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

Scheerpost.com

Glenn Greenwald Reacts to Netanyahu’s UN Speech - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Crooked Media

This F*cking Guy: Ghislaine Maxwell - The post This F*cking Guy: Ghislaine Maxwell appeared first on Crooked Media .
Al Jazeera English

Ulberg dominates Reyes with first-round KO at UFC Fight Night in Perth - Carlos Ulberg dropped Dominick Reyes in the opening round for his ninth straight win at UFC Fight Night in Australia.
Mediagazer

Why YouTube is key to Google's success in AI, with YouTube's AI enhancements making video content more monetizable than text-based content in Search (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - Ben Thompson / Stratechery: *Why YouTube is key to Google's success in AI, with YouTube's AI enhancements making video content more monetizable than text...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- the [C]Rapture - It was just an ordinary day, you ridiculous dumbasses. If you gave away your property, quit your job, and burned your money (!) on the basis of *fait...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall - Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem For ma...
The Week

The Liberal Democrats: on the march? - After winning their highest number of seats in 2024, can the Lib Dems marry ‘stunts’ with a ‘more focused electoral strategy’?
Counterpunch

The Curse of The Blob - Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Ima...
jobsanger

Trump's War Against FBI And DOJ Professionals -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1449: Image and Reality - Episode: 1449 Another look at image and reality: Fake Triceratops and manuscript books. Today, more on images and reality.
memeorandum

Trump's transportation department pulls trail and bike grants it deems 'hostile' to cars (Jeff Mcmurray/Associated Press) - Jeff Mcmurray / Associated Press: *Trump's transportation department pulls trail and bike grants it deems ‘hostile’ to cars* — President Donald Trump's...
Informed Comment

Do UN “Snapback” Sanctions really Matter to the Iranian Economy and its Nuclear Program? - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The E3 — France, Britain and Germany — successfully led a bid at the UN Security Council Friday to reimpose UNSC economic sa...
WhoWhatWhy

Kimmel’s Return: A Good Bad Week to Find Our Secret Weapon - [image: Donald Trump and Erika Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, Trump, James Comey] It’s been hidden in plain view, right there...
The Hill

Oregon governor to Trump: ‘No need for military troops’ in Portland - Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) on Saturday said the city of Portland did not need National Guard soldiers to help protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
Dissident Voice

Attempts to Delegitimize: Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly - It takes a lot to make UN delegates walk out from an address to the General Assembly. But this was precisely what Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netan...
The AltWorld

The World Doesn’t Hate Jews, The World Hates Israel - It’s so crazy that we’re two years into a genocide and we’re still being hammered by propagandists […] The post The World Doesn’t Hate Jews, The World Ha...
Raw Story

'President was unswayed': NYT's Haberman reveals moment Pam Bondi 'pushed back' on Trump - Attorney General Pam Bondi stood up to Donald Trump in the course of a recent DOJ shake up, according to new reporting. Bondi has publicly supported the ...
Daily Dot

“This is literally the future”: Tourist in China rents robotic legs for under $1,000—Americans joke it’d cost 10x more here - [image: Left; Man in a hat under caption reading, "American speechless after trying robot legs in China." Right: Man in "robot legs" walking up the stair...
Popular Resistance

In Honor And Memory Of Assata Shakur - On September 25, 2025, the revolutionary Assata Shakur transitioned, leaving behind a legacy of uncompromising resistance and a blueprint for internation...
World Socialist Web Site

Stop Trump’s military deployment to Portland! Mobilize the working class against dictatorship! - Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon, with authorization to use deadly violence, is a criminal assault on the American people and part of a cal...
Political Wire

Top Lawmakers Will Meet Trump at White House - “The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, as Washington works to avoid a looming government s...
Wolf Street

Corporate Profits in Nonfinancial Industries Plunge by Most Ever in $, amid Massive Downward Revisions - But profits are still huge after the pandemic free-money spike, except in auto manufacturing where losses pile up. Financial industry profits hit new record.
Mediaite

Trump Re-Books Meeting With Schumer, Jeffries as Government Shutdown Looms - President Trump will meet with Sen. Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Jeffries (D-NY) at the White House on Monday, a day before the government shutdown goes into eff...
Liberation News

