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

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Police called on trans men using women's restroom as required by law' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Trans men in Kansas point out the idiocy of a law designed to police their usage of public restrooms. *Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Minnesota man killed his wife and child before dying by suicide, police say - Police said they believed deceased man was assailant in domestic-related homicide at daycare center A man killed a woman and their child inside a small i...
Al Jazeera English

Trump administration plans to give ICE officers electric-shock gloves - US Homeland Security is expected to buy up to $20m in gloves amid criticism of the president's immigration crackdown.
Alternet

Trump 'rotting' into a meal ticket for MAGA vultures: analysis - National security analyst David Rothkopf tells the Daily Beast that President Donald Trump is a decaying husk of a man these days, but his gooey meat is ...
Raw Story

White House lashes out over Trump health questions amid Leavitt exit - The White House was furious Wednesday as questions over President Donald Trump's health were mounting just as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced ...
The Verge

Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones - It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be ...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Conservatives and far-right Reform UK pledge mass eviction of foreign nationals from social housing - Reform leader Nigel Farage in June published a 6,800-word essay, “Britain is a two-tier state—against white people”, asserting that “anti-white racism was ...
Workers World

Michigan primary election: Abdul El-Sayed defeats pro-Zionist mainstream Democrat - [image: Michigan primary election: Abdul El-Sayed defeats pro-Zionist mainstream Democrat] Abdul El-Sayed holds a news conference after winning the Michiga...
Liberation News

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

Michigan’s local election officials are confident in voting integrity ahead of November’s midterm election - Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
Courthouse News

Sex trafficking victim asks Ninth Circuit to reinstate lawsuit against Meta - Jane Doe’s attorney argues that the court’s decision last year against X opened the door for his client’s product liability claim to circumvent Section 230.
Vox

A messy lesson for the post-woke left - This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Wisc...
Houston Public Media

ICE detained a man in Houston after he reported a shooting to local police - The incident could limit prosecutors' ability to investigate the shooting and also raises renewed questions about the Houston Police Department's cooperati...
Election Law Blog

Votebeat is again looking for election experts to help with their coverage - Application form is here. The post Votebeat is again looking for election experts to help with their coverage appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Techdirt.

Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It - The reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500 word AI manifesto, “The Future is for Everyone,” has been all over the map. Given the messenger and the topic, ther...
Slate

What Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong’s Loss in Wisconsin Really Means for the Democratic Party - Another Midwestern primary, but the opposite result. What does it all mean?
Futurism

OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances - The timing couldn't be worse. The post OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances appeared first on Futurism.
Idavox

Milwaukee County Exec. David Crowley calls for Democrats to unite as he Wisconsin Governor accepts primary nomination - It was a pretty close but DSA candidate and State Rep. Francesca Hong was not... The post Milwaukee County Exec. David Crowley calls for Democrats to uni...
Mediaite

Trump Media Sued For Selling Early Access to President’s Posts: ‘Corrupt and Unconstitutional’ - “The President stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving’ government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company”...
El Paso Matters

Texas cuts child care subsidy program. Here’s what that means. - Texas is cutting about 14,000 child care scholarship seats statewide, potentially leaving families on waiting lists longer as regions reduce enrollment ...
San Antonio Report

Kate Rogers, former Alamo CEO forced out by state leaders, has a new job at the Tobin Center - Kate Rogers will be the new chief development officer for the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. The appointment comes almost a year after she was force...
The Week

How to choose the right realtor when selling your house - In preparing for one of the most impactful financial transactions of your life, you’ll want a good agent at your side
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to issue a decision in mail-in voting dispute - The Trump administration on Wednesday reiterated its request for the Supreme Court to move quickly to block a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts ...
Political Wire

Another L for Polling - “In a never-ending news cycle, any fresh data is quick to draw eyes and make headlines, like it or not…” Politico reports. “Still, the recent misses — aste...
Texas Standard

Corpus Christi puts industrial water charge on November ballot - Activists gathered nearly 13,000 signatures on a petition to levy fees on chemical plants and refineries during drought.
Mediagazer

