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

Mediagazer

Amazon MX Player rolls out Fatafat, a free, ad-supported, mobile-first platform offering serialized vertical videos, in India, as micro dramas gain momentum (Jesse Whittock/Deadline) - Jesse Whittock / Deadline: *Amazon MX Player rolls out Fatafat, a free, ad-supported, mobile-first platform offering serialized vertical videos, in India...
Mother Jones

The Problem With Trump Promoting “Gold Standard Science” - This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Federal agencies have been branding some of...
memeorandum

Where Left and Right Both Go Wrong on Crime (Keith Humphreys/Washington Monthly) - Keith Humphreys / Washington Monthly: *Where Left and Right Both Go Wrong on Crime* — The most promising ways to make America's streets safer unsettle ...
Raw Story

Unearthed tape shows GOP sweating over Senate race behind closed doors: 'Guy's no slouch' - Publicly, Republicans have cast Georgia as one of their *top opportunities* to flip a Democratic-held Senate seat. But “behind closed doors,” they’ve tem...
Vox

These coders want AI to take their jobs - Just over a year ago, OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. In a post on X, he wrote that i...
Novara Media

Leftists Hold Onto Power in France’s Big Cities - The Socialist Party’s Emmanuel Grégoire won the Paris mayoral election yesterday evening – while leftwing victories in Marseille, Lille and Lyon warded off...
Mediaite

New York Times Reporters Set to Regain Pentagon Access After Court Ruling: Report - New York Times journalists will reportedly have their Pentagon press credentials reinstated Monday after a federal judge struck down key restrictions on ...
Salon.com

How Iran emasculated JD Vance - The vice president’s alignment with Trump risks harming the persona he’s built with manosphere voters ahead of 2028
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Would You Like Some Truth With That? - A few cartoonists joined in the general condemnation of Trump’s tasteless dismissal of Robert Mueller’s death. I remain disappointed in the number, but, th...
WhoWhatWhy

Mining The Deep Ocean: Commercial Harvesting Push - [image: science, nature, biodiversity, oceans, minerals, deep-sea mining, green light push] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or...
The Hill

Iran war: Clock ticking on Trump’s power plant threat - Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump’s deadline on Strait of Hormuz ▪ Mullin poised for confirmation ▪ S...
Skeptophilia

A lens on the past - We have an unfortunate tendency to idealize the past. Well, *unfortunate* is probably the wrong word. I don't guess it does any real harm, and in fiction ...
Off The Kuff

Not-quite-final Derek Ryan report - From the inbox: Turnout The numbers posted on the Secretary of State show that 2,165,744 people voted in the Republican Primary and 2,311,826 people voted ...
Eschaton

Morning - Monstrous Monday.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio advocate pushes for more diabetes funding at nation’s capitol - After a life-changing diagnosis, a San Antonio woman now advocates in Congress for more diabetes research funding and access to care. ----------------------...
Scheerpost.com

Cuba, Venezuela And Regime Change - Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must ...
Axios

America's arsenal of tomorrow: Divergent 3D-prints cruise missiles - TORRANCE, Calif. — A cruise-missile airframe is being 3D-printed before my eyes. The AI-driven system, the size of a shipping container, hums as it stack...
The Week

Hotel de la Ville: a love letter to the Grand Tour in the heart of Rome - Style meets history at this beautifully preserved palazzo atop the Spanish Steps
The Verge

Samsung adds native AirDrop support to Galaxy S26 devices - Samsung is bringing AirDrop support to the Quick Share feature on Galaxy devices, starting with the S26 series. The new AirDrop feature will begin rolling ...
Al Jazeera English

IRGC spokesman tells US President Donald Trump ‘You’re fired!’ - Spokesman for the IRGC took jabs at US president Trump, mimicking his catchphrases and language.
ProPublica

Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids - The post Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids appeared first on ProPublica.
naked capitalism

War Widens to the Caspian. Why Isn’t Iran Attacking Azerbaijan? - Iran issues warnings to Baku as Israel strikes its Caspian fleet in maritime space shared with Russia.
NPR's Health Shots

