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

Salon.com

Trump doesn’t realize why MAGA needs the Epstein files - His base needs a story where they're the heroes, not the villains
Scheerpost.com

Trump Announces Weapons Plan for Ukraine, Gives Russia 50-Day Deadline for Tariffs - Under the plan, the US will sell more weapons to NATO countries that will be transferred to Ukraine.
Raw Story

'Very precarious': Biographer says Trump 'at war' with DOJ after major slip up - President Donald Trump became panicked after realizing he would take a starring role in the Jeffrey Epstein exposé he’d been promising for years and move...
The Week

Pros and cons of a wealth tax - Raising revenue and tackling inequality vs. the risk of capital flight and reduced competitiveness
memeorandum

Trump's new wall: His push to oust legal U.S. residents (Axios) - Axios: *Trump's new wall: His push to oust legal U.S. residents* … - Trump's administration is allowing those TPS deals to expire — for more than 700,00...
Off The Kuff

What the medical marijuana industry wants from the special session - To protect their interests, of course. Texas’ medical marijuana dispensaries entered into this year’s legislative session with a two-prong strategy to expa...
NPR's Health Shots

A million veterans gave DNA for medical research. Now the data is in limbo - Retired service members donated genetic material to a DNA database to help answer health questions for all Americans. The Trump administration is dragging ...
The Hill

Trump offers MAGA a third option on Epstein - There were a couple of ways to think about the Trump administration’s about-face on releasing the files on America’s most notorious sex criminal, Jeffrey E...
Vox

Why it’s taking LA so long to rebuild - In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January — some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history — one of the first th...
Daily Dot

“Stop calling”: Walmart worker reveals the real way to get hired - [image: how to get hired at walmart the real way] A Walmart worker tells prospective employees to follow a few tips to stand out during the application p...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Eschaton

Morning - Taco Tuesday
Slate

Help! I Pretended to Be My Ex in an Email. It Ruined His Life. - He probably has no idea what happened.
Mother Jones

Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere - This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Massachusetts is among ...
San Antonio Report

‘The Jazzman’ and Balcones Heights Jazz Festival return for 32nd season - This year’s Balcones Heights Jazz Festival is scheduled for Friday, July 18, at the Wonderland of the Americas’ outdoor amphitheater. ----------------------...
Al Jazeera English

Will Patriots promised by Trump boost Ukraine’s defence against Russia? - The weapons may stop some attacks but don't cross a red line for Putin and fall short of Kyiv's needs, analysts say.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump hails supreme court decision to let him dismantle education department – US politics live - President says ‘America’s students to be best, brightest and most highly educated in world’ following ruling - US supreme court allows Trump t...
Crooked Media

Live! One year of Keir – how can we fix the mess? – with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard - The post Live! One year of Keir – how can we fix the mess? – with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Verge

Reddit is rolling out age verification in the UK - Reddit users in the United Kingdom will now be blocked from accessing “certain mature content” unless they complete the platform’s new age verification pro...
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

Reclaiming the Public Realm - Trump’s destruction and the needed rebuilding should be a theme in every election between now and 2028.
Progressive Army

Facilitación del comercio como herramienta para fortalecer la integridad en las fronteras: nuevas directrices de la ICC y la OMA - La Organización Mundial de Aduanas (OMA) y la Cámara de Comercio Internacional (CCI) publicaron un informe conjunto titulado “Enhancing Integrity at Border...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: A ‘Draconian’ UK Government - “We accept of course that it is draconian and deliberately so”— those chilling words were spoken during the second part of a proceeding that took a further...
Mediagazer

Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and more, fearing deportation (Angela Fu/Poynter) - Angela Fu / Poynter: *Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and ...
ProPublica

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers - by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stori...
Axios

Where Americans walk and bike most often - Data: StreetLight; Chart: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios The New York, Boston and San Francisco areas have relatively high shares of trips taken on foot or bicycle...
Grist

This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law - Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived fuel."
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Media Literacy and Political Cartoons - Call it media illiteracy. It’s the pervasive lack of knowledge about what a political cartoon is supposed to be, and what it’s supposed to do — provoke tho...
High Country News

Finding your ancestors in the archives - Author Joseph Lee explores Wampanoag family history in a new book of memoir and reportage. The post Finding your ancestors in the archives appeared firs...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 15 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "Martian Grand Canyon" video, click here.] ...
Earth 911

Everything Your Child Needs for a Waste-Free School Year - Remember that crisp excitement of September mornings when choosing fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils would... The post Everything Your Child Needs fo...
naked capitalism

