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

Mediagazer

Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Mark Sweney/The Guardian) - Mark Sweney / The Guardian: *Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would h...
Vox

You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you? - It’s a good time to be a highly in-demand AI engineer. To lure leading researchers away from OpenAI and other competitors, Meta has reportedly offered pay ...
memeorandum

Where Congress's Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR (New York Times) - New York Times: *Where Congress's Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR* — President Trump's proposal to eliminate federal funding for public broadcaster...
Election Law Blog

“The Supreme Court Is Writing a Slow-Motion Eulogy for One of America’s Greatest Achievements” - Maureen Edobor in Slate: Next month marks the 60th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act—a law often celebrated as the “crown jewel” of th...
Undernews

US public broadcasters condemn Trump cuts - *The Guardian - *Public broadcast station leaders are condemning Donald Trump’s latest victory after the Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that will ca...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Ohio mosque worshippers reel after imam is detained by Ice: ‘No one is ever truly safe’ - Egyptian-born Ayman Soliman was detained while attending a regular check-in with immigration officers A week after the detention of their imam, Egyptian-...
The Hill

China has the US over a barrel in the rare earths market — Trump is fighting back - The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s most powerful strategic weapons....
The Verge

Perplexity’s Comet is the AI browser Google wants - Perplexity has just launched its agentic answer to Google Chrome — it’s called Comet, and it knocked out a slate of tasks on my behalf, though I think I co...
Mediaite

Audience Jeers as Colbert Drops Cancellation News Amid Trump Rumors - Stephen Colbert drew jeers when he announced The Late Show's cancellation just weeks after his employer’s $16 million settlement with President Donald Tr...
ArcaMax

Can AI Remind Us That Connection Is What We're Searching For? - Lately, when I tell people that I am a writer, the conversation inevitably turns to artificial intelligence. People want to know if AI will replace journal...
Dissident Voice

Making Concentration Camp Gaza Inbox - The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch...
Raw Story

Trump letter to Epstein ties him to a 'significant criminal conspiracy': MSNBC - The public perception of Donald Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who died while in custody, took another big hit on Thursday night after the Wa...
Al Jazeera English

Indian state blames cricket team for deadly stampede - Karnataka state authorities singled out RCB, its partners and the state cricket for their mismanagement of stampede.
Bracing Views

Trump Can’t Drain the Swamp–He Is the Swamp - The Jeffrey Epstein Case BILL ASTORE JUL 17, 2025 Chris Hedges has a superb show on the case of Jeffrey Epstein: Donald Trump, along with other “luminaries...
Daily Dot

“If ur mad get well soon”: SZA shares her own tweet from 2024 to prove she doesn’t have beef with Nicki Minaj - [image: sza nicki minaj] Nicki Minaj and SZA’s incoherent “beef.” Mercury retrograde. Stay inside and don’t post. A misunderstanding between the two ra...
Political Wire

Some Thoughts on the Trump-Epstein Bombshell - A bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal dropped last night and immediately scrambled the already volatile politics surrounding the Trump administra...
naked capitalism

Links 7/18/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Really Bothers Him’: Analyst Reveals the Lingering Question About Trump’s Health -
Salon.com

Trump fires Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, which sure looks desperate - The move shows he has no idea how to bring MAGA to heel
The Week

Quiz of The Week: 12 – 19 July - Have you been paying attention to The Week's news?
Skeptophilia

Hello, dolly - You may have heard that a 54-year-old paranormal investigator named Dan Rivera died a few days ago while on tour with a supposedly possessed Raggedy Ann ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: US Department of Scandals - The Epstein case doesn’t seem to be disappearing, much as Dear Leader wishes it would. Even supporters like Summers are finding it hard to ignore. Though w...
Axios

Congress votes to strip more than $1 billion in funding for NPR, PBS - Congress on Friday voted to cut nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, marking a devastating blow for PBS an...
Off The Kuff

July 2025 campaign finance reports – Harris County offices - It’s mid-to-late July, and you know what that means: It’s campaign finance report season! We’ve got a lot to cover, as there’s more angles and intrigue tha...
Eschaton

Morning - May every day be another wonderful secret.
Slate

Traditional Baby Shower Gifts All Have the Same Problem. There’s a Solution That Doesn’t Require Buying From the Registry. - Prudie replies to readers’ comments and suggestions.
Mother Jones

America’s Worst Polluters See a Lifeline in Power-Gobbling AI—and Donald Trump - This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump...
San Antonio Report

‘Dawn of a new era’: 2025 mayor’s race among the most expensive in San Antonio history - The growing influence of partisan groups and PACs in 2025's mayoral election could signal the "dawn of a new era" in local races. --------------------------...
ProPublica

