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

'Do I look sick to you?' Dolly Parton releases video update to assure fans as rumors swirl - Country singer Dolly Parton took to social media on Wednesday to assure fans she was "okay" after her sister called for prayers due to health concerns. ...
Mediaite

Pentagon Sent ‘Unprecedented Message of Intimidation’ With New Access Rules, Press Association Claims - The Pentagon Press Association accused the Pentagon of sending an "unprecedented message of intimidation" with its new press restrictions on Wednesday T...
memeorandum

Most Americans don't want troops deployed without an external threat, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters) - Jason Lange / Reuters: *Most Americans don't want troops deployed without an external threat, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds* — 58% of Americans oppose milita...
Mother Jones

ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy - Eswatini, the landlocked nation formerly known as Swaziland, is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy. It is the kind of place where King Mswati III—wh...
Mediagazer

Rachel Tashjian, most recently the fashion critic for The Washington Post, joins CNN as a senior style reporter for a new digital product (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - Brian Steinberg / Variety: *Rachel Tashjian, most recently the fashion critic for The Washington Post, joins CNN as a senior style reporter for a new dig...
Futurism

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility - "They think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don’t matter." The post Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility appeared first on Futu...
Second Nexus

Nevada Police Official Who Taught Policing Classes Fired After Caught On Video Calling Cop Gay Slur During Traffic Stop - One of Nevada's top cops—who provided training for law enforcement across the state—gave a master class in how not to act during a traffic stop when he w...
The Hill

Changes to SNAP benefits take effect in October: What to know - The federal government may be shut down, but that didn't stop changes to SNAP benefits from kicking in on the first of the month, which is also the start o...
Daily Dot

“You gotta unplug sometimes”: Twitch streamer Fandy just gave birth on a livestream, and viewers can’t believe what they just witnessed - Popular Twitch streamer Fandy livestreamed her home birth on the platform, garnering mixed reactions from fans and other creators. Fandy livestreams her...
The Verge

UE’s Wonderboom 4 is great for music lovers, and it’s 34 percent off - If you know someone who always has the perfect playlist queued up, the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 makes for a solid gift. It’s easy to bring to the beach o...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Hopefully covered live with our journalists providing critical context.
Slate

I Just Found Out I Inherited Significant Amount of Property. I Have No Idea Why. - I feel icky.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Florida man charged with starting Palisades fire that killed 12 people - Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly started the blaze that destroyed 6,800 buildings in one of Los Angeles’s most destructive fires A 29-year-old man has bee...
Al Jazeera English

RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say - The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.
Axios

House Democrats ramp up investigation into Tom Homan bribery allegations - Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are escalating their investigation into the Trump administration's handling of bribery allegations against Whi...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
The Week

Gold tops $4K per ounce, signaling financial unease - Investors are worried about President Donald Trump’s trade war
Political Wire

Central Witness Undermines Case Against James Comey - “Federal prosecutors investigating former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly making false statements to Congress determined that a central witness in t...
NPR's Health Shots

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has - A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying...
CultureMap Houston

What Would You Do? John Quiñones Inspires at Houston luncheon - A sea of supporters filled *Hotel ZaZa* as *El Centro de Corazón* marked more than three decades of care, compassion, and community impact. The annual lunc...
Salon.com

Dems blast Johnson’s claim that refusal to swear in new congresswoman is unrelated to Epstein files - Johnson previously said he would swear in Arizona Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants"
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Ch...
SCOTUSblog

Court leans toward allowing trial judges to limit attorney-client discussions during overnight recesses - At least some of the justices at Monday morning’s oral argument in Villarreal v. Texas appear to be willing to permit trial courts to limit what defense ...
The Greanville Post

MASTERCLASS IN POLITICAL REALITY: The White Empire Strikes Back - BILLY BOB- The “White Empire” as a Coherent Entity: The panel argues that the U.S., UK, France, and allied Western powers operate less as separate sovereig...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2025 Key Races: Jones Texts Rock Virginia and Checking in on California and Pennsylvania - We react to the bombshell texts from Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones that were revealed late last week, and we also take a quick...
Dissident Voice

