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

Axios

Wall Street bonus bonanza - Data: New York State Comptroller; Note: Excludes stock options and other deferred compensation; Chart: Axios Visuals The average annual bonus on Wall Stree...
Al Jazeera English

Venezuela’s Maduro set to appear in US court months after abduction - The Venezuelan leader, who is accused of plotting to traffic cocaine, denies all charges as part of an imperialist plot.
Grist

Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’ - Drought, a legacy of overpumping, and now military strikes are driving the country’s fragile water and food systems to the brink.
Mediagazer

A podcast transcript with Steve Grove, the Minnesota Star Tribune CEO and publisher and an ex-Google executive, and Tim Franklin, on retaining readers and more (Local News Initiative) - Local News Initiative: *A podcast transcript with Steve Grove, the Minnesota Star Tribune CEO and publisher and an ex-Google executive, and Tim Franklin, ...
Countercurrents

If Israel Had Never Been Created: Rethinking a Century of Middle Eastern History - I have often wondered how different our world might have been had the State of Israel never come into existence. Its birth was not inevitable; it was the p...
High Country News

War exposes the energy dominance lie - True energy independence comes from weaning ourselves from fossil fuels. The post War exposes the energy dominance lie appeared first on High Country Ne...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Protect ya neck! Wu-Tang Clan as they’ve never been seen before – in pictures - Eddie Otchere spent 10 years photographing the New York hip-hop stars and other musicians. Here are the highlights of his thrilling new photozine Continue...
The Daily Poster

Why Is The FBI Buying Your Location Data? - Inside the fight to reform surveillance laws and stop the government from buying its way around warrants.
naked capitalism

How the US Became an International Serial Killer - An Iran-focused update on America's shameful, destabilizing status as global killer in chief
The Socialist

Frank Bisignano Net Worth 2026: The $909 Million Public Servant - Table of Contents A $909 Million Fortune in 2026 Public Service The $484 Million Fiserv Divestment of May 2025 Strategic Stock Market Plays Beyond Fiserv B...
Counterpunch

Oil Wars: Speeding The Transition to Renewable Energy - In purely economic terms, the big winners since the start of the US-Israel attack are American oil companies, such as Exxon, Chevron, and Occidental, see...
ArcaMax

The SAVE Act - The Republicans are determined to pass it. It's their Hail Mary pass for the midterms. If you can't win an election fair and square, then suppress the vote...
Portside

With the Third Reich at War, Most Berliners Just Carried On - With the Third Reich at War, Most Berliners Just Carried On Geoffrey Thu, 03/26/2026 - 01:25
jobsanger

Trump Is Blinded By His Impenetrable Egotism -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2575: Prime Numbers - Episode: 2575 The illustrious history of Prime Numbers. Today, some numbers for the ages.
Informed Comment

Nations Rush to Renewables, EVs in face of Iran Forever War - Germany's Energy Minister said that energy policy is now "security policy" and that it wants to avoid being under the thumb of foreign powers
memeorandum

More US Counties See Population Drops Under Trump's Immigration Crackdown (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *More US Counties See Population Drops Under Trump's Immigration Crackdown* — Four in 10 US counties shrank last year as President Donald Tr...
Mediaite

Nancy Mace Tells Trump, ‘Take Lindsey Graham Out of the Situation Room’ - Rep. Nancy Mace offered some advice to President Donald Trump amid the ongoing war in Iran: do not take counsel from Sen. Lindsey Graham. The post Nancy...
Raw Story

Jack Smith memo suggests Trump deliberately mishandled classified docs - A newly released 2023 progress memo from former Special Counsel Jack Smith revealed that investigators established a motive for Donald Trump's alleged re...
Techdirt.

