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

Raw Story

'Very different story': Ex-GOP spokesperson flags 'biggest news' in Trump-Epstein latest - A former Republican Party spokesperson and Bulwark host thinks that President Donald Trump is sunk when it comes to trying to deny his links to Jeffrey E...
Slate

It’s a Natural Resource We Don’t Think About Often. Public Health Depends On It More Than Ever. - As extreme heat becomes deadlier, cities are rethinking trees, awnings, and shaded spaces as essential infrastructure.
Mediagazer

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net) - Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: *Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $7...
The Verge

Tesla’s earnings hit a new low, with largest revenue drop in years - Tesla released its second quarter financial earnings today, offering the latest evidence of the damage Elon Musk’s political activities have done to his fl...
memeorandum

11 tips for becoming a columnist (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post) - Catherine Rampell / Washington Post: *11 tips for becoming a columnist* — Here's my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job. — So ...
Techdirt.

Libraries, Journalists, And Public Interest Groups Oppose Private Control Of Law - On July 8, an expanded coalition of library associations, civil society organizations, journalist groups, and other advocates for information access sent a...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend County Commissioners clash over redistricting, role of county attorney - Fort Bend County Judge KP George introduced an agenda item to hire an outside law firm to advise commissioners, instead of the county attorney, who is an e...
Salon.com

Skydance promises Trump FCC it will end diversity efforts - Ahead of its merger with Paramount, Skydance told the FCC that it would complete a "comprehensive review” of CBS
The Hill

5 takeaways from Tulsi Gabbard’s White House press briefing - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke to reporters at the White House on Wednesday on the heels of the latest document drop alleging Obama ...
Deadline Politics

White House Slams Joy Behar’s Recent Trump Comments And Warns Of ABC’s ‘The View’ “Being The Next To Be Pulled Off The Air” - The White House lashed out at Joy Behar after she said that Donald Trump’s attacks on his predecessor, Barack Obama, were motivated by jealousy, while noti...
Mediaite

Tulsi Gabbard Says She’s Seen No Evidence Epstein Was Connected to Foreign or Domestic Intelligence Agencies - Tulsi Gabbard said that she's seen no evidence to suggest that the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein was connected to foreign or domestic intelligence ag...
Daily Dot

“They’re using you guys”: Backlash towards YouTubers Nelk Boys grows after Netanyahu interview - [image: nelk boys interview] The *Nelk Boys* got people begging them to go back to prank videos after they interviewed *Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N...
Eschaton

Oh No - drip drip When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier ...
San Antonio Current

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket showing this Friday in San Antonio - The monthly Black History Film Series, presented by the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) at the Little Carver Civic Cen...
Courthouse News

US treasure hunter demands France pay for discovery of 16th century shipwreck - An 11th Circuit panel waded deep into the waters of history to decide whether the actions of a disobedient captain turned La Trinite from a supply ship int...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kilmar Ábrego García must be released from jail as he awaits trial, judge rules - Lawyers for man wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March describe human smuggling charges as ‘preposterous’ A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Ki...
Political Wire

Roy Cooper Will Run for Senate in North Carolina - “Roy Cooper is expected to announce his campaign for the North Carolina Senate as soon as Monday,” Politico reports. “The popular, former two-term governor...
Reform Austin

Resignation of Former Sen. Hancock Alters Quorum Dynamics in Texas Senate - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A notable shift in the Texas Senate’s operating dynamics emerged on the first day of the specia...
CultureMap Houston

First look at 2025 Halloween decorations haunting 6 Houston stores - The temperature may be kissing triple digits, but Halloween is starting to fill up the shelves in stores across Houston. For those who want to get a head s...
Axios

Judge denies Trump request to release Epstein transcripts in Florida - A U.S. judge in Florida denied on Wednesday the Trump administration's request to unseal the grand jury transcripts related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Eps...
Alternet

'Who said that?' Leavitt erupts at reporter who asks if Gabbard is deflecting from Epstein - During her daily press briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blew up at a journalist for suggesting that Director of National Intelligen...
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...
Second Nexus

RFK Jr. Dragged For His Bonkers Choice Of Hiking Attire In Intense Arizona Heat - It seems like the parasitic worm found in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain forgot to remind him how to dress appropriately in 100-degree Arizona heat. That,...
The Daily Poster

Court Records Reveal Feds’ Shifting Story On Epstein Files - An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
OpEd News

