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

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

jobsanger

Immigration Approval Should NOT Depend On Nationality -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Jailbreak after US prisoners chip away weak concrete wall - Escape of three inmates in Louisiana comes after 10 broke out of another prison in same state this year by crawling through a hole behind toilet Two inma...
Mediaite

‘Mother of God’: Stephanie Ruhle Blown Away When Speaker Johnson Says Women Can’t Mentally ‘Compartmentalize’ - MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle could not believe her ears when Speaker Mike Johnson and his wife offered some retrograde thoughts on women's brains. The post ‘M...
Informed Comment

Great Powers and the People: The Divergent Paths of the Egyptian and Syrian Revolutions - The Arab revolutionary wave that began in 2011 presents two of its most significant, yet fundamentally divergent, case studies: Egypt and Syria
memeorandum

Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump's 'No Scalps' Rule (The Atlantic) - The Atlantic: *Pete Hegseth Is Seriously Testing Trump's ‘No Scalps’ Rule* — Lawmakers are finally waking up to the problems the defense secretary has ...
Countercurrents

John Dewey and his two students who shaped the fate of India and China: Dr Ambedkar and Dr Hu Shih - As a teacher, picture how you would feel if two of your students from different nations decided on their nation’s future by drafting its constitution, whil...
The Hill

Stephen A. Smith knocks Trump for calling affordability Democratic 'con job' - ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith blasted President Trump for calling the affordability crisis a Democratic “con job,” saying that he “wants to act as if t...
OpEd News

What Yet Another U.S. Surrender Looks Like -- This Time in Ukraine - Reading outside the Mainstream Media reveals that Ukraine did not stand up to Russia and win.--NATO did not stop Putin. Instead, The West lost its proxy wa...
Mediagazer

Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison (Oliver Darcy/Status) - Oliver Darcy / Status: *Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zasla...
Raw Story

'Calamity waiting to happen': WSJ begs Trump to back off massive 'boondoggle' - The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to get involved in what they called a "boondoggle" of a l...
Al Jazeera English

Afghan, Pakistani forces exchange heavy fire as tensions flare - Relations have soured between former allies Afghanistan and Pakistan since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
Political Wire

The Supreme Court Goes All In on Gerrymandering - “Only two decades ago, all nine Supreme Court justices agreed that extreme partisan gerrymandering could violate the Constitution, though they differed on ...
World Socialist Web Site

Brazilian postal workers set to strike against attacks by Lula government - The Lula administration’s recent attacks on the Brazilian postal service are part of a global drive to privatize postal services.
Axios

Trump orders overhaul of U.S. vaccine schedules - President Trump ordered his top health officials Friday night to review all U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations and align them with the "best prac...
Wolf Street

NAR Says Typical First-Time Homebuyer Age Was 40 in 2025, up from 33 in 2021. But Is this Accurate? - A narrative gets debunked. The affordability crisis remains.
Courthouse News

Ex-ASU admin blames employees for ignoring sexual harassment - Human resources manager Kevin Salcido says he told former athletic director Ray Anderson that firing associate director David Cohen was a “bad idea.”
The Week

5 criminally underrated cartoons about Pete Hegseth’s war crime - Artists take on USS Hegseth, rats leaving the sinking ship, and more
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | December 5, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | December 5, 2025 barry Fri, 12/05/2025 - 20:36
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Popular Resistance

The Earth Is Unhappy With The Capitalist Climate Catastrophe - During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Belém do Pará ...
Dissident Voice

Australia: A US Vassal State in a Peripheral Sphere of Influence - For reasons set out briefly below, let’s suppose that Australia is a US vassal state and that the Pacific — what Australia likes to call its ‘backyard’ —...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CHEESY SCENES OF WINTER EDITION. - *RAWK.* In the not-too-distant future, I hope and pray, we will look back on the Age of Tubby II and think, “Holy shit, I know I complain about President...
Election Law Blog

“Trump official signals potential rollback of changes to census racial categories” - Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: A Trump administration official on Friday signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the 2030 ...
Infidel753

Computer issues - I've spent much of this week dealing with an escalating series of computer problems which ended with total loss of my internet connection on Thursday morn...
Progressive.org

The Education Experiment Gone Wrong - New Orleans schools were largely privatized following Hurricane Katrina. Two decades later, they’ve become a cautionary tale.
Techdirt.