The Casey Means Surgeon General Nomination Appears To Be In Trouble - It’s somewhat stunning to realize that the United States has been operating with Surgeon Generals that are merely “acting” in the role or “performing the d...
Political Wire

Trump Insists GOP Is the ‘Hot Party’ - President Trump insisted Republicans have momentum in the upcoming midterm elections, even as the party faces a harsh electoral landscape and pressure from...
Ian Welsh

What Phase Three of the Credit Cycle Looks Like: the Ponzi Scheme Visualized - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Courtest my alma mater Morgan Stanley, we have this graphic that perfectly depicts what the AI-Ponzi scheme looks like and just how in...
Capital & Main

Capital & Main Wins Five Best in Business Awards from National Journalism Contest - An investigation into California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers was among the entries that won prizes from the Society for Advancing Business ...
Courthouse News

Phoenix renames Cesar Chavez Day amid sexual abuse revelation - The council also voted to approve a measure that could prevent federal agents from using public spaces to stage immigration enforcement actions.
The Hill

Moulton bans staff from trading on prediction markets - Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) is banning his staff from trading on prediction markets, which have recently come under congressional scrutiny. “Effective toda...
Consortium News

WATCH: Imminent Threat – or Ruse? - Is the intel on the war on Iran a flashback to the 2003 invasion of Iraq? Ray McGovern, Anthony Aguilar, Dennis Fritz and more live from the National Pres...
Brad Blog

Trump Over a Barrel in Iran: 'BradCast' 3/26/2026 - Some news, a few laughs, and an unwelcome chill or two on today's pre-Spring Break BradCast roundtable discussion. [Audio link to full show follows this su...
Crooked Media

The Great Social Media Reckoning - The post The Great Social Media Reckoning appeared first on Crooked Media.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump’s Renovation Plans For The Kennedy Center: New Court Documents Give A Glimpse Of Two-Year Project’s Budget - The Kennedy Center is slated for closure on July 7, in what President Donald Trump says is a needed pause in operations to make badly needed repairs to the...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter : What Awaits US Ground Troops - JUDGE NAP—The chapter examines claims of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran: President Trump’s assertion that his envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkof...
Wolf Street

Fed’s Operating Losses Declined to $19 Billion in 2025, “Unrealized Losses” Declined to $844 Billion - QE hangover a little less atrocious after years of QT and lower interest rates.
The Verge

Intel and LG Display may have beaten Apple and Qualcomm with the best laptop battery life ever - One of the coolest laptops we saw at CES in January was the new Dell XPS 16, with a unique 1-120Hz variable refresh rate display that can sip power when yo...
See You In 2020

To turn this war into a class war, we must combat the “socialists” who oppose anti-imperialist countries - At this stage, one of the biggest things we can do to turn this imperialist war into a class war is combat the Trotskyist sentiments which dismiss anti-...
The Week

Operation Dudula: South Africa’s anti-migrant movement - Activists accused of blocking migrants from healthcare and schools
OpEd News

Climbing the wall - I stay low, crouching with the others, waiting for a signal from the leader. / And there it is, a red blinking penlight at the foot of the wall,
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Visual reminder - homophobia and transphobia are two heads on the same beast - I have a visual reminder for everyone, particularly the relatively small number but nonetheless extremely annoying and ignorant LGB people in my communit...
Antiwar.com

The Latest Big Lie About the ‘Iran War’ - Let’s begin by recalling why the US Navy shot-down an Iranian airliner in July 1988 and brought 241 innocent men, women and children to their doom. The ans...
Claytoonz

Grifting With The Aliens - 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...
Progressive.org

Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace - As Israel enters its second war with Iran in less than nine months, the promise of violence for peace rings increasingly hollow.
Ballot Access News

California State Trial Court Rules that Signers of Candidate Petitions Must Personally Affix Their Own Address on the Petition - On Marh 25, a California state trial court ruled that voters who sign petitions for candidates must fill out the address blank personally. If the petition ...
Popular Resistance

Iran Rejects US Proposal, Lays Out Conditions For Ending Imposed War - The official with knowledge of the details of the proposal, speaking exclusively to Press TV, said Iran will not allow US President Donald Trump to dicta...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico sees largest gas price jump in Southwest prompting lawmaker demand for federal response - U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat representing southern New Mexico and Albuquerque’s Westside sent a letter to President Donald Trump Wednesday, demand...
Earthworks

