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

ArcaMax

When Presidents Clashed with Allies: Trump, Zelenskyy, Roosevelt and De Gaulle in Historical Context - Echoing other analysts, New York Times opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote: "What happened in the Oval Office on (Feb. 28) ... was something that ha...
memeorandum

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained (Sarah Betancourt/New Hampshire ...) - Sarah Betancourt / New Hampshire Public Radio: *Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained* — A New Hampshire man w...
Raw Story

‘Stop talking’: CNN panel spirals into shouting match over DOJ ‘weaponization’ claims - President Donald Trump’s controversial speech at the Department of Justice on Friday sparked a fiery CNN debate between two guests that sent accusations ...
The Hill

Trump says ISIS chief killed in Iraq - President Trump on Friday announced that ISIS’s second in command was killed in Iraq this week, touting it as an example of his administration’s “peace thr...
Al Jazeera English

US sanctions Thailand’s officials over deportation of Uighurs to China - Thailand defends last month's decision, saying China assured the safety of the repatriated Uighur people.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

How Pete Hegseth is pushing his beliefs on US agency: ‘nothing to prepare forces’ - As defense secretary shifts focus to culture war, some fear he is neglecting ‘future of warfare’ for US military - Never miss global breaking news. Do...
WhoWhatWhy

Vladimir Putin Is Applauding the Republican Assault on American Government - [image: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump,] What more could Putin want? Destroying America’s government, insulting and threatening allies, and causing a great r...
Vox

The man whose tweets helped kill DEI - Four years ago, Richard Hanania was a little-known right-wing intellectual, one of many posters building a brand with tweets and Substack posts attacking “...
naked capitalism

Links 3/15/2025: The Ides of March -
Political Wire

Democrats End Up Having a Worse Week Than Trump - “President Donald Trump’s week was poised to be bruising,” Politico reports. “Instead, the president is ending it on a political high after he and congress...
The Root

From 'TradWife' to Cornrows At Paris Fashion Week, How Nara Smith Gets Final Became 'Legit' - Nara Smith gained global popularity a couple years ago by doing stuff that didn’t exactly...well...connect with Black folks. Posting ASMR-friendly videos...
Salon.com

How the right hijacked Jewish resistance to squash dissent - Mahmoud Khalil and the Purim Story
Futurism

The FDA, Which is Run By A Homophobic Conspiracy Theorist, Has Raided a Poppers Company - Donald Trump's administration appears to be cracking down on the production of amyl nitrite, an increasingly popular grey-legal inhalant better known as ...
Eschaton

Morning - I hope some more people are receptive to my occasional "maybe the Dem leadership needs to be yelled at more" posts.
Mother Jones

The Gutting of US Weather Forecasting Abilities Could Prove Very Deadly - This story was originally published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This isn’t what ...
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Shavano Park - Since moving to Shavano Park, Mary Young-Davis has enjoyed learning about the South Texas ecosystem and volunteering in her community. ---------------------...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: Hello, Oklahoma - The Texas count tops 250 and keeps on climbing. The measles outbreak that began in the South Plains region of Texas grew to 259 cases and spread to two mor...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - [image: Open Thread] Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Axios

Where Gen Zers are buying homes - Data: CoreLogic; Chart: Axios Visuals More Gen Zers are looking to break into the home market, new data shows. *Why it matters: *High housing costs and a s...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for March 15, 2025 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US Appeals court allows DEI crackdown - Administration contends it’s fighting unlawful discrimination
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-03-15 -
Scheerpost.com

Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy - Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, the Columbia dean at the center of the university’s student purge, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer. Now, she stands...
ProPublica

The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network - by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica and FRONTLINE, and James Bandler, ProPublica This story contains references to homophobia, antisemitism and racism, as well...
Southeast Texas Record

Plaintiff alleges negligence against Hilton Homewood Suites after slip-and-fall injury - Cameron Fields has filed a lawsuit against Hilton Homewood Suites for negligence after slipping on wet tiles at their Round Rock location last December. ...
The Week