The Most Interesting Email I Ever Received: Remembering the Incredible Life of DIY Geneticist Jill Viles - by David Epstein ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
American Prospect

Crypto Week Revealed the Dittohead Congress - There are no ‘hard-liners’ in the Republican conference. And nobody interested in standing up for the institution of Congress either.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-07-18 -
Scheerpost.com

In a Historic Gathering, 12 Countries Announce Israel Sanctions and Renewed Legal Action To End Gaza Genocide - Meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, representatives of Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, and South Africa announced sanct...
Progressive Army

Actualización sobre la vigencia de las normas Mercosur - La Secretaría del MERCOSUR, como organismo con capacidad técnica y operativa, informa que, a partir del 13 de agosto de 2025, entrarán en vigencia el Regla...
NPR's Health Shots

What to know about chronic venous insufficiency - NPR asks Dr. Thomas Maldonado, a vascular surgeon at NYU Langone Health, about President Trump's chronic venous insufficiency diagnosis and what the public...
Grist

Standing Rock was an Indigenous-led movement. Why did Greenpeace take the fall? - The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.
High Country News

The national parks are not OK - Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ The post The national p...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature a Chance - Michel de Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. Yet... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Give Nature a Chance ap...
The Root

Beyoncé Picked Her Favorite Cities Of the Cowboy Carter World Tour - Queen Bey's tour is coming to a close, and it seems she's preferred some cities more than others. Read more...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Secret Epstein Letter Revealed - The post Trump’s Secret Epstein Letter Revealed appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

A Bestiary of Betrayal - People who would never tolerate being repeatedly lied to by close friends and relatives keep returning to vote for “their” political party because they b...
Counterpunch

Republic of Fear - The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill, is...
Consortium News

Hague Group Confronts Israel Over Gaza - The U.S. is now expected to pressure other countries not to sign on to the joint action plan announced by the 12 countries in Bogota, Mick Hall reports. By...
Deadline Politics

Adam Schiff Talks Of Donald Trump’s “Climate Of Fear” In ‘Late Show’ Guest Appearance; California Senator Later Addresses CBS Cancellation - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert started out on Thursday with the host making the bombshell announcement that CBS was canceling the show, effective next ...
jobsanger

Trump Thinks He Alone Should Determine Citizenship -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1407: A Matter of Size - Episode: 1407 A matter of size: scaling laws among living species. Today, a matter of size.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: The Defense Rests - Meow from Perry Mason.
World Socialist Web Site

US Senate votes to end funding of public broadcasting - By a vote of 51-48, the most august legislative political body in the US cast its support for the elimination of public broadcasting, first established in ...
Informed Comment

Pope Leo XIV Demands Gaza Ceasefire, as Israeli Tank Crew Shells Church, Kills 3 Women - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that an Israeli tank crew fired on the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza, killing th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Environment Texas

Some much-needed good news from Texas - Last month, Texas became the ninth state – and the first Republican-led state – to make Right To Repair a state law. The post Some much-needed good news ...
WhoWhatWhy

TACO Trump Reverses Course, Directs Bondi to Produce Meaningless Epstein Files - [image: Mugshots, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald J. Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell] Hoping to get a grip on a situation that is spiraling out of control for them, both ...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Promotes Meal Delivery Company That Serves Ultra-Processed Food - Nobody who has read any of my posts about RFK Jr., particularly since his vulgar appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be under any m...
Brad Blog

CO Election Clerks Block White House/MAGA Plot to Breach Voting Systems: 'BradCast' 7/17/2025 - Yikes. On today's BradCast, Trump's fascistic lawlessness is really taking hold this week in several areas...with a lot of help from his fellow corrupt Rep...
Alternet

Unreleased Epstein files 'could shed light on who visited' private island compound: report - The FBI's index of evidence from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's case that has yet to be publicly released could provide significant new revelation...
Krebs on Security

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai - Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald's was exposed after they guesse...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Enjoins Florida Requirement that Initiatives Can Only be Circulated by Florida Citizens - On July 8, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker, an Obama appointee, enjoined the new Florida law that says initiative petitions can only be circulated by...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Simone Biles gets last laugh in 'feud' with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines during 2025 Espy Awards - While Simone Biles (top pic) shines and achieves, Riley Gaines (bottom pic) will continue to ride her fifth-place tie with trans athlete Lia Thomas for ...
Progressive.org

Labor Change Will Hurt Workers, Spare Violators - Employers will have far less incentive to comply with an anti-wage theft law under a new Department of Labor rule.
The Greanville Post

Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) - CHRIS HEDGES—An in-depth discussion of the Epstein scandal and its far-ranging implications. Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom o...
Antiwar.com