Canada’s Recognition of Palestine and the Enduring Logic of Colonial Erasure - Newspaper: The Rights of the Palestinian People “The only way to stop this evil [loss of land], is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and ...
Texas Observer

Inside the Rift Between Texas Dems and a Soros-Backed PAC - On a sunny mid-July evening, dozens packed into a community center in Memorial, one of west Houston’s cushier neighborhoods, to meet state Representative...
WhoWhatWhy

At Least Let Us Tell Our Stories - [image: Destruction in Gaza] From Covering Climate Now’s ‘Climate Beat’ newsletter, a guest article from Palestinian journalist Mohammed Al-Sawwaf demonstr...
Vox

We’re swimming in AI slop. Here’s how to tell the difference. - If your feed isn’t already filled with AI-generated video slop, it’s only a matter of time. Meta and OpenAI will make sure of it. Meta recently announced ...
Election Law Blog

NY Historical Event Tonight: “Experimenting with Democracy” - Tonight I’ll be participating in this program at the NY Historical (formerly NY Historical Society) on political reform issues. I’ll be joined by Scott K...
San Antonio Current

With the Texas National Guard now in Illinois, here’s what you need to know about the unit - [image: Members of the Texas National Guard assemble in Elwood, Illinois, at the Army Reserve Training Center in the southwest suburb of Chicago on Oct. 7,...
Courthouse News

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for new form of molecular architecture - To explain the scale of their achievement, Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told reporters: "Imagine that the too...
Deadline Politics

News Networks Dip In And Out Of Coverage Of Non-Televised James Comey Arraignment; No “Perp Walk” For Former FBI Director - Former FBI Director James Comey did not have a so-called “perp walk” into Alexandria federal courthouse in Virginia on Wednesday. In fact, he did not have ...
Houston Public Media

Police recover another body from White Oak Bayou - Houston Police confirmed they recovered the body of an individual in White Oak Bayou Wednesday morning. That marks the seventh body found in the bayous in ...
Undernews

Word - [image: An image of printed Bible text from Leviticus chapter 19 verses 33-34, showing instructions on treating foreigners residing in the land as native-...
Daily Cartoonist

Revolutionary People Illustrated - Cartooning is a big interest here, but there are other diversions. The American Revolution being one. Bonus is when the two merge. The November 2025 issue ...
Daily Howler

SENDS IN THE CLOWNS: Scott aligned Fox with a merry imp! - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2025* *"Deep misogyny," where is thy sting?* "How did it ever get this far?" Don Corleone once asked. With respect to the imitati...
Glasstire

Video: Jimmy James Canales — “The Line Layer” - San Antonio-based artist Jimmy James Canales provides insights into his imaginative installation, The Line Layer. Exhibited at the Contemporary at Blue S...
Bonddad

Consumer spending has continued to increase - - *by New Deal democrat* I concluded my post yesterday with the conclusion that “while housing and trucking are plainly recessionary, the broader ma...
naked capitalism

Tom Neuburger: Is the Trump Administration Out to Trigger Civil War Soon? - Looking at the signs that key Trump insiders are looking to find or create a pretext for declaring martial law and triggering civil war.
First Draft

Pam Bondi Made An Unforced Error Tuesday - She fucked up, bigly.
Rewire

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion - Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention. The post White People’...
El Paso Matters

Chalk the Block returns, Trivia on Tap launches Giving Day - Looking for things to do? Play El Paso trivia at Old Sheepdog; see and create art at Chalk the Block; trick-or-treat at the coliseum; learn about Asian ...
San Antonio Report

Palo Alto College invests $1M into popular welding program - The Welding Technology Program is one of the fastest-growing at PAC. The program doubled in size over the summer with word of mouth filling all available s...
Democracy Now!

"Stripped for Parts": Secretive Hedge Fund Accused of Plundering U.S. Newspapers - The new documentary *Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink* looks at how hedge funds have gutted newsrooms across the country. The hedge fun...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Are Furloughed Feds S.O.L.?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou look at the Trump administration’s plan t...
Techdirt.

