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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

Political Wire

Postcard from Spain - We spent the last week traveling through Spain, with the highlight being the stunning Alhambra in Granada—a breathtaking example of Islamic architecture an...
Mediaite

Bill Burr Shreds ‘That Idiot Elon Musk… Who Evidently Is a Nazi’ - Bill Burr shredded Elon Musk, calling the billionaire "a Nazi" while asking, "Why isn't he stopped?" The post Bill Burr Shreds ‘That Idiot Elon Musk… Who ...
Al Jazeera English

One killed as Ukraine launches ‘massive’ drone attack on Moscow - At least one person has been killed and three injured as more than 90 Ukrainian drones targeted Russia's capital city.
Counterpunch

From Gaza to Syria: The Unyielding Reality of Israeli Settler Colonialism - The conversation on settler colonialism must not be limited to academic discussion. It is a political reality, clearly demonstrated in the everyday behav...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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The Week

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memeorandum

131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case (Steve Vladeck/One First) - Steve Vladeck / One First: *131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case* — The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (a...
Crooked Media

Nic Stone on Fiction vs. Reality - The post Nic Stone on Fiction vs. Reality appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediagazer

Report: writers on at least five 2024 streaming TV shows, including Bridgerton and Fallout, received performance-metric bonuses under the WGA's 2023 contract (Brian Welk/IndieWire) - Brian Welk / IndieWire: *Report: writers on at least five 2024 streaming TV shows, including Bridgerton and Fallout, received performance-metric bonuses ...
jobsanger

Trump's DOJ Is Paving The Way For Corruption -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2375: Hitler’s Copyright - Episode: 2375 The Copyright on Hitler's Book Mein Kampf. Today, a twisted case of copyright.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian police say wave of “antisemitic attacks” was a hoax - The phoney graffiti incidents in Sydney ran parallel with an aggressive campaign by the Israeli government for Australia to adopt “hate speech” laws direct...
Axios

Philippines' former President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on ICC warrant amid war on drugs probe - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte taken into custody at Manila's international on an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Co...
Common Dreams

Amidst Abiding Stupid, Evil and Racist, Selma Is Now - The juxtapositions are Orwellian. This weekend marked the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when racial justice marchers "rewrote the story of the civil...
Informed Comment

We are All Mahmoud Khalil - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The arrest of legal permanent U.S. resident Mahmoud Khalil, 29, by Department of Homeland Security agents for thought crimes...
Antiwar.com

Tariffs Are Theft - The US and China came closer to a full-fledged trade war last week when China imposed tariffs of up to 15 percent on key US agricultural exports. This was ...
CultureMap Houston

Brad Paisley covers Prince and George Strait at RodeoHouston return - Turning in his 17th RodeoHouston performance on Monday night, Brad Paisley has become a part of the quintessential RodeoHouston experience, along with snag...
Courthouse News

Blanket conservation - BUTTE, Mont. — The Interior Department issued a blanket rule that applies the same prohibitions to threatened species as to endangered species. Environment...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Australian share prices plummet $45bn after Trump recession fears tank US market - Donald Trump’s talk of tariffs and the unpredictability of a trade war is causing investor uncertainty in the ASX 200 - Follow our Australia news live...
Deadline Politics

High-Ranking Justice Department Attorney Alleges She Was Fired For Disputing Reinstatement Of Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights - A high-ranking Justice Department pardon attorney says she was fired just a day after she noted her lack of a recommendation for Mel Gibson’s restoration o...
Ballot Access News

New Hampshire Senate Committee Will Hear Bill that Moves the Non-Presidential Primary on Tuesday, March 11 - The New Hampshire Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee will hear SB 222 on Tuesday, March 11, at 9:45 a.m. The bill moves the non-presidenti...
Alternet

How will Trump lie and cheat his way out of this slump? - Recall that Trump was elected largely because Americans thought the economy was lousy and believed him when he said he’d fix it. Now, seven weeks after h...
The Hill

Larry Summers: Odds of a recession 'close to 50/50' - Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Monday that the odds of a recession are “close to 50/50.” “I told [Kasie Hunt] @CNN today, I think there is a ...
Techdirt.

