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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

Raw Story

GOP lawmaker's 'secret helicopter' could cost him big after complaint is filed - Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, who represents Pennsylvania's poorest district, is under fire again for allegedly owning a “*secret helicopter*,” which, a...
The Hill

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly reveal why Israel is losing MAGA support - It really means something when even Megyn Kelly is sounding less than enthusiastic about what Israel is doing in Gaza
Eschaton

Next Year's Horny Chatbot Will Be Great, I Promise - This is what we are betting the entire economy on. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Concedes GPT-5 Was a Misfire, Bets on GPT-6 ... One lesson from GPT-5’s launch ...
Slate

Ozempic Leaves Its Users Thinner—and Older Looking. A New Class of Products Is Here to … Help? - Away, skinny crone!
Mediaite

JUST IN: Trump’s $515 Million Fraud Penalty THROWN OUT by Appeals Court - The $515 million fraud case penalty against President Donald Trump was thrown out by a New York appeals court on Thursday. The post JUST IN: Trump’s $515...
The Verge

Is the Flipper Zero the next big car theft gadget? - 404 Media has a report out about an underground software market that enables the Flipper Zero to be used to unlock a wide variety of vehicles, including Fo...
memeorandum

Putin Always Breaks His Word. Why Would This Time Be Different? (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark) - Mark Hertling / The Bulwark: *Putin Always Breaks His Word. Why Would This Time Be Different?* — THANKS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ALASKA SUMMIT with Vladim...
Salon.com

Canadians aren’t coming to America anymore - There has been a massive drop in the number of Canadians visiting the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office
Project Censored

Blood, Sweat, and Stitches: How Overconsumption Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink - Jayden Henry Last September, a report from the trade publication Business of Fashion found that the Chinese retailer Shein was the world’s largest pollu...
Political Wire

Enshittification - Coming soon: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow. “It’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’...
Courthouse News

Solar panels in space? Europe looks upward to meet emissions goals - Based on an idea from the 1960s, a research team calculated how space-based solar panels could help Europe meet its net-zero targets by 2050.
The Week

August 21 editorial cartoons - Thursday's political cartoons include AI-driven water shortages, Sharpie-corrected slavery, and airstrikes on Washington, D.C.
Election Law Blog

“Appeals court throws out massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump” - AP: An appeals court has thrown out the massive civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump, ruling Thursday in New York state’s lawsuit accusing ...
Al Jazeera English

Xi Jinping makes rare visit to Tibet to celebrate 60 years of Chinese rule - Xi Jinping visits Lhasa for 60th anniversary of Tibet Autonomous Region under Chinese control.
CultureMap Houston

Fast-growing tech firm leads list of Houston companies on Inc. 5000 - Dozens of Houston-area businesses appear in this year’s Inc. 5000 ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S., with a security softw...
Daily Howler

REVOLUTION: There was a peaceful happy feeling... - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025* *...when Vladimir stepped off his plane:* Is it possible that something good will emerge from the Trump-Witkoff diplomacy? I...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump again calls for release of ex-clerk in prison for role in breaching Colorado election information - President threatened ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters – sentenced to nine years – isn’t released from prison Donald Trump again called for the release of ...
Bracing Views

The Business of Nuclear Weapons Is Booming - Part II of a Documentary on the Military-Industrial Complex BILL ASTORE AUG 20, 2025 The business of nuclear weapons is booming in the U.S., as Part II of ...
Scheerpost.com

Is AI Crippling Our Imaginations? - Leveraged buyouts and stock buybacks have been killing tens of millions of jobs, not AI.
Mediagazer

Nielsen and Adobe: the Premier League's opening weekend averaged 850K viewers across six matches on NBC/Peacock and USA Network, a record and up 4% on 2024-25 (Abid Rahman/The Hollywood Reporter) - Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter: *Nielsen and Adobe: the Premier League's opening weekend averaged 850K viewers across six matches on NBC/Peacock an...
Daily Dot

“One of the most upsetting things I’ve seen”: MAGA is crashing out over Cracker Barrel’s “woke” rebrand - [image: Cracker Barrel rebrand. Tweet overlay from Donald Trump Jr. reads "WTF is wrong with @CrackerBarrel ??!"] Cracker Barrel has unveiled its first m...
Mondoweiss

Students urge George Washington University not to capitulate to Trump threats over Palestine activism - [image: Student encampment for Gaza at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2024. (Photo: Laura Albast)]Students at George Washingt...
Dissident Voice

Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion - If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to unde...
Undernews

113 degrees in Phoenix -
Axios

Undocumented immigrant population hit record 14M in 2023: Pew analysis - Data: Pew Research Center; Chart: Axios Visuals The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. rose to a record 14 million in 2023, sparked by migration...
SCOTUSblog