Norway's windfall: should it go to Ukraine? - Oil-based wealth fund is intended 'for future generations of Norwegians', but Putin's war poses an existential threat
Common Dreams

We Will Not Comply - Freefalling through our authoritarian takeover, this week saw New York police in the grotesque faux-gold belly of the beast arrest about 100 Jews of cons...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 15 March 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Don't duck under the gate. See a cat lose a fight with a box. Some peopl...
Crooked Media

Grand Theft Autocrat - The post Grand Theft Autocrat appeared first on Crooked Media.
Daily Dot

‘What is going on?’: Hotel guests opens Holiday Inn room. Then she sees what’s inside - [image: Screenshot from @boymom3715's Tiktok of a man in a hotel room; Photo of a Holiday Inn.] Holiday Inn customer Marissa Rogowski (@boymom3715) was m...
Mediagazer

The real threat of AI models training on open-access material is that they may bleed free repositories dry by draining resources and not providing attribution (Molly White/Citation Needed) - Molly White / Citation Needed: *The real threat of AI models training on open-access material is that they may bleed free repositories dry by draining re...
jobsanger

The U.S. Is Now A Rogue Superpower -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1054: Bats - Episode: 1054 In Praise of Bats. Today, we meet some beleaguered animals that should be our friends.
First Draft

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

Australia: Labor governments refuse to repeal hate speech laws - It is increasingly clear that Labor leaders were aware the “antisemitic attacks” were a hoax, even as they declared them a major threat to national securit...
Informed Comment

European CO2 Emissions keep Plummeting, as 47% of Electricity is Green - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The 27 countries of the European Union, with a population of about 450 million, produce 3.9 billion metric tons of carbon di...
CultureMap Houston

‘Electrical incident’ abruptly cancels Journey concert at RodeoHouston - On Friday night, Journey’s sold-out RodeoHouston show in front of over 70,000 fans was cut short during the middle of “Don’t Start Believin’,” the fourth s...
Capital & Main

Trump EPA Chief’s Assault on Environmental Justice Means Those With the Least Will Get Hurt the Most - The 'Great American Comeback' shouldn't be filthy air, dirty water and no sanitation for the marginalized, says activist Catherine Coleman Flowers. The ...
Deadline Politics

Bill Maher Couldn’t Get Josh Shapiro To Admit He’s Running For POTUS In 2028, But PA Governor Sure Tested Out Some Stump Speech Lines On ‘Real Time’ - After a week of even greater political brinksmanship at home and abroad from Donald Trump, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro tonight weaved around admitti...
Mediaite

Democrat on CNN Threatens To Bail on Party Over Leaders’ ‘Inability to Figure Out What To Do in the Face of Fascism’ - Progressive writer Touré, a lifelong Democrat, told CNN’s Abby Phillip Friday night that he is considering leaving the party over its “inability” to comb...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | March 14, 2025 barry Fri, 03/14/2025 - 22:58
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BEEN SO DOWN SO LONG IT STILL LOOKS DOWN TO ME EDITION. - *You *know* how I love Nima Simone. Have I posted this one before? * *Well, who cares if I have.* MORE LIKE CUCK SCHUMER AMIRITE. Well. It’s been another...
Techdirt.

Justin Baldoni’s Lawsuit Against The NY Times Appears Destined For Dismissal - As we’ve been following along to some degree with the whole Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni legal mess, the more recent stories have been about Baldoni’...
The Verge

Samsung soundbar owners report major problems after latest firmware update - Samsung’s flagship soundbar, the HW-Q990D, is being rendered useless for some owners after a faulty firmware update that the company rolled out this week. ...
Popular Resistance

25 Days Of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women From 40 Billion Hours Of Water Harvesting - March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the socialist movement. Most of the world now only calls 8 March ‘Interna...
Workers World

