Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) - G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers: *Experts now rate the U.S. as a “mixed” or “illiberal” democracy* — Experts say political violence, Trump's at...
San Antonio Current

The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for Texas - [image: A sign advertises a government shutdown relief loan program outside the United States Senate Federal Credit Union branch office in the Hart Senate ...
Futurism

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman - "Unsettling, empty, soulless filth." The post OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman appeared first on Futurism.
Eschaton

Making It Seem Easy - Pritzker: After President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested cities like Chicago should be used as "training grounds for our military," Gov. JB Pritzker s...
Mediaite

NYC High-Rise Partially Collapses After Gas Explosion, Sending Debris to the Street - A gas explosion at a New York City high-rise apartment building sparked a partial collapse of the structure, raining debris on the street below. The post...
Al Jazeera English

Why was former DR Congo president Kabila sentenced to death? - A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced ex-President Joseph Kabila to death in absentia.
Texas Observer

‘Make Resistance Sexy’ - BLD PWR (think: build power) Day 2025 was a hectic one. Starting late in the afternoon, many African Americans flocked to the Ion District, a technology ...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing index continues to show slight contraction, as new orders retreat - - *by New Deal democrat* Typically the new month begins with important manufacturing and construction reports; but this morning the construction spe...
Daily Howler

WHAT IS MENTAL ILLNESS: No discussion of mental illness... - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025* *...could ever have saved us from this:* Today we have naming of mental disorder. We want to start with a basic point: No dis...
The Verge

8BitDo’s fantastic Ultimate 2 controller is cheaper than ever - 8BitDo hasn’t rushed to offer big discounts on its 2025 controllers, including the new Ultimate 2 wireless gamepad made for Switch, Switch 2, and PC. But n...
Political Wire

Madison Cawthorn Kicks Off Comeback Bid - Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), who left office in 2023 after a series of scandals, is launching a comeback campaign in Florida, the Washington Post r...
The Week

‘Friendflation’: the increasing cost of maintaining a social life - Cost-of-living squeeze has left some feeling priced out of social events and struggling to keep up friendships
Undernews

Money - *Republicans Against Trump - *U.S. private companies lost 32,000 jobs in September, far below expectations of a 51,000 gain, payrolls processor ADP reporte...
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 ...
The Hill

Ex-Rep. Madison Cawthorn launches bid for Donalds's Florida House seat - Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) announced on Wednesday he's launching a congressional bid in Florida’s 19th Congressional District. The former North...
Slate

There’s a New Lawsuit Against “Kavanaugh Stops.” It’s Absolutely Devastating. - These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience the justice described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous.
San Antonio Report

Texas suspends CDLs for many immigrant truck drivers - The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced it would stop issuing or renewing licenses for refugees, asylees and DACA receipients. ---------------...
SCOTUSblog

Do state limits on malpractice actions apply in federal court? - Berk v. Choy, to be argued on Oct. 6, surely will be the Supreme Court case of the year for medical professionals. At issue in the case is the extent […]...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 1, 2025* *I have been refl...
Raw Story

'Nearly triple!' CNN expert stunned as Dems rake in support in shutdown fight - New polling left CNN’s Harry Enten stunned Wednesday as data showed voters from both sides of the aisle are more supportive of their own party forcing a ...
Glasstire

Cluley Projects Announces Open Call for Texas Artists & Writers - Cluley Projects in Dallas has announced concurrent open calls for Texas artists and writers. The annual Artist Open Call is in its fifth year, and 2025 i...
Consortium News

AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Will the US Push Lebanon to Civil War? - As the balance of power shifts in the Middle East, pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia may spark a Lebanese civil war. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Con...
Second Nexus

Absurd 'Cures' People With Chronic Illnesses Were Told To Try - Those suffering from a chronic illness often find themselves in over their heads with medication prescribed by their doctors. Even so, many people add so...
Mediagazer

People acquires Feedfeed, a food publisher and creator network with ~1,000 influencer partners, its first acquisition since the 2021 Dotdash/Meredith merger (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Sara Fischer / Axios: *People acquires Feedfeed, a food publisher and creator network with ~1,000 influencer partners, its first acquisition since the 20...
Daily Dot

