Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Guardian (U.S. news)

UK economy grew by 0.4% in June on stronger services and construction output – business live - Live, rolling coverage as surprise GDP acceleration in June helps quarterly output beat expectations, but economists expect ‘subdued’ autumn The second-q...
Progressive Army

Una nueva ruta aérea conectará de manera directa Mendoza con el Caribe - Además, también se incorporaron a las ciudades de Rosario y Córdoba El Ministerio de Economía, a través de la Subsecretaría de Transporte Aéreo, autorizó a...
Grist

The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way - Scientists are exploring whether encouraging the growth of phytoplankton could draw down more atmospheric carbon — without unintended side effects in ocean...
Al Jazeera English

Starmer hosts Ukraine’s Zelenskyy ahead of high-stakes Trump-Putin meeting - The UK is ready to 'increase pressure' on Russia over its continuing war on Ukraine, says Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
High Country News

Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future - Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The post Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future appeared first o...
The Verge

Cowboy’s e-bikes granted a second life - After months of speculation over the e-bike maker’s imminent demise, Cowboy says it now has the financial backing it needs to survive. The Brussels-based m...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
Mediagazer

CPB's closure threatens tribal radio and TV stations, endangering critical services like emergency alerts in areas lacking broadband or reliable cell service (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab) - Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: *CPB's closure threatens tribal radio and TV stations, endangering critical services like emergency alerts in areas lacking b...
Courthouse News

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The Daily Poster

The Male Friendship Collapse - What happens to a country when men lose their closest friends?
Slate

A Pediatrician on What Matters Most in Your Baby’s First Few Months - Plus: How to build trust with your pediatrician—and what to ignore when the panic sets in.
Earth 911

U.S. Flood Risk Is 67% Higher Than Historic Projections — Check Your Address - The flood risk landscape has dramatically worsened since 2020. Hurricane Helene, which sent floods tearing... The post U.S. Flood Risk Is 67% Higher Than...
The Hill

Teens with higher PFAS levels more likely to regain weight after bariatric surgery: Study - Adolescents exposed to toxic “forever chemicals” may be more likely to regain weight lost after bariatric surgery, a new study has found. The risk of such ...
naked capitalism

Thomas Neuburger: Our Lawless Elites - Tracing the increased concentration of power in our elites, and how Trump is in the process of consolidating it in his person.
Counterpunch

Ukraine: Pax Optima Rerum - Peace is the highest good – every day that passes, more soldiers and civilians are killed in the Ukrainian war. It is estimated that more than a million...
Ian Welsh

The Nuremberg Movement - It’s time to start a movement for new Nuremberg trials. After WWII many Nazis were tried for genocide and various war crimes, and they were executed. I rem...
jobsanger

None Of Trump's Emergencies Were Real -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2495: Creativity Within Limits - Episode: 2495 Creativity Within Limits: Rules as a Source of Creativity. Today, bounded creativity.
The Week

Sudoku medium: August 14, 2025 - The Week's daily medium sudoku puzzle
Portside

Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy - Debunking the Myths About Mamdani’s Candidacy Mark Brody Thu, 08/14/2025 - 00:50
World Socialist Web Site

With union’s approval, Irvington, New Jersey letter carriers work in filthy, hazardous post office - By requiring letter carriers to work in a flood-damaged building that smells like sewage, the NALC bureaucracy has shown its open hostility to its members.
Informed Comment

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel - The protest represents a multi-dimensional struggle: economic, geopolitical, and ethical. Written by Elvis Takahashi Mantello Protesters gather at Piraeus ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

What Fairer House Maps in One-Party Delegation States Could Look Like - With redistricting remaning a front-and-center topic in the news, we looked at how states that currently have one-party representation in the House could...
memeorandum

Veterans Beg Ron DeSantis to Stop Killing Them (Kenneal Patterson/The Daily Beast) - Kenneal Patterson / The Daily Beast: *Veterans Beg Ron DeSantis to Stop Killing Them* — BACKSTABBER — Ron DeSantis, who is a veteran himself, has ove...
Mediaite