Did "Ask Your Doctor" Ads Make You Miss These Health Stories? - Funding from Direct to Consumer (DTC) "ask your doctor" drug ads has captured news media outlets and all but blocked these important health stories like th...
The Week

Are AI lovers replacing humans? - A third of Gen Z singles use tech as a 'romantic companion'
American Prospect

American Fascism - Today on TAP: Is it alarmist to point out the parallels?
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Is something wrong with Tulsi Gabbard? - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025* *The New York Times lays it out:* The New York Times has done an excellent job summarizing the latest assault—the assault whic...
Claytoonz

Save Boca - 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...
Al Jazeera English

GHF security guard details abuses he witnessed at Gaza ‘aid sites’ - A former security guard for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ‘aid distribution sites’ described abuses he witnessed.
Vox

Some Democrats may finally be ready to play dirty over redistricting - A new kind of political battle is emerging between America’s parties — one centers on the composition of Congress and congressional redistricting. This pro...
The Greanville Post

Palestinians fight for survival is at the forefront of a worldwide struggle against global fascism - DAVID KLEIN—University presidents, who appear to be in charge of their campuses, serve at the pleasure of the boards and can be hired and fired at the whi...
World Socialist Web Site

Labour-led Sheffield Council rejects Veolia strikers’ petition for union recognition - Unite’s token actions, including its petition stunt, are designed to uphold its credibility while demobilising the rank and file.
First Draft

Todd Blanche Is A Shyster - Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche takes performative MAGA lawyering to new depths of depravity.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Gaza as Dress Rehearsal for War With China - The U.S. military legal establishment has big plans to use Gaza as a model for future large-scale conflicts, including with China.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Fight Against Mindless Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - In this episode of The Check-In we tackle the culture of mindless consumption and mindless abuse that fuels fascism
The Conversation

Immigration courts hiding the names of ICE lawyers goes against centuries of precedent and legal ethics requiring transparency in courts - Hiding ICE attorneys’ names in immigration court proceedings violates a fundamental principle that has protected Americans for centuries: open courts.
Scheerpost.com

Never Again -
Wolf Street

Single-Family Home Sales Drop Below 1995, Supply Highest since 2016. Condo Sales at Low in the Data, Supply at Housing Bust Level - After the price explosion comes the hangover.
Consortium News

Snatching a US Immigration Journalist - The Committee to Protect Journalists calls Mario Guevara — now in chaotic ICE captivity — the only journalist imprisoned in the U.S. in direct retaliation...
WhoWhatWhy

Healthy Environment a Human Right, UN Court Says in Landmark Climate Ruling - [image: climate crisis, health, human rights, landmark UN ruling] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our reader...
Futurism

Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship" - In a world increasingly ruled by tech companies, some of the industry’s most powerful figures appear to be quietly drafting blueprints for the near futur...
NPR's Health Shots

A genetic tweak could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria - A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn't get infected with a mosquito's bite.
ProPublica

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison - by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga and Cazadores de Fake News ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of po...
El Paso Matters

Saving history, one drop at a time - How El Paso Water’s WaterWise rebate helped preserve Historic Magoffin Home The post Saving history, one drop at a time appeared first on El Paso Matters.
Mondoweiss

Israel and the Trump administration are carrying out their final solution in Gaza - [image: A charity organization distributes hot meals to Palestinians facing starvation due to Israel's ongoing siege and attacks on the Gaza Strip in Gaza ...
Election Law Blog

New Podcast: “This Old Democracy” - From the Center for Ballot Freedom: We have launched a podcast called This Old Democracy. (Political scientists often call our system “pre-modern,” meani...
Rio Grande Guardian

DHR Health to Host Free Weight Loss Educational Seminar in Brownsville - DHR Health Bariatric & Metabolic Institute is having a free weight loss educational seminar on July 26 and July 30, 2025. The post DHR Health to Host Fre...
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...
Capital & Main

How Robert Reich Teaches — and Why Inequality Is Still the Lesson - Director, producer of *The Last Class* discuss Reich’s skill in the classroom and his career-long focus on economic disparities. The post How Robert Reic...
Environment Texas

What is the roadless rule and why should you care about it? - What is the Roadless Rule? Why does it matter? And what does its rescission mean for some of our last remaining wild forests? The post What is the roadle...
Mother Jones

As Palantir Cashes In on Trump 2.0, Peter Thiel Is Bankrolling Republicans Again - In 2023, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech titan and investor, issued a proclamation: He would not make political donations in 2024 to any candidate, inclu...
Dissident Voice

