Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Axios

Supreme Court kills Virginia redistricting push - The Supreme Court denied an emergency effort from Virginia Democrats to revive their chances of redrawing the state's congressional maps before the Novem...
The Hill

GOP lawmakers fume over pulled troop rotation in Poland: A ‘slap in the face’ - Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story GOP lawmakers fume over pull...
Political Wire

Justices Won’t Restore Virginia’s Gerrymander - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the cl...
Deadline Politics

NFL Responds To TV Broadcaster Gripes, Shared By Donald Trump, About Games Shifting To Streaming - Two top NFL executives addressed broadcasters’ complaints that too many games are shifting to streaming, calling the objections “odd” and defending their m...
Raw Story

Firestorm as Dem slashes sentence for MAGA election denier: 'Sends a worrisome signal' - Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) finally did what he has been hinting he would do for months, and commuted the sentence of convicted MAGA election tampering count...
WhoWhatWhy

Tone-Deaf Trump Touts Another Vanity Project - [image: Architect’s rendering, President Donald Trump, Great White House Ballroom] While Americans are hurting, Donald Trump is preoccupied with golden st...
Progressive.org

When Cash, Banks, and Apps Fail - Palestinians in Gaza are facing a unique financial crisis.
Undernews

California budget - *Gavin Newsom -* You won’t hear this on Fox News: California just released a balanced budget that wipes out the deficit this year and next — while protecti...
Al Jazeera English

Is the US dialling down its support for Taiwan? - Donald Trump does not commit to arms sale during China visit.
Mediagazer

The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journalists offered buyouts, around 40 took them (Jocelyn Noveck/Associated Press) - Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press: *The AP confirms it is laying off an unspecified number of US-based journalists today; News Media Guild: of 120 journa...
Futurism

Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows - "Musk loves to be glazed, and this person is the doughnut factory." The post Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Const...
Novara Media

How Burnham’s By-Election Will Transform UK Politics - With the Makerfield by-election starting pistol resonating through Westminster, is Andy Burnham going to be quick out of the blocks? After being barred fro...
Vox

The 5 most unhinged revelations from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI - Friendship breakups are never easy, but few are as messy and expensive as the collapse of Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s once thriving tech bromance. On Thursd...
Angry Bear

April retail sales: consumers may be switching to “wait and see” mode - – by New Deal democrat Consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and retail sales is our first wide measure of that spending. For the second month ...
Eschaton

America's Worst University - Cornell University. Cornell just released this statement from its committee of Trustees investigating the incident where the President ran over a student'...
LareDOS

Laser spectacular, a nod to Laredo’s 271st birthday: May 16, 8 p.m., San Agustin Cathedral - Public invited
Scheerpost.com

Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience - Democracy Now Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-maj...
Techdirt.

Appeals Court Upholds Block Of ICE’s BS ‘Seven Day Notice’ Detention Center Inspection Policy - Something that never was a problem for years suddenly became a thing after Trump’s return to office. As his administration ramped up its cruelty towards no...
First Draft

Tiny Dancer - Cheers to Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future - Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirm...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Ian Welsh

The Haters Guide To Post-Modernism - To be read while listening to the Beastie Boys, Sabotage, at full tilt. Speakers, not earbuds you nit-wit. In the beginning, circa 1989-93ish, post-moderni...
Mother Jones

Trump Meme Coin Contest: Win Exclusive Access to “World Football 2026 Final Game”! - Have you been struggling to get your hands on affordable World Cup tickets? Well, Donald Trump’s business partners have an “extraordinary” offer for you! T...
Black Agenda Report

Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit - Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/15/2026 - 22:44 Margaret Kimberley of Blac...
San Antonio Current

Rock & Roll Machine: Triumph reunion tour brings act back to San Antonio, its second home - If you’ve lived in San Antonio long enough, the arrival of Triumph’s long-awaited reunion tour at Frost Bank Center on Thursday, May 21, will feel like ...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Making the most of Project Jupiter’s jobs while staying vigilant - Doña Ana Community College will have two workshops next week for people interested in construction jobs for the Project Jupiter data center project. The...
The Root

