Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

jobsanger

Trump Has Effectively Withdrawn From NATO -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1569: Alkahest - Episode: 1569 Alkahest, the universal solvent. Today, we look for the universal solvent.
memeorandum

Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting. How Much? (Nate Cohn/New York Times) - Nate Cohn / New York Times: *Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting. How Much?* — Where things stands in the race for House control af...
Mediaite

Court Grants Fox News Additional Discovery in Smartmatic Case – But Allows Case to Move Forward - A New York appeals court granted Fox News some additional discovery rights to defend against Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit -- but that discovery will b...
Workers World

Hamas’s solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla attacked by Israel - [image: Hamas’s solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla attacked by Israel] Posted May 2, 2026, by the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas on the Hamas Onlin...
Alternet

Former Air Force chief tears apart Trump’s clampdown on Mark Kelly - Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is ready to go back to the battlefield over the Trump administration’s attempted clampdown on ex-military who ri...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US military strike on vessel in eastern Pacific kills two people, leaving one survivor - More than 190 people have been killed in such strikes on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific The US military on Friday said it st...
Wolf Street

Housing Bubble & Bust #1 and #2 as Seen through Employment at Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Brokers - Nonbank mortgage lenders shed 40% of their jobs this time, and loan brokers 38%. They react to demand, which collapsed.
World Socialist Web Site

United flight attendants vote on second contract, as Spirit collapse signals industry-wide crisis - Workers rejected the first tentative agreement last July by 71 percent on a 92 percent turnout.
The Hill

K-shaped economy is showing up at the gas pump: NY Fed - Low-income households are cutting back on gas as prices surge, while wealthier households remain largely unfazed.
Al Jazeera English

Cambodians struggle with displaced lives amid tense ceasefire with Thailand - Families displaced by fighting fear new clashes with Thailand, say education among areas most affected by border war.
Courthouse News

EPA defends axing $7 billion solar program - The EPA argues the Court of Federal Claims should be considering the issue rather than federal district court.
Socialist Alternative

Fight The Deportation Machine With Working-Class Solidarity - On January 23, the working class of Minneapolis dealt the heaviest blow yet to Trump when tens of thousands of workers forced the shutdown of hundreds of b...
Mediagazer

Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to $871,200 and a $405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I’ve settled eight wars and actually nine and now it looks like we could have 10.” — President Trump, speaking to reporters.
SCOTUSblog

Alabama asks Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use congressional map struck as diluting Black votes - The ripple effects from the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling in *Louisiana v. Callais*, in which the justices struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, m...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Council approves warning signs on cryptocurrency kiosks - The City of San Antonio starting to address the risks of cryptocurrency — or at least warn residents about them. City Council on Thursday unanimously ap...
Claytoonz

FB-lie Detector - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The NM Political Report

Feds. sue New Mexico, Albuquerque to block anti-ICE laws - [image: Anti-ICE rally] Albuquerque — The U.S. Department of Justice late Friday sued the state and City of Albuquerque to pause enforcement of local legi...
San Antonio Report

More than 8k San Antonio kids will get vouchers. Many previously were enrolled at public schools. - Less than half of the 21,483 students in the San Antonio area who applied for a school voucher will get one. ------------------------------ More than 8k Sa...
Axios

Vance meets Qatari mediator as U.S. awaits peace plan response - As the U.S. awaits the Iranian response to the draft agreement to end the war, Vice President Vance met Friday with one of the key mediators, Qatari Prim...
Undernews

Credit card bans increasing for gambling payments - *The Sun - * Consumers may see credit cards banned as a payment method for betting under a new policy that is slowly making its way across the country. ...
Daily Cartoonist

The Strip Scene & Cartoon News - A roundup of good tidings about comic strip and magazine cartoonists feauring Wayno®, Lincoln Peirce, Sy Barry, Liza Donnelly, Gideon Smiley, Harry Bliss, ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Slate

Virginia Supreme Court Thrusts America Into Worst-Case Gerrymandering Scenario - In a 4–3 vote on Friday, the Supreme Court of Virginia struck down the gerrymandered electoral map that Virginia voters approved just a few weeks ago.
Dorf on Law

Bonus Weekend Content on Dorf on Law Tomorrow - Note to readers: My second column of this week was supposed to run today, Friday the 8th. However, Professor David Marcus's guest column, "Meaningful Ca...
Mother Jones

“It’s Life Alert or Rent”: Montana Trailer Park Tenants Are on Rent Strike - 35-year-old Benjamin Moore has lived in Mountain Meadows Mobile Home Park, outside Bozeman, Montana, since he was 17. This month, for the first time, he’s ...
NPR's Health Shots

Lack of U.S. response to hantavirus outbreak worries public health experts - Public health experts are raising concerns about why the U.S. government hasn't had a more public response to the hantavirus outbreak that started on a cru...
The Texas Signal

The Austin Comic Creator With A Mouse-eye Apocalypse View - Mac Smith just wrapped a wildly successful Kickstarter and production for the latest entry in his Scurry universe, a dystopian world full of anthropomorphi...
Ballot Access News

NTU Foundation Blog Post of Butch Ware’s Case Against California - Richard Winger posted about this case on Wednesday, May 7. But, this is a blog post from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation on Green Party Gubernatori...
The Week

How to navigate and win a bidding war on a home - Offering up more money is not the only way
Techdirt.