Silicon Valley Sociocide - The rise of modern capitalism created and reflected the industrial technological revolution. The technology of the steam engine, coal, oil, and gas energ...
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...
Bonddad

June existing home sales: a pause in the rebalancing of the housing market - - *by New Deal democrat* Housing data for June resumed this morning with existing home sales. Let me start with my usual caveat: although they typi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Artificial Intelligence, Social Responsibility, and the Roles of the University, by Nigel Bosch, et al., Communications of the ACM, July 25, 2024 - *Friends:* *As artificial intelligence reshapes everything from medicine to media, universities are uniquely positioned to ensure these technologies serv...
Glasstire

Artpace Launches 2027 Texas Open Call - Artpace, an international artist residency program in San Antonio, has launched its annual open call for Texas artists. The Texas Open Call is an opportu...
San Antonio Report

Deadly weekend for pedestrians crossing streets in San Antonio - [image: Sylvia Dinger helps hang a wreath during an event honoring bicyclist Tito Bradshaw on Saturday. Bradshaw, a beloved local cyclist, was struck and k...
Undernews

Weather - [image: Six maps of the continental U.S. that show the NWS HeatRisk for each day between July 22 and July 25, 2025. Almost the entire country will see at ...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 186: “Are Lower Prices Bad?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: China’s cutthroat business world is making prices cheaper for consumers. But deflation could cause a depressi...
The Root

Breaking Down How Joe Budden’s Podcast is on Track to Make $20 Million This Year - Topular podcaster and former rapper is making sure he's staying relevant and rich at the same time. Let's take a look at how he's doing just that! Read m...
SCOTUSblog

Skrmetti and birth equality (Part II) - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
Texas Observer

The Texas GOP’s ‘Unprecedented,’ Risky Gerrymandering Scheme - In 2021, the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature redrew the state’s political maps that determine the lines of power in the Texas House, the Texas Sen...
Rewire

These Two ‘Culture Warriors’ Are Trump’s New Federal Judges - Analysis: The conservative legal movement used Trump’s first term to seize control of the federal courts. Will it use his second term to rewrite the Cons...
Democracy Now!

"Big Fat Bribe": Stephen Colbert's Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger - The top-ranked show on late-night television, CBS’s *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert*, has been canceled, just days after Colbert skewered Paramount, th...
Progressive Army

Habilitación depósito fiscal general de AEROPUERTOS ARGENTINA 2000 en el Aeropuerto Internacional “Jorge Newbery” - Estimados socios buenos días: Adjuntamos resolución Resolución 48/2025 en relación a la habilitación del depósito fiscal general del Permisionario AEROPUE...
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.
Space City Weather

Heat should peak today or tomorrow in Houston before the rain chances rev up - In brief: We should see two more days of some of summer’s hottest weather to date before a tropical disturbance brings clouds and rain chances Friday and S...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Under Our Noses, Behind Our Backs - Wuerker takes advantage of a metaphor coined by Dan Tom Tomorrow Perkins in a 2017 interview with the Irish Times: [It’s] like waking up and saying ‘I’d li...
Angry Bear

‘It’s just better’ According to the U.S. President - Its appears Coca-Cola will be launching a cane-sugar soda this fall in the U.S. The beverage company announced its implementation in its second quarter e...
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...
ArcaMax

The Press: Don't Let the Pillar Fall Down - The missing Jeffrey Epstein files triggered MAGA and me. Hopefully, Washington correspondents will have a rude awakening too. Lurid details about the late ...
Ian Welsh

CPI Isn’t: Health Insurance Cost Index - The Consumer Price Index is taken as a proxy for how much consumers pay for goods and services. It isn’t, for a wide variety of reasons. Here’s another: ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Avoiding the Financial and Environmental Impact of Retail Returns - Over the last decade, retail returns have devolved from a straightforward, standard practice to a... The post Guest Idea: Avoiding the Financial and Envi...
Dorf on Law

Of Career Sucess and Personal Fulfillment: A Few Personal Reflections for Legal Scholars - Approaching my 35th year of teaching, and passing my 67th year of life, and with retirement not too far away, I was struck by the recent comments of Scot...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History -
Skeptophilia

Expertise - The attitude of many laypeople toward medical science can be summed up as "all you have to do is." Never mind those silly experts, who actually went to med...
Off The Kuff

Is Abbott now pro-THC banning? - Kinda, yeah. Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he supports banning intoxicating hemp products, appearing to walk back his calls last month for lawmakers t...
Crooked Media

