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

Political Wire

America Must Hope Trump Is Not a New Caligula - The Economist: “America’s founding fathers brooded about the decline of the Roman republic into a corrupt and brutal empire. They feared such tyrannical em...
memeorandum

Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview (Politico) - Politico: *Lutnick admits to having prolonged ties to Epstein in closed-door interview* … In an interview, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) further sugges...
Deadline Politics

Ted Turner Was “Generational Entrepreneur,” David Zaslav Asserts (With A Nod To Mentor John Malone) Of CNN Founder On WBD Q1 Earnings Call - If you thought David Zaslav had said all he had to say on the life and death of CNN founder Ted Turner today in his memo to Warner Bros Discovery staff ear...
Futurism

SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes - "A relentless, daily bombardment." The post SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes appeared first on Futurism.
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (May 6, 2026) - For our busy Houston commuters, we have – The Commuter Cut – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Al Jazeera English

Russia cuts mobile internet in Moscow citing drone security concerns - Russia has begun rolling mobile internet shutdowns in Moscow and other cities.
Mediaite

Trump Hypes Up White House UFC Fights During Impromptu Oval Office Pool Spray: ‘Hardest Ticket I’ve Ever Had’ - President Donald Trump reverted to his casino owner roots Wednesday — taking time out to promote the upcoming UFC fights at the White House. The post Tru...
Rallblog

Scandal at the Pulitzers - The Pulitzer Prizes, administered annually by Columbia University, are the most famous prizes awarded to American journalists, authors, playwrights and o...
Eschaton

Brain Geniuses - It's funny how much Rubio was pushed as The Next Great (And Good) Republican once upon a time. SECRETARY RUBIO: You know what’s an act of war? Iran puttin...
The Week

What can Trump accomplish at the China summit? - Iran war will overshadow the meeting with Xi
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Ballot Access Committee Seeks Up to $115,000 for 2026 Petition Drives - The Libertarian National Committee’s Ballot Access Committee is seeking up to $115,000 for 2026 petition drives, including for a state auditor campaign i...
Courthouse News

Virginia driver defends anti-cop license plate at Fourth Circuit - Curtis Whateley argues the First Amendment protects his “FTP&ATF” license plate.
The Hill

Ghirardelli recalls certain powdered beverage mixes - The affected products were made with milk powder that may be contaminated with salmonella.
Vox

5 ways the Iran standoff could end - Despite the US and Iran exchanging fire and new missile attacks aimed at the United Arab Emirates this week, the Trump administration maintains that the ce...
Election Law Blog

New APSA Book and Project: “Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science” - Passing this along from Nate Persily and Josh Tucker: Dear Colleagues, We wanted to alert you to a new draft publication: Artificial Intelligence, Poli...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's Time to be Revolutionary: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
ArcaMax

Trump: A Cruel Joke for Our 250th Birthday - When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages a...
OpEd News

We Won't Miss Ted Turner: US Animals - Many remember Ted Turner as the owner of the Atlanta Braves or conceptualizer of 24 hour cable TV media like CNN but his relationship with animals is less ...
CultureMap Houston

Alley Ball spins a $1.1 million night of glitz, groove, and good times - Spotlights weren’t just metaphorical at Lights, Camera, Alley — they were baked into the mise-en-scène as Houston’s cultural set gathered for an evening of...
Slate

My Wife Wants to Ruin Our Daughter’s Birthday. But I Have a Plan to Make Things Right. - This is reasonable, right?
San Antonio Report

‘It chokes us out:’ San Antonio Rodeo bucks county’s ‘alternate vision’ for the East Side - Plans to expand the rodeo won over voters. Now its CEO says that Bexar County is changing direction without them. ------------------------------ ‘It chokes ...
Socialist Alternative

Supreme Court Guts The Voting Rights Act - The Supreme Court has destroyed what was left of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. In a 6-3 conservative majority decision, Louisiana’s proposed congres...
Mediagazer

Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackstone for between $3.5B and $4B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) - Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: *Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Recognition Music Group, which includes works of Justin Bieber and Neil Young, from Blackst...
SCOTUSblog

Court turns down Apple’s request to pause order holding it in contempt - Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday morning turned down a request from tech giant Apple to intervene in the latest chapter of its long-running dispute with ...
Axios

