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Sunday, April 15, 2012

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BREAKING NEWS: With his campaign rapidly dying, Newt Gingrich chooses to divorce it. Sources say he had already begun seeing the Mitt Romney campaign on the side.

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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

'These are children': GOP blinks amid outrage over slashing 'lifesaving' program - Republicans have reissued cuts made in the 2026 budget bill that would have ended funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. ...
Courthouse News

Tesla debuts in India, but its cars likely cost too much for most Indians - Sales of Tesla electric cars fell sharply from April to June as boycotts over Elon Musk’s political views continued keeping buyers away.
The Week

Can Texas redistricting save the US House for the GOP? - Trump pushes a 'ruthless' new plan, but it could backfire
Daily Dot

“At the time, I thought that I was saving America”: Former Turning Point USA writer describes how she wrote articles “designed to scare people” - [image: former charlie kirk turning point writer liberal] A writer who formerly worked for Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA launched a TikTok series on...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Republicans may slash $9.4bn for public broadcasting and foreign aid in days - GOP racing to meet Friday deadline mandated by law for bill, known as a rescissions package, to pass Congress Senate Republicans may as soon as Tuesday m...
Mediagazer

CNN's Jeremy Diamond says Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the car he was in while on assignment; a Deutsche Welle team was attacked there on July 4 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline) - Melanie Goodfellow / Deadline: *CNN's Jeremy Diamond says Israeli settlers in the West Bank attacked the car he was in while on assignment; a Deutsche We...
Progressive.org

Climate Denial Paved the Way for the Texas Flooding - Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catas...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Gen Z’s Sacred Discontent: Reclaiming Forgotten Selves and Humanity in a Commodified World, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Gen Z’s Sacred Discontent: Reclaiming Forgotten Selves and Humanity in a Commodified World* * by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *We urgently need to hav...
Al Jazeera English

Court says Trump can’t bar refugees from entering US with travel ban - The Trump administration has faced a raft of legal challenges as it seeks to radically restrict immigration to the US.
The Hill

White House agrees to exempt PEPFAR from cuts - Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans Tuesday that the White House is on board with a s...
memeorandum

Congress is advancing FY26 spending bills, including some with dramatic staffing cuts (Eric Katz/GovExec.com) - Eric Katz / GovExec.com: *Congress is advancing FY26 spending bills, including some with dramatic staffing cuts* — Lawmakers in both chambers are movin...
Eschaton

Stay Away - 100 days detention is not the appropriate response to a minor tourist visa overstay. Tell people to get on a plane home.
Political Wire

What Democrats Must Do Differently - Will Robinson: “The conservative movement has built a sprawling, always-on communications ecosystem. It’s not just Fox News and talk radio anymore — it’s a...
Reform Austin

State Sen. Nathan Johnson Launches Campaign for Texas Attorney General - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas State Senator Nathan Johnson, a three-term Democrat from Dallas, announced Tuesday that h...
Wolf Street

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Services Reheats (not tariffed), while Inflation in Durable Goods, Apparel & Footwear (tariffed) Remains Cool - While pundits looked with their magnifying glasses for tariffs in consumer goods prices, it was in services, which are not tariffed, where inflation took o...
Futurism

Bank Warns That Robotaxi Companies May Have Overlooked Severe Obstacles to Actually Making Money - Don't Believe the Hype As Elon Musk's Tesla triples down on an autonomous ridehailing service, analysts are ringing the alarm bells, warning that it coul...
Popular Resistance

Hungary Refuses To Finance US Weapons For Ukraine - Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on 14 July that Hungary will not participate in financing US weapons for Ukraine, even if Washington form...
Consortium News

Scott Ritter: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich - After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it. Germany today has dangerously emb...
Mediaite

Trump Makes Shocking Claim When Reporter Asks If He’s Named In the Epstein Files - Trump made the shocking claim that former President Obama and James Comey "made up" the Jeffrey Epstein files, when confronted by a reporter on Tuesday. ...
Daily Cartoonist