5th Circuit: No Immunity For Cop Who Killed Woman By Shooting Her Through Her Own Backyard Window - None of this will undo this extremely unnecessary killing. But it will at least provide more case law that will hopefully deter cops from shooting first an...
Daily Dot

‘I bought cheap knockoffs on eBay’: Woman takes GMC Yukon into the shop for broken brake light. She didn’t check how much it would cost first - [image: Vehicle Tail Light(l) GMC Dealer Sign(c) GMC YUKON(r)] A mechanic assessing what he thought would be a simple, inexpensive fix on a GMC Yukon dec...
WhoWhatWhy

On Day 50, Trump Is Still a Dictator but Hasn’t Kept Many of His Other Promises - [image: Donald Trump, Speaks, Conservative, Political, Action, Conference] Fifty days into his presidency, how is Donald Trump doing? We looked at some of ...
Raw Story

'Never faced me!' Fed-up Trump aide vows to primary defiant Republican - A House Republican who has been a consistent thorn in President Donald Trump's side appeared to finally get under a fiery Trump aide's skin. Rep. Thomas ...
Consortium News

Outrage at Israel for Cutting Power to Gaza Water Plant - “Ceasefire Israeli-style” — the act of collective punishment comes as negotiators are meeting in Qatar over the terms of the second phase of the ceasefire ...
Popular Resistance

Reasons To Welcome Peace In Ukraine And The Demise Of NATO - The Trump Administration seems to be taking steps to end the Ukrainian proxy war against Russia, in a significant shift of US foreign policy. This has le...
Portside

This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare - This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare Mark Brody Mon, 03/10/2025 - 22:05
Scheerpost.com

Columbia Complicit in Trump Arrest of Student Leader Mahmoud Khalil - Khalil’s detention is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on supporters of Palestinian rights under the pretext of fighting “anti...
Angry Bear

Know Nothings - “The New Know Nothings’ wrecking ball” – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Pictures from this weekend’s Stand up for Science at the Lincoln Memorial sent me sc...
Brad Blog

WI Supreme Court Election Could Flip the Scales Again, So Musk Puts His Thumb and Money on It: 'BradCast' 3/10/2025 - It seems like we've been covering Wisconsin's ferociously-contested, closely-watched, expensively-waged --- and sometimes questionably-tallied --- Supreme ...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on
Workers World

Philadelphia: Militant march for IWWD 2025 - [image: Philadelphia: Militant march for IWWD 2025] Philadelphia, March 8, 2025 Around a thousand people rallied and marched on International Working Women...
Sludge

Gottheimer, Who Pushed TikTok Ban, Invests in Microsoft as It Bids to Buy the App - The House intelligence committee member is buying millions of dollars worth of stock options in Microsoft.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'State dept official once spread rumors that Marco Rubio is gay, Elon Musk dubbed 'White Kanye'' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - * Before or after you read the news briefs below, check out the above video of Saturday Night Live's 'Weekend Update' absolutely skewering the Trump Adm...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on March 3: Kent Schaffer vs Reno Casimir - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Bartlett James W Jr. and Kent Schaffer against Reno Casimir on March...
NPR's Health Shots

HHS Secretary RFK takes aim at a CDC vaccine committee - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., suggests that 97% of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee members have conflicts of interests. His assertion inaccura...
Slate

Inside Basketball’s Triangle of Tension - How Duke remains elite above North Carolina’s two other Triangle area schools
Mother Jones

Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Ban Anti-LGBTQ Conversion Therapy on Kids - In what could foreshadow a major new onslaught against queer and trans children, the US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear a case challeng...
El Paso Matters

State, federal courts reject David Leonard Wood’s efforts to stop scheduled Thursday execution - David Leonard Wood, convicted in the 1987 deaths of six girls and young women in Northeast El Paso, is scheduled to be executed Thursday. The post State...
The Progressive Wing

3.10-13 Open Threads - Hello all. 🙂 I have a small bit of positive news to share from ECFL. We have had small protests here against tRump and Musk over the weekend. Surprisingl...
Rio Grande Guardian

DHR Health Clinics to Offer Free Sports Physicals for ECISD Students - DHR health clinics offer free annual sports physicals for middle and high school students. The post DHR Health Clinics to Offer Free Sports Physicals for...
The Verge

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the newest Big Tech-to-space exec - Eric Schmidt, who was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, is now the CEO of rocket startup Relativity Space, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunc...
Election Law Blog

““It Just Feels Like Death”: Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives” - Daniel Nichanian for Bolts. The post ““It Just Feels Like Death”: Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives” appeared first on Election Law...
Salon.com

"Great difficulty": Musk admits to trouble running DOGE and companies as Tesla stocks tumble - The Tesla and SpaceX head told Fox Business' Larry Kudlow that trying to run his companies and DOGE has been taxing
OpEd News