America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse - Just so you know: it’s not normal for your country’s voice communications networks to be completely hijacked by scammers and marketers, rendering it almost...
Space City Weather

Less humid weather on the horizon as a weak front arrives Thursday - In brief: Houston is not out there setting records, but temperatures are definitely running well above normal for early October. However some modest relief...
Angry Bear

Sowell’s “Applied Economics” - According to Word Press, this is a 30-minute read. I believe it will take you longer to read if you are going to absorb anything from this review. It is ...
ArcaMax

The Lights Are Out in the House - WASHINGTON -- Nobody home. Gone fishing. The lights are out in the federal government. The House of Representatives chamber is deserted and silent as a tom...
Alternet

Epstein's 'birthday book' transformed private notes into something else - The United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently released a 238-page album, compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003 for Jeffre...
Ian Welsh

Is Good Or Evil More Effective? The Case of America and China. - It’s our annual fundraiser. We’ve raised a little over $5,570 from 41 people in the last nine days, out of our goal of $12,500. If you’re a regular reader ...
Earth 911

What to Do When You Have Bad Water at Home—2025 Update - Alarm over the United States’ dirty water crisis continues to grow. New data reveal the... The post What to Do When You Have Bad Water at Home—2025 Updat...
Dorf on Law

The Chiles v. Salazar Oral Argument in the Mirror - Monday on this blog I previewed the oral argument in *Chiles v. Salazar*, highlighting my ambivalence about the case: although I am in sympathy with Colora...
The Smirking Chimp

‘It Only Gets Ugly’: Senator Predicts GOP Will Fold on Shutdown in ‘A Couple More Days’ -
Skeptophilia

The image and the reality - In its seven-year run, *Star Trek: The Next Generation* had some awe-inspiring and brilliantly creative moments. "The Inner Light," "Remember Me," "Fram...
The Root

Gucci Mane Shares How His Wife Played a Part In His Mental Health Journey In Shocking Revelation - Rapper Gucci Mane is opening up like never before ahead of the release of his new memoir, 'Episodes.' And what he has to say will certainly surprise you!...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Dwight Boykins - Next up for Houston City Council At Large #4 is a familiar name, Dwight Boykins. That name is familiar because Boykins served two terms on City Council, in...
Scheerpost.com

Garry Kasparov, From Chess Icon to State Dept Cheerleader - MintPress traces Garry Kasparov’s path from chess legend to hawkish “democracy” pitchman for U.S. power, Israel’s war in Gaza, and NED-backed campaigns.
ProPublica

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. - by Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories...
Grist

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles - Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.
OpEd News

An essay review of the book Gdel: A Life of Logic, by John L Casti - An essay review of John L Cantis book: Godel: A Life of Logic
High Country News

What’s it like to be a cow? - [image: Darby Minow Smith rides her horse, Milton, on her family’s ranch in Boulder, Montana.] A cattle rancher reflects on her occupation and the growing...
Crooked Media

Trump Barrels Towards War with Venezuela - The post Trump Barrels Towards War with Venezuela appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Italy In Revolt: Mass Protests Spread Throughout Europe and the Genocide in Gaza Continues - After the general strike on the 22nd of September, the mass uprising for an end to the genocide in Gaza, for an end to the Italian government’s complicit...
jobsanger

Coal Energy Is NOT Clean, Economical, Or Reliable -
Common Dreams

Untethered To the Facts - Armed terrorism by the White House escalates - What stage of fascism is it when the fuhrer defies the courts to send in troops anyway? - as does the bats...
World Socialist Web Site

Silence of the Democrats aids Trump dictatorship - The Democrats’ silence is not simply a matter of cowardice or miscalculation. It flows from the class character of the Democratic Party as a party of Wall ...
Informed Comment

For First time in History, Renewables Overtook Coal in Global Electricity Production in H1 - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Ember energy analysis firm has released its global electricity report for the first half of 2025, and it contains two bi...
Brad Blog

'Supreme Arrogance': Trump, John Roberts and His Stacked, Packed and Captured SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 10/7/2025 - As our corrupted U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term this week, its Chief Justice has a lot of explaining to do. Don't hold your breath for that explana...
Workers World

The world is determined: Free Palestine! - [image: The world is determined: Free Palestine!] People all over the world are protesting Israel’s attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Over 40 boats were...
Consortium News

