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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

'Big ol' red flag': Trump allies reportedly 'stupefied' as president takes heat from GOP - President Donald Trump's latest crises involving Venezuela and suspected war crimes committed in the Caribbean Sea, the Jeffrey Epstein saga and a strugg...
Eschaton

Seems Bad - Though I admit I don't quite understand why this crosses the line that just blowing up the boats didn't.
Salon.com

Costco sues the Trump administration - Costco joins growing corporate pushback, seeking refunds for tariffs it says were unlawfully imposed by Trump
Mondoweiss

Inside the grassroots campaign to release U.S. teenager Mohammed Ibrahim from Israeli detention - [image: Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim. Photo courtesy of Ibrahim’s family.]Last month, 16-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammed Ibrahim was finally released afte...
Al Jazeera English

Another devastating Israeli strike on Lebanon captured on video - Video captured an Israeli strike destroying a building in southern Lebanon, this time in al-Majadel.
Mediaite

READ: Paramount Accuses Warner Bros of Rigging Sale Process for Netflix in Scathing Letter - Paramount warned the media giant that it appeared to have “abandoned the semblance" of a "fair" bidding process in pursuit of a predetermined outcome. T...
Mediagazer

The New Yorker joins Substack, which it sees as a social platform for "cultivat[ing] a community of readers"; the newsletter will share one free article/week (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me) - Emily Sundberg / Feed Me: *The New Yorker joins Substack, which it sees as a social platform for “cultivat[ing] a community of readers”; the newsletter w...
memeorandum

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin (Niall O'Connor/TheJournal.ie) - Niall O'Connor / TheJournal.ie: *Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin* — Gardaí are inv...
The Verge

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry - It turns out my parents were wrong. Saying "please" doesn't get you what you want-poetry does. At least, it does if you're talking to an AI chatbot. That's...
Daily Dot

“Incomprehensible”: Fans come to Paul Dano’s defense after Quentin Tarantino called him the “weakest male actor in SAG” - [image: paul dano in there will be blood opposite quentin tarantino] Paul Dano fans are not having it after Quentin Tarantino trashed the actor for no ap...
Independent Political Report

Green National Committee Implements New Delegate Voting Transparency Measure - The Green National Committee has voted to adopt a new transparency measure that will publicly display when national delegates and alternates last cast a ...
Election Law Blog

California Files Its Brief Defending Against Republican Party and Trump Administration Claims that Prop. 50 Enacted an Unconstitutional Racial Gerrymander - You can see the brief opposing a preliminary injunction at this link. Disclosure: I will be filing a brief on the side of the state shortly. The post Cal...
Second Nexus

Pete Hegseth Roasted After His Placard At Cabinet Meeting Includes Hilariously Fitting Typo - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was widely roasted after eagle-eyed social media users couldn't help but notice a glaring and fittingly Nazi-esque typo on...
Deadline Politics

Brian Brenberg to Co-Host Fox Business Network’s ‘The Bottom Line’ - Brian Brenberg has been tapped to co-host Fox Business Network’s The Bottom Line along with Dagen McDowell. Brenberg is stepping into the role on the 6 p.m...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them - By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 Martin J. Murray is the author of Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar ...
Slate

Gillian Anderson Stars in Netflix’s Gritty New Western. It’s No *Yellowstone*. - The Abandons is already getting Yellowstone comparisons. That’s not quite right.
SCOTUSblog

Government’s position in asylum case could incentivize unauthorized migration - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
naked capitalism

The Anti-MAGA Economics of the Second Trump Administration - How Trump has defaulted on his MAGA promises.
Courthouse News

Macron pleads case for security and trade rebalancing to a lukewarm China - During a state visit, the French president urged President Xi Jinping to take a harsher stance on Russia and smooth out trade imbalances. Despite signing 1...
The Hill

The new Epstein McCarthyism - McCarthy read out lists of alleged communists and fellow travelers on the Senate floor.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