Message to Trump: Incompetence Is Not Virtue. Also, People Will Die - The main and possibly only qualification for Trump’s top appointees is the ability to tell blatant lies with a straight face.
Counterpunch

Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest tariffs, Seen From South Africa - U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make Ame...
DeSmogBlog

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa - In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon...
See You In 2020

The mass will to defeat monopoly capital is there. The question is whether we'll rebuild the workers movement. - One of the biggest challenges which U.S. communists and their allies are about to confront is that of bringing Americans away from apathy. Burnout and l...
jobsanger

Food Banks Can't Make Up For Massive SNAP Cuts -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2613: Can We Hear Shapes? - Episode: 2613 Can we hear shapes? Today let’s ask: Can we hear shapes?
World Socialist Web Site

South Australian supermarket wage-theft case settles for $5.5 million - More than 500 current and former employees of 23 Foodland stores will receive back-pay after a four-year Federal Court case.
Informed Comment

Gaza: It’s not “Complicated” - Santa Cruz, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – HISTORY is always complicated. ELEMENTARY ETHICS is not. “Do not do to others what is hateful to y...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend - With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it's time for everyone to admit we're watching an American genocide in ...
slacktivist

‘Perversion of Justice’ revisited - A look back at what we've previously written here about Jeffrey Epstein, now that we're told he never actually existed.
Mediaite

Republicans Vote Against Amendment Calling for Release of Epstein Files - An amendment demanding that the Trump administration release all files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was shot down by Republicans. Th...
Portside

US Undocumented Farm Workers Feel ‘Hunted Like Animals’ Amid Trump’s Immigration Raids - US Undocumented Farm Workers Feel ‘Hunted Like Animals’ Amid Trump’s Immigration Raids Stephanie Mon, 07/14/2025 - 23:00
Political Wire

Senate GOP Scrambles for Trump’s Spending Clawbacks - “Senate Republicans are scrambling to iron out changes to President Donald Trump’s $9.4 billion request for spending clawbacks ahead of a key vote on Tuesd...
Techdirt.

Xbox Layoffs, Game Cancellations After Acquisition Blitz Continue - It’s no secret that starting during the onset of the pandemic, as well as in its aftermath, the video game industry has undergone a period of consolidation...
Common Dreams

On Manic Racism and Kindness As Kryptonite - Racist madness explodes, the "straight-up Gestapo stuff" of dystopian nightmares, from brown people "hunted like animals" by roving thugs and packed into...
Alternet

'Covering things up': Epstein's brother says Trump admin being 'secretive' about his death - The brother of convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein believes President Donald Trump's administration is intentionally concealing important details su...
Deadline Politics

Stephen Colbert Riffs On Paramount’s “Big Fat Bribe” To Settle Donald Trump’s CBS ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit - Stephen Colbert riffed Paramount Global’s $16 million settlement of Donald Trump’s lawsuit, calling the payment a “big fat bribe” and joking about the pros...
Popular Resistance

Unpacking The Localism Manifesto: Solving Our Crises From The Bottom Up - The United States is a failing country. Political leaders at all levels have failed to effectively solve the many crises we face such as the climate cris...
Krebs on Security

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. So...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Selects Evan McMahon as New Secretary After Multiple Rounds of Voting - The Libertarian National Committee met for a special meeting over the weekend, during which members selected Evan McMahon, Chair of the Libertarian Party...
Brad Blog

Repub, Indie Support for Immigrants Skyrockets Amid Trump's Crackdown: 'BradCast' 7/14/2025 - Today on The BradCast: As it turns out, Americans who voted for Trump because they supported his promise of mass deportation and detention of "the worst of...
Wolf Street

Homes for Sale Also Surge in Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, but Are Still Very Low - They’re among the stragglers, behind other big markets whose inventories have shot up to at least decade-highs.
Workers World

Trump’s cuts, politicians’ inactions kill in the Hill Country - [image: Trump’s cuts, politicians’ inactions kill in the Hill Country] Houston The Texas Hill Country is known for beautiful rolling hills, hundreds of win...
Election Law Blog

Court Denies Motion to Reopen Testimony in Texas Redistricting Cases - Michael Li has today’s order from the three-judge federal district court here. The post Court Denies Motion to Reopen Testimony in Texas Redistricting C...
Antiwar.com

How Firm Is Washington’s Commitment to Taiwan’s Security? - At first glance, Washington’s informal but very real commitment to defend Taiwan and preserve its de facto independence seems quite secure. Over the past ...
Claytoonz

