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

'I don't want to die': Republican admits Medicaid changes force him to 'fudge the numbers' - MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies on that g...
memeorandum

The lawsuit seeking to kill Trump's tariffs is back (Ian Millhiser/Vox) - Ian Millhiser / Vox: *The lawsuit seeking to kill Trump's tariffs is back* — Three very important tariff-related stories loom over the US economy this ...
ArcaMax

The Press: Don't Let the Pillar Fall Down - The missing Jeffrey Epstein files triggered MAGA and me. Hopefully, Washington correspondents will have a rude awakening too. Lurid details about the late ...
Political Wire

Beto O’Rourke Regrets Not Going Negative - Beto O’Rourke told The Bulwark that he regrets not running negative ads against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in their U.S. Senate race.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Avoiding the Financial and Environmental Impact of Retail Returns - Over the last decade, retail returns have devolved from a straightforward, standard practice to a... The post Guest Idea: Avoiding the Financial and Envi...
The Hill

Young voters are shifting right, and it's upending western elections - Are Americans an anomaly? Recent elections say no.
Vox

Everything we know about the Air India crash points to an uncomfortable truth - With 260 casualties and only one surviving passenger, the Air India 171 crash is one of the deadliest aviation incidents in recent history — and so far it’...
naked capitalism

Links 7/23/2025 -
Al Jazeera English

Israel targets women in Gaza “deliberately” to halt reproduction - “Palestinian women and girls carry the promise of the continuity of Palestinian life.”
Salon.com

The Epstein files give MAGA a post-Trump future - Even his loyal followers can see Dear Leader is getting quite old
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History -
Mediaite

‘You’ve Got to Be Kidding Me!’ Trump Hangs Up on CNN Reporter After Just 30 Seconds as He’s Asked About ‘New’ Epstein Photos - Trump hung up on CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski when the journalist called to ask about resurfaced images showing Jeffrey Epstein at his 1993 wedding to M...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist KAL: Baltimore’s Best - Baltimore Magazine has proclaimed Kevin Kallaugher aka KAL as the best in the area. KAL tells us: I was delighted to learn that the 50th Anniversary editio...
Off The Kuff

Is Abbott now pro-THC banning? - Kinda, yeah. Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that he supports banning intoxicating hemp products, appearing to walk back his calls last month for lawmakers t...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

From Canada to Finland, a US neo-Nazi fight club is rapidly spreading across the globe - Active clubs that use martial arts to espouse far-right, fascist ideologies are proliferating in the US and abroad More than a dozen men wearing black ma...
The Verge

Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot - Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called ...
Eschaton

Morning - Another glorious one.
Slate

Help! My Son Just Dropped the News That He Donated His Sperm. It’s Given Me a Brilliant Idea. - It could solve everything!
Mother Jones

Did That Weird Birthday Letter to Jeffrey Epstein Sound Like the Work of Donald Trump? - This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. This past Thursday, the Wall Street Jou...
San Antonio Report

Eastside library closes temporarily to undergo $12.8M renovation - The Carver Library will close Aug. 11 to add a new community meeting space, African American Resource Center, tween space and public art. ------------------...
The Week

Is this the end of the late-night chat show? - Totems of US media landscape 'seem like relics of a bygone era' as ad revenues plummet and viewers switch to YouTube, TikTok and podcasts
Axios

Behind the Curtain: Trump is losing by winning - President Trump, in terms of raw accomplishments, crushed his first six months in historic ways. Massive tax cuts. Record-low border crossings. Surging t...
American Prospect

Canceling Colbert Begins the End of Television - Did Paramount suck up to Trump by ending its late-night show? Sure. Will there be any television networks to throw people off in ten years? Probably not.
Courthouse News

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Scheerpost.com

Dell’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide - However, internal documents obtained by The Electronic Intifada suggest Dell is more closely entwined with the Israeli military than previously known, part...
Progressive Army

Pese al superávit comercial de junio, el saldo acumulado en el año cae 74% por el boom de importaciones - Las exportaciones crecieron en volumen pero con precios en baja, mientras que las importaciones se dispararon. El sector energético lideró las ventas exter...
Mediagazer

South African regulators approve Canal+'s ~$3B acquisition of MultiChoice, set to create Africa's largest pay TV and streaming group with ~50M subscribers (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg) - Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: *South African regulators approve Canal+'s ~$3B acquisition of MultiChoice, set to create Africa's largest pay TV and streamin...
ProPublica