PR agency Baden Bower appears to be behind two fake and largely AI-generated websites purporting to be published by Forbes and filled with promotional content (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette) - Rob Waugh / Press Gazette: *PR agency Baden Bower appears to be behind two fake and largely AI-generated websites purporting to be published by Forbes an...
Mother Jones

A DSA Candidate Lost a Messy Race for Wisconsin Governor - Following a chaotic race for Wisconsin governor, moderate Democrat David Crowley defeated progressive Francesca Hong on Tuesday night. Although Hong held ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

Houston barbecue power couple sets opening date for new East End tavern - One of this year’s most eagerly anticipated new barbecue joints will make its debut this week. *Willow’s Smokehouse & Tavern* will open this Thursday, Augu...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *New Republic - * President Donald Trump is sneakily spending close to a billion dollars on White House renovations using mostly taxpayer funds, making an ...
Scheerpost.com

Trade Unionists Launch Solidarity Organization With Filipino Labor Movement - Fight Back! News. Los Angeles, CA – On Sunday, July 26, over 100 activists from different organizations came together to celebrate the launch of Bulosan – ...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Bernie Saw This Coming - Francesca Hong lost her Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor after progressive leaders declined to back her campaign.
Novara Media

UK Government Won’t Release Files on Israeli Firm ‘Meddling’ in Election - The British government has refused to release any files about alleged meddling by an Israeli firm in elections in Scotland earlier this year. A little-know...
Eschaton

"Cutting-Edge" - You can't criticize our patriotic defense contractors, because that's no different than criticizing the troops, really. It was the summer of 2024, and the...
Mondoweiss

Israel’s arrest of Ramallah’s ‘doctor of the poor’ shows Palestinians that no one is safe - [image: Mazen Rantisi. (Photo: Social Media/X)]The arrest and abuse of “doctor of the poor” Mazen Rantisi signal that no one is safe from Israel’s assault ...
Bonddad

July consumer inflation: the second gift horse in a row, with gas prices down again and shelter subdued - - *by New Deal democrat* As I wrote yesterday, July’s CPI was likely to be subdued because on average the price of gas went down further in July. An...
Daily Howler

NEW ARRIVALS: Press and staff stayed on the plane... - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2026 * *...after the president left:* Crouched behind barrels of chicken salad, he made his way out of Turkey! It was the Washin...
Independent Political Report

Free New Mexico Party Adopts Resolution Affirming State Affiliate Autonomy - The Free New Mexico Party has become the latest Libertarian state affiliate to adopt a resolution affirming state party autonomy and calling for clearer ...
naked capitalism

Layoffs Tied to AI Hurt Worker Productivity – and the Reason May Surprise Managers - AI routinely fails to increase corporate productivity. Using it to get rid of workers is a big reason why.
Glasstire

Cave Dark: Being Human with Joshua Mokry - The notion that truth exists with or without human knowledge tends to make sense scientifically. For example, chemistry tells us that the formation of ru...
The Root

Heartbreaking Update for Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Widow and Daughter - Malcolm-Jamal Warner's widow is unfortunately still facing hardships in the aftermath of his shocking death. Here are the details. Read more...
Common Dreams

Working Families Feel the Heat of Trump’s Recklessness with Consumer Prices on the Rise in July - Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows prices rose 0.1% in July and are up 3.4% over the past year. July’s price increase reverses the disinflat...
The Hill

Trump approval takes another hit: Poll - President Trump’s approval rating dipped again this week, following a downward trend in support for the president amid the ongoing Iran war and mounting af...
The Progressive Wing

8/12 News Roundup and Open Thread - Great result in Minnesota. Close loss in Wisconsin.
WhoWhatWhy

Fox News Sinks GOP’s Chances of Winning Governor’s Race in Wisconsin - [image: Wisconsin, Seal, Stained glass] The network's obsession with comments that Democratic socialist Francesca Hong once made about Thanksgiving will ma...
First Draft

If I Go, You Go - Trump doesn't care if you die, and he's not going to do anything to save any of us, either.
NPR's Health Shots

