Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Mark Kelly stands for illegal immigrants but sits for legal American citizens (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner) - Christopher Tremoglie / Washington Examiner: *Mark Kelly stands for illegal immigrants but sits for legal American citizens* — Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) f...
Vox

How Democrats reorganized their State of the Union resistance - When President Donald Trump addressed Congress a year ago, the Democrats seemed to be, as the meme would have it, “in disarray.” They were lambasted for th...
Daily Howler

STATE OF THE (DIS)UNION: The state of the union is tribal! - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026* *What's going to happen this fall?* After last night's public event, our own assessment would have to be this: *The state...
Mother Jones

Inside Epstein’s Very Own “Oval Office”: Power, Peacocking, and Printer Toner - Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump shared a lot of things, especially chasing women through New York City high society of the 1990s and early 2000s. But this...
The Week

EU Nordic expansion: why would Iceland and Norway want in? - Trump’s tariffs and threats to seize Nato ally Greenland are fuelling support for joining the bloc, with its implied security as well as economic benefits
Undernews

Marijuana - *Nautilus - *As marijuana use among teens has grown in the past decade, researchers have been trying to better understand the health risks of the drug. ...
Mediaite

‘There Was Just a Lot of Lying!’ CNN’s Daniel Dale Drops Blistering Fact Check on Trump Speech - CNN senior reporter Daniel Dale dropped a blistering fact-check on President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, Tuesday. The post ‘There Was Just ...
Futurism

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much - "It's extremely hurtful, frankly." The post Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much appeared first on Futurism.
Raw Story

Trump's big address ripped as 'most openly racist in history': 'Went full ethnic-cleanser' - President Donald Trump delivered the *longest* State of the Union address in history Tuesday night, and buried within the nearly two-hour speech was a se...
Deadline Politics

David Begnaud Launches New Media Company Do Good Crew With Debut Of ‘Person Who Believed In Me’ Podcast - David Begnaud, the CBS News contributor and former lead national correspondent, is launching a new media company, Do Good Crew, with a signature podcast th...
Rewire

This Pill Treats Postpartum Depression. So Why Don’t More People Take It? - Some 500,000 new parents are diagnosed with PPD each year. Far fewer take Zurzurvae, the first drug specifically designed to treat the condition, three y...
El Paso Matters

UTEP Dance Championship, Downtown Lunar New Year lead El Paso events roundup - UTEP’s Dance Championship and a Downtown Lunar New Year celebration headline this week’s events, alongside art exhibitions, symphony performances and fa...
SCOTUSblog

SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, February 25: SCOTUS and the State of the Union - Another day, another live blog. Join us to discuss the possible announcement of opinions this morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST. The post SCOTUStoday fo...
Al Jazeera English

Pakistani players in the Hundred: What’s the cricket controversy all about? - Breaking down row involving Pakistani cricketers' presence in a franchise league in which Indian businesses own teams.
Political Wire

Republicans Stay Competitive In the Midterms - A new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds registered voters are roughly split between supporting the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate...
ArcaMax

Jesse Jackson's Most Consequential Power Was Not His Oratory -- but His Vision - In 1988, I was one of only two white elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party's nominee for president. The o...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: TGIHD (Plus ca change) - I didn’t stay up for the SOTU, though I recorded it in case something untoward happened, but looking at this morning’s summaries, I gather it was all rathe...
Techdirt.