Laporan Baru: Perkembangan Pesat Industri Nikel Indonesia Membahayakan Masyarakat - Di Indonesia, pesatnya perkembangan pertambangan nikel menghasilkan limbah tambang dalam jumlah besar yang mengancam masyarakat setempat dan lingkungan T...
San Antonio Report

USAA honors first female employee during Women’s History Month - SPONSORED: Adelaide Bloom is now honored as the first Member Service Representative (MSR) — the original face of USAA’s frontline excellence. --------------...
WhoWhatWhy

Reminder: Epstein Isn’t the Only Trump-Related Scandal DOJ Is Covering Up - [image: Donald Trump's, Mar-a-Lago, documents, ballroom] The “most transparent administration in history” is anything but. This week, new evidence suggests...
Salon.com

“Baseless”: Trump admin denies involvement in suspicious Iran prediction market bets - Huge bets on unlikely futures have repeatedly popped up right before Trump announcements about the conflict
CultureMap Houston

Fine dining chef serves up casual sandwich shop in Houston suburb - Richmond may not be top of mind among the Houston suburbs with destination-worthy restaurants — other than *Larry’s Original Mexican*, of course — but a ne...
Scheerpost.com

The Theft of Bodily Autonomy Is Central to the Authoritarian Playbook, and Texas Has Been Its Proving Ground - Texas houses the country’s only family detention centers and has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the U.S., but it is also home to powerful r...
San Antonio Current

Ken Paxton calls acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock ‘loser,’ calls for his removal amid grudge match - [image: From left: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and state Comptroller Kelly Hancock during Paxton's September 2023 impeachment trial on the Senate flo...
Futurism

Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune - They set a major legal precedent. The post Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune appeared first...
Vox

How Trump is complicating TSA funding - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Rallblog

The Bad War | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
NPR's Health Shots

Soil may be a source of resistance to antibiotics, new research suggests - New research suggests drought can stoke antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria, and those genes can end up in human pathogens.
Election Law Blog

FL: “Special election shocker has Florida Republicans nervous about redistricting” - Politico: “I think the Legislature needs to be very cognizant of the fact that if they get too aggressive … you could put incumbent members at risk,” GO...
Slate

Sam Altman Is Finally Admitting Something No One Else Wants To - OpenAI’s abrupt shutdown of Sora reveals the A.I. boom might be a lot more fragile than it looks.
The Grayzone

Drugs, sexual blackmail: shocking confession letter exposes Israel’s Red Crescent spy ring - A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted usin...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: "Baghdad Bob," the honcho declared! - *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 2026* *His statement was disappeared: *What does an act of "sifting" look like? To answer your question, let's visit the first segm...
El Paso Matters

Accreditor explores 3-year bachelor’s degrees to speed workforce entry in high-demand fields - A regional accreditor is considering shorter bachelor’s degrees to reduce costs and help students enter high-demand fields faster, raising questions abo...
SCOTUSblog

Birthright citizenship: more on Pete Patterson’s claims - Attorney Pete Patterson’s latest post on birthright citizenship repeats the biggest mistakes of his original post and also makes some new mistakes, chasi...
ProPublica

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable - The post Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable appeared first on ProPublica.
World Socialist Web Site

Governing parties suffer losses in Danish election - Neither the traditional “red block” of parties on the left or “blue block” of right-wing parties reached the 90 seats needed for a governmental majority in...
Novara Media

Iran MOCKS Trump, Says US “Negotiating With Itself” - “Someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you,” says Iranian military spokesperson. Plus: What the West gets wrong about Iran’s nuclear a...
Mother Jones

Bernie Sanders and AOC Are Pushing a Moratorium on Data Center Construction - This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) will introduce a ...
Common Dreams

Trump’s Broken Promises: Energy and Utility Bills Surge as Families Struggle to Keep Up - President Trump promised to cut energy prices in half within his first year in office. He has done the exact opposite. Electricity prices rose nearly 7% ...
Undernews

Blacks will be hurt if the WRECK America Act passses - *Yahoo - *The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a Republican-backed bill that passed the House and is currently being debated in the Senate, wou...
MintPress News