International recognition of Palestine a result of growing global solidarity - In the lead up to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly and during its proceedings, the question of Palestinian statehood and efforts to end the U.S....
Ian Welsh

Chinese Companies Compete For Market Share & That’s Why Starbucks Is Toast - Starbucks sells expensive sugared drinks, and some of them have coffee in them. It’s been very profitable and despite some declines, remains so. The CEO wa...
Portside

Trump’s War on Wind - Trump’s War on Wind Dave Sat, 09/27/2025 - 19:38
The Greanville Post

HANDBRAKE TURN | Trump reverses on Ukraine | Russia responds | Gaza crisis deepens | MOATS LIVE - GEORGE GALLOWAY—The video is a comprehensive episode of The Mother of All Talk Shows hosted by George Galloway, broadcast live from Dubai. The discussion c...
Claytoonz

Ice Ice Cowards - 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...
The Grayzone

‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC - In a meeting with US antiwar figures, Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian forecasted a more intense round of conflict with Israel and the US, and slammed Was...
Eschaton

Saturday Evening - Enjoy
The Verge

Martin Shkreli can be sued for copying Wu-Tang’s one-of-a-kind record - Disgraced pharma bro, convicted felon, and perennial challenger for America’s Most Hateable Man, Martin Shkreli will have to face a lawsuit for making copi...
Daily Cartoonist

The Infinity Linking Post - Featuring Lorenzo Mattotti, Sergio Aragonés, Jason Chatfield. Rick Stromoski, Drew Litton, MAD, Arch Dale, and Mark Knight. Sergio Aragonés International A...
Election Law Blog

“Political action committees settle New York election law case” - Newsday reports: “Two big-spending political action committees quietly paid nearly $1 million last week to end an investigation alleging they violated el...
Salon.com

Born in the US? You might not be a citizen soon - Ending birthright citizenship means legal limbo for many US-born residents, their healthcare and education access
Axios

Colombian president accuses Trump of violating UN principles after visa revoked - Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused President Trump on Saturday of violating "founding principles" of the United Nations after the U.S. State Depar...
Slate

How SCOTUS’ Affirmative Action Decision Fundamentally Changed College Campuses. - The Department of Justice has reached a new low.
San Antonio Report

Central Texas is a hotspot for Chagas disease and kissing bugs. Here’s what you need to know. - Texas researchers are spreading awareness about a rare parasitic disease called Chagas and the blood-sucking bugs that cause it. ---------------------------...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 21st – 27th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the TikTok “deal” was a grift from the start, while the blowback from China started to arrive, though ...
OpEd News

GOP is going up the down escalator - A stuck escalator, a faulty teleprompter and a broken promise all came together for Donald Trump at the U.N.
Alternet

'Choke on it': Trump dismisses outrage at his political prosecutions - Mediaite reports President Donald Trump shared a message from CNN GOP commenter Scott Jennings telling critics to “choke on it” regarding the indictment ...
Undernews

Epstein files - * Annie** -* Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in newly-elected Democrat Rep. Grijalva, who would be the decisive 218th vote to sign a discharge pe...
First Draft

Caturday: Do Not Adjust Your TV Set - Meow from Finn.
Futurism

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper - "Toilet paper is a public resource. We need to prevent waste." The post New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper appeared first on Futur...
Angry Bear

August personal income and spending: positive, but with several important yellow flags and revisions - – by New Deal democrat Personal income and consumption is one of the two big monthly reports on the state of the average American, in addition to the jo...
The Root

All the Dangerous Far-Right Groups Black Folks Should Know About - There’s more than one way to be far-right in America. Here's a breakdown of far-right movements and ideologies that the Black community shouldn't ignore....
Mother Jones

Trump Says He’ll Send Troops to Portland and Sanction “Full Force” Against Americans - President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday that he was directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to protect W...
Ballot Access News

Plaintiffs in New Jersey Ballot Format Lawsuit File Brief - On September 26, the plaintiffs in Kim v Hanlon, 3:24cv-1098, filed this brief. It argues that the plaintiffs are entitled to get declaratory relief agains...
CultureMap Houston