The Alabama Protest: The Black Creators You Need to Follow and Watch - Ahead of the All Roads Lead to the South Alabama protest, these Black creators will be on the ground covering everything you need to know. Read more...
Capital & Main

California Hazardous Waste Rules Criticized as Years Late and ‘Polluter-Friendly’ - Proposed hazardous waste oversight changes are years behind schedule and fail to account for a community’s health risks from pollution, environmental gro...
The Daily Poster

What’s Big Pharma Selling Us Now? - Test your knowledge of Trump’s businesses, the crypto industry, and other issues that really matter.
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Election Law Blog

“Louisiana, at center of voting rights fight, moves to redraw Black House district” - WaPo: Republican state senators in Louisiana approved a congressional map Thursday designed to give the party another seat, continuing the GOP’s sprint ...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Signs Bills Into Law Providing for Marijuana Resentencing Relief - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Hosts National Bull Moose Party Leaders at Committee Meeting - The United States Pirate Party hosted leaders of the National Bull Moose Party during a recent Pirate National Committee meeting, continuing its outreach...
Liberation News

Imperialist-backed forces are biggest threat to Mali’s peace and stability - On April 25, a coordinated wave of terrorist attacks were launched across multiple localities in Mali, including the capital, Bamako. The garrison town Kat...
Slate

The Great Black Horror Movie of the Year Is Here. Will It Leave You Scarred? - Sterling K. Brown just got his first great villain role, and he knocked it out of the park.
Daily Howler

ALL AGAINST ALL: Black membership will be reduced next year! - *FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026* *But it won't be reduced like that:* What will happen to Black membership in the House in the wake of *Louisiana v. Callais*? ...
Houston Public Media

Dozens of parents speak out against Houston ISD’s special education changes - Despite protests from parents and community members, and a federal civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Education, district leaders defende...
Glasstire

Artpace Names Fall 2026 Artists-in-Residence - Artpace San Antonio has announced its Fall 2026 International Artists-in-Residence: Irene Antonia Diane Reece, an artist and activist from Houston; Roksa...
Democracy Now!

"Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz's Gideon Levy Debate Zionism - We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of...
memeorandum

Karen Bass is terrible at this (Guy Benson/Washington Examiner) - Guy Benson / Washington Examiner: *Karen Bass is terrible at this* — Karen Bass is the unpopular Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, where a recent poll f...
Rewire

I Don’t Squirt During Sex. Is My Vagina Broken? - Sex columnist Vera Blossom explains the elusive phenomenon of female ejaculation. The post I Don’t Squirt During Sex. Is My Vagina Broken? appeared first...
The NM Political Report

Haaland talks being a mom on Medicaid, SNAP and WIC in new ad - [image: Haaland TV preview] Deb Haaland likes to say that her personal story mirrors a lot of New Mexicans, especially young single moms relying on Medica...
slacktivist

LBCF: The Longest Day - Two protagonists, one day, 17 scenes, 81 pages. And yet almost nothing happens.
Space City Weather

Thursday was Houston’s hottest day of 2026 and now the humidity is returning - In brief: After the hottest day of 2026 in Houston, we expect a quiet, less hot but more humid weekend. Rain chances then pick up next week with potentiall...
Countercurrents

Everything You Need to Know About Jerusalem Day and the “Flag March” - Thousands of Israeli settlers have joined the so-called “Flag March” through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, where large groups chanted racist ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Start the Weekend with a Laugh - It’s true and it could trigger a whole rant, but instead let’s put aside the bad vibes for a day and have a few laughs.You can decide for yourself whether ...
Dorf on Law

The Mifepristone Dissents by Justices Thomas and Alito Are a Hot Mess - Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a brief order extending its stay of the Fifth Circuit decision that invalidated FDA approval of the abortion pill mif...
The Week

UAE, Iran and the Abraham Accords 2.0 - Israel’s agreements with some Arab neighbours are being reconsidered in the light of the Iran war
Salon.com

