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

Courthouse News

Man accused of stockpiling bombs, using Biden photo for target practice, pleads guilty - The investigation into Spafford began in 2023 when an informant told authorities that Spafford was stockpiling weapons and ammunition, according to court d...
American Prospect

Another Trump Sellout to China and Big Tech - Today on TAP: The administration reverses long-standing controls on sales of advanced AI chips to Beijing.
El Paso Matters

Podcast: More on flash flooding in El Paso, how water utility tries to manage stormwater - El Paso Matters staffers talk about the flooding we've seen in El Paso, why we see water pool in streets even after brief rain storms, and what El Pasoa...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
Mediagazer

Canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert makes sense from a business perspective as the show costs $100M+ per year to produce while losing $40M+ per year (Matthew Belloni/Puck) - Matthew Belloni / Puck: *Canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert makes sense from a business perspective as the show costs $100M+ per year to produc...
The AltWorld

And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for? NATO’s wars - The whole Circus Ringmaster shtick only accelerates the BRICS/Global South high-speed train, Pepe Escobar writes. All of […] The post And it’s one, two, ...
Raw Story

Senator uncorks stunning claim that FBI 'pressured' to flag Trump mentions in Epstein docs - FBI agents who reviewed investigative files in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein were instructed to "flag" any information involving President Do...
The Hill

Democrats’ struggles with men: It’s the misogyny, stupid. - Rather than acknowledge the central role misogyny played in electing Trump, pundits blame Democrats for not understanding men.
Houston Public Media

Houston residents participate in ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ protest at city hall - Around 100 demonstrators marched from Houston City Hall to Discovery Green and back in opposition of President Donald Trump and his policies, among other i...
Deadline Politics

Skydance’s David Ellison Meets With FCC Chaiman Brendan Carr To Discuss Paramount Merger And Company’s “Commitment to Unbiased Journalism” - Skydance Media CEO David Ellison met with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and other agency staffers this week to discuss the pending regulatory decision on the c...
The Week

Gavin Newsom mulls California redistricting to counter Texas gerrymandering - A controversial plan has become a major flashpoint among Democrats struggling for traction in the Trump era
Axios

Scoop: Top Secret Service official targeted in "swatting" attack - A top Secret Service official was the target of a "swatting" incident at his home on the Fourth of July, according to an agency official. *Why it matter...
Mediaite

‘The Murdochs Hate Trump’: Bannon Accuses The Wall Street Journal And Fox News of Trying to Destroy MAGA - “Last night, we saw it in all its ugliness. The Murdochs hate Trump. The Murdochs want to take down Trump," Bannon declared The post ‘The Murdochs Hate T...
CultureMap Houston

European cruise line unveils luxury upgrade for new Galveston ship - As a Europe-based cruise line sails closer to its Galveston debut, it has revealed another amenity to lure travelers looking for a premium experience. When...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Native American universities and colleges brace for crippling Trump cuts - Indigenous leaders warn higher education institutions will close if the funding-slashing 2026 budget proposal passes While colleges and universities slow...
memeorandum

PAM BONDI & ROBERT MURPHY: Team Trump is fighting deadly drug cartels to save American lives (Fox News) - Fox News: *PAM BONDI & ROBERT MURPHY: Team Trump is fighting deadly drug cartels to save American lives* — DOJ and DEA seize over 44 million fentanyl p...
Daily Dot

“A Disney adult and other theme park enthusiast dating app”: Is “Single Rider” the new must-download dating app? - [image: disney adults dating app] Do you have a friend who seems to constantly be at a Disney theme park? While you’re relaxing over a holiday or long we...
The Greanville Post

Eric Zuesse’s Dispatches: Should other countries obey America’s current dictator, Trump, or cut U.S. trade? - ERIC ZUESSE—Ever since at least Obama’s 2012 Magnitsky Act sanctions against Russia on fraudulent grounds, the U.S. regime has been demanding other countri...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Britain’s Repressive Defense of Genocide - The British establishment is creating a climate of fear about protesting in any meaningful way against Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. By Jonathan Co...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Garden of Healing, Good News on PEPFAR, Life in Biotech, and Our American Israel - Part the First: Pharmacopeia. Who doesn’t love a garden? It sometimes seems that all drugs come from plants, initially. My first biology teachers claime...
Eschaton

Afternoon - Busy with things.
Techdirt.

