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

San Antonio Report

San Antonio will consider regulating data centers. It’s unclear if that involves a moratorium. - San Antonio City Council is considering new requirements for data centers, including a possible halt to construction for up to 6 months. -------------------...
The Daily Poster

Nevada Governor Backed Data Centers Days After $1 Million Donation - AI-linked donors poured $2 million into Republican Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign as he championed data centers that could consume enough water for 150...
Deadline Politics

ABC, CBS To Air Specials Commemorating The Life Of Dolly Parton - CBS News will air a special on Tuesday paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who died on Tuesday at the age of 80. A CBS News Special: Dolly Parton — An American...
LareDOS

Laredo-born Josephine Sacabo showcases her internationally recognized body of work with THE RIGHT TO DREAM – regreso a mi pueblo - Homecoming retrospective opens August 28, 6 p.m., at TAMIU FPA Gallery
San Antonio Current

Democrat running against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick accuses him, Gov. Abbott of fiscal mismanagement - During a Tuesday visit to San Antonio, Texas Rep. Vikki Goodwin, D-Austin, fired back at Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, her Republican general election opponent,...
Mediagazer

Forbes and Shook Research suspend their joint rankings and events as they review a $6M payment from founder RJ Shook to former top editor Randall Lane (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: *Forbes and Shook Research suspend their joint rankings and events as they review a $6M payment from founder RJ Shook t...
The Hill

Paxton unveils data center plan - {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Paxton unveils data center plan Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) unveiled a plan for ...
Al Jazeera English

Brazil fines TikTok $30m for child data privacy violations - Owner ByteDance ordered to erase illegally obtained child data in Brazil as crackdown on tech giants intensifies.
OpEd News

Knowledge is powe - Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi David Yosef declared that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian people" and that we "have no rights." Yosef claimed Gaza a...
Political Wire

Donald Trump Is More Dangerous Than Ever - The Economist: “As Donald Trump becoming a lame duck? As his troubles multiply at home and abroad, the prospect of dealing with a hobbled American presiden...
Slate

Ignore the Childish Insults. Trump’s Latest Trade War With Canada Will Hurt Us All. - The president’s Canada pettiness is getting even more absurd.
Common Dreams

The Teacher Pay Penalty Remained High in 2025 - Teachers earned 25.2 percent less than comparable college graduates in other professions in 2025, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Inst...
The NM Political Report

Diane Denish: Farewell Dolly Parton - [image: Diane Denish | nm.news] Corner to Corner by Columnist Diane D. Denish — Farewell Dolly Parton. May you rest in peace and may your melodies ring in...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Father of USS Lincoln sailor detained by ICE released from detention - Arrest of Luis Manuel Aviles, 48, sparked backlash as he was detained while his son, Joshua, was deployed in Middle East The father of a US navy sailor w...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
slacktivist

When everything is broken, we can mend it if we try - "You can't be that hateful and still be happy," Dolly Parton said. She wanted everyone to be happy, which is why, today, everyone is sad.
Mediaite

‘I Fled Dictatorship’: Ana Navarro Pushes Back When Hunter Biden Claims Trump Is a ‘Dictator’ - Ana Navarro shut down Hunter Biden's claim that President Donald Trump is a "dictator" by reminding him that she and her family fled a Nicaraguan dictato...
Idavox

Dolly Parton, Rest in Peace - Dolly icon crossed cultural and political lines and a lot of people are feeling this... The post Dolly Parton, Rest in Peace appeared first on Idavox.
Crooked Media

Why Is CBP Detaining American Citizens? - The post Why Is CBP Detaining American Citizens? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Alternet

Insider exposes the single Trump mindset driving global chaos - Before Miles Taylor became an outspoken Never Trump conservative, he was a high-ranking official in President Donald Trump's first administration — where...
Popular Resistance

Trump Escalates Canada Trade War - US President Donald Trump threatened on 24 August to impose 50 percent tariffs on additional Canadian products after Ontario's Premier Doug Ford warned C...
Techdirt.