Dynamic duo to debut new Montrose restaurant and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week. There's a new Montrose restaurant in the works from a top team, plus we highligh...
Reform Austin

Stray Dogs on the Rise in Texas: What’s Fueling the Crisis? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Across Texas, both urban and rural communities are reporting a rise in the number of stray dogs...
naked capitalism

Curro Jimenez: Naked Capitalism – Your Escape from Propaganda - Naked Capitalism is dedicated to telling the best approximation of truth it can find and its expert commentariat keeps us on our toes.
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-09-27 -
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Zoo offering free admission for teachers through Oct. 5 - [image: Visitors to the San Antonio Zoo feed one of its giraffes.] Texas-based educators will receive free admission, along with discounts on any-day tick...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REMEMBRANCE / Sam Jones: antiwar activist, lover of music, builder of guitars - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 27, 2025 On September 7, 2025 at a memorial for Sam Jones, there was music. Friends and families shared memorie...
Mondoweiss

Netanyahu faces his biggest challenge yet in Washington as pressure builds to end the Gaza genocide - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak in the Diplomatic Reception Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, ...
Workers World

Hamas exposes Netanyahu’s lies during speech before nearly empty U.N. General Assembly - [image: Hamas exposes Netanyahu’s lies during speech before nearly empty U.N. General Assembly] Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas issued the following st...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: [NAME WITHHELD] is "a smelly old bag!" - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025* *So the Fox messenger said:* It would be interesting to conduct a type of word check. The question would be this: How oft...
Consortium News

WATCH: A Rally for Sanity - Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Gerald Celente, Garland Nixon, Roger Waters (live video) and Joe Lauria addressed a r...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 22 - 26 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Not much change this week, but there are signs that consumer spending i...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Wall Street Can’t Buy Aloha - Paradise is not for sale, a state steps up for consumers, regulators aim for ticket sellers, and global leaders take a stand on the tech takeover.
Grist

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors - The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiati...
Glasstire

Self in Community, Art in Place: Marianna Olague at the El Paso Museum of Art - Folks familiar with the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) are used to being greeted by Gaspar Enriquez’s monumental portraits in the massive foyer. Now, upon ...
ArcaMax

The History of Presidential Grift - Everyone knows that Donald Trump is the grifter in chief. Earlier this month, the president and his family raked in approximately $5 billion from meme coin...
Vox

The real cost of Trump’s $100,000 visas - With one declaration, President Donald Trump upended an aspect of our immigration system. Last week, Trump announced that the US would begin imposing a $10...
The Smirking Chimp

It Is Happening Here -
Skeptophilia

The puppetmasters - Well, Tuesday came and went, and no one got Raptured. Not that I was expecting to go myself. If anything, it was more likely the ground would open up an...
Off The Kuff

State files its response to the redistricting lawsuit - They’re playing the oldies, not the new tune that the Trump Justice Department tried to woo them with. Texas officials acknowledged in a new court filing t...
ProPublica

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene - by Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, and Ren Larson, The Assembly ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Disp...
Two Party Opera

Bury My Medals at Wounded Knee - Read More
SCOTUSblog

Trump urges Supreme Court to decide whether to end birthright citizenship - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end the gua...
WAWG Blog

Doesn’t the effectivity of vaccines disprove the concept of human racial divisions? - Here is the response from Proton’s Lumo AI tool on whether the effectivity of vaccines disprove the concept of human racial divisions?: The post Doesn’t ...
Crooked Timber

Rambouillet, part 1: The State of Play - A while back I wrote a series of posts about the 1998-9 Kosovo conflict. If you’re interested, here they are: Prelude to War, The Serbian Ascendancy, Th...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas, psychedelics, Rick Perry, and Special K - Despite the legislature’s crackdown on recreational THC this session, Texas is poised to become a leading force in psychedelics treatment after approving...
The NM Political Report

All three Democratic hopefuls for governor support medical compacts - The three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor say that they back the idea of having New Mexico join interstate medical compacts, an...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Endorses 27 Candidates Across 10 States for 2025 General Election - The Forward Party has announced several rounds of endorsements for the 2025 general election, backing a total of 27 candidates across 10 states. The larg...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “The Last Radical: Assata Shakur” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou cover the startling spectacle of Israeli ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Heavenly visitors - Dorothy Martin and Tim LaHaye both began prophesying the End of the World back in the 1950s. They were both Very Wrong, but also very lucratively wrong.
Lowering the Bar