“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show - by Mark Olalde ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing aro...
NPR's Health Shots

Older adults should have a go bag for medical emergencies, health experts say - A pharmacist created a hospital go-bag for his 93-year-old father. The idea is catching on, since nearly a quarter of older people who go to the emergency ...
Crooked Media

Trump Accuses Obama of Treason - The post Trump Accuses Obama of Treason appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Young and Inexperienced - New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, 33, is the latest young politician to be criticized for being too young and inexperienced for a ...
Counterpunch

A Letter to My Cousin, New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger - It’s been nearly eight years since you took over as New York Times publisher from your dad, and the paper is in top form. At just 44, you’ve achieved a l...
World Socialist Web Site

Democrats silent as House speaker shuts Congress to block Epstein resolution - The Epstein case, six years after the perpetrator was found dead hanging in his Manhattan jail cell, officially ruled a “suicide,” is a crisis of the entir...
jobsanger

Trump And GOP Call Anything They Don't Like "Socialism" -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2801: The MTT - Episode: 2801 The Maria Theresa Thaler. Today, the almighty Thaler.
San Antonio Current

The San Antonio flood of 1921 held lessons we refuse to learn - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Informed Comment

Iran Faces a new Phase of Isolation if Europe Reimposes Sanctions for its Nuclear Program - With Germany at the helm and regional tensions mounting, the diplomatic window may be closing Braga, Portugal and San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comm...
Workers World

Farmworkers organize three-day strike in California - [image: Farmworkers organize three-day strike in California] At 10:20 a.m. on July 10, some 500 community supporters responded to a Rapid Response Hotline ...
See You In 2020

Gaza, East Timor, & the popular struggle we must sustain in order to stop Washington’s extermination efforts - The East Timor genocide of 1975 to 1999 is what happens when the balance of forces has been successfully tipped in favor of the capitalist class. The ge...
Techdirt.

Restaurant Owner Keeps Getting Denied His Purely Descriptive Trademark - I recognize that trademark law is a nuanced thing and I don’t expect the average person to be familiar with all of its intricacies. Hell, I write about tra...
Portside

Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End - Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Takes the Tension of the Pandemic to a Violent End Marti Tue, 07/22/2025 - 23:15
Daily Dot

“Just calling to disturb your peace”: People are calling their exes to say goodnight in TikTok’s latest trend - [image: calling ex to say goodnight] TikTok creators are calling their exes to say “good night.” The calls are mostly made by women to their former boyfr...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Washington Takes on the BRICS - Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock. By Pat...
Wolf Street

The 10 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-9% to -23%) from Peak through June - Austin, Oakland, New Orleans, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Denver, Portland, and Phoenix.
Brad Blog

Gerrymandering Expert on Why Dems Unlikely to Counter GOP's New Texas Redistricting Scheme: 'BradCast' 7/22/2025 - Democrats are hoping for a "Blue Wave" in next year's critical mid-term elections, as Trump's approval numbers continue to fall around the nation. But Repu...
Alternet

'Got a little brown on your nose': Mike Johnson mocked after praising Trump's 'stamina' - During a reception for House Republicans at the White House on Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump stood by while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) ...
The AltWorld

It’s A Genocide, But It’s Also So Much More Than That - The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation. But it’s also […] The post It’s A Genocide, But It’...
Rio Grande Guardian

Ramírez: A Lifelong Democrat’s Case for Eric Flores - Lifelong Democrat Edén Ramírez, Jr., explains why he is backing a Republican, Eric Flores, for Congressional District 34. The post Ramírez: A Lifelong D...
Antiwar.com

America’s Syrian Civil War - As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phras...
Election Law Blog

Corey Brettschneider and Aidan Calvelli Review My Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” in Political Science Quarterly - A very thoughtful review essay. The post Corey Brettschneider and Aidan Calvelli Review My Book, “A Real Right to Vote,” in Political Science Quarterly a...
Texas Monthly

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

Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery - As we continue on our path towards a future filled with tireless humanoid robots staffing factory floors, companies are looking to solve a major pain p...
Popular Resistance

NEA Leadership Rejects Member Vote To Sever Ties With ADL - In one of the biggest displays of labor organizing against anti-Palestinian racism, the National Education Association’s (NEA) policymaking body voted on...
The NM Political Report