ClownAss DOJ Reduced To Quoting James Comey’s Novel As Evidence In ‘8647’ Case - The first attempted revenge prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has gone nowhere. Whatever the DOJ didn’t botch directly was undone by Trump’s p...
Novara Media

US Globalises Economic War With Iran - The Trump administration has unveiled widespread sanctions against “Iran’s financial connections around the globe”. Plus: Two proposed datacentres could su...
The AltWorld

THIERRY MEYSSAN contredit l’Occident et prouve que l’AMÉRIQUE cède | GPTV - Le Proche-Orient traverse une zone de turbulences inédite. L’Axe de la Résistance, cette alliance regroupant l’Iran, le […] The post THIERRY MEYSSAN cont...
Progressive.org

Homeschooling Hate - The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home.
The Week

Meta: Zuckerberg’s plea to liberate AI - The Facebook founder wants superintelligence for all
Sludge

AIPAC-Linked PAC Boosts Nguyen Despite Her Gaza Stance - A pro-choice super PAC, largely funded by a group whose biggest outside donor is AIPAC’s United Democracy Project, has spent at least $450,000 on ads backi...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Humanoid Soldiers and Vanishing Valor - Humanoid robots are approaching the physical capabilities required for infantry combat. Once machines become stronger, faster, more precise, more expendabl...
The Conversation

Narrow mail-in voting ruling by Supreme Court adds uncertainty to midterm elections without addressing constitutionality of Trump’s executive order - Will an Aug. 24, 2026, Supreme Court decision lead to chaos in the midterm elections? An election law scholar dissects the decision, its background and pos...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock - Flock deserves the heat it’s getting, but switching to another provider won’t necessarily improve anything
Wolf Street

Inventory of New Single-Family Homes Jumps, Prices Drop to Lowest since 2021, Sales Sag - Inventory for sale rose in all regions, was near all-time highs in the South, spiked in the Midwest to the highest since 2008.
Axios

AI is making critical infrastructure easier to attack - Years of warnings about the digital vulnerabilities lurking inside basic utilities are colliding with a new reality: AI is making those weaknesses easier...
Debunking Christianity

"I Used to be an Atheist Too, But Now I’m a Christian," by Harry McCall - *[This is from one of Harry McCall's posts in the archives. It seems kinda relevant given Joe Schmid's conversion to Catholicism. It's aimed at most *athei...
The Root

Black Leaders Push Back as Supreme Court Clears Path for Trump’s Mail-Voting Order - Black leaders, including Ketanji Brown Jackson and Hakeem Jeffries, warn the latest SCOTUS ruling could create voting chaos and threaten access before No...
Futurism

China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles - Better late than never. The post China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles appeared first on Futurism.
Mother Jones

Deal /No Deal, Trump’s Iran Contradictions - On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180. After ...
Mondoweiss

Why we shouldn’t call colonial Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’ - [image: A Palestinian man inspects burnt scrap cars after an attack by Israeli settlers in the town of Huwwara in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, November ...
Texas Observer

Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick - Last Wednesday morning, I welcomed students back into my high school library. Perhaps they were trying to escape the sweltering August heat, but regardle...
The Greanville Post

Richard Wolff: The Decline of the U.S. Empire Is Accelerating Fast - GD—This video features a discussion between Professor Richard Wolff and Professor Glenn Diesen regarding the accelerating decline of the U.S. Empire and th...
Texas Standard

Industry warns of blackouts, economic woes if Texas overreacts to data center, transmission line anger - Energy regulators and industry experts warn that the state’s delays to major projects amid backlash from residents could create rolling blackouts and stran...
The Texas Signal

Houston Native Explores Addiction In New Book - The book summarizes a journey in helpful, exquisitely written bites that tackle common misconceptions one at a time and reframe them through the disease lens
Bonddad

YoY repeat home sales prices continue to firm - * - by New Deal democrat* While the current cycle may have dispelled the notion that “housing *is* the economic cycle,” it is nevertheless an importa...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Affordable childcare is a missing piece in El Paso’s population changes - With childcare costs influencing workforce participation and decisions about having children, El Paso employers and civic leaders have tools to make rai...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

An Exercise in Cowardice: Hakeem Jeffries as Chief Quisling - Jeffries got caught meeting with Jared Kushner. His response is more than telling
CultureMap Houston

Tilman Fertitta's seafood restaurant sets sail with new Sugar Land store - A prominent Houston seafood restaurant has arrived in Sugar Land. *Landry’s Seafood House* is now open daily for lunch and dinner.
IVN

70% of America’s Elections Had Only One Candidate. That’s a Problem. - Americans don’t lack political opinions. They lack candidates willing—or able—to overcome the money, party gatekeeping, ballot access rules, and other barr...
Capital & Main

She Fled Russia for Freedom in the U.S. Ten Years Later, She’s Still Waiting. - Persecuted in her homeland, a mother asked for protection but ran into a perfect storm of policy changes instead. The post She Fled Russia for Freedom in...
Dorf on Law

Could Mike Johnson Foil a Democratic House Victory? Yes, But Only With Help from the Supreme Court and/or Red States - Inspired and aided by President Trump, Republicans have been pursuing multiple pathways to give themselves advantages in the upcoming midterm elections. ...
Salon.com

