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

Alternet

'Not great staffing work': Joe Scarborough cheers Powell’s masterclass fact check of Trump - ‘Morning Joe’ host Joe Scarborough spoke through laughter as he described President Donald Trump’s Thursday attempt to “renew pressure on [Fed] chairman ...
Mediaite

Elon Musk Killed Starlink Over Ukraine, Hurting a Counteroffensive Against Russia: Reuters - Musk reportedly ordered a Starlink communications shutdown over parts of Ukraine during a pivotal 2022 counteroffensive causing confusion on the battlefi...
Raw Story

'Complete misreading of room': Ex-aide warns Trump move will spectacularly 'backfire' - The Department of Justice meetings with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell could end up backfiring on President Donald Trump, according to one of...
Mediagazer

A look at micro dramas, like those on China's ReelShort: a whole season typically films in two weeks and features tired tropes and actors from ad backgrounds (Zeyi Yang/Wired) - Zeyi Yang / Wired: *A look at micro dramas, like those on China's ReelShort: a whole season typically films in two weeks and features tired tropes and ac...
Dissident Voice

The Civilized World Must Act Immediately over Mass Starvation in Gaza - Over 23 horrific months the people of Gaza (47% children before the present Gaza Massacre) have suffered bombing, shooting, burying under rubble, near-...
Salon.com

Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal? - Suspicions are raised after Justice Department's six-hour meeting with the convicted sex trafficker
memeorandum

6 Trump Voters on if They Trust President's Handling of Epstein Case (New York Times) - New York Times: *6 Trump Voters on if They Trust President's Handling of Epstein Case* — President Trump has called it a hoax. He has told his base to...
Courthouse News

Dodging the worst job of my life - Having outlived my allotted three score and ten, tremulously believing that I shall not have to do hard physical labor for wages again, I wondered: What wa...
Rewire

Trans Fighters Wrestle To Take Down Discrimination in Mainstream Martial Arts - As trans women are attacked for competing, advocates are working to build new spaces by and for trans people in the martial arts community. The post Tran...
San Antonio Current

August increase in Mexico tariffs could strain Texas economy - Importers and exporters based in Texas have so far avoided the harshest effects of the trade war sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports fr...
The Hill

Carville rips Columbia over Trump settlement: 'I’ve never seen such cowards in my life' - Democratic strategist James Carville ripped Columbia University for agreeing to pay $221 million to President Trump’s administration to restore the school’...
The Verge

I tried Gemini on the Pixel Watch. Here’s what it’s like - I'm just getting acquainted with Gemini on the Pixel Watch I'm wearing when it tells me that there's a kind of pastry called "nun's farts." This relationsh...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, July 25 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The post The morning r...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US politics live updates: Trump administration reportedly seeks fines from universities including Harvard - White House aims to fine several universities it accuses of failing to stop antisemitism on campus, including from Harvard University, WSJ reports Democr...
Undernews

Transgender - *Roll Call - *Multiple defense bills on Congress’ post-recess agenda would cement in law the Trump administration’s restrictions on health care for tran...
Techdirt.

With Trump’s Bribe Paid, His Lackey FCC Quickly Rubber Stamps CBS Merger - With the cowards at CBS/Paramount having paid their $16 million bribe to the King, Trump’s FCC has quickly ended its phony “investigation” into the media g...
The Conversation

Deportation tactics from 4 US presidents have done little to reduce the undocumented immigrant population - After his predecessors failed to diminish the US population of undocumented immigrants, President Trump is attempting to drastically reduce that population...
Futurism

OpenAI Is Reportedly About to Release GPT-5 - Save the Date OpenAI's release of GPT-5 might be right around the corner. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Verge reports that the ChatGPT mak...
Election Law Blog

Toobin: “The Line Trump Crossed by Accusing Obama of Treason” - Jeffrey Toobin in NYT on President Trump’s assertion that former President Obama engaged in “treason” in connection with the investigation into Russian e...
Al Jazeera English

Deadly typhoon causes flooding across Philippines - A powerful typhoon has caused extreme flooding across the Philippines, affecting millions of people.
Political Wire

2028 Democratic Presidential Race Could Be Longest Ever - “The 2028 Democratic presidential primary is set to be the most wide-open field in a generation. It could also be the longest presidential contest ever,” A...
Space City Weather

