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

The Week

Tokenmaxxing: the AI workplace trend pushing rapid integration - Companies are gamifying AI utilization and spending thousands in tokens weekly
Undernews

Journalists subjected to unconstitutional search warrants - *The Guardian - O*n Tuesday, a federal judge unsealed records showing that the Department of Justice tried and failed to get search warrants targeting jo...
Raw Story

'Cringe level is off the charts': Hegseth mocked over motivational speech to Navy sailors - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was criticized Friday after giving what was intended as a motivational speech to a group of Navy sailors. Hegseth joined t...
Houston Public Media

Charges of abusing corpses dropped against Houston funeral home owner - Richardson Mortuary has remained closed since the Texas Funeral Service Commission ordered the owners to suspend operations last year.
Progressive.org

Rideshare Win Could Bring Big Changes - New state model leads to biggest union bargaining unit since 1941.
Al Jazeera English

Vance says US, Iran have made “a lot of progress” towards deal - US Vice President JD Vance says Washington and Tehran have made “a lot of progress” towards ceasefire
CultureMap Houston

Texas Pulitzer winner discusses new podcast about life after July 4th flood - Less than a year ago, the Guadalupe River swallowed everything in its path. Houses. Roadways. Lives. For many Central Texans, time now splits cleanly into ...
Futurism

Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a Cliff - "It is a race against time." The post Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a Cliff appeared first on Futurism.
Bonddad

April new home sales: prices somnolent, an interesting wrinkle in inventory - * - by New Deal democrat* The final note from yesterday’s data is concerning new home sales, and more importantly at the moment, prices. As a genera...
Axios

Rock-bottom immigration rates leave mark on U.S. economy - President Trump's immigration crackdown is causing one of the sharpest slowdowns in U.S. population growth in decades. Economists are beginning to tally ...
Alternet

A small disclaimer exposes a secret Trump project run by Airbnb founder - A small disclaimer on a website just exposed a secret project with no reporting, oversight, transparency or accountability under the thumb of President D...
Daily Howler

DEMOCRATIZATION'S REMAINS: Podcasters of the world, unite! - *FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2026* *Democratization's spawn: *Why do certified experts insist that our nation already qualifies as a classic failed state? Look a...
Mediaite

‘Misusing His Hospitality’: Fox Contributor Slams ‘Nefarious’ Chicago Mayor Over Meeting With Pope - Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo called out Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) on Friday for his meeting with Pope Leo XIV, claiming the mayor and his ...
Angry Bear

“the consumer is teetering on the very edge of recession” - AB: For the last few months, New Deal democrat has been watching an economy on the brink of a recession. Still not quite there yet. The one factor keepin...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Exclusive Report: The Worsening Crisis - An analysis of the growing energy and economic crises and opportunities for change
The Texas Signal

Delays In DACA Renewals - Between October 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026, the median wait for a DACA renewal ran about 70 days. Texas holds the second-largest DACA population in the...
El Paso Matters

UTEP breaks ground on $102 million dorm; deck plaza gets donation; El Paso to host Juárez leaders - This week: UTEP launches a new student housing project as El Paso and Ciudad Juárez prepare for a binational meeting on regional cooperation. The post U...
Democracy Now!

"It's About People Feeding Their Families": Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia - Protests in Bolivia are demanding the resignation of Rodrigo Paz, the country’s first right-wing president in decades. Since Paz took office in November 20...
slacktivist

LBCF: Three Days of the Chicken - Wherein the Greatest Investigative Reporter of All Time meets with a member of the shadowy evil conspiracy so he can offer to bury their secrets in exchang...
The Progressive Wing

5/29-5/31 News Roundup & Open Thread - I am thrilled to have the endorsement of @NYCMayor. This time last year, I was canvassing Uptown and the Bronx in support of candidate Mamdani's affordabil...
Space City Weather

After recent rains, most of the Houston area is officially out of drought for the first time since September - In brief: A quiet weekend looks to be in store for Houston with standard early summer hot weather and minimal rain chances. Things do turn more active agai...
Scheerpost.com

Can the Imperial Core Be Reformed? Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté on the Collapse of the Global Order - Joshua Scheer At the Vancouver Web Summit, Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté examine Gaza, the erosion of international law, AI-powered warfare, media censorship...
Dorf on Law

Who Judges Judges When they Act Badly? - Federal judges are people too, albeit with life tenure and substantial governmental power. Because federal judges are people too, they will sometimes mak...
The Smirking Chimp