So Far, The World Is Better Off With Trump! - The world is far better off with Trump as our president than with Genocide Joe Biden.
Vox

Trump’s arrest of a pro-Palestinian organizer, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Futurism

NASA Just Fired Its Chief Scientist, Won't Hire Another One - NASA has eliminated key science offices, including the office of the chief scientist, according to an internal email obtained by Axios. The news comes le...
The Greanville Post

Trump’s Main Targets to be cut: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Assistance to the Poor - ERIC ZUESSE—rump’s Presidency thus far exhibits the most extreme example that I have ever found of a national leader who not only represents ONLY the extre...
The NM Political Report

Lawmakers vote to advance Hispanic education protection bill - By Lauren Lifke Lawmakers voted Monday to advance a bill that would add protection and preservation of New Mexico’s heritage Spanish language and cultur...
ProPublica

Connecticut Lawmakers Seek Overhaul of Towing Laws - by Ginny Monk and Dave Altimari, The Connecticut Mirror This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Conne...
Progressive.org

Jesse Owens and the Anniversary We Should Remember - The iconic athlete was willing to give up his Olympic moment in order for the collective to rise.
Second Nexus

Federal Employees Cheer As Formerly Fired Official Returns To Work After Court Ruling - Republican President Donald Trump—and the White House X account—may have declared him king, but the Trump administration is finding out his powers aren't...
The Root

You Just Won't Believe All the Black Artists on King Charles’ Music Playlist - Who knew? King Charles III is not just the king of one of the most powerful countries in Europe, he’s also a music buff who has an eccentric taste in a v...
Reform Austin

Texas Vouchers: The Real Cost - The challenges facing Texas’s education system — from underfunded classrooms to widening inequalities — are acute and persistent, but some policymakers i...
Claytoonz

BRAAAAAAINS - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Capital & Main

Colorado Residents Now Have a Way to ‘See’ the Toxic Emissions They Live With - High-tech camera reveals the pollutants spewing into the atmosphere, providing evidence for the state to investigate gas and oil operators. The post Colo...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Is something wrong with Brother Musk? - *MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2025* *Will anyone else ever ask?* Based on BREAKING developments, we postpone our plan to school you about this news report in Saturd...
Texas Observer

How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas - In August 2024, the business magazine Inc. released its annual list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States. At 815th, a ...
The Texas Signal

Brutal New Polling For Vouchers In Texas - Ahead of the first public hearing on an expansive voucher bill comes new polling showing how most Texans oppose school choice legislation
San Antonio Report

‘Everyone wants a piece of Project Marvel’: Developers swarm city’s first info session - Developers and architects packed a downtown San Antonio auditorium to learn more about Project Marvel and how to get involved. -----------------------------...
ArcaMax

The Universities Are Next - Trump is following Putin’s, Xi’s, and Orban’s playbook. First, take over military and intelligence operations by purging career officers and substituting o...
Wolf Street

Price of Natural Gas Futures Up 140% Year-over-Year: One More Reason for Inflation to Not Back off Easily - Natural gas accounts for 42% of electricity generation. It’s feedstock for fertilizers. It’s widely used for heating. And 19% was exported in 2024.
Mondoweiss

We are international students organizing for Palestine, and we won’t be deterred - [image: Palestinians break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan near the rubble of buildings in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 1, 2025. (Photo: D...
Texas Standard

Texas House education committee to take up school choice issue this week - This long-awaited move comes weeks after the Senate passed their version of the bill.
American Prospect

The Coherence in Trump’s Incoherence - Today on TAP: You could be forgiven, based on his recent behavior, for concluding that Trump is completely incoherent. Let’s look a little deeper.
Grist

Earth orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse. - By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites.
Undernews

Cracked ICE of the day - [image: May be an image of 1 person] *Paul Burke - *Our daughter Becky, a 28-year-old British tourist, has been caught up in the recent immigration crackd...
MintPress News

Sex, Politics, and Censorship: How a Sex Ed Organization Got Pulled Into the Israel-Palestine Conflict - AASECT, a respected institution in the field of sex education, became an unlikely battleground for the Israel Lobby. Whistleblower documents expose a rel...
First Draft

The Madness Of Now - Not everyone seems to understand what is happening.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Across the Pond - This week's Europe/UK focused Coffee Break: German and Romanian election chicanery, UK snooping, why Western pols believe Ukraine can win.
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
The Daily Poster

Money Laundering For All (Who Can Afford It) - With the help of Republicans, Trump and his corporate allies have taken a sledgehammer to what remains of federal anti-money laundering law.
Dissident Voice