The justices have the easiest job in the judiciary - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outsi...
Bonddad

Jobless claims suggest our recent good news has been more unresolved seasonal quirks - - *by New Deal democrat* Initial jobless claims have been plagued by apparent unresolved seasonality in the past several years, post-pandemic. I sus...
naked capitalism

Asking the Wrong Questions About Antidepressants - A new "reassuring" study about withdrawal from antidepressants shows how blinkered the thinking around this type of medication is.
Workers World

PDF of August 21 print issue - [image: PDF of August 21 print issue] Download the PDF ‘U.S. out of Korea!’ On the picketline Machinists strike in St. Louis Representation under attack in...
Capital & Main

We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It? - As Congress rolls back food aid, California families are facing increasing hardship. The post We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It? ...
Glasstire

Top Five: August 21, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Joey Fauerso: Bedroom Paintings Ruby City (San Antonio)...
Second Nexus

MAGA Rep. Mocked After Claiming He 'Spoke' To 'Large Numbers' Of Dead Voters - New Jersey Republican Representative Jeff Van Drew had people raising their eyebrows after claiming in an interview with Fox Business that he knows voter...
Texas Observer

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a “Documented” Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof - Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker, says he was en route to work at a construction site on the morning of April 9 when a grou...
Infidel753

Politically homeless - I've been at least Democratic-leaning for a long time now. At the latest, soon after the 2008 election, the "Tea Party" antics and the emergence of Sarah...
Houston Public Media

Gov. Greg Abbott asks for new penalties for Texas lawmakers who flee to halt legislative sessions - The governor announced he was expanding his special session agenda shortly after the Texas House passed a congressional map that Democrats had delayed by l...
Futurism

A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We're Sweating Profusely - Brace yourselves, because hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's notoriously foul-mouthed Grok chatbot have hit the internet, Forbe...
Rewire

Abortion Pill Campaign Targets Rural West Virginia, Kentucky Gas Stations - “We’re merely spreading First Amendment-protected free speech. So if anyone wants to come after us, what they’re coming after is the First Amendment.” Th...
First Draft

Irked In August - Vexatious venting about irksome things.
San Antonio Report

New Hill Country plaza to feature diverse dining spots, culinary fare - A new strip center under development in the TPC Town Center will feature five new dining spots and a diversity of culinary fare ----------------------------...
Progressive Army

IATA – Instructivo Pagos Interactivos – - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar una guía elaborada por el equipo del Banco Santander, que detalla paso a paso cómo realizar pagos en su p...
Democracy Now!

Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch in 2020 on Telling "Unvarnished" History, Meeting Trump & More - President Trump said Tuesday the Smithsonian Institution was too narrowly focused on negative aspects of U.S. history, including “how bad slavery was.” Tru...
The Conversation

‘These people do it naturally’: President Trump’s views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America - Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characteriz...
Techdirt.

Trump Admin Kills Enforcement Action Against 165 Corporations For Various Bullshit And Fraud - I don’t mean to harp on this, but a central promise of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would “take ai...
ArcaMax

Did America's Enemies Write Trump's Energy Policy? - President Donald Trump's energy policy is utterly screwed up -- if you assume America's interests, and not pleasing his fossil fuel friends, is the objecti...
Space City Weather

Healthy shower chances today and Friday, and August should end in about the best way possible for Houston - In brief: Today’s post discusses the favorable setup for rain on Thursday and Friday in the greater Houston area, with the best conditions closer to the co...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The River of Bull - This historic plaque, celebrating a great Civil War battle, can be seen on the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. There are eig...
Vox

What kids don’t want you to know about Gen Alpha culture - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As long as youth culture has exi...
The AltWorld

Lebanon’s imminent “Karbala-like” conflict has become increasingly probable - Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Secretary-General of “Hezbollah”, was the subject of a legal complaint filed by a […] The post Lebanon’s imminent “Karbala-like” ...
Dorf on Law

What Hardball Does and Doesn't Look Like (a Dorf on Law Classic) - *In the introduction to my *Dorf on Law* Classic column **earlier this week **("Banana Republic or Legalistic Lawlessness?" from February 2020), I wrote:...
NPR's Health Shots

Pakistan is tapping into solar power at an 'unprecedented' rate. Here's why - Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops.
WhoWhatWhy