Poll: Even Trump voters reject his Jesus post - President Trump's own voters overwhelmingly rejected his social media post depicting himself as Jesus — a rare break in today's tribal politics, a new po...
Scheerpost.com

Michigan Prof’s Only Offense: Humanizing Palestinians - Shamai Leibowitz Informed Comment I am a Jewish American-Israeli, and a veteran of the IDF. But according to the University of Michigan administration, I ...
The Verge

Xbox changes continue with new console boot animation - It feels like not a day goes by at the moment without some Xbox news, and today is no different. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma just announced that Xbox owners will ...
Ecosophia

Companions on the Road: A Retrospective - “This year’s Earth Day in Ashland, Oregon, where I live, featured an interfaith service at the local Unitarian church, and I wasn’t too surprised to get a ...
Daily Howler

THE HITLER CARD: Watters played the Hitler card! - *WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2026* *So did Compagno and Gutfeld: *Friend, we'll start today with a question: Is the era of rational discourse over? As we noted ...
Mondoweiss

How Israeli settlers are weaponizing water against Palestinians in the West Bank - [image: Palestinians swim in al-Auja spring's water in July 2022. (Photo: Wajed Nobani/APA Images)]As Israeli settler attacks on water sources multiply acr...
Ballot Access News

Vote Totals in the Seven Indiana Senate Republican Primary Elections of Senators Who Defied Trump on Congressional Redistricting - According to the Indiana Secretary of State website, as of 10AM ET, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (T) means Trump endorsed candidate. I think Indiana primary law...
naked capitalism

Economic Management in War: Professor Michael Hudson in Discussion with Ian Proud - An informative and wide-ranging conversation of how economic policies can neglect, support, or impede the prosecution of war
NORML

New Jersey: Court Rules Police Officers Can’t Be Fired for Off-Duty Cannabis Use - [image: a man holds a cannabis joint to his lips and inhales][image: a man holds a cannabis joint to his lips and inhales]New Jersey's adult-use marijuan...
Texas Observer

The Aesthete from Archer - The ironies that affix themselves to the life and literature of Larry McMurtry are best exemplified by the title of his autobiographical meditation on st...
Dissent Magazine

When the World Split Open - While the case that resulted in the conviction of fifty-one men for the rape of Gisèle Pelicot last year was extraordinary, it is continuous with other f...
Grist

Rural North Carolina fights back against PFAS contamination - A North Carolina nonprofit is taking on “forever chemicals” in rural communities.
Glasstire

The Beautiful Things: An Interview with Tina Rivera - When I first met Tina Rivera at her home studio in Marfa, I was inspired by the plants, potting soil, beads, and dried gourds strewn about gracefully. Th...
Ian Welsh

American Elites Have Reverse Empire Dysmorphia - There’s a clinical diagnosis called body dysmorphia, where people think there’s something wrong with their body when it’s fine. Colloquially, some people r...
Democracy Now!

"Backtalker": Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas - Leading scholar in the field of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality,” which she has described as a “lens through whic...
Techdirt.

This Trump FCC Cybersecurity ‘Fix’ Is About To Make Hardware Way More Expensive For Everyone - Last week the Trump FCC quietly announced that it was cooking up a new ban on any labs that have testing offices in China from testing electronic ‌devices ...
The Progressive Wing

5/6 News Roundup & Open Thread - How do you stand up to the Democratic Establishment? What constitutes a living wage? Those are just a few questions Corbin explored this week when he sat...
Rewire

Forcing Abortion Patients to Prove ‘Medical Necessity’ Recalls Pre-‘Roe’ Era: Analysis - Before 1973, providers had to approve every procedure. This bureaucratic, sometimes arbitrary practice has returned in states that ban abortion—and it’s ...
Mother Jones

Is Trump a Racist? Let’s Look at the Stats. - A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides b...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Gets His Revenge in Indiana - [image: Jim Banks, Republican Jewish Coalition] In what is an indictment of the GOP and how much it has become the party of Donald Trump, at least five Ind...
Alternet

How Trump is dooming Republicans in a crucial swing state - Georgia is among the swing states that GOP and Democratic strategists will be paying close attention to in the 2026 midterms. Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Os...
Space City Weather