There Is No Art to Trump’s Iran Deal -
ArcaMax

Conservation and Public Safety Align When Dangerous Dams Are Removed - I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-he...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Wildfire-Resistant Plant Selection - Picture two houses in the aftermath of a California wildfire. What’s left of one is... The post Guest Idea: Wildfire-Resistant Plant Selection appeared f...
Novara Media

Trans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It? - The left has been slow to react to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice on ‘single-sex spaces’ laid before parliament last we...
NPR's Health Shots

Photos show the world's 'uncounted' people -- and what it takes to be counted - Colombian-American photographer and filmmaker Juan Arredondo turns his lens on the people of the world who do not have birth and death certificates — and h...
The Root

PETA Starts Beef With Lizzo, But Does She Deserve the Smoke? - Lizzo's new collaboration with Chili's is igniting debates online over animal ethics as PETA speaks out. Read more...
Salon.com

Tom Suozzi lives at C Street, controversial Christian center behind National Prayer Breakfasts - The New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse
Eschaton

Morning - Feral Friday
San Antonio Report

Meet the Democratic pick for Texas House District 125, a public school teacher from San Antonio - Adrian Reyna could be one of the first public school teachers and labor activists from San Antonio to serve in the Texas House. ---------------------------...
ProPublica

More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds - The post More Than $100 Million Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures, Government Watchdog Finds appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

Is It Gay to Flip Texas? - The post Is It Gay to Flip Texas? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediagazer

Internal doc: Disney plans to bring Hulu's content and features to Disney+ by year's end, and to decommission the Hulu app after users have transitioned (James Faris/Business Insider) - James Faris / Business Insider: *Internal doc: Disney plans to bring Hulu's content and features to Disney+ by year's end, and to decommission the Hulu a...
Grist

Pacific Islanders slowly recover from the strongest storm of the year - More than a month after Sinlaku hit the Western Pacific, the death toll stands at 17 and many families remain without stable housing or electricity.
memeorandum

Pam Bondi to face closed-door questioning from House lawmakers over Epstein files (Stephen Groves/ABC News) - Stephen Groves / ABC News: *Pam Bondi to face closed-door questioning from House lawmakers over Epstein files* — Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is a...
The Verge

Blue Origin explosion is a major setback for NASA’s Moon plans and Amazon’s Starlink competitor - While Blue Origin investigates the root cause behind last night's spectacular explosion of its New Glenn rocket, it's already clear that this will be a maj...
High Country News

O’Keeffe Country was never O’Keeffe’s to begin with - Indigenous Tewa artists reassert their relationship with the land in a new exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The post O’Keeffe Country was neve...
Lowering the Bar

Good Reason to Kill #79: Disputed Seating at Kindergarten Graduation - "A kindergarten graduation turned violent today," but only for the parents.
naked capitalism

It’s Not Just High Gas Prices – Inflation Is Now Spreading Through the US Economy - Inflation is rising and set to become more severe and puts the Fed in a bind.
Counterpunch

Gangster Capitalism and Corruption in Trump’s America - Corruption has never been far from the center of American politics. Some of the most notorious scandals stretch from the cronyism of Warren G. Harding to...
Workers World

Ebola has a deadly connection to the Congo’s mineral wealth - [image: Ebola has a deadly connection to the Congo’s mineral wealth] Caption: Members of the Congo Scouts movement carry an Ebola awareness banner along a ...
jobsanger

Trump Is A Very Bad Negotiator -
Informed Comment

Netanyahu seeks 70% of Gaza in Israel’s own Generalplan Ost - the prime minister replied, “First 70 percent. We’ll start with that.”
Consortium News

‘Show Trial’ of UK Palestine Action Activists in Germany - Two Britons are among the five activists being held in detention and tried in Germany after targeting an Israeli weapons factory last year, report John McE...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

California teen Shrey Parikh wins National Spelling Bee in dramatic tiebreaker - - Parikh, 14, beats Ishaan Gupta in spell-off - Favorite gets 32 words right in tiebreaker Shrey Parikh felt the pressure of a...
Courthouse News

Nevada Supreme Court pauses state law restricting abortion for minors - The decision reverses a lower court’s ruling denying a temporary injunction blocking the enforcement of a 1985 law that requires doctors to notify the pare...
The Hill

Vance says US, Iran still 'going back and forth' on 'nuclear stuff' - Vice President Vance said on Thursday that the U.S. was “very close” to finalizing an agreement with Iran, but a few sticking points remained. The two side...
Popular Resistance

