Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

The most anticipated movies of 2026 - If the trailers are anything to go by, film buffs are in for a treat
Al Jazeera English

A decimated Gaza marks the end of another year of Israeli bombs - Nobody relaxes too much in the fleeting moments of near-normalcy because they know these can disappear at any time.
Raw Story

Trump spreading MAGA 'personality cult' across the world with one key change: analysis - Donald Trump is pushing the MAGA "personality cult" across the world with one key change, according to a political analysist. CNN correspondent Stephen C...
Countercurrents

The killing of student Anjel Chakma is a blot on Dehradun – and India - On December 26 this year, Anjel Chakma from Tripura, an MBA student in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, succumbed to his injuries and passed away. Earlier, on Dec 9,...
memeorandum

New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled (New York Times) - New York Times: *New Year's Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled* — The jazz drummer Billy Hart said the decision was “evidently” connected to P...
Consortium News

John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful - UPDATED: John Pilger died two years ago today on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as ...
Land Destroyer

US Seeks Greenland Grab as Pursuit of Primacy Accelerates - *December 30, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - All under the guise of “pursuing peace” in a proxy war the US itself engineered and is for all intents and ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Destroying Civil Rights Protections - And It Will Get Worse -
Mediagazer

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap) - Tess Patton / The Wrap: *Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K+; news suffered 2,25...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3037: Carol of the Bells - Episode: 3037 Carol of the Bells. Today, a Christmas carol.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The alternative 2025 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos - The best and worst of 2025 – featuring devotion in DC, late-night tweeting and the fly that sank a birdie *The White House,* issuing a communique to repo...
See You In 2020

Matt Taibbi’s depiction of Epstein as a “moral-mania story” shows how alt media can be captured - Matt Taibbi is not the first prominent alternative media figure to run cover for the perpetrators of child sexual abuse operations. Alexander Cockburn, ...
Daily Cartoonist

Best Editoons of 2025 (Part 4) - Just a few sites today but nearly a score of editorial cartoonists represent. The Everett (Wash) Herald is splitting their best ofs into four parts pretty ...
Informed Comment

“Through the Seventh Gate:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:31 - From earth’s dark depths to Saturn’s pinnacle / I solved the puzzles of the turning skies.
Mediaite

‘Norman Rockwell Was Antifa’: Artist’s Granddaughter Bashes Trump Admin for Hijacking His Art - Norman Rockwell's granddaughter lambasted the Trump administration for its use of his iconic paintings, pointing out that the famous artist was well know...
Portside

How Effective Is Protesting? According to Historians and Political Scientists: Very - How Effective Is Protesting? According to Historians and Political Scientists: Very Mark Brody Mon, 12/29/2025 - 23:54
Courthouse News

Judge allows immigrants to challenge ICE courthouse arrests - Immigrants in California challenging new enforcement tactics, won a key victory as a federal judge rejected the government's bid to dismiss their lawsuit.
Axios

Photos: China holds military drills around Taiwan, but Trump says he's not worried - China's military held massive live-fire drills around Taiwan for a second day on Tuesday, but President Trump said he's not concerned about the action th...
The Hill

Zelensky agrees relationship with Trump has ‘evolved’ over time - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed that his relationship with President Trump has “evolved” over time. During an interview that aired Monday on ...
Political Wire

More Kennedy Center Performers Pull Out - “At least three more events are no longer happening at the Kennedy Center after its board, which was handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted to rename ...
Techdirt.

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book On A Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism To Cancer - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy t...
Alternet

'Can't stand on that stage': More artists are canceling Kennedy Center shows due to Trump - After President Donald Trump put his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a growing number of artists have been calling off their ...
Popular Resistance

Chile’s Failure To Bury Neoliberalism Led To Pinochetista President - Stunning, though expected, on December 14, a majority of Chileans (58 per cent to 41 per cent) elected far-right Republican Party candidate Jose Antonio ...
The Progressive Wing

12/29-1/4 New Year News Roundup and Open Thread - End of the old–start of the new.
The Verge

LG is announcing its own Frame-style TV at CES - In just the past couple years, the art TV category that's been dominated by Samsung's The Frame has seen growth, with additions from both TCL and Hisense. ...
Claytoonz

CBS Drops The Soap - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Deadline Politics

NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Plans Jan. 1 Swearing In At Old City Hall Subway Station With “Inauguration For A New Era” Block Party - Zohran Mamdani will be officially sworn in as the 112th major of New York City on Jan. 1 some feet below City Hall at an abandoned Gilded Age subway statio...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Sold out Christmas drag show gets the last laugh on Florida, final thoughts about Charlie Kirk & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Editor's note - this may or may not be my final post for 2025. Either way, I am grateful for all of your support and hope that I continue to retain that...
Antiwar.com