Hyper Coverage Of AOC’s ‘Um’ Non-Scandal Highlights How The U.S. Press Is Eager To Be Gamed By Bad Actors - I’ve long written about how the U.S. establishment press no longer genuinely serves the public interest. Years of consolidation at the hands of (usually) r...
The Conversation

Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast - Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
Scheerpost.com

‘Disgusting’: Republicans Applaud as Trump Brags About Taking Food Aid From Millions - “His Big Ugly Bill ripped food away from hungry moms, kids, and seniors to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,” said one House Democrat.
Election Law Blog

“Florida may change ID accepted at polling places, making it harder for students and seniors to vote” - Sun Sentinel: A wide-ranging election measure teed up for action Wednesday in the Florida House of Representatives would change the kinds of ID voters ca...
Mediagazer

Senate Democrats launch an investigation into the FCC and Paramount's "partisan censorship scheme" over blocking Stephen Colbert's interview with James Talarico (Ed Pilkington/The Guardian) - Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: *Senate Democrats launch an investigation into the FCC and Paramount's “partisan censorship scheme” over blocking Stephen C...
The Hill

From prison cell to federal reform: A fix for the First Step Act - The Bureau of Prisons has failed to properly administer the First Step Act, resulting in tens of thousands of inmates being held for months longer than the...
Earth 911

The Earth911 Rain Garden Installation Guide - When it rains, water runs off your roof, driveway, and sidewalks, picking up fertilizers, oil,... The post The Earth911 Rain Garden Installation Guide ap...
WhoWhatWhy

Google’s New 1.9GW Clean Energy Deal Features Epic 100-Hour Battery - [image: climate crisis, global warming, clean energy deal, Google, new data center, 100-hour battery] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our ...
Mondoweiss

Meet the companies and billionaires looking to make a massive profit off Trump’s plans in Gaza - [image: Donald Trump announces the "Board of Peace" on January 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.(Photo: ©2026 World Economic For...
naked capitalism

Links 2/25/2026 -
Salon.com

Trump hides in plain sight at the State of the Union - The president waited until most viewers had tuned out to reveal his worst impulses
The Smirking Chimp

Five Volatile Moments From Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Speech -
Skeptophilia

Off the charts - Way back around 1910, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently found a curious pattern when they did ...
Axios

Exclusive: U.S. must overhaul military readiness and tech metrics, report urges - Today's metrics don't give the U.S. military an accurate sense of its own readiness, as the Pentagon battles outdated procurement procedures and other co...
Off The Kuff

2026 primary early voting Day Eight: Beyond the point of comparison - We are eight days into early voting, past both of the Mondays that made daily comparisons to past elections a challenge, and you know what? It doesn’t matt...
Houston Public Media

The week in politics (Feb. 25, 2026) - On Wednesday's show: We recap the State of the Union address and discuss other developments in politics in our weekly roundup.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump touts ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda – but no mention of climate crisis - President derided Biden’s ‘green new scam’ during State of the Union address, and hailed the rise in US oil production Trump didn’t say the words “climat...
Eschaton

Morning - Wanton Wednesday
Slate

Help! My Friends Are Acting Seriously Strange After My Divorce. I Think I Know the Story My Ex-Wife Is Telling. - I know what it looks like.
San Antonio Report

Inside the members-only Spurs Club at The Rock at La Cantera - The Spurs Club is a chef-driven, private social club offering exceptional food, service and prime view of the team's practice courts. ----------------------...
The Verge

Honor’s new MagicPad 4 is the world’s thinnest Android tablet - Honor has announced a new version of its already slim MagicPad tablet that's now even thinner. Last year's MagicPad 3 was just 5.8mm thick, but the new Mag...
NPR's Health Shots

Hundreds of American nurses choose Canada over the U.S. under Trump - More than 1,000 American nurses have successfully applied for licensure in British Columbia since April, a massive increase over prior years.
ProPublica

Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files - The post Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

A hotter, wetter South is becoming a breeding ground for mold - In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
Crooked Media

SOTU: Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech - The post SOTU: Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: To Whom Are Our Liars Lying & What Is the Point of Their Lies? - In America’s late-imperial phase, conjured realities are preferable to reality. The creak of history’s wheel has become unbearable such that forlorn attemp...
Second Nexus

Flavor Flav Shades Trump With Epic Invitation To US Women's Hockey Team For A 'Real Celebration' - Legendary rapper Flavor Flav is a co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted group Public Enemy. He later gained reality TV fame as the star o...
Dissident Voice