Netflix To Buy Warner Bros For $82.7 Billion, But Trump FCC, DOJ Could Intervene For All The Wrong Reasons - So Netflix has announced that it’s buying Warner Brothers Discovery (including HBO) for a whopping $82.7 billion. As we’ve well covered, it’s the latest in...
Ian Welsh

Site Migration - As part of fixing the site I’m migrating to a new service provider. A snapshot has been taken of the site from earlier today. That means this post will pro...
Scheerpost.com

Majority of Democrats, Independents Want Leaders to Fight GOP Attacks on AI Rules - By Brett Wilkins Republished from Common Dreams A poll published Friday revealed that a majority of Democratic and Independent US voters want congressional...
Futurism

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous - Anti-AI activist Sam Kirchner allegedly threatened to shoot and kill OpenAI workers. The post Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed ...
El Paso Matters

Forced to seek treatment elsewhere, burn survivor reflects on the city’s need for burn center - Diane Vasquez was at her Northeast home in 2011 when an undetected gas leak in the garage caused an explosion that sent flames through the vents of her ...
Houston Public Media

Houston City Councilwoman Abbie Kamin announces bid in Harris County Attorney’s race - Kamin will vacate her city council seat in accordance with Texas' resign-to-run rules, setting up an open seat for her position on the city's largest legis...
Workers World

Around the World, China is Turning on the Lights - [image: Around the World, China is Turning on the Lights] This article, edited by Natalia Burdyńska, is a chapter in the book “China Changes Everything,” j...
The Greanville Post

‘Massive privatization’: María Corina Machado offers to sell $1.7 trillion of Venezuela’s assets to US corporations - GER—The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro, M...
NPR's Health Shots

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait - *Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS head...
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering in Texas - The post SCOTUS Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering in Texas appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

The Best Romance of the Year Is … an Animated Kids’ Movie? - Zootopia 2 smuggles the structure and tropes of romance into a Disney movie.
Independent Political Report

The Issue That Could Make a Third Party Matter: Social Security Is Dying and Nobody in Washington Will Save It - *Both major parties have abandoned fiscal reality. Here’s how independents and third parties could own the biggest domestic policy crisis of the decade.*...
San Antonio Report

Lawsuit alleges San Antonio aircraft maintenance company played role in fatal UPS crash - A wrongful death lawsuit alleges that maintenance work performed in San Antonio contributed to the midair structural failure that killed 14. ---------------...
CultureMap Houston

Airbnb pledges over $1 million to improve Houston before World Cup - According to a Deloitte study commissioned by short-term rental company Airbnb, roughly 30,000 people are expected to stay in Airbnb properties during the ...
Deadline Politics

White House Posts New Sabrina Carpenter ‘SNL’ Clip After Singer Blasted The Use Of Her Music In ICE Deportation Video - The White House posted a new clip of Sabrina Carpenter after drawing her furor over a previous post that featured the use of her song Juno set to ICE raids...
The Verge

Welcome to the big leagues, Netflix - Warner Bros. has an infamous history of being bought by other companies and then quickly ending up back on the market after its new owners realize how diff...
Daily Dot

Millennials debate whether Gen Z’s idea of “millennial optimism” ever really existed after internet trend depicts whimsical, hopeful times - [image: millennial optimism trend] TikTok is romanticizing the early 2000s, but some millennials reacting to the "millennial optimism" trend can’t rememb...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Mondoweiss

‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire - [image: Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a ...
See You In 2020

Academic leftism destroyed America’s workers movement, but in this story we can find how to rebuild it - At the root of academic leftism is a history where “Western” Marxism has seen no reason to stay rooted in dialectics, as it’s detached from the anti-col...
The Militant

