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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Alternet

'Scared to death': MAGA senator delivers dire midterms warning for Trump - One of President Donald Trump’s allies in the Senate, Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), has a dire warning for his party — namely, that the Iran war is poised to ...
Eschaton

Rabid Lambs - I occasionally think about how many column-inches were filled over the years lamenting how the Online Left was rude and filthy and undignified. Real Amer...
Common Dreams

Texas Families Urge U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms - More than two dozen Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a state law that requires public schools to post a Protes...
Slate

Trump Just Took a Wild Stance on North Korea - President Trump has pretty much vaporized the United States’ reputation as a serious power in East Asia.
Techdirt.

Federal Court Rules That Blocking Speech Is Protected By The First Amendment, But Recommending It Isn’t - This ruling came out a week and a half ago at this point and I’ve been so annoyed with it that I kept putting off writing about it, but it’s so bad that it...
See You In 2020

The intelligentsia, the rural masses, and the usury class that’s bringing them together - The further the ruling financiers advance their schemes, the more the proletariat’s potential class allies are brought together. We’re seeing this with ...
Raw Story

Todd Blanche battered as court-ordered brief blames his mistakes for sinking Trump deal - Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, was named by a court-ordered brief as the key reason a federal ju...
Al Jazeera English

Netanyahu’s Likud Party holds primaries ahead of Israel’s general elections - On Monday, Israel's governing party will determine its candidate list for the next election.
The Greanville Post

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran & Yemen Unleash a New Offensive Strategy - GD—This video features Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi discussing the current state of the conflict involving Iran, the United States, and regional actors. Ke...
Consortium News

Elon Musk’s Fortune Comes From Not Paying Taxes - If it weren’t for laws that permit the wealthy to endlessly defer paying taxes by keeping their gains unrealized, there would be no trillionaires, write St...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Will Hear New Jersey Lawsuit on Out-of-State Petitioners on Monday, August 17 - a U.S. District Court will hear oral argument in Leguia v Caldwell, 3:26cv-10263, on Monday, August 17, at 2:30 p.m. This is the lawsuit over New Jersey’s...
SCOTUSblog

Court turns down Trump’s request to reconsider its refusal to hear Carroll suit against him - The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down President Donald Trump’s request to reconsider the justices’ denial of review in a civil suit brought by ...
Deadline Politics

Supreme Court Declines Donald Trump’s Request For Rehearing Of E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case - Donald Trump appears to have reached the end of the line when it comes to challenging a $5 million jury verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll. The Sup...
Futurism

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value - "Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete." The post The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has...
Undernews

Republican finances - *The Hartmann Report -* There’s a reason everything is getting so expensive and inflation seems intractable, and it goes way beyond just Trump’s stupid w...
Daily Howler

CRAZY/NOT SO BEAUTIFUL: There the president went again! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026* *On horseback with General Washington: *By now, it's a regular weekend event, and who really knows? It may be intended to draw ...
Scheerpost.com

‘I Couldn’t Watch My Children Cry From Hunger’: Inside The ‘Displacement Economy’ Gazans Built To Survive The Genocide - In Gaza’s displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife bec...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Authoritarian Personality and Forecasting Future Politics - As I’ve already said a few times, I’m heading out to the middle of nowhere to get a little rest in order to prepare for the run-up to what is surely going ...
The Hill

23 percent of Republicans say they're worse off since second Trump term began: Survey - Nearly a quarter of Americans who voted for President Trump in 2024 believe they are worse off financially since he returned to office last year, according...
Independent Political Report

Independent Brett Lindstrom Misses Nebraska Gubernatorial Ballot After Signatures Flagged for Fraud - *This article was originally published by Nebraska Examiner on August 14, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ...
Novara Media

Over 200 Musicians Tell Andy Burnham to Block Rosebank Oil Drilling - Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie are among 211 artists calling on prime minister Andy Burnham to block plans for new oi...
Mediaite

