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

Daily Dot

“Poetic justice”: The internet has a lot to say about Jake Paul’s broken jaw - [image: jake paul broken jaw netflix] Jake Paul went up against Anthony Joshua in the boxing ring, and boy, did he lose. The 28-year-old influencer star...
ProPublica

A Connecticut DMV Task Force Was Asked to Develop Towing Reforms. As Deadline Looms, Members Struggle to Agree. - The post A Connecticut DMV Task Force Was Asked to Develop Towing Reforms. As Deadline Looms, Members Struggle to Agree. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good - As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
The Week

A peek inside Europe’s luxury new sleeper bus - Overnight service with stops across Switzerland and the Netherlands promises a comfortable no-fly adventure
Slate

Let’s Talk About Chores, Baby. (Those Dishes Aren’t Going to Do Themselves.) - “If you care so much, do it yourself.”
Al Jazeera English

‘Peace prospects dire’: More tensions as M23 fights on in DRC despite deal - Hopes that conflict would end this year were dashed after M23 advanced on key city Uvira despite US, Qatar peace deals.
Mediagazer

The UK's Channel 4 reports streaming minutes up 14% YoY in 2025 to 69B, with total individual audience up 2% YoY; the average viewer streamed 1,000+ minutes (Advanced Television) - Advanced Television: *The UK's Channel 4 reports streaming minutes up 14% YoY in 2025 to 69B, with total individual audience up 2% YoY; the average viewe...
naked capitalism

Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence - More on American resignation and hypocrisy about gun crimes.
The Hill

Trump’s successor race gears up in wake of MAGA Turning Point tiffs - The race to succeed President Trump is gearing up following Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk’s endorsement of Vice President JD Vance, marking one of the f...
The Daily Poster

Rutger Bregman On Democrats, Purity Politics, And Moral Ambition - David Sirota and Rutger Bregman debate moral ambition, getting the powerful to admit when they’re wrong, and the fate of the Democratic Party.
Countercurrents

What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America - From ancient solstice rituals to shared Abrahamic ethics, the season offers a forgotten civic language of compassion, duty, and renewal. Teaser: Long befor...
Crooked Media

The 2025 Pundies: Highs & Lows from a Long Year - The post The 2025 Pundies: Highs & Lows from a Long Year appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The “President of Peace” Prepares for War - Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of what’s ...
ArcaMax

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. - If a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned. The harm is even worse when basic factual ...
jobsanger

Trump Has Failed To Create Jobs Or Bring Down Prices -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2834: Wombs and Witchcraft - Episode: 2834 Wombs and Witchcraft: Edward Jorden’s Suffocation of the Mother (1603). Today, wombs and witchcraft.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Brock Purdy throws career-high five touchdowns as 49ers roll over Colts - - Purdy throws career-high five TD passes - McCaffrey stars again in versatile role - Rivers’ return can’t halt Colts’ ...
Informed Comment

Global South is now 1/3 of major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust - The adoption of electric vehicles has spread to the Global South and is no longer only a Chinese, European and American phenomenon.
Raw Story

New details emerge after deadly Mexican Navy plane crash off Texas coast - At least five people were killed, and one remains missing after a Mexican Navy aircraft crashed off the Gulf Coast near Galveston, Texas, on Monday, offi...
Mediaite

Florida Woman Accused of Murdering Her Two Ex-Husbands on Same Day - December 17 was allegedly a very busy day for Susan Erica Avalon, a 51-year-old resident of Citrus County, Florida. Police say she murdered not one, but ...
memeorandum

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison (Zeteo) - Zeteo: *Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador's Dictator Before Spiking ‘60 Minutes’ Story on His Torture Prison* — Weiss touted El Salvador's brutal leader ...
Axios

Anti-Trump lawyer George Conway files to run for Congress - George Conway, the prominent Republican lawyer-turned-prolific critic of President Trump, filed paperwork Monday to run for an open U.S. House seat in Ne...
Daily Cartoonist

British Politician Charged with “Stirring Up Racial Hatred” by Posting Cartoon - “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Well it is certainly taking its time, we’ll see which way i...
Techdirt.