Christmas Cruise Missiles: Nigeria’s Complex War and America’s Misguided Strike - A Decidedly Non‑Christmas Gift On Christmas Day 2025, President Donald Trump declared that the United States had launched a salvo of Tomahawk missiles agai...
CultureMap Houston

Big budget busts and incoherent stories: The 10 worst movies of 2025 - 5) *Anaconda*
Workers World

Acabemos con el «corolario de Trump» - [image: Acabemos con el «corolario de Trump»] Hay mucho que decir sobre la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional 2025 para el imperialismo estadounidense de la ...
ArcaMax

5 ways to make more than a billion dollars - One of the most notable characteristics of 2025 has been the shamelessness of the billionaire class and the conspicuousness of its corruption. For many yea...
San Antonio Current

Acclaimed San Antonio restaurant Cured to close this January after 13 years - [image: Steve McHugh is chef-owner of Cured, set to close in January.] Chef Steve McHugh chose not to renew the lease on Cured's distinctive space at the ...
Salon.com

Chappell Roan recants Bardot tribute after learning of late French star’s Islamophobic views - "Holy s**t I did not know all that insane s**t Ms. Bardot stood for,” Roan wrote
Scheerpost.com

Apocalypse Right Now -
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Levitating the Pentagon - Levitating the Pentagon, and Other Uplifting Stories: A Life of Activism By Nancy Kurshan; Three Rooms Press; 2025 By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / Decembe...
Daily Dot

Disappointed “Stranger Things” fans demand to see original cut as theories about lost plot lines grow online - [image: stranger things fans release the cut] *Stranger Things *fans online are demanding to see cut scenes, claiming the new Season 5 episodes contain p...
Eschaton

Monday Evening - enjoy
Environment Texas

What’s the difference between a whale, dolphin and porpoise? - A common question many people ask, but few know the answer. Learn how to identify between these marine mammals. The post What’s the difference between a ...
WhoWhatWhy

In This War, Not Losing … Is Winning - [image: General Washington's, entrance into Boston, evacuation, British troops] Something George Washington, faced with a comparable power dynamic, unders...
Mother Jones

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Turned on Her Over Epstein Survivors - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that her defense of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and threat to disclose the identities of some of the ...
Project Censored

History, Myth, and Media in an Age of Disinformation - In the first half of the show Italian philosopher and author Federico Campagna joins the show to discuss his most recent book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Five Years Later: Ethnic Studies as Renewal in an Age of Structured Forgetting, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Five Years Later: Ethnic Studies as Renewal in an Age of Structured Forgetting** *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 29, 2025* *Five years ago...
San Antonio Report

Search enters fifth day for missing 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos - As the search enters Day 5, volunteers and law enforcement continue efforts to find Camila Mendoza Olmos, missing since Christmas Eve. ---------------------...
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
OpEd News

Whatever Happened to Trump's "Golden Age" for American Workers? - Although Donald Trump's Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that "Trump's Golden Age puts American workers first," that contention is contradicted ...
slacktivist

Pulpit glurge, joke thieves and vaudeville preaching - What's worse than a joke-thief? A preacher who steals comedy bits and calls that a "sermon."
Reform Austin

U.S. Pledges $2B but Demands Overhaul of U.N. Humanitarian Aid System - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The United States is restructuring how it funds United Nations humanitarian operations, pledgin...
Mondoweiss

Palestine’s internal political crisis is allowing foreign powers to decide its fate - [image: Mahmoud Abbas]Palestinians are in a political crisis. With Palestinian society divided, and no unified national leadership to represent it, regiona...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: What did Candidate Trump really say? - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025* *Endless dispute resolved:* We didn't see today's exchange ourselves. But over at *Mediaite*, Isaac Schorr has captured the l...
Texas Standard

‘Don’t mourn, organize.’ How disability rights advocate Bob Kafka helped shape Texas and the nation - Kafka was a fixture at the Texas and U.S. Capitols, pushing lawmakers to make housing, transportation and voting more accessible for people with disabilities.
Krebs on Security

Happy 16th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity.com! - KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge "thank you" to all of our readers -- newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Y...
Undernews

19 rules for doing your laundry better -
Independent Political Report

Arizona Libertarian Party to Hold 2026 State Convention in Tucson - The Arizona Libertarian Party will hold its 2026 state convention next January in Tucson, with the organization’s Pima County affiliate organizing a seri...
Vox