“Good lord, we’re screwed”: Emily Blunt begs Hollywood not to sign “terrifying” AI star Tilly Norwood - [image: Left: AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood. Right: Emily Blunt at the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Fall Guy' held at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood...
Houston Public Media

Texas starts taxing seller fees on sites like eBay, Poshmark and Etsy - Small sellers say the new tax on fees cuts into already thin margins while the comptroller argues state law requires online marketplaces be taxed like any ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pope Leo criticizes Trump’s hardline immigration policies: ‘I don’t know if that’s pro-life’ - Pope questions what it means to be ‘pro-life’ amid the ‘inhuman treatment of immigrants’ in the US Pope Leo on Tuesday strongly criticized Donald Trump’...
First Draft

New Model Army - Tuesday was an informerical to recruit a military of murderous thugs, presented by a moral degenerate.
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Border Folk Festival, Cowboy Boot Day bring music, dance Downtown - Downtown comes alive with the Border Folk Festival’s mariachi showcase, Cowboy Boot Day’s country flair. Also, check out EPCC’s Buddy Walk, a Summit Day...
Rewire

‘We Play Period Bingo’: Librarians Get Creative To Offer Sex Ed, Period Products, And More - Libraries still check out books. But some now provide tampons, host “menopause parties,” and distribute sexual health information, too. The post ‘We Play...
Salon.com

Millions could lose housing aid under Trump plan - Drafts of unpublished rules would open door to work requirements and two-year limits
The Conversation

Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes – but loss of US leadership could still spell trouble for efforts abroad - Fighting corruption is more than punishing ‘bad apples.’ But international policies against it often fail to address root causes.
Democracy Now!

Mahmoud Khalil Hails Judge's Scathing Ruling Against Trump Efforts to Deport Pro-Palestinian Students - A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young calle...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Experts Explain It All - This being a “where do we start?” moment, we’ll start before yesterday’s gathering of the brass with Marty Two Bulls’ reaction to the Secretary of Defense ...
Techdirt.

Disney’s Stupid, Pointless Ban Of Jimmy Kimmel Lost Them 1.7 Million Streaming Subscribers - Well, that happened. Disney’s decision to temporarily ban comedian Jimmy Kimmel for no coherent reason came with some very real costs for the Mickey Mouse ...
Crooked Timber

Against Campus ‘Debate’ - I have a long-standing pet peeve about the conflation of academic freedom and freedom of speech, especially in the context of (purported) campus debate. In...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Afghanistan and US Both Shut Down” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou bring you the lowdown on everything that’...
Axios

How the government shutdown could disrupt daily life - The government shutdown is underway — and it could disrupt your daily life. *The big picture:* Millions of people won't get paid during the shutdown, and...
Space City Weather

Wake up, September has ended. But October is starting out no different - In brief: Today’s post starts out with lyrics from Green Day, which should say something about the invariability of our weather in the days ahead. But anyw...
ArcaMax

Back to the Roman Past and Future - ROME, Italy -- I traveled to an ancient world to see a future version of America. The "No Kings" chant is a bit off. Donald Trump's true calling and charac...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico’s Congressional leaders on the shutdown: Speaker “doesn’t give a f*ck about working people” and more - The federal government officially shutdown at 12:01 Eastern time on Wednesday, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers without a paycheck and cl...
WhoWhatWhy

Everything Is a Hoax to a Clown - [image: Donald Trump, Air Force One] When Donald Trump says something is a hoax, then you can be certain that the thing is not a hoax and poses some politi...
Vox

Your expensive power bill is part of an alarming trend - Like most Americans this month, your most recent power bill may have given you a shock. Residential electricity rates have risen fast across the US — more ...
Mother Jones

Team Trump Will Spend $625 Million and Open Public Lands to Revive a Dying Industry - This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The White House will open 13.1 million ac...
naked capitalism

Links 10/1/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Latest Big Lie: ‘Radical Left Violence’ -
Skeptophilia