What We Refuse to Learn About Standardized Testing: Dr. Gerald Bracey and the 89th Legislature, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *What We Refuse to Learn About Standardized Testing: Dr. Gerald Bracey and the 89th Legislature* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 4, 2025* ...
Political Wire

Most Will Blame Republicans If Health Care Costs Spike - New York Times: “Some voters may punish congressional Republicans in next year’s midterm elections if expanded Obamacare insurance subsidies are allowed to...
Axios

FBI arrests suspect in Jan. 6 eve pipe bomb case - The FBI arrested a suspect who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic parties*'* headquarters in Washington, D.C., t...
Futurism

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People - Grok is a stalker's best friend. The post Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People appeared first on Futurism.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US schools face big price swings for basics under Amazon’s ‘dynamic pricing’, report claims - Amazon calls the report ‘flawed and misleading’ and says it offers lower prices than competitors School districts and local governments across the countr...
El Paso Matters

UTEP professor to advise State Board of Education on contentious rewrite of K-8 social studies curriculum - The new standards will increase the time students spend learning Texas and U.S. history, and decrease world history, cultures and geography. The post UT...
Bonddad

Jobless claims: Holiday seasonality enters in a big way - - *by New Deal democrat* The good news is, we are back to the normal weekly jobless claims releases. The really good news is that this week’s number...
Common Dreams

CDC’s Out of Touch Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Poised to Undermine Childhood Vaccination Schedule - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is meeting today and Friday to discuss an...
Democracy Now!

West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen - Amid escalating ICE raids in New York City, *Democracy Now*’s Messiah Rhodes spoke to immigrants and advocates supporting newly arrived migrants and asylum...
ArcaMax

Who Even Remembers Why We Should Dress Respectfully? - Sean Duffy's entreaty to "dress with respect" on airplanes rapidly ran into some turbulence. The transportation secretary's request had a bumpy touchdown, ...
First Draft

Irked In December - Vexatious venting about irksome things.
Techdirt.

The ‘Trump Phone’ Is An Unsurprising No Show Months After Promised Launch Date - Earlier this year we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. Even calling it a “phone company” was being gene...
Scheerpost.com

Microsoft Faces Reckoning for Assisting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza - The tech giant could face legal liability for aiding and abetting “atrocity crimes” in Palestine, legal groups say.
The Conversation

Down-ranking polarizing content lowers emotional temperature on social media – new research - A new tool lets researchers get a handle on how social media algorithms affect emotions and polarization.
Rallblog

Career Over for Hegseth? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

Remembering David Richards, 1933-2025 - On November 13, surrounded by family and listening to Guy Clark songs in the capital of the state on which he left such an enormous mark, David Richards ...
Houston Public Media

Young people and Houston’s economy (Dec. 4, 2025) - As Houston grows, are large portions of the city’s younger population missing out on the economic opportunities? A recent report digs into that question.
Vox

Kids are missing out on one of their best chances at learning - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. At about 10 am local time on sch...
The Week

Is Europe finally taking the war to Russia? - As Moscow’s drone buzzes and cyberattacks increase, European leaders are taking a more openly aggressive stance
The AltWorld

Syria is coming back - “Hamas” is extending from Gaza into Greater Hauran… And for these reasons, we appreciate Netanyahu and Trump. […] The post Syria is coming back appeared ...
Mother Jones

Zillow Nixes Feature That Helped Home Buyers Assess Climate Risks - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Zillow, the US’s largest real estate ...
Dorf on Law

Costco's Lawsuit Raises the Remedial Stakes in the SCOTUS Tariffs Cases - Last week, Costco filed a lawsuit in the Court of International Trade (CIT) against U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), its Commissioner, and the Uni...
The Smirking Chimp

The Clearest Symptom Yet of Trump’s Mental Decline -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Fighting the Flood - It was a pleasant surprise to see Signalgate back in the news yesterday. I thought it was gone and forgotten, but it turns out somebody had been looking in...
WhoWhatWhy

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers - [image: Caldor Fire, Eldorado National Forest] Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump. Calif...
Skeptophilia