How The War On Terror Created The Age Of Trump - In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I. Its foot ...
Portside

Delaney Hall ICE Detainees Take Aim at GEO Group’s Bottom Line - Delaney Hall ICE Detainees Take Aim at GEO Group’s Bottom Line jay Thu, 05/28/2026 - 20:38
Mother Jones

Andy Kim: Nothing’s Improved Since Minnesota—Except Private Prison Profits - “I certainly didn’t see anything at Delaney Hall that gives me a sense that things have changed since Minnesota,” Andy Kim told me. The New Jersey senator,...
Antiwar.com

Self-Engineered Decay: Why Israel’s Political Collapse Cannot Be Separated from Its War Crimes - For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears to be an earth-sh...
Election Law Blog

“The Real Districting Culprit” - Cecilia Munoz wrote this piece for Democracy. But even if we were somehow to prevent the further gerrymandering that dilutes minority voting power, it is...
Claytoonz

Treasonous Scales - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
IVN

Poll: Only 22% of Latino Voters Support Return to Partisan Primaries. Becerra Big Lead for Governor. - A majority of California Latino voters say they want to keep the nonpartisan Top Two primary or modify it to advance more than two candidates to the genera...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio dog bite cases rise despite $15 million budget increase for Animal Care Services - Members of City Council’s Public Safety Committee expressed dismay during Thursday meeting at Animal Control Services’ lackluster performance last year ...
Techdirt.

Violent Crime In The US Is At Record Lows, But The DOJ Is Eliminating The Funding That Helped Reduce Crime - This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The United States is experiencing one of the...
Socialist Alternative

Chicago’s Rush Hospital Nurses Win Union Vote - By Monday, May 18, it was official: Rush Hospital nurses had won a union! By a count of 1,190 to 350—a resounding 77% “yes” vote—Rush nurses sent a powerfu...
Slate

Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts Remain Strangely Clear-Eyed About One Kind of Racism - The Supreme Court issued a surprisingly good decision in a racial jury-selection case on Thursday.
The NM Political Report

By the #s: Where New Mexico gas prices have risen the most since the Iran war began - [image: Gas prices at Circle K Gas on Central Ave. and San Pedro Dr SE] By the #s: Where New Mexico gas prices have risen the most since the Iran war bega...
Texas Standard

Why did Sen. John Cornyn lose? The GOP ‘ground shifted underneath him’ - Cornyn’s loss signals a total break from the Bush-style conservative politics in Texas.
Deadline Politics

ABC Tells FCC Its Early Review Of Broadcast Licenses Chills Free Speech: “An Extraordinary Demonstration Of Power And Coercion” - The Walt Disney Co. and ABC are once again pushing back on the FCC, this time over the agency’s demand that it file early renewal applications for its broa...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Barrett targeted in “swatting” incident - Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of a “swatting” incident – a false call reporting gunshots intended to provoke a response from law enforcement o...
Wolf Street

PCE Inflation Surges Further Away from Fed’s Target, now Nearly Double the Fed’s Target, and 5+ Years above Target - Trend reversal started a year ago. Services inflation stuck at high rate for a year. Now prices of food, energy, computers & software (inflationary AI boom...
Texas Observer

A Black Cowboy Museum, Rebooted - Larry Callies ambles through the Black Cowboy Museum in downtown Rosenberg, southwest of Houston, sporting his straw Stetson and a pair of worn work boot...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Rain - There are a lot of rain-related songs, so here’s Volume 1.
Vox

The real lesson of the E. Jean Carroll investigation is Trump’s weakness - Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman wh...
Common Dreams

Statement by the NYC chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace on the illegal sale of Palestinian land - “Tonight, the municipality of Jerusalem and the Israeli Building Center are hosting a discriminatory event in which they plan to sell stolen Palestinian ...
Ballot Access News

Alabama Pushes Back Primary Candidate Filing Deadline for U.S. House in Four Districts - On May 28, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey postponed the primary candidate filing deadline for U.S. House in districts 1,2,6 and 7. See this story. … Continue re...
Capital & Main

