Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Republicans accused of pushing 'flat out lie' on CNN amid shutdown talks - A Democratic senator on Monday called out President Donald Trump and Republicans over what he called a "flat-out lie" as a government shutdown looms. Se...
Futurism

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes - Watch your toes. The post Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes appeared first on Futurism.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Heritage Foundation caught pushing false stats in attempt to classify trans people as terrorists' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - The dirty hands of longtime anti-LGBTQ activist Roger Severino are all over the Heritage Foundation's attempt to classify trans people as terrorists. *Ri...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Bumblefuck DOJ Continues Revenge Tour With Semi-Botched Indictment Of James Comey - Pretty much everyone who was willing to put justice ahead of Trump is long gone from the DOJ, either having been fired or resigning ahead of an expected fi...
memeorandum

Why Trump's Use of Military in US Is So Controversial (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Why Trump's Use of Military in US Is So Controversial* — President Donald Trump has repeatedly deployed the US military for domestic assig...
The Hill

Schumer says he will not support 7- or 10-day stopgap to avoid shutdown - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) said he would not support a weeklong or 10-day government funding measure to avoid a government shutdown on W...
San Antonio Report

After delay, Bexar County is back to processing voter registrations - The state chose a low-key off-year election to roll out a major system update, but anxiety was rising in Bexar County, which has a Spurs arena vote on Nov....
San Antonio Current

St. Paul Square nightlife complex Outpost Junction abruptly shuts down - [image: Outpost Junction housed four bar concepts including, Blessed Bogside, the former Francis Bogside.] The multi-story nightspot housed Blessed Bogsid...
The Daily Poster

Welcome To The Shutdown Circus, Where Everybody Loses - Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all?
Deadline Politics

YouTube To Pay $24.5 Million To Settle Donald Trump’s Lawsuit Over Account Suspension - YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over his suspension from the platform following the January 6, 2021 att...
The Verge

Microsoft is bringing its Windows engineering teams back together again - Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announ...
Mediaite

Top Republican Accuses Dems of ‘Hostage Taking’ to Force Govt Shutdown - "We're all in favor of funding the government, and this is something that's been done routinely—13 different times by the Democrats when they have the ma...
Slate

I Know What Finally Brought Down Eric Adams’ Mayoral Campaign - Mayor Eric Adams’ corruption, incompetence, and culture-war pandering finally caught up to him.
Daily Dot

“This time it’s different”: Teacher of 29 years says this year’s students are the most disrespectful and distracted yet—and others agree - [image: Male teacher giving technology presentation to a class of high school students. Text overlay from Reddit reads, "I am so done. 29 years in the cl...
SCOTUSblog

Venezuelans ask Supreme Court not to allow Trump administration to end their protected status - Lawyers representing Venezuelan citizens living in the United States under a program that provides them with a safe harbor here urged the Supreme Court o...
Al Jazeera English

UK Labour Party members vote to recognise Gaza genocide at conference - The move adds pressure on the UK government, led by Keir Starmer, which has been slammed over its stance on Gaza war.
Political Wire

YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuit - “YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit that President Trump brought against the company and its chief executive over its suspens...
The Week

King Bibi's profound changes to the Middle East - Over three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has profoundly changed both Israel and the Middle East.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Clumsy Mamdani Attack Reflects GOP’s Concern Over NYC Mayoral Race - [image: Zohran Mamdani, Assembly member, Mayor, New York City, candidate, Assembly District 36] Republicans don't have a viable candidate in New York City'...
Mediagazer

Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company ...
Houston Public Media

Gov. Abbott names several ‘Lone Star Ribbon Schools’ in Houston area after elimination of national program - The Trump administration cut the National Blue Ribbon Schools program earlier this year as part of its reformation of the U.S. Department of Education.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Des Moines revokes education license of school superintendent arrested by Ice - Ian Roberts was superintendent of Des Moines public schools, the largest school district in the state The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school distric...
Workers World

Venezuela resistance meeting in NYC sets a new tone - [image: Venezuela resistance meeting in NYC sets a new tone] By Sara Flounders and Tom Burke New York City This report is written by Sara Flounders, a lead...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump deadline for drugmakers to lower prices comes due - The Trump administration sent letters this summer to 17 makers of name-brand drugs pushing them to lower prices to align them with what other countries pay...
Courthouse News