Descent into chaos - There's an interesting concept called *sensitive dependence on initial conditions*. Here's a simple example. If you take a deep bowl, and drop a marble in...
Crooked Media

Make America White Again - The post Make America White Again appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

The SOS still can’t figure out citizenship - Same song, different verse. County election officials investigating the eligibility of 2,724 Texas voters flagged as potential noncitizens have so far foun...
San Antonio Report

Meet the millennial Republican hoping to beat out John Cornyn and Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate - An ambitious GOP newcomer who national party operatives told to sit 2026 out says the next generation has to stop waiting its turn. ------------------------...
NPR's Health Shots

Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine - For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vac...
ProPublica

Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct - The post Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales - The site removed the feature after real estate agents and some homeowners alleged that the scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales.
High Country News

National parks aren’t just for tourists. They’re an essential home for wildlife. - Pick up this new book on Yosemite for the photos but stay for the captivating animal stories. The post National parks aren’t just for tourists. They’re ...
The Daily Poster

Lenore Skenazy On Why The Kids Aren’t Alright - Hint: It might be their parents.
Counterpunch

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide - Three weeks ago, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) introduced a resolution titled “Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.” Twenty-one Hou...
Consortium News

RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival) - Yury Ushakov, Putin’s man on Ukraine, said there’s no firm plan for Ukraine yet and some American ideas are acceptable to Russia, some not. But the plan i...
Trivial Knot

On Steam AI disclosures - The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of Epic Games (which owns a competing game store) re...
Workers World

PDF of December 4 issue - [image: PDF of December 4 issue] Download the PDF Forces behind the National Guard shootings Editorial: Solidarity and resistance against ICE Mundo Obrero:...
jobsanger

Complaint Filed Over The Trump/Hegseth Murder Of Colombia Fisherman -
World Socialist Web Site

Artists in America face food, housing and healthcare insecurity as global art sales reach an estimated $57.5 billion - The figures are startling, revealing a body of men and women often obliged to work two, three or four jobs to stay afloat and facing uncertainty and precar...
See You In 2020

The tactics of Zionism’s “Bronze Age Pervert” psyop, & how working-class politics can defeat it - I’ve made it such a priority to combat the ideas of “Bronze Age Pervert” because these ideas are pivotal tools in the ruling-class scheme to perpetuate ...
Portside

U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank - U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank Mark Brody Thu, 12/04/2025 - 00:35
Informed Comment

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide - Genocide denial is needed for continuing to appropriate billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, as most legislators have kept doing
OpEd News

Writing a Novella with AI: Revelation, Resistance, and the Long Night of the Soul - AI may be the form that "channelling" and "inspiration" take in our postmodern world. Its greatest danger is not that it will replace human authors, but th...
Alternet

FBI leaders push back against Trump admin's demand to investigate 6 Democrats over video - President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly making moves to initiate a criminal investigation into six Democratic members of Congress, but some...
Brad Blog

A 'Flashing Red Light Warning Sign' for the GOP: 'BradCast' 12/3/2025 - Not that I hope to tip off our degenerate authoritarian oligarchy on today's BradCast. But if the Republican Party still believes in math (and it's unclear...
The Greanville Post

CHINA vs INDIA Railways: JAW-DROPPING || 关注中国 - LIZZY—In just over a decade, China has built over 40,000 km of high-speed rail with trains traveling at speeds of between 300-350km/h. It's the world's lon...
Socialist Alternative

Students and Workers Unite to Fight Trump and ICE: How and Why We’re Building Students Rise Up - Micaela Foreman (co-president of GEO Local 6297, in personal capacity), Sammy Albright (student at Yale University), and Sophia Van Beek (student at Univer...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Man, Mariah season really is in full swing!
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Philharmonic cancels Holiday Pops and New Year’s Eve concerts - [image: The San Antonio Philharmonic performs at one of its prior venues, First Baptist Church.] The orchestra's cancelations come days after the owners o...
The NM Political Report