Jordan Peterson To Take ‘Time off of Everything’ After Being ‘Exposed to a Particularly Moldy Environment’ - Jordan Peterson's daughter announced her father would be "taking some time off of everything" after becoming "exposed to a particularly moldy environment...
Raw Story

'What a shame': WSJ editors shred GOP Senators for holding Trump nominees 'hostage' - The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal ripped two Republican Senators on Wednesday for allegedly undermining the president's nominee...
Deadline Politics

Ron Howard Calls ‘Hillbilly Elegy’s Legacy “A Mixed Bag” After J.D. Vance’s “Divisive” Turn - Five years after bringing J.D. Vance‘s memoir to Netflix, Ron Howard doesn’t appear to waste much time thinking about the Trump VP. The 2x Oscar-winning di...
NPR's Health Shots

Percentage of Americans who say they drink alcohol hits record low, Gallup says - Gallup, which started tracking Americans' alcohol habits more than 80 years ago, says the drop in drinking rates coincides with Americans' growing concerns...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Reiterates The Same Rhetoric That Made His Own Employees Targets - Police have now confirmed that Patrick White is the man who killed a police officer while going on a shooting rampage targeting the CDC campus in Atlanta, ...
Environment Texas

State victories in 2025: rooftop solar, wildlife crossings, high value health care and more - In this moment, we’re taking great care to choose issues and solutions that Americans in every state — blue, red or purple — can get behind. The post Sta...
The Texas Signal

The Unending Tolls Of Being Undocumented In Texas - For undocumented Texans, the economic burdens keep growing
Trivial Knot

From the drafts: Data science as function fitting - Let’s dig out another article from my drafts bin, something I don’t think I was ever going to finish. This draft was titled “Data Science as function fitti...
Consortium News

‘Putin Will Play Trump Like a Stradivarius’ - ALASKA SUMMIT: CN Editor Joe Lauria joined Jackson Hinkle’s Legitimate Targets to discuss the Putin-Trump meeting and the Middle East. What was once Seward...
Workers World

PDF of August 14 issue - [image: PDF of August 14 issue] Download the PDF Hamas: The weapon of resistance is a legitimate right Phony airlifts: EU photo ops won’t stop famine Phila...
Scheerpost.com

When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report - The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide that is now infectin...
Alternet

'Disgusting': MAGA erupts at Democratic governor over 'classless' remark about Trump 'bro' - During a recent speech, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker took a jab at a staffer in President Donald Trump's administration over his outsized role in the ...
Brad Blog

140 New House Reps?: Ideas for Moving Beyond the Gerrymandering Wars: 'BradCast' 8/13/2025 - Sadly (or happily, as you may see it), we don't have many Republicans as guests on The BradCast these days. That's largely because so many are now crazy, b...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
OpEd News

Federal cuts to health-care research and quality agency make Missouri hospitals less safe - The Trump administration recently slashed funding for the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), an agency that works to improve our he...
Popular Resistance

Starving Indigenous Peoples Then And Now - There is increasing evidence that “widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease” are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths“ in Gaza, a group of Unit...
Crooked Media

Can Trump Broker Peace With Putin? - The post Can Trump Broker Peace With Putin? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is. *'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in depositio...
Axios

Taylor Swift details masters ownership saga on "New Heights" podcast - Taylor Swift opened up about the battle to own her masters during a rare podcast appearance on Wednesday that drew 1.3 million live viewers. *Why it mat...
San Antonio Report

Jones says San Antonio must ‘minimize risk’ by screening policies for conflict with Texas law - A politically charged legal landscape warrants extra caution in city policy development, San Antonio's mayor said. Council members disagreed. --------------...
Daily Cartoonist

Syndicates Celebrate Reuben Nominees and Honorees - The National Cartoonists Society’s 79th Annual Reuben Awards weekend starts tomorrow and syndicates are proudly highlighting the cartoonists from their sta...
Antiwar.com