Musk/Trump war on trans people, workers of color includes veterans - [image: Musk/Trump war on trans people, workers of color includes veterans] New York City The author is a transgender veteran, retired from the Veterans Ad...
Sludge

Senate Dems Vote to Hand Trump the Keys After Months of Fundraising Off Resistance - The DSCC stepped up its fundraising to “stop” Trump and Elon Musk, but Minority Leader Schumer, DSCC Chair Gillibrand, and others voted to help Republicans...
Election Law Blog

“Trump calls his opponents ‘scum’ and lawbreakers in bellicose speech at Justice Department” - Politico: President Donald Trump on Friday walked into the Department of Justice and labeled his courtroom opponents “scum,” judges “corrupt” and the pr...
Alternet

'Sounds like Putin': Trump blasted for declaring top news organizations 'illegal' - President Donald Trump, just 54 days into his second term, declared himself “the chief law enforcement officer in our country” and labeled two major news...
The Conversation

Why was it hard for the GOP – which controls Congress – to pass its spending bill? - Without Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster, the GOP would not have been able to pass its stopgap spending bill and avert a government shutdown.
Krebs on Security

ClickFix: How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps - A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed "ClickFix," the visitor to a h...
Wolf Street

Will Economic Detox Lead to a Recession? Maybe Not. But a Long Deep Stock Market Rout Will (See Dotcom Bust) - “We’re focused on the real economy,” Bessent said. “Ouch,” stocks said. Where did the Trump put go?
Ballot Access News

Eighteen Republican Members of U.S. House File Amicus Brief in Birthright Citizenship Cases in U.S. Supreme Court - Eighteen Republican members of the U.S. House have filed this amicus in the three birthright citizenship cases pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. They are...
Rio Grande Guardian

Jordan Brewster’s Comeback: From Injury to College Football - Jordan Brewster's recovery journey shows resilience and never giving up. The post Jordan Brewster’s Comeback: From Injury to College Football appeared fi...
slacktivist

LBCF: Selective literalism - What interests me in all of this is the glaring contradiction and inconsistency in L&J's and other evangelicals' supposedly "literal" reading of the Bible.
NPR's Health Shots

The dangers of measles can be severe and long lasting, doctors warn - As the measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico continues to grow, doctors say this is a good time to remember just how dangerous measles can be - even yea...
Texas Monthly

Willie’s Luck Reunion Remains the “Anti-Festival” Antidote to SXSW - “Just outside of Austin” but worlds away, Luck Ranch’s signature festival has found that big-name performances pair best with unrivaled casual vibes.
Mondoweiss

New bombshell UN report accuses Israel of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians - [image: UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry press conference on March 13, 2025, Geneva. (Screenshot from UN Human Rights Council Youtube Cha...
Rewire

The White House Wants to Deport a Legal Resident for Exercising Free Speech - Plus, Trump advertising for Tesla, legal battles in the courts, and incessant funding cuts. The post The White House Wants to Deport a Legal Resident for...
Dissident Voice

Neoliberal Micro-Psychology vs Communist Macro-Psychology - Author Bruce Lerro, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer for Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism Summary of Part I In Part I of this article I contrasted sixteen...
Glasstire

Review: Christine Egaña Navin’s “HOT SWAP” at Laura - Miami-born, Colorado-based artist Christine Egaña Navin’s exhibition, HOT SWAP, at Laura (the gallery) is excellent, thwarting conventions of what a vide...
Claytoonz

Sleazy Autos - 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...
Counterpunch

“This is Fascism” w/ Ralph Nader - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg welcome back Ralph Nader to discuss Donald Trump and Elon Musk's fascist creep, a...
Progressive.org

Fed Up, Canadians Now Have ‘Elbows Up’ - Donald Trump has launched a full-scale trade war and threatened to annex our country, and we’re not happy about it.
The Greanville Post