A Treacherous Israel Toys With a Deal on Gaza - What does Israel have to gain with what appears to be another charade? For one, the potential PR win to blunt the extraordinary, worldwide condemnation Isr...
Popular Resistance

Two Years Of Israel’s Genocide In Gaza - The world as we know it died two years ago today, on October 7, 2023 — but not, as we’ve been incessantly bludgeoned into believing, because Palestinian ...
Antiwar.com

Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela - Donald Trump boasted striking small boats off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to “blow the cartel terrorists the hell out of the water.” Claiming destruction ...
Portside

White House Says Furloughed Federal Workers Not Entitled To Back Pay Amid Shutdown - White House Says Furloughed Federal Workers Not Entitled To Back Pay Amid Shutdown Greg Tue, 10/07/2025 - 19:30
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-LGBTQ group accused of using false evidence' at SCOTUS, but may win its case anyway' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Christian group defending LGBTQ+ conversion therapy at SCOTUS accused of using 'false evidence'* * The group fighting to protect so-called conversion th...
The NM Political Report

As more New Mexico hospitals become owned out-of-state, legislators debate how to improve local care - [image: NM Legislature committee] [image: NM Legislature committee] New Mexico Lawmakers on Tuesday heard a presentation about the potential harms of pr...
See You In 2020

The KKE’s crude economism, & how this leads it to attack China’s socialist achievements - To understand why Greece’s KKE continues to attack China, we need to investigate the root cause of the KKE’s problems: crude economism. This is a partic...
Reform Austin

$50 Million for Administration? Odyssey Chosen to Run Texas School Voucher Program - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock announced Monday that the state has selected Odyssey, a technol...
Krebs on Security

ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree - A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a web...
Claytoonz

Jonesing For Virginia - 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...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
The AltWorld

Gaza Surgeon: Starmer “Has Blood on His Hands” - In a powerful MintCast interview, Dr. Mohammed Tahir condemns Keir Starmer’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, […] The post Gaza Surgeon: Starmer “H...
Liberation News

Students, community outraged after ICE kidnaps respected Iowa educator - This arrest is part of a crusade to assert control over schools and universities.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of California Organizing Rallies Against Proposition 50 - The Libertarian Party of California is organizing multiple rallies this month in opposition to Proposition 50, a ballot measure that would temporarily tr...
The Daily Poster

Brain Tumors, Big Pharma, And A Legal Escape Hatch - Women say Depo-Provera caused their brain tumors. Pfizer is invoking a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.
Texas Standard

How West Texas became ‘The Conservative Frontier’ - A new book shows how the land nobody wanted became home to one of the most solidly Republican populations in the country.
American Prospect

Jefferson Davis Trump - Today on TAP: A federal judge rules that Trump needs to show that a rebellion is really taking place in order to call in the army.
slacktivist

The phantom menace of biblical chronology - Bible fandom could learn a lot from Star Wars fandom.
Mondoweiss

‘They’re all liars’: Gazans react to Trump’s ‘peace’ proposal and potential ceasefire - [image: Smoke rises over Gaza City following a series of Israeli airstrikes, as seen from displacement camps in central Gaza, Nuseirat refugee camp, Octobe...
Black Agenda Report

Trump's Gaza plan is 'pure fantasy' - Trump's Gaza plan is 'pure fantasy' bareditors Wed, 10/08/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist RT News
Environment Texas

What’s at stake if we weaken the Marine Mammal Protection Act? - Congress may reverse the legal protections helping keep whales and other marine mammals alive The post What’s at stake if we weaken the Marine Mammal Pro...
Wolf Street

Bank of Japan Balance Sheet QT Accelerates: -$148 Billion in Q3, -$407 Billion fr. Peak. Will Sell ETFs, REITs. Sold all Bank Stocks - Its holdings of commercial paper & corporate bonds are nearly gone. The BOJ is cleaning up its balance sheet.
Progressive.org

The Politics of Resistance - Resistance is a defensive politics, but we also need a politics of offense, aimed at winning elections and seizing power.
Ballot Access News