Once Again, Trump Looks To Get Out Of Paying E. Jean Carroll By Having The DOJ Substitute In For Himself - Not this again. For many years now there have been a series of ongoing lawsuits between E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, involving a variety of issues, bu...
Futurism

In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures - It'd be funny if it wasn't so dark. The post In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures appeared first on Futurism.
Church and State

Why will most billionaires not control Trump? - With the country politically divided, it is evident that the midterm election will be vital in seeing if democracy can win out.
Novara Media

Two Party Politics Is OVER: Labour and Tories Crushed - Michael, Ash, Aaron and guests discuss the local elections.
Liberation News

Georgians ravaged by fire while FEMA refuses aid and county plans data center - n Brantley County, a largely rural area in southeastern Georgia made up of small towns, farmland, and dense pine forests, wildfires that began in mid-April...
Crooked Media

We Bought a Ballroom - The post We Bought a Ballroom appeared first on Crooked Media.
Raw Story

Kari Lake could be headed for Trump's 'dumping ground' as she scrambles for new job - Former TV personality Kari Lake, who has become a fixture in Donald Trump's orbit despite a track record of electoral failure, is actively searching for ...
WhoWhatWhy

VA Supreme Court Gives GOP Huge Lead in Redistricting War - [image: Virginia, flags] While Republicans are getting away with rigging their congressional maps in unprecedented ways, the Virginia Supreme Court on Frid...
OpEd News

China's Example and the Need to Rethink Democracy Itself - In terms of "democracy," the United States is a failed state. It must reform to a system more closely resembling China's "whole process democracy."
Independent Political Report

LPAlliance to Host Chair, Vice Chair Debates Ahead of Libertarian National Convention - The LPAlliance, an inter-caucus coalition of Libertarian Party members, will host debates for Libertarian National Committee chair and vice chair candida...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: The World’s Most Urgent Problem - Is when Western governments murder people with darker skin, different languages, different religions and living in different cultures and Westerners just c...
First Draft

Mother and Child Reunion - Cheers to Paul Simon.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Counterfeit Scientific Papers, Deep Fakes, CDC on the Ropes, MAHA, and Hope from the Middle of the Country - Part the First: Paper Mills and the Corruption of Research. No not Hammermill. I don’t think I have actually known of someone buying a “scholarly” paper ...
Common Dreams

FPF commends ABC for fighting back against FCC censorship - ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission of violating the First Amendment and chilling press freedom, in a *regulatory filing* in its disput...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: How emails revealed confusion, coordination failures during El Paso measles outbreak response - El Paso Matters health reporter Priscilla Totiyapungprasert discusses her detailed reporting on the breakdown in processes meant to contain the spread o...
Salon.com

“When it finally happens”: The weaponization of euphemism in MAGA’s shadow - Social media openly longs for the death of an individual who is hardly ever named
ProPublica

Puerto Rico Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report - The post Puerto Rico Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report appeared first on ProPublica.
Texas Standard

Texas epidemiologist: Hantavirus isn’t like COVID - The virus is transmitted to humans via rodents, or it can be passed by very close contact between people.
Rewire

Why I’m Giving My Daughters a More Comprehensive Period Talk in Post-‘Roe’ Texas - Opinion: In 2026, and particularly on Mother's Day, it's important that "the talk" goes beyond tampons to include sex, abortion, and the current politica...
The Root

A Federal Judge Just Exposed the Discriminatory Truth Behind DOGE’s Grant Cuts - Over a year after DOGE's mass firings and grant terminations rocked the country, one federal judge has issued a blistering ruling. Read more...
The Daily Poster

Do You Know Why Your Flight Got Canceled? - Test your knowledge of conservative media, airline mergers, and other issues that really matter.
Capital & Main

The Lung Disease That’s Killing California Stonecutters - Silicosis has killed dozens of workers and sickened hundreds more. Public health experts say a product ban can prevent the illness. The post The Lung Dis...
Deadline Politics

ABC Says FCC’s Equal Time Crackdown On ‘The View’ Chills Its First Amendment Rights - UPDATED, with FCC comment: ABC is pushing back on the regulatory threats of Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, arguing that the agency’s effort to ...
Daily Howler