Trump’s Main Targets to be Cut - Trump’s Presidency thus far exhibits the most extreme example that I have ever found of a national leader who not only represents ONLY the extremely rich...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture - The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something ...
Project Censored

What To Us Is International Women’s Day? - This week, a special Project Censored episode: “What To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by Frederick Douglass: What ...
Daily Cartoonist

Ed Berdej – RIP - Cartoonist and sculptor Ed Berdej has passed away. Edward Andrew (Ed) Berdej January 13, 1961 – March 2, 2025 From the obituary: A 1979 graduate of Whippan...
Rewire

Analysis: You Can Blame John Roberts for Our Country’s Legal Shitshow - If Donald Trump is playing king, Roberts is his court jester. The post Analysis: You Can Blame John Roberts for Our Country’s Legal Shitshow appeared fir...
The Grayzone

USAID funded Ukraine group that smeared VP Vance as pro-Russia ‘propagandist’ - US Pres. Donald Trump has lambasted USAID for absurd foreign expenditures. But Trump has omitted perhaps the most scandalous operation: in Ukraine, the U...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court takes up challenge to Colorado ban on “conversion therapy” - [image: Supreme Court takes up challenge to Colorado ban on “conversion therapy”]The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality ...
Bonddad

Scenes from Friday’s jobs report: the (totally contradictory) Big Picture - *- by New Deal democrat* There is no important economic data today, so let’s take a closer look at some of the noteworthy items from Friday’s jobs r...
Glasstire

Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Mariposa Relámpago” From the Art21 “New York Close Up” digital series - As part of Glasstire’s partnership with Art21, the organization known for producing award-winning documentary films about the lives and work of some of t...
Bracing Views

War Is the True Enemy - W.J. Astore America’s Revival Will Begin When It Finally Embraces Peace Arguably the biggest problem in America today is that the government remains on a w...
Discourse

This Is What Fascism Looks Like - Government shock troops disappearing a dissident into their gulag network—that's pretty cut and dry.
The AltWorld

Even More Assaults On Free Speech To Silence Criticism Of Israel: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - Acting on orders from the White House, immigration agents have arrested a Columbia University graduate for deportation due to […] The post Even More Assa...
Idavox

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) - Not only is this year is a decade of this website named after her, U.S.... The post Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) appeared first on Idavox.
The Conversation

George Washington, a real estate investor and successful entrepreneur, knew the difference between running a business and running the government - The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an efficient federal government.
Democracy Now!

Mahmoud Khalil: ICE Detains Green Card Holder over Columbia University Gaza Activism - Immigration agents with the Department of Homeland Security have detained a leader of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University in New York. Ma...
Space City Weather

Houston’s mild weather continues for at least the next week, with some top-10 days - In brief: Spring remains in full bloom this week for the Houston region, with some exceptional weather on tap. Monday looks incredibly nice, and you can pl...
Earth 911

How Many Butts? Estimating Your Cigarette Waste Cleanup Impact - Have you ever wondered just how many cigarette butts you and your fellow cleanup volunteers... The post How Many Butts? Estimating Your Cigarette Waste C...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 8: Trump Cancels Columbia - On Friday of last week, the Trump administration announced that it was canceling $400 million in grants to and contracts with Columbia University in resp...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Encourages Followers To ‘Shut Up About Egg Prices’ — and Boosts Op-Ed Blaming Biden for High Costs -
Skeptophilia

Wipeout - 252 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a confluence of Very Unfortunate Events. First, most of the large continental land masses locked up into a si...
Off The Kuff

Bill to fix joint primary problem introduced - Worth watching. What happened? Texas state senators Thursday held a public hearing on legislation crafted to update a 2023 law requiring certain counties t...
Progressives Chat

‘…Starmer [War] summit. Coalition of willing to fight Russia’ - *The Duran* published to YouTube on Monday, March 3, 2025 a discussion about United Kingdom prime minister Keir Starmer, and other European allies, wanti...
DeSmogBlog

I Spent 3 Days at Jordan Peterson’s Anti-Climate ARC Conference. Here’s What I Saw. - It’s easy to dismiss Jordan Peterson, the Canadian bad boy ex-academic, as a sideshow. But when he’s standing six feet away, scowling before an audience ...
Media Lens

‘A Dagger To The Heart’: BBC Credibility Nosedives Even Further - The BBC’s withdrawal of the powerful documentary, ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’, epitomises how much the UK’s national broadcaster is beholden to the Is...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 10 March 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] I feel seen..... Nice try..... Seen a...
Ian Welsh