‘Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa’ - Below is the introduction by Mary-Alice Waters to the new book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial...
San Antonio Current

Top lawyer rails against ‘lazy’ police probe of Texas A&M student’s ‘suspicious’ death - Houston personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee wants Gov. Greg Abbott to order the Texas Rangers to investigate the “suspicious” death of Texas A&M underg...
Church and State

The argument from failure - As nations embrace short-term economic growth at the expense of environmental sustainability, the case for overpopulation is strengthened.
Liberation News

Why did Trump and RFK remove the ‘black box’ warning on menopause hormone therapy drugs? - The Trump administration claimed it is promoting women’s health, yet their policies have eviscerated access to healthcare and other basic needs for millio...
SCOTUSblog

Court to hear cases on arbitration, where one can be tried for an offense - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added four new cases to its argument docket for the 2025-26 term. In a brief list of orders from the justices’ priv...
Texas Standard

Texas’ new congressional map will be used in 2026. But what happens afterward? - An approaching primary election was a factor in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to set aside a lower court’s ruling that had blocked the Republican-backe...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico energy secretary resigns - [image: Melanie A. Kenderdine resigned Thursday as secretary of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department for personal reasons, Go...
The Conversation

Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase - Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Wins Consolation Peace Prize Created to Stop Him From Ruining World Cup - [image: Trump, FIFA Peace Prize] In the least surprising event in recorded history, Donald Trump was awarded FIFA's inaugural "peace prize." Trump Wins C...
Daily Howler

FRIDAY: What kind of "illness" was mental illness? - *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2025* *Rep. Omar gets to respond:* What manner of "illness" was *mental* illness? We place our question in a past tense because, whe...
Reform Austin

Texas Scores Supreme Court Win on Disputed Election Map - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared Texas to use its new congressional map in the 2026 midterm e...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Birthright Citizenship Cases - On December 5, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear the two birthright citizenship cases that President Trump had lost in the lower courts. The two ca...
slacktivist

If you hear any noise, it ain’t the boys - Bars and dance clubs understand that one way to get more men to show up is to have a Ladies Night. But it's not as simple as it may seem.
Consortium News

Did Trump Pressure Starmer to Ban Palestine Action? - Conversations between the two leaders came up during the direct action group’s legal challenge to its proscription at the High Court last week, John McEvoy...
Angry Bear

Abbreviated Version of Medicaid and SNAP Cutbacks Impacting Healthcare - This entirety of this piece by Commonwealth Fund covers more than a Jobs cutback. There is a definite meanness in this legislation by President Tru_p and...
Vox

The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done - Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship...
Dorf on Law

How Do We Know that Universities Are Worth Defending? - In this relatively short week-ending column, I return once again today to the doom loop destroying US higher education. Rather than analyzing yet anothe...
Undernews

Word - Via Lakota Man
Environment Texas

Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape - The post Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape appeared first on Environment Texas.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: American Science Shattered - American Science, Shattered. So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News. Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summariz...
First Draft

(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay - Cheers to Steve Cropper and Otis Redding.
Second Nexus

Robert Downey Jr. Reveals Gwyneth Paltrow Had No Clue Who Tom Holland Was Despite Starring In Several Movies With Him - It’s been nearly six years since Gwyneth Paltrow last suited up as Pepper Potts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, yet according to Robert Downey Jr., she...
Mother Jones

Science Journal Retracts Widely Cited Study That Claimed Roundup Is Safe - A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, r...
The Root

A Peek Inside The Root 100 Party’s Swag Bag - Shampoo from Cécred, beard oil from Bask & Lather, and a festive bottle of Martell were just a few of the goodies in this year's The Root 100 swag bag. R...
LareDOS

TAMIU students invited to participate in City visual arts, writing contest - Submission deadline is Sun., Dec. 7
The Daily Poster

Did A Youth Sports Empire Really Prohibit Family Memories? - Test your knowledge of extrajudicial kill lists, free-range parenting, and other issues that really matter.
Salon.com

