Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

An A-Z list of 2025’s biggest stories - From artificial intelligence to Zohran Mamdani, Al Jazeera compiles an A-Z list of 2025's biggest stories.
jobsanger

What Will Trump Put His Name On Next? -
Countercurrents

India 2025: Plight of Christian Minority - Violence against Muslim minority has been a regular phenomenon. Its form and intensity have been varying but the intimidation continues. The other substant...
Axios

Eastern U.S. faces heavy snow threats in days-long New Year's holiday storm - A "surge" of Arctic air will "invade" much of the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. over the New Year's period, forecasters warned — as lake-effect snow beg...
memeorandum

McLean man charged with sending threatening messages and lying to investigators (US Department of Justice) - US Department of Justice: *McLean man charged with sending threatening messages and lying to investigators* — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's ...
World Socialist Web Site

PT-controlled union federation betrays oil workers strike in Brazil - The FUP’s latest betrayal underscores the need for Petrobras workers to form independent rank-and-file committees with an internationalist and socialist pe...
Counterpunch

Trans – the New Anti-Gay Crusade - Religious conservatives waged a 50-year battle to deny the rights of gay and lesbian people, especially the right to marry. As the dominate force in the ...
Informed Comment

“A door to which I found no key:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:32 - Not you nor I have known the secrets of eternity. / Not you nor I have solved the riddle that the letter hides
Mediaite

Karl Rove Says Trump Has ‘Gone Way Too Far’ and Americans Find the ‘Narcissism Off-Putting’ - Republican strategist and Fox News contributor Karl Rove said President Donald Trump has "gone way too far" in some respects and that Americans are "tiri...
Raw Story

'It's fascinating': Author reveals 'horrifying' reason why Trump's taxes remain secret - President Donald Trump and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein were in some shady business deals together, and one incident may hold the key to understan...
Claytoonz

Happy New Year 2026 - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Techdirt.

2025 Measles Cases In America Surpass The 2,000 Mark - This administration is in the midst of failing the American people in so many ways, of course, but if you need one stark example of that failure then you c...
Political Wire

‘Kennedy Center Honors’ Ratings Hit New Low - “Ratings for the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors sunk to its lowest numbers ever as President Trump hosted the once-prestigious event from the renamed Washingto...
The Hill

Ukraine knocks countries that condemned alleged attempt to attack Putin compound - Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha on Tuesday condemned statements alleging that Kyiv initiated an attack on Russian President Vladimir Pu...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration freezes childcare funding to Minnesota in wake of fraud scheme allegations - Officials claim to find ‘rampant fraud’ in childcare funding, but prosecutions began in Biden era and Tim Walz says ‘we’ve spent years cracking down on i...
Alternet

Boebert suggests Trump's veto of funding in her district is 'retaliation' for Epstein vote - Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is accusing President Donald Trump of blocking a non-controversial water project affecting her district after the lawmaker ...
Ballot Access News

Iowa Special Legislative Election - Iowa held a special election on December 30 to fill the vacancy in the State Senate, 16th district. The district is centered in Des Moines. The results: De...
Mediagazer

Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press) - Josh Funk / Associated Press: *Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who wi...
Popular Resistance

Decline And Fall - At the start of the 20th century, the British Empire was, like our own, in terminal decline. Sixty percent of Englishmen were physically unfit for milita...
Deadline Politics

Trump Wants To “Unleash Hell” In 2026; POTUS Tries To Go Full Maximus With A Misguided ‘Gladiator’ Flex - In the dying days of 2025, Donald Trump wants to be more Maximus than POTUS as a new video from the White House today laughably tries to assert Grabbing th...
Daily Cartoonist

Best Editoons of 2025 (Part 5) - As newspapers and cartoonists continue to issue their political cartoon Best Of lists The Daily Cartoonist continues to pass them on to our readers. Just a...
Courthouse News

Hot mug! - DENVER — Colorado woman Marjorie Dawson seeks at least $75,000 in damages, saying she suffered second-degree burns from a Starbucks-branded ceramic mug tha...
Progressive.org

Through the Eyes of Little Crow - An excerpt from We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat.
Liberation News

Nashville residents push back as city revives police surveillance plan - Community members warned that expanding police access to private camera networks raises the risk of data-sharing beyond the city.
Antiwar.com

A Moment of Hope in Gaza - On Thursday, December 25th, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians, 168 students graduated from medical school, in Gaza. Wearing their...
Portside

The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of US Hypocrisy on Drugs - The Venezuela Escalation Ignores a Long History of US Hypocrisy on Drugs Judy Tue, 12/30/2025 - 18:59
Workers World

China / United States – Latin America and the Caribbean: The people have their say. - [image: China / United States – Latin America and the Caribbean: The people have their say.] The author is a Venezuelan consultant, international analyst, ...
San Antonio Report

