Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Japan avoids recession with weak return to growth – business live - Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Japan misses growth forecasts for the final three months of 2025 *Japan has slotted in at ...
Counterpunch

The New York Times Still Gives Israel the Benefit of the Doubt on the USS Liberty - The post The New York Times Still Gives Israel the Benefit of the Doubt on the USS Liberty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Mediagazer

Q&A with The Atlantic's Liz Bruenig on her hypothetical creative nonfiction measles essay, writing in second person, persuading parents about vaccines, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab) - Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: *Q&A with The Atlantic's Liz Bruenig on her hypothetical creative nonfiction measles essay, writing in second person, per...
Portside

Sunday Science: What’s Up With Greenland? - Sunday Science: What’s Up With Greenland? Ira Mon, 02/16/2026 - 01:53
ArcaMax

Pam Bondi Shows Loyalty to her Audience of One - Let’s hear a word of praise for the ordinary citizens who have called for an end to the too-often reckless invasions of American cities by federal agents c...
Countercurrents

Over 100 Leading Entertainment Figures Back UN’s Francesca Albanese Amid Calls for Her Resignation - Occupied Palestine (QNN)- More than 100 prominent figures from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter backing the UN Special Rapporteur for ...
jobsanger

Happy Presidents' Day! -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1526: Learning to Talk - Episode: 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion. Today, we learn to talk.
Informed Comment

S. Australia Wholesale Electricity Prices fall 30% with Solar, Revealing Trump’s High-Cost Fossil Fuels Scam - If fossil fuels were competitive, Trump wouldn't have to try so hard to stall permitting for new wind and solar projects
Axios

Kennedy says FDA "will act on" ultra-processed foods petition, but indicates no new rules - The Trump administration will respond to a citizen petition calling for a regulatory overhaul of ultra-processed foods, Health and Human Services Secreta...
The Grayzone

Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone - A shadowy think tank run by British PM Keir Starmer’s top strategist has been exposed for paying a PR firm to spy on journalists including me and the out...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! For the Love of It - Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for February 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though order...
Al Jazeera English

Netanyahu calls for dismantling Iran’s nuclear programme in any US deal - Israeli prime minister details demands on Iran as US prepares to hold second round of nuclear talks in Geneva.
World Socialist Web Site

Another multi-million dollar settlement against Kaiser exposes how nonprofit operates like a corporation for profit - Federal investigators found that Kaiser had systematically failed to provide adequate access to in-network mental health and substance use disorder treatme...
The Hill

Danish PM says Trump still 'very serious' about acquiring Greenland - Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Saturday that President Trump remains intent on acquiring Greenland. "I think the desire from the U.S. preside...
memeorandum

Moore wrestles with Md. lawmakers as national profile grows (Axios) - Axios: *Moore wrestles with Md. lawmakers as national profile grows* — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's national star is on the rise, but his relationships wi...
Slate

The Big Death in the New *Game of Thrones *Show Is an All-Timer From George R.R. Martin - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ penultimate episode heads to the ring—and into the past.
Political Wire

Fights at Home Threaten Wes Moore’s 2028 Hopes - “Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s national star is on the rise, but his relationships with fellow Democrats in his backyard are fraying,” Axios reports. “Moore ap...
Raw Story

Lawyers urge federal court to stop Trump's latest 'chill on voting rights' - Lawyers filed an emergency motion on Sunday night requesting that a federal judge in Georgia stop President Donald Trump's latest "chill on voting rights...
San Antonio Current

Early voting for the Texas 2026 primaries begins Tuesday. Here’s what to know. - [image: The line wraps around the sidewalk at the Cinco Ranch Branch Library on Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in Ft Bend County.] Early voting in person runs fro...
Mediaite

Savannah Guthrie Reveals Her Family Is Clinging to ‘Hope’ Mom Will Return in New Video, Urges Kidnappers to ‘Do the Right Thing’ - Savannah Guthrie urged the suspected kidnappers of her 84-year-old mom Nancy to "do the right thing" and release her, two weeks after she went missing in...
The Root

Why Biden Deserves a Place On the Black Mount Rushmore But These Other Presidents …Hell No - When it was about the business of Black Americans, Biden handled far more of it than Presidents like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, etc Read mor...
Popular Resistance

Thousands Of Western Nationals Serve In Israel’s Army - The Israeli military has published official data for the first time detailing how many of its soldiers hold foreign citizenship alongside Israeli nationa...
Eschaton