From Secular Jewish State to a Jewish Herrenvolk Democracy - When I first met Amos Oz amid the 1982 Lebanese War, which we both condemned, he was an internationally renowned novelist and co-founder of the “Peace Now”...
Portside

Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? - Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? jay Thu, 07/17/2025 - 19:53
Greg Palast

Georgia GOP Wins 2026 by Purging Half a Million Voters - It’s all over but the official count. Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Geo...
The Daily Poster

How ICE Is Outsourcing Mass Deportations - One of the world’s largest private security firms is poised to rake in millions from the Trump administration’s historic deportation spending blitz.
The Texas Signal

The Stakes Of Redistricting - All eyes will be on the lone star state to see whether Republicans can really deliver on the wishes of President Trump about radically redistricting the state
Futurism

Trump's Son Just Went Public With His Company and It Flopped Spectacularly - Picture this. You're a red-blooded, burger-chompin', freedom-lovin' American, listening to the sweet sounds of Jelly Roll from the comfort of your Ford F...
CultureMap Houston

Self-taught chef slices into Houston with high-quality sushi to go - The ghost kitchen phenomenon may have diminished somewhat since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the idea of a delivery and to-go-only restaura...
OpEd News

Day 649 of genocide: Bombing a church, knowledge and actions - A Gaza Catholic church that Pope Francis phoned on a daily basis has been bombed by the Israeli regime forces with two Palestinians civilians killed who we...
Common Dreams

Groundwork’s Jacquez Slams Senate Republicans for Codifying DOGE Cuts, Failing to Deliver Lower Costs - Today, *Groundwork Collaborative’s Chief of Policy and Advocacy Alex Jacquez* shared the following statement after Senate Republicans voted to approve th...
Democracy Chronicles

How Gerrymandering is Poisioning Our Elections - No politician should draw any maps and should not be able to pick their voters. Gerrymandering is a democracy killer.
San Antonio Current

Study: Texas ranks has having the nation's second-worst quality of life - Thanks to its restrictive abortion ban, sky-high percentage of uninsured people, continued attacks against voting rights and rising hospitality to LGBTQ+ ...
Popular Resistance

What Kind Of ‘-ocracy’ Are We? The Choice Is Yours - It’s time to choose your “–ocracy,” the one you think best fits a US society and system in free fall. There are some choices to suggest. We live not on...
MintPress News

Crisis Theater: How Israel and the US Are Orchestrating Syria’s Collapse - Israel’s bombing of Syria and US-backed reconstruction deals are being sold as humanitarian efforts. In reality, they are part of a calculated campaign t...
Second Nexus

Artist Blasts DHS For Using His Painting Without Permission—And They Even Tried To Change The Title - Christian artist Morgan Weistling publicly denounced Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for theft and misuse of his intellectual propert...
Discourse

These Substack Kids Wouldn't Last One Shift in the Blog Mines - An unintended side effect of digital media's demise is that no one knows how to write anymore.
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those June Retail Sales - Tariff-frontrunning ruffled the numbers earlier. That dust has settled.
Claytoonz

Don’t Stop Believing - 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...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS McAllen recognized with an award by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association - [image: |||] STHS McAllen earns its Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Plus Gold Award for the sixth consecutive year. The post STHS McAllen recognized wit...
The Conversation

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism - Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.
Church and State

Science PROVES There Is So a God! So There! - My basic atheistic claim is not that I can prove there’s no god, but that I am unconvinced.
The NM Political Report

Heinrich introduces bill to protect DACA recipients’ data amid Trump administration information sharing - [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] [image: U.S. Sen Martin Heinrich] U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich is leading a new push to protect the personal informati...
Angry Bear

June industrial production: a mild coincident positive for the economy - – by New Deal democrat Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” since so much product...
Independent Political Report

Yankee National Party Seeks Ballot Access in Connecticut - The Connecticut chapter of the Yankee National Party has submitted designation petitions for a wide range of local and state offices ahead of the 2025 an...
Workers World

July 26 in New York City: Defend Cuba’s Medical Missions - [image: July 26 in New York City: Defend Cuba’s Medical Missions] Commemorate 72nd anniversary of Cuba’s National Revolution Day Defend Cuba’s Medical Miss...
SCOTUSblog

The emergency docket goes quiet – for now - On Tuesday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual abuse charges. One...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: We took a look at cable news ratings! - *THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025* *We'd say there was one surprise:* We hadn't looked at cable news ratings of late. Today, we took a look at the numbers from la...
Texas Observer

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints - Last week, the Family Research Council’s longtime president Tony Perkins exulted over the win the Trump administration delivered to the Christian right: ...
Reform Austin