His wedding guests gave $6k to fund a health startup. Now it's won a $3 million prize - Dr. Raj Panjabi founded Last Mile Health to bring healthcare to people living in remote areas. The group is the 2026 recipient of the Conrad N. Hilton Huma...
Salon.com

Bernie Sanders’ AI warnings are being ignored in the Senate - Like Helaena Targaryen from "House of the Dragon," the Vermont senator is sounding an alarm that won't be heard
Bracing Views

Promise Peace, Deliver War - Of Presidential Betrayal BILL ASTORE AUG 10, 2026 U.S. presidents since Lyndon B. Johnson, if not before then (think here of Woodrow Wilson’s false promise...
ArcaMax

An Immodest Proposal for Trump - You may wonder why President Donald Trump is doing everything he can, day by day, to destroy faith in democracy in little and large ways, on the job day an...
Space City Weather

Putting the Heat in H-town, and help us come up with t-shirt ideas - In brief: In today’s post we talk about the ongoing heat wave in Houston, which we expect to build this weekend and possibly intensify further during the f...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: POTUS à la Carte (ou Camionnette) - Cartoonists have leapt on the story of Donald Trump being sneaked off of Air Force One onto a different plane to fly from Ankara to London because of a rum...
Rallblog

How Iran Brought the US to a Stalemate | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Rewire

New HIV Guidance Aims To Protect More Women - A leading medical group now advises OB-GYNs to “proactively” discuss and prescribe HIV prevention drugs with their patients. “You could have one partner,” ...
Dorf on Law

The Case for Pragmatic Pluralism as the Best Method of Constitutional Interpretation - How judges should interpret the United States Constitution is an issue as old as the Constitution itself. The myth that the text plays a serious role in ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Air Force One Decoy Story Exposes Another Big Lie: Analysis -
Off The Kuff

Even Greg Abbott’s pollster thinks the Governor’s race is close - Via Michael Adams-Hurta on Twitter, the most wild poll result so far this cycle may be this one. DATE: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 TO: Interested Parties FROM:...
The Grayzone

Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s hands - As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a net...
ProPublica

Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing - The post Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

Mission: Impossible – Catering Truck (Starring Donald J. Trump) - The post Mission: Impossible – Catering Truck (Starring Donald J. Trump) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Grist

Scientists define a new category of heat wave: ‘Snow eaters’ - Unseasonably warm weather that rapidly melts snowpack is becoming more widespread in the U.S. West and happening earlier in the year.
Two Party Opera

Promises Made, Promises Kept - Read More
High Country News

Convocation of crows, sea-lebrity sea lions and what is that nasty smell? - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Convocation of crows, sea-lebrity sea lions and what is that nasty smell? appeared first on High Cou...
Counterpunch

D.C. Under Siege: One Year of Military Occupation - One year ago, the Trump administration brought 800 National Guard troops to occupy the streets of Washington, D.C., part of the "Safe and Beautiful Task ...
jobsanger

Trump's Tariffs Didn't Create Manufacturing Jobs - It Eliminated Thousands Of Them -
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Delinquencies, Foreclosures, Collections & Bankruptcies in Q2 2026 - How Americans are handling their debts.
Informed Comment

Iraq between Occupation and Sovereignty, as US Troops Depart - Even if US forces fully withdraw, the consequences of the US invasion will reverberate long after the last US boot leaves the ground
memeorandum

Reporter breaks 26-year silence on briefing that preceded Clinton's plane swap (Scott Nover/Washington Post) - Scott Nover / Washington Post: *Reporter breaks 26-year silence on briefing that preceded Clinton's plane swap* — Bill Clinton's White House used a sim...
Popular Resistance

New Campaign Targets The Wealthy’s Increasing Use Of Private Jets - As the climate crisis ravages the planet with wildfires, droughts and floods, the wealthy are using private jets, which spew carbon into the atmosphere, ...
Brad Blog

War, Climate Chaos Now Threatening U.S. Crude, Diesel, Water, Power Supplies: ‘BradCast’ 8/11/2026 - It was quite the lollapalooza on today’s BradCast! From encouraging — and even exciting — news on this year’s elections to dire news on…well, just about ev...
Deadline Politics

California Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Xavier Becerra Says He Prefers Settlement Of Paramount-WBD Antitrust Lawsuit: “Conference Room, Not Courtroom” - Xavier Becerra, the Democratic nominee to become the next governor of California, recommended that state attorneys general and Paramount reach a settlement...
Portside

Momo and the Time Thieves Review – Kids’ Fantasy Jaunt Sticks the Boot Into Capitalism - Momo and the Time Thieves Review – Kids’ Fantasy Jaunt Sticks the Boot Into Capitalism Marti Tue, 08/11/2026 - 20:32
Antiwar.com

The Bomb in Monaco and a Torture Room Near Kyiv - They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from he...
Ian Welsh

Maybe Early AI Adoption Is Stupid? - The thing about AI is that it takes previous costs (your engineers and their tools) and makes them more expensive. Often much more expensive: if you built ...
Environment Texas

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

‘Those People’ - The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.
Claytoonz

Orange Chicken in the Food Cart - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
TalkLeft

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

Democrats swap candidates in key metro State House race - [image: Lisa Curtis] New Mexico Democrats are swapping candidates in a key State House race in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights where they have their targe...
Axios

Trump admin cuts Medicaid funds for youth trans care - The Trump administration on Tuesday finalized a plan to cut off federal Medicaid funding for hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries for transgen...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes - Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one wea...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s Sushi Zushi chain shutters Lincoln Heights location - Sushi Zushi’s Lincoln Heights restaurant has permanently closed, pending a move to an unspecified new location, according to a sign on its front door. “...
The Greanville Post

Home of the Living Dead—They want to eat your brains - JM—Article 91 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) states: “Every State shall fix the conditions for the grant of its nationalit...
slacktivist

The ‘religious left’ and the Greatest Canadian - Tommy Douglas is a reminder that the so-called "religious left" is not a mirror-image counterpart of the "religious right."
Crooked Timber

My comprehensive plan for US strategy in the Middle East… * - … is set out over the fold. I’m confident readers who take a little time to think about it will realise it’s far superior to existing policy, and to any al...
IVN

California Amendment Introduced to Take Party Politics Out of the Office That Runs Elections - Assemblymembers Josh Hoover and Natasha Johnson introduce constitutional amendment to make the secretary of state's office nonpartisan, addressing concerns...
Texas Observer

Who Pays for the High-Powered Grid that Data Centers Need? - The true scale of prospective projects that want to plug into the Texas grid is hard to hold in your head. As of August 3, the Texas governor’s office pu...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

How to Occupy a University, by Deena Varner, The Higher Ed Advocate, Aug. 5, 2026 - Friends: *Deena Varner’s powerful essay, “How to Occupy a University,” makes an argument that deserves far more attention: the political remaking of higher...
Consortium News

Local US Cops Adding AI Drones to Tech Surveillance - First came the Flock cameras. Now, hundreds of local police departments have received government waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI, ...
Discourse

Everyone In 'The Odyssey' Is Acting in a Different Movie - The Discourse Pod Movie Club returns to discuss Christopher Nolan's latest epic
See You In 2020

The black pill, our social collapse, and the battle to rescue civilization from the technocrats - What the black pill really means is the realization that only a chosen few will be allowed to have “normal” lives in the superstructure that we’re now l...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In - The technology appears unlikely to constrain the immigration agencies; much more sweeping reforms are needed
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - The Citizenship Clause was indeed written to repudiate Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision holding that Black people could never be citizens. But...
Ballot Access News

Eighth Circuit Strikes Down South Dakota’s February Petition Deadline for Initiatives - On August 11, the Eighth Circuit struck down South Dakota’s February petition deadline for initiatives. Dakotans for Health v Johnson, 25-2940. The vote ...
The AltWorld

Russian-Syrian Relations Have Entered A New Era - Russia has no regional alternative to its Syrian waypoint en route to Africa while Syria’s exclusive dependence […] The post Russian-Syrian Relations Hav...
Dissent Magazine