Suspect in pipe bomb case says he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories - Brian Cole will make his first appearance in court on Friday
Daily Cartoonist

2025 European Cartoon Award Finalists Announced - First there was the long list, then the short list, and now finally we get the finalists for the European Cartoon Award. The finalists include: Emad Hajjaj...
Crooked Timber

l’Établi - I spent a good chunk of the afternoon watching l’Etabli, the film of Robert Linhart’s book (which I own but have never read). It is an arresting depiction ...
Alternet

'No basis in reality': Wall Street Investor debunks Trump’s 'absurd' claims about economy - President Donald Trump's claims about taming inflation have "no basis in reality," according to an analysis prominent Wall Street investor Steven Rattner...
MintPress News

Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances - Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imperialis...
Bonddad

Real income rises, but real spending on goods may be turning down - - *by New Deal democrat* Personal income and consumption is one of the two big monthly reports on the state of the average American, in addition to t...
Glasstire

Connectivity and Isolation: “Plur1bus” and “No Car” - This fall, two works of cinema use their medium — streaming television and iPhone video — to investigate the promise of connection amid deepening isolati...
The Texas Signal

Supreme Court Allows New Texas Maps - The Supreme Court paused a lower court’s decision, which essentially allows the new maps to be used in the state’s 2026 elections
Texas Observer

A Trip Through Willie Nelson’s Golf Course, His Unorthodox Rules, and His Uncertain Tribal Identity - In a pre-dawn raid in November 1990, feds armed with warrants, padlocks, and chains seized everything Willie Nelson owned—his golf course, ranches, studi...
Space City Weather

Sunlight awaits Houston at the end of a dreary tunnel - In brief: Those gray skies are running out of time, Houston. We expect showers or light rain at times today with brightening skies on Saturday. The sun sho...
Common Dreams

Poll: Voters Want Jeffries & Schumer to Fight AI Deregulation - On Friday, Demand Progress released a poll showing that large majorities of Democratic and Independent voters want Democratic leadership to fight an atte...
Democracy Now!

"Alejandro Was Murdered": Colombian Fisherman's Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike - The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. ha...
ArcaMax

The Grove That Shows Why Holly Trees Still Captivate Us - Like the song says, it's time for mistletoe and holly. The holly tree has been a winter favorite throughout human history, but the genus, which includes hu...
Debunking Christianity

The Case for Jesus as a Real Historical Person Continues to Erode - *“But I feel Jesus in my heart” is evidence for what you’re feeling* In my most recent articles here I explained why we no longer need to pay much atte...
Rallblog

Sloppy Russian Spies | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Take Case Against New Jersey to U.S. Supreme Court - A decision is expected by the summer. The post Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Take Case Against New Jersey to U.S. Supreme Court appeared first on Rewir...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Future Is Still To Be Written - This Earth911 inspiration is a quote from the 2025 State of the Climate Report, which... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Future Is Still To Be Written...
The Smirking Chimp

What Democrats Must Pledge to America -
Skeptophilia

Excusing the past - Today I'm asking a question not because I'm trying to lead you in any particular direction, but because I honestly am not sure about the answer myself. Ho...
Capital & Main

To Protect Underage Farmworkers, California Expands Oversight of Field Conditions - State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns. The post To Protect Underage Far...
Off The Kuff

SCOTUS upholds the new Congressional map - Shocked, shocked I am. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Texas Republicans’ new GOP-heavy congressional map, handing the party a key victory as it ...
ProPublica

What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse - The post What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Grist

After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work - “They can’t decide for us without us.”
High Country News

Get to know the western spotted skunk - ‘The stench kind of permeates everything’: What it takes to study a stinky, secretive skunk The post Get to know the western spotted skunk appeared firs...
Counterpunch

This is Where Authoritarianism Leads - Authoritarianism is not just the loss of democracy, freedom of expression or civil liberties. It can also mean horrific wars and massive loss of life. Wh...
Claytoonz