What the leadership scum of the West enabled: Endless tragedies in Syria - EDITOR—Karam Dawa, a Syrian dentist working in Basra, Iraq, was preparing for one of the happiest moments of his life—his engagement to Nour Issa Nezha, a ...
Angry Bear

Falsely Claiming Measles Vax Causes Deaths ‘Every Year’ - Robert Kennedy spreading BS in an interview. In this MedPage Today video, Paul Offit, MD, of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of FDA’s Va...
Reform Austin

Texas Struggles With Personal Freedom Despite Economic Success, Report Finds - Although Texas is frequently praised for its strong economic freedom, the state confronts several obstacles when it comes to individual liberties. Texas ...
OpEd News

Damascus's deal with the Kurds restores lost oilfields - This article talks about the latest developments in Syria and the US role in the deal between SDF and Ahmad Al-Shara
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Schumer Surrender and Canada’s Hope - On our live show, David and Gabrielle Gurley discuss Chuck Schumer’s betrayal on the government funding bill, and the upcoming election by our neighbors to...
Texas Standard

Retired NASA astronaut shows readers the power of ‘Embracing Infinite Possibilities’ - Dr. Bernard Harris Jr.’s historic spacewalk sets the stage in his latest book, meant to be used as a guide and inspiration through life’s pivotal moments.
Dorf on Law

Did Bezos Accidentally Do the World a Favor by Breaking the Op-Ed Page? - The blizzard of recent news includes one disturbing development that might at first seem not to have anything to do with Donald Trump, even though it has...
The NM Political Report

Autonomous vehicle bill stalls without passing committee - By Lauren Lifke A bill that would provide safety requirements for autonomous vehicle operations in the state will likely die without ever getting throug...
Undernews

Polling - *The Gua**rdian **- *“Sixty per cent of voters disapprove of the way Elon Musk and … Doge are dealing with workers employed by the federal government, wh...
The AltWorld

US-Backed SDF Joins Forces With Syria’s HTS Rulers - As the designated terrorist group ruling Syria, HTS, carries out ethnic cleansings against the minority Alawite community, […] The post US-Backed SDF Joi...
High Country News

Judge rules federal job cuts ‘unlawful’ - The Forest Service, Park Service and other agencies must immediately reinstate workers purged by Trump. The post Judge rules federal job cuts ‘unlawful’...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA: ROUND 2 - Some of these results SHOCKED us.
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Education - The U.S. president’s cuts to education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism are an effort to enforce totalitarianism in the minds of future generation...
Second Nexus

Video Comparing Kennedy Center Crowd's Reaction To Kamala Harris Versus JD Vance Goes Viral - Social media users are cackling after a TikTok video cut together clips of Vice President Kamala Harris being greeted by a Kennedy Center audience versus...
Church and State

Human settlement of Mars isn’t as far off as you might think - Could humans expand out beyond their homeworld and establish settlements on the planet Mars?
The Daily Poster

Big Tech’s Forever War (TRANSCRIPT) - Following is an unedited, automated transcript of the podcast episode titled “Big Tech’s Forever War.”
Eater Houston

Where to Find Houston’s Best French Fare - [image: Foie gras torchon topped with red onion.] French cuisine in Houston keeps getting better. | Michael Anthony Find steak frites, duck confit, escar...
DeSmogBlog

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozin...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: The interesting home life of the Blue-Ringed Octopus - The blue-ringed octopus! An elegant little creature, native to the southwest Pacific, particularly the waters around Australia. Pretty to look at… but most...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Trump’s Attack on the Department of Education, Explained - This week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released a statement saying it would cut nearly 50 percent of the department's workforce. These new layo...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, March 14 - [image: The morning read for Friday, March 14]Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s t...
Dissent Magazine

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil - If the secretary of state can simply declare a legal permanent resident deportable based on their constitutionally protected activities, the First Amendm...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2024 Report for Colorado - Every year since 2022, Earthworks has consistently documented harmful pollution in more than a quarter of surveys conducted from hundreds … The post Ear...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Columbia University caves to Trump’s demands - Columbia University has just expelled, suspended, or revoked degrees of over a dozen students involved in the pro-Palestine student movement.
Daily Howler