Democrats say 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under Trump bill - Nearly 112,000 New Mexicans could lose health insurance under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” according to a new Democratic Party ...
Claytoonz

Bucket Full Of MAGA - 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...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims - Officials in the Donald Trump administration discussed loaning the oil-rich province of Alberta hundreds of millions of dollars to help it become indepen...
The Greanville Post

The Andor series: Encouraging and reflecting anti-establishment, anti-authoritarian sentiment - JANE WISE—The appeal of Andor stems in part from the choice showrunner Tony Gilroy made to target an adult audience who are not traditional Star Wars fans....
CultureMap Houston

Premier Houston nightclub group reopening iconic strip club this month - One of Houston’s “Sweet 16” gentlemen’s clubs is now under new ownership. The Clé Group has added the *Colorado Club* to its portfolio. Currently closed, i...
Capital & Main

Broken Promise: How the Trump Administration Dismantled Pathways to Protection for Afghans - Even for those who worked alongside the U.S. military, the Trump administration has taken away ways for Afghans to reach safety — and loved ones — in the...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump And Paramount Close Out Lawsuit After $16M Settlement; POTUS Says They “Anticipate” $20M In PSAs From New Owners - Attorneys for Donald Trump and Paramount Global officially gave notice Tuesday that the president’s litigation against CBS is over. The parties’ joint stip...
Second Nexus

Trump Blasted After Threatening The Washington Commanders If They Don't Change Back To Racist Name - With very little of interest going on in the United States, and with all of his campaign promises fulfilled—Americans can enjoy inexpensive eggs while th...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of New Hampshire to Host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable for Discussion on National Party - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire will host Midwest States Chair Paul Venable this Thursday for a virtual discussion on the history of the Constitu...
SCOTUSblog

North Dakota urges Supreme Court to leave in place decision that could limit the power of the Voting Rights Act - Lawyers for North Dakota on Tuesday urged the court to leave in place a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that two Native America...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Threat to Bilingual Education - Multilingualism is a gift to students, communities, and our country. The Trump Administration is trying to hinder it.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *On May 21, 2025, a fiery exchange between Rep. Pramila J...
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Ballot Access News

Second Circuit Still Hasn’t Explained Why Jim Walden Can’t Have “Independence” as his Ballot Label - Jim Walden is an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. On May 2, 2025, the Second Circuit issued a one-sentence order, denying his request for ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Sommers says the magic word! - *TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025* *Something we've been withholding:* Is it possible that President Trump is serious? Is it possible that he's serious about pur...
Common Dreams

House Appropriations Committee Advances Bill To Keep Public In Dark About Pesticide Risks - Today, the House Appropriations Committee voted by party line to approve a Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations bill, inclusive of language (Sec. 453) that wo...
Discourse

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points - Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!
OpEd News

No health without rights, says Shobha Shukla SDG-3 Lead Discussant at UN meet - Please consider the below article based on intervention made in UN HQ at intergovernmental meet to review SDG-3 (health and wellbeing) by Shobha Shukla, wh...
WhoWhatWhy

The Gabbard Hoax Is a Microcosm of Trumpism - [image: Tulsi Gabbard, sworn in, DNI] Anybody who makes the ridiculous claim that is a "hoax" to tell the American people that Russia tried to help Donald ...
Duck of Minerva

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

The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules - A mass of dangerous heat and humidity is spreading across the US. What exactly is it?
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
slacktivist

John MacArthur, dead fundamentalist - "Evangelicals" and "fundamentalists" did not used to be the same thing.
NORML

DEA Veteran Confirmed To Lead Agency - [image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves][image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves]Throughout his tenure at the DEA and in law enf...
Reform Austin

Labor Department Targets Major Rollback of Worker Protections Across Industries - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The U.S. Department of Labor has unveiled a sweeping proposal to repeal or revise more than 60 ...
El Paso Matters

First IDEA Public Schools graduating class in El Paso loses over half its students since eighth grade - IDEA, a public charter school network, enrolled 256 eighth-graders in El Paso four years ago – but only 124 were enrolled in the graduating class in May...
The Daily Poster

AIPAC-Funded Lawmakers Push For Millions In Spending On Genocide Tech - The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
Mondoweiss