Who is turning out to vote in the runoff? We checked the numbers - With just four days of early voting left before Election Day 2.0, about 32,000 Albuquerque voters have cast ballots in the city’s Dec. 9 runoff election,...
Antiwar.com

Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide - Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human...
Alas, a Blog

The Benefit of Colorblindness - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. This cartoon was inspired by an exchange I read on Twitter (as it was called back then) and saved. Unfortunately...
Reform Austin

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo Announces Separation from Husband - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo revealed Monday that she and her husband, David James, have se...
Progressive.org

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools - But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it.
Popular Resistance

Why A Caribbean Zone Of Radical Peace Is Vital - The Caribbean Sea has once again become a theater for the renewed geopolitical ambitions of a waning US empire, which is strategizing to bolster its last...
Discourse

Quid Pro Quo Is the Only Law That Matters - Donald Trump's corruption-first economic agenda is thriving—if you're rich.
The Root

Ashley Allison’s Inspiring Speech Electrifies Star-Studded Root 100 Gala! - At the 16th Annual The Root 100 Gala at Gotham Hall in NYC, The Root's new owner Ashley Allison takes the stage for an inspiring speech! Read more...
Ian Welsh

Possible Site Down Time - One of the things I did with the money from last years fundraising drive is hire a Dev to fix the issues with the site, like it often being down and slow l...
The Grayzone

Former Israeli spies now overseeing US government cybersecurity - The Pentagon, Treasury Department, DHS, and a variety of other US government agencies have begun relying on a firm launched by former Israeli military in...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: What did he say and when did he say it? - *WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2025* *Here we go again: *Did Pete Hegseth commit a war crime? We suppose it's certainly possible that he actually did. That sai...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Pressures of Collapse: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Undernews

Just wondering - [image: Image]
Wolf Street

Private-Sector Job Trends by Industry: From Job Destruction in “Information” to Job Creation in “Mining & Natural Resources” - Three-month average job creation dips into negative for the first time since 2020, per ADP data.
Angry Bear

Production weakens while private employment declines - – by New Deal democrat Although not published by the federal government itself, the Fed’s measure of industrial production relies on some federal data, ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes Following TN-7 Special, Plus Updates on Indiana Redistricting and the Overall House Map - Notes on the TN-7 special, North Carolina ratings changes, a proposed Indiana Republican gerrymander, and the overall House map The post House Rating Cha...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Anti-Climate Policies Are Driving Up Insurance Costs for Homeowners, Say Experts - Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits. The post Trump’s Anti-...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Road from Raswashingsputin - Two weeks ago, in our ongoing exploration of the ideas of the Situationist International and their application to the ongoing crisis of industrial society,...
Texas Standard

The Longhorns may have stunned the Aggies, but here’s why they still may not make the playoffs - The penultimate college football rankings have no shortage of Texas representation.
Dissident Voice

The UN’s Financing Crisis: Who Pays, Who Doesn’t, and Why China’s Delays Matter - The United Nations is facing one of the gravest financial crises in its history. According to the UN Secretariat, by late 2025, only 145 of its 193 membe...
NORML

Analysis: NIH Database Now Includes Over 53,000 Cannabis-Related Studies - [image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil][image: cannabis researcher with plant and bottle of oil]"It is time for politicians and others ...
The Texas Signal

Houston Writer Debuts Teenage Time-Traveling Comic - One of the biggest hits at Houston Zine Fest was about a constantly tardy teenager (whose dealing with a lot!)
Ballot Access News

George Skelton, Veteran California Politics Reporter, Discusses Possibility of Two Republicans And No One Else on November 2026 Gubernatorial Ballot - George Skelton, veteran California politics reporter, has this column discussing the possibility that the top-two system could create a November 2026 ballo...
Glasstire

Bookended: As Captured by Richard Avedon and Laura Wilson - From the grittiness of working cowboys to romanticized pastoral views, the American West and its mythos have long been a source of interest, especially t...
Earthworks