DIAGNOSIS: This is no country for rational discourse! - *FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026* *Three medical experts agree: *This is no country for rational discourse. We've complimented Adam Kirsch for announcing that rare...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Divided Virginia Supreme Court Nullifies on Technical Grounds Voter Approval of Democratic Gerrymander of State’s Congressional Seats (Link to Opinion) - You can read the 4-3 ruling at this link. At issue was whether Virginia’s General Assembly followed the rules set forth in the Constitution for qualifyin...
The Militant

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants - Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day....
Texas Observer

Jesse Jackson Comes to Town - On February 19, two days after the death of the reverend and civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, the Observer’s longtime contributing photographer Alan Pogu...
Mondoweiss

Rodent infestation caused by Israel’s destruction of Gaza is now creating a public health catastrophe - [image: Displaced Palestinians face a major infestation of rodents. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)]More than 70,000 infections have been recorded in Ga...
Glasstire

Distance & Understanding: Talking with Artist/Professor Tudor Mitroi - This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from t...
Ian Welsh

The Law Of Elite Consequences Continues To Demolish America - There’s a lovely quote in the WSJ that encapsulates everything wrong with America in the last 50 odd years: Many of the investors, bankers and corporate ch...
Bonddad

April jobs report: reversals in 2025 trends give rise to the second positive report in a row - - *by New Deal democrat* My current Big Theme is that the AI Boom (or possibly bubble) is counterbalancing a stagnant or even shallowly recessionary r...
The Conversation

Why a landmark Supreme Court ruling has failed to keep racial bias out of jury selection - The Supreme Court created a test 40 years ago to root out racial bias in jury selection. Here, a death penalty scholar explains why it’s not working.
Debunking Christianity

Why I Abandoned Christianity, Part 2 - *Two more compelling reasons that are hard to refute* *[The link to Part 1 is **here**.]* *3. The Bible is a mess: flaws, contradictions, and too muc...
Democracy Now!

"Absolutely Vulnerable": Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War - As Iran and the United States maintain rival blockades on the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters, we look at the more than 20,000 seafarers stranded o...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: They don’t hate us, they feel sorry for us - In one of the most famous, and funniest, lines of English poetry, Robert Burns draws a powerful lesson about a woman sporting a fancy hat in church one mor...
The Verge

Nanoleaf bets its future on robots, red light therapy, and AI - Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and i...
Vox

Levees can no longer save New Orleans - This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The process of relocating people from...
Space City Weather

Scattered showers and thunderstorms possible today and Saturday in Houston - In brief: After a few calmer days, the potential for rainfall, and possibly some stronger thunderstorms, returns to Houston on Friday and Saturday. The sto...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Rallblog

Saudi Nay-rabia | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
The Progressive Wing

5/8 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments below.
The Smirking Chimp

Meet the Future of the Democratic Party -
Countercurrents

The Saffron Storm Over Bengal’s Syncretic Soul - The violence that has unfolded in West Bengal after the BJP’s sweeping victory in the 2026 Assembly elections has left behind more than burnt shops, broken...
Off The Kuff

A brief history of failing to pass flood protection laws - We just do our thing here and don’t much care about the consequences. The sound of construction machinery filled the air as Kylie Nidever walked past prope...
Grist

The solution to urban heat is much, much simpler than you think - No shade, but cities aren’t planting enough trees.
High Country News

The resilience of the elusive vaquita - Nature’s enduring mysteries buoy efforts to save the most endangered marine mammal on Earth. The post The resilience of the elusive vaquita appeared fir...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Call It What It Is: Children and Families are being Mercilessly Jailed. IMPORTANT READ ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DILLEY, TEXAS - *IMPORTANT READ ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN DILLEY, TEXAS* *We should stop hiding this cruelty behind bureaucratic language. “Family detention” is not a neutr...
Counterpunch

Dead Presidents - Assassinating the president is a crime under federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 1751. The same law forbids assassinating, kidnapping or assaulting the Vice-P...
Portside

The Great Antifa Hoax - The Great Antifa Hoax jay Fri, 05/08/2026 - 00:44
Informed Comment

China Grows 5%—But Fears a Trump-Caused Hormuz Shock - Still, as Trump heads off to Beijing next week, opening the Strait will be high on the agenda of Xi Jinping
Krebs on Security

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide - An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and un...
Brad Blog

Repubs Seek Immunity Law for Big Oil; White South Rising Again After SCOTUS Ruling: ‘BradCast’ 5/7/2026 - Buckle up, strap in, grab a good stiff drink. Whatever you gotta do to keep from blowing your top during today’s BradCast. We are going to need you with yo...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio May 8, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/08/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Rad...
Popular Resistance

US Continues To Blow Up Small Boats - A US military strike on May 4 killed two mariners in an alleged “narco boat” campaign which now has a cumulative death toll of at least 188. The pace of ...
Antiwar.com