This break in Houston’s heat brought to you by the letter S for showers - In brief: Periods of rain and scattered thunderstorms will be with Houston today and tomorrow as a disturbance moves in from the Gulf. Then, we will get an...
Daily Dot

“You dirty clanker”: We finally have a derogatory term for AI robots - [image: clanker is a robot slang term] Humans have chosen an official slur for AI and anything else perceived as robotic, especially those awful customer...
The Week

Could Thailand and Cambodia really go to war? - Thai leader has warned that recent hostilities over border dispute could lead to all-out conflict
MintPress News

Voices From the Terror List: Palestine Action Members Speak Out After UK Ban - As Britain officially labels them terrorists, Palestine Action members speak out from the shadows of a new crackdown. The post Voices From the Terror Lis...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Unfortunate Complexities - There’s not much to add to or analyze in Jennings’ cartoon. Children are living as grotesque skeletons and dying in unconscionable numbers. The obvious, si...
Angry Bear

Rural Hospitals Closing Leaving Millions with No Hospital Care - Millions of Americans No Longer Have Hospital Care in Their Community Over the past decade, more than 100 rural hospitals have closed. As a result, the m...
ArcaMax

Why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Cannot Be Canceled - I first met Elise Carter at a public meeting in spring 2021. Elise sat with her colleague and friend Trinity Walsh in the auditorium of Highlands High Scho...
WhoWhatWhy

The Ghost in the Machine: How William F. Buckley Birthed Today’s Extreme Right - [image: Ronald Reagan, William F Buckley, 1986] How the aristocrat’s blueprint for populist conservatism became today’s reality. The Ghost in the Machine:...
Axios

Dollar weakness persists even amid trade deals - The trade deals keep coming, yet the dollar continues to weaken, down over 10% this year after the biggest first-half loss since 1973. *Why it matters:* ...
naked capitalism

Links 7/25/2025 -
Rio Grande Guardian

An interview with the Jesuit priest who claimed ‘kangaroo courts’ are operating in the RGV - Jesuit priest Brian Strassburger works for Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries, a project that visits camps and shelters in northern Tamaulipas and South...
The Smirking Chimp

The Silencing -
The AltWorld

Destroy Russia. Fail? No problem: let’s destroy China! - Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive “analysis” and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War […] The post Destroy Russ...
Skeptophilia

Miracles and incredulity - I have a problem with how people use the word *miracle*. The dictionary definition is "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural o...
Off The Kuff

July 2025 campaign finance reports – City of Houston - PREVOIUSLY: Harris County Senate and Congress When I did the January roundup for the city of Houston, I didn’t expect there to be much activity of interest...
Slate

Help! I Thought I Dreamed Up the Perfect Baby Name. Then I Realized Where I’d Heard It Before. - Prudie replies to readers’ comments and suggestions.
Mother Jones

ICE Arrests an Immigrant Whom SF Judge Said May be Mentally Impaired - This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers leavin...
San Antonio Report

Bar-B-Q Republic: How a thriving South Side family enterprise sprang from an empty nest - Oscar Torres sold his two '67 Chevy Camaros to fund what would become a thriving family restaurant, Bar-B-Q Republic, on the South Side. -------------------...
ProPublica

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. - by Avi Asher-Schapiro and Jeff Ernsthausen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories ...
Scheerpost.com

Columbia’s $200M Deal With Trump Administration Sets a Precedent for Other Universities To Bend to the Government’s Will - While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other univer...
Progressive Army

AGOSTO: Próximos cursos en la Aaaci - Curso Actualización Mercancías Peligrosas por Vía Aérea Modalidad Presencial 04 y 05 Agosto de 09 a 16:30 hs Curso Inicial Mercancías Peligrosas por Vía Aé...
American Prospect

Israel’s Endgame Is Obliterating Palestine - Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.
NPR's Health Shots

Fearing coverage could change, some parents rush to vaccinate their kids - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is changing how federal agencies handle vaccine recommendations. Some parents are hurrying to get kids their shots, ...
Grist

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart. - A Puget Sound project turned seaweed from a nuisance into a “climate-smart commodity.” That inserted it into the president’s culture wars.
High Country News