What Do We Forget When We Remember Hiroshima? - Originally appeared at TomDispatch. On August 6, 2025, the world marked the 80th anniversary of the American destruction of Hiroshima. As in decades past, ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 15 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend in Houston is all about art and music.
Political Wire

Trump Nominee Was at Capitol on January 6 - “President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying h...
Rallblog

In Defense of October 7th - Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023. Commandos on land vehicles and paragliders killed 1,137 Israelis, injured about 5,400 and seized about 250 hos...
San Antonio Current

Majority of San Antonio City Council pushes back against Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' proposed rule change - The majority of City Council on Wednesday afternoon rejected Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones' proposed changes to how members of the body bring ordinances to the d...
Vox

A court victory for Trump’s foreign aid cuts, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
See You In 2020

What’s changed since Trump’s first term: the resistance forces have needed to give up “detente” - In July, Kim Yo Jong made a statement responding to the Trump White House’s suggestion that it could return to its old relationship with the DPRK. The W...
Futurism

Elon Musk's DOGE Was Far More of a Dismal Failure Than We Thought - Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency originally promised to save the government $2 trillion in waste. That target was quickly dropped to $1 tr...
El Paso Matters

After more than a year, NSF eliminates ‘suspended’ UTEP-led grant - The National Science Foundation officially canceled the grant that had been called a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” because it could have brought $1...
Progressive.org

Medicaid Is Not a Luxury, It’s a Lifeline - As someone with a chronic illness, I rely on Medicaid. It's no gravy train—and the system is forcing the disabled community into poverty.
The NM Political Report

Governor declares emergency in Española area amid crime surge - [image: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State speech to kick off the 2025 Legislature in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Roberto E....
Discourse

A Controversial Take on the Concept of "Summer" - Enough already. Simmer down.
Claytoonz

Wanted - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Election Law Blog

“Hispanic Democratic Officials in Texas Plead Not Guilty to Voter Fraud” - NYT: Nine Latino Democratic officials and political operatives pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in South Texas to charges of criminal voter fraud, accusa...
Independent Political Report

Forward CEO Lindsey Williams Drath Warns Against Federal Control of D.C. Police - Forward Party Chief Executive Officer Lindsey Williams Drath denounced the federal government’s recent decision to place Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan ...
Texas Standard

This week in Texas music history: Melvin ‘Lil’ Son’ Jackson is born - The guitarist followed in Lightnin’ Hopkins’ footsteps, from Texas to California and back again.
Salon.com

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros frontman weighs in on “worst song of all time” discussion - Alex Ebert defended his 2009 hit "Home" against accusations of being the worst song ever
Second Nexus

Newsom Channels Trump In All-Caps Vow To Redistrict California After Trump 'Missed' Deadline - The latest in the ongoing feud between MAGA Republican President Donald Trump and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom involves a bit of imitation...
Reform Austin

Abbott vows to immediately call Texas lawmakers back to work if special session ends without new maps - The state’s top three elected officials — Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows — said Tuesday the Legislature will adj...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We're Dealing with Sociopaths: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - Capitalism has repeatedly rewarded sociopathic behavior until the culture, economy, and our government have turned completely sociopathic.
Wolf Street

Inventory of Homes for Sale in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta, Washington DC, Columbus, Detroit, Minneapolis - Each market dances to a different drummer. But in some metros, the drummer hasn’t gotten out of bed yet.
Mother Jones

DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail. - On the 26-mile motorcade ride from the White House to his private golf club in Northern Virginia (one of 18 in his collection), President Donald Trump obse...
Church and State

We’re All Living in Agnocracy - Ignorance has become a leading force in world politics, calling for a term to label rule by ignorance—agnocracy.
DeSmogBlog

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead - Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “ag...
Mondoweiss