Fired columnist rehired as right’s Charlie Kirk campaign collapses - Karen Attiah's firing by the Washington Post sparked a backlash the newspaper has paid for ever since
Edinburg Politics

Terrence Howard, an Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur, honored with city proclamation for his surprise visit to Edinburg, reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED FROM LEFT: Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur Terrence Howard, and Edinburg First Lady L...
Ian Welsh

If You Want Companies To Behave Well You Have To Punish Decision Makers - Regular readers will know that China has been going after billionaires hard. So much so, in fact, that the number of billionaires is dropping in China. Bac...
Rallblog

Netanyahu: “Iran Tried to Kill My Son” | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Scheerpost.com

Media’s Obsession With Natalie Harp Shames Us All - Kathy Gannon Substack Where does the story of Natalie add value to our understanding of the news, of the events that shape our world? No, instead we get an...
ArcaMax

Goon Days at the Federal Communications Commission: Trump Tries To Muzzle ABC - It's another not especially beautiful week in the neighborhood, another week in which a spotlight is shone on President Donald Trump's unsubtle use of exec...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Augean Stable Genius - Trump’s attempt to extort Canada continues to draw mockery, and Telnaes does the rest of the commentators one better by noting that not only are the Canadi...
Rewire

Planned Parenthood’s Funding Ban Ended—But Money Isn’t Flowing In Every State - Congress blocked large family-planning clinics that offer abortions from billing Medicaid for one year, starting July 2025. Thirteen months later, Planned ...
Off The Kuff

Abbott seeks to avoid turning over that alleged ICE felon - Governor “Law and order when it suits my purposes but not otherwise” strikes again. Gov. Greg Abbott has asked a federal judge to reject Minnesota’s effort...
The Progressive Wing

8/25 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments.
WhoWhatWhy

Mail-In Voting: SCOTUS Drops Another Elections Bomb - [image: Supreme Court, Night] However Trump and his Supreme Court work together to make it more difficult and keep you from doing it, in this election voti...
Grist

US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government. - The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it.
High Country News

New Mexico’s rising climate-disaster costs are being paid by oil and gas revenue - The state is in a double bind of fossil fuel extraction and the destructive results of burning it. The post New Mexico’s rising climate-disaster costs a...
Consortium News

Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive - Ramzy Baroud on the dangerous turning point Colombia’s new government represents for pro-Palestine and pro-Arab positions worldwide. By Ramzy Baroud Z Netw...
jobsanger

Trump's Job Approval With Independents Just Keeps Getting Worse - This chart is from the YouGov Poll. It shows the job approval of Donald Trump with Independents from January of 2025 through August of 2026.
Courthouse News

Unions sue over new rules expanding feds power to fire workers - Seven federal employee unions are challenging new rules they say allow the Office of Personnel Management to fire career employees and review its own termi...
Portside

The Moose That Roared - The Moose That Roared Mark Brody Tue, 08/25/2026 - 00:29
Informed Comment

Hormuz Catastrophe: Netanyahu & Trump knew Risks, Escalated Anyway - The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran caused the strategic blowback that Israeli and American war-gaming had warned against. So, why the escalation?
Raw Story

Judge lays out Trump's 'high noon' plot to seize power if Republicans lose the midterms - Conservative judge Michael Luttig warned Monday that President Donald Trump seems likely to push Congress into a "high noon" scenario if the midterms don...
Claytoonz

Iranian Mooses - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 71 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Brad Blog

Corrupt SCOTUS Gifts Trump Again on USPS Vote-by-Mail Order. But It’s Not the Final Word: ‘BradCast’ 8/24/2026 - The long-awaited news from the corrupt SCOTUS broke while we were on our way to the studio for today’s BradCast. It sounds very bad. But it isn’t. Not yet,...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Right-wing pastor Franklin Graham now has $300 million more reasons to continue kissing Donald Trump's butt - One of Donald Trump's biggest defenders over the years has been Pastor Franklin Graham. On many occasions, Graham has either lied about or made excuses ...
Antiwar.com

No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun - Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the second co...
The Verge

Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices - When a company's software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks...
Workers World

How Iran will survive new ‘draconian sanctions’ - [image: How Iran will survive new ‘draconian sanctions’] How will Iran survive the latest round of what President Donald Trump calls “draconian sanctions” ...
Ballot Access News

State of California Files Reply In Support of Motion to Dismiss Second Amended Complaint in Top Two Litigation - Below is the brief filed today by the State of California against the litigation in California asserting the unconstitutionality of its Top Two election sy...
See You In 2020