Top Democratic Candidates Agree on Housing Urgency, Not the Fix - In the governor’s race, Steyer backs sweeping reforms and Becerra stresses enforcement. The post Top Democratic Candidates Agree on Housing Urgency, Not ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarians Elect Evan McMahon Chair, Seat New National Committee - The Libertarian Party elected Evan McMahon as national chair and seated a new Libertarian National Committee during its convention in Grand Rapids, Michi...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Quiet Dismantling of Academic Freedom in the UT System, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., May 28, 2026 - *The Quiet Dismantling of Academic Freedom in the UT System* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 28, 2026* *The rule revision also allows the presi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Fun with Media Markets: A Cheapskate’s Guide to Investing in Competitive Races - Where can campaign dollars go the furthest? We look at 5 competitive Senate races and 10 competitive House races occurring in relatively small media mark...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2026 - Censored Press News As Project Censored prepares its 2027 State of the Free Press yearbook—to be published by The Censored Press in December 2026—we’ve b...
Mondoweiss

Trump wants the Palestinians to pay for the U.S. occupation of Gaza - [image: Donald Trump announces the "Board of Peace" on January 22, 2026, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.(Photo: ©2026 World Economic For...
Glasstire

Top Five: May 28, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Cups for Y’allHouston Center for Contemporary CraftMarc...
Daily Cartoonist

Editooning – By Necessity A New System Emerges - A years-long, physically-enforced sabbatical ended for Steve Sack last year when he returned to cartooning. Rob Tornoe at Editor & Publisher tells of Steve...
Rewire

Lawsuits Challenging Embryo Disposal Could Hinder IVF - A Utah lawsuit claims the disposal of embryos violates the state’s wrongful death law. The post Lawsuits Challenging Embryo Disposal Could Hinder IVF app...
The Conversation

To ‘86’ occasionally means to kill but usually doesn’t: A linguistic investigation into the Instagram threat charge against James Comey - Does a seashell arrangement in the form of the numerals ‘86 47’ amount to a criminal threat to assassinate President Donald Trump, as prosecutors suggest?
Rallblog

More Good Advice Democrats Won’t Take - Like the weather, everyone complains about the Democrats, but no one does anything about them. Well, we do point out what the perennial hapless loyal opp...
Off The Kuff

Some early thoughts about the 2026 primary runoffs - A few of my thoughts and a few from other people… – There were 114,059 votes cast in the Democratic runoff in Harris County, with 552,678 in the Lite Guv r...
The Daily Poster

The Spy Planes That Helped Jeffrey Epstein Take Off - How the convicted sex trafficker built his power in the shadows of the Iran-Contra affair — and why no one stopped him.
Infidel753

Lives within lives - Life on this world takes many forms, and science sometimes discovers aspects of biology which are as strange and fascinating as anything one might expect ...
The AltWorld

If Israel Receives Immense Support, It’s Going To Receive Immense Criticism - One of the more asinine liberal Zionist talking points is conceding that you are technically allowed to […] The post If Israel Receives Immense Support, ...
WhoWhatWhy

Indigestible - [image: Gargantua, Honore Daumier, Donald Trump, Grifter] Donald Trump gets his going in and coming out. Indigestible originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Political Wire

Justice Department Launches Probe of E. Jean Carroll - “The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sex...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Signature irregularities keeping trans sports ban off of Maine ballot this year - No doubt certain people will appeal this ruling, but for now the attempt by Maine's Republican party to get its voters to the polls in November via an at...
Environment Texas

Texas acquires landmark 54,000-acre Hill Country ranch for future state park - The post Texas acquires landmark 54,000-acre Hill Country ranch for future state park appeared first on Environment Texas.
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON: UNGINEERING, Not Geoengineering - Ship trails in the North Pacific cool our climate through the oldest climate pollution treatment (geoengineering) strategy humans have been practicing for ...
Discourse

It's Still So Funny How Much Trump Hates His Kids (w/Aleks and Jack) - Plus: Jack does stand-up, I Love Boosters, Trump skipping Don Jr.'s wedding, the 2024 DNC autopsy, and Bari Weiss' future
Church and State

In rural Appalachia, abortion pill offers reproductive choice and privacy − but police may see a crime - A 35-year-old Kentucky woman was arrested in late 2025, accused of taking abortion pills that she ordered online.
See You In 2020

The “progressive” police state, the urban labor aristocracy, & the empire’s plan to prop itself up - The liberal wing of our ruling class has a plan to save the empire: bribe the strata of urban workers who aspire to become professional-managerial class...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Military Education and American Manhood - Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, *God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Man...
World Socialist Web Site

Communist Party Marxist - Kenya defends counter-revolutionary Maoist strategy against Trotskyism—Part 4 - This five-part series examines the politics of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya, its defence of the Stalinist-Maoist theory of the National Democratic Rev...
Liberation News