Sunday Night - enjoy
Courthouse News

A new hobby - You've probably Googled yourself, but have you Epsteined yourself?
The Greanville Post

US Blockade is ‘SADISTIC’ War Against The Cuban People – w/ Dave DeCamp - DD—The video discusses the ongoing U.S. blockade against Cuba and its devastating impact on the Cuban population. The blockade, intensified under the Trump...
Antiwar.com

Laura Dogu and Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook: Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela - Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicarag...
The Week

Switzerland could vote to cap its population - Swiss People’s Party proposes referendum on radical anti-immigration measure to limit residents to 10 million
The Verge

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI - Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of a...
Liberation News

How ICE Was Defeated in Minnesota: Lessons of the Strike and Shutdown Movement - While Operation Metro Surge imposed serious casualties, it was a battle the White House lost. The lessons of this latest phase of mass organizing against I...
Mother Jones

Trump Promises Billions in Aid to Gaza as Israeli Airstrikes Reportedly Kill 12 Palestinians - Donald Trump said Sunday that member states of his Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza. Countrie...
Election Law Blog

The Clown Show Hits the Road: “Kristi Noem was unable to cite single election fraud case during secretive Arizona visit” - Arizona Mirror: Late this week, chatter began to circulate of an impending visit by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to discuss...
Angry Bear

The Uncertainty of the Impact of Tariffs - Angry Bear is very fortunate to have guest posts by V.P. Erica York of the Tax Foundation. The timing of this particular commentary gives Angry readers s...
Salon.com

Viral claims about Epstein files upend school picture days nationwide - Social media posts linked Lifetouch’s ownership to figures in the Epstein files, schools canceled picture days
Undernews

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OpEd News

The Spheres of Influence and New START - This story stresses the importance of the New START Treaty as the United States is retreating in its sphere of influence.
San Antonio Report

Could San Antonio’s downtown hospitality workers get a raise? Maybe. - Two prominent downtown hotels will soon pay wages well above the median for San Antonio’s hospitality workers. That could push other hotels to follow suit....
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about MAGA doing things “for the children”: If conservatives stopped th...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for February 15 - “You Don’t Need an Emergency Fund. You Need an Abortion Fund.” The original ‘wine moms’ are in Ohio. They’re mobilizing to support Haitians in Springfield....
Mondoweiss

When Palestinian peasants brought an empire to its knees - [image: Palestinians in Abu Ghosh taking the oath of allegiance to the Arab cause during the Great Revolt in 1936. (Photo: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photogr...
Deadline Politics

Attorney General Pam Bondi Says All Jeffrey Epstein Files Have Been Released, Includes List Of More than 300 Names Mentioned - Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a letter to members of Congress that all of the Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein have been released in accor...
Ballot Access News

Bill Whalen Article Describes How California Top-Two Leads to Manipulative, Insincere Political Advertising - Bill Whalen, a California political analyst and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, here describes how the California top-two system causes massive ...
The AltWorld

My Advice for Saad Hariri - Abandoning the resistance is not the right choice… Your father conveyed this message to me before his […] The post My Advice for Saad Hariri appeared fir...
Futurism

US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables - "Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion." The post US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immed...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – February 15, 2026 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why The Epstein Scandal Is Real...
Scheerpost.com

The Love We See in Minneapolis Isn’t Exceptional — It’s How We Survive Together - By Susan Raffo for Truthout My partner, an immigrant from Brazil, shows love through acts of service. At first, I was confused. I had been raised to see ro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

INVITATION: Anniversary Symposium at UT-Austin to Honor Dr. David Montejano's Landmark Book, 'Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas' - INVITATION: Anniversary Symposium at UT-Austin to Honor Dr. David Montejano's Landmark Book, 'Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas' *We gather soon...
Alternet

CNN's Jake Tapper catches Republican in about-face on live TV - CNN's Jake Tapper wasn't allowing Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to get away with c Tapper began with a commentary about the unified Republican anger ov...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
WhoWhatWhy

Is This How AIs Become… Sentient? - [image: Moltbook, social network, AI agents] A social network for AI agents. Is This How AIs Become… Sentient? originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Claytoonz

Snow Driver - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
NPR's Health Shots

Photos: The flying doctors of Lesotho won't let their wings be clipped - This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they f...
Glasstire

Another One Gone: On Sebastian Smee’s Layoff from “The Washington Post” - Last week, Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post announced that the paper is cutting about 30% of its staff, including more than 300 journalists from its approxima...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Not Tired of Winning Yet' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
First Draft

