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

memeorandum

Trump Bows to Putin's Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions (Peter Baker/New York Times) - Peter Baker / New York Times: *Trump Bows to Putin's Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions* — The net effect of the Alaska summit ...
Political Wire

Europe Sending Heavy Hitters Alongside Zelensky - Politico: “Plans are in the works to send at least one of Trump’s favorite interlocutors, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, along with Zelenskyy when he c...
Raw Story

'The danger is clear': Ex-Trump 'operative' warns White House guest of planned 'trap' - Donald Trump is planning a "trap" for an upcoming White House guest, according to a former administration insider. Former Trump associate Lev Parnas, who...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Novelist Greg Iles, ‘master of southern US gothic crime-writing’, dies aged 65 - Author of Natchez Burning trilogy had battled blood cancer for decades, according to his literary agent Greg Iles, the Mississippi author of the Natchez ...
Daily Dot

“Started off fantastic, but obviously had a lot of work to do”: 18 video games that fell off after the hype ended - [image: video games that fell off] Hardcore gamers have strong opinions about what makes a game good and if they have staying power. Recently, u/water-...
Mediaite

‘President POO-tihn’: Leaked Trump-Putin Docs Include Wacky Crib Notes on Russian Names - Documents found in an Anchorage hotel following Donald Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin included a handy guide on how to properly pronounce Putin's nam...
Election Law Blog

“Meet the Lobbyist Fighting Against ‘Perfect Legal’ Corruption in DC” - Dave Levinthal profiles Craig Holman for the Washingtonian” When Craig Holman first came to, he found himself in George Washington University Hospital ho...
The Hill

Amid bitter partisanship, permitting reform is a golden opportunity for bipartisanship - Permitting reform is a bipartisan issue that can help strengthen American energy production, reduce emissions and increase the energy supply, while also pr...
San Antonio Report

Q&A: OLLU President Abel Antonio Chávez talks goals and challenges as the university marks 130 years - In this Q&A, Our Lady of The Lake University President Abel Antonio Chávez talks about the challenges in higher education and the opportunities to better s...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: August 10th – 16th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the idea that banning TikTok thwarts Chinese intelligence was ridiculous, and how any real threat prob...
WhoWhatWhy

One Small Thing: Be Seen and Be Heard - [image: Camp Blanding, Starke, FL, Alligator Alcatraz] People just joining the fight now or still on the sidelines need to see us work. One Small Thing: B...
Undernews

Health - *Washington Post - *Coronavirus infections are climbing again, marking another summer wave as children go back to school. But this uptick arrives with ...
Al Jazeera English

France says Mali’s arrest of embassy worker on coup charges ‘unfounded’ - Arrest of Yann Vezilier, accused of trying to destabilise Mali, marks new low in relations between Paris and Bamako.
Axios

Putin made maximalist claims to Ukrainian territory in Trump summit: Sources - The peace terms that Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out in his summit with President Trump included that Ukraine withdraw entirely from two of its...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Mother Jones

The Trump-Putin Summit Was a Win for Russia - During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his presidency. Eight months in, he...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Nothing weird at all. A top cybersecurity official for the Israeli government was arrested in Nevada during an undercover operation targeting child sex pr...
OpEd News

The Truth(?) about the Sistine Chapel - This essay may be seen as the third in a series of "escapist" pieces I've published lately--the others were (1) an encomium to the bass violin and its hero...
Salon.com

Cabin crew walk out as pay dispute halts Air Canada flights - Air Canada flight attendants strike over pay, grounding hundreds of daily flights and affecting 130,000 travelers
Liberation News

Trump’s war on VA unions is a war on veterans - The Trump administrations seeks to demolish the VA and the care it gives.
Alternet

'Pathetic and utterly irresponsible': Melania Trump slammed for 'weak performative stunt' - Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the United States when, on Friday, August 15, he met with U.S. President Donald Trump for a summit in Anchorage,...
Angry Bear

Physician, heal thyself - 32 economists associated with the University of Chicago at some point in their careers were awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in M...
Dissident Voice

A Coinkydink? - Has there been an increase in hearing ambulance sirens? The post A Coinkydink? first appeared on Dissident Voice.
CultureMap Houston

Veteran chef returns to Houston with new mission and more top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week. A chef returns to town and a burger fave goes brick-and-mortar. Plus, step in...
Slate

There’s Only One Thing I Want to Know About My Wife’s Affair. She Refuses to Tell Me. - I can't stop thinking about the sex they had.
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Will Hear California Top-Two Case on Friday, August 22 - U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney will hear Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308, on Friday, August 22, in San Francisco. The hearing st...
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
The Week