Law enforcement surveilled Nevada lithium mine protesters, according to records - [image: Josh Dini, left, and Gary McKinney, a member of a group opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada, pass Sentinel Rock on a 2024 pra...
Crooked Media

CTRL-F ‘Trump’ in the Epstein Files - The post CTRL-F ‘Trump’ in the Epstein Files appeared first on Crooked Media .
Rallblog

What Free Speech? - Americans are told to be proud of the First Amendment and the right to free speech. However, upon closer examination, there is little free speech that ca...
Counterpunch

The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, Genocide Denier - In a July 22 essay that is extraordinary even for someone as morally odious as he is, the New York Times columnist and Israeli propagandist Bret Stephens...
jobsanger

The Public Is Smelling A Cover-Up -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1411: John Dalton’s Notation - Episode: 1411 The role of notation in John Dalton’s atomic theory. Today, we wonder how to draw an atom.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Greeting Committee - Meow from Claire and Perry.
The Root

Simone Biles and Other Black Celeb Couples Who Met By Sliding in the DMs - If you were feeling a bit apprehensive about making a move on your social media crush, let these handful of celeb couples inspire you to shoot your shot!...
World Socialist Web Site

The CFMEU’s phoney opposition to the demolition of Melbourne’s public housing towers - The wrecking operation could be brought to an immediate halt through a sector wide ban on demolition-related work at the towers. But the building union has...
Informed Comment

We’re All Palestinians Now: How Trump is Middle-Easternizing the United States - Here is my most recent column for the legendary Tom Engelhardt’s Tomdispatch.com.Be sure to check out his searing introduction. ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The U...
Claytoonz

Heavenly Hogan - 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...
Workers World

Educators for Palestine claims victory against racism and hate, despite NEA board decision - [image: Educators for Palestine claims victory against racism and hate, despite NEA board decision] Educators for Palestine released the following news rel...
Brad Blog

Landmark Climate Ruling at World Court; More Epstein Trouble for our Petty Little Tyrant: 'BradCast' 7/24/2025 - We've got another mix of good, horrible and hilarious news for the world and the nation today. Ya know, just another day on The BradCast. [Audio link to fu...
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Russiagate Decomposed’ - It’s been long dead but new revelations have thrown dirt on it. Ex-C.I.A. Ray McGovern and ex-NSA Bill Binney were pioneers in debunking it. They join CN L...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

No Heroes, No Kings: Notes on Childhood Grief and Moving Forward - Hulk Hogan was everything to me as a kid. A hero. A religious-like figure. Moving beyond that gave me the space to become myself.
Portside

McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again? - McCarthyism and Its Victims: Here We Go Again? jay Thu, 07/24/2025 - 20:38
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: The End Of Academic Freedom - The gutting of public funding for higher education in the United States has led to the takeover of universities by private donors, many of whom are Zioni...
Antiwar.com

The Rise of the Jewish Dual State - Ever since the Six-Day-War (1967) and the occupation of Palestinian territories, Israel has witnessed the rise of the Messianic far-right settler Jews. In ...
Common Dreams

EU and China Reaffirm Climate Cooperation Amid Global Tensions and US Absence - In a rare demonstration of global alignment, the European Union and China today issued a *joint statement* reaffirming their commitment to climate cooper...
Deadline Politics

Elizabeth Warren Says Skydance-Paramount Merger Approval “Must Be Investigated For Any Criminal Behavior” - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to the FCC approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger, again raising questions of whether the green light was the resul...
Texas Standard

‘We will not let Trump take over’: Texans rally as state lawmakers begin redistricting hearings - Democratic lawmakers and advocates rallied outside the Texas Capitol Thursday, just before the state legislature kicked the first in a series of hearings o...
The Grayzone

FBI surveilled 2018 ‘Russia & Wikileaks’ panel featuring The Grayzone, files show - Russiagate hysteria led the BI to spy on a panel featuring The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil. As Blumenthal warned during the discussion, t...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
Progressive.org

Eli Valley’s ‘Tough Stuff’ - A new collection presents the antizionist cartoonist’s provocative depictions of the politically corrupt and morally bankrupt.
OpEd News

"The Israeli flag will not be raised in Beirut." Interview with Khalil Harb - This is an interview with Lebanese journalist Khalil Harab to talk about the latest developments in Lebanon
The NM Political Report