Trump Accuses Obama of Treason - The post Trump Accuses Obama of Treason appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

A Letter to My Cousin, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger - It’s been nearly eight years since you took over as New York Times publisher from your dad, and the paper is in top form. At just 44, you’ve achieved a l...
jobsanger

Trump And GOP Call Anything They Don't Like "Socialism" -
Progressive.org

Amid Rise in Anti-Abortion Activism, Clinic Protections Are More Needed Than Ever - How abortion clinic staff and volunteers are working to protect patients as the anti-abortion movement mobilizes against providers.
Informed Comment

Iran Faces a new Phase of Isolation if Europe Reimposes Sanctions for its Nuclear Program - With Germany at the helm and regional tensions mounting, the diplomatic window may be closing Braga, Portugal and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comm...
Workers World

Venezuela rescues 252 nationals detained in El Salvador’s CECOT ‘concentration camp!’ - [image: Venezuela rescues 252 nationals detained in El Salvador’s CECOT ‘concentration camp!’] The following is a July 19, 2025, lightly edited press relea...
See You In 2020

Gaza, East Timor, & the popular struggle we must sustain in order to stop Washington’s extermination efforts - The East Timor genocide of 1975 to 1999 is what happens when the balance of forces has been successfully tipped in favor of the capitalist class. The ge...
Portside

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End - Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End Marti Tue, 07/22/2025 - 23:15
Brad Blog

Gerrymandering Expert on Why Dems Unlikely to Counter GOP's New Texas Redistricting Scheme: 'BradCast' 7/22/2025 - Democrats are hoping for a "Blue Wave" in next year's critical mid-term elections, as Trump's approval numbers continue to fall around the nation. But Repu...
The AltWorld

It’s A Genocide, But It’s Also So Much More Than That - The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation. But it’s also […] The post It’s A Genocide, But It’...
Antiwar.com

America’s Syrian Civil War - As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phras...
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.
Popular Resistance

NEA Leadership Rejects Member Vote To Sever Ties With ADL - In one of the biggest displays of labor organizing against anti-Palestinian racism, the National Education Association’s (NEA) policymaking body voted on...
The NM Political Report

Democrats say 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under Trump bill - Nearly 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” according to a new Democratic Party ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims - Officials in the Donald Trump administration discussed loaning the oil-rich province of Alberta hundreds of millions of dollars to help it become indepen...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of New Hampshire to Host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable for Discussion on National Party - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire will host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable this Thursday for a virtual discussion on the history of the Constitu...
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...
Ballot Access News

Second Circuit Still Hasn’t Explained Why Jim Walden Can’t Have “Independence” as his Ballot Label - Jim Walden is an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. On May 2, 2025, the Second Circuit issued a one-sentence order, denying his request for ...
Common Dreams

House Appropriations Committee Advances Bill To Keep Public In Dark About Pesticide Risks - Today, the House Appropriations Committee voted by party line to approve a Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bill, inclusive of language (Sec. 453) that wo...
Discourse

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points - Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!
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...
Grist

The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules - A mass of dangerous heat and humidity is spreading across the US. What exactly is it?
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.
Texas Standard

The number of missing people in Kerr County has dropped to 3. How did that happen? - It is not uncommon for the number of missing people to diminish after a major catastrophe like the Texas flooding.
Sludge

While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street - The DCCC raised record levels of lobbyist cash in the first half of the year, per new disclosure.
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...
High Country News

In Wyoming, forestry work is female - [image: Monica Elliot, crew lead of the Friends of the Bridger-Teton’s Forest Corps, chainsaws a downed tree.] In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Fo...
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 ...
Trivial Knot

Critical thinking as community value - Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an i...
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. Comment on anything interesting below. I value everyone's input.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again. *Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the ...
Church and State

The Epstein Affair won’t ice Trump – his policy failures will: Trump’s support on issues weakening - For 10 years, the Teflon Don Trump has shrugged off scandal, fraud, felonies, cons, grift, sexual assault, and poor grammar.
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....
MintPress News

Scottish Zionism’s Inner Circle: The Caledonian Cousinhood That Bankrolls Occupation and Genocide - A century-old web of intermarried families has bankrolled Israel’s most powerful support network in Scotland. This is the untold story of the Caledonian ...
Project Censored

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance - In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day - On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compro...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
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...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
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...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
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...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
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...
Lowering the Bar

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

The PayPal Presidency Pt. II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis - The PayPal Presidency Pt. II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis.
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

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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