Houston’s forecast keeps evolving, and we explain why there’s so much uncertainty - In brief: We’ve had a lot of questions about weather for this upcoming weekend, and the forecast keeps changing. We explain why. At this point there appear...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday, That’s My Grumpday - Got a case of the collywobbles from Sunday’s Lio, because this is the time of year I used to be coaching the spring season of soccer back when I had small ...
Dorf on Law

The Fifth Circuit's Dubious Accounting Compounds Its Dubious Discussion of Precedent in the Latest Mifepristone Case - On Friday of last week, the Fifth Circuit issued an order effectively banning "mail-order abortions" via mifepristone on a nationwide basis. Its ruling t...
Salon.com

Abortion is still a problem for the GOP - Even this Supreme Court seems wary of efforts to restrict the abortion pill
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is in Freefall As His Presidency Hangs in the Balance -
ProPublica

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth - The post Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth appeared first on ProPublica.
Novara Media

‘Vote Reform in London’, Farage Tells Residents in Rural Wales - [image: Nigel Farage in front of the Reform UK logo]“London needs Reform. It is one of the world’s great capitals. Yet these days Sadiq Khan’s London often...
Countercurrents

Hindutva’s Victory in a Hindu Province in West Bengal - The electoral victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded state election in West Bengal has surprised many. The ascendancy of Hin...
Crooked Media

Why Is No One Ready? with Rheeqrheeq Chainey and Kyle Buchanan - The post Why Is No One Ready? with Rheeqrheeq Chainey and Kyle Buchanan appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Sam the Toucan, capybaras over coffee, Vellela vellela and a mechanical rhino - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Sam the Toucan, capybaras over coffee, Vellela vellela and a mechanical rhino appeared first on Hig...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Private Repo Men Are Hunting Immigrants - The Trump administration is deploying multimillion-dollar immigration fines and outsourcing enforcement to private debt collectors with long records of abuse.
World Socialist Web Site

Mass protests in Japan against war and remilitarisation - An estimated 50,000 people gathered in the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park to mark Constitution Memorial Day, carrying banners reading “STOP Constitu...
jobsanger

Trump Is Losing The Energy War To China -
Counterpunch

Freedom of Information Act Records Reveal U.S. Forest Service Considering Nationwide Chainsaw Use in Wilderness - In a letter to the Forest Service Chief, conservation organizations, trail groups, and retired agency wilderness specialists express strong opposition to...
Informed Comment

Michigan Prof’s Only Offense: Humanizing Palestinians - I am a Jewish American-Israeli, and a veteran of the IDF; pace the U of Michigan, I am not someone who needs to be protected from the truth
Consortium News

Israel’s New World Order: Threat of Endless Death - It has been clear throughout the last 30 months that what has been happening in Gaza will not stay in Gaza, writes Andy Worthington. Gaza is a template for...
Raw Story

Supreme Court just buried a legal principle it invented — and Republicans noticed: experts - The Supreme Court's conservative majority has quietly abandoned one of its own legal doctrines — and it did so in the middle of an ongoing election, in t...
Brad Blog

The Corrupt Hypocrisy of SCOTUS’ VRA Ruling in the Middle of Primary Election Season: ‘BradCast’ 5/5/2026 - Chaos and confusion on the high seas. Chaos and confusion in primary elections across the U.S. That’s what Trump and his corrupt SCOTUS has wrought. On tod...
Trivial Knot

The Goomba Fallacy - The goomba fallacy is when some people say A, and some people say B. And then you say, isn’t it ridiculous that people believe A and B at the same time? Bu...
Popular Resistance

Global Sumud Flotilla To Convene International Assembly In Türkiye - Marmaris, Türkiye — In its ongoing effort to break israel’s illegal siege of Gaza, the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) announces it will convene an Internati...
Workers World

Congress gives Trump a pass on War Powers Resolution - [image: Congress gives Trump a pass on War Powers Resolution] Enacted in 1973, the War Powers Resolution (WPR) directs a president to withdraw armed forces...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

PRESS RELEASE: Students to Stage Funeral for Academic Freedom at Texas Tech Regents Meeting - * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *May 4, 2026* *Contact: Cameron Samuels* *press@studentsengaged.org* *Students to Stage Funeral for Academic Freedom* *at Tex...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s War on Iran Is Destroying America - The very first story on the Drudge Report on both April 23 and 24 was headlined with a quote from Bernard Arnault saying if the Iran war was not quickly se...
Portside