How one Israeli company controls – and cuts off – Palestinians’ access to water in the West Bank - [image: Palestinians fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a water tank in the West Bank village of Um al-Khair south of Hebron, Aug...
Texas Standard

The number of missing people in Kerr County has dropped to 3. How did that happen? - It is not uncommon for the number of missing people to diminish after a major catastrophe like the Texas flooding.
Sludge

While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street - The DCCC raised record levels of lobbyist cash in the first half of the year, per new disclosure.
First Draft

Ryne Hancock: Yes, You’re Racist - Ryne is back.
The Root

5 Things to Know About Rip Currents Which Took Malcom-Jamal ‘Theo’ Warner’s Life - In light of Malcom-Jamal Warner's tragic passing, here are some things you can do to keep yourself safe on your next trip to the beach. Read more...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Dara O'Briain - These days it's sometimes comedians who feel most free to speak the truth. Irish comedian Dara O'Briain has plenty of truth to offer here.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Among the Tragically Missing… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Amo...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Guess the Dallas Maverick - Wrong answers only: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Fleming (@chrisflemingfleming) The post Guess the Dallas Maverick appeared first o...
Dissident Voice

Do Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous? - That the United States of America is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for t...
Dorf on Law

With the Income Tax Under Sustained Attack, Professor Rebecca Morrow's Insights Are Especially Welcome - Almost every year, I contribute an essay to the tax law sub-site of *Jotwell - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)*, which is edited at the University o...
Bonddad

Updating transport and consumer spending since Tariff-palooza! - - *by New Deal democrat* New economic data will resume tomorrow. Since I haven’t updated the impact of Tariff-palooza! on transport and spending in ...
Angry Bear

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants. - Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are payin...
Undernews

What the big bad bill will really cost - *NBC News - *President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill” will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report f...
Rewire

Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increased After State Bans, Researchers Find - The *Dobbs* ruling "slowed people down, but it hasn’t decreased their determination to get that care." The post Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increase...
Democracy Now!

"Life After": Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves - As the federal government begins to implement some $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts called for in President Trump’s budget bill passed by the Republican-led Co...
Glasstire

We Will Protest As Long As We Carry Breath: An Interview with Gregg Deal - “We will protest as long as we carry breath.” This powerful declaration closes artist Gregg Deal’s performance film The Last American Indian on Earth, e...
Democracy Chronicles

On The Basic Problem of US Democracy - We are a tired and busy population trying to understand the news and what’s happening our world through the prism of our own understanding and bespoken rea...
Space City Weather

Has it been a fairly mild summer in Houston? The answer may surprise you. - In brief: After Houston’s hottest summer day so far, more heat is likely to persist today through Thursday. A tropical disturbance (that will not develop) ...
Skeptophilia

Weathering the storm - Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a school board b...
High Country News

In Wyoming, forestry work is female - [image: Monica Elliot, crew lead of the Friends of the Bridger-Teton’s Forest Corps, chainsaws a downed tree.] In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Fo...
Crooked Timber

The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People - The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging ...
Trivial Knot

Critical thinking as community value - Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an i...
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. Comment on anything interesting below. I value everyone's input.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again. *Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the ...
The Conversation

Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference - Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former law...
Environment Texas

Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beach closures and contaminated water before you swim - 5 essential steps to protect your family from unsafe water at Texas beaches this summer The post Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beac...
Church and State

The Epstein Affair won’t ice Trump – his policy failures will: Trump’s support on issues weakening - For 10 years, the Teflon Don Trump has shrugged off scandal, fraud, felonies, cons, grift, sexual assault, and poor grammar.
Ian Welsh

The Serious Starvation Deaths Are About To Begin In Gaza - I’ll keep this one brief. Almost no food or water has gone into Gaza for months. What I’m seeing is that it’s hit the crisis point. I’d expect a few hundre...
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
MintPress News

Scottish Zionism’s Inner Circle: The Caledonian Cousinhood That Bankrolls Occupation and Genocide - A century-old web of intermarried families has bankrolled Israel’s most powerful support network in Scotland. This is the untold story of the Caledonian ...
Project Censored

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance - In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day - On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compro...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On - Neocons and Weapons Makers Are Happy BILL ASTORE JUL 19, 2025 Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 202...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
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...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Land Destroyer

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Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Houston Press

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Think 3 Institute

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Modern Democracy

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The Metaphor Project

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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

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Monday, February 14, 2011

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