Stop Talking About Epstein - 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...
Second Nexus

Trump Ripped After Refusing To Leave Stage For FIFA World Cup Trophy Presentation - President Donald Trump was widely mocked after positioning himself front and center during Chelsea’s trophy lift at the FIFA Club World Cup final on Sund...
Sludge

Defense Contractors Line Up for ‘Golden Dome’ Bonanza - Lockheed Martin and Boeing are touting their products to be part of President Trump’s missile defense project, angling to join rumored favorites SpaceX and...
El Paso Matters

Texas’ 2023 property tax relief has had moderate impact on El Paso property tax bills, analysis shows - El Paso school district property taxes have gone down sharply over the past two years, but increases by other governments have eroded those savings for ...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
The NM Political Report

Luján secures $6.9 Million in federal funding for New Mexico communities - [image: Ben Ray Lujan SNAP] [image: Ben Ray Lujan SNAP] U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) announced that the Senate Appropriations Committee has passed ...
CultureMap Houston

More millennials bought homes in Houston than any other city in 2024 - Houston is turning into a haven for millennial homebuyers, a new SmartAsset housing study has found. Nearly 62,000 millennials purchased homes in the Bayou...
Ballot Access News

Matt Lieberman, Son of Former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, Defends Ballot Access - Matt Lieberman has this op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, defending the right of people to form new parties and get them on the ballot. … Continue reading →
Futurism

Musk Calls on Trump to Release Epstein Files - President Donald Trump's loyal MAGA base is in shambles over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files — and his number one enemy is hav...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “Epstein Fallout, FBI Chaos, Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The “DeProgram show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou” is now three da...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump administration to massively reduce the size of the Department of Education - The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that would requi...
OpEd News

Can Trump broker peace in Gaza? - This article talks about the latest developments in the peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the role of president Trump
Daily Howler

MONDAY: We're so old that we can recall.... - *MONDAY, JULY 14, 2025* *...all that talk about Medicaid cuts:* We're so old that we can remember all the talk about Medicaid cuts and the loss of Medica...
Undernews

Supreme Court allows mass layoffs at Education Department - *NBC News - * The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with plans to carry out mass layoffs at the Department of Education that ...
Reform Austin

Gov. Abbott Fights Release of Emails with Elon Musk, Citing Privacy and Confidentiality - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Gov. Greg Abbott’s office is attempting to block the release of months of emails between the Go...
Progressive.org

Michael Ansara’s Legacy of Hope - A new memoir charts a lifetime that spans decades of activism and involvement.
ArcaMax

Trump’s Magnet of Malevolence - The conventional explanation for why Trump’s second term is far more extreme than his first (which was extreme enough) is that the guardrails are now gone....
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas International Produce Association: Keep the Tomato Suspension Agreement in place - Dante Galeazzi, president and CEO of the Texas International Produce Association, says 50,000 jobs in Texas are tied to the importation of tomatoes from ...
The Conversation

ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief - Will costly settlements over news stories the president sued about influence network journalists when deciding whether to pursue investigative stories invo...
The Greanville Post

The Misconceptions That U.S.-and-allied Publics Have About the War in Ukraine - ERIC ZUESSE--The Ukrainian war actually started after the democratically elected President of Ukraine (an infamously corrupt country), who was committed to...
Texas Standard

‘People get tired of alerts’: Why getting the word out about public hazards can be tricky - Warnings sometimes aren’t reaching phones because individuals have turned them off.
Glasstire

An Art Review By An Interested Houston Eighth Grader - Note from longtime Glasstire contributor, Betsy Huete: As part of an initiative to inspire competition and rigor in arts writing in education, one of my ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
Rewire

Anti-Choice Doctors Push RFK Jr. to Restrict Abortion Pill - Plus, court wins keep on coming, FBI investigates its own, and farmworker dies after ICE raid. The post Anti-Choice Doctors Push RFK Jr. to Restrict Abor...
First Draft

Trump Makes Americans Less Anti-Immigrant - The hateful dummy is handing the Democrats an opportunity.
WhoWhatWhy

Earth’s Largest Waterfall Is Hidden Deep in the Ocean - [image: climate, oceans, waterfalls, Iceland, Greenland, Denmark Strait cataract] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommend...
The Root

Why The Internet is Sick of Tyler Perry After His New Netflix Film - Perry's latest offering hit Netflix over the weekend and it's clear it wasn't as well received for a handful of fans. Read more...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Angry Bear