What does a 'GLP-1 Friendly' diet look like? We asked nutritionists - Big food companies are starting to market to people on the powerful new obesity meds with labels that say "GLP-1 Friendly." Nutritionists help us decode th...
Slate

How Terrible is YOUR Husband? - There’s a lot of bad husbands being called out on the internet right now. Is this real or just rage bait? And what’s it all mean?
Countercurrents

Denigration of Martyrs Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev: A Look into RSS Archives on the 95th Anniversary of Their Martyrdom - There is no dearth of proofs in the documents of the RSS which conclusively establish the fact that RSS denounced movements led by revolutionaries like Bha...
Grist

This $400B Biden climate program is surviving the Trump administration - Trump’s Energy Secretary says he’s canceled billions of dollars in clean energy loans. The Biden official who made those loans says the number is “fake.”
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Record-setting Big Mac eater underwhelmed by McDonald’s new Big Arch - Donald Gorske has eaten nearly 36,000 Big Macs. His verdict on the new Big Arch? ‘I think the Big Mac is better’ The Wisconsin man who holds a seemingly ...
High Country News

The West’s heatwave ‘virtually impossible without climate change’ - [image: Crested Butte ski area] Climate researchers found the region’s extreme weather is caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels. The post The W...
The Daily Poster

THE KINGMAKERS, Ep. 2: Reagan’s Mandate For Power - The 1,100-page manifesto and obscure executive order that changed everything.
Crooked Media

Absentee Ballots, Asylum, and Too Many A**holes to Count - The post Absentee Ballots, Asylum, and Too Many A**holes to Count appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Dancing On Graves: Going Low, Lower, Lowest (For Now) - This weekend, former Marine, combat veteran, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who tragically failed to take down a treacherous sociopath,...
Rallblog

If-Based Foreign Policy - American foreign policy wallows in paranoia. If Saddam lied and kept WMDs, and if he gave them to terrorists, and if those terrorists could somehow bring...
ArcaMax

Clarence Page: Pentagon's press panic threatens august Stars and Stripes - Oh, no. Stars and Stripes is under fire again. Controversy is not exactly unknown to the legendary military newspaper. Born during the Civil War, Stars and...
Counterpunch

Language Matters: There Are No “Wars of Choice” - In early reporting on the Iran War as "the ultimate war of choice," the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. ...
Portside

Sunday Science: The Disease That Looks Different Every Time - Sunday Science: The Disease That Looks Different Every Time Ira Mon, 03/23/2026 - 01:39
jobsanger

Power Does Not Grow Out Of The Barrel Of A Gun -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3364: More Than Just Hinges - Episode: 3364 In which my understanding of invention turns upon a simple hinge. Today, we begin with a simple door hinge.
Informed Comment

The US/ Israeli War on Iran and on Int’l Law! - As the US/Israeli strikes against Iran violate the foundations of international law, the economic and human costs will soar
Political Wire

Trump Warns GOP No Compromise on Shutdown - President Trump on Sunday night urged Republican lawmakers to avoid making any deals to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the partial govern...
The Grayzone

Paul Mason instigated GCHQ targeting of The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, leaks reveal - Leaked material reviewed by The Grayzone reveals failed ‘journalist’ Paul Mason conspired with GCHQ to monitor and attack this journalist and other criti...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice - Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attemp...
Election Law Blog

“A California sheriff seized 650,000 ballots. Election experts say it’s a big deal” - SF Chronicle: Election security expert Gowri Ramachandran said the seizure by Bianco, a Republican candidate for governor investigating a group’s dispute...
Popular Resistance

Cuba, Venezuela And Regime Change - Donald Trump is well known for being a liar. His lies are usually very obvious, so much so that proving his statements to be untrue is very easy to do. Y...
Undernews

Donald Trump - Grok - According to trackers like DidTrumpGolfToday, Trump has visited golf courses 99 days out of 427 since Jan 20, 2025 (23%). Estimated taxpayer cost f...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

I Was There: New College of Florida, Manufactured Narratives, and the Politics of Decline, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. March 23, 2026 - I Was There: New College of Florida, Manufactured Narratives, and the Politics of Decline *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 23, 2026* *I was there la...
Antiwar.com