Australia’s Social Media Ban - With much in the way of pomp and false premises, the social media ban in Australia for those under 16-years-old was celebrated as a healthy incentive to ...
Novara Media

Israel Responsible for Two Thirds of Journalists’ Deaths in 2025 - Record numbers of journalists were killed in 2025, with Israel responsible for two thirds of total deaths. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) coun...
Counterpunch

An Empire (and Economy) in Decline - The SCOTUS rejection of Trump’s tariffs changes little. The empire's decline persists, and with it, its extension to the US economy as a whole. And it wi...
Rallblog

Skip To the Fun Part of the War - If you were around in 2002–2003, you remember that the George W. Bush Administration bent over backwards to get public support for their wars, even makin...
Countercurrents

From Gaza to Lebanon to Syria: Israeli Army’s Chemical Spraying Expands, Scorching Border Farmland in Quneitra to Expand Buffer Zone - The Israeli army has adopted a new pattern of violations in southern Syria. It has sprayed chemical herbicides over agricultural and grazing lands along th...
jobsanger

Trump And The GOP Are Just A Subsidiary Of The U.S. Billionaire Class -
World Socialist Web Site

Mass protests in Detroit area against plans for ICE detention and operational centers - Hundreds of people in Romulus and Southfield, Michigan, protested Monday evening against plans to expand ICE operations across the Detroit metro area.
Informed Comment

Israel’s Enduring Colonial Project in Palestine - Settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, governed by a persistent logic of elimination aimed at securing land
Courthouse News

State of the Union address: Trump sells his agenda ahead of tough midterm fight - Though he made some jabs at Democrats, the president’s address to Congress remained largely focused on the issues as he made the case for continued Republi...
Portside

Wuthering Heights Is at Its Heart a Story of Class and Race. Emerald Fennell Has Got It All Wrong - Wuthering Heights Is at Its Heart a Story of Class and Race. Emerald Fennell Has Got It All Wrong Marti Tue, 02/24/2026 - 23:23
Alternet

'You killed Americans!' Dems shout down Trump during State of the Union - President Donald Trump's speech turned into a shooting match with lawmakers during the State of the Union on Tuesday. In a comment about ending "sanctua...
The Root

Black Leaders React to Trump’s State of the Union - Hakeem Jeffries, Justin J. Pearson, Scott Colom, Mandela Barnes and more Black leaders had plenty of thoughts after Trump's State of the Union address. ...
Workers World

Trump admin disrespects Jesse Jackson - [image: Trump admin disrespects Jesse Jackson] Civil Rights leader and founder of the Rainbow-PUSH coalition, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died last week at the...
Brad Blog

FCC Chair Issues New 'Threat' to Broadcasters; NPR Confirms DOJ's 'Missing' Trump 'Rape' Docs: 'BradCast' 2/24/2026 - The SOTU begins shortly (we'll be covering tomorrow with Digby and Driftglass) so please forgive if my summary of today's BradCast is a bit shorter than us...
Claytoonz

Puck You - 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...
See You In 2020

The attempt to sell AOC’s imperialism to Gen Z, & the solidarity movement that can break this psyop - The post-Covid generation’s break from Kamala Harris over Gaza must precipitate a break from AOC over all of her pro-imperialist positions. Waging this ...
Popular Resistance

What Is The US Plan To Reverse The West’s Decline? - The West’s global dominance has been in serious decline for several decades. The US government wants to reverse this by undoing the progress made by deco...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
The NM Political Report

Albuquerque is making a new push to create more immigrant-friendly laws. Here’s what’s planned. - Albuquerque officials are launching a comprehensive strategy this spring to protect immigrants amid growing uncertainty about federal enforcement. Mayor...
Antiwar.com

Watching Uncle Sam From Seoul - Since Trump’s election, Seoul’s analysts asked questions. Commentators voiced unease – and “Liberation Day” proved their concerns well founded as the U.S. ...
Crooked Timber

Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 2 - Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a Europ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Hall source: Mayor Jones threatened councilwoman during confrontation - San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones directed unspecified threats toward District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur during a dispute earlier this month that’s sinc...
Wolf Street

WHOOSH Goes Demand for Electricity. US Power Generation by Source in 2025: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum - Power generation surged for the second year amid a struggle to power AI data centers.
Progressive.org

Tending Land, Building Power - A food justice nonprofit transforms an empty lot in California into a model of resilience.
Ballot Access News

Arizona Bill to Forbid Political Parties from Changing their Name Advances - On February 20, The Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed SB 1609. It forbids political parties from changing their name. It also says that...
CultureMap Houston

Houston restaurant known for meatloaf and bourbon sets River Oaks opening date - The countdown is on for the next location of *Federal American Grill*. The upscale comfort food restaurant will open its River Oaks-area location on March 20.
The AltWorld

Huckabee Tells Tucker Israel Has Right to Take ‘All’ of Middle East: Analysis - Mike Huckabee’s reference to borders stretching “from the Euphrates to the Nile” has sparked a diplomatic firestorm […] The post Huckabee Tells Tucker Is...
The Greanville Post

Lindsey Graham’s Extreme Devotion to Israel on Full Display - GLENN GREENWALD— This video delves into the pervasive and systemic influence of Israel on American politics, particularly focusing on how numerous U.S. pol...
Earthworks

What is a Water Quality Certification and Why Does Air Products Need One? - Over the holidays, Air Products pushed through a public comment period for something called a Water Quality Certification, a necessary … The post What i...
Texas Standard

What propositions are on the Texas March primary ballots - Primary ballot propositions may not carry the force of law, but they can shape the legislative agendas the parties pursue next year. In the case of the GOP...
Church and State

Is Trump a worse traitor than Benedict Arnold???? - Donald Trump is a controversial elected political leader whose legacy is still unfolding and is subject to political interpretation.
Liberation News

‘Nothing moved but the tide:’ The Seattle General Strike of 1919 showed the power of labor and a vision of a better future - Seattle General Strike of 1919 still has significance today.
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The New World Order and the New GOP: Dispatches Mailbag - Once again, I answer subscriber questions and tackle a handful of topics
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
First Draft

Mood Swinging With The Supremes - Insult Comedian's tariffs shot down by SCOTUS. Don't spike the ball.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

SEAT and the Student Bill of Rights: Texas Youth Shaping the Democratic Present, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *SEAT and the Student Bill of Rights: Texas Youth Shaping the Democratic Present* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *February 24, 2026* *It’s time for ...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #16: The DNC's Secret 2024 Autopsy, Kash Patel at the Olympics, and War With Iran (w/Katherine Krueger) - Also: Wuthering Heights and the East Coast blizzard!
NORML

Nebraska Omitted From List of Medical Marijuana States Provided Federal Protections - [image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves][image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves]“Voters made th...
Capital & Main

AI Hiring, Scams and Setbacks: How Unemployment Becomes a Vicious Cycle - Sluggish labor market swells ranks of long-term unemployed, leaving some job seekers frustrated with an ever-shifting hiring landscape. The post AI Hirin...
Bonddad

Repeat existing home prices continue to increase at a snail’s pace, but still outstrip post-pandemic wage growth - - *by New Deal democrat* In the past month, all of the various home price indexes have confirmed abating inflation in the shelter sector. This morni...
Sludge

AI Boom on K Street: One in Four Lobbyists Now Work on AI - A new Public Citizen report analyzes lobbying disclosures for 2025 and finds that lobbying on AI issues has skyrocketed.
Glasstire

Review: Ping Zheng’s “Soft Interference” at Seven Sisters, Houston - Ping Zheng’s second solo exhibition at Seven Sisters, Soft Interference, explores the sacred nature and transformational capacity of art. Presenting a ne...
Texas Observer

More Money than Greg - As of January, the Texas governor had about $105,000,000 sitting in his campaign account. That’s an impressively gargantuan figure, especially so given t...
Ian Welsh

Is Virtue An Advantage Or Disadvantage For Societies? - There’s an idea going around that virtues are anti-competitive. That being loyal, honorable, honest, generous, kind, etc… puts you at a disadvantage. It’s ...
Dorf on Law

If "It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory," Originalism Loses - Justice Antonin Scalia, who died 10 years ago this month, was fond of saying over and over again that “it takes a theory to beat a theory.” He often made...
Democracy Now!