Liberals Rejoice as Ossoff Opens Floodgates With Jab at Close Trump Aide Natalie Harp: ‘Absolutely Brutal’ - Ossoff's Harp jab went viral and drew the attention of Trump critics who openly celebrated the senator's willingness to publicly roast the relationship. ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s forecast: immutable and super hot for the foreseeable future. But we have two pieces of good news - In brief: In today’s post we explain why Sunday was slightly less humid across the region, and offer two small reasons for hope about Houston’s weather. Un...
Dorf on Law

Is the Insanely Early BigLaw Hiring Schedule a Real Collective Action Problem? - My latest *Verdict *column discusses the news that the University of Michigan has adopted a policy (beginning in fall 2027) under which undergraduates' f...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (8.17.26) - Take time to listen to Radley Balko, Jamelle Bouie, M. Gessen, Kristin Du Mez, Noelle Cook, and Pope Bob from Chicago.
Off The Kuff

How soon, Mike? - Don’t leave us hanging. The state takeover of Houston ISD should end “relatively soon,” Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath said Friday, signaling tha...
Axios

How wildfires are changing the U.S. electric grid - Years of destructive fires are forcing utilities to prioritize wildfire resilience as they plan the next generation of the U.S. electric grid. *Why it ma...
Debunking Christianity

Visit My "Academia.edu" Papers - I have published papers for Academia.edu, a few of which aren't found elsewhere. Here they are in one Link. ---A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of E...
NPR's Health Shots

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer? - In some wellness circles, tadalafil is promoted as a longevity drug. There is evidence showing a link between it and a lower risk of death in men, but ther...
Grist

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears - House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.
Crooked Media

South Carolina: Primary Focus - The post South Carolina: Primary Focus appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

In a warming world, wildflowers offer a warning - The discourse between plants and fungi changes with increasing soil temperatures, impacting meadows, nutrients and wildlife. The post In a warming world...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 17 August 2026 - If an image is hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for the full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] ...
Two Party Opera

Sullivan Ballou on the U.S.S. Lincoln - Read More
The Week

Stuck ships in the Strait of Hormuz could be a marine superspreader threat - Idle ships are a microbes’ playground
memeorandum

Trump blames vandals for damaged grass in the same spot where he held his big July 4 celebration (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Trump blames vandals for damaged grass in the same spot where he held his big July 4 celebration* — President Donald Trump on Sunday...
jobsanger

Our Middle East Allies Are Growing Frustrated With Trump -
Wolf Street

Prices of Mid-Tier Homes in 33 Big Expensive Cities in America: July 2026 Update - In 33 charts. A special word about San Francisco where AI mania trickled down from a "mansion shortage" to mid-tier homes.
Counterpunch

$1.1 MILLION AN HOUR!!—Trump’s Personal Profit in 2025 - To House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—Your responses on July 1, 2026 on the reporting of the $2.2 billion pro...
Mediagazer

A look at romantasy's rise from BookTok hit to cottage industry, with efforts to bring it to Hollywood; Circana: the genre raked in ~$1B in US sales in 2025 (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *A look at romantasy's rise from BookTok hit to cottage industry, with efforts to bring it to Hollywood; Circana: the genre raked in ~$1B in U...
Salon.com

“Heroes,” “Scream” and “Nashville” actor Hayden Panettiere dies at 36 - The former child star had recently returned to acting and released a candid memoir about her recovery
Popular Resistance

Americans Are Not Wealthy: The Truth About The US Economy - It is often said that the United States is the richest country on Earth. This is a myth. It is certainly true that, in the United States, there are some ...
Political Wire

Trump Accuses Democrats of ‘Trickery’ in Alaska - “President Donald Trump is weighing in on the unusual Republican primary in Alaska, where a challenger with the same name as sitting senator Dan Sullivan i...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon, by Angela Valenzuela, August 16, 2026 - *The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 16, 2026* *There are act...
Antiwar.com