The Day the UN Died - March 11, 2026: the day the UN died. Much devastation will be left in the wake of the war on Iran. One of the most serious losses will be the loss of credi...
The Greanville Post

The US and Israel Are Not Winning the War - G GREENWALD—Statements from Iranian officials suggest confidence in their military capabilities and a readiness to escalate the conflict further if necessa...
Angry Bear

Flying Athletes to Basket Ball Games and Deportees in Chains to Other Countries - What would you do or say? By all expectations, I would believe universities and the companies supporting them would be more careful with association with...
Ballot Access News

Los Angeles Times Covers Lawsuit on Whether Eric Swalwell Meets the State Constitutional Requirements to be Governor - On March 22, the Los Angeles Times published this story about the lawsuit over whether Eric Swalwell meets the California Constitutional qualifications to ...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party Forms Williamson County Affiliate, Elects Vicky Weller Chair - The Texas Forward Party has formed a new affiliate in Williamson County, where local members recently met and elected retired project manager Vicky Welle...
World Socialist Web Site

East London bus drivers opposing fatigue face strike breaking by Stagecoach - More than a dozen workers assembled on the picket line holding placards demanding “No more long shifts,” drawing support from passing workers including dri...
Futurism

Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks - Woah. The post Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks appeared first on Futurism.
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a reply to a commenter who defended the DOGE kids cutting all kinds of useful humani...
Courthouse News

Welcome to allergy season. Here’s how to protect yourself - Experts say climate change is leading to longer and more intense allergy seasons.
Deadline Politics

Trump Shares ‘SNL UK’s Cold Open Mocking Keir Starmer, Despite Accusing POTUS Of Starting WWIII - A longtime hater of the flagship NBC sketch comedy series, Donald Trump appears to be a fan of Saturday Night Live UK after its debut this weekend. On Sund...
LareDOS

Author Dan Clouse (NHS Class of 1967) in Laredo March 27 for reading, platica, and book signing at Laredo Center for the Arts - Event is open to the public
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 22, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 22, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War Beijing to Tel-Aviv and Washington: “Israel will cease to exist the moment it uses a...
Trivial Knot

Four reviews of musical sequels - In my family, I have a reputation for hating movies. To some extent this is humorous exaggeration, but it has been a noticeable pattern since my teenage ye...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Porte Faugères - [image: Porte Faugères]
The Root

13 Black Female Artists Who Taught Women To Own Their Sexual Desires - From Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me” to Toni Braxton's "You're Making Me High" these women used bold lyrics, pleasure-centered storytelling, to reshape th...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
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...
Field Negro

No bottom. - *"Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: Seeing Trump Clearly - It’s comforting to see Donald Trump as a buffoon, to accept the facade he presents of a blustering and ill-educated ignoramus who does not understand the w...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: In the News - Jessica Fuentes and Nicholas Frank discuss Glasstire’s recent news coverage, including the University of North Texas’ cancellation of Victor Quiñonez’s e...
San Antonio Current

How the Iran war reveals the extent of fossil fuel propaganda - [image: A consumer fills up her sports car at fueling station.] With consumer prices rising due to the United States and Israel’s war with Iran, interest ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Stable Genius' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... ...NEXT NOVEMBER!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasin...
Mondoweiss

Meet Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, Honduras’s new Christian Zionist president of Palestinian descent, who is looking to deepen ties with Israel - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting Honduran President Nasry "Tito" Asfura on January 18, 2026. (Photo: Roi Avraham, GPO)]Honduras's ...
Claytoonz

School Bus Stranger Danger - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Bonddad

American political (and military) support for Israel appears to be on borrowed time - maybe 10 years - * - by New Deal democrat* Occasionally on Sundays I have posted on things other than the economy. Some dramatic poll results I saw this past week call...
First Draft

Macao (1952) - Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame, and Brad Dexter. Directed by Josef von Sternberg.
El Paso Matters

A priest sexually abused him at 14. Decades later, a survivor challenges the Catholic church as the El Paso diocese seeks bankruptcy protection - Isaac Melendrez Jr. says church officials failed to act on his reports of abuse decades ago and now fears the El Paso diocese’s bankruptcy will prevent ...
Alternet