Romania Bans Georgescu From Running Permanently - [image: Romania Bans Georgescu From Running Permanently] I earlier wrote that the West’s elites were too tentative in their approach to lawfare, using Tru...
Rallblog

Liberals Have Changed - The debate over whether or not to continue to support Ukraine highlights a seismic ideological realignment on foreign policy. Democrats, who were traditi...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "You levy a straw tax on the poor and impose a tax on their grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them."
Debunking Christianity

Visit My Page at The Secular Web! - You should already know of my 13 critically acclaimed books as I described them here. Avid readers will pardon me for reminding others of my page at The Se...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Accidental Pollock - [image: Accidental Pollock]
See You In 2020

Zionist lies, the politics of disavowal, & the agency we all have to help save Palestine - Last month, in response to the rise of discussions about the Gaza genocide within my local community, a group called Shalom Humboldt published a series ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2025 - Walmart had at least fifteen more shootings related to their business, with most of them on their property, but at least three were nearby and either th...
The Militant

Teamsters on strike at 10 Roads Express gain solidarity - NEWARK, N.J. — On the 10 Roads Express picket line here March 1, two truckers and their Teamsters Local 641 representative discussed their strike with Joan...
Liberation News

PSL editorial — International Women’s Day means we fight to defeat Trump’s billionaire coup! - Honor the working-class revolutionary legacy of IWD by joining the mass movement to defeat Trump’s billionaire coup!
Field Negro

"State of the Union causes State of Confusion" - The state of this fragile American union is not good. It's not good because the leader is intentionally trying to divide us and destroy it. I am not ...
Krebs on Security

Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks - In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of vict...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE WRATH OF TUBBY EDITION. - *Hey, this has lyrics -- perfect for karaoke night! * Not gonna say what a week because they’re all what-a-weeks. There’s plenty enough to get pissed abo...
Church and State

The Trump Short List of Utter Criminality! - Fifth, in the most reprehensible and stupid Elon Musk's attacks on government institutions, I would cite his destruction of USAID.
Eater Houston

Bun B’s Trill Burgers Is Opening Another Houston Location This Summer - [image: A smash burger served with fries, a drink, and dirty soda.] Trill Burgers is opening more Houston locations. | Becca Wright The smash burger join...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Singled Out for Speaking Up: How UCSC Seized My Digital Life After I Joined a Lawsuit Against Them - When I was a little girl, my family visited the Santa Cruz boardwalk and nearby beach. It felt familiar and safe to return here for college. My freshman ...
Political Garbage Chute

Greenlander Would Rather Not Lose Universal Healthcare to Join “Shit Hole” Country - “Why would we want to join a shit hole country that doesn’t even give us basic human health services like every other developed nation?” When he was runn...
Texas Monthly

“Terrible, Thoughtless, and Reckless”: Inside the Firings at Big Bend National Park - Tourists are flocking to the 1,252 square miles of rugged terrain, where visitor safety is a primary concern. DOGE just slashed five employees from the alr...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 7, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 7, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/07/2025 - 08:29 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
High Country News

The Trump administration is trying to fire the ‘backbone’ of wildland firefighting - [image: Rosebud Sioux firefighter Chance Wooden Knife throws a bag of ice to firefighter Smokey Kills Smart at camp as their crew gets ready to head out on...
Dissent Magazine

Settler Terror Continues in the West Bank - The documentary *No Other Land* won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse.
NORML

Idaho: Lawmakers Advance Resolution Eliminating Voters’ Ability To Legalize Marijuana by Ballot Initiative - [image: idaho marijuana laws][image: idaho marijuana laws]"State lawmakers are well aware that their 'reefer madness' views are out of step with most Ida...
Bud Kennedy

A tale of two Fort Worth churches: The Copelands feared measles. Mercy Culture laughs | Opinion - When the devil of measles struck 25 members of Kenneth Copeland’s church, the Copelands brought vaccines to the sanctuary. Now, a lead pastor of Mercy Cult...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Lessons from History: House Incumbents from the Non-Presidential Party Rarely Lose Reelection in Midterms - KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The non-presidential party often picks up House seats in midterms, and as a part of it, that party’s incumbents rarely los...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists at UT-Austin: This is downright disgraceful - *Friends,* *As I read this and came up with all the labels for this piece, this development at UT-Austin is quite the smorgasbord. * *eugenics, UT-Austin...
Ecosophia