New Mexico delegation demands Trump release $44 million in withheld education funding - [image: Albuquerque Public Schools (APS)] [image: Albuquerque Public Schools (APS)] Over 10,000 New Mexico students could lose access to afterschool prog...
The Greanville Post

NOTHING TO SEE HERE; HOW ABOUT THIS? - PAUL EDWARDS—Innuendos got people thinking there was sex going on, and some said there were videos that proved it, but where are they? After he offed hims...
CultureMap Houston

Convivial Canadian sports bar sets opening date for new Woodlands pub - A growing sports bar and restaurant chain will soon make its Houston-area debut. *Local Public Eatery* will open at Market Street in The Woodlands on Augus...
Wolf Street

Inventory of New Single-Family Homes Spikes to Highest since 2007; in the South, Shoots Past Housing Bust High. Sales and Prices Drop - Homebuilders cut prices, bring on supply; profits plunge back to earth. Medicine this overpriced housing market needs.
Second Nexus

JFK's Grandson Rips Republicans Over Effort To Rename Kennedy Center Opera House After Melania - Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, took to Instagram to criticize the proposed renaming of the Kennedy Center’s renowned...
The Texas Signal

Texas Republicans Revive Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill - Women and survivors of violence held a rally outside the Capitol blasting the latest bathroom bill re-introduced in the special session
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Gallup reports a punishing poll! - *THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025* *A poll from two different Americas:* Presumably, there has never been any such thing as a perfectly accurate poll. Also, if b...
Church and State

Trump’s immigration reforms now a horror attack on our democracy - The loss of citizen control of our democracy has become more apparent with the myriads of illegal moves made without any serious complaint.
El Paso Matters

Poop or puke in a city pool? El Paso city leaders float fine to clean up the mess - Doodie in the pool! The city of El Paso is considering imposing a fine for defecating or vomiting in city pools under new fees being proposed in next ye...
Ballot Access News

Independent Candidate for Cheektowaga, New York, Town Board Placed on Ballot by State Court Even Though his Petition Sheets Didn’t Mention Cheektowaga - On July 24, independent candidate Daniel Kollander was put on the November 4, 2025 ballot for Town Board of Cheektowaga, by a lower state court. The Board ...
See You In 2020

Foster clarified we can only win the masses on a class basis. This is how MAGA communism will succeed. - One of the most important lessons William Foster provided is that the American masses are not going to be won through a cultural struggle. The notion th...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Revisit Replacing STAAR Test with New Year-Round Assessments - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As part of the 89th Legislature’s special session agenda, Governor Greg Abbott is once again ca...
Krebs on Security

Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers - KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a lar...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Giant Eni Can Move Forward, Italy Supreme Court Says in ‘Historic’ Ruling - This week, Italy’s highest court ruled that a climate lawsuit brought by Greenpeace Italy and advocacy group ReCommon against Eni can move forward. In t...
The Daily Poster

Venture Capital’s New Bailout: Your 401(k) - Private equity firms owe their investors $1.5 trillion, and the Trump administration is set to offer them your 401(k) to fill the gap.
Texas Observer

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers - I’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodpl...
Capital & Main

Reform Refill: Has Scott Wiener Convinced Gov. Newsom to Rein in Prescription Middlemen? - Why a state senator may finally win his battle against powerful pharmacy benefit managers. The post Reform Refill: Has Scott Wiener Convinced Gov. Newsom...
Eschaton

Plano - Why does the guy running for mayor of New York City need the approval of voters in Plano? Another reason Jeffries might be slow-walking an endorsement is ...
Discourse

Love for Palestine Is All Around Us - The visual landscape everywhere has changed, reflecting a world that demands a free Palestine.
Bonddad

New home sales continue rangebound, prices continue to decline, inventory continues to rise - - *by New Deal democrat* This morning’s report on new home sales for June indicated that sales continue to be rangebound, YoY prices continue to decli...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian women were told to go to U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza. They were killed and beaten instead, eyewitnesses say. - [image: Palestinian women come back from GHF distribution center in southern Gaza, where eyewitnesses say GHF staff pepper-sprayed the aid-seekers and beat...
Project Censored

ECONOMIC TERROR AND THE TURBOCHUGGF*CK IN TEXAS - By Danbert Nobacon I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existe...
Unlimited Hangout