Trump throws 'vulnerable' retired Warthog back in action - President Donald Trump may not have the resources to finish what he started in Iran, judging by how deep down into the military’s pocket he’s having to d...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."
Greg Palast

Iran has won, jamming Trump’s bombs right up his Strait of Hormuz - How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world's flow of oil. Cart...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Vicious Response to Robert Mueller’s Passing Draws Condemnation -
Infidel753

Video of the day -- extreme shepherding - A bit of fun from Wales. And no, this wasn't faked with "AI" -- it was posted in 2009.
MintPress News

Embarrassing Pivot: US Considers Dropping Iran Oil Sanctions Amid War - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the move to free up 140 million barrels of oil was aimed at preventing China gaining from the situati...
Progressive.org

Our digital lives have hidden costs - Every time we stream a movie, upload photos, send emails or ask artificial intelligence to answer a question, the action feels effortless. The internet app...
Wolf Street

2-Year, 3-Year Treasury Yields Spike, Flip to Rate Hike. Yield Curve Uninverts. Government Sold $606 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week as the Borrowing Must Go On - Whiff of turmoil in the bond market as inflation fears moved to the front and center.
The AltWorld

‘Collective Punishment’: Bombing Iranians for Refusing to Overthrow Their Government - Hassan Ahmadian, associate professor of West Asian studies at the University of Tehran, joins us from Doha […] The post ‘Collective Punishment’: Bombing ...
CultureMap Houston

Rodeo's grand champion steer sets a new auction record of $1.5 million - This year’s *Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo* is ending on a high note. The auction for the Grand Champion Junior Market Steer set a new record at an impr...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Invades Lebanon Again: The Greater Israel Project That Keeps Failing - Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli official...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where's the Revolution?: Sleepwalking Through the Fall of Empire - Things are escalating and declining in a hurry. So. Where is the uprising of the people?
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Mayor Mamdani spoke with Nawaz! - *SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2026* *You know it when you see it:* "Presidential timber" is hard to find. You know it when see you see it. There are one hundred...
Bracing Views

Insane Headline of the Day - Gut Check for America BILL ASTORE MAR 21, 2026 Here’s the lede at NBC News this morning: ***** Trump weighing several options for U.S. troops inside Iran D...
Workers World

Cuba: Singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez asks for his AK-47 - [image: Cuba: Singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez asks for his AK-47] Article published March 20, 2026, in lahaine.org. Translation: John Catalinotto Cuban ...
Alas, a Blog

Time Travel 2: Ask Me Anything - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. This is a sort of sequel to a previous cartoon I did about time travel. Rags really was one of my childhood dogs (...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Capital & Main

Is Kaiser’s Labor-Management Model Unraveling? - Health care workers say the system’s push for growth is undermining a once-vaunted partnership — and affecting patients. The post Is Kaiser’s Labor-Manag...
Church and State

On Shooting People on Fifth Avenue - Trump and his appointees and acolytes have voiced an untold number of insults and threats against rivals and opponents.
Texas Standard

Corpus Christi cuts timeline to disaster as Abbott issues emergency orders - The governor’s office said the city’s two main reservoirs could dry up by May, much sooner than previous timelines. But authorities still offer no plan for...
Lowering the Bar

FEMA Official: Teleporting to Waffle House Was an “Incredible Adventure” - "Incredible" is the operative word there.
Liberation News

Reflections on the César Chávez revelations - I stand firmly with Ms. Dolores Huerta, Ms. Ana Murguia, Ms. Debra Rojas, and any woman who suffered abuse.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WAR ARE THEY NOW? EDITION. - *Riddim.* Remember “The Surge” in Iraq? Now, with Iran, we have multiple Surges -- of bullshit! From “Regime Change” to “Imminent Threat,” the excuses fo...
SCOTUSblog

Unanimous court allows street preacher’s free speech case to move forward - A unanimous court on Friday sided with a Mississippi street preacher who sued to block future enforcement of a public demonstration ordinance that he was...
NORML

