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

Grist

This summer, the American water crisis becomes real - Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the U.S., as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.
Futurism

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System - It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System." The post Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System ap...
El Paso Matters

Contrasting campaigns define Cruz-Holguin matchup in 168th District Court runoff - Voters will choose between two attorneys with different backgrounds and campaign approaches in the May 26 Democratic runoff for an open El Paso district...
memeorandum

AOC vs. Airbnb (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *AOC vs. Airbnb* — Her contempt for entrepreneurs extends to those who benefit from their products. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...
Al Jazeera English

US-Iran ceasefire under strain as Gulf states report drone attacks - Drone hits cargo ship off Qatar’s coast, while Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates repel attacks.
The Verge

Netflix may have finally figured out games - This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Netflix, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback a...
Slate

My Mom Has Always Seemed Unenthused About My Twins. But Now She’s Been Making Uncomfortable Comments. - She has to stop!
NPR's Health Shots

Happy Mother's Day to the kindest mom. P.S. Your kindness annoyed me when I was a kid - She and her siblings had to make tea for and share food with every visitor. That did not make her happy. Today she has a different perspective. So she fina...
Alternet

Trump is playing his would-be successors like fiddles: NYT analysis - President Donald Trump is reportedly cultivating tension between two of his top officials, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold ..."
Countercurrents

ABVP is a fascist terror organisation! - Anti-fascist defensive squads are need of the hour for student movements! In the past week, members of ABVP have taken the path of violence to subvert the ...
Off The Kuff

Smokable hemp is off and then on the shelves again - Pending the current appeal. Smokeable hemp products, such as flower buds and rolled joints, are allowed back on shelves until the state’s appeal of a state...
The Smirking Chimp

“Maman, Maman” -
Eschaton

Morning - Sunday funday.
San Antonio Report

Top races to watch in the May 26 Democratic and Republican primary runoffs - This election year, both parties are fighting for control of Congress and retirements and redistricting have left many open seats to fill. ----------------...
OpEd News

The Iranian Negotiator: A Psychological Analysis of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf - Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is often described in the West simply as a former Revolutionary Guard commander, mayor of Tehran, or speaker of parliament. Yet hi...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, maison consulaire - [image: Pézenas: Maison consulaire]
Crooked Media

Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call? - The post Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call? appeared first on Crooked Media .
Novara Media

Are We Living Through a New Era of British Weirdness? - Keir and Jem spin the ‘pagan wheel of the year’ to mark the official start of spring, as they investigate the weird-left politics of leylines and megaliths...
The Week

A glorious trip through the Bergen islands - This gorgeous world of ‘picture-postcard’ seascapes and villages is worth exploring
Counterpunch

Operation Save the Beagles - Some held white carnations. Others wore white Tyvek suits. Several hundred waded through feces-filled moats to cluster at Ridglan’s gates and plead with ...
jobsanger

Trump's Most Lethal Policy -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1570: A New Light Bulb - Episode: 1570 GE, light bulbs, and the product-driven innovation cycle. Today, we talk about light bulbs and product innovation.
Informed Comment

Iran Threatens to Kidnap Data Cables as well as Oil; Trump warns of Nukes - Farsnews notes the importance of the underwater fiber optic cables that transmit internet data through the Gulf of Hormuz,
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: Marco Rubio hopes for ‘serious offer’ from Iran on ceasefire proposal - Tehran accuses Washington of ‘reckless military adventure’; Trump prepares for rare China visit amid turbulent backdrop – key US politics stories from 9 ...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Upcoming Comic Books… And Other Awkward Truths - Paul Noth CollectedPaul Noth, newly crowned Cartoonist Laureate of Wisconsin, has collection of his cartoons coming out in October and we now have the cove...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Open Has Matt Damon As Brett Kavanaugh Joining Pete Hegseth And Kash Patel In Boozy Night On The Town - Saturday Night Live returned Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost) and Kash Patel (Aziz Ansari) to the cold open, this time as they cavort in a booze-filled night alon...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Hill

Poll: 72 percent say there's too much money in American politics - A new poll shows that a large majority of Americans say they think there is too much money in U.S. politics. Politico released a poll on Saturday showing t...
Raw Story

'Shocked' civil rights groups alarmed by Trump official's plan to 'embrace state violence' - Advocates for civil and constitutional rights were sounding the alarm on a Trump official's plan to combat groups deemed far-left extremists by the admin...
Political Wire

Trump Official Made Policy That Benefited Her Family Ranch - “A top Trump appointee at the Interior Department acknowledged that she has been involved in changes to grazing policies that benefit ranching businesses l...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court in Alabama Refuses to Let Alabama Draw New U.S. District Court Boundaries - On May 8, a 3-judge U.S. District Court refused to clear the way for Alabama to draw new U.S. House district boundaries. Allen v Milligan, n.d., 2:21cv-153...
Mediaite

LA Mayoral Candidate Ditches ‘Defund the Police’ Stance on CNN After Rival Spencer Pratt Skewered Her for It - Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman (D) told CNN she no longer believed it was necessary to "defund the police," despite her calls to do so in the...
Popular Resistance

The Voting Rights Act And The Need For Movement Politics - The recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision in the case of Louisiana v. Callais is but the latest example of a direct attack on Blac...
Mediagazer

Keith Kelly, the former NY Post media reporter, is now editing a group of Straus Media-owned hyperlocal weeklies covering NY neighborhoods (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter) - Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter: *Keith Kelly, the former NY Post media reporter, is now editing a group of Straus Media-owned hyperlocal weeklies cov...
Claytoonz