What Really Happened in TrumPutin’s Alaska Speed Date? - [image: Donald Trump, welcomes, Vladimir Putin, Alaska] A Nobel Prize and shades of Yalta? What Really Happened in TrumPutin’s Alaska Speed Date? originall...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon Fir-Cask - In 1810, in the Greenland Sea, William Scoresby Jr., the captain of Resolute, who was... The post Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Wake Up!’ Former RNC Chair Gives Dems Ominous Warning After Texas Rams Through New Maps -
Skeptophilia

Speaking to the wind - A scarily long list of friends who have been coping with serious illnesses in the last six months has brought home to me how fragile life is. We all *kno...
The Root

Experts Warn About These Serious, Scary Predictions for the Country - Analysts say the stakes are high, and too many communities—especially Black and marginalized ones—could feel the heat from the chaos first. Read more...
Crooked Media

Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy? - The post Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

House passes redistricting bill - I was going to put this as the last item in the earlier post, but I didn’t want to change that post’s title and I also didn’t want to gloss over that this ...
Mother Jones

Trump’s USDA Eliminates Support for Renewable Energy, a Lifeline for Farmers - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Department of Agricultu...
American Prospect

Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding - Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Attorneys General: The Top Races to be “Top Cop” - Key battleground states feature state Attorney General races this cycle, with Democrats playing defense in a number of key battleground states The post S...
ProPublica

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies - by Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, illustrations by Sam Green for ProPublica When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to...
Grist

Trump’s Interior Department is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them - Federal laws meant to protect land and wildlife are being misused to curb wind and solar development across the U.S.
High Country News

Court delays land transfer that would enable copper mine at Oak Flat - [image: The Oak Flat region in Tonto National Forest] The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolut...
The Daily Poster

Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Could Explode Next Year - A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
jobsanger

Deporting Agricultural Workers Will Raise The Price Of Groceries -
Crooked Timber

States of Resistance - Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has been making the case that the states are critical sites of resistance to Trump’s lawless power grabs on the ...
Portside

As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood - As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood Mark Brody Thu, 08/21/2025 - 00:18
El Paso Matters

Democrats rally in El Paso after Texas House approves GOP redistricting plan - At a packed El Paso rally, Democratic leaders denounced the GOP’s newly passed congressional map as an assault on fair representation, particularly for ...
World Socialist Web Site

Israel launches onslaught against Gaza City - The Israeli military has begun its onslaught on Gaza City, the last portion of Gaza that remains outside of Israeli military occupation, in a new and even ...
Informed Comment

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi farmers, tired of high electricity bills and frequent blackouts, are turning to solar panels, according to Khalid Al-M...
Deadline Politics

Latest ‘South Park’ Skewers Small-Sized Trump’s D.C. Takeover, Tim Cook’s Sycophantic Gift Giving And ChatGPT’s Mindless Optimism - The third episode of this season’s South Park once again went all in at Donald Trump, skewering his takeover of Washington, D.C. while positing that even S...
Alternet

Trump White House staff already 'heading for the exits' for 'cushy lobbying gigs': report - Multiple people inside President Donald Trump's administration are already jumping ship after less than a year on the job and are securing highly lucrati...
Ballot Access News

Florida Won’t Bother to Respond in U.S. Supreme Court in Case Over Independent Voters Voting in Primaries - On August 18, Florida informed the U.S. Supreme Court that it doesn’t intend to file a response in Polelle v Byrd, 25-147. This is the case filed by an in...
Claytoonz

Trump-Approved African American History - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Krebs on Security

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years - A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and o...
Brad Blog

On 'Americanism' and Trump's 'Stalinesque' Plot to Whitewash U.S. History: 'BradCast' 8/20/2025 - It may not be the most pressing issue many are focusing on right now. But, as discussed on today's BradCast, the Administration's burgeoning attempts to of...
Popular Resistance

The Report On Human Rights Violations In The United States In 2024 - 2024, as an election year in the United States, was a year of special concern that featured aggravating political strife and social division. Such a land...
Antiwar.com

A Nobel for the Donald? - Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Nancy Mace battles nonexistent 'transgender mice research' after Trump's false claim' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - The Biden Administration has spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on federally funded tr*nsgender research on mice. We introduced the Tr*ns Mice A...
DeSmogBlog

Georgia County Puts Off Key Data Center Vote After Public Backlash - Commissioners in a Georgia county unanimously decided to delay a vote on contentious new rules governing massive data center projects, during a meeting t...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Passes Texas House - The vote came after a lengthy day on the House floor, that saw Texas Democrats file several amendments to try and change or stall the legislation
Reform Austin

Conservative Groups Fund Drive to Place Ten Commandments in Texas Schools - Starting September 1, every Texas public school classroom will be required to display a poster of the Ten Commandments under a new state law, unless fede...
Sludge