PayPal Presidency Pt. III: New World Currency with Mark Goodwin - PayPal Presidency Pt. III: New World Currency with Mark Goodwin.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Convention 2025: Smooth Leadership Transition Highlights Record Turnout - *Featured image by Chet Essner. From Left to Right, Back Row: Tori Hinrichs, Leah Dailey, Tim Teagan, Angela Thornton, Andrew Duke, John Hudak & Jay Gill...
Ian Welsh

Ending Resource Separatism in Alberta and Canada - Alberta is a province in Canada with a lot of oil and a moderate but not yet dangerous separatism problem that polls a little below 30%. That’s far less th...
Vox

It’s surprisingly hard to know just how many people will die because of USAID cuts - How many people are going to die because of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s abolition of USAID, and the Trump administration’s apparent...
Dorf on Law

How Bad is the Columbia Settlement Agreement? - Reporting (e.g., in the NY Times) on the settlement agreement between Columbia University and the United States government describes the $200 million tha...
Glasstire

Top Five: July 24, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other Houston Center for Conte...
Trivial Knot

The NSFW game purge - Recently, Steam purged a bunch of NSFW games from its storefront. This occurred as the result of efforts from Australia-based anti-porn group Collective Sh...
Democracy Now!

"Duty to Repair": Vanuatu Climate Minister on World Court Ruling Countries Must Address Climate - In a landmark decision, the International Court of Justice found that polluting countries are now legally obligated to address global warming. In a unanimo...
Earth 911

Guest Opinion: Earth Savvy? - “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed... The post Guest Opinion: Earth Savvy? appeared first on Earth911.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

CAMPAIGN OF CHAOS, Our New Book on the 2024 Election, is Now Available - Our new breakdown of the 2024 election, Campaign of Chaos, is now available The post CAMPAIGN OF CHAOS, Our New Book on the 2024 Election, is Now Availab...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A License to Occupy - After an off-duty Gestapo pig got shot in a botched NYC robbery, Gestapo leaders are seizing the moment to put a target on the back of Dem-run sanctuary ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump was told in May by DOJ that he was listed in the Epstein files: Wall Street Journal' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *DOJ told Trump in May he was among names in Epstein files: bombshell report* - *This doesn't mean that Trump is guility of any wrongdoing but with this ...
Environment Texas

National Parks staff: What they do and why we need them - Park staffing numbers are dropping as visitor numbers are increasing. This troubling trend will lead to trouble at our beloved national parks. The post N...
Sludge

Crypto Industry Is Spending More on Lobbying Than Ever - Eyeing major legislative wins, the cryptocurrency industry is on pace to spend a record amount on federal lobbying, according to a Sludge analysis of discl...
Socialist Alternative

Repression Sparks New Protests in Kenya - Kenya’s “Gen Z” protests have ignited again, with several major demonstrations taking place across the country over the past month. While the crowd at thes...
Infidel753

A few speculations on the near future - I'm a bit hesitant to post this because it's mostly about the economy, a field in which I have no special expertise. These are, however, points I've obse...
Ecosophia

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

Clinical Trial Data Provides “Compelling Evidence” That Vaporized Cannabis Mitigates Migraine Symptoms - [image: A hand holds a vaporizer over a budding flowering plant][image: A hand holds a vaporizer over a budding flowering plant]"Nearly one-third of migr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Keynote Address by Dr. José Angel Gutiérrez—"Chicano Rights Movements: Then and Now" (2014) - *Friends,* * I just came across this powerful video of Dr. José Angel Gutiérrez speaking at the 2014 LEAD Conference in San Bernardino—and I had to share...
Democracy Chronicles

What The Silencing of Stephen Colbert Means - Why did this happen and what does this action mean? This isn’t a moment to celebrate, but a moment to contemplate.
Bracing Views

Trinity, 80 Years Later - Haunted by Thermonuclear Nightmares BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2025 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic de...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
slacktivist

John MacArthur, dead fundamentalist - "Evangelicals" and "fundamentalists" did not used to be the same thing.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Guess the Dallas Maverick - Wrong answers only: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Fleming (@chrisflemingfleming) The post Guess the Dallas Maverick appeared first o...
Crooked Timber

The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People - The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging ...
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. -John
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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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...
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...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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...
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...
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...
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

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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.
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

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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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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