Peter Russell-Clarke — RIP - Australian chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, illustrator, artist, cartoonist, TV presenter, and media personality Peter Russell Clarke passed away on Ju...
The Verge

Analogue’s 4K N64 has been delayed again, but only by a month - The Analogue 3D has been hit with another delay, but should still be launching this summer. In an update on its preorder website, Analogue explained that i...
First Draft

Team Of Baby Starvers - Team Trump is destroying food meant to feed starving children. The cruelty, it burns.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – AI Goes to War - A compact comprehensive discussion of the present state and future prospects of AI technologies applied to armed conflict is an impossible mission, but I w...
Common Dreams

House Committee Votes on Bill to Sidestep Fish and Wildlife Service and Delist Grizzly Bears - The House Natural Resources Committee will today vote on Rep. Harriet Hageman’s Grizzly Bear State Management Act, which seeks to reissue a 2017 Fish and...
Techdirt.

Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard Are Wasting Resources Trying To Root Out Gov’t Employees Who Just Aren’t MAGA Enough - In the Trump administration, every political appointee is now their own personal Richard Nixon. Simply being some of the most powerful people in the world ...
Mother Jones

Let’s Count All the Ways Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Angry With President Trump - Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fealty to President Donald Trump has, for the most part, seemed nearly unshakable. She has compared him to Jesus Chri...
World Socialist Web Site

Former head of the British Army General Patrick Sanders declares “realistic possibility” of war with Russia within five years - Sanders “cited Finland as an example the UK should consider,” the *Telegraph *reports, telling the paper, “Finland has bomb shelters for 4.5 million people...
Second Nexus

TikToker Posts Emotional Plea After Dead Mother's Final Gift To Her Is Cancelled—And The Internet Delivered - Grief can make even small gestures deeply impactful, as a woman recently found out after posting a video to TikTok after her mother's recent death. Erin ...
Mondoweiss

Israel isn’t just killing Palestinians seeking food aid. It’s killing people waiting in line for water, too. - [image: Palestinians carry the bodies of relatives who were killed in Israeli strikes targeting a water filling station, at the Al-Awda hospital, in Nuseir...
CultureMap Houston

10 eateries participating in Houston Restaurant Weeks for the first time - One of the most eagerly anticipated days of the year for people who love Houston restaurants has arrived. *Houston Restaurant Weeks* has released the first...
Slate

My Wife Promised My Daughter an Expensive Gift. I’m in Agony About What My Family Will Think. - We can afford it, but that's not the point.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 15, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Outrage grows over Trump Administration's delayed FEMA r...
Houston Public Media

How a small East Texas town turned a devastating tornado into funding for sirens - As the public scrutinizes parts of the Hill Country for a lack of sirens during the July 4 floods, Crockett turned its own tragedy into preparedness.
Salon.com

Jon Stewart: MAGA in “open revolt” over Epstein files - The Daily Show host had some fun with the right-wing rupture over Jeffrey Epstein
Ballot Access News

Green Party Registration Rises 5% in Last Nine Months - Green Party registration in the states that have partisan registration has risen from 248,516 members as of November 2024, to 261,091 as of July 2025. Mea...
Axios

The top U.S. cybersecurity agency is shrinking quickly under Trump 2.0 - After years of aggressive growth and regulatory expansion under previous administrations, the workforce and mission of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructu...
Dorf on Law

The Sad But Unsurprising US Political Narrative: Ignoring and Whitewashing the End of the Rule of Law - Here is the headline of a story in *The New York Times* from July 4: "From Court to Congress to the Mideast, Trump Tallies His Wins." If one were search...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Allies Could Profit Off Privatizing Weather Forecasting Agencies - Businesses linked to Trump’s cabinet stand to benefit from privatizing weather monitoring agencies — leaving Americans to pay for lifesaving weather foreca...
The Texas Signal