Carnival Notes: Abbott and Costello Go To Mars - Bud and Lou mistake Carnival in New Orleans for life on Mars. Hilarity ensues.
Grist

Native families were promised free solar. Trump took it away. - From elders struggling with high electric bills to lost economic development opportunities, Trump’s gutting of Solar for All is felt by residents of northe...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Empty Warehouses, Silent Whistleblowers - Insiders profiting off ICE’s real estate deals, whistleblowers gone silent, and more from The Lever this week.
El Paso Matters

Border wall construction begins at Mount Cristo Rey, impacting wildlife corridor - Environmentalists raised concerns that wall construction near El Paso would further fragment the wildlife corridor between the U.S. and Mexico. The post...
Vox

One of the hottest therapy styles is scientifically shaky — so why does it seem to work? - Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the ide...
naked capitalism

Links 2/15/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Is a Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen? -
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
Crooked Media

How To Survive a Dictatorship (feat. Wagner Moura) - The post How To Survive a Dictatorship (feat. Wagner Moura) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $701 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. As Deficits Balloon, Bond Math Is Relentlessly Brutal - Sold $54B of 10-Year Treasury notes at 4.18% to replace $25B of maturing 1.73% 10-year notes, pushing up amount outstanding by $29B.
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
See You In 2020

Extermination was always the plan, and this plan’s success depends on whether we accept it - A crucial part of why the Gaza genocide could get this far is because numerous ostensibly dissident political actors decided to de-center Palestine. The...
Moron Majority

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

Everyone Is Allowed to Protest - Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins exposed his students to possible criticism of the Israeli military, and was, for that reason, declared by his...
Workers World

After death in ICE custody, Parady La’s family demands justice - [image: After death in ICE custody, Parady La’s family demands justice] Philadelphia At least three people protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (...
SCOTUSblog

Republicans urge Supreme Court to restore New York congressional map - A Republican member of Congress, a group of voters, and New York election officials asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to proceed with the 2026 e...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

They Want Us to be Peasants - The key to authoritarianism is a world where we are left in the dark
Space City Weather

Here’s what to expect from our ‘sweetheart’ storms this evening in Houston - In brief: Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! As we’ve been discussing for several days now, Houston will face the threat of storms this evening, and we just ...
CultureMap Houston

Promising Houston restaurant's surprise shutter leads our top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, beginning with two sudden restaurant closures, followed by four exciting openi...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for February 9 - 13 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were no significant changes in the past week. In particular, desp...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The miracle suddenly looks like this! - *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026* *Eighth-graders bypass Lourdes: *We'd call it one of his weak spots. As we noted in Monday's report, Nicholas Kristof has ...
Independent Political Report

Nina Turner Endorses Green Party Candidate Butch Ware for California Governor - Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner has endorsed Green Party gubernatorial candidate Butch Ware in California’s 2026 governor’s race, praising him as “a c...
Skeptophilia

With a whimper - The death of massive stars, ten or more times the mass of the Sun, is thought to have a predictable -- if violent -- trajectory. During most of their lif...
ProPublica

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention - The post How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 14 February 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Posting this one a bit early due to computer issues. o o o o o The Venus flytrap ca...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern - Former C.I.A. Russia analyst Ray McGovern joins Episode 5 of The World This Week to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Saturday 8 p.m. EST. Th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Canales, Mayor Ochoa pay tribute to David Chavana, the “runner, icon, and the heart behind the Valley’s largest race, the Edinburg All-America City David Chavana 10k Run/Walk” - Graciela Moreno Chavana on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 was presented a framed House of Representatives Memorial Resolution – along with a Texas State Flag fl...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BIG FASH AND SMALL VICTORIES EDITION. - *Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man.* Even though they lie like they breathe and are still fucking shit up in Minneapolis, the administration’s announ...
Progressive.org

The Human Cost of Unregulated AI Tools - AI companies have a responsibility to respect human rights.
The NM Political Report

Should New Mexico buy PNM? Lawmaker says yes - [image: Senate Memorial 9 was introduced Friday asking the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to pause Blackstone Infrastructure’s proposed $11....
DeSmogBlog

Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal - In a massive blow to the handful of scientists and academics who still dispute widely-accepted climate science, the Trump administration discarded a sign...
Second Nexus