War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Epstein Files, Duterte's ICC Case & Ukraine War Anniversary - War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody joins *Democracy Now!* to discuss a number of ongoing human rights issues, including the international fallout of the so-c...
Angry Bear

A Circular Economy - Is the aluminum can the key to a circular economy? Lloyd Alter Carbon Upfront! Is the aluminum can the key to a circular economy? When I was recently in ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather turns warmer now, with a spectacular weekend on tap - In brief: After our cold start this morning, warmer weather will come roaring back today and Wednesday, which will be characterized by strong onshore flow....
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

One-Party Dominance in the States: Only a Few Have Party Diversity Among Their Statewide Officeholders - In 41 of the 50 states, every statewide executive office is held by the same party—a striking indicator of the scope of political polarization today. In ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 24 February 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "Brokeback of the Dead" video, click here. ...
High Country News

Snowmaking could be the future of skiing. But at what cost? - As the climate changes, ski resorts have begun relying more on energy and water-intensive machine-made snow. The post Snowmaking could be the future of ...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Idavox

‘Juntos hacemos la liberación!’ Philly Marches on I.C.E. - The City of Brotherly and Sisterly lives up to it’s name! Innocent Bystander Philadelphia, PA... The post ‘Juntos hacemos la liberación!’ Philly Marches ...
Independent Political Report

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders Renews Call for AI Data Center Moratorium Following Denver Pause - Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has reiterated his calls for a federal moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers, pointing to a newly annou...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'She ain't real, y'all!' - Nicki Minaji's MAGA social media busted for being propped up by bots and fake accounts - Nicki Minaj The idea that Nicki Minaj became a follower of Donald Trump based on the strength of his personality is bull. We all know this. She wants som...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
The Texas Signal

Health Care Remains A Major Concern For Texans - At least in the early part of 2026, enrollment in the ACA marketplace in Texas held steady, with even a slight uptick. But those numbers may be deceiving.
Project Censored

Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation - First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the...
OpEd News

The Italian Dockworkers Shout, Basta! - Chris Hedges has a new documentary out and this is a review of that in the context of demanding peace.
Environment Texas

House of Representatives to vote this week on bill to gut energy efficiency standards - Bill would hand the executive branch new powers to attack existing efficiency standards and create roadblocks to future updates. The post House of Repres...
The Progressive Wing

2/23-24 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting the week up here with plenty of snow.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind - Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
Common Dreams

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? - The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "tru...
Alas, a Blog

History, Rhyming - The title is a reference to an aphorism that’s often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Like many pe...
Bracing Views

Why We Fight Wrongful Wars - Ours Not to Reason Why BILL ASTORE FEB 22, 2026 If you’re looking to “your” military to resist wrongful wars, you’re looking in the wrong place. I should k...
The Daily Poster

The Lesson Of Neil Gorsuch - The justice’s tariff-decision concurrence underscores a broader truth: The Supreme Court is no less political — or conniving — than everyone else in power.
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! Build protests against US blockade - Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. r...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
DeSmogBlog

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show - When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a w...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/20/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Unlimited Hangout

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Socialist Alternative

Epstein Files Expose The Depravity Of Capitalism - The exposure of the Epstein files is like peeling back a bloody bandage to expose a wound that is somehow even more gaping and puss-ridden than you could h...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
Moron Majority

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

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Green Pages News

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

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

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
The Disorder Of Things

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

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Dandelion Salad

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

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

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

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Reform Austin

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

Illegal Orders - Read More
Reveal

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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