Plastic is the Real Monster - By anaïs Peterson On a cold November afternoon in Cleveland, Ohio, Bessie (a mythical creature of Lake Erie folklore), reemerged. … The post Plastic is ...
Rewire

Her Baby Was In The NICU. She Was In ICE Detention - Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. The ...
Space City Weather

Houston will briefly warm up today before a soggy end of the work week - In brief: After a very cold beginning of winter, temperatures will moderate today before another front arrives Thursday. In addition to falling temperature...
slacktivist

Recent reads (12.03.25) - Freelance A.I. scammers, Appalachian Mardi Gras, getting Big in Japan, and a creepy archaeological mystery.
Earth 911

Sustainable Holiday Gifts for the Men in Your Life - The holiday season is a time for giving and renewal, and you can help the... The post Sustainable Holiday Gifts for the Men in Your Life appeared first o...
Claytoonz

Drugs and Fruit Baskets - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Green Pages News

Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health - Author’s Note: This is a lightly edited and updated version of an essay originally published in New Green Horizons on October 13, 2025. In 2022-2023, the...
Crooked Timber

The Pub at the End of the University - I heard a rumour that London IT professionals have selected the pub where they will meet when the internet goes down. It is apocalyptic thinking, perhaps, ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

VIDEO: Trump appears to doze off as Secretary of State Marco Rubio figuratively kisses his a$$ - This a perfect example of what the American voters have done to themselves. They got stupid, distracted, and forgetful, leading to this fool being put ba...
Black Agenda Report

US Attack On Venezuela Would Cause 'Chaos' In The Region w/ Ajamu Baraka - US Attack On Venezuela Would Cause 'Chaos' In The Region w/ Ajamu Baraka bareditors Wed, 12/03/2025 - 04:12 Dimitri Lascaris Ajamu Baraka, BAR edit...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Greg Palast

Got Democracy? Give to Save 2026This Giving Tuesday, Help Protect the American Vote - You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been ele...
Media Lens

The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 1 – The Failure Of Success - ‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary begg...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 2 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the *Wizard of Oz* remix video, click here.] ...
Liberation News

Ohio nurses attacked on job, union demands accountability from hospital - What is happening at OSU Wexner Medical Center is commonplace at all hospitals, and more broadly, is reflective of what is happening at work sites across a...
The Progressive Wing

December 1-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Welcome to December. We’re expecting 6 inches of snow here tomorrow.
Church and State

Trump’s theater of self-preservation cedes China’s path to replacing the US!!!!! - Wake up America and you can still win the game but not by retreating or permitting people with no integrity or courage to bring us back.
Project Censored

Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure - This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures.” We a...
Environment Texas

This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” - Your support will help protect bees from die-offs. The post This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” appeared first on Environment T...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Do Zionists Believe Their Own Obvious Lies? - I don't know if you noticed, but Zionists are totally out of touch with reality, and they often create a heavily censored and false version of history a...
Debunking Christianity

Should We Really Pay Attention to the Latest Research? - Well it depends. When evangelical apologists/theologians claim liberals, agnostics, and atheists should pay attention to their latest research, they really...
Democracy Chronicles

On Business and Power - The government is the only entity big enough to stop business from having all the control and economic sway, yet the United States is failing at this.
LareDOS

Remember the Laredo Film Society on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2 - Help keep the projectors rolling and the community growing
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: POST-THANKSGIVING INGRATITUDE EDITION. - *Drive that pile.* Hope your Thanksgiving was good! Mine was fine and now that I’ve had my gratitude I’m ready to move back into my usual ingratitude mo...
The Militant

Fight to defend unions, political rights in Quebec - MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov...
DeSmogBlog

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture - An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are ...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Krebs on Security

Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ - A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass ext...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Sludge

Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money - Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars i...
MintPress News

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts how t...
Dissent Magazine

Partyism Without the Party - Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
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...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
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.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

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Reading the Pictures

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Reveal

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Two Party Opera

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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 ...
WAWG Blog

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Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Progressive Army

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nonsite.org

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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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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