Appeals Court Judge Claims (Against All Historical Evidence) That The First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Non-Citizens - We’ve written before about how attacks on free speech often start with unpopular speakers who lack political power. That’s why a new dissenting opinion fro...
SCOTUSblog

Where does Trump’s birthright citizenship order currently stand? - Three weeks after the Supreme Court ruled to limit the use of nationwide, or universal, injunctions in a case stemming from President Donald Trump’s exec...
Reform Austin

Majority of Flooded Texas Homeowners Lack Insurance Support - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Two weeks after catastrophic floods swept through parts of Texas, hundreds of residents are str...
Mondoweiss

How Israel’s energy diplomacy is fueling the Gaza genocide - [image: Leviathan offshore gas field]Energy exports play a central role in Israel's campaign to normalize relations with its neighbors and avoid accountabi...
Al Jazeera English

Felix Baumgartner death: Witnesses heard loud boom before crash - Felix Baumgartner's fatal paragliding crash was preceded by large boom as it spun to the ground, according to witnesses.
Futurism

A Prominent OpenAI Investor May Be Suffering an ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say - Earlier this week, a prominent venture capitalist named Geoff Lewis — the managing partner of the multi-billion dollar investment firm Bedrock, which has...
Second Nexus

McDonald's Just Launched A 'Shareable' XXL Size Of Fries—And The Internet Doesn't Want To Share - To celebrate International French Fry Day, McDonald’s Malaysia introduced an XXL version of their French fries that look delicious enough to share... or ...
Slate

The Supreme Court and Trump Are Playing Chicken Over Jerome Powell. SCOTUS Will Lose. - Under federal law, Trump cannot remove Powell over a policy disagreement.
Political Wire

Trump Leverages His Power to Reap Profits - “If one theme has emerged in President Donald Trump’s second term, it’s this: He’s leveraged the power of his office for personal gain unlike anyone before...
The Verge

Netflix admits it used generative AI in a big sci-fi hit to cut costs - Netflix used generative AI to create a scene in the sci-fi series The Eternaut — a first for one of the streamer’s original shows or films. During an earni...
ProPublica

Trump Administration Prepares to Drop Seven Major Housing Discrimination Cases - by Jesse Coburn ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
World Socialist Web Site

Hinkley Point C nuclear plant construction workers take wildcat action against management bullying - Unite and the GMB, the two main recognised trade unions on the site have not produced a press release on the workers’ action. Theirs is a guilty silence ov...
WhoWhatWhy

Réunion Island Becomes Hub of Shark Attack Science After Deadly Attacks - [image: science, nature, oceans, Réunion, shark attacks, prevention, research hub] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommen...
Rio Grande Guardian

Beckham: Rivers Know No Borders: Why the Rio Grande Deserves Urgent Attention - A guest column from the managing director of North American Development Bank. The post Beckham: Rivers Know No Borders: Why the Rio Grande Deserves Urg...
The Conversation

How the ‘big, beautiful bill’ will deepen the racial wealth gap – a law scholar explains how it reduces poor families’ ability to afford food and health care - The measure enables broad tax cuts that disproportionately favor wealthy households while forcing its costs on the most economically vulnerable Americans.
Election Law Blog

“Wisconsin elections officials find clerk broke laws over uncounted ballots” - AP, with news from here in Madison: Wisconsin elections officials declared Thursday that the former clerk of the state’s capital city broke several laws...
San Antonio Current

Four people dead, 21 injured after stolen Camaro crashes into transport bus in San Antonio - Four people were killed and 21 injured Thursday afternoon in San Antonio after a stolen Camaro crashed into a transport bus in an accident that brought tr...
Capital & Main

Ford-Owned Battery Plant Drags Heels on Union Vote - BlueOval SK workers asked for a union vote six months ago. Trump administration changes could extend delays. The post Ford-Owned Battery Plant Drags Heel...
Salon.com

Trump’s call to release Epstein transcripts panned as “desperate move” - Trump called for the release of grand jury transcripts knowing they would reveal little that is new, critics charge
Glasstire

Words, Wonder, and Schemes: Reviewing the Harry Ransom Center’s “Once Upon a Time” & Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” - Words and Wonder: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Harry Ransom Center, February 25 – August 17, 2025 The Harry Ransom Center, nestled in the h...
Daily Howler