August 16 editorial cartoons - Saturday’s political cartoons include football season anticipation, and Donald Trump angling for Putin's autograph
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Trump's summit had been a perfect 10! - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 2025* *Then K.T. McFarland showed up:* K. T. McFarland doesn't vote the way we do—but also, she's no dope. Nor is she a household ...
The Root

Heroes of Hurricane Katrina: Where They Are Now - As Hurricane Katrina’s 20th anniversary approaches, their stories still stand as a powerful testament to courage, resilience, and the strength of communi...
Mondoweiss

Marwan Barghouti, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and the Israeli need to humiliate - [image: Mural of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2023. (Photo: Nidal Al-Wahidi/APA Image...
The Verge

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is $600 off ahead of the new model’s debut - Some people like to stay on the cutting edge of technology. If that’s you, you already know that Google is going to officially unveil its Pixel 10 phones (...
Daily Cartoonist

79th NCS Reuben Award Winners - The National Cartoonists Society announced the winners of their Reuben Awards for the year 2024 in Boston on Friday August 15, 2025. Below are the nominees...
San Antonio Current

Texas GOP says flood relief is priority. Here's the climate policy they won't pass. - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Counterpunch

Evil Under the Sun - Saif Helles, a child from Gaza City, died of starvation. This image of young Saif’s emaciated body, as striking as Mantegna’s Lamentation of the Dead Chr...
Mediagazer

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: *TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial conte...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 11 - 15 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This week I quantified the difference between commodity prices in the U...
Reform Austin

Kelly Clarkson Steps Away from Texas Flood Benefit After Ex-Husband’s Passing - Kelly Clarkson will no longer perform at this weekend’s Band Together Texas benefit concert, stepping back from the event in the wake of her ex-husband B...
Glasstire

René Magritte’s Magic at the Menil Collection, Houston - The Telescope (La lunette d’approche) has long been my favorite René Magritte painting. I don’t know when the obsession fully took root, but it was likel...
Futurism

Trump's Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn - President Donald Trump's cost cutting measures to decrease the federal budget have been backfiring: federal workers are being fired and rehired, and DOGE...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Monopoly Ain’t Punk Rock - AI chatbots lose their therapy license, data centers get stuck with the bill, harm reduction strategies pay off, and a live music monopoly gets booed off t...
Grist

Trump administration reopens $5B EV charging program after losses in court - The Transportation Department says states can reapply for funding under the Biden-era program it had halted. Groups fighting the freeze in court decry the ...
Vox

The decline of drinking, explained in one chart - Today, around 8,200 or so Americans will turn 21. Which means, of course, they will become eligible to engage in that time-honored habit of adulthood: drin...
ArcaMax

In Defense of Oct. 7 - Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Commandos on land vehicles and paragliders killed 1,195 Israelis, injured about 5,400 and seized about 250 hostages....
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-08-16 -
NPR's Health Shots

Amid growing 'scandal' of elder homelessness, health care groups aim to help - The housing crisis is requiring creative scrambling and new partnerships from health care organizations to keep older patients out of expensive nursing hom...
naked capitalism

Links 8/16/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Malicious Compliance’: How One Judge Is Not-So-Subtly Defying SCOTUS’ Far-Right ‘Shadow Docket’ -
Skeptophilia

Facing facts - "I'm sorry, but I have no idea who you are." I can't tell you how many times I've had to utter that sentence. Regular readers of *Skeptophilia* know why; ...
Scheerpost.com

Another Israel-Iran War Is Coming Soon (w/ Dave DeCamp) - By Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti / Breaking Points Krystal and Saagar talk to Dave DeCamp from AntiWar.com for a discussion around Israel’s intent to re e...
Off The Kuff

Special Session 2: [Insert dumb sequel name here] - As promised/threatened. With the Texas House still frozen by Democrats’ absence from the state, Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday called a second special session ...
American Prospect

Q&A: ‘Still Pushing’: Alabama’s Complex Past and Nuanced Future - The New Yorker’s Alexis Okeowo charts the psychic battles of a resilient state.
Progressive Army

La Aduana elimina la presentación OM 744/2 (Carpeta Rosa) - Nos complace informar que, tras numerosas gestiones y un trabajo sostenido ante las autoridades competentes, hemos logrado la eliminación de la denominada ...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 16 August 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Cats battle for supremacy. This is the wisdom of books. A low bridge cre...
Crooked Media

O Say Can You UFC - The post O Say Can You UFC appeared first on Crooked Media.
jobsanger