A-CHANGIN': "The West is over," David Brooks says! - *FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2025* *And the band plays on: *These savants will go to their graves refusing to deal with the obvious. In the most immediate sense, ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 97: “Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire: Putin’s Demands” - Live at 10 am Eastern/9 am Central time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: On The TMI Show, hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan tackle the ongoing Russia-Ukraine...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip Stuff and Nonsense - Gary Larson, The Far Side, and a murder mystery; Milton Caniff’s first Steve Canyon Sunday page deconstructed panel by panel; Jim Keefe goes back to The Jo...
El Paso Matters

Priced out of eggs? Consider these alternatives. Plus, YISD to cancel trustee elections, county sets up corporation for affordable housing - Eggs too pricey? Consider alternatives from EPCC chef. Plus, YISD incumbent trustees draw no opponents; commissioners look to dabble in affordable housi...
Debunking Christianity

Critical Thinking: the Weakest Skill in the Christian Toolkit - *Hardly a surprise, since the clergy urge, “Just take it on faith”* Quite a few years ago I knew a devout Catholic woman who bragged that she never read ...
Bonddad

The Quick and Dirty forecasting model now says . . . - - *by New Deal democrat* No important economic data today, but since yesterday was an exciting day at the horse track, with the S&P 500 officially e...
Democracy Chronicles

Pandemics and Politics: Iran’s Mahsa Amini Protests - The pandemic acted as an accelerating agent for the movement. Linking medicine with political movements can also help explain other uprisings in the Middle...
Idavox

Carlota (?-1843) and Fermina (?-1843) - Last month we ended our Black History Matters series with an observation of a number... The post Carlota (?-1843) and Fermina (?-1843) appeared first on ...
Democracy Now!

If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge's Warning About Elon Musk's Abuse of Power - A pair of federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agri...
Space City Weather

What can Houston’s earliest 90 degree day in nearly 30 years tell us about spring and summer? - In brief: Wildfire risk increases across Texas today and tomorrow as a dry, windy storm system impacts the state. After gusty winds and some fire risk loca...
The Smirking Chimp

Even More Reasons for Very Modest Optimism -
Skeptophilia

In the blink of an eye - One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange they are. I reme...
Grist

MAGA Teslas? Elon Musk is upending the politics of EVs. - Teslas were once a green status symbol. Donald Trump's second term is changing that.
Antiwar.com

Ukraine Agrees to a Ceasefire. Could it Really Happen? - Only days ago, the chances that Ukraine would agree to negotiate with Putin or agree to a ceasefire seemed very remote. A few days without U.S. military an...
Brad Blog

Trump EPA Unveils Plans to Endanger, Sicken Americans (We Don't Have to Let Them): 'BradCast' 3/13/2025 - We've got a few explainers on today's BradCast. But I thought you might find it useful to be armed with some facts, truth and understanding right about now...
See You In 2020

From Donbass to Gaza, the empire plans to keep attacking. We all must rally behind those resisting these aggressions. - The Trump administration just did something that’s gone against the expectations of everyone who had hope Trump would end the Ukraine conflict. The Whi...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/14/2025 - 04:55 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Federal judge dismantles Trump's trans military ban in explosive hearing' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Editor's note *- *It has thus been a wild week. So much so that it's difficult to write a post about one thing, so below are more news briefs. * * Fede...
The Militant

Canada’s Communist League campaigns to get on ballot - MONTREAL — “You’re the first people to do this here!” construction worker Danny Lelièvre-Copez said when Communist League candidate Katy LeRougetel knocked...
The Texas Signal

First Public Testimony On Vouchers In The Texas House - Nearly a full day passed after the Public Education Committee started the first public hearing on the massive voucher bill
Bracing Views