In Texas, Bats Are Beloved And In Danger - Though hardy animals, Texas bats are seeing major upheavals to their environment thanks to man-made climate change.
The Greanville Post

The Constants of US Hegemony and Global Peril - OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT--Major new US expenditures on Ukraine would come at significant cost to US ability to sustain the costs (1) of supporting Israel’s geno...
Independent Political Report

Kathy Yeniscavich Resigns from Libertarian National Committee - Kathy Yeniscavich announced her immediate resignation Tuesday as an at-large representative to the Libertarian National Committee. She was first elected ...
Bracing Views

Appeasing the Military-Industrial Complex - Orwell’s 1984 Wasn’t Meant As a How-To Guide BILL ASTORE JUL 15, 2025 In an ever-changing world, the one constant in Universe USA is rising Pentagon budget...
ProPublica

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE - by William Turton, Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Trump as a Terrorist - Yes, he's done quite a job so far and, in a way, it couldn't be simpler to describe. Somehow he's managed to take the greatest looming threat to humanity a...
SCOTUSblog

Judicial Deference? - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Rio Grande Guardian

Ask the Expert: Understanding Fatty Liver and Preventing Cirrhosis - Ask the Expert, Dr. Angela Lomas, explains more on bariatric surgery. The post Ask the Expert: Understanding Fatty Liver and Preventing Cirrhosis appeare...
Deadline Politics

CNN Crew Attacked By Israeli Settlers In West Bank Amid Escalating Violence Against Journalists - CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond has reported that Israeli settlers attacked the car that he and his crew were traveling in as they visited the W...
WhoWhatWhy

The Science Behind Texas’s Catastrophic Floods - [image: Flooding, Center Point, Texas] Rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors of catastrophic flooding that tore through Central Texas on the Fourth...
Election Law Blog

Now Available: 2025 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji & Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) - You can download the free Supplement here, current through the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 term. New to this Supplement is an overview of 2024 election litig...
Dissident Voice

Just Count the Deep Slippage in Services, Frayed Safety Nets, Dwindling Public Goods, Negative Community Health Outcomes and the Fabric of a Society in Your Neighborhood Up in Flames - The Neoliberal Predatory Penury Polluting Starving Terror Capitalism is putting our lives in the proper place — D.O.A. The tools for participatory democr...
Alternet

'In danger': Economist details Trump policy’s destructive effects - President Donald Trump continues to angrily rage against U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, repeatedly describing him as a "stupid person" and ...
NORML

Analysis: Adult-Use Cannabis States Experience Significantly Higher Home Value Growth - [image: cannabis home values][image: cannabis home values]"Cannabis legalization is a proven economic driver. Regulated markets create jobs, disrupt the ...
Daily Howler

DESPERATELY SEEKING THE BEST: Nicolle Wallace has started a podcast! - *TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2025* *In our view, she chose an unfortunate name:* Concern about Medicaid coverage is OUT! By now, it's long, long gone. In its pla...
Texas Observer

In Abilene, Stargate Project Puts AI Boom Ahead of Human Health - The first data center in the Stargate project—a $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBan...
Angry Bear

Another anti-vaxxer shibboleth bites the dust - One anti-vaxxer conspiracy theory holds that thimerosal, an ethylmercury preservative once used in childhood vaccines, caused the dramatic increase in au...
Bonddad

June CPI: an apparent point of transition - * - by New Deal democrat* We are at somewhat of an inflection point as to consumer inflation. On the one hand, the post-pandemic inflationary effect...
El Paso Matters

El Paso loses $3.5 million in public health grants after Trump cuts - The Trump administration revoked unspent pandemic-era grants and is slashing the CDC’s budget – upending funding to local health agencies. The post El P...
Undernews

Why Trump is out to kill the Department of Education - John Pavlovitz - The Republican Party is destroying the Department of Education because it needs stupid people. By dismantling the hub of America’s acces...
The Root

White Florida Ex-Mayor Allegedly Insults Black City Clerk’s ‘Aunt Jemima Braids,’ Messes Around and Finds Out - Erica Anderson claimed the former mayor told her to stop wearing "Aunt Jemima Braids." And that was just the beginning of her federal complaint. Read mo...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 180: “Trump’s Cover-Ups” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: In an era of Team Politics, will betrayal of a clear and popular campaign promise be enough to separate MAGA ...
Rewire

Abortion-Related Travel Could Face Another ‘Shock to the System’ Under New Spending Law - Trump's law “defunds” Planned Parenthood, which could lead to clinic closures across the country. States where abortion is legal stand to be hit the hard...
Democracy Now!