Following Up - [image: LTB logo]In which I note recent developments in cases previously certified as stupid.
NPR's Health Shots

There was a different vibe at the U.N. General Assembly. 5 attendees weigh in - It's the first high level U.N. gathering since the U.S. foreign aid cuts under the Trump Administration. What were people thinking — and talking about?
The Militant

Israelis fight a defensive war against Hamas, attacks in UN - At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruli...
Church and State

Civics courses being no longer part of US school curriculums, which means too many children fail to learn how their democracy works. With Trump attacking our core beliefs, is it to late to begin? Not if parents take action! - Trump may succeed in destroying our democracy since we have ignored the importance of offering this basic instruction in civics!
Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | October 14] How Will Zohran Govern? - A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Texas Standard

Typewriter Rodeo: Lessons from Tetris - Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Crypto Party in Cowboy Country - On our live show, David and staff writer Whitney Curry Wimbish talk about how crypto bought Congress and how Wyoming is becoming the crypto capital.
Sludge

Lobbyist-Led EPA Office Set to Add a New Chemical Industry Hire - Longtime cleaning products lobbyist Douglas Troutman is nominated to lead the EPA office that has worked to stop the MAHA Commission from restricting toxic...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH-AND-CARRY EDITION. - *Absolutely not my kind of thing, but I like it.Know what I mean?* Let’s see, what were the new nightmares of the past week? Well, last Sunday they had...
The Progressive Wing

9.26-28 Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads so our Nest is ready to host. Post whatever suits your fancy. LOL. Everyone stay safe and well.🙂
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Stargate betting big on the borderland as part of $165 billion New Mexico data center - Days after Doña Ana County moved forward with a data center campus in Santa Teresa amid residents’ water and electricity concerns, we learn it’ll be par...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration to Enact Sweeping Pharmaceutical Tariffs, Expected to Announce New Phase in Drug Pricing Plan - President Trump is expected to announce a next step in his plan related to “most favored nation” drug pricing, potentially including an unpublished Cente...
Second Nexus

Pete Davidson Perfectly Calls Out People Who Hate That Pedro Pascal Is In Everything Now - Until recently, Pedro Pascal was the internet's #1 "daddy." But it seems now some people think he's a bit overexposed—and *SNL* alum Pete Davidson isn't ...
Capital & Main

Assault on Accessibility Initiatives Hits Early Career Scientists Hard - The Trump administration’s cuts to programs supporting people with disabilities are part of a broader assault on DEI. The post Assault on Accessibility I...
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Dorf on Law

Clever, (Economically) Ignorant Liberals - One of my pet peeves is the reflexive self-flagellation that we see so often among US liberals, with all of their "to be fair" overcompensation for darin...
See You In 2020

The KKE opportunists want us to de-mobilize amid imperialism’s offensive. We must go on the advance instead. - “All forces to the defense of the city of Lenin!”—1941 poster When the Communist Party of Greece and its associated organizations promote the “neither W...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 11 - *It’s a bankrupt chapter: no verifiable history, but cult promotion* For centuries Christian clergy have pushed the claim that the gospels are authenti...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion Groups To Spend $4.5 Million To Secure Michigan’s U.S. Senate Seat for Republicans - "Michigan women and families deserve better" than the presumptive Republican nominee for Senate, said a Michigan Democratic Party official. The post Ant...
Space City Weather

A lengthy stretch of calm weather to close September for Houston - In brief: A lengthy stretch of quiet weather will settle into Houston. No rain is expected over the next week, and temperatures look warm for this time of ...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies - The post Strangest State: Cute Robots, Killer Bugs, and Cloud Conspiracies appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Democracy Now!

