Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Dem media group sounds alarm on slow investment: 'We need help' (Max Tani/Semafor) - Max Tani / Semafor: *Dem media group sounds alarm on slow investment: ‘We need help’* — THE SCOOP — As Republicans closed in on passing Donald Trump'...
The Verge

A Donkey Kong movie is a safe bet for Nintendo’s growing entertainment empire - It's looking like Nintendo might have a DK-sized addition to its feature film lineup. The company has filed a copyright notice for a motion picture listed ...
Rio Grande Guardian

COSTEP plans to develop a bi-national automotive industry cluster for the Rio South Texas region - The Council for South Texas Economic Progress acknowledges it will need buy-in from key stakeholders. The post COSTEP plans to develop a bi-national aut...
Mediagazer

ABC News launches What You Need to Know, a daily news program on Disney+, streaming weekdays at 6am ET, with each episode available for 24 hours (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *ABC News launches What You Need to Know, a daily news program on Disney+, streaming weekdays at 6am ET, with each ...
Salon.com

MAGA continues to reel from Trump’s Epstein betrayal - A movement founded on conspiracy theories wonders if the president is leading one of his own
Courthouse News

A big beautiful quiz - The "Big, Beautiful Bill" is now law. How well do you know it? Take our quiz to find out.
Political Wire

Rosie O’Donnell Responds - Rosie O’Donnell responded to President Trump’s claim that she’s a “threat to humanity” by sharing an old photo of the president and Jeffrey Epstein togethe...
The Hill

Lessons from Texas: We aren’t ready for today’s extreme weather - America's children are already paying the price.
Eschaton

And They Came To That Conclusion All By Themselves - I always pay attention to when poll results - especially left-leaning ones because that's what I notice - are completely out of step with the current Disco...
Mondoweiss

Statewide campaign aims to end Illinois’ investment in Israel - [image: Activists protest outside of the Illinois State Board of Investment in Chicago on June 20, 2025. (Photo: Paul Goyette)]A growing movement is callin...
Al Jazeera English

The New Global Nuclear Arms Race - In this episode of Project Force, @AlexGatopoulos looks at different nations' plans for upgrading their nuclear arsenals
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Biden denies White House aides granted clemency without his knowledge - ‘I made every single one of those,’ former president insists after claims by Trump over his use of autopen Joe Biden has denied claims that his circle of...
Axios

House Democrats are trying to force the Trump administration to release the Epstein files - Several House Democrats are mounting long-shot efforts to force a House vote on making Attorney General Pam Bondi release all records related to Jeffrey ...
Scheerpost.com

‘This Is an Internment Camp’: Lawmakers Horrified by Inhumane Conditions in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ - "I saw 32 people per cage—about 6 cages in one tent. People were yelling, 'Help me, help me'," said Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost.
Raw Story

This money-making hellhole proves we're ruled by sociopaths - Do you think concentration camps are cool? Does your heart fill with mean-spirited joy at the thought of human beings stuffed into tents and FEMA trailer...
Election Law Blog

“Jan. 6 Rioters Are the New Hot Event in Town for Republicans” - Where campaign finance meets election subversion. WSJ reports: Former Jan. 6 defendants are the new draw at local Republican fundraisers, helping to fill...
Common Dreams

Trump Headlines Artificial Intelligence Affair to Raise Americans’ Energy Bills, Pollute Our Air, and Trample on Community Rights - At a summit at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday this week, President Donald Trump will gather Big Oil CEOs and the heads of several artificial intel...
The Conversation

Most Pennsylvania voters ignore judicial elections − a political scientist explains why they matter, especially in a battleground state - The outcome of Pennsylvania’s retention elections in November could change the balance of power in Harrisburg.
Mediaite

Brian Kilmeade’s Got Jokes After Biden Defends Autopen Use to New York Times: ‘I’m Sure He Needed a Nap Right After’ - Fox News' Brian Kilmeade quipped that former President Joe Biden "needed a nap" as the ex-commander in chief defended his use of autopen to the New York ...
Techdirt.