The SpaceX Sham - The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Case of Hasan Piker: How to Avoid Having a Debate You Can't Win - Establishment Democrats have no desire to debate actual issues. And we've seen this happen before.
Capital & Main

U.S. Has Deported Hundreds of Children to Cities in Southern Mexico - Human rights organizations said the minors lack the resources to go home safely and that some may have died trying. The post U.S. Has Deported Hundreds o...
Duck of Minerva

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

Bryan Stevenson on the "Enduring Evil of Slavery" and Trump's Attempt to Rewrite History - We spend the hour with civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opene...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading Faster Than the Habit of Using Them - Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored posting. Curbside food scrap collection has spread fast. BioCycle’s... The post Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading F...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 11 August 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here.] Well...
LareDOS

El Cenizo Groundbreaking for Lamar Bruni Vergara El Cenizo Public Library renovation set for August 11 - Renovation funded by Mellon Foundation through U.S. Border Philanthropy Partnership
Trivial Knot

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

Health Insurers Are Paying Third Way as It Targets the Left - A health insurance industry group run by Republican consultants made its only disclosed 2024 donation to the centrist Third Way, according to a tax filing ...
The Texas Signal

Prisoners Sent Out Of State, Left Out Of The Count - Despite the alarming number of deaths and high cost to send inmates out of state, Harris County keeps sending people anyway
OpEd News

Thanks to the moon""before and after Tuesday night - As I write, the upper stage of a discarded Falcon 9 Space X rocket barrels (unplanned) toward the Moon at 5400 miles per hour. Falcon 9 transports commerci...
Earthworks

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

Lack of civics education for our citizens gave us Donald Trump - The history of civics education in America reminds us that failure to understand history and act to confront its hard lessons gave us Trump.
Project Censored

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

Clinical Trial: Plant-Derived Cannabis Preparation Is Safe and Effective in Children With Autism - [image: A droplet of oils drips from the medicine dropper over a bottle of cannabis oil next to a flowering marijuana plant][image: A droplet of oils dri...
Texas Environmental News

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Democracy Chronicles

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

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

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: HE CALLS THAT RELIGION BUT I KNOW HE'S GOING TO HELL WHEN HE DIES EDITION. - *New Bands for Old Heads is great, and here's a reminder**that not all the bands there are some punk-hyphenate.* A day late and -- well, they always say...
Lowering the Bar

How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? Anything You Type, Burgundy Will Read - [image: Bill Oliver]Generative AI claims yet another victim.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

Rail workers honor USW picket line at Marathon refinery - MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out refinery workers at the Marathon refinery here got a boost this week when Union Pacific rail crews stopped delivering tallow,...
Socialist Alternative

South Africa: Xenophobia & The Street War Against Black Immigrants - During the just-concluded World Cup, South Africa in its first match came up against Mexico. All over the African continent there was an immediate shift of...
Debunking Christianity

Beware of Cult Fanatics and Propagandists - *It’s not hard to spot the craziness* If you live in a small town or big city, chances are there’s a lovely public park where you can have a good time. ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report August 7, 2026 - Black Agenda Report August 7, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/07/2026 - 10:06 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
MintPress News

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

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

Energy: Predicaments and Prospects Revisited - A few weeks ago, as regular readers will remember, I glanced back twenty years to my earliest and least accurate overview of the future of industrial civil...
Green Pages News

Chino Garcia Obituary - While we were meeting at the GPUS national meeting in Chicago on Friday, July 24, one of the OGs (Original Greens) the American Green Party movement, Chino...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Trickle-Down Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. “Trickle-down” thinking – the idea t...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The People Say “Stop The War”, The Democrats Say “Hold My Beer” - 14×14 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 722 kb “…Under conditions of mass popular opposition to the war, which is being used by the Trump administration as...
Media Lens

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

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

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

News roundup. - The main stream media seems to be more fixated on an ideological difference within the Democratic party, than they are actual fascism being practiced b...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michigan will be wo...
Edinburg Politics

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

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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