GoFundMe For James Van Der Beek's Family Sparks Debate About U.S. Healthcare After Amassing Over $1.5 Million - Though *Dawson's Creek*'s James Van Der Beek has only just tragically passed away at the age of 48, his family has had to start making financial plans am...
Sludge

K Street’s Trump Boom - From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to p...
Novara Media

Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful - A high court has found that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful. We speak to the group’s co-founder Huda Amori, w...
The Militant

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade! - A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist ...
The Conversation

How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections - An FBI raid on a Georgia elections facility has sparked concern about Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms. An obscure 1970s Supreme Cour...
Church and State

Nasa’s Artemis II mission is crucial as doubts build that America can beat China back to the Moon - For the first time in half a century, America stands on the threshold of sending astronauts back to the Moon.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: The Texas Republican Olympics - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: The...
Socialist Alternative

The Urgent Need For A New International Anti-War Movement - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Texas Standard

On display for the first time, collection peels back mystique surrounding musician Daniel Johnston - “True Love Will Find You in the End” consists of original drawings, audio, photographs, correspondence and more that had been collected over the years by t...
Common Dreams

Trump Appoints Gambling CEOs to CTFC After Ousting Enforcement Lawyers - On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported that President Donald Trump has established an advisory commission at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission fill...
Rewire

Pregnant Immigrant Teens in Detention Face Potentially Unsafe Conditions in Texas Shelter - Plus: The Pride flag rises again over Stonewall and California reproductive clinics get cash influx from state. The post Pregnant Immigrant Teens in Dete...
The Texas Signal

Transforming Traumatic Brain Injuries Into Art - Tim Colomer's work has made him an unofficial artist-in-residence for the bomb squad community. He has even been invited to contribute to a large obelisk a...
Democracy Now!

"Policy of Aggression": Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government - Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any natio...
Debunking Christianity

The Warsaw Ghetto vs. God-Is-Good Theology - *Horrendous suffering can never be ignored to protect god(s)* Not too long ago, a post quoting Bertrand Russell popped up on social media. It was an e...
The Progressive Wing

2/13-15 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Rallblog

King of Crud | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Dorf on Law

The Revolving Door of U.S. Attorneys for the Northern District of New York - The big news out of the Justice Department on Wednesday was made by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who, testifying in the House of Representatives, proved t...
High Country News

Learning to two-step at a queer country bar - [image: Scenes from Stud Country dances in Los Angeles, 2024-2025.] With a wedding months away, a writer takes a dance class to prepare. The post Learning...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/13/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Capital & Main

Trump Administration ‘Wanted to Use Us as a Trophy,’ Says School Board Member Arrested Over Church Protest - Black Lives Matter leaders recount their arrests last month after a Minnesota anti-ICE protest. The post Trump Administration ‘Wanted to Use Us as a Trop...
Project Censored

Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been re...
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
Earth 911

Taking Your First Bite of Upcycled Food: Understanding the Certification - In 2023, U.S. households, retailers, and restaurants wasted approximately 73.9 million tons of food—about 31%... The post Taking Your First Bite of Upcyc...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing: The Outlook for Electoral Accountability in 2026 - Midterm elections often act as a brake on presidential power, but extreme partisan polarization calls into question whether the 2026 midterm will serve i...
LareDOS

Ice melts. - Eventually.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Bisexual Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn blasts her haters: 'They hate to see woke b**ches winning'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn has a message for her haters. *Bisexual figure skater flaunts gold medal at her haters: “They hate to see woke b***hes ...
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
NORML

South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Bills That Sought To Dismantle State’s Voter-Initiated Medical Cannabis Access Program - [image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol][image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol]Over 18...
Discourse

Do You People Understand How Fucking Dumb You Look - Melting down over Bad Bunny...say it with me...LOSER BEHAVIOR.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part Two - The Great Wheel of the symbolic phases of the Moon, as noted already, is the central mandala of Yeats’s Vision. Two months ago, in the last installment of ...
Crooked Timber

The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth - Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned wit...
Bracing Views

“Guardrails” - The New Dishonest Word of the Moment BILL ASTORE FEB 09, 2026 I’ve been noticing a new word of the moment: “guardrails.” President Trump is smashing the gu...
Free & Equal

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

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Georgia - Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Geo...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
The Disorder Of Things

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

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Dandelion Salad

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

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Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

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

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Reform Austin

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Two Party Opera

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Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
Reveal

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Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

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

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Progressive Army

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

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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

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Stinque

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

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

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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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, June 03, 2010

The minority of the opulent will always protect itself against the majority

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