Senate Narrowly Approves Trump’s $9 Billion Spending Cut Proposal - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… In a tight vote early Thursday, the Senate approved President Donald Trump’s proposal to rescin...
Sludge

Trump’s WLFI Project Unlocks Trading, Paving the Way for Family Profits - An investor vote to trade $WLFI could skyrocket the token’s value, enriching Trump and his family who hold multi-billion-token stakes.
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Texas Monthly

First Hit by a Tornado, Then by the Flood: “I Feel Like Our Family Is Cursed” - For a Central Texas family, two natural disasters nearly three decades apart have destroyed homes, taken loved ones, and turned life into a bad dream.
DeSmogBlog

‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit - Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and wa...
Ian Welsh

AI Is A Fever Dream of Despots - The great problem with running anything is people. People, from the point of view of those in charge, are the entire problem with running any organization ...
Capital & Main

Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into Reverse - How the administration seeks to use the venerable children's care program as an anti-immigrant weapon. The post Trump and Kennedy Throw Head Start Into R...
The AltWorld

What the Abraham Accords Really Mean for Lebanon, Iran, and Syria - Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman delves into the frontline realities of reporting from a region under constant threat—where […] The post What the Abraham ...
Liberation News

The ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ deals a big, big blow to working-class students - Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' reduces student loan options and guts student loan forgiveness programs.
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Mondoweiss

Israel attacked Gaza’s Catholic church, killing 3, then said it was an accident. - [image: Christian Palestinian mourners take the bodies of loved ones for burial following an Israeli strike on the Holy Family Church in Gaza City on July ...
Texas Standard

Texas has funded hundreds of millions in flood projects. The State Flood Plan says it needs $54 billion. - The first State Flood Plan, published last year, identified $54 billion in flood mitigation, warning and data needs. The state has awarded around $660 mill...
Bonddad

Topline monthly increase in retail sales betrays weak underlying trend - - *by New Deal democrat* Consumption leads employment, and retail sales are the most timely monthly indicator of consumption. Indeed, population-adj...
El Paso Matters

Why do El Paso streets flood despite little rain, millions in stormwater projects? - It’s been a dry 2025 in El Paso, but recent rainfall flooded streets in several neighborhoods. Here’s what role our terrain, private developers and Moth...
Dorf on Law

There is No Original Public Meaning of Imprecise Constitutional Text: A Tribute to Professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr. - Yesterday, Mike wrote a poignant tribute to Professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr., a legendary law professor at Harvard Law School. Dick was a brilliant schol...
Rewire

I’m a Trans Teen. The U.S. Government Is Attacking My Community. - "This is not politics as usual." The post I’m a Trans Teen. The U.S. Government Is Attacking My Community. appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Glasstire

Top Five: July 17, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. M.C. Escher: Infinite Variations Arlington Museum of Ar...
Democracy Now!

Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel's Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World - Israel launched airstrikes that destroyed part of the Syrian Defense Ministry and a facility near the presidential palace in Damascus on Wednesday, killing...
Space City Weather

Houston to see decent rain chances Friday before a spell of hot and sunny weather - In brief: In this morning’s post we discuss the end game for the tropical disturbance in the northern Gulf, look ahead to elevated rain chances on Friday, ...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Nina Illingworth

Ominous “Solutions” to Nonexistent Problems - Now that Trump's DoJ intends to ramp up efforts to denaturalize foreign-born Americans, it's time to be frank about where this ethnonationalist nightmare...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Musk’s AI firm forced to delete posts praising Hitler from Grok chatbot, Josh Taylor | July 8, 2025 | The Guardian - *Friends:We're so bombarded by news all the time, but it's important to recognize what is actually true. The short of it is that Musk's xAI p...
Earthworks

The Big Beautiful Lie - While we celebrated the 4th of July, Republicans passed a budget that puts polluters first—gutting protections, silencing communities, and handing fossil...
See You In 2020

Class struggle will bring Russia to final victory, & will cure the anti-imperialist movement's internal problems - In his contribution to the April 2025 issue of The Platform, the anti-imperialist Dimitrios Patelis came to a shrewd analysis about Russia’s Ukraine op...
slacktivist

There’s a lady who stands in a harbor for what we believe - Rain fade backup purgatory: Revisiting a horrible anthem of post-9/11 American chauvinism and realizing that it's too "woke" for MAGAmerica.
Infidel753

Epstein's unquiet ghost - The MAGA activist world is unhappy with the Trump administration's failure to release all the information it has on Jeffrey Epstein's clients, and they're...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Trump's On the List: Epstein and the Cult of Abuse and Power - Epstein's crimes are symptoms of a corrupt culture. We cannot afford to look away.
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
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...
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 ...
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...
The Progressive Wing

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

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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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 ...
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

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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.

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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 ...
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...
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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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