Larian Studios The Latest To Face Backlash Over Use of AI To Make Games - I guess I’m a masochist, so here we go. In my recent post about Let It Die: Inferno and the game developer’s fairly minimal use of AI and machine learning ...
Courthouse News

Coastal Oregon town sues DHS over planned immigration detention facility - The city of Newport, Oregon, claims the Department of Homeland Security plans to build "a remote black site" for ICE detainees without seeking public comme...
Portside

Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge - Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge Mark Brody Mon, 12/22/2025 - 22:44
Deadline Politics

Democratic Congresswoman Sues To Remove Donald Trump From Kennedy Center’s Name - A congresswoman who is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board sued other trustees on Monday, seeking a court ruling to force them to remove Donal...
Alternet

Trump's 'childlike' plan for new ships named after him 'makes no sense': Navy expert - One longtime U.S. Navy expert is loudly denouncing President Donald Trump's plan to building new "Trump-class" Navy vessels carrying nuclear weapons. In ...
The Greanville Post

DR JIM KAVANAGH – ISRAEL IS BREAKING THE TWO PARTY SCAM & BONDI BEACH ATTACK OR FALSE FLAG? - GARLAND NIXON—Summary In this extensive discussion, Garland Nixon and Dr. Jim Kavanagh delve into the complex and contentious issues surrounding Zionism, A...
Workers World

Why we, the youth, must defend Venezuela - [image: Why we, the youth, must defend Venezuela] By Benny Schaft In recent months, we have seen the U.S. capitalist war machine once again reveal its true...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Strikes a Blow Against His Greatest Enemy - [image: Windmill, farm, wind energy] Donald Trump's obsession with offshore windmills is costing Congress a chance to reach a deal on legislation that woul...
Popular Resistance

War And Plunder On The DR Congo Escalate Under ‘Peace Agreement’ - The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a country in central Africa the size of Western Europe and rich in arable land and minerals, including thos...
Political Wire

Here’s the ‘60 Minutes’ Segment Bari Weiss Killed - “Archivists have saved and uploaded copies of the 60 Minutes episode new CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss ordered be shelved as a torrent and multiple file s...
The Verge

The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here - The Federal Communications Commission has banned new drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the US unless the Department of Defense or t...
Consortium News

19 New Apartheid Colonies for the Occupied West Bank - The move boosts the illegal expansion drive in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,039 Palestinians — at lea...
Brad Blog

Have a Holly Jolly Somehow - So, we're standing down from both The BradCast and Green News Report until after the new year for a much needed brain break --- for a brain that is breakin...
Antiwar.com

US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale - In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – illegal s...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Would you be gay for an hour for one billion dollars, Nancy Mace is so unpopular & other holiday news briefs - * Editor's note* - *Some folks may see the above video as offensive, but I disagree. It's from the Facebook group All African LGBTQ We Have Rights Too a...
Vox

Trump’s war on windmills, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Progressive.org

The Push to Make U.S. College Students Climate Literate - Students and professors at universities across the country are pushing for general education requirements to equip students to combat climate change.
San Antonio Current

VIA offering park and ride service from 4 locations for 2025 Alamo Bowl - [image: VIA Metropolitan Transit wants customer feedback on planned changes to its bus routes.] The matchup between TCU and USC will kick off at 8 p.m. De...
Dissident Voice

Security Is Indivisible — and History Matters - Chancellor Merz, You have spoken repeatedly of Germany’s responsibility for European security. That responsibility cannot be discharged through slogans, ...
San Antonio Report

‘Humongous loss for our community’: Texas orders Eastside charter school to close - Essence Prep was only open for four years on San Antonio's historically disadvantaged East Side. Its leaders say that wasn't enough time. ------------------...
CultureMap Houston

Houston nonprofit's Storybook Gala channels classic romance - *What:* 2025 Storybook Gala: Romeo and Juliet
High Country News

Western Washington faces a long recovery after record-breaking flooding - An unusually swift series of atmospheric rivers hit the region, worsened by warm temperatures. The post Western Washington faces a long recovery after r...
Environment Texas

Highlights of our work to build a zero waste future in 2025 - From reducing plastic pollution, encouraging sustainable fashion, preventing food waste and more, our teams have been working to build a future with less...
Salon.com

“Disregard of the law”: Schumer asks Senate to pursue legal action against DOJ over Epstein files - The initial release of the long-sought files was widely panned, including by Epstein's victims
Mother Jones

New York Is the Latest State to Provide Relief for Victims of Coerced Debt - New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill late Friday night that provides a remedy for victims of coerced debt—a kind of financial abuse where ...
Independent Political Report

LNC Chair Applauds Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Executive Order - Libertarian National Committee Chair Steven Nekhaila has issued a statement applauding President Donald Trump’s move to reclassify marijuana from a Sched...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Second Nexus

Bowen Yang Shares Poignant Post Amid His Sudden Departure From 'SNL' After Seven Seasons - There was not a dry eye at 30 Rock during Bowen Yang’s final *Saturday Night Live* episode, which aired this past weekend. Hosted by his *Wicked** co-sta...
Wolf Street