Trump’s Iran war is pushing American farmers to the brink - Skyrocketing costs, unfair markets, and poor policy are pressuring farmers thanks to the ongoing conflict
San Antonio Report

Every Texan can vote in the May 26 primary runoffs. Here’s how to find your sample ballot. - Every registered Texan has a race to decide in the Republican and Democratic primary runoffs. Here's how to participate. ------------------------------ Ever...
Grist

Nebraska wonders which is riskier: The fires it starts, or the fires it fights - Fires have burned nearly a million acres in Nebraska this year. Are even more the solution?
Common Dreams

Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and... - Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Complex Is the New Normal - Today’s quote is from author Ken Webster and philanthropist Ellen MacArthur: “Ordered, complex, intertwined mutually interdependent... The post Earth911 ...
ArcaMax

Digging to China - My ancestors, and by that I mean one or two generations ago, intersected with Chinese culture in three ways. One was Chinese food. One was the Chinese laun...
Rallblog

All Hail President Kamala - Despite repeated disasters, the Democratic National Committee continues its strategy of sidelining leftists and progressives in favor of corporate modera...
Counterpunch

The Trump Tax Man Goeth - That the Trump lawsuit is frivolous is beside the point, just as it was when the former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn sued the U.S. government ...
jobsanger

Wholesale Prices Rise To 6% (Retail Prices Will Follow) -
Informed Comment

“The grimmest moment in my political lifetime:” Adam Hochschild, Historian - the mass murder in Gaza has little to do with the "defense" of Israel
Mediaite

Judge Banishes Notorious Kars4Kids Commercial From California Airwaves - For haters of the "Kars4Kids" jingle, relief may be in sight -- at least for residents of California, but the case lays out a blueprint for annoyed resid...
Brad Blog

More GOP Vote Rigging Underway. Hey, Maryland Dems! Time to Get Crackin’!: ‘BradCast’ 5/14/2026 - Today on The BradCast: The horrible, racist, un-Constitutional SCOTUS-aided GOP Gerrymandering Wars are not over yet. And while the jury is still out for t...
World Socialist Web Site

From the Ford Rouge plant: build rank-and-file committees - This speech was delivered by Martaz Crutchfield, candidate for UAW delegate at Ford Dearborn Truck Plant, at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by th...
Courthouse News

Texas immigration law partially blocked by federal judge - An injunction will prevent Texas from arresting and removing immigrants that have reentered the U.S., but other parts of the law, including parts that crim...
Popular Resistance

The History Of National Resistance Movements In Palestine - Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invas...
Crooked Media

Trump Made Inflation Great Again - The post Trump Made Inflation Great Again appeared first on Crooked Media.
Texas Standard

The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail.
Portside

The Progressives Propelling Abdul El-Sayed Forward in Michigan - The Progressives Propelling Abdul El-Sayed Forward in Michigan jay Thu, 05/14/2026 - 21:04
Workers World

Workers World salutes 20th anniversary of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal - [image: Workers World salutes 20th anniversary of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal] The following statement is in solidarity with newly elected Saint-Denis Mayor Bally ...
Claytoonz

MAGA Cookies - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Antiwar.com

The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians - The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has...
IVN

Nebraska's Senate Race Is a Mess – And We Have Our Voting System To Thank - How first-past-the-post voting turned a primary election into accusations of planted candidates, strategic surrenders, and a Democrat who ran to withdraw.
CultureMap Houston

Houston shines among best summer vacation destinations for 2026 - Nearly three quarters of Americans are planning on going on vacation this summer, and Houston is climbing up the national hot list of the best summer desti...
High Country News

A top Interior official’s former ranching clients wanted bison off public land. The Interior Secretary helped make it happen. - In an uncommon move, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum intervened in a case that involved the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top depu...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Ouch! Federal judge issues brutal ruling against Trump Administration in case involving gender-affirming care for trans youth - A Trump-appointed judge just handed his administration a bruising loss in its war against the trans community. What's bruising about it are her comments....
The Verge