Republican Party Sues to Keep the Name of a Missing (and Presumed Dead) Democratic Party Candidate on a New York Ballot - The missing man is Petros Krommidas, 29, who was running for the Nassau County, New York legislature. The Republican Party is taking some (well derserved, ...
Crooked Timber

Chat control in Europe, an open letter to the Irish Minister who wants to scan all our messages - I’m publishing an email I just sent to Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, on a truly hideous and anti-democratic European law that Ireland is...
MintPress News

Gaza Surgeon: Starmer “Has Blood on His Hands” - In a powerful MintCast interview, Dr. Mohammed Tahir condemns Keir Starmer’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling Britain’s recognition of Pale...
Discourse

Palestine Is Still Here - Two years of genocide couldn't erase the Palestinian people.
Infidel753

The horror - Today marks the second anniversary of the largest and most monstrous massacre of Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. After the men of Hamas breached ...
The Conversation

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power - Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Church and State

Trump’s Abortion Choices under Dobbs? More Dangers to women. - The family planning methods for women in the US is a contraceptive desert, with some 19 million of women having access to no method at all.
Capital & Main

On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fume as Insurers Hike Rates and Invest in Fossil Fuel Projects - Locals face a perfect storm — they can’t afford insurance and climate change threatens their livelihood. The post On Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, Residents Fu...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term in December 2026 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
The Texas Signal

Local Projects In Texas Preserve Climate Change Initiatives - As the Trump administration rolls back climate change efforts, grassroots programs are increasingly building in resilience from heat, storms, and the gover...
The Grayzone

New CBS owner David Ellison met with top Israeli general in scheme to spy on Americans - Israel’s former top general sought donations from David Ellison and his father, Larry, as part of a billionaire coterie to fund digital paramilitaries ai...
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
ExChristian.Net

How Did I Ever Believe Christianity Was True? - Lately, I’ve been asking myself a question that feels both embarrassing and profound: *How could I have possibly believed that the claims of Christianity ...
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
The Progressive Wing

Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
Trivial Knot

Origami: 2nd Brillouin Zone of the fcc structure - So let’s talk about photo organization. I have 13 years of origami photos, and every month on this blog I select one to share. How do I avoid publishing ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas NAACP and Faith Leaders Launch“Building The Beloved Community”Initiative to Reclaim Civic Dialogue and Protect Dignity Across Texas Sept. 22, 2025 - *Friends:* *So glad to see this happening. And how timely! * *On the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe call...
Duck of Minerva

The Mirage of Great-Power Competition - Back in March, I wrote a post at Lawyers, Guns and Money called “Remember ‘Great Power Competition?’ Lol.” As the “Grand Strategy” of Trump 2.0 comes into ...
Debunking Christianity

Robert G. Ingersoll On the Necessity of Belief - David Madison's post this past Friday summarizes the many authors and voices of unbelief, starting with a quote from Ingersoll. Here's another fantastic qu...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Idavox

An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US - ICE’s is getting worse and people are not putting up with it. That was shown... The post An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US appeared first ...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GLIMMERS IN THE GLOOM EDITION. - *Still hits.* A day late on ‘Round-the-Horn, sorry, had to hang some cup hooks. (Many years ago I did a newsletter for the Ogivy ad agency and got to loo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part III: You cannot understand what is happening in our present crisis without wrestling with the effects of the corporate...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
The Militant

Destruction of Hamas is key to ending threat of new Holocaust - On Sept. 29, President Donald Trump announced his 20-point plan to end the fighting in Gaza. It would take Israel’s defensive war to decisively defeat Hama...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
Earthworks

New Mexico Bonding: Holding Oil and Gas Financially Accountable - New Mexico is a land where world-class biodiversity meets millennia of cultural heritage, with more than 20 national parks and … The post New Mexico Bon...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Extract Demonstrates Superiority Over Opioids in Patients With Chronic Back Pain - [image: cannabis oil extract][image: cannabis oil extract]"These results affirm the longstanding experiences of patients, many of whom either reduce or e...
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
Bracing Views

Fat Generals Are the Problem! - Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2025 The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the a...
Dissent Magazine

The Battle Over Civil Society - An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
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 ...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
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...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Socialist

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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

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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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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