Verizon Wants Trump To Kill Phone Unlocking. Consumer Groups Say That Will Drag U.S. Wireless Back To The Stone Age - With the Trump administration openly destroying whatever is left of U.S. federal corporate oversight, regulatory independence, and consumer protection stan...
First Draft

Irked In July - Vexatious venting about irksome things.
Texas Standard

These meteorologists spent years at the NWS in Texas. Here’s what they think of staffing issues. - For years, employees say, they’ve had to do more with less. But the ability to fill in the gaps became strained to the breaking point when the Trump admini...
Undernews

Immigration - *The Guardian- *Most of the more than 2.6 million farm workers in the US are Hispanic, non-citizen immigrants. Around 40% of US farm workers are estimate...
The Week

What happened to Air India Flight 171? - Preliminary report reveals 'fundamental reason' why jet crashed, but questions remain about whether it was 'deliberate, accidental or if a technical fault ...
Progressive Army

Reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios, buen día: Informamos temática y código de acceso al zoom relacionados a la reunión de CD que se desarrollara el día miércoles 16 de julio...
WhoWhatWhy

A Golden Opportunity for Democrats Arises After Trump Bungles Epstein Response - [image: Donald Trump, Press Conference] If Democrats can make Donald Trump’s voters believe that their hero is covering up child trafficking and Jeffrey Ep...
Daily Dot

JD Vance and family confronted with boos during vacation at Disneyland: “The amount of booing when he exited Space Mountain was hilarious” - [image: jd vance and family booed at disneyland] The *happiest place on earth* wasn’t so welcoming for* Vice President* *JD Vance* this weekend. Vance’s ...
CultureMap Houston

Two week dining event celebrates Houston's Latin-owned restaurants - A two-week celebration of Latin food and culture has begun in Houston. *Latin Restaurant Weeks* has returned for its seventh year.
Vox

We should be in a golden age for sleep - For much of history, humans probably got pretty lousy sleep. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, many people slept in the same bed alongside their family i...
Dorf on Law

When Police Should Issue Warnings Before Arresting - As I noted on the blog (here and here), last week and over the weekend, I attended Vegan Summerfest. My talks went well (I thought), but in today's essay...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Zealous Self-Belief’: How the 2024 Assassination Attempt Made Trump Reckless -
naked capitalism

Links 7/14/2025 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Encouraging Messages, Stony Ground - Luckovich poses an important question: What’s so bad about being woke? Or, grammatically, “awakened” or “awoke” but let’s hope at least one? By illustratin...
Grist

Chicago was supposed to warn residents about toxic lead pipes last year. Most still have no idea. - Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.
Skeptophilia

This week in lunacy - On the whole, I'm an optimist. It seems a happier way to be. In general, I would rather expect people to behave well and occasionally be disappointed th...
Crooked Media

Hunger Games for Legal Hackery - The post Hunger Games for Legal Hackery appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

There’s still flooding in the Hill Country - It keeps raining. Emergency crews suspended their search for victims of catastrophic flooding in Central Texas on Sunday morning amid new warnings that add...
Slate

Help! I’ve Been Telling My Best Friend My Baby Name for Years. She Just Committed the Ultimate Betrayal. - This is so selfish.
Mother Jones

Red States, Defying Reality, Are Reclassifying Gas as a “Green” Fuel - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Louisiana, natural gas—a planet-heating f...
San Antonio Report

Head Start was born 60 years ago. Today it serves more than 7,000 children in San Antonio. - Created under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, the federal Head Start program provides free preschool for children from low-income families. ---------------------...
ProPublica

Why Gov. Greg Abbott Won’t Release His Emails With Elon Musk - by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as s...
American Prospect

Trump Vows to Create More Blackouts - Side agreements with the House Freedom Caucus will make most clean-energy projects unviable and leave the U.S. with not enough power to meet demand.
NPR's Health Shots

With social prescribing, hanging out, movement and arts are doctor's order - Doctors are writing "social prescriptions" to get people engaged with nature, art, movement and volunteering. Research shows it can help with mental health...
Media Lens

Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person ...
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
The Daily Poster

How Trump’s Tax Bill Enriches Elite Dems And Hurts GOP Voters - Our extended conversation with David Dayen about the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
High Country News

Trump administration budget cuts wreak havoc on trail maintenance - As tourism season begins, trail crews are facing disruptions in key trail maintenance projects. The post Trump administration budget cuts wreak havoc o...
Earth 911

Carbon Offsets & Renewable Energy Certificates: 2025 Update - Editor’s note: This is the second part of Earth911’s introduction to carbon offsets and renewable... The post Carbon Offsets & Renewable Energy Certifica...
Rallblog

Vote Blue No Matter Who, Unless It’s Mamdani - The Democratic Party is divided into two factions: left-wing progressives, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and right-wing corporatis...
ArcaMax

Is the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Finally Behind U? Don't Bet On It - When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation on Tuesday, President Trump could not contain himself a moment lon...
OpEd News

Film Review: Gaza: Doctors Under Attack - Review of a film suppressed by Israeli cnsors earlier this year. Excellent companion to recent film Gaza: Joiurnaliusts Under Fire.
Counterpunch

A Tale of Two Nations: The North Aral Sea Rebounds While the South Aral Sea Dries Up - Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when the learned fisherman finds no...
See You In 2020

The construction of the U.S. color revolution apparatus, & its origins in the project for Zionist normalization - This is a part from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocaust, ...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: UK Attempt to Name Non-Violent, Anti-Genocide Group as ‘Terrorist’ Is Challenged in Court - The direct-action group’s request for temporary relief from the government’s high-profile terrorist designation drew the author to an all-too familiar Lond...
jobsanger

He Is Trying To Repeal Much Of The 20th Century -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3320: Brown - Episode: 3320 Brown. Today, Let's talk about the color brown.
World Socialist Web Site

Brazil tariffs add new dimension to Trump’s global economic war - The threatened measures against Brazil will add to the growing uncertainty and fears in financial markets as to where the tariff war is leading, causing fu...
Informed Comment

Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,’ as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In an interview with Israel’s Channel 14, Minister of Energy Eli Cohen said that “Gaza must remain in ruins for decades to c...
Portside

Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry - Israeli Settlers Beat American to Death in Illegally Occupied West Bank: Family, Health Ministry Ira Sun, 07/13/2025 - 23:57
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges: Trump, Epstein And The Deep State - The refusal by the Trump administration to release the files and videos amassed during investigations into the activities of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstei...
The Root

Expert Weighs in on Freddie McKee’s Two Conflicting Autopsies - Forensic toxicologist Okorie Okorocha said the presence of drugs doesn't automatically mean an overdose was the cause of death. Read more...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Antiwar.com

The ‘Global War on Terror’ Is Over. Terror Won. - On Sept. 16, 2001, five days after the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, President George W. Bush declared, “This crusade – this war on terrorism – i...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

News brief special - MAGA anger at Trump over Epstein Files isn't dying down. It's heating up. - How the Trump Administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein situation (seen here with Trump in 1992) has created a huge rift between Donald Trump and his MA...
Claytoonz

Woke Gators - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Futurism

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends - Lonely adolescents are replacing real-life friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily these chatbots integrate themselves into the live...
The Greanville Post

Trump terrified by BRICS strategic threat - PEPE ESCOBAR--The serial Trump Tariff Temper Tantrum (TTT) is, of course, another manifestation of Divide and Rule, trying to blow up BRICS from the inside...
Alternet

'Inexcusable': MAGA fuels fury at Trump offical after Epstein denial - Supporters of President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are strongly criticizing FBI Director Kash Patel after he said there was ...
Ballot Access News

Andrew Cuomo Will Not Only Keep his Name on November Ballot, But Will Campaign - This story says that Andrew Cuomo is not only leaving his name on the New York city mayoral ballot of November 4, 2025, but he will campaign. Currently he...
Ian Welsh

no title - [image: no title] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 13, 2025 by Tony Wikrent *Trump not violating any law* *‘He who saves his Country does not vi...
Liberation News