Two Weeks to an Iranian Nuke – The Ultimate False Flag Lie - The now endlessly repeated notion that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (HEU) is tantamount to having a nuclear weapon within weeks is downright ma...
Scheerpost.com

“Can’t Afford Daycare or Healthcare — But Hegseth Swears a $1.5 Trillion War Budget ‘Puts Taxpayers First’” - Joshua Scheer U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ignited a firestorm of ridicule Thursday after releasing a video praising President Donald Trump’s propos...
The Greanville Post

More bang for the buck - J. MACFARLANE—Last night, in an article for coffee buyers I wrote about Iran’s contribution to the new field of asymmetric warfare and Russia’s learning cu...
CultureMap Houston

Chris Shepherd stirs up 3 of his favorite martinis in Houston - The martini has forever been a symbol of celebration. It’s the cocktail for the hard day, the power lunch, the old-school steakhouse dinner, and those nigh...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
The Grayzone

‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probe - The OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths ...
slacktivist

Darkness on the edge of town - “I can very vigorously argue about the humanitarian side of why this is wrong … but with some people, that argument has no sway."
Project Censored

The Environmental Costs of The AI Boom - A 2026 report by the Houston Advanced Research Center, or HARC, a Texas-based nonprofit focused on science-driven sustainability solutions, estimates tha...
Bracing Views

Support Our Troops - What It Really Means BILL ASTORE MAY 07, 2026 The other day, I was reading an old Atlantic Monthly and came across the following cartoon: That is one power...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Corporate Fascist Dance: Watching the Alliance to End Democracy Come Together - We've been experiencing corporations legitimizing fascists for so long now
NORML

Arizona: Campaign Abandons Effort to Place Marijuana Repeal Measure on November’s Ballot - [image: Arizona Marijuana Laws][image: Arizona Marijuana Laws]“Regulation works. That is among the many reasons why voters prefer these policies over a r...
Progressive.org

Showing Up, Shutting It Down - Chicago's May Day events commemorate a past general strike, and test the waters for a future one.
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Warehouse Plans - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 536kb If you’re the kind of person who’s up to their goddamn neck with seeing millions impoverished and immiserat...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ group Moms for Liberty facing growing unpopularity, election losses, & disillusioned members - A volatile sex scandal involving one of its founders in 2023 (as seen here by one of the mocking responses on social member) as well as member disillusion...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes: 17 Shifts in Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Elsewhere - In addition to formalizing nine ratings changes in Florida following the state adopting a new Republican gerrymander, we are making eight other changes. ...
Ecosophia

Companions on the Road: A Retrospective - “This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a ...
Dissent Magazine

When the World Split Open - While the case that resulted in the conviction of fifty-one men for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot last year was extraordinary, it is continuous with other f...
Earth 911

The 2026 Drought, Region by Region - Just over half the country is officially in drought, and about 155.7 million Americans—almost seven... The post The 2026 Drought, Region by Region appear...
The AltWorld

Où va ce monde ? Avec Pepe Escobar et Thierry Meyssan. - Où va ce monde. Une émission de JSF animée par Eric Montana et Raphaël Berland. Invités : […] The post Où va ce monde ? Avec Pepe Escobar et Thierry Meys...
Trivial Knot

The Goomba Fallacy - The goomba fallacy is when some people say A, and some people say B. And then you say, isn’t it ridiculous that people believe A and B at the same time? Bu...
Environment Texas

Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic pellet pollution - The International Plastic Pellet Count officially kicked off on Saturday. The post Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic p...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
Skeptophilia

Scary times - Dear Readers: This is to let you know of some upcoming changes. Some of you might know I also write over at Substack, and over there have focused mainly o...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 5 May 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here. For the...
See You In 2020

The Mamdani-era Democratic Party won’t stop being genocidal, it will only be better-branded - What does it mean that many still think we can change the Democratic Party, even after Gen Z turned on Kamala for the Gaza holocaust? It means bad ideas...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers - Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers
Edinburg Politics

From blank canvas to lasting legacy: McAllen’s Nikki Rowe High School celebrates resilient young artists during art contest awards ceremony - A well-attended crowd filled Nikki Rowe High School’s gymnasium on Thursday evening, April 30, 2026 for the awards ceremony of the “A Soul’s Journey: The R...
Seeing the Forest

Arms That Chain Us Eyes That Lied - I never got to see the Doors. I saw Ray Manzarek once, with Boz Scaggs, Roy Rogers, Phil Lesh, Norton Buffalo and Mickey Hart, performing at a John Kerry f...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou and cherry trees - [image: Canigou and cherries]
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Angry Bear

When a Senator Makes Ignorant remarks - If this is a true statement by esteemed Senator Sununu, he must be in his last term in office. Personally, I believe all Senators and Representatives sho...
LareDOS

WCHF recipient of two Texas Association of Museums awards - Recoognition for excellence in museum communications and design
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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