Intermezzo: The Ring and the Grail 2 - The Holy Grail! Most people think they know a certain amount about it, even if their only exposure to the legends of the Grail come from watching Monty Pyt...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Senate Advances Ten Commandments Bill, Undermining Religious Freedom of Texas Students - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2025 CONTACT: Emily Witt, emily@tfn.org AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers today advanced Senate Bill 10, also known as the T...
Lowering the Bar

Smoke Bombs, Flares Liven Up Parliament Session - Not bad for the first session of the year.
ExChristian.Net

Having Autism Is One Reason I Ditched Xtianity - * By MTC ~* I (a 39-year-old female) was diagnosed with autism in early childhood. Even though I turned out to be higher-functioning in several ways, I p...
Unlimited Hangout

The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 1 - What does the title of this article—not to mention each unusual word in it — even mean? This is not a rhetorical question. We urgently need to understand...
Earthworks

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Join Calls to Respect the Rights of the Xinka People of Guatemala - In mid February, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), an Indigenous political advocacy non-profit organization representing more than … ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Leaving Everyone Behind: The Green Transition amid Violent War - In my article ‘Pipes, Profits and Peace: Toward a Feminist Political Economy of Gas during War’, which was awarded the 2024 AIPEN Richard Higgott Prize f...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

¿Quieres ser organizadora? - Nos ponemos de pie, levantamos nuestras voces, y tomamos la palabra. Tengo tanto orgullo de cada uno de ustedes, los miembros de People’s Action y People’s...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Spike Dome - Today’s model is a tessellation that I folded at the Geometric Origami Convention in 2024. That means we folded it within an hour and a half, not counting...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Wars to Come - OK, I’m going to do something I never do. I’m going to publish an excerpt from a work in progress, i.e., the novel I am working on currently, or that I hav...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Trump, Europe’s Collapse & Why Liberals Keep Losing, w/ Yanis Varoufakis - Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to gr...
LareDOS

Scholar publishes book with insights into well-worn cowboy ballad - José E. Limón’s *The Streets of Laredo: Texas Modernity and Its Discontents*
Greg Palast

How Trump, GOP Fixed 2026 — Yes, 2026 - You can ignore Trump slyly hinting to the Lord’s chosen that he just might call off the next election. “Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
nonsite.org

Painter: Making A Modern Painting - With generous permission from the filmmaker’s estate, we are honored to share this extraordinary short documentary, completed in 2017 by Joseph De Francesc...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
The Rag Blog

ALLEN YOUNG / BOOKS / ‘A Prince of a Boy: How One Gay Catholic Helped Change the World’ - By Allen Young / The Rag Blog / February 20, 2025 As I sat down to write a review of Brian McNaught’s memoir — knowing Iwould praise and recommend the book...
Democracy Chronicles

So What Of Gaza? Trump’s Plan And Some Context - Trump's vague plan for Gaza involves relocating its population, but the context of Palestinian rejectionism complicates potential solutions.
TalkLeft

Trump and Elon Musk: Policy at Home and Abroad - This is an open thread for all things related to Donald Trump's second administration, including Elon Musk, his non-elected co-leader, and Stephen Miller...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about “Race, Shaming, and International Human Rights” - Can human-rights organizations avoid accusations of racism when they criticize certain governments? Can they avoid fueling racism? Zoltán I. Búzás and Lote...
Reveal

How Some Christian Group Homes Avoid Florida’s Standards - In place of the state, a nonprofit association has regulatory authority over about two dozen of the facilities. How Some Christian Group Homes Avoid Flo...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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 ...
Free & Equal

Becoming United & Thankful - After a tough, divisive, and historic presidential election, Kelly Wright focuses on how Americans are seeking to become more united. Christina Tobin dis...
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
GreenSource DFW

Can you recycle campaign signs? Here's where to take them in DFW - *Some municipal recycling centers and private recycling facilities will accept them. Photo by Harriet Blake.* Nov. 7, 2024 The election is over. No more...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
The Socialist

International Relations: Tensions in Eastern Europe - Tensions in Eastern Europe have escalated recently, with geopolitical implications that resonate globally. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine ...
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 ...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Sex, Power & Play at Europe’s Largest Arms Fair - A guest post from Nico Edwards. Nico is the author of the new World Peace Foundation report Resisting Green Militarism: Building Movements for Peace and Ec...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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&qu...
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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...
Texans For Public Justice

Paxton Criminal Trial Lingers (again). - From the TexasTribune: Texas AG Ken Paxton's criminal case likely to face further delays as attorneys revive fights over venue, prosecutor pay Read the ar...
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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