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
Independent Political Report

LNC Member Condemns Malagon - Independent Political Report has received a signed statement from a member of the LNC, opposing the appointment of Adrian Malagon as an LNC Officer. Anon...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Looking Toward the Future: Dispatches Mailbag - Readers had questions about the future and I have some thoughts.
Dissident Voice

What Do Birds of a Feather Do? - Listen To The Jeffrey Epstein Tapes: “I Was Donald Trump’s Closest Friend” The post What Do Birds of a Feather Do? first appeared on Dissident Voice.
El Paso Matters

Luis Valdez put Chicano life on stage and screen with ‘Zoot Suit’ and ‘La Bamba.’ That’s only half his story. - The “La Bamba” and “Zoot Suit” creator will appear at the Plaza Classic Film Festival, where he’ll reflect on art, identity and El Paso’s influence on h...
San Antonio Current

In the Hill Country and beyond, rural Texas counties lack resources for flood detection - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Reform Austin

Pet Rescues Surge After Texas Floods — But So Do Donation Scams - As communities across the Texas Hill Country continue to recover from deadly floods that claimed dozens of lives, animal welfare organizations are workin...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Totally Predictable' Toons - (The following cartoon resulted in the cancellation of a planned appearance this past week by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis at the Buffalo ...
Glasstire

Glasstire Names Nicholas Frank as News Editor - Glasstire is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicholas Frank as the publication’s News Editor. Mr. Frank, who is based in San Antonio, will succeed...
Second Nexus

Pool Expert Reveals Why He'll Never Swim In A Public Pool In Eye-Opening TikTok - Now that summer is here and temperatures are at record-breaking highs, we're all looking for ways to have a good time while also feeling comfortable. A...
Socialist Alternative

Five Years Since George Floyd: What Kind of Movement Do We Need to Build Today? - It’s been five years since the largest protest movement in US history—the George Floyd uprising. Sparked by the horrific murder of George Floyd by Minneapo...
Angry Bear

“Robin-Hood-in-reverse” policies - A partial of a much longer piece by Bruce Lesley. Health and food policies for low-income people and families will suffer under Tr__p’s take from the poo...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Has Mentioned Clacton Only Four Times in Commons - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has mentioned his constituency fewer than half a dozen times in the House of Commons, DeSmog can reveal. Farage has been cr...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Valles Marineris - A visualization of Valles Marineris, the "Grand Canyon" of Mars (far larger than the Earthly version, at 2,500 miles long). This video was made by JPL in...
Texas Monthly

A Young Magician Has Been Secretly Perfecting His Act for Years. Now He’s Ready to Make History. - Eric Chien plans to perform a new form of magic at a secretive competition in Italy.
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
The AltWorld

Don’t Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society - Don’t take instruction on how to live your life from a stark raving mad society. This civilization […] The post Don’t Take Instruction On How To Live You...
Wolf Street

30-Year Treasury Yield Jumps to 4.96% despite “Solid” Auction, Long End of Yield Curve Steepens, Mortgage-Rate Spread Historically Wide - The bond market’s reaction to the inflationary environment, to fears of a lax Fed, and to a Mississippi River of new debt.
Bracing Views

“There is no America, there is no democracy” - Thoughts on Gaza and the Profitability of Genocide BILL ASTORE JUL 10, 2025 I sent this somewhat despairing note to a friend this morning: It remains uncle...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) Standing Aside Athwart History - This cartoon is drawn by the wonderful cartoonist Jenn Lee. (And doesn’t that carpeting in panel four look amazing?) “Athwart” is such a great word. I shou...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: A very evil person spoke up... - *SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025* *...at a famous person's press conference:* It's too hot here today, but mainly too humid, for a sensible person to function. ...
The Grayzone