La población de Georgia devastada por incendios mientras FEMA niega ayuda y el condado planea un centro de datos - Lo que está ocurriendo en el condado de Brantley no es simplemente una historia sobre incendios. La escala de la destrucción es histórica, pero también est...
LareDOS

Folklórico dancers zapateando con todo corazón featured at June 5 Mexico Lindo 2026 concert - Featuring performances of traditional Mexican dance by members of the Gabriela Mendoza-García Ballet Folklórico and the Espuelas de Oro-J.W. Nixon High Sch...
Ecosophia

May 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...
NORML

Pew Poll: Marijuana Prohibition Is Increasingly Unpopular Among Americans - [image: A hand holds a lit cannabis joint from which smoke wafts against a soft green background][image: A hand holds a lit cannabis joint from which smo...
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...
Seeing the Forest

No, Not Going Back - I live in the UK now. I’m on a trip to Wales. It’s one of those trips they have here with a bunch of old people in coaches taken around to ride steam train...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Tap The Brakes - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb Trump taps the brakes…? “Taps the brakes”? JEEzus, they’re really breaking the Goofy Meter over at the Washin...
Black Agenda Report

'The people who most love the game won't be able to go': Ajamu Baraka on Resistance to the World Cup - 'The people who most love the game won't be able to go': Ajamu Baraka on Resistance to the World Cup bareditors Wed, 05/27/2026 - 03:38 Ajamu Bara...
Ian Welsh

Don’t Believe Weekend “Peace Deal” Leaks - So, this weekend there was a leak of a possible peace deal. Iran got most of what it wanted in this hypothetical deal. Israel said “we won’t obey any truce...
Sludge

The Consultants Cashing In on Pro-Israel Campaign Spending - A bipartisan network of political consultants—from Reagan White House alumni to Obama and Biden operatives—is raking in millions as pro-Israel groups pour ...
Earthworks

Investors Call for Report on General Motor’s Commitment to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - At General Motors’ annual shareholder meeting on June 2, 2026, shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on whether the … The post Investors Call f...
Idavox

Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda - Trump’s real enemy is not foreign. It’s you. Phil Mandelbaum, Unicorn Riot Contributor The White... The post Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-W...
The Greanville Post

GALLOWAY MONOLOGUE: Trump’s peace karaoke - GW—The war in the Persian Gulf is portrayed as over, marking a considerable victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Claims include: Cessation of all host...
TalkLeft

Memorial Day Open Thread - With gratitude to those who served and died, to our veterans still with us, and to those currently enlisted who are protecting our nation and allies and ...
Brad Blog

Idle Hands… - We’re off this week from both The BradCast and Green News Report, for a much-needed breather. Of course, we never really take breathers around here. Especi...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Krebs on Security

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carr...
Field Negro

The Field Negro news watch. - Here are some of my takes on a few of the most relevant news stories right now. I will start with the war in Iran. Mr. Trump announced last night th...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pézenas]
Trivial Knot

Review: I Want to Be a Wall - I write a bunch of book reviews, and review-ish writings on my Pillowfort. Maybe I should port some of these over? I picked out a review I wrote in 2024,...
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Texas Freedom Network

The Legal Chat: Constitutional Law Professor Breaks Down Texas’ Ten Commandments in Schools - It’s happening in real time. The Ten Commandments in schools is one of several legal challenges over religion that’s reshaping the national conversation ...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! - US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director Joh...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Beast - So I tried to write a column about dog rape. I couldn’t do it. Despite my fear of losing the last of my Substack subscribers, going broke, getting evicted ...
Alas, a Blog

The Search - This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat! I wrote this strip two months ago, after coming across this st...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on Texas Bicentennial Commission - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, is being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on the Texas Bicentennial ...
Bracing Views

The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles - Persecuted for Helping Victims of Murderous State Violence BILL ASTORE MAY 21, 2026 Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) conc...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations - ACLU and partners urged members of Congress during Community Safety Week to pass legislation that allows people to sue federal law enforcement when they vi...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard Carrier Highly Endorses My Book! - Thank you Richard Carrier for this enthusiastic endorsement of my book, "The Outsider Test For Faith"! Thanks also for accurately applying the outsider tes...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Evo Morales tells The Grayzone ‘The people have reached their breaking point’ - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales about the direction the protests will take from here on o...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
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...
Texas Environmental News

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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...
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...
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...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
GreenSource DFW

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

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

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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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