Anomaly analysis - I try to be tolerant of people's foibles, but one thing that annoys the absolute hell out of me is when someone is obviously ignorant of the basic facts ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Desmond Spencer - We wrap up our tour of the HCC districts with Desmond Spencer, one of two opponents to incumbent Renee Jefferson Patterson in District II. (The other oppon...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
The Root

When Good Things Happened to Black People Who Desperately Deserved a Win - Good things do sometimes happen to Good people. These uplifting Stories will recharge your soul Read more...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor - While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.
Scheerpost.com

How the Media Tears Up Its Own Rulebook To Hide Israel’s Atrocities - The news cycle has rules every rookie journalist understands. When the media choose to break them, you can be sure it is for entirely non-journalistic reas...
ProPublica

Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust - by Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, with additional reporting by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren...
NPR's Health Shots

President Trump announces deal with Pfizer to sell its drugs on federal website - President Trump on Tuesday announced a deal with Pfizer to sell its drugs directly to consumers at discounted prices. They'll be available through a websit...
Grist

E-Bikes could cut carbon, congestion, and costs — if cities take them seriously - E-bike sales are booming, providing a sustainable form of transportation that also improves public health. Yet American cities remain committed to cars.
OpEd News

The End of Sanity - The writer denounces the degree to which we have been shamed by this clown apostasy in the White House.
High Country News

The ‘bear’ necessities of good sign design - [image: A man tries to feed a bear during a visit to Yellowstone in 1958.] Researchers study the principles that promote bear-safety behavior. The post Th...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Fascist Military Jamboree - The post Trump’s Fascist Military Jamboree appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

11 Upcycled Storage Solutions for Small Spaces - Home life can be a challenge if your dwelling is lacking on square footage. Sure,... The post 11 Upcycled Storage Solutions for Small Spaces appeared fir...
Counterpunch

The Roberts Court: Twenty Years of Democracy Undermined - October 6 is the first Monday of the month. It is the traditional start of the U.S. Supreme Court term. It is also the twentieth year with John Roberts a...
jobsanger

We Must Not Let Trump/GOP Whitewash The January 6th Coup Attempt -
World Socialist Web Site

Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Oppose restructuring of the CEB! Defend CEB employees’ struggle! - The CEB workers’ fight to defend their rights has become a focal point in the struggle to defeat the Dissanayake government’s IMF program.
Informed Comment

The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security - San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Within the span of 24 hours in early September, Russia deployed drones into Polish airspace, and I...
Wolf Street

“AI Makes Past Hype Cycles Look Tame”: PitchBook on the Stunning Venture Capital Mania for AI - At these valuations, “exit hurdles become exceptionally large.”
The AltWorld

The Trumpanyahu “Peace” Plan, And Other Notes - The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on […] The post The Trumpanyahu “Peace” Plan, And Other Notes a...
Brad Blog

'A War from Within' Trump's Twisted Mind: 'BradCast' 9/30/2025 - Trump lives and dies by ratings and reviews. Well, the reviews are in on today's BradCast for his sleepy, low-energy, hour-plus long campaign style remarks...
Alternet

Senator reveals how Republicans are harming 'their own constituents' in these 7 red states - The federal government is expected to shut down by midnight Wednesday morning, and health insurance premiums may be about to skyrocket — particularly in ...
See You In 2020

Zionism has ushered in an American Nazi regime, & we must be prepared to fight back against what it’s planning - If our solidarity movements are going to survive, they’ll need to prepare for a scenario where the state has fully activated its tools for violence. Whe...
Deadline Politics

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Continues To Insist His Jimmy Kimmel Comments Were Not A Threat, Even Though Ted Cruz And Other GOPers Took It As One - FCC Chairman Brendan Carr continued to insist that his recent comments about Jimmy Kimmel were not a threat, even though they were widely seen that way by ...
Angry Bear

Government Shutdown . . . Maybe - The Trump Threats and Stare Offs Tonight I was looking around to see if there was a list of government departments which will shut down due to a Trump an...
Popular Resistance