Case closed after ‘Russian disinfo’ claims led to persecution of NZ journalist - Journalist Mick Hall was accused of slipping “Russian disinformation” into copy at New Zealand’s state broadcaster, sparking an international furor about...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 7 - 11 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Despite the warning signs in some of the recent monthly data that I’ve ...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Threatens To Revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s Citizenship; She Calls Him “A Danger To The Nation” In Response — Update - Donald Trump posted on Saturday that he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship. The president posted on Truth Social, ...
Workers World

Hamas update on ceasefire proposal - [image: Hamas update on ceasefire proposal] The following statement appeared July 5, 2025, on Resistance News Network. According to various press sources, ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
slacktivist

LBCF: Fizzbinsationalism - Rapture Christianity claims the Bible it true for YOU, but that it wasn't true for every Christian who ever lived and died before special, oh so special, you.
SCOTUSblog

Federal employees urge Supreme Court to keep order in place preventing their firing - Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who were fired by President Donald Trump in May urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in pla...
Progressive.org

Firing Line: Robert Greenwald Chronicles the Killing of Combat Correspondents and Children in Gaza - ‘Gaza: Journalists Under Fire’ takes viewers beyond the censorship inside the occupied inferno where unprecedented numbers of war reporters have died.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Luján warns against public broadcasting cuts amidst deadly flooding - [image: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, delivered a Senate floor speech Wedn...
Capital & Main

Tortured by the Taliban, Locked Up in the U.S. - The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope. The post Tortured by the Taliban, Loc...
Church and State

The Dangerous Distraction of Population Decline Alarmism - According to the UN Population Division, nine countries are on track to at least double their populations by 2054.
Sludge

House GOP Plans ‘Crypto Week’ to Pass Deregulatory Bills on Digital Assets - The bills are backed by crypto industry lobbying groups whose funders spent tens of millions last year to help elect pro-crypto lawmakers.
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Democracy Now!

U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump's Anti-Immigrant Policies, "Militarized Response" to Protests - *Democracy Now!* recently interviewed U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk in Geneva, Switzerland. The wide-ranging conversation touched on ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Texas Observer

Poem for the Guadalupe River from a previous Mystic camper - I remember the river, flowing so peacefully and slowly you could almost miss its motion I remember the river, mirroring the vastness of the starry sky s...
Rewire

Data on Maternal Death Is Being Distorted or Hidden, Experts Say - Pregnancy and childbirth have become more deadly in states with abortion bans, especially for Black people. But the state committees whose job is to stud...
Space City Weather

Rain chances persist through the weekend before proper summer heat next week - In brief: Houston has enjoyed a relatively mild start to July, thanks to daily rain chances helping to keep a lid on temperatures. That pattern will persis...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Staggering On Fumes - The Skinny returns after a brief hiatus due to a pet death in the author's family to find that things are not improving in Trump's emerging Fourth Reich....
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
MintPress News

Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence - This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli s...
Krebs on Security

UK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group - Authorities in the United Kingdom this week arrested four alleged members of "Scattered Spider," a prolific data theft and extortion group whose recent vic...
Bud Kennedy

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
Discourse

What the Fuck Are We Doing - Our country's descent into an unnecessary measles pandemic is a new level of maddening.
Project Censored

The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy - Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Earthworks

New Leadership for Earthworks’ Mining Program - Ellen Moore is stepping into a new role as Earthworks’ Mining Program Director. The post New Leadership for Earthworks’ Mining Program appeared first on...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shock poll shows Trump's approval rating savaged by key group—Gen Z - *Friends,* *Trump’s rapidly declining approval among Gen Z—a generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012—is a glaring warning sign for his campaign. De...
NORML

Johns Hopkins University Study: Cannabis Initiation Associated With Significant Reductions in Anxiety, Depression - [image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint][image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint]"Initiation of THC-dominant medicinal cannabis was associated with ...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
The Progressive Wing

July 7/7-13 News Roundup and Open Thread - More from Bernie
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
The Texas Signal

The Flooding In Texas - As the search continues for missing Texans, many are asking why such a tragedy occurred in the first place, with different leaders casting blame elsewhere.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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, ...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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.
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...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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