Starvation chronicles in Gaza - [image: Palestinians, driven to the brink of starvation, gather at an aid distribution point in near Zikim, Northern Gaza, July 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Asht...
Lowering the Bar

In the Ancient Libraries of Ashurbanipal - [image: cuneiform tablet]There was probably at least some writing this bad, but it may have been lost.
Undernews

Top cities for tree huggers - *Lawn Love- *Where can forest lovers enjoy city life under beautiful tree cover? To measure up urban canopies, Lawn Love evaluated the 500 largest U.S. ci...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: DHS spokesperson "faceplants" again! - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025* *Also, Washington's homicide rate:* It's official: "As Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Tricia McLaughlin oversees th...
Texas Observer

Texas Lawmakers Push ‘Massive Secrecy Grab’ to Shield Police Files - In 1998, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) began requiring officers to fill out reports any time they had to use force, a big step toward tracking...
Daily Dot

Rachel Brosnahan’s husband is being slammed for liking one very specific insult about her on-screen relationship with “Superman” star David Corenswet - [image: Left: Actors Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet filming a scene for the 2025 "Superman" movie. Right: Tweet reading "rachel brosnahan’s husband...
Capital & Main

Federal Officers Continue Arresting Anti-ICE Protesters During 24/7 Demonstrations - As Los Angeles protesters continue to organize against ICE operations, they said they are met with aggression from both DHS and L.A. police. The post Fed...
Greg Palast

All Washed Away: Trump drowns FEMA—Palast investigatesWatch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons. - The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Tex...
Angry Bear

Shelter, tariffs, and “just-so” inflation indexes - – by New Deal democrat In my note yesterday about the July CPI, I noted the transition from the trend where overall inflation ex-shelter was low, and sh...
SCOTUSblog

Will the Supreme Court revisit its ruling on same-sex marriage? - In 2015, shortly after the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, a local county clerk from Kentuc...
WhoWhatWhy

Biodiversity Loss May Drive Climate Change, New Research Shows - [image: climate crisis, global warming, tropical forests, biodiversity loss] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by...
The Root

‘Billion-dollar’ Black-Owned Uncle Nearest Whiskey Brand Could Be In Big Trouble - Farm Credit Mid-America claims Uncle Nearest owes them more than $100 million, but the Black-owned whiskey brand says there's a lot more to the story. ...
Dissident Voice

The West is in Panic as Israel’s Plan for “Full Control” of Gaza Heralds a New Nakba - [First published by Middle East Eye] If you thought Western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly tw...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
Glasstire

Review: “Michael Velliquette: The Distance Within Us” at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin - “Skill” and “effort” are precarious qualities for contemporary artists. Oil painters that attend classical painting academies in Florence will often find...
American Prospect

Cooking the Inflation and Jobs Numbers - Today on TAP: There are some genuine problems with BLS methods. A hack Trump appointee is not the answer.
Infidel753

The gerrymandering crisis - We all know how this started. At Trump's behest, Texas Republicans came up with a super-gerrymandering plan intended to gain their party five additional ...
Sludge

House Dem Kept His Bitcoin-Linked Stock Position Secret While Helping to Pass Key Crypto Bills - Michigan Democrat Shri Thanedar is just the latest of dozens of lawmakers to violate the STOCK Act’s disclosure requirement.
Ballot Access News

U..S. Solicitor General Files Amicus in Support of Bost Lawsuit in U.S. Supreme Court - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Bost v Illinois State Board of Elections, 24-568, on October 8, 2025. The issue is whether a candidate has standing to cha...
Bonddad

Shelter, tariffs, and “just-so” inflation indexes - - *by New Deal democrat* In my note yesterday about the July CPI, I noted the transition from the trend where overall inflation ex-shelter was low, ...
Bracing Views

Trump and the Feds Take DC! - We’re finally invading ourselves BILL ASTORE AUG 12, 2025 President Trump’s decision to federalize the police in DC and to deploy National Guard troops the...
Rewire

Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion - Marriage equality isn’t safe. Don’t believe people who tell you it is. The post Same-Sex Marriage Is Absolutely On the Chopping Block—Opinion appeared f...
First Draft

OMG Just Say You’re Afraid Of Black People - It's not like it's a secret.
The Conversation

4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand the duty to disobey illegal orders - As National Guard troops head to the streets of Washington, and likely civilian encounters, a new survey reveals service members’ understanding of the dist...
Democracy Now!