Trump Says Israel Can ‘Finish The Job’ In Gaza If Hamas Rejects Latest Plan - President Donald Trump says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the latest U.S.-backed “peace plan,” which is ostensibly aimed at secu...
Workers World

Workers force Europe’s capitalists to act on Palestine - [image: Workers force Europe’s capitalists to act on Palestine] Generally the capitalist class and its state apparatus conduct themselves in a manner detri...
Antiwar.com

Free Speech and Its Discontents - “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Co...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy - What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University...
Liberation News

PSL Statement – Government shutdown: It will take a people’s movement to defeat Trump & the right wing - The intervention of a broad people’s movement against the far right will be decisive in the outcome of the shutdown.
Reform Austin

Texas Tech Restricts Gender Identity Discussions, Raising Academic Freedom Concerns - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Tech Gender Identity Policy Limits Classroom Content In a move unprecedented in Texas hig...
Election Law Blog

“Federal judge rejects racial gerrymandering challenge to NC Senate map” - News and Observer: A federal judge upheld North Carolina’s Senate map Tuesday, rejecting claims that Republican lawmakers had illegally drawn the distric...
Progressive.org

Global Sumud Flotilla Demands Safe Passage into Gaza - Organizers expect Israel will intercept the humanitarian fleet absent significant international pressure.
CultureMap Houston

New restaurant slides into the Museum District with burgers and tendies - The Museum District recently welcomed a new restaurant devoted to mini burgers, chicken tenders, and milkshakes. *Slip Sliders* is now open for lunch and d...
The Greanville Post

DANNY HAIPHONG DISPATCH: Israel’s FINAL HOUR: Iran Missile Threat, Yemen Eilat Hit STUN IDF /// Netanyahu shunned at the UN - DH—Yemen’s Strategic Role as a Regional Resistance Hub: Yemen’s Ansar Allah has emerged as a significant player in challenging Israeli military capabilitie...
Portside

Gustavo Petro Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump - Gustavo Petro Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump Judy Tue, 09/30/2025 - 17:21
Independent Political Report

Massachusetts Forward Party Organizing Signature Drive for All-Party Primary Initiative - The Massachusetts Forward Party is organizing a signature drive this Saturday in support of a proposed ballot initiative that would replace the state’s p...
The Texas Signal

The Houston Latina-Owned Bookstore Redefining Love - The popular romance pop-up bookstore Mossrose is selling literary love to a devoted Houston fan base
Texas Standard

Political violence has been on the rise for the past decade, but why? - Last week’s deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas is the latest in a disturbing pattern of politically charged viole...
Claytoonz

Beardos and Fatsos - 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...
Environment Texas

Where have all the backyard birds gone? - Many common bird populations are declining, leaving not only quieter forests but emptier backyards across North America. The post Where have all the back...
Church and State

Trump: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” - Do GOP Congress members have no sense of decency?? They should have joined Democrat members after Trump’s attempted coup.
Discourse

The Nuremberg Clown Rally - Takeaways from an authoritarian vaudeville act
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Listen to the Dictator - Trump and his cronies aren't even hiding it anymore. Listen to them.
Idavox

South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms for Liberty Pleads Guilty to Child Porn - Another day, another right-winger on his way to prison for what he accusing others for... The post South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms ...
The Daily Poster

Silicon Valley’s 383% APR Side Hustle - Big Tech’s new “earned-wage access” apps are ensnaring workers in borrowing cycles with absurdly high interest rates.
NORML

30 Million Marijuana Arrests and Counting – Enough is Enough! - [image: a police officer handcuffs a man's arms behind his back while another officer in the background uses her radio][image: a police officer handcuffs...
Dissident Voice

What You Need to Know about Moldova’s Bans, Blacklists, and Last-minute Rule Changes - Moldova went to the polls on Sunday in what officials in Chisinau and Brussels have called a “milestone on the European path.” Yet with opposition partie...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees with Lower Courts that a Voter May Vote Provisionally if Original Ballot was Defective - On September 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with lower courts that when a voter’s original postal ballot is not counted due to the voter having ...
Ian Welsh