Solidarity Is Not Enough: Why the World Must Force Accountability on Gaza Now - It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly stating t...
Claytoonz

Flock Off - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 79 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza - Trump’s son-in-law and envoy held rare meeting with Hamas chief in Egypt in push for progress on ceasefire Donald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kus...
The Verge

OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team - According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models...
OpEd News

Caught in the Crosshairs of War by Gale Nemec - I was enthralled from the beginning, and I wept when the family, after hours of fear and anguish, finally succeeded in escaping across the border. I shared...
WhoWhatWhy

Blanche Destroys Illusion of an Independent DOJ in Bonkers Interview - [image: Todd Blanche, Great American State Fair] Todd Blanche made it abundantly clear on Sunday that he will not be an independent attorney general. Blan...
Angry Bear

Trump Says the US Economy is Doing Unbelievably Well - CBO and others say differently . . . The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the OBBBA increases the budget deficit by $2.8 trillion by 2034 and ...
Church and State

Catholic Church and the Preoccupation with Power - The Catholic Church's preoccupation with power stems from some of the most sensitive and important social issues of our day.
San Antonio Report

Geekdom announces the end of its coworking space. Instead, it will focus on the startup ‘valley of death’. - Much of Geekdom’s focus was turning ideas into businesses. Now, the company wants to support people who already have startups off the ground. --------------...
Courthouse News

Democrats’ 2028 presidential calendar gives Black and Latino voters and union members an early say - The primary lineup pushes Iowa from the traditional top spot and makes South Carolina the leadoff state, voting on Jan. 22, 2028, followed by Nevada on Feb...
Bonddad

Admiral of the Fleet T—-p, meet Admiral of the Fleet Wilhelm II - - *by New Deal democrat* You probably recall that a number of months ago T—-p decided that, Pearl Harbor notwithstanding, it was time to bring back ...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 16, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 16, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War on voting How Many States Does It Take to Steal an Election? One, and It Already ...
Mother Jones

The Right Is Targeting Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Members - Since Abdul El-Sayed’s win earlier this month to become the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s US Senate seat, the right has ramped up its attacks on him, c...
Daily Cartoonist

Morceau, Only More So (Comic Strip Revue) - In Sync It’s a musical Sunday with Kinks komiks from Mike Lester and a Beatles medley from Jonathan Lemon. Backwax is correct questioning the comparison th...
The Root

Why Rihanna is Fashion’s Ultimate Game-Changer - While Anne Hathaway is earning praise for her recent maternity style, we can't forget the true pioneer of pregnancy fashion, Rihanna. Read more...
San Antonio Current

Limits on certain firearms, silencers lifted for some in Texas after judge’s order takes effect - Nearly century-old federal restrictions on certain short-barrel firearms and silencers were lifted Thursday for some gun groups and government agencies ...
Field Negro

The united marks of America. (The great American con) - It's official, the Trump administration is now the worst in the history of America. How could it not be? Consider what is happening with the following: ...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: The Establishment Strikes Back - Socialists hit a speed bump, moderates declare war, a Connecticut billionaire pulls electoral strings, and more from The Lever this week.
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Texas Tunes - Cheers to Lone Star state liberals.
El Paso Matters

Border highway extension’s latest route shifts around Rio Bosque. Some homeowners are still pushing back - Border Highway East is intended to alleviate traffic in the Lower Valley corridor that includes the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, Socorro and San Elizario. Her...
The AltWorld

US Defeated? The Strait of Hormuz Lost - US Defeated? The Strait of Hormuz Lost The post US Defeated? The Strait of Hormuz Lost appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Bracing Views

This Mighty Scourge of War - The Most Terrifyingly Honest Sentence Written by a U.S. President BILL ASTORE AUG 13, 2026 Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a...
naked capitalism

Links 8/16/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Sunday, 16 August 2026 -
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Extraction Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Extraction Everything is extraction ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Parys mountain copper mine - [image: Parys Mountain copper mine]
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1617: Connections - Episode: 1617 Reflections on the dicey question of cause and effect in history. Today, the connections problem.
Informed Comment