Four Years Ago, Democrats Could Have Won the 2024 Election - W.J. Astore The Road Not Taken Remember in February of 2021 when Democrats said they were going to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour? That rais...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / APPEAL / Help Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez Heal - By Alice Embree/ The Rag Blog / March 12, 2025 Mariann Garner-Wizard Vasquez has been living in Central America for several years. I’ve known Mariann for s...
Political Garbage Chute

Trump Orders Every American to Buy Six Teslas - “I call THIS ‘free market authoritarianism.'” There is simply no denying it, unless you’re appearing on Fox News or OANN: Tesla’s stock price is in troub...
MintPress News

The Case Against Mahmoud Khalil: How the Israel Lobby Fueled a Campus Crackdown - Pro-Israel lobbyists spent a year framing campus protests as Hamas-linked. Now, their disinformation campaign has led to the detention and planned deport...
Bud Kennedy

Where are Tarrant County leaders to speak against Keller ISD’s secret-squirrel games? | Opinion - District Attorney Phil Sorrells, where are you? County Commissioner Matt Krause, where are you? Judge Tim O’Hare, where are you? Why haven’t we heard from ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Conversation with Parker Molloy - The Present Age writer discusses the complicity and responsibility of media in creating our present crisis, the shameful abandoning of Trans people, and gl...
Unlimited Hangout

The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 2 - In continuing to unpack the ideologies of the oligarchs who are part of the new Trump administration, Iain Davis examines how their ideas are being trans...
Texas Observer

An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas Prison - Editor’s Note: The Texas Observer sought TDCJ responses to this essay, which were incorporated into the piece in appropriate places with the author’s app...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Speech Police - OK, this one is for all the professional “sensitivity editors” out there, and for the US Department of Homeland Security, and President Donald Trump, and t...
Earth 911

How to Recycle an Automated External Defibrillator - Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are life-saving devices that deliver an electric shock to restart the... The post How to Recycle an Automated Ex...
NORML

Colorado: Lawmakers Shelve Proposal To Impose Ten Percent THC Potency Cap on Adult-Use Cannabis Products - [image: Colorado Marijuana Laws][image: Colorado Marijuana Laws]"Prohibiting these products doesn't eliminate consumers’ demand for them. Rather, it enco...
Ecosophia

The Ritual of High Magic: Chapter 22 - With this post we conclude a monthly chapter-by-chapter discussion of The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi, the book that launched the mod...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Seminar: Sahil Dutta, ‘The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’’ - The making and unmaking of British ‘monetary Keynesianism’ Tuesday 25 March, 1.00pm-2:30 pm, 2025 Room 341, Level 3, Social Sciences Building (A02), Univ...
Lowering the Bar

Arsonist Reportedly on Fire - Always funny.
ExChristian.Net

Christians say that Omniscience is one of the attributes of GOD - What does anyone know of Omniscience. Are there actually any "know-it-alls?" How far does omniscience extend for an omniscient being? Is there anything I...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: March 2025 - Revisiting Radway’s Reading the Romance: A Critical Ethnography of Romance Fans | Osteophage – Coyote discusses a 1980s book that studied women who read ro...
Duck of Minerva

So much for “Great Power Competition” - The buzzword of the first Trump administration was "Great Power Competition." That was also a lie.
The Grayzone

Thousands reported killed in Syria as HTS-allied forces attack, execute Alawites - Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a co...
Project Censored

UN Cybercrime Treaty Supported by Autocrats Raises Human Rights Concerns - On December 24, 2024, the United Nations adopted the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, which aims to “prevent and combat” cybercrime and “str...
The Progressive Wing

3.10-15 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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

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

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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 ...
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

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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...
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Ring of Fire

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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

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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

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San Antonio Current

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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

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Right Wing Watch

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Environment Texas

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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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.
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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.
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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

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Caitlin Johnstone

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

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Eclectablog

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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...
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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

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Downwinders at Risk

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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

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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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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Post-election day toons

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