DESPERATELY SEEKING THE BEST: Does she believe that we're the best people? - *FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025* *A delusion we can't seem to quit: *President Trump is back in the news this morning. Rather, he was back in the news last night...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “Why Epstein Refuses to Stay Dead” - LIVE 1:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s time for “DeProgram,” where political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tackle t...
Angry Bear

Building Chip Manufacturing Plants . . . - Just some local events and news in southern Arizona . . . As I read in the local newspapers . . . construction of TSMC semiconductor facilities is contin...
Dissident Voice

Revolutionary Third World Leaders Praise China’s World Role - China is a modern superpower, as is the US, but a qualitatively different superpower. The US uses military aggression, coups, and sanctions to impose US ...
Mother Jones

Colbert’s Cancellation Is a Dark Warning - On Thursday, Stephen Colbert, the beloved, sharp-tongued comedian and host of the Late Show, announced that CBS was cancelling the legendary franchise. “Th...
Alternet

Firing of 'high-profile' prosecutor shows Trump 'is not thinking clearly': analysis - Salon Senior writer Amanda Marcotte says it’s easy to see why Donald Trump’s lawyers did not want him taking the stand in any of his criminal or civil tr...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Independent Voters File Lawsuit in State Court to Obtain a Semi-Closed Primary - On Julyl 15, some independent voters in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit in the State Supreme court, arguing that the state constitution does not permit the st...
MintPress News

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant - A new MintPress News study has found dozens of former agents of the Israeli spy agency, Unit 8200, working at tech giant Apple. The post Rotten Apple: Do...
Bonddad

Housing construction continues to look recessionary - *- by New Deal democrat* As we get towards the end of the month, the data from the important leading housing sector begins to be reported. This mor...
Undernews

Millions in eleven states told to stay inside - *Newsweek -* Heat-related warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS) were in effect for parts of 11 states on Friday morning, with officials advisin...
Dorf on Law

Treating Trump's Abuse of Power as a Spectator Sport - What is a "win" or a "victory"? Those words can only meaningfully describe having prevailed in a contest that could have gone the other way. For exampl...
Daily Cartoonist

Detroit Freep and News End JOA - The 100 year Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between The Detroit Free Press (Freep) and The Detroit News, begun in 1989, will come to an end after 36 years...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
First Draft

The Disaster Playbook: Deny, Delay, Repeat - When Now Is not the Time turns into We Must Move On, the table is set for future disasters.
San Antonio Report

Plans for Ferris wheel, event plaza in St. Paul Square move forward - Plans to build an event plaza with an observation wheel, carousel and miniature golf course on Hoefgen Street moved forward Wednesday. ---------------------...
Rewire

Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court - The lawsuit now returns to Jefferson Circuit Court. The post Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court appe...
Claytoonz

Margolis & Cox, Take Two - 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...
Democracy Now!

Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts - We speak to Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, about the Trump administration’s drastic defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nat...
The Root

Major Development in Case of Washington White Man Who Punched 11-Year-old Black Kid in the Face and Made Racist Taunt - "The toughest part about this is that my son was doing nothing and was attacked," the victim's father said. "Attacked because of his skin color." Read mo...
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 ...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 - *This is a mediocre blend of magic folklore and cult promotion*It would seem that the author of Mark’s gospel was obsessed with Jesus’ magical powers to...
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...
Space City Weather

After today, it seems that Houston’s rain chances will go slip sliding away - In brief: Invest 93L is kaput, and now we will look for some heavier downpours in spots today. Rain chances begin to dwindle on Saturday and Sunday as a ho...
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...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Really Bothers Him’: Analyst Reveals the Lingering Question About Trump’s Health -
Ian Welsh

The Actual Mission Of Business Is Why We Can’t Have Good Things - Yesterday we talked about AI: how business has been adopting it wholesale even though so far most of the evidence is that it performs worse than humans on ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Crooked Media

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

Democrats: Neither an Alternative nor an Opposition - Offering feeble excuses for why their top-down selected Presidential candidate in 2024 lost badly to an individual they held in the deepest contempt and ...
jobsanger

Trump Thinks He Alone Should Determine Citizenship -
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Will control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demog...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
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

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

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

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

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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 ...

Show All

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, December 13, 2009

More Funnies - Climate Deniers edition

Search This Blog