Honda’s hybrid future starts with new Accord and RDX prototypes - Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV, during its annual business briefing this week, built on a platfo...
The Texas Signal

The Latest At Dilley - As the population at Dilley dwindles, other detainment centers around the country remain crowded. And deaths have followed suit. As of May 1, ICE has offic...
NPR's Health Shots

The Supreme Court keeps abortion pill mifepristone available by telehealth - The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be prescribed online or over the phone and sent through the mail.
Church and State

New paper defends a pragmatic definition of overpopulation - Distinguishing ecologically sustainable from excessive human populations is necessary to understand humanity’s environmental challenges.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump’s lawyer - Gautam Adani, richest man in Asia, was accused of conspiring to pay $250m in bribes to Indian government officials The US Department of Justice is droppi...
naked capitalism

Spanish Politics Take the International Stage: Pedro Sanchez vs. Isabel Ayuso - Spanish politics enters the global stage in Mexico. A clash of progressives vs. conservatives where many have underestimated Pedro Sanchez
The Progressive Wing

5/14 News Roundup and Open Thread - I’ll step in for LD.
Ballot Access News

Tennessee Democratic Party Files Reply Brief in Lawsuit that Challenges Late Redistricting - On May 14, the Tennessee Democratic Party filed this reply brief in Hale v Lee, m.d., 3:26cv-603. The oral argument will be on May 20. In this case, the De...
ProPublica

Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump - The post Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump appeared first on ProPublica.
OpEd News

Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, Every Warship Launched Is a Local Disaster - Guns or butter. Butter or guns. Can we have both? If not, which should come first? Consider it one of those chicken-and-egg conundrums of modern society. "...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Earthworks

Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Bolivia - Threats to Indigenous land defenders in Bolivia have drawn attention from the United Nations. The post Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Boli...
Bonddad

April retail sales: consumers may be switching to “wait and see” mode - * - by New Deal democrat* Consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and retail sales is our first wide measure of that spending. For the second ...
Sludge

Trump Pivots From Bonds to Buying Hundreds of Individual Corporate Stocks - A newly filed disclosure shows the President bought stock in defense contractors, crypto firms, and AI companies whose fortunes are directly tied to decisi...
Mondoweiss

Inside the historic crossroads facing the Fatah movement - [image: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh at Fatah's Eighth General Congress in Ramallah, May 14, 2026....
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Death to Empire: Trump, China, and Moving Beyond this Wretched Order - The American Order isn't dead yet. But it is dying. And we should welcome that fact.
Texas Observer

Leaving His Mark On Houston’s Inprint - Wearing worn black jeans and a professorial tweed jacket, Rich Levy hoisted his fist into the air in the spotlight at the Alley Theatre, doing what he’s ...
SCOTUSblog

The ongoing fallout from the court’s redistricting rulings - Plus, the court is expected to announce at least one opinion this morning. Don’t miss our live blog.
The Conversation

Why a growing number of Trump supporters are experiencing voter’s remorse - Most Trump supporters remain in his camp, but some independents, young people and Black Americans who voted for the president in 2024 would not do so again...
Alternet

Trump isn't mentally ill — it's far worse - Dear public figures, media folks, and journalists, please do not suggest that President Donald Trump is crazy. It is not helpful and, in fact, it is hurt...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Estimating the GOP Edge from Redistricting: A State-by-State Accounting, with Caveats - Our best guess is a Republican gain in the high single digits from redistricting, with the potential for that to grow or shrink based on the actual resul...
Environment Texas

A cause uniting all: Americans show broad support for wildlife crossings - More than 15,000 people across the country took action and urged Congress to support the Wildlife Crossings Program The post A cause uniting all: America...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Bizarre Antics Aren’t Flying Anymore — and There’s a Reason for That: Analysis -
Off The Kuff

Okay, we need to say “no” to Maureen Galindo - Good Lord. San Antonio Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo is facing heat after an article and an op-ed, both appearing over the weekend in ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: May 2026 - Sawatsky: Sexual pain in Christian Women | The Asexual Agenda – Okay, so this is for my journal club, and I wrote up the discussion notes. But I have a fe...
Project Censored