US May Sieze Three Iranian Islands, Including Kharg, Targeting Critical Oil Routes & Military in Hormuz - Great strategic importance has been attached to the islands, with Iran deciding to develop their military capabilities there since at least 2008. In part...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Plane is Going Down: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Angry Bear

water security and food production - In Arizona, we are starting to see many proposals for data centers, Chip, etc. and similar manufacturers. It is interesting as there is a lot of obvious ...
First Draft

Elon Musk’s Boring Company? - A tunnel in New Orleans? I is for idiotic and impractical.
Bonddad

Updating the K.I.S.S. estimate of the coming shock in CPI - - *by New Deal democrat* There’s no big economic data today, so let me update something I posted last week, in which I warned readers to expect a sh...
Sludge

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability - The campaign arm pulled in $4.1 million from lobbyist bundlers in February, including firms representing pharmaceutical, insurance, and corporate landlords.
Greg Palast

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Texas Standard

ICE agents deployed to Bush airport in Houston — but wait times haven’t dropped - The agents are helping direct passengers in the terminal but are not staffing TSA check points.
The Root

Why Serena Williams’ Look in Her Latest Social Media Post Has Her Black Fans Going Off - Serena Williams has unfortunately reignited more talks of potential skin bleaching thank to new posts on social media. And folks online are not happy! R...
Alternet

The stage is set for Trump’s plot to upend the midterms: biographer - President Donald Trump has made no secret of his plans to try and subvert GOP losses in the upcoming midterms, and according to his one-time biographer, ...
Liberation News

Funsten Nut Co strike: When women faced Jim Crow and the Depression and won! - Solidarity between Black and white women won gains for both.
Church and State

Christianity’s Role in Fueling the Nazi Holocaust - The origins of anti-Semitism can be found in the New Testament itself. In Mark 15 we find the story of Pilate releasing the insurrectionist Barabbas.
Texas Observer

Mythbusting Texas’ Reactionary Past - The function of foundational myths is to fence off the present from ideas, counter-histories, and traditions from below that could cut through the barbed...
Independent Political Report

Why U.S. Third Parties Perform Best in the Northeast - *This article by Bert Johnson was originally published by The Conversation on February 26, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 license. ...
NORML

Feds Provide Details on Plan To Integrate Hemp-Derived Products Into Medicare Services - [image: A woman holds a round aluminum tin of square cannabis gummies][image: A woman holds a round aluminum tin of square cannabis gummies]"The integrat...
Glasstire

A Joyful Resistance: Kristina Salinas’ “Cognizant Distance” at the San Antonio Central Library Gallery - The complexity, pride, and difficulties that make up home is displayed in Cognizant Distance by Kristina Salinas. Presented in the San Antonio Central Pu...
Ecosophia

March 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Mondoweiss

What it’s like to be a family caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s ‘de-Palestinization’ of Jerusalem - [image: Rubble of the Hamdia family home, demolished by Israeli military authorities in March 2026. (Photo: Qassam Muaddi/Mondoweiss)]The Hamdia family spe...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: The Case of the Curious Cartoonist - Last month there was reason to believe that Ripley’s Believe It or Not had ended its historic run as the panel slipped into reprinting cartoons from the fe...
Democracy Now!

"People Have the Power": Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration - *Democracy Now!* celebrated its 30th anniversary Monday at the historic Riverside Church in New York. The night ended with Patti Smith performing her anthe...
Space City Weather

More of the same for Houston, plus a roofcast for the Astros opening weekend - In brief: Very nice spring weather, albeit more typical for May will continue in Houston through the weekend. A slight change toward better rain chances re...
The Progressive Wing

3/25 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
slacktivist

Texts of terror? Terrific! - A star-studded line up of MAGA celebrities is planning to read the entire Bible, out loud, in Washington DC next month. I don't think they realize what tha...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Lost Golf Balls - Every year, American golfers lose an estimated 300 million golf balls, according to research by... The post Guest Idea: The Hidden Environmental Cost of ...
Dorf on Law

What's Wrong With The Trump Administration's Lawsuit Against Harvard - Last week, the Department of Justice filed suit against Harvard University, alleging that Harvard is violating Title VI by failing adequately to respond ...
The Smirking Chimp