The New Segregation Is One Of Class -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1422: Alexandria - Episode: 1422 Technology in Alexandria, ca. 200 BC. Today, a 2200-year-old age of invention.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Inca Roads - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Death rate for US children surges 25 percent in 10 years - The capitalist system treats human life as expendable from birth to death, and the same social relations that produce 54 excess child deaths per day contin...
Informed Comment

Psychopathocracy 3.0 - This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not have imagined that Trump wo...
Workers World

On the Picket Line - [image: On the Picket Line] REI union agreement Union members at REI won a major victory when REI Co-op, the outdoor recreational gear specialty store, agr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"The Man Who Was Caged in a Zoo" by Pamela Newkirk, The Guardian, June 3, 2015 - *Friends and Colleagues:* *When we as scholars mention the “colonial gaze,” this harrowing account helps capture what we mean. Author **Pamela Newkirk in...
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: To Those Who Died So Young - The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to le...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | August 15, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | August 15, 2025 barry Fri, 08/15/2025 - 22:19
Popular Resistance

Thomas Sankara’s Legacy Is Alive In The Sahel - In the months after the 1987 coup in Burkina Faso that killed President Thomas Sankara, screen printers in the capital, Ouagadougou, began to churn out s...
Deadline Politics

HBO Aims To Loomerize Laura Loomer Over Deposition Leak & Posts In Bill Maher Defamation Suit - Gavin Newsom wants to fight “fire with fire” when it comes to Donald Trump and attacks on American democracy, but HBO and Bill Maher just want Laura Loomer...
Environment Texas

Everything’s big in Texas — including bacteria pollution at the beach - All too often, Texas beaches are polluted with nasty bacteria that can make us sick. That’s why we’re working to stop sewer overflows and runoff pollutio...
Brad Blog

Trump's Federalized Assault on D.C. Resurrects Ghost of Martin Niemöller - Coming on the heels of the presently enjoined, 4th Amendment violating, racial profiling mass roundups of Latinos in California, the Trump regime's effort ...
See You In 2020

DSA Zionist opportunism vs. pro-resistance politics: the fight to save the pro-Palestine movement - It’s best to present this call to action as a coalition-building project, because though it involves the ACP, not all of my audience are communists and ...
El Paso Matters

Latest Texas redistricting map keeps key Fort Bliss areas, El Paso airport in Veronica Escobar’s district - The newest congressional map for El Paso is subject to change as Texas House, Senate execute President Trump’s directive on congressional redistricting....
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Putin and Trump Finally Meet in Anchorage” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s a key moment on “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou” as the presidents of Russian and the U.S. ...
Claytoonz

Deep State Sandwich - 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...
Progressive.org

The Intergenerational Hang - What older people need is younger friends. The intergenerational hang is the most natural answer to the problem of elder isolation.
Common Dreams

Nabbing the Worst Of the Worst Strawberry Sellers - After much stellar trolling of "THE LOWEST POLLING PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY" with "NEW, MORE BEAUTIFUL MAPS" that will end his reign - "YOU WON’T LIKE...
The Texas Signal

The Softer Side of Sharks - An early brush with Jaws inspired Carrolton artist Heather Karlsson to create an art series depicting friends Norman (a hedgehog) and Shark
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those July Retail Sales - Drunken Sailors going about their lives, spending money, moving the economy forward.
Church and State

Putin Demands Are A Frack Point For America now! - We are fully aware of Trump‘s vulnerability based on the fact that he has consistently treated Putin with kid gloves.
The NM Political Report

Lawmakers urge Justice Department to speed RECA implementation for radiation victims - A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández is pressing the Justice Department to quickly implement updated regulations for the ex...
The AltWorld

Trump-Putin Summit: Will Ukraine Proxy War Finally End? w/ Glenn Diesen - Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of The Ukraine War and the […] The post Trump-Putin Summit: Will Ukraine Pro...
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Independent Political Report

Former Gov. Paterson Endorses Eric Adams’ Independent NYC Mayoral Run - Former New York Governor David Paterson endorsed New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ independent reelection bid on Wednesday, appearing with Adams outside Ci...
Texas Standard

Typewriter Rodeo: Scuba diving in America - Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
Krebs on Security

Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme - Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting ...
The Rag Blog

CARL DAVIDSON / COMMENTARY / Trump as big-city crimefighter? - Cartoon courtesy of LeftLinks. By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / August 15, 2025 This article was originally posted on August 15, 2025, as a weekly editori...
Dorf on Law

The Grim March Toward Enforced Right-Wing Groupthink in US Universities - "The Harvard of the Unwoke" was the unimaginative title of a puff piece about now-former University of Florida (UF) president Ben Sasse. That op-ed appe...
Second Nexus