Stephen Miller Owned Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock at Time of ICE Contract - Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security advisor, owned up to $250,000 in Palantir stock when he entered his role. On June 24,...
Duck of Minerva

Whither Scottish progressivism? - Much of the discourse about the recent UK local elections had to do with the decline of Labour under Keir Starmer and the worrisome rise of the far-right R...
Discourse

MAGA Is Eating Up AI Slop (w/Jack Crosbie) - Plus: Tales in accounting, Trump's ambivalence about the cost of the Iran war, and Kash Patel losing it in a Senate hearing
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Third Quarter - With this post we have left behind the halfway mark on our journey around the Great Wheel of the lunar phases, the primary symbol of Yeats’s symbolic syste...
Wolf Street

Producer Price Inflation Explodes as the Services PPI Blows Out on Top of the Energy Price Spike - This is a massive amount of inflation that companies are passing on to each other through much of the economy.
The AltWorld

Either You Believe Israel Is Evil Or You Believe It’s All An Elaborate Conspiracy—And Other Notes - Basically you have two choices: either you believe Israel is a genocidal state that is morally comparable […] The post Either You Believe Israel Is Evil ...
Socialist Alternative

Can “Future Industries” Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis - 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the “Two Sessions” (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, ...
Infidel753

Who I am, part 3 -- the non-religious life - My two recent quasi-autobiographical posts (on why I'm not a politics blogger and my ancestry and culture) covered a lot but omitted a point which is unus...
The Greanville Post

The Paradigm Shift Of War: America’s Loss (Part I) - INDRAJIT—The old defensive paradigm of 'America' (which enabled it to be so offensive) was 'America'. They spent hundreds of years invading and genociding ...
See You In 2020

The Fuentes/socdem pro-Democrat alliance, & the working-class movement that will sweep it away - *Above: American communists celebrate Victory Day in 2026.* We are facing off against an alliance between the covertly Zionist right, and the Atlanticis...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

As Ethnic Studies Comes Under Attack, UCSB’s ÉXITO Program Builds the Teachers We Need, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Tomorrow, I’ll have the privilege of speaking with an extraordinary group of students affiliated with the University of California Santa Barbara ÉXITO Pro...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition - Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding securit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Seven Year Anniversary Mailbag Episode - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about post-Trump politics, the meaning of Zohran Mamdani, the fate of liberalism, and more.
Crooked Timber

The text is not the product - Academics, especially in the humanities, produce texts, and they teach students to produce text. This is a standard assumption, often taken for granted, an...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Your Questions Answered: What is Redistricting and Why Should We Care? - The Supreme Court recently made a ruling that blows open the door for states and localities to create discriminatory voting maps. Here’s what you need to k...
Media Lens

‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself - Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, i...
Bracing Views

Is the Iran War Really About Iran? - America’s descent into authoritarianism and fascism BILL ASTORE MAY 10, 2026 Can you win a war that isn’t really about the country you’re fighting? Where t...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Seeing the Forest

They Meant It - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. In 2005 I wrote a post titled “They Mean It” that warned about Chris...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - These are crazy times, people. But those of us who know saw it coming. It's sad to say, but there is a real possibility that in the next ten years Ame...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Calls Separation of Church and State Communist. Is that true? - As the far right continues to force their own beliefs into the classroom, from the State Board of Education to the Texas Legislature, we’re hearing one a...
The Militant

May Day actions back union battles, rights of immigrants - Hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. and around the world turned out for marches, rallies and other actions called by unions and others on May Day....
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Warehouse Plans - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 536kb If you’re the kind of person who’s up to their goddamn neck with seeing millions impoverished and immiserat...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
Edinburg Politics

From blank canvas to lasting legacy: McAllen’s Nikki Rowe High School celebrates resilient young artists during art contest awards ceremony - A well-attended crowd filled Nikki Rowe High School’s gymnasium on Thursday evening, April 30, 2026 for the awards ceremony of the “A Soul’s Journey: The R...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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