Fossil Fuel Lobby Derails UN Plastics Treaty - Global talks to curb plastic pollution collapsed last week after industry lobbying and opposition from a handful of petrostates.
San Antonio Current

El Paso judge blocks Ken Paxton from taking legal action against Beto O’Rourke’s political group - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. An El Paso judge this week te...
Discourse

Everyone is Making Boatloads of Money in Washington D.C. - Political service has never been so lucrative.
Wolf Street

Condo Prices Already Dropped by 12%-26% in 21 Bigger Cities through July. Condo Bust Takes Shape - Oakland, Austin, San Francisco, Denver, Tampa, Seattle, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, P...
Socialist Alternative

Six Months In, Chaos Reigns: Trump 2.0 and the Fightback - The following US Perspectives document was adopted by the National Committee of Socialist Alternative in mid-July. Since then a number of significant devel...
Progressive.org

Displaced in Gaza - Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording...
Common Dreams

CODEPINK Strongly Condemns the Latest Threats and Military Provocations by the United States Government Against Venezuela - In recent days, the White House has authorized the deployment of three Aegis-guided missile destroyers off Venezuela’s coast, alongside an attack submari...
Consortium News

NOTE TO READERS: A Pause in Publishing - Because of technical issues, Consortium News will undergo a renovation that will prevent us from publishing from today over the weekend until early next we...
OpEd News

Rohingya women carry not just a story of pain but a plan for change - Please consider the below article based on insights from a young rohingya woman on status of health and gender equality. Governments have promised to deliv...
Independent Political Report

Colorado Libertarians Update Liberty Pledge Ahead of 2026 Election Cycle - The Libertarian Party of Colorado has released an updated version of its “Liberty Pledge” for the 2026 election cycle, building on the strategy the party...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Marcos Silva, former Executive Director of Rio Grande Valley LEAD, selected to help guide South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs - Dr. Marcos Silva, Ed.D., has been named Executive Director of the South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs. A longtime leader in education and w...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Country Sick Since Its Beginning: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - America didn't just get here by accident. Our present state is the result of generations' of undealt with trauma and socipathic behavior
Church and State

Trump: alleged strong leader, a true weak sister! - Trump is driving, not only America, but the whole world into a dangerous lobation as his efforts to dismantle democracy continue.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Creation-Resistance in our Struggle for a Just and Equitable Multiracial/Multiethnic Democracy in an Epoch of Institutional Unraveling, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Creation-Resistance in our Struggle for a Just and Equitable Multiracial/Multiethnic Democracy in an Epoch of Institutional Unraveling* *by * *Angela V...
The NM Political Report

League of Women Voters ‘disappointed’ after two Democratic legislators quit redistricting task force - The League of Women Voters of New Mexico criticized the resignations of two Democratic legislators from a state redistricting task force, saying their de...
Angry Bear

Real nonsupervisory payrolls and income in danger of tariff-driven stagnation - – by New Deal democrat Let’s take a look at the “real” purchasing power of average working and middle class Americans. The July jobs report showed that ...
Ecosophia

The Narrative Trap - One of the experiences I’ve had tolerably often, over the more than nineteen years that I’ve been writing these weekly essays, is the discovery that a seri...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
See You In 2020

Gaza is the testing ground for capital’s schemes, & Gaza’s resistance shows the world how to fight back - Above: a mercenary makes a heart sign to the people in Gaza’s “humanitarian aid” cages while the fence bulges from overcrowding. (Telegram via BBC.) U.S...
Ian Welsh

China is a Rich Society. No Western Country Is. - Saw this recently, from the University of Chicago: And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on. pic.twitter.com/e2JxrCbm1...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN MURRAY / CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE / Lt. Burt Gerding and I - Photo by Belmer Wright published in Austin’s underground paper, The Rag, January 15, 1968. By Martin Murray / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2025 Lt. Burt Gerdi...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Liberation News

Texas Democrats surrender to racist redistricting plan, declare ‘victory’ - As the Texas Democrats rejoin their Republican friends in the halls of power, the working class of Texas must keep organizing for a different type of powe...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
NORML

Cannabis Rescheduling: Myths Versus Reality - Absent cannabis descheduling, those who produce, dispense, possess, or use marijuana in compliance with state laws could still face federal prosecution f...
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier, David Kyle Johnson, and I, Oh My! - We three have been invited by Dr. James Sterba to write papers on ethics without God. So far Johnson's and Carrier's papers have both been published. Mine ...
slacktivist

‘We are Christians first, Americans second’ - It's a platitude that American Christians have recited so many times we're bored by it, but it still means something.
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez - A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugeni...
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 - How parents, teachers, kids can spend less; have safer, healthier, greener school year. The post RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 appe...
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - 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 ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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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