The cracks in DSA’s coalition, & the Islamic Marxism that will arise in its wake - I identify Islamic Marxism as the answer to DSA’s reformism, not because all Marxists are Muslim but because Islam has proven to be today’s main resiste...
NPR's Health Shots

A look at the future of brain research funding, from a kids' camp for TBI survivors - A Pennsylvania summer camp helps children who have survived brain injuries. But the future of federal funding for brain injury research, and grants to stat...
Vox

Trump blows up the US-Canada relationship - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Houston Public Media

Trump to headline RNC fundraiser in Houston aimed at boosting Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign - An analysis by AdImpact suggests that Paxton, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, and groups supporting both campaigns could spend roughly $440 million o...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissents of Democratic-Appointed Justices Stays the District Court Preliminary Injunction in Trump Mail-In Voting Case; But Another Injunction Against It Remains in Place for Now - You can find the opinions here. [This post will be updated once I read and analyze the opinions.] The post Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissents...
memeorandum

FIRST ON FOX: ICE quietly arrests jaw dropping number of illegal immigrants in massive DC area operation (Fox News) - Fox News: *FIRST ON FOX: ICE quietly arrests jaw dropping number of illegal immigrants in massive DC area operation* — FIRST ON FOX: U.S. Immigration ...
Independent Political Report

New Iowa Libertarian Nominee Jacob Heard Vows to Fight for Spot on 3rd District Ballot - *This article was originally published by Iowa Capital Dispatch on August 22, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expres...
World Socialist Web Site

The attack on immigrants and Trump’s Operation Dictatorship - We are publishing here the report delivered by Eric London to the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held August 2–7, 2026, intr...
Glasstire

M-AAA Opens Call for 2027 Artistic Innovations Grants - The Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA) has announced an open call for its annual Artistic Innovations grants, supporting artistic experimentation by indiv...
Church and State

‘They just ignored my tears, they ignored my unhappiness’: former Irish nuns reveal accounts of brainwashing and abuse - In the Ireland of the 1950s (and indeed until the demise of the Catholic church in the 1990s), priests and nuns enjoyed positions of power.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Scarborough asks existential question! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026* *Lightly stoned, Bill defers: *We're glad to see DePaolo and Gilmour covering the things that get said on *Morning Joe*. In t...
Undernews

Federal judge rejects 75 country visa ban - *Washington Post -* The Trump administration must resume processing visas for people from 75 countries that the government deemed likely to become a “pub...
Angry Bear

A deeper look at the history and sources of interest payments on the national debt - – by New Deal democrat With 10- and 30-year Treasury bonds hovering close to 20-year highs in the past week, there has been a flurry of talk about how th...
Bracing Views

Preying On the Poor - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times BILL ASTORE AUG 18, 2026 Back in 2012, Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a sobering article for TomDispatch on h...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Christian Nationalism Captures Higher Education, or, On Mandatorily Managing the Mystery of the Maker, Parts One and Two, by Joshua Gunn - *Friends:* *I want to call readers’ attention to this provocative and important two-part essay by UT-Austin Professor Joshua Gunn in The Higher Ed Advoc...
SCOTUSblog

There is no constitutional “right to privacy” - This is the second of five introductory articles on the relevance for U.S. constitutional law of the “born free and equal” clauses, which appeared in the...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America - Matt and Sam talk to historian Kim Phillips-Fein about her new book, *Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long F...
Democracy Now!

In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in Congress - Progressive California state lawmaker Aisha Wahab made history last week in a special election that will make her the first Afghan American in Congress. Wa...
Space City Weather

‘Peak’ summer lasts a few more days before we have some modest hope on the horizon - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the very hot week ahead for Houston, but explain why this weekend should offer some slight relief. Could we actually s...
The Smirking Chimp

Author Reveals Why Natalie Harp Is Trump’s Most ‘Unwell’ Staffer -
ProPublica

His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws. - The post His Research on Pregnant Opioid Users Was Widely Celebrated. Auditors and Experts Found Major Flaws. appeared first on ProPublica.
Two Party Opera

Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands - Read More
Media Lens

4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ - If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting fro...
First Draft

Compulsion (1959) - Ripped from the 1920s headlines: A fictionalized take on the Leopold and Loeb case. Starring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, E...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Jenisch-Haus, Hamburg - [image: Jenisch-Haus, Hamburg]
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the bus - Danish transport company Midttrafik produced this ad for its bus service. It's cool. Probably worth fullscreen.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Look Cool; Vote DSA - 12 x 18 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb It’s all in the name – Democrats first, Socialists second (if at all). If you want to see what the DSA is rea...
Trivial Knot