If You Use A VPN, You May Need To Turn It Off To Subscribe or Donate - What is says in the title! We’ve raised a little over $1,500 over the last day, from sixteen people, out of our goal of $12,500. This helps us cover the ch...
Mondoweiss

Why the Trump-Netanyahu ‘peace plan’ is a trap - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak in the Diplomatic Reception Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, ...
Bracing Views

Some Qualities of Good Leadership - Does Donald Trump Exhibit Any? BILL ASTORE SEP 29, 2025 Recently, I jotted down some qualities of good leadership. Of course, the importance of specific tr...
Dorf on Law

Why Did Cass Sunstein Think Sitting for an Interview with Isaac Chotiner Was a Good Idea? - The most famous classic blunder is getting involved in a land war in Asia, but there are other classic blunders, including the only slightly less well kn...
Infidel753

For Blasphemy Day - This is International Blasphemy Day -- a day for denigrating, mocking, and denouncing deeply-held spiritual beliefs of every kind! The day is observed ev...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Heritage Foundation caught pushing false stats in attempt to classify trans people as terrorists' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - The dirty hands of longtime anti-LGBTQ activist Roger Severino are all over the Heritage Foundation's attempt to classify trans people as terrorists. *Ri...
slacktivist

Good for us all for saying that murder is Bad - The unanimous condemnation of murder is encouraging. Our inability to recognize that this condemnation is unanimous is not.
Common Dreams

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source - The Trump administration today announced a coordinated attempt to keep the struggling U.S. coal industry alive slightly longer, including opening more th...
Project Censored

Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir - In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories threate...
Capital & Main

Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future? - Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored. The post Is th...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial - Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
Democracy Chronicles

Facebook is Losing its Chance to be a Force for Democracy - Sarah Wynn Williams pitches her idea that Facebook has great power for good in the world, an idealism she eventually loses as she works in policy for Faceb...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Swinburne On the Need For Corroborated Testimony - I went to a philosophical conference two weeks ago which highlighted the work of Paul Draper at Purdue. It was really informative. I got to meet up with ...
DeSmogBlog

How farmed fish in Dutch supermarkets undermines food security in West Africa - On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have j...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism Destroys Political Democracies - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about how authoritarian capitalism destroys political democracies. Don’t authoritarian economic systems like slavery, feuda...
The Grayzone

‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC - In a meeting with US antiwar figures, Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian forecasted a more intense round of conflict with Israel and the US, and slammed Was...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas, psychedelics, Rick Perry, and Special K - Despite the legislature’s crackdown on recreational THC this session, Texas is poised to become a leading force in psychedelics treatment after approving...
Lowering the Bar

Following Up - [image: LTB logo]In which I note recent developments in cases previously certified as stupid.
The Militant

Israelis fight a defensive war against Hamas, attacks in UN - At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruli...
Sludge

Lobbyist-Led EPA Office Set to Add a New Chemical Industry Hire - Longtime cleaning products lobbyist Douglas Troutman is nominated to lead the EPA office that has worked to stop the MAHA Commission from restricting toxic...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH-AND-CARRY EDITION. - *Absolutely not my kind of thing, but I like it.Know what I mean?* Let’s see, what were the new nightmares of the past week? Well, last Sunday they had...
The Progressive Wing

9.26-10.2 Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads so our Nest is ready to host. Post whatever suits your fancy. LOL. Everyone stay safe and well.🙂 October 1st which h...
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/26/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Socialist Alternative

Italy On Strike Against Genocide – Gaza City Under Hellish Attack - Under the slogans ‘24 hour general strike’ and ‘Block everything,’ the strongest day of protest in solidarity with Gaza in Italy to date took place on Mond...
Trivial Knot

Hell is Us: War and emotional distance - Hell is Us is a recent action adventure video game, with an emphasis on puzzles and exploration. I really like the game, but this is not a review. See oth...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Back to the Senate: Defeated Senators Who’ve Returned to Office - While several defeated senators are attempting, or considering attempts, to return to the Senate, such efforts have only been successfull a handful of ti...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Ecosophia

September 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...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
nonsite.org

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

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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