Zohran Mamdani on his mayoral transition and what comes next - If one elected official had a breakout year in 2025, it’s New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The 34-year-old former state assembly member came out o...
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
El Paso Matters

Opinion: After 2025, Americans must confront the cost of failed leadership and moral collapse - The events of 2025 revealed profound failures in American leadership and institutions, exposing how racism, bigotry and political complicity have weaken...
Crooked Timber

Some thoughts on charitable donations - I read a post on one of the social media platforms written by a professor who was sharing his experience with giving away ten percent of his income, after ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: ICE, Antifa, and the Ever Expanding Definition of Terrorism - The Trump administration has expanded the official definition of "terrorism" and is already getting guilty pleas from alleged Antifa members.
First Draft

A President Going Nuts on Christmas Should Be a Bigger Deal - That the administration in power sounds like a bunch of social media trolls should never be normalized.
Rallblog

Democrats, Don’t Claim a Mandate - There is, at this writing, a better-than-even chance that Democrats will recapture the House of Representatives. They also have a shot at the Senate. If ...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Labour government and Supreme Court continue cover up of “dirty war” in Ireland - 31 years after the murder of Paul “Topper” Thompson, the UK Supreme Court has upheld the “neither confirm nor deny” stance taken by the government when “co...
Dorf on Law

Goodbye and Good Riddance to 2025: Let's Stop Accepting Frivolous Constitutional Arguments - 2025 is almost in the books and it cannot end quickly enough. Our country has descended into a nation that looks more like Biff’s domain from *Back to th...
Discourse

The Best of Discourse Blog: 2025 Edition - We made it.
Ballot Access News

California Politics Commentator Dan Walters Again Discusses California Top-Two’s Strange Effect on Gubernatorial Race - Dan Walters, the dean of California politics commentators, has again written a Cal Matters column on how the top-two system could result in a gubernatorial...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 135: Dec. 29, 2025 - Today's puzzle has six pears.
The Root

Why the Democratic Party Is Setting Itself Up For Failure Ahead of Midterm Elections - As we prepare for the 2026 midterms, the Democratic party could be its own worst enemy. Read more...
Election Law Blog

WSJ Editorial: “MAGA’s Latest Stolen 2020 Election Theory; This blunder by Fulton County, Ga., isn’t what Trump’s allies claim.” - WSJ Editorial: Elections are supposed to run by the book, and Fulton County’s blunder is bad for public confidence. Yet so are Mr. Trump’s constantly shi...
Bonddad

Regional Fed manufacturing indexes suggest 2025 trends are slowly abating - - *by New Deal democrat* Although the federal government shutdown has been over for a month and a half, most of the data that has been released has ...
Capital & Main

Editor’s Picks: Capital & Main’s Standout Stories of 2025 - A selection of some of our most memorable, revealing and impactful journalism of the year. The post Editor’s Picks: Capital & Main’s Standout Stories of ...
Common Dreams

Burgum’s Offshore Wind Halt of Questionable Legality - The Secretary of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) abrupt cessation of all leases for major offshore wind electric generation facilities under const...
The Conversation

The ‘sacred’ pledge that will power the relaunch of far-right militia Oath Keepers - Founder Stewart Rhodes says he will relaunch the group, serving as an important outlet for thousands of members who have felt lost since his imprisonment, ...
NPR's Health Shots

From chess to a medical mystery: Great global reads from 2025 you may have missed - We published hundreds of stories on global health and development each year. Some are ... alas ... a bit underappreciated by readers. We've asked our staff...
SCOTUSblog

Skrmetti and birth equality (Part V): How the case should have been analyzed - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
Dissident Voice

Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture - If Baud, then we are all potential targets now! Jacques Baud’s case is mind-boggling. A Swiss citizen, a former NATO-, OSCE- and UN-related colleague and...
Glasstire

In Memoriam: 2025 Obituaries in Glasstire - As we approach the end of 2025, Glasstire recalls the lives and legacies of those who have passed away. Houston lost several longtime artists who influen...
Ian Welsh

Can You Just Out-Breed Your Domestic Enemies? - There’s a constant trope on the right that the best way to win is to have more kids because eventually you’ll outnumber your enemies? Seems like it makes s...
Futurism

Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI - What a concept! The post Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI appeared first on Futurism.
Rewire

Six Rituals and Daily Practices To Help You Survive 2026 - *Rewire News Group* shares our strategies for staying sane in the New Year. The post Six Rituals and Daily Practices To Help You Survive 2026 appeared ...
Democracy Now!

Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump's Current Border Commissioner - An HBO documentary, *Critical Incident: Death at the Border*, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Roj...
Space City Weather

Back to reality for a couple days, but 2026 is likely to begin on a warm note too - In brief: Houston is back to more classic December fare today, with low clouds, a gusty wind, and temps in the 40s. We’ll have a couple chilly nights tonig...
Texas Observer

Our Most-Read Stories of 2025 - Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a sense of what stories are making a splash with a bigge...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Dandelion Energy CEO Dan Yates On How Geothermal Leasing Could Transform Home Heating and Cooling - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. Amazingly, the same Congressional bill... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Dande...
The Smirking Chimp

The Reckoning -
Skeptophilia

Race to the bottom - The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like "virtue" or "...
Off The Kuff

Fifth Circuit upholds award for Harvey reservoir flooding - A bog deal. Homeowners whose properties were damaged in 2017 by Hurricane Harvey floodwaters upstream of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs in west Houston ...
ProPublica

Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous - The post Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous appeared first on ProPublica.
Angry Bear

The downside of semaglutides - GLP-1-based therapies for obesity have been transformational. The benefits are undeniable, and the risks for most people are negligible. These drugs belo...
High Country News

Cascades frogs vanished from Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2007. Now, they’re back. - [image: An adult Cascades frog floats among aquatic vegetation.] With careful site selection and antifungal baths, scientists are staging a frog comeback ...
Counterpunch

Gaza as the Last Moral Frontier against Israel’s Policy of Annihilation - Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli ...
Wolf Street

IPO Bloodletting after “Pop” in 2025: Venture Global, CoreWeave, Figma, Klarna, Bullish, Circle Internet, Navan, Firefly, Fermi… - Medline is one of the exceptions, after seven trading days.
The AltWorld

They Feign Concern About Pro-Palestine Chants In Order To Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protests - It’s such an insult to our intelligence how Israel supporters pretend it’s the WAY pro-Palestine protests are […] The post They Feign Concern About Pro-P...
The Greanville Post

The Proof is in the Pudding: A Few Comments on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics - GARY OLSON—The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in Shanghai in July 1921. At its inception the CPC had only 50 members (100 million today) and ca...
The Grayzone

Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal - After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the...
Liberation News

Corporate interests are driving Colorado River to near-collapse - The Colorado River is on the verge of collapse, potentially threatening the water supply of 40 million people.
Debunking Christianity

Announcing the First Draft of the Cover To My Last Book: - As I said it's just the first draft. I love the concept. You can read the Preface, Blurbs, Contents and Introduction to "God and Horrendous Suffering" 2nd...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Many Happy Returns' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the real shithole country - The truth behind the gleaming photos and propaganda statistics. 2:42 to 4:38 is a skippable ad.
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
The Daily Poster

Did That Really Happen In 2025? - Test your knowledge of consolidation in the frozen potato market, new national security directives, and other issues from the past year that really matter.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
Progressive.org

Telling Sy Hersh’s Story - A new documentary casts harsh light on government secrecy, failed media oversight, and public backlash.
Church and State

Trump’s REIGN now fading but will his corruption ever be punished? - Trump’s deteriorating metal condition implies that we have a man entering dementia, which of course will continue to be hidden by his staff.
Democracy Chronicles

An Intelligent Decision: Engaging the Greens and the Progressive Democrats - The Republican Party and corporate American take over of the Democratic Party obviously is the issue. This duality has been the source of our nation's suff...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Holiday Listener Mailbag: Audio From A Collapsing State - For the holiday season let's go through some reader questions
Duck of Minerva

Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war - And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said;“For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Thanks fo...
TalkLeft

Merry Christmas Eve 2025 and Open Thread - Christmas Eve is the single, quietest night of the year. The world seems to shut down, from stores to movie theaters to restaurants and even food deliver...
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Just Revealed Trump's Real Motive For Building A White House Ballroom—And It's Peak Trump - Fox News host Jesse Watters told a Turning Point USA crowd that MAGA Republican President Donald Trump is building his golden ballroom as a monument to h...
Ecosophia

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

Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) - The post Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Dissent Magazine

*Dissent* in 2025 - Our most read articles this year.
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
Grist

What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good - As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
The NM Political Report

What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor - “To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close i...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

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

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

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

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Reveal

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

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

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

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Progressives Chat

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Consent Factory, Inc.

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Campaign for America's Future

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

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

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

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

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American Prospect

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

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Progressive Army

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

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Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Post-election day toons

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