Sheriff: Body found near search area for Camila Mendoza Olmos, identification pending - Bexar County Sheriff says a body was found near the search area for Camila Mendoza Olmos; identity pending confirmation by the medical examiner. -----------...
slacktivist

Someone is watching all of the outsiders - A local hero demonstrates how to put customers first. Plus: loon calls, the best bad book reviews, and why most pastors are not using ChatGPT to write thei...
Houston Public Media

Harris County elections officials find more than 100 voter registrations illegally tied to P.O. boxes - The findings were in response to a complaint filed by state Sen. Paul Bettencourt earlier this year, prompting the Texas Secretary of State's office to thr...
Undernews

Polls - InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022 Net Favorability Ratings (ages 18-29) [image: 🟢] Bernie Sanders (+26) [image: 🟢] Gavin Newsom (+7) [image: 🟢] A. Ocasio-...
Slate

If You’re Not Including This in Your New Year’s Eve Plans, You’re Starting 2026 Off on the Wrong Foot - When the clock strikes midnight, grab a spoon.
Discourse

Bird of the Year: Blue-Footed Booby - More like blue-footed BEAUTY.
Independent Political Report

Arizona Green Party Issues Warning About Candidates Seeking Its Ballot Line for 2026 Primary - The Arizona Green Party has issued a warning to its supporters that several candidates collecting signatures to qualify for its 2026 primary are not invo...
Reform Austin

Islamophobic Attack at Walnut Creek Park Prompts Urgent Calls for Action - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Austin Muslim leaders are urging state officials to condemn harassment following an incident at...
Daily Dot

“No justification”: Joe Rogan blasts Trump’s Rob Reiner remarks as “not funny” and “so disappointing” - [image: Left: Joe Rogan wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone on his podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience. Right: United States President Donald...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
CultureMap Houston

Starpower and expert storytelling define the 10 best movies of 2025 -
NPR's Health Shots

Flu cases are surging and rates will likely get worse, new CDC data shows - Flu season is off to a rough start this year, according to new CDC data. The virus is spreading faster than in previous years and the surge is likely to ge...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: What sacred Melville did for whales... - *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2025* *...we'll do for the president's groaners: *Our recent reference to sacred Melville pleased a certain *Tonight* show comedia...
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Wolf Street

Asking Rents in 33 Bigger Cities: Where they Spike, Rise more Slowly, or Fall. US Rents for Single-Family Homes Surge, Pull Further away from Multifamily - Rents spiked in San Francisco, Chicago, NY City, Rochester, Kansas City... rose more slowly in others... fell in Austin, Denver, San Antonio, Phoenix...
The Week

Why is Trump’s alleged strike on Venezuela shrouded in so much secrecy? - Trump’s comments have raised more questions than answers about what his administration is doing in the Southern Hemisphere
Scheerpost.com

WATCH: Pilger & Palestine - To mark the second anniversary of the passing of John Pilger, CN presents his 2002 documentary Palestine Is Still the Issue followed by CN’s 2021 discussio...
OpEd News

Major General Nasser Al-Burini and the Development of the Palestinian Military Liaison - The article highlights the Palestinian Military Liaison as a vital institution that directly impacts Palestinians' daily lives by facilitating movement and...
Capital & Main

From Fire to ICE: The Year in Video - Capital & Main’s video reporting reached millions of viewers in 2025, expanding our coverage of the most pressing issues facing our readers. The post Fr...
Salon.com

Clooney: ABC, CBS should have told Trump “go f**k yourself” - The "Good Night, and Good Luck" star worried about the future of the press in a new interview
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Higher Education at a Crossroads: Incentives Without Evidence Will Not Deliver Equity, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Texas Higher Education at a Crossroads: Incentives Without Evidence Will Not Deliver Equity* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 30, 2025* *Re...
Mondoweiss

Trump reaffirms his support for another strike on Iran after meeting with Netanyahu - [image: President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, December 29, 2025, at the Mar-a-Lago Club ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – U.S. Militarism Comes Home - U.S. militarism has not remained confined to foreign battlefields. Over the past two decades, doctrines, technologies, and reflexes developed for war abroa...
First Draft

Horseshoe People 2.0 - A hybrid post in which Benito Mussolini meets Adrastos' MAGA Yippie friend.
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies - Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silen...
Mother Jones

Doctors Without Borders Among Dozens of Aid Groups Israel Moves to Shut Down in Gaza - On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palest...
The Verge

Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks - Two former employees at cybersecurity firms - one of whom was a ransomware negotiator - have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks ...
The Root