Helen Mirren Leaves Jimmy Fallon Flabbergasted After Claiming Tomatoes Are 'Bisexual' - In theory, growing food at home should, in the long run, save you money by turning seeds, sunlight, soil, and water into food. In reality, sometimes you ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Rida and Her Family - 'We lost our son… and we’re struggling just to survive.'
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
ProPublica

ProPublica Hires Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher as Deputy Editors - by ProPublica ProPublica announced that Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher have been hired as deputy editors on our data and news applications teams. Littl...
LareDOS

LACF awards over $500K in scholarships to local students - Foundation has awarded more than $3 million in scholarships since 2005 and currently manages more than $20 million in donor funds
SCOTUSblog

You say “a-mee-cus,” Justice Breyer says “a-mike-us” - As readers of this site are well aware, the Supreme Court is deeply divided on a wide range of consequential issues. How should the justices consider his...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Entering… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section or find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: E...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Rewire

Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the Biggest Users of Abortion Telemedicine - In a new study, 84 percent of online prescriptions went to people living in abortion-ban states. The post Patients in States With Abortion Bans Are the B...
The Conversation

Afghans in US face uncertainty after the cancellation of their humanitarian relief - Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 9 - *A sorry mix of superstition, cult bragging, and bad theology* Baptist preacher William Miller predicted that Jesus would return on October 22, 1844. Th...
Democracy Now!

John Mearsheimer vs. Matt Duss: A Debate on Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine, Russia & Paths to Peace - As U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska for a high-stakes summit to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, we ...
Space City Weather

Gulf tropical disturbance to bring Houston an uptick in rain chances, followed by more typical August weather - In brief: Invest 98L, the Gulf tropical disturbance, will bring an enhanced chance of showers or storms to Houston today and Saturday, but nothing much mor...
Capital & Main

Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune - Vaccination gaps in 16 counties leave some communities exposed as children return to school. The post Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t...
Bracing Views

Something Is Rotten in the States of America - Look No Further than Colossal Pentagon Spending and Perpetual War BILL ASTORE AUG 14, 2025 Something is Rotten in the States of America. America’s war budg...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Commons - Author and poet Terry Tempest Williams urged the nation to recognize the value of public... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Public Lands Are Our Public Co...
slacktivist

LBCF: Tactical decency - I believe that Christians are called to be salt and light — not to be the kinds of people that no one wants to sit next to on an airplane.
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Antiwar.com

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review This week’s summit between Presidents Trump and Putin in Alaska is an opportunity for Russia and the West...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Sludge

DNC Chair Moves to Confront Corporate and Dark Money in 2028 Primaries - Here is the new resolution from DNC Chair Ken Martin targeting unlimited corporate spending and dark money, starting with the 2028 presidential primary.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest - How the presidential results in the Midwest have changed over two decades The post A Redder Shade of Purple: Comparing Bush to Trump in the Midwest appea...
Project Censored

Pulling the Levers of Power: How the Trump Administration Hijacked Public Broadcasting - Once a bipartisan resource, public media is now cast as an ideological threat under the Trump administration’s efficiency campaign. Jackie Vickery On May...
Unlimited Hangout

Sabby Sabs - Sabby Sabs.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: There's No Such Thing As Society - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part I: The individualization of society through capitalism created a vast and seemingly inescapable loneliness
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
High Country News

Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future - Saguaros are struggling to cope with extreme weather, monitoring studies reveal. The post Counting flowers to read the saguaro’s future appeared first o...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
Trivial Knot

From the drafts: Data science as function fitting - Let’s dig out another article from my drafts bin, something I don’t think I was ever going to finish. This draft was titled “Data Science as function fitti...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is. *'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in depositio...
DeSmogBlog

Can AI Slash Pollution? Fossil Fuel Industry Is Investing in Boosting Oil Production, Profits Instead - Artificial intelligence (AI) use is spreading rapidly among oil drillers and other fossil energy companies — and some are now promoting plans to give “ag...
Greg Palast

All Washed Away: Trump drowns FEMA—Palast investigatesWatch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons. - The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Tex...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Denzel Washington has Cowboys takes - One of our finest living actors is a lifelong Cowboy fan despite growing up in New York, and as he made clear on ESPN’s First Take, he’s just as frustrat...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
NORML

Will Trump Reschedule Marijuana? - [image: Donald Trump][image: Donald Trump]President Trump said that his administration is considering changing marijuana's federal classification The pos...
Dissent Magazine

Is America a Democracy? - An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
Crooked Timber

I guess that makes me…Horace Slughorn? - The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized gradua...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

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Stinque

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Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
Bud Kennedy

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Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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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Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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