"They're Assassinating People for No Reason": Cuban Minister Condemns U.S. Strikes in Caribbean - As the Trump administration escalates its pressure campaign on Venezuela, we speak with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who is in...
The Conversation

A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change - The public’s relationship with news is defined more by its skepticism of the profession than by its impressions of journalists or media outlets.
Bracing Views

Competitive Consumption as America’s Pastime - The Real American Way BILL ASTORE SEP 24, 2025 Competition can be a good thing. Think of sports, for example. Would victory have any meaning without compet...
Progressive Army

El déficit comercial con Brasil y China supera los USD 10.000 M en lo que va del año - En los primeros ocho meses del año el déficit comercial con Brasil y China fue de USD 4.583 millones y USD 6.104 millones, respectivamente. Así, el interca...
High Country News

Denver’s storied tradition of sex work, then and now - In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century. The pos...
Brad Blog

I Don't Know What All This Means, But I Thought You Should Know About It: 'BradCast' 9/25/2025 - September 30th: A date that will live...next week. Apparently, it all comes down to next Tuesday. On today's BradCast, among other things, we detail why Se...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/26/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Deadline Politics

Cable News Goes Wall-To-Wall With Coverage As Ex-FBI Director & Trump Foe James Comey Indicted - As long desired by Donald Trump, James Comey was indicted Thursday by a Virginia grand jury on charges of lying to Congress. With the fix seeming to be in ...
Progressive.org

Trump Policies Hurt Struggling Farmers - Instead of assuming that farmers will suffer in silence, the President could dedicate resources to strengthen domestic markets.
Socialist Alternative

Italy On Strike Against Genocide – Gaza City Under Hellish Attack - Under the slogans ‘24 hour general strike’ and ‘Block everything,’ the strongest day of protest in solidarity with Gaza in Italy to date took place on Mond...
Discourse

Who's the Grossest Member of the Trump Administration? - A true question for the ages—sound off in the comments!
Trivial Knot

Hell is Us: War and emotional distance - Hell is Us is a recent action adventure video game, with an emphasis on puzzles and exploration. I really like the game, but this is not a review. See oth...
Project Censored

Killer Humans, Killer Robots - The media idolizes AI weapons manufacturer Palmer Luckey, the Millennial owner of Anduril. Fox News hypnotizes its Boomer audience with Luckey’s Hawaiian...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Textbooks, Truth, and Justice: Lessons from the Reject the (Racist) Text Campaign Before the Texas SBOE, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Textbooks, Truth, and Justice: Lessons from the Reject the (Racist) Text Campaign Before the Texas SBOE* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *In this Nov...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Back to the Senate: Defeated Senators Who’ve Returned to Office - While several defeated senators are attempting, or considering attempts, to return to the Senate, such efforts have only been successfull a handful of ti...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Earth 911

Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas - One of the most universal truths in the world is that children love crafts. Virtually... The post Unleash Kids’ Creativity With These Natural Craft Ideas...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Antiwar.com

Moldova: The Next Front in the West’s Confrontation With Russia? - Moldova’s September 28, 2025, parliamentary elections are shaping up to be another highly contentious struggle between pro-Russia and anti-Russia factions....
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk wannabes get laughed off of HBCU campus, mocked on Twitter - Two Charlie Kirk wannabes got laughed off of an HBCU campus when they tried that "debate me, bro" nonsense. As we move further away from the awful sit...
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
NORML

Tell NORML What Matters Most to Cannabis Consumers - [image: NORML Membership Survey][image: NORML Membership Survey]Your feedback helps shape the future of cannabis freedom. The post Tell NORML What Matter...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living with the Lies: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We've entered a new chapter in the fascist takeover. We have to adjust accordingly.
Ecosophia

September 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Congressional Shake-up - The redistricting saga has left many Texas congressional members and candidates in a peculiar game of political musical chairs
Idavox

No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Political Ideologies Terrorists! - Why we aren’t worried about what Trump is trying to pull. Civil Liberties Defense Center... The post No, the U.S. Cannot Designate Domestic Groups or Pol...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
DeSmogBlog

‘Gamechanger’ Study Warns Carbon Capture May Fall Short of Expectations, Citing Storage Location Dangers - As the Trump administration seeks to wipe away environmental rules covering the oil, gas, and coal industries, fossil fuel producers and sellers are reas...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Advice on DIY, low-tech solutions and larger investments in energy-efficient technologies; Oct. 1 is nationwide Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE G...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
Duck of Minerva

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State - How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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