Our “luxury” apartment - For the past few weeks, my husband and I have been apartment searching. That’s right, we’re renters! Not sure if readers find that surprising. But when ...
Socialist Alternative

Nolan Wells Should Have Turned 19: We Demand Answers - On July 6 on the coast of Horn Island, Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black student in Mississippi, was found dead facedown on a beach. After his body was fou...
Liberation News

Nuyoricans march for Puerto Rican independence amidst the water crisis - Hundreds of New Yorkers and Puerto Ricans in the diaspora took part in the march for independence, advocating for a free Puerto Rico and an end to the deca...
Texas Freedom Network

Far Right Watch: James Leininger - Texas Public Policy Foundation, Founder James Leininger is a major Republican donor and founder of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative thi...
MintPress News

From Lionel Messi, Kanye West to Taylor Swift: Celebrities are “Protected” By Israeli Security Teams - From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of...
The Militant

Organize, build protests to demand US hands off Cuba - 1,000s attend events in Cuba to back its nat’l sovereignty HAVANA — Thousands of people across Cuba paid tribute to the revolution’s central leader, Fidel ...
Discourse

What If We Kissed at Karen Bass’ ‘Do Not Park Here’ Sign? (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Thanksgiving wins, that Jon Ossoff video, that Oliver Larkin video, and boy oh boy, that miserable Karen Bass video
NORML

Turning Interest Into Advocacy: Why You Should Intern With NORML - [image: NORML internship][image: NORML internship]NORML Summer ‘26 Intern Dakota Helgren shares her experience for The post Turning Interest Into Advoca...
Counterpunch

Anti-Immigrant Furor in Thetford - If William Blake were alive today, he’d call his country a “brown and unpleasant land.” English summers used to be short and wet; now they are long and d...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 21, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio August 21, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/21/2026 - 06:17 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Lowering the Bar

Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Ticket - It also agreed to waive part—but not all—of the fee.
Project Censored

The Next Dark Pattern - Lily Minh Wass There’s a saying that goes, “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” The digital platforms we rely on daily have built...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / LABOR / Time to Consider a Four-Day Workweek - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2026 Mike Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University, comments on Juliet B...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes - The post NEW REPORT: Pollution puts swimmers at risk in Texas rivers and lakes appeared first on Environment Texas.
The Grayzone

ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal - The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned fro...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Democratic Outlook Brightens in Races for Vital State AG Posts - This year, 30 states are holding elections for attorney general. Currently, the GOP holds 27 attorney general offices to 23 for the Democrats The post De...
Unlimited Hangout

How “Argentina’s Elon Musk” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia - Javier Milei’s administration has been showcasing Patagonia to Silicon Valley executives, culminating in OpenAI’s ‘Stargate Argentina’ announcement. The ...
Duck of Minerva

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic - Did the pandemic durably change our pedagogy in International Relations (IR), or were pandemic-induced changes only temporary measures with which we have s...
Ecosophia

Energy: Preparations and Possibilities Revisited - Last month we started the process of looking back twenty years at my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the deindustrial future, with an ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus of the GPUS Hosts August 2026 Steering Committee Election - The Young Ecosocialist Caucus Steering Committee is holding an election for five positions: Caucus Co-chair Green Party US National Committee Delegate Gree...
Earthworks

Golden Gifts, Sweetheart Deals, and Demands for Investigations - The Trump Administration’s corruption and self-dealing went on full display during the August 7 Critical Minerals Roundtable at the State Department. Th...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Field Negro

The united marks of America. (The great American con) - It's official, the Trump administration is now the worst in the history of America. How could it not be? Consider what is happening with the following: ...
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Extraction Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Extraction Everything is extraction ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Krebs on Security

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out - It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day....
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
TalkLeft

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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DeSmogBlog

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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The Mind Unleashed

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Reading the Pictures

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Second Nexus

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Moron Majority

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The Disorder Of Things

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Dandelion Salad

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Daily Dot

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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American Prospect

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

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Rio Grande Guardian

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ROAR Magazine

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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Bud Kennedy

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Eater Houston

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Ring of Fire

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

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

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Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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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

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Robert Reich

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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

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One People's Project

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

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FiveThirtyEight.com

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Caitlin Johnstone

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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

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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 ...
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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Due Dissidence

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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

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Popehat

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epic.org

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Malady

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

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

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INSIDER - politics news

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

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

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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

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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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Brains and Eggs

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Sunday Funnies, "Stand Your Ground" edition

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