MAGA in Panic Mode As Insiders Fear ‘Brutal’ Midterms Following Florida Trouncing -
Skeptophilia

Scooting past the reviewers - If there's one piece of advice I have for anyone trying to stay informed, it is: check your sources. Unfortunately, these days, that takes more than just a...
Off The Kuff

Republicans had trouble with precinct voting, too - I know, I know, I’m shocked too. At least 12,674 Dallas County voters trying to cast ballots in both party primaries showed up at the wrong polling locatio...
Infidel753

A few news and commentary updates - The media have been in something of a tizzy over Trump's recent bizarre claim that he's negotiating with some important figure in the Iranian theocracy, w...
Workers World

No kings — no imperialism — no capitalism - [image: No kings — no imperialism — no capitalism] Thousands of anti-Trump protests are taking place all over the U.S. on March 28 under the banner of “No ...
The Texas Signal

Cressandra Thibodeaux’s Life Of Activism Endures Beyond 14 Pews - Cressandra Thibodeaux will be showcasing her photos of the United Houma Nation, perhaps "America's first climate change refugees," in an exhibition at the ...
Alas, a Blog

Parents’ Rights - The right-wing (plus some alleged liberals cough Singal cough) assault on trans kids is genuinely horrifying. Literally hundreds of anti-trans bills – most...
Black Agenda Report

Combating the Lies and Propaganda that Fuel the USA-Israel War on Iran - Combating the Lies and Propaganda that Fuel the USA-Israel War on Iran bareditors Wed, 03/25/2026 - 02:44 Solomon Comissiong Margaret Kimberley, BAR Execut...
LareDOS

April 1 at Casa Ortiz: Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and art exhibit of Bethany House residents - The Laredo Cultural District’s (LCD) upcoming Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and the art exhibit of Bethany House residents is set...
The AltWorld

The Battle for Hormuz - After more than four weeks of conflict, the struggle between the US and Iran boils down to […] The post The Battle for Hormuz appeared first on TheAltWor...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #19: Iran Updates, ICE at the Airport, the State of Magazine Covers, and Chappell Roan vs. Jude Law's Daughter - Official War Correspondent Cros is back to tell us what to think about the war.
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about Exit from International Organizations - What is the name of the book and what are its coordinates? The book is Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change. ...
Rewire

Contraception Services Dropped After ‘Defunding’ Provision Hit Clinics - Planned Parenthood closed 20 clinics in the months since the July 2025 budget reconciliation bill cut off Medicaid funding to some reproductive health-ca...
The Conversation

Is it ‘Ih-ran’ or ‘E-ron’? Inside the politics of pronunciation - Both President Trump and Vice President Vance pronounce Iran as ‘Ih-RAN,’ not ‘Ih-RON.’ A linguist says that how the country’s name is pronounced may be a ...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Socialist Alternative

How Cincinnati Is Building an Anti-ICE, Strike-Ready Fightback - Donald Trump’s war and deportation machine has kicked into overdrive, tearing apart communities at home while expanding violence abroad. But across the cou...
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Executive Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Silence Has a Sound: Texas' SB 37, the End of Shared Governance, and the Structured Diminishment of Voice, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Silence Has a Sound: Texas' SB 37, the End of Shared Governance, and the Structured Diminishment of Voice* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 23, ...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Project Censored

Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment - First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with ...
Krebs on Security

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran - A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secu...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: From Neocon to Never-Trump - Matt and Sam talk to Bill Kristol about his journey from neoconservative thought leader to anti-Trump liberal.
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...
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]
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...
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...
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...
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?
Lowering the Bar

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

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Reveal

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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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

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

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ROAR Magazine

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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

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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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

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Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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The Mind Unleashed

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The Reality-Based Community

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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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

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Robert Reich

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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Texas Environmental News

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Shadowproof

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One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
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Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
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FiveThirtyEight.com

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Tribune of the People

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Lawfare

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News Junkie

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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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

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Popehat

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epic.org

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Malady

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

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

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INSIDER - politics news

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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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

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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