Trump reinvents the Portuguese Empire with Plan to make Hormuz US Territory - Portugal took the island of Hormuz briefly in 1507-1508, and then came back to rule it 1515 to 1622.
ArcaMax

Presidential Chutzpah - When Truth Social, President Donald Trump's media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump's posts, I thought they were kiddi...
Election Law Blog

“DNC reverses course on ranked choice voting rule” - Josh Putnam: The DNC adopted the rules that will govern the party’s 2028 presidential nomination process at its summer meeting in Austin, TX on Saturday,...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trials - As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ ...
Portside

Courage for Peace, Not for War - Courage for Peace, Not for War Kurt Stand Sat, 08/15/2026 - 14:36
Workers World

‘Permanent War,’ said the July 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara - [image: ‘Permanent War,’ said the July 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara] Lisbon, Portugal Raposo is an editor of the Portuguese language Marxist web magazine Mu...
Glasstire

A Little Bit of Everywhere in El Paso, with Miguel Bendaña - I got into a little trouble once when, on a panel for an School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) conference, I talked about “re-regionalism,” a dis...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Michelin-recognized restaurant has closed and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including several abrupt closures and a couple of openings. Plus, a hotel trans...
IVN

New Texas Secretary of State Holds the Line Against GOP Push to Close Primaries - Despite pressure from within his own party, Robert Howden says Texas will defend its open primary system — and that any effort to close it belongs in the L...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-16 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Today in the Catskills is very nice.
Vox

Ozempic is not just a weight-loss story anymore - Just last month, I marked my 25th year as a professional journalist, which I guess means my journalistic career is old enough to rent a car, no questions a...
Rallblog

Wanted: More Luigis | DMZ America Podcast | Ep 253 - LIVE 11 am Eastern Fridays, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: In a surprise turn, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to the shooting death ...
World Socialist Web Site

Anglicare report shows deepening rental crisis for Australian workers and welfare recipients - The report found almost no rental properties in the country were affordable for low-income workers and those relying on meagre government welfare payments.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Texas Standard

Texas schools see modest improvement in 2026 A-F ratings. Here’s how they fared - About 85% of Texas public schools earned a passing grade in the state’s latest A-F accountability ratings, while roughly one-quarter of districts and campu...
Capital & Main

Imperial Valley Dreamed of a Lithium Boom. It Just Hit Another Roadblock - Court finds lithium project may not have enough Colorado River water. County supervisors vote to offer developers millions in refunds. The post Imperial ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Out Of Missiles - 12 x 16 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2mb According to this Reuters report from a week or so back, the USA is basically running out of missiles in Iran. ...
Lowering the Bar

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Allowed to Vote Because He Has “No Legal Residence” - The court didn't say he had "no legal residence," just that he lied about where it was. Falconry records notwithstanding.
The Militant

Quash government subpoenas, Defend constitutional liberties! - The following statement was released Aug. 9 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Dissent Magazine

*The Odyssey* Belongs to All of Us - In many ways, Christopher Nolan’s film is not a faithful adaptation. But it takes seriously both what the text is doing and how it has been read since. W...
Texas Observer

Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds - The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit founded in 2024 that works to preserve Indigenous sites, and two Indigenous worshippers of Lipan Apa...
Idavox

South Africans protest against xenophobia - #operationubuntu calls for an end to xenophobic violence by vigilante groups and the government. Elitsha... The post South Africans protest against xenop...
Democracy Now!