Cooperation Is More Powerful Than Coercion - Cooperation Is More Powerful Than Coercion Judy Tue, 05/05/2026 - 19:33
El Paso Matters

ICE says detained 23-year-old is not candidate for ovarian cyst surgery, denies humanitarian parole - ICE denied humanitarian parole to a 23-year-old Minnesota woman detained in El Paso, saying she is not a candidate for ovarian cyst surgery despite conc...
San Antonio Current

Joaquin Castro says he’s working for quick release of Alamo Heights family detained by ICE - U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro told reporters Tuesday he’s hopeful a legal filing made on behalf of an Alamo Heights family recently detained by Immigration a...
Progressive.org

Stones That Remember: War and the Erasure of History - Israel’s war on Gaza has damaged and destroyed more than 150 designated cultural sites, devastating the enclave’s historical record.
NPR's Health Shots

Cruise ship with hantavirus may have seen a rare occurrence: humans infecting humans - Hantavirus is typically spread through contact with rodent feces, urine or saliva. But cases on the MV Hondius cruise ship point to an unusual means of tra...
slacktivist

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow - I'm starting to think that gratitude and nostalgia may be opposites. Plus: A very old joke, and an emeritus insider spills the tea.
Wolf Street

New Single-Family Home Prices Drop Further amid Inventory Glut. But Lower Prices Beget Higher Sales - Inventory in the South still sky-high, up 60% from March 2019. But homebuilders understand what it takes: lower prices and big incentives.
Environment Texas

Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic pellet pollution - The International Plastic Pellet Count officially kicked off on Saturday. The post Hundreds of volunteers kick off a month of action to address plastic p...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Event | How Climate Denialism Is Evolving With Trump in Office - Hosted by Covering Climate Now Thursday, May 7 12:00 p.m. EDT In April, a climate denial conference hosted in Washington, D.C., and boasting US Environme...
First Draft

Gret Stet Of Confusion - Chaos in Louisiana as The Clownfish cancels Congressional primaries in search of partisan advantage.
Common Dreams

New Report Reveals Coordinated Corporate Campaign Against Life-Saving Federal Heat Standard for Workers - As record heat waves threaten workers from report sites and warehouses to farmlands and delivery routes across the country, a new report from Groundwork ...
Capital & Main

Fire Recovery Could Wipe Out Altadena’s Affordable Rentals - Without funding and policy interventions, rebuilt homes will rent at market rates, pricing out long-term residents. The post Fire Recovery Could Wipe Out...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Virginia Redistricting Vote: How it Performed on the Old and New Maps, and Some Clues for 2027 - In last month's Virginia redistricting vote, the Yes side would have carried 6 of the 11 "old" districts and 9 of the 11 "new" ones, with the new VA-6 be...
The AltWorld

IN SESSION #17: Lebanon, normalization & fiber optic resistance with Rania Khalek - Rania Khalek joins me again to discuss the latest developments in Lebanon, including traitorous normalization efforts by […] The post IN SESSION #17: Leb...
Texas Standard

How the unreported killing of an American by ICE shattered two Texas families - Josh Orta was the sole witness of Ruben Martinez’s death to dispute the government’s account. Months later, he died in a crash after learning an ICE agent ...
The Grayzone

Trump’s new Iran negotiator is Israel lobbyist who denounced negotiations with Iran - Tapped to advise Steve Witkoff on Iran, Nick Stewart previously condemned dealing with any of Iran’s elected leaders. His presence consolidates military ...
The Conversation

In rural Appalachia, abortion pill offers reproductive choice and privacy − but police may see a crime - A Kentucky woman was arrested for ordering abortion meds online. Her case shows how bad policy can trap people just trying to cope with an unintended pregn...
Earth 911

We Are Doing to Low Earth Orbit What We Did to the Oceans - About two tons of satellite material burns up in Earth’s atmosphere every day. That is... The post We Are Doing to Low Earth Orbit What We Did to the Oce...
Skeptophilia

Scary times - Dear Readers: This is to let you know of some upcoming changes. Some of you might know I also write over at Substack, and over there have focused mainly o...
Off The Kuff