France: A Last Bastion of Cannabis Prohibition - [image: a cannabis leaf rests atop the flag of France][image: a cannabis leaf rests atop the flag of France]While the United States Supreme Court reviews...
Rewire

Detained pregnant people are entitled to full medical care. They say it’s not happening - Through interviews and a new report, a clearer picture of what is happening with prenatal care in immigration facilities is emerging as allegations are p...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Incoming… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Inc...
The Militant

Synagogues, Jews attacked in Canada as Jew-hatred spreads - MONTREAL — Three synagogues in the Toronto area and several Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal have been attacked by Jew-haters since the beginning of Was...
The Progressive Wing

3/20-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - And on to the weekend.
Space City Weather

Houston, what were you like in the 90s? - In brief: Houston is going to be doing some heavy flirting with 90 degrees beginning today and continuing into next week. That’s it. That’s the summary. If...
Democracy Now!

Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump's SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters - Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed vote...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity’s Role in Fueling the Nazi Holocaust - *“Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust”* My subtitle today is, in fact, the title of an essay by Hector Avalos in John Loftus’ 2010 anthology, *T...
The Conversation

Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored - The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is the latest entry in an old and lethal tradition in international politics: the catastrophic gap betwee...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Half The Energy and Doing Just Fine - Stewart Brand, who popularized the “blue marble” photograph that changed humanity’s perspective on the fragility... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Half T...
Dorf on Law

Does Bruen Insanity Violate the Tenth Amendment? - Since the Supreme Court decided *New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen* in 2022, I have written numerous blog posts and essays critici...
See You In 2020

The dangers the social democrats pose: normalizing Israel, & weaponizing Palestine against China - This month, the website of Illinois “progressive” Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh revealed many things about where socdems stand on foreign policy....
Krebs on Security

Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks - The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that co...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/20/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
DeSmogBlog

Breaking: UK Court Paves Way for Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire’s Extradition to U.S. - An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. law enforcement for allegedly orchestrating an illegal “hacking-for-hire” operation on behalf of oil and g...
Dissent Magazine

Trump’s War - The fact that the war in Iran has proven so shocking to both Trump’s base and the broader commentariat reflects how distorted the popular view of Trump a...
Socialist Alternative

How To Organize A Student Walkout For May 1 - Read our accompanying article on why students are walking out on May 1! 1. Why Are You Fighting? You will need clear demands, so your action’s goal is clea...
The NM Political Report

Oops! Candidate for Gov forgot to file paperwork to make the ballot. Now what? - Republican voters may have one less candidate to choose from on their June primary ballot after one candidate failed to show up to file paperwork confir...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Six Gubernatorial Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans May Still Come Out Ahead - Republicans have had an edge in overall gubernatorial control since the 2010 election, and they still have a clear path to maintaining that advantage. ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

MAGA Christian Nationalist pastor: We are going to impose our (morality) on America. If you don't like it, I'm sorry - Why do white conservative evangelicals support Donald Trump even though he is the antithesis of everything they claim to oppose? Because he gives them po...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Seeing the Forest

Iran Failure Shows What The ‘Deep State’ Was FOR - Understanding things like the Strait of Hormuz and guiding policymakers on how to work with countries like Iran is what the Deep State was about. The Strai...
Sludge

AIPAC Splits in Illinois Races After $20M in Spending - AIPAC-tied groups poured millions into yesterday’s Illinois Democratic primaries, much of it from undisclosed sources. Here’s how it turned out.
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of Détournement - It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a cert...
The Texas Signal

Houston’s Quirkiest Museums To Visit Over Spring Break - For many Texas families, Spring Break is the perfect opportunity to explore some museums off the beaten path. And these sure beat exhausting beach trips an...
Idavox

Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case - “What happens here sets the tone for what’s to come. We are here and we... The post Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case ...
Environment Texas

Texas Nature & Energy Project - How Texas can build large renewable energy projects the right way The post Texas Nature & Energy Project appeared first on Environment Texas.
Project Censored

Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade - In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analy...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: Oscars Pod 2026! (w/Katherine Krueger & Caitlin Schneider) - Our most anticipated pod of the year is here!!!
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
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...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
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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Sunday, April 10, 2011

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