in Nov. 4 election - Here's how and where to vote on Tuesday in Bexar County. Polling locations throughout the county are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ------------------------------ Be...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Infidel753

People power in California - A California union is showing the whole country's politicians how it's done. SEIU-UHW, a major union of healthcare workers, is acting to get an initiativ...
The Week

Trump’s White House ballroom: a threat to the republic? - Trump be far from the first US president to leave his mark on the Executive Mansion, but to critics his remodel is yet more overreach
Crooked Media

Debating the Trump Era with Abby Phillip - The post Debating the Trump Era with Abby Phillip appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

Dear Readers, Please Donate to WOLF STREET: Fall 2025 Reminder - Your generous support allows WOLF STREET to remain free and open to all, not hidden behind a paywall.
Counterpunch

How to Recognize an Astroturf Movement - By late summer 2025, approval ratings for Trump and the Democrats were both underwater, with Democrats polling at their lowest point in three decades. A ...
OpEd News

All Eyes on Virginia Elections - All eyes are on Virginia elections for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. Candidates include two immigrants, a gay MAGA Republican, two fe...
jobsanger

Trump Has No Desire To Work With Congress In Any Substantial Way -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1467: Napoleon and Iron - Episode: 1467 Napoleon Bonaparte and Iron in France. Today, Napoleon builds iron monuments.
Deadline Politics

Twin Miles Tellers Spoof ‘Property Brothers’ Tackling Trump’s White House East Wing Demolition & New Ballroom In Pre-Taped ‘SNL’ Sketch - Miles Teller pulled double-duty (in a way) by portraying twin brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott in a pre-taped Saturday Night Live sketch spoofing the Canad...
Informed Comment

Egypt’s Magnificent new Museum: Nationalism, Tourism, and the Economy - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Egypt’s new billion-dollar museum near the Giza pyramids opened on Saturday. It has 100,000 artifacts, including a massive s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Power of Texas Social Movements to Heal Fear, Inspire Hope, and Build Islands of Sanity in Troubled Times, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Power of Texas Social Movements to Heal Fear, Inspire Hope, and Build Islands of Sanity in Troubled Times* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Nov. 1,...
Dissident Voice

Trump, Nuclear Weapons, and the NNSA - Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly...
Angry Bear

A Revolution in Congressional Decision-Making - J.P. McJefferson The dysfunction of today’s federal government is not simply the product of political division or individual leaders; it is rooted in the...
Popular Resistance

The Shutdown And Neverending Hostility To The Welfare State - Anyone who ponders whether or not the United States is a failed state operating at the behest of the ruling class and their corrupt political system need...
Portside

Never Eat the Candy on Your Pillow: The Reentry Effect - Never Eat the Candy on Your Pillow: The Reentry Effect barry Sat, 11/01/2025 - 20:25
Undernews

Average American: Number of close friends - - The average American maintains just 3.6 close friendships, and that number shrinks by nearly one friend every year - Over the past decade, adults report...
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Governor Signs Ballot Access Improvement Bill - On October 31, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed AB 149, which makes it easier for a qualified party to nominate a slate of candidates for presidential ...
Ian Welsh

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

This Week In Techdirt History: October 26th – November 1st - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the RIAA tossed out a bogus DMCA claim to get a YouTube downloading tool pulled from Github, and was still flooding Twitc...
The Daily Poster

Graham Platner And The Fetterman Question - How can we know that Attentional Candidates will not sell out for attention once elected?
Alternet

Dispirited Trump knows Republicans are 'going to lose' in 2025: report - MAGA supporters and influencers may be hammering out optimism over 2025 elections, but President Donald Trump does not appear to be feeling it, reports t...
Mother Jones

Tens of Millions of People Lost Their Food Stamps—For Now - Normally, the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps (formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) begin to receive mone...
The Root

Videos Show Why Black Folks Don’t Play in Haunted Houses - Viral Videos Prove Survival Instincts and Hilarious Reactions Rule Haunted House Season Read more...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Nick Fuentes, Neo Nazis and Groypers Have Taken Over the GOP - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
CultureMap Houston

Beloved Houston Italian restaurant bids farewell and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, include a longtime Italian favorite's impending closure and the return of the Te...
Glasstire

Reflecting on the Past Through Materiality and Color - The Green Family Art Foundation (GFAF) is a hidden-in-plain-sight gem. Located on Flora Street in Dallas’ Art District, just blocks away from the Dallas ...
Reform Austin

Tech Giants Sue Texas Over New App Store Accountability Law - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A coalition of major technology companies has filed a federal lawsuit against Texas over its ne...
Liberation News

The people of Genesee County, Michigan, defeat local police 287(g) agreement with ICE - [image: Community members in Genesee County, Michigan, attend an organizing meeting strategizing to fight back against the 287(g) agreement, just hours aft...
San Antonio Current

Opinion: San Antonio residents should examine Hemisfair’s history before voting on props A and B - [image: A postcard depicts a rendering of the now-demolished Institute of Texan Cultures building at Hemisfair.] Memories of Hemisfair's destructive and d...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 27 - 31 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the dearth of monthly federal economic data, the privately sourced...
Courthouse News

How to spot November’s supermoon, the closest of the year - The year’s second of three supermoons will light up the sky on Wednesday.
The AltWorld

New Painting: Roger Waters - Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire. Thinking […] The post New Painting: Roger Waters appeared first o...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
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 ...
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...
Free & Equal

PDE5-hämning via Tadalafil för att förbättra anti-tumör Mucin 1 (MUC1) vaccinets effektivitet hos patienter med HNSCC | manlighaelsa - Klinisk Prövnings-ID Den kliniska prövningen fokuserade på utvärderingen av PDE5-hämmare som tadalafil för att förbättra effektiviteten av MUC1-vaccinet ...
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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