SCOTUS puts administrative stay on unhinged Fifth Circuit mifepristone ruling - On hold for now. The Supreme Court on Monday restored nationwide access to a widely used abortion medication in a temporary order that will, for now, allow...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 5 May 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. For the...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military - Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’ Workers developing Googl...
The Greanville Post

Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s Trap, Trump’s Sanity - PATRICK LAWRENCE—In effect, Rhodes via Platner makes the case for a fundamental renovation of American foreign policy — a turn toward 21st century realitie...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ coalition planning to target gay couples and their children via legislation - Katy Faust LGBTQ Americans and our loved ones should consider the following to be a warning: We're ok with the Kim Davis case being passed over by the ...
See You In 2020

The Mamdani-era Democratic Party won’t stop being genocidal, it will only be better-branded - What does it mean that many still think we can change the Democratic Party, even after Gen Z turned on Kamala for the Gaza holocaust? It means bad ideas...
Claytoonz

Fugly Passport - 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...
The NM Political Report

The Bernalillo County tax civil war: Assessor vs. Treasurer - [image: Bernalillo County Assessor Damian Lara and Treasurer Tim Eichenberg face off over short-term rental property taxes] By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — A...
The Texas Signal

A Museum’s Quest To Humanize The Incarceration Experience - Amid the morbid and the macabre is a bold attempt to explain the life and impact of incarceration on the humans who serve time and the people who guard them.
Project Censored

Farmworkers in Mexico Lack Basic Social Security - Farmworkers on both sides of the US-Mexico border play a huge role in agriculture, but many still lack basic protections. In a March 2026 article, origin...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers - Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers
The Root

Tatyana Ali Opens Up About Traumatic Birth of Her First Baby - Actress Tatyana Ali reflected on the 2016 delivery of her son Edward, during which she said doctors “pushed him back inside” her. Read more...
Undernews

Kamala Harris - *Independent, UK - *Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new home, tucked away in a celebrity-packed part of Malibu, may signal what’s to come for her poli...
Edinburg Politics

From blank canvas to lasting legacy: McAllen’s Nikki Rowe High School celebrates resilient young artists during art contest awards ceremony - A well-attended crowd filled Nikki Rowe High School’s gymnasium on Thursday evening, April 30, 2026 for the awards ceremony of the “A Soul’s Journey: The R...
Bonddad

Long leading indicators in Q1 GDP point in absolutely opposite directions - - *by New Deal democrat* The advance report for Q1 GDP was a study in contrasts, both in terms of the leading indicators and also the sources of str...
Debunking Christianity

God Failed as a Parent! - Just consider what good parents do. They raise their children to be good people, sometimes despite bad circumstances. Bad parents don't. Why is it a heav...
Seeing the Forest

Arms That Chain Us Eyes That Lied - I never got to see the Doors. I saw Ray Manzarek once, with Boz Scaggs, Roy Rogers, Phil Lesh, Norton Buffalo and Mickey Hart, performing at a John Kerry f...
Bracing Views

The Great Retreat from Germany - News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant pr...
Greg Palast

Frank Sinatra, Donald Trump and My Partner - It's kind of embarrassing. Donald J. Trump was my business and character reference for my investigations firm, Union Associates, when, in the 1980s, I appl...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou and cherry trees - [image: Canigou and cherries]
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...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
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...
Angry Bear

When a Senator Makes Ignorant remarks - If this is a true statement by esteemed Senator Sununu, he must be in his last term in office. Personally, I believe all Senators and Representatives sho...
LareDOS

WCHF recipient of two Texas Association of Museums awards - Recoognition for excellence in museum communications and design
Church and State

‘Only the Beginning’: Santa Marta Summit Heralded as New Dawn in Fight to End Fossil Fuel Era - The single biggest breakthrough at the conference was France’s unveiling of a national roadmap to phase out fossil fuels in the coming decades.
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
The Militant

Chicago school lunchroom workers rally for a contract - CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers and their supporters rallied downtown here April 23 protesting the lack of progress toward a...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
Liberation News

Working people can defeat Trump! - Millions of people across the country are marking International Workers Day in the true tradition of the holiday that was born right here in the United Sta...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
Black Agenda Report

Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran - Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran Authors Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist bareditors Fri, 05/0...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their...
Krebs on Security

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for ...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
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...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
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...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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