Mother was owed continuance - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An appeals court in Tennessee ruled that the lower court should not have denied a mother’s request for a continuance to consult court-ap...
Mondoweiss

Trump says Israel can ‘finish the job’ in Gaza if Hamas rejects latest ceasefire plan - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak privately in the Vermeil Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, at ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Axios

Trump, Democrats leave meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown - Congressional leaders on Monday left a White House meeting with President Trump without a deal to avoid a government shutdown before government funding l...
Mother Jones

The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin: Part 1 - Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, custom...
slacktivist

Good for us all for saying that murder is Bad - The unanimous condemnation of murder is encouraging. Our inability to recognize that this condemnation is unanimous is not.
The NM Political Report

Rep. Stansbury: Impending government shutdown could be economically catastrophic - Republicans and the White House continued to clash with Democrats on Monday over a short-term spending measure to avert a government shutdown. President...
Vox

Democrats’ shutdown strategy hinges on a risky bet - The Trump administration will use a government shutdown to gut the Democratic Party’s favorite federal agencies. Or at least, this is what the president w...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee to Again Consider Censure of Region 1 Alternate - The Libertarian National Committee will convene remotely this week for a special meeting to decide whether to censure Region 1 Alternate Austin Martin fo...
Second Nexus

Trump's Granddaughter Is Now Using Her Platform To Sell $130 Sweatshirts—And The Grift Is Strong With This One - The 18-year-old eldest child of Donald Trump Jr. and ex-wife Vanessa and MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's eldest grandchild, Kai Trump, is drawin...
ArcaMax

Again: Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? - Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn’t — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked versio...
World Socialist Web Site

The Historical and International Foundations of the Sosyalist Eşitlik Partisi – Dördüncü Enternasyonal (Socialist Equality Party – Fourth International) - This document traces the central historical experiences of the working class and Marxist movement in the 20th and 21st centuries, and establishes the princ...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Israel: Losing, Yet Demanding Surrender” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Investigators comb through the charred remnants of a Michigan church, White House unveils President Trump’s...
Church and State

Trump’s says no talk on the 2026 Budget which means a Government shutdown - It's now clear that Trump's stonewalling of the Democrats on the looming budget crisis means we are going to have a shutdown.
Progressive.org

The Bloody New York Rampage of 1970 Returns to the Screen - New documentary ‘Hard Hat Riot’ traces the origin of political division between elite college students and working-class laborers.
Texas Standard

350+ teacher complaints as Texas schools continue disciplinary actions over Charlie Kirk posts - The complaints are being reviewed by the Texas Education Agency, but some firings and suspensions have already occurred independently at Texas schools thro...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: We want to create an historical record! - *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 202* *The cable star smells wet garbage: *With apologies, and just for the sake of history, we thought we'd establish a brief hist...
OpEd News

How Not to Halt a Genocide - All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him...
El Paso Matters

Texas Tech Health El Paso bridges communication gap with medical Spanish - University is the only health sciences center teaching medical Spanish to future physicians and dentists. The post Texas Tech Health El Paso bridges com...
Common Dreams

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source - The Trump administration today announced a coordinated attempt to keep the struggling U.S. coal industry alive slightly longer, including opening more th...
CultureMap Houston

Houston restaurant group flies into Upper Kirby with fried chicken pop-up - Houston restaurant group Goode Company is bringing back its *Goode Bird* fried chicken concept. Now a food truck, the restaurant will make its debut on Thu...
First Draft

From Beer Summit To Beer Hall Putsch - This is what made the right go crazy and authoritarian?
Consortium News

The F Word, the C Word & the N Word - They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused. By...
Salon.com

Stephen Miller managing Venezuela airstrikes in new drug war - Miller is helping direct "lawless" airstrikes on boats from Venezuela, The Guardian reports
naked capitalism

Bravo! Met Our Second Goal, On to Our Third: Supporting the New Coffee Break/Sunday Movie Feature - Please support our new features: Coffee Break and our Sunday Movie! Let these talented writers know how much you appreciate their work.
The Greanville Post

MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH W/LAITH MAROUF EP 60 – HEZBOLLAH SUPPORT IN LEBANON, NETANYAHU AT UN, FLOTILLA - GARLAND NIXON—The discussion underscores the global shift in attitude toward the Zionist project, marked by widespread international condemnation, diplomat...
Texas Observer

Party Discipline - In response to last spring’s student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that roiled college campuses across the country, including in Texas, the state...
Project Censored

Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir - In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories threate...
The Root

The Horrific Truth Behind Why These 13 Serial Killers Targeted Black People - From the Apartheid Killer to the mysterious Atlanta child murders, these 13 serial killers targeted Black children, men and women in the most heinous way...
Dissident Voice

Janissary Words - Kidnapped words are the Janissaries of campaigns to promote an invented reality. Their original identities are obliterated. Worse, unlike the Ottoman Jan...
Wolf Street

Pending Home Sales Rise from Near-Record Lows, Zigzag along those Lows, -43% from 2020, -30% from 2019: Charts Speak - A bigger rise in March got more than wiped out by a drop in April. That’s how it goes with zigzagging month-to-month data.
Capital & Main

Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future? - Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored. The post Is th...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial - Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

H-1B Crackdown Threatens America’s Universities—Just as Public Trust Returns, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *H-1B Crackdown Threatens America’s Universities—Just as Public Trust Returns* *by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *September 29, 2025* Link to Emissary, Carneg...
Progressive Army

Inconvenientes operativos NUEVO PORTAL IMPO TCA - Estimados socios buen día: En relación a los graves inconvenientes operativos que están surgiendo en TCA desde la implementación del nuevo portal impo les ...
Liberation News

Assata Shakur (1947 – Onward) - Assata is and will continue to be one of the most revered and beloved revolutionaries of our time.
Duck of Minerva

Will the recognition of Palestine matter? What IR scholarship says - The UN General Assembly meeting has seen a growing number of states recognizing a state of Palestine, including Western powers like France, the United King...
Undernews

Word - [image: Image] Via Clifton
Ballot Access News

Ireland to Hold Three-Candidate Debate in Presidential Election - Ireland elects a president on October 24. There are three candidates on the ballot. All three of them will participate in the debates. See this story. … Co...
Election Law Blog

Safeguarding Democracy Project Live and Online Program October 7: “Lessons from the 2024 Elections for 2026 and Beyond: A Conversation with Nate Persily” - Tuesday, October 7, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, Room 1337 UCLA Law and online Register here for in-person. Lunch will be provided. Register here for Webinar. Ri...
American Prospect

The Art of the Budget Deal - Today on TAP: With a government shutdown looming noon Wednesday, will Trump screw Democrats, Republicans, the public, or himself?
Grist

La Cumplida shows how coffee can restore ecosystems and economies - La Cumplida has turned deforested hills into thriving shade-grown coffee farms, showing that healing the land can also grow profits.
Glasstire

On Migration & Exchange: Mark Menjívar’s “A Space in Which People Are Free To Move and Birds To Fly” at Co-Lab Projects, Austin - A Space in Which People Are Free To Move and Birds To Fly is an encouragement to move, a reminder to mind life’s intricacies, and a push to embrace the… ...
Discourse

We're Being Ruled Over by the World's Biggest Losers - They effectively control our fates, but deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and inadequate, and it eats them up.
Alternet

Conservatives fear Republican is dooming her campaign in crucial swing-state race - On Tuesday night, November 4, Democratic and GOP strategists will be paying very close attention to the outcome of two gubernatorial races: one in Virgin...
The AltWorld

Israel Losing US Support Fast - Israel Losing US Support Fast The post Israel Losing US Support Fast appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Rewire

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is Pausing Abortion Services Due to Trump Legislation - “In the meantime, we are pursuing every available option—through the courts, through operations, and civic engagement,” Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin P...
Democracy Now!

Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur Dies at 78 in Cuba; Hear Her Read 1998 Letter to Pope - The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78. She passed away in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1...
Democracy Chronicles

Facebook is Losing its Chance to be a Force for Democracy - Sarah Wynn Williams pitches her idea that Facebook has great power for good in the world, an idealism she eventually loses as she works in policy for Faceb...
Space City Weather

Late summer weather to hold on this week: mid-90s possible for a few days in spots - In brief: In today’s update we discuss the upcoming heat for this week, which may relent slightly by the weekend. We also remain in a bear market for cool ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Reasonable Facsimile of Truth - If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. … And a people that...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Terracycle Founder Tom Szaky On Building A Service-Centered Circular Economy - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. For decades, our relationship with... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Terracycl...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 21: The Comey Indictment - It has been over a month since my last entry in this series, but that is hardly because there has been any shortage of legally dubious actions by the Tru...
The Smirking Chimp

Again: Why Isn’t the Media Reporting on Trump’s Growing Dementia? -
Skeptophilia

Jumping on the bandwagon - There's a peculiar twist on *confirmation bias* -- which is the tendency to accept without question poor or faulty evidence in favor of a claim we alread...
Crooked Media

The Trump Administration’s SCOTUS Winning Streak - The post The Trump Administration’s SCOTUS Winning Streak appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Monica Flores Richart - This week we will feature the HCC Trustee races and candidates. Three Trustees are up for a six-year term, though only two of them have opponents; trustee ...
Ian Welsh

2025 Fundraiser - This blog runs on reader subscriptions and donations. Reading it is free, and always will be, but it does take money to run the site and keep myself fed an...
Scheerpost.com

Do UN ‘Snapback’ Sanctions Really Matter to the Iranian Economy and Its Nuclear Program? - By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The E3 — France, Britain and Germany — successfully led a bid at the UN Security Council Fri...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Swinburne On the Need For Corroborated Testimony - I went to a philosophical conference two weeks ago which highlighted the work of Paul Draper at Purdue. It was really informative. I got to meet up with ...
ProPublica

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan - by Jesse Coburn ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Angry Bear

Freeze peach - As a lifelong supporter of the ACLU, I take a back seat to nobody in my support for the 1st Amendment. But the 1st Amendment only enjoins the government ...
High Country News

What do fens do? Make peat, store water and help combat climate change - [image: Scientists secure jute netting over mulch on a newly planted section of the Ophir Pass fen in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains.] Meet the researchers...
Portside

Sunday Science: Study of 1M-Year-Old Skull Points to Earlier Origins of Modern Humans - Sunday Science: Study of 1M-Year-Old Skull Points to Earlier Origins of Modern Humans Ira Mon, 09/29/2025 - 03:11
Counterpunch

The First Amendment as a Racist Weapon - The debates over the protection of free speech have been raging since before the killing of Charles Kirk. The killing of Charles Kirk has taken this disc...
jobsanger

The Right Is Trying To legitimize Racism And White Supremacy -
Informed Comment

Lebanon’s Solar Capacity surged since 2020 to 1.5 gigawatts, as Homeowners tired of Blackouts - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Lebanese Ministry of Energy has let three bids for new solar farms of 15 megawatts each, for a total of 45 MW, which wil...
DeSmogBlog

How farmed fish in Dutch supermarkets undermines food security in West Africa - On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have j...
Popular Resistance

Fighting Trump And The Black Collaborators Too - Black Agenda Report has long pointed out that billionaire rule and its capture of the political process has made electoral politics a less and less effec...
See You In 2020

The scheme to engineer our unemployment crisis, & the counter-force to this that Luigi represents - What we all must understand about the Luigi movement is that its class origins and motivations are fundamentally different from those of the ultraviolen...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Antiwar.com

Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops - On Monday, Sept. 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, ...
Claytoonz

Keep Portland Weird - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Reform Austin

Parasitic Fly Will Return To Texas - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A parasitic fly, responsible for a pest in Texas during the 1960s, is creeping back, and ranche...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Long Arm/Small Man' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Infidel753

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

Donald J Trump: Social Dominator Authoritarian? - Here is my question to Proton’s Lumo AI tool on Donald J. Trump: Social Dominator Authoritarian. Do the actions of President Donald J Trump fit the actio...
The Grayzone

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

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
Bonddad

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

Bury My Medals at Wounded Knee - Read More
Crooked Timber

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

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

Following Up - [image: LTB logo]In which I note recent developments in cases previously certified as stupid.
The Militant

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

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

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

9.26-30 Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads so our Nest is ready to host. Post whatever suits your fancy. LOL. Everyone stay safe and well.🙂
Alas, a Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Friday, August 06, 2010

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