Carry Trade at Risk: Japan’s 10-Year JGB Yield Hits 25-Year High, Yield Curve Steepens, Finance Ministry Verbally Props Up Yen - Ridiculously-behind Bank of Japan is trying to deal with a huge multi-decade monetary mess without crashing global markets.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

New College of Florida 'Statement on the Removal of Books and Library Materials' is Not Credible by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *New College of Florida ‘Statement on the Removal of Books and Library Materials’ Is Not Credible* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.December 22, 2025* *I ...
NPR's Health Shots

GLP-1s don't always work for weight loss. Researchers are trying to figure out why - GLP-1 weight loss drugs have transformed obesity treatment, but not everyone loses lots of weight. Researchers say figuring out why is the key to the futur...
The Texas Signal

The New Laws Of Texas - Many of these new laws represent a mix of hot button issues, like restricting access to reproductive health and bathroom use based on sex and not gender id...
Ballot Access News

Chris Powell, Oklahoma Libertarian Activist, Publishes Article Explaining how Top-Two Injures Minor Party and Independent Candidates and Voters - Chris Powell, a Libertarian Party activist in Oklahoma, has this article explaining the damage top-two systems do to minor parties and the voters who want ...
Futurism

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves - Wheels of steel. The post Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves appeared first on Futurism.
The NM Political Report

Flu hospitalizations eclipse COVID as flu season hits New Mexico - Just in time for some of the busiest days for travel and family get-togethers, flu season is hitting New Mexico hard. National flu surveillance published...
Church and State

Trump is driving the US into creating world disorder!!! - Democrats take over the US House of Representatives, but will that party have enough votes to take over the Senate to indict Trump.
Glasstire

Graduate Student Cohort Selected for 2nd Annual Exhibition at Dallas Contemporary - Dallas Contemporary (DC) has announced eight graduate student artists selected for In the Works, the second annual DC NTX Graduate Student Program exhibi...
OpEd News

US strikes ISIS sites in Syria, while UK sanctions Syrian militias - This article talks about the US military operations in Syria against ISIS
Democracy Chronicles

Ptolomy’s Maps: Inventing Modern Map Design in the 2nd Century - So why didn’t Ptolomy divide each parallel equally? There’d be no point to. In Ptolomy’s day, no one had a way to determine longitude. So what would be the...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: We're so old that we can remember... - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025* *...when Paul Krugman wrote about this:* On December 13, the New York Times ran a guest essay concerning the cost of health i...
Common Dreams

Trump’s Energy Emergency Orders Should Prevent Morgan Stanley’s Electricity Exports - In a formal protest filed today with the U.S. Department of Energy, Public Citizen challenged an application to export electricity by the Wall Street ban...
Undernews

Worst airports for Christmas flight delays revealed -
First Draft

An Underdiscussed Factor In The Affordability Debate - More and more of the simple things are economically untenable for American families.
El Paso Matters

As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases - District attorneys in Harris, El Paso and other counties say some cases, including murders, have been hobbled or lost because witnesses were detained, d...
slacktivist

We never burned witches. We burned slaves. - We misremember what happened in Salem because we want to forget what happened in New York City.
Reform Austin

TEXRail Expansion Takes Key Step Forward With Revised $33M Contract - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Plans to extend Fort Worth’s TEXRail line are moving ahead, with Trinity Metro authorizing a re...
World Socialist Web Site

Unite calls off Greater Manchester tram drivers’ strike against fatigue to push through shoddy agreement - “It’s not a victory”, as the Unite union claims, “Nothing has changed”, tram drivers tell WSWS reporters.
The Root

How White Christian Nationalism Co-Opted Nicki Minaj - OPINION: Christ was a significant topic during Nicki Minaj's appearance with Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA event, but both He -- and Nicki -- were to...
Liberation News

Who stands to benefit from a U.S. war on Venezuela? - If Trump's war drive reaches its conclusion and an all-out conflict begins, huge numbers of people in Venezuela and the United States will suffer greatly. ...
Election Law Blog

“Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office” - NYT: Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion proje...
Angry Bear

Two important employment indicators from November: one says continued expansion, the second recession - – by New Deal democrat This is going to be a sparse week for data, with the exception of tomorrow’s long-delayed Q3 GDP report, and jobless claims on W...
The Progressive Wing