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: "My Deep Care for Children Doesn't Stop at Any Border" - We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza...
Space City Weather

Typical August weather continues for Houston as Atlantic tropics continue to wake up - In brief: Parts of central Houston saw some fairly strong showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday, with a few isolated areas picking up 1 inch, or more, of ra...
ArcaMax

It's a War Out There - They have declared war on us. Washington, D.C., is now a police state. Sending in the National Guard, President Donald Trump seized control of nation's cap...
Dorf on Law

Teaching Constitutional Law in 2025: Part 2 - Last week on this blog, Professor Segall posed twenty questions about how to teach constitutional law at a time when the Supreme Court has been rapidly r...
The Smirking Chimp

The Trial Run -
Skeptophilia

There were giants in the Earth - I remember reacting with honest bafflement when Barack Obama was running for his first term as president in 2008, and one of the criticisms levied agains...
ProPublica

Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on Education - by Lexi Churchill and Jasmine Aguilera, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Ellis Simani, ProPublica Texas’ education landscape is changing. Our repor...
Off The Kuff

Everything happens on Tuesday - Hey, remember when I said yesterday that there was still no quorum and not much had happened? That was then, this is now. The Supreme Court will take its s...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2025 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. At least 13 of the bugs received ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Time for Progressives to Become Active In the Democratic Party," by Thom Hartmann - *Friends,* *I couldn’t agree more with Diane Ravitch’s post amplifying Thom Hartmann’s urgent message: progressives must learn from the radical Right’s p...
slacktivist

I got an A on my 6th-grade Bible class mid-term - An artifact of 1970s white fundamentalism helps us see what has, and hasn't, changed in that world.
Common Dreams

Common Cause Launches Fairness Criteria to Counter Mid-Decade Power Plays - Common Cause today reaffirmed its commitment to fair, people-powered democracy, making clear that independent redistricting commissions remain the gold s...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
NORML

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
Dissent Magazine

Is America a Democracy? - An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
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...
The Grayzone

NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation - Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges...
The AltWorld

لماذا أنس الشريف بالذات.. وكيف حطم وزملاؤه الابطال اسطورة صهيون؟ وكيف يجب ان تثأر الفضائيات العربية؟ - لماذا أنس الشريف بالذات.. وكيف حطم وزملاؤه الابطال اسطورة صهيون؟ وكيف يجب ان تثأر الفضائيات العربية؟ The post لماذا أنس الشريف بالذات.. وكيف حطم وزملاؤه ...
Project Censored

From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power - In the first part of the show, we welcome back award-winning investigative reporter Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red. We’ll talk about his lat...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Debunking Christianity

What Could Convince Reasonable People to Accept the Miracle Stories in the Bible? - This is a segment of my talk at last weekend's BAHA conference in Sarnia, Canada. The conference was fantastic, by the way, with excellent speakers who wer...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
Crooked Timber

I guess that makes me…Horace Slughorn? - The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized gradua...
Liberation News

Cuba’s new Code of Childhood Adolescence and Youth proves putting people over profit is possible - 825,000 people, including many children, participated in creating the new Code,
The Militant

‘Working class in our millions must take the political power’ - SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION. - *lol* Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie said, not yet. In ...
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...
The Progressive Wing

8/8/2025-8/14/2025 News Roundup and Open Thread - The fact that she chose to be offended about them attacking her appearance instead of the puppy killing pretty much proves South Park’s point. — Visual Reb...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
MintPress News

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent. The post Israe...
Unlimited Hangout

From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy - The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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