HantaPrez - 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 Root

Expert: What to Say When Mother’s Day Hurts - Mother’s Day can be especially difficult for loved ones coping with grief or complicated feelings, but as one expert shares, the most meaningful way to s...
Socialist Alternative

Only Rotten Choices In Their System—We Need A Planned Economy - The US government used more than a third of your 2025 income tax to fund war and military weapons. And the Trump administration has now proposed a $445 bil...
Portside

Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi - Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi Dave Sat, 05/09/2026 - 16:53
Election Law Blog

“Alabama Attorney General files motions with U.S. Supreme Court seeking to redistrict” - Alabama Reflector: The Alabama Attorney General’s Office Friday filed motions in three separate cases seeking to lift a federal court’s injunction again...
Angry Bear

Special Day Today, One Which May Go Uncelebrated for Various Reasons - When I say uncelebrated, it could be result of various unpreventable causes. Mother’s Day is a congressionally established holiday to celebrate Mothers. ...
Mother Jones

Legislators Denounce “Appalling and Horrific Treatment” of Mothers in Immigrant Detention - As Mother’s Day approaches, a group of senators are raising the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing people in immigr...
Salon.com

The art Nazis stole is still waiting to go home - Musée d’Orsay’s new permanent gallery exposes the unfinished search for justice decades after World War II
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: May 3rd – 9th - Now that our detour for the game jam winner spotlights is complete, we’re rolling out a new version of these weekly history posts after collecting your fee...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #JusticeNoMore - [image: Chief Justice, John Roberts, life work, destroy the Voting Rights Act] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: You no longer live in a functioning nation! - *SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2026* *Memphis, split three ways: *With a population of roughly 630,000 at the time of the 2020 census, the city of Memphis wasn't larg...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - These are crazy times, people. But those of us who know saw it coming. It's sad to say, but there is a real possibility that in the next ten years Ame...
San Antonio Current

In parched Texas, a state fund to boost water projects falls almost $3 billion short of demand - As Texas struggles to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population, a state fund had $1.28 billion available this year to support projects that could ...
The Progressive Wing

5/9-10 weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Dreary spring day in the Catskills.
Glasstire

Magellan, Texas Meteors, and the Artemis Moonshot, Brought Down to Size - Somewhere well into the nearly three-hour epic film Magellan, screened recently at the Austin Film Society Cinema, it dawned on me what the film’s direct...
Courthouse News

Chicago Cubs have two 10-game winning streaks in one season for the first time since 1935 - The Cubs extended another 10-game winning streak Friday, marking the franchise’s first season with two separate runs that long since 1935.
Mondoweiss

Fatal Friendships: Gulf monarchies and the price of American patronage - [image: President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud after his arrival to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh,...
The AltWorld

They’re Attacking Online Anonymity, And Other Notes - The EU is looking to ban VPNs, arguing that the ban is necessary to police recent online age […] The post They’re Attacking Online Anonymity, And Other N...
Undernews

Artificial Intelligence - *Congressional Insider - *Pennsylvania became the first state to sue an AI company for operating unlicensed chatbots that impersonated doctors and therap...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Shut Up, SpaceX - SpaceX gets shushed, the courts protect press freedoms, Congress cleans up the Farm Bill, and workers pack in the wins.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for May 4 - 8 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Surprisingly, most of the data is almost relentlessly positive. In par...
Axios

The Trump administration's claim of "zero" border crossings is falling apart - The Trump administration's flat-out claim that no one is illegally crossing the southern border is starting to fall apart. *Why it matters: *The rush of ...
ArcaMax

Barney Frank Speaks - Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is sinking like a rock. Tha...
naked capitalism

Links 5/9/2026 -
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Playing With Fire’ - Donald Trump continues to play with fire, not only in the Persian Gulf, but also in Ukraine, and we may all get burnt. Former U.S. intelligence analysts Ra...
Scheerpost.com

Gavin Newsom, A Candidate Fit For Dystopia - Managing Editors Note: I chose to publish this article because I believe in presenting a wide range of perspectives and encouraging open debate. My own vie...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 9 May 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Sorry for the lack of posts since Tuesday. I wasn't feeling well. o o o o o I don'...
World Socialist Web Site

Ukraine’s Defense Minister implicated in corruption scandal - As Ukrainian soldiers continue to perish in the NATO-backed proxy war, new revelations make clear that the Ukrainian ruling class is enriching itself to ob...
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Breakdown - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
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...
Capital & Main

Salvadoran Man Says He Suffered Stroke While Awaiting Deportation to Torture Prison - The man believed he would be sent to supermax prison where the Salvadoran government, paid by the U.S., tortured Venezuelan deportees last year. The pos...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is that true? - As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one a...
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...
CultureMap Houston

Prolific Houston pizza chef fires up a new Italian restaurant in River Oaks - One of Houston’s most prolific pizzaiolos has quietly opened a new restaurant in River Oaks. Anthony Russo, founder of Russo’s New York Pizzeria, has opene...
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.
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...
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...
Common Dreams

ABC Learns from Past Mistakes, Takes Stronger Stance Against Carr and Trump's Censorship Campaign - In a filing made public on Friday, ABC accused Federal Communications Commission regulators of violating its free-speech rights and called out FCC Chairm...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Britain is experiencing wave of antisemitic terrorism: Whether organic or state-sponsored, it needs to be addressed - I’ve been meaning to write this for awhile, and unfortunately it hasn’t gone out of date. On April 29th, a man stabbed two Jewish people in London. Shortly...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Discourse

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or […]
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

Fireside Chats - Read More
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

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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 ...

Show All

Brains and Eggs

Monday, August 31, 2009

Sunday Funnies on Monday

Search This Blog