12/22-28 News Roundup & Open Thread – Plus Holiday favs Tunes - Hello! Still plenty of news swirling. Later in the week, we can post our fav holiday tunes on Xmas Eve and Xmas day. Join us in the comments below the jump.
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 22, 2025: Best of Texas Standard’s and The Texas Newsroom’s reporting - 2025 saw no shortage of important stories covered by Texas Standard reporters and our friends across The Texas Newsroom. We’re highlighting a few of them t...
Capital & Main

Trump’s War on ICE-Fearing Catholics - A president with strong Christian support is driving an aggressive crackdown on immigrants who are disproportionately Catholic. How is this playing out i...
Bonddad

Two important employment indicators from November: one says continued expansion, the second recession - * - by New Deal democrat* This is going to be a sparse week for data, with the exception of tomorrow’s long-delayed Q3 GDP report, and jobless claim...
NORML

Ohio: Governor Signs Legislation Undermining Voter-Approved Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Law - [image: The flag of Ohio pulls back to reveal marijuana leaves][image: The flag of Ohio pulls back to reveal marijuana leaves]Among the more significant ...
SCOTUSblog

Redistricting cases head for rock bottom - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Mondoweiss

California’s AB 715 claims to combat antisemitism but is a direct attack on free speech regarding Palestine - [image: California Governor Gavin Newsom (Photo: Wikimedia)]Proponents claim that California’s AB 715 aims to combat antisemitism by strengthening anti-dis...
Ian Welsh

Western Leadership Is The Most Worthless In My Life - Which is saying something, because worthless has been in charge of the West for generations. There are no leaders in charge of any major Western country w...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison - It's not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box. There have to be consequences that keep this from ever happening again.
Democracy Now!

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado - Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break...
Scheerpost.com

Report: Netanyahu To Ask Trump To Support Another Attack on Iran - The Israeli PM is expected to make the case during a December 29 meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
The Conversation

How the ‘slayer rule’ might play a role in determining who will inherit wealth from Rob Reiner and his wife - These rules have a long history in the United States. They played a role in the notorious murders by the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson.
Rallblog

Nothing To See Here! | 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...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2025 - In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many month...
Space City Weather

It’s beginning to feel not like Christmas, everywhere you go - In brief: In this morning’s post we provide an update on our toasty weather for this week. However, if the unseasonable heat has you hot and bothered, we n...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofounder Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Accelerates Ocean Solutions - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. The ocean provides half... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofound...
Dorf on Law

Remedies Revisited in the Removal Case - My latest *Verdict *column assesses President Trump's proposal to use tariff revenue to fund $2,000 payments to Americans earning under $100,000. I chose...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Crackdown on the Left Has Decades of Precedent -
Skeptophilia

The advantage of simplicity - One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is goal-oriented. You hear it all the time. Giraffes evolved longer necks so they could...
Off The Kuff

The full slate - In case you hadn’t heard. A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year, the first time in modern state history that ...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 22 December 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Almost entirely, in fact. If it weren'...
Duck of Minerva

Remembering Our Lost Colleagues - I started this post sort of confessionally. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID an...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
The AltWorld

A New Space Race Above Earth May Determine Who Prevails Upon It - China’s test of the reusable Zhuque-3 rocket marks a critical step in a new space race where […] The post A New Space Race Above Earth May Determine Who ...
Claytoonz

Limp Noodle Monument - 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...
See You In 2020

War on Iran & Venezuela is the U.S. banking regime’s attempt to manage an upheaval that’s beyond its scope - If the U.S. empire decides to pursue war with Venezuela or Iran, it will be risking a new level of resistance from the forces of popular revolution. Res...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Suecia violó sus propias leyes al darle el Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado - Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, e...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Rewire

FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnancy. But Doctors Call Them a Lifeline. - “Treating mental illness in pregnancy is not a luxury,” said one doctor. “It’s a necessity.” The post FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnan...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
TalkLeft

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
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...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Reveal

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

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

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Moron Majority

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

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Ring of Fire

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Southeast Texas Record

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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The Disorder Of Things

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Texans For Public Justice

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Political Garbage Chute

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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

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The Mind Unleashed

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The Reality-Based Community

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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

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Border/Lines

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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Morning Consult

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TXElects

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Dandelion Salad

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The Intercept

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The Stars Hollow Gazette

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Texas Environmental News

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Shadowproof

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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
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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.
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FiveThirtyEight.com

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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In These Times

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News Junkie

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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Washington Babylon

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Liberal America

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Popehat

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epic.org

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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

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INSIDER - politics news

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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

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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

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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

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TomDispatch

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Art Killing Apathy

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Defend our Movements

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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

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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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Friday, June 18, 2010

Ignorance isn't bliss

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