Dozing Don - 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...
Brad Blog

The Political Landscape as Dems Seek to Avoid the GOP's Massive, Year-End Health Care Cliff: 'BradCast' 12/4/2025 - Yikes. Quite a news day. We do our best to keep up on today's BradCast. But our conversation about the political fight to avoid falling over the GOP's mass...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lesbian educator wins $700,000 settlement after being called a 'witch' in an 'LGBTQ coven'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Lesbian educator wins $700K after she was allegedly called a ‘witch’ in an ‘LGBTQ coven’ *- *Our community needs reminders like this. When you fight h...
The AltWorld

On Becoming The First Species To Go Extinct From Politeness - We’re on track to become the first species to go extinct due to politeness. Gonna follow the […] The post On Becoming The First Species To Go Extinct Fro...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:53 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival) - Despite widespread rejection and ridicule in Western media of Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Ukraine being “dead on arrival” in Moscow, there was Trump’s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT takes disciplinary action against students after Tower sit-in, The Daily Texan, Nov. 18, 2025 - *UT-Austin is investigating students for a peaceful sit-in meant to deliver a letter about the Trump Compact and the University’s proposed departmental c...
Krebs on Security

SMS Phishers Pivot to Points, Taxes, Fake Retailers - China-based phishing groups blamed for non-stop scam SMS messages about a supposed wayward package or unpaid toll fee are promoting a new offering, just in...
Alas, a Blog

Reasons To Support Trump - I’m generally against “bothsidesism,” but one thing I believe conservatives and liberals have in common in the U.S.: We both find the other side’s choices ...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Sludge

House GOP Advances Clean Energy Rollbacks - Gas hookup bans, showerhead water limits, and mobile home energy efficiency requirements were among the measures targeted by Energy and Commerce Committee ...
Project Censored

AI Cyber Spy: Gilman Louie - As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was fragmenting in the late 1980s, a moonlighting Russian software engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, coded a spellbin...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them - By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 Martin J. Murray is the author of Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar ...
Trivial Knot

On Steam AI disclosures - The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of Epic Games (which owns a competing game store) re...
Socialist Alternative

Students & Workers Unite to Fight Trump & ICE: How & Why We’re Building Students Rise Up - Micaela is co-president of GEO Local 6297 (writing in personal capacity), Sammy is a student at Yale University, and Sophia is a student at University of W...
Discourse

Quid Pro Quo Is the Only Law That Matters - Donald Trump's corruption-first economic agenda is thriving—if you're rich.
The Grayzone

Former Israeli spies now overseeing US government cybersecurity - The Pentagon, Treasury Department, DHS, and a variety of other US government agencies have begun relying on a firm launched by former Israeli military in...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Pressures of Collapse: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes Following TN-7 Special, Plus Updates on Indiana Redistricting and the Overall House Map - Notes on the TN-7 special, North Carolina ratings changes, a proposed Indiana Republican gerrymander, and the overall House map The post House Rating Cha...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Road from Raswashingsputin - Two weeks ago, in our ongoing exploration of the ideas of the Situationist International and their application to the ongoing crisis of industrial society,...
NORML

Analysis: NIH Database Now Includes Over 53,000 Cannabis-Related Studies - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
Green Pages News

Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health - Author’s Note: This is a lightly edited and updated version of an essay originally published in New Green Horizons on October 13, 2025. In 2022-2023, the...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Greg Palast

Got Democracy? Give to Save 2026This Giving Tuesday, Help Protect the American Vote - You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been ele...
Media Lens

The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 1 – The Failure Of Success - ‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary begg...
The Progressive Wing

December 1-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Welcome to December. We’re expecting 6 inches of snow here tomorrow.
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Do Zionists Believe Their Own Obvious Lies? - I don't know if you noticed, but Zionists are totally out of touch with reality, and they often create a heavily censored and false version of history a...
Democracy Chronicles

On Business and Power - The government is the only entity big enough to stop business from having all the control and economic sway, yet the United States is failing at this.
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
DeSmogBlog

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture - An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are ...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

Partyism Without the Party - Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
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.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
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...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
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

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

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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