50 Cent, Regina King and Other Black Celebrity-Owned Alcohol Brands to Explore for New Year’s Eve! - New Year's Eve got you thirsty and searching for a cool new quencher? Let these celebrity-owned libation brands help guide you! Read more...
San Antonio Current

Texas to receive $281 million in federal funds for rural health care - [image: The Seymour Hospital on June 30, 2025. The town of Seymour is about 50 miles southwest on Wichita Falls.] Texas will get the biggest portion of th...
Ian Welsh

American Sanctions Are Now Benefiting Countries - The war against Russia was a big bet on sanctions. The Russian military was always stronger than Ukraine, but the West believed that sanctions would destro...
Vox

What the public really thinks about AI - A widely despised industry is slurping up Americans’ water — and driving up their electricity bills — as part of a nefarious plot to take their jobs. Voter...
Texas Standard

Another exodus in Congress means Texas will need to start rebuilding its clout in 2027 - At least 10 Texas incumbents will not be returning to Congress next term, a high-water mark for turnover in the delegation.
Dissident Voice

Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity - The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-r...
Dorf on Law

An Amusing "Classic" to End the Year: Remember the Kendrick-Drake Beef? - *Note to readers: As I explained in my "Note to readers" in the column below, I used my *Dorf on Law* slot on March 17 of this year to take a personal sa...
Election Law Blog

“After quiet off-year elections, Democrats renew worries about Trump interfering in the midterms” - Nick Riccardi for AP: If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a ...
Futurism

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation - The effort is a virtual goldmine for OpenAI. The post OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation appeared first ...
SCOTUSblog

Hamm v. Smith and the future of capital punishment - Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty and federal habeas review of s...
Glasstire

Exhibitions Coming to West Texas and the Panhandle in Spring 2026 - Art museums and institutions in West Texas and the Panhandle are readying their 2026 exhibition seasons. Here is a preview of shows coming to the Grace M...
Rewire

Rewire Wrapped: RNG’s Best of 2025 - Moving letters from trans teens. Scorching political takedowns. Uplifting stories of doctors who won’t give up. Here’s how *Rewire News Group* covered th...
El Paso Matters

Reckoning and resilience: El Paso’s most impactful stories of 2025 - From landmark criminal cases to shifting immigration enforcement and decisions with lasting impacts on schools, infrastructure and the environment, here...
Democracy Now!

Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess - Tens of millions of Americans are set to see their health insurance costs soar when subsidies under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of this year....
Rallblog

China Syndrome | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Cold to end 2025, warm to begin 2026. Also, our first look at Houston Marathon weather - In brief: Houston is quite chilly this morning, and we’re dropping down another notch tonight. But following this we’ll be solidly on a warming trend headi...
ArcaMax

Off to the Races: The Democrats Get Ready to Rumble - A midterm election year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: we have entered the realm of quickened speculation about the 2028 presidential electi...
Earth 911

Can The PACK Act Fix America’s Recycling Label Confusion? - If you’ve ever stood at your recycling bin wondering whether a package’s chasing arrows symbol... The post Can The PACK Act Fix America’s Recycling Label...
WhoWhatWhy

Our Favorite Jon Richards Cartoons of 2025 - [image: best-of, Jon Richards’ cartoons, WhoWhatWhy, 2025] Whether he’s skewering Republicans or Democrats, Jon Richards always has a sharp eye for the pol...
Angry Bear

Regional Fed manufacturing indexes suggest 2025 trends are slowly abating - – by New Deal democrat Although the federal government shutdown has been over for a month and a half, most of the data that has been released has lagged...
The Smirking Chimp

In 2025, Epstein Showed MAGA Who They Really Are -
Skeptophilia

Just to be on the safe side - Here in the United States there is escalating concern among many of us that health insurance rates are going to skyrocket, since Donald Trump's campaign ...
Off The Kuff

District C special election set for April 4 - In case you missed it. CITY OF HOUSTON’S APRIL 4, 2026 SPECIAL ELECTION TO FILL THE VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT C FOR THE REMAINDER O...
ProPublica

Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year. - The post Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year. appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 30 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "shithole country" video, click here.] ...
High Country News

We need to talk about the pretendians in our midst - Indigenous scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker wants Natives to approach a difficult topic rationally, vulnerably and honestly. The post We need to talk about t...
Crooked Media

Is JD Vance the Republican Front-Runner? - The post Is JD Vance the Republican Front-Runner? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Land Destroyer

US Seeks Greenland Grab as Pursuit of Primacy Accelerates - *December 30, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - All under the guise of “pursuing peace” in a proxy war the US itself engineered and is for all intents and ...
See You In 2020

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

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

The Israeli Government Put My Name At The Top Of An ‘Antisemite’ List - My name appears at the top of a list in a document the Israeli government released earlier […] The post The Israeli Government Put My Name At The Top Of ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Progressives Chat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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