How a Government Shutdown Could Enhance Tr__p’s Power Come October 1st - Conspiracy mongering? I do not believe so when one considers the type of person both Republican and Democrat legislators and citizens are dealing with to...
The Daily Poster

Rail Barons Push For Robots To Conduct Track Inspections - The rail industry wants to replace human track inspectors with robotic ones, despite data showing most derailments are caused by conditions that are undete...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR - Check out the timelapse drawing video (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process). TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All of them ...
NORML

Pew Poll: Few Americans Support Feds’ Blanket Prohibition of Marijuana - [image: An arrow depicting a downward trend over a marijuana plant][image: An arrow depicting a downward trend over a marijuana plant]Nearly 90 percent o...
Capital & Main

Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay - With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact. The post Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers L...
Dissident Voice

Beauty Betrayed, from Global Militarism to Alligator Alcatraz - “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” Great ...
Bonddad

Financial and commodity markets since Election Day - *- by New Deal democrat* The post-jobs report data drought finally ends tomorrow. Today, let me take the opportunity to update some important trends...
Discourse

Bari Weiss Is a Perfect Fit For CBS News - But only for the worst possible reasons.
Mondoweiss

How Israeli colonization disrupts the Palestinian social fabric in the West Bank - [image: An encampment of Bedouins expelled from their herding lands established at the edge of the village of Taybeh, June 2025. (Photo: Qassam Muaddi/Mond...
Earthworks

Flaring in Plain Sight - A ‘solution’ of governments and industry to the common practice of burning off methane pollution and other air pollutants at … The post Flaring in Plain...
Democracy Now!

ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond - An immigration raid in Camarillo, California, on Thursday led to an hourslong standoff between protesters and federal border agents, who blocked the roads ...
Socialist Alternative

Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars - On June 14, Trump spent an estimated $40 million on an extravagant military parade in Washington, DC. What was supposed to be a show of strength for US imp...
Space City Weather

Houston faces warmer than normal conditions for the rest of July; and is a tropical disturbance forming in the Gulf? - In brief: Today’s post discusses today’s rain chances, and what kind of weather we can look forward to for the remainder of July. We also address the poten...
Dorf on Law

When Police Should Issue Warnings Before Arresting - As I noted on the blog (here and here), last week and over the weekend, I attended Vegan Summerfest. My talks went well (I thought), but in today's essay...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Zealous Self-Belief’: How the 2024 Assassination Attempt Made Trump Reckless -
Skeptophilia

This week in lunacy - On the whole, I'm an optimist. It seems a happier way to be. In general, I would rather expect people to behave well and occasionally be disappointed th...
Media Lens

Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person ...
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
The AltWorld

The Good Guys - The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah and massacring civilians trying to obtain food. The […] The post The Good Guys appeared first on ...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

News brief special - MAGA anger at Trump over Epstein Files isn't dying down. It's heating up. - How the Trump Administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein situation (seen here with Trump in 1992) has created a huge rift between Donald Trump and his MA...
Ian Welsh

no title - [image: no title] Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 13, 2025 by Tony Wikrent *Trump not violating any law* *‘He who saves his Country does not vi...
Liberation News

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Looking Toward the Future: Dispatches Mailbag - Readers had questions about the future and I have some thoughts.
San Antonio Current

In the Hill Country and beyond, rural Texas counties lack resources for flood detection - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Texas Monthly

A Young Magician Has Been Secretly Perfecting His Act for Years. Now He’s Ready to Make History. - Eric Chien plans to perform a new form of magic at a secretive competition in Italy.
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...
Bracing Views

“There is no America, there is no democracy” - Thoughts on Gaza and the Profitability of Genocide BILL ASTORE JUL 10, 2025 I sent this somewhat despairing note to a friend this morning: It remains uncle...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Church and State

The Dangerous Distraction of Population Decline Alarmism - According to the UN Population Division, nine countries are on track to at least double their populations by 2054.
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
MintPress News

Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence - This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli s...
Bud Kennedy

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shock poll shows Trump's approval rating savaged by key group—Gen Z - *Friends,* *Trump’s rapidly declining approval among Gen Z—a generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012—is a glaring warning sign for his campaign. De...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Texas Observer

In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health - The first data center in the Stargate project—a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBan...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
The Texas Signal

The Flooding In Texas - As the search continues for missing Texans, many are asking why such a tragedy occurred in the first place, with different leaders casting blame elsewhere.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
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...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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