"American Doctor": New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients - The new documentary *American Doctor* tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’...
Krebs on Security

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out - It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day....
Rewire

More College Students Will Have Access to Abortion Medication - Five states now require schools to offer pills on campus or make it available through an off-campus provider.
Texas Environmental News

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ProPublica

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters - The post Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters appeared first on ProPublica.
Progressive.org

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health - It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.
Black Agenda Report

Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants - Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/14/2026 - 08:42 The Supre...
Brad Blog

We’re Paying an Unspeakable Price for the Cost of DOGE: ‘BradCast’ 8/13/2026 - As we have been documenting for years on The BradCast, Republicans do not give a rat’s ass about the national debt or deficit spending, much less federal g...
The Texas Signal

The Trail Helping Houston Regain Freedom From Roads - Transforming the trail into something actually useful started in stages in 2009, but the formation of the Friends of Columbia Tap Trail really got the ball...
The NM Political Report

Luján, hospital leaders talk Medicaid ‘headwinds’ and rural health gaps at Rio Rancho roundtable - [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat from New Mexico, told hospital administrators at Presbyterian Rust Medical Center on Aug. 13 that Republican-ba...
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
Mondoweiss

The Mecca Pact is the latest sign of the U.S.’s declining influence in the Middle East - [image: Photo shared on the official White House Twitter/X feed on May 14, 2025 with the caption: "President Donald J. Trump to His Royal Highness Crown Pr...
Socialist Alternative

The “New” Middle East—Continued War Crisis - “Trump caught between more war or a deal on Iran’s terms” is how the Financial Times has summarized the situation, as what was said would be a “short war” ...
Discourse

Drafting the Woke 1 Accords (w/Paul Blest & Jack Crosbie) - Plus: AOC egg freezing drama, the Michigan Senate primary, and Francesca Hong.
Sludge

Dark Money Group Sends Staffers to Tech and Pharma HQs to Kick Off August Recess - Center Forward, funded in part by the companies it sent congressional staffers to visit, paired the tours with policy briefings for aides who sit on the co...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat - In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
The Conversation

The false and the furious: We aren’t just bothered by different beliefs – we’re bothered when we think others are wrong - Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Police called on trans men using women's restroom as required by law' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Trans men in Kansas simultaneously point out the quandary trans people have to deal with when using public restrooms and the idiocy of laws policing their...
Green Pages News

Green Party Challenges Listing of Candidate in PA Congressional District 7 - Green Party of Pennsylvania FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 12, 2026 MEDIA CONTACT Chris Robinson, Communication Team Co-Leader 267-977-0570 and me...
Liberation News

Flanagan wins big in primary as Minnesotans reject AIPAC and ICE - We need an independent political movement that is completely by and for the working-class, that rejects all billionaire and corporate funding, and is willi...
LareDOS

Janet Krueger’s Thick and Thin exhibit opens at the Hunt Gallery Sept. 3 in San Antonio - Artist talk is set for September 12 from 1 to 2 p.m.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Wisconsin Gubernatorial Race Moves to Leans Democratic After the Establishment’s Great Escape; Other Primary Takeaways; Rating Changes in Montana and Ohio - Passing on Hong makes Democrats favorites to hold the Wisconsin governorship, plus other observations from Tuesday's primaries and elsewhere The post Wis...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 1 - In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and...
Environment Texas

Small is Beautiful - Today’s environmental problems can feel overwhelming. Sometimes it helps to think small The post Small is Beautiful appeared first on Environment Texas.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: High Time To Remove Cannabis from Schedule I Status - [image: a pair of hands with open palms rest on a green table holding a cannabis leaf][image: a pair of hands with open palms rest on a green table holdi...
Duck of Minerva

Today’s sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up. - We keep hearing that we live in an unprecedented "age of sanctions." Trade and globalization data tell a different story --- the world got bigger, not meaner.
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: August 2026 - Artificial Life | Emergent Garden (video, 35 min) – A video about simulations that simulate evolution or generate life-like complexity. He draws a distinc...
Earthworks

Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines without public input - Sloppy drafting in a new San Bernardino County mining regulation risks giving up local oversight. The post Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines ...
Project Censored

Media Dictates Democracy - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Ke...
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
MintPress News

UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity - Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular acti...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
The Rag Blog

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Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

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

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

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

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

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
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...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
American Prospect

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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