"Purge Palantir": Day of Action Protests Firm's Role in Gov't Surveillance, ICE & Genocide in Gaza - Protesters across the United States targeted Palantir Monday in a day of action focused on the technology company’s work with ICE, facilitating President T...
Glasstire

Challenging America’s Stories: “Readymade Remix” at the San Antonio Museum of Art - In 1917, French artist Marcel Duchamp submitted an upside-down porcelain urinal as a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists in New York under th...
The Conversation

How universities can keep protests from turning violent: 3 lessons from the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampments - Engaging early and often resulted in less violent protests, according to the authors’ survey of college campuses.
ArcaMax

Depravity Denial: On Sexual Violence, Progressives Make an Israel Exception - By nightfall on Oct. 7, 2023, enough details of what several thousand Hamas gunmen had done to about 1,200 Israeli civilians had emerged to make clear the ...
DeSmogBlog

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds - Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages o...
Socialist Alternative

U.S. Patriotism Was Never Ours to Reclaim - On June 14, Flag Day, 5-10 million people took to the streets to say no to Trump’s authoritarian administration in the biggest single day of protests in US...
Space City Weather

Fewer showers for the next few days, but then rain chances return as tropical system moves into Gulf - In brief: Houston will see less rain and more sunshine for a few days before healthy rain chances return Friday and perhaps Saturday. We are also closely w...
Vox

The 9 best books of the year so far - A truism about stories (courtesy, more or less, of the novelist John Gardner) is that there are only two plots: a person goes on a journey, and a stranger ...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Admin Announces $200 Million Contract for Musk’s AI After Grok Hitler Incident - "Stop entertaining this man. Stop giving him money. It's really that simple," said one critic of Elon Musk, the richest man on Earth.
The Smirking Chimp

Embarrassing: Trump Keeps Club World Cup Trophy and Forces Winners To Hold Fake Award -
Skeptophilia

Ringing the changes - I find human behavior absolutely baffling a lot of the time. I've spent a significant fraction of my life thinking, "Why did (s)he do/say that?" One posit...
Off The Kuff

What the medical marijuana industry wants from the special session - To protect their interests, of course. Texas’ medical marijuana dispensaries entered into this year’s legislative session with a two-prong strategy to expa...
NPR's Health Shots

A million veterans gave DNA for medical research. Now the data is in limbo - Retired service members donated genetic material to a DNA database to help answer health questions for all Americans. The Trump administration is dragging ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
San Antonio Report

‘The Jazzman’ and Balcones Heights Jazz Festival return for 32nd season - This year’s Balcones Heights Jazz Festival is scheduled for Friday, July 18, at the Wonderland of the Americas’ outdoor amphitheater. ----------------------...
Crooked Media

Live! One year of Keir – how can we fix the mess? – with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard - The post Live! One year of Keir – how can we fix the mess? – with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard appeared first on Crooked Media.
American Prospect

Reclaiming the Public Realm - Trump’s destruction and the needed rebuilding should be a theme in every election between now and 2028.
Progressive Army

Facilitación del comercio como herramienta para fortalecer la integridad en las fronteras: nuevas directrices de la ICC y la OMA - La Organización Mundial de Aduanas (OMA) y la Cámara de Comercio Internacional (CCI) publicaron un informe conjunto titulado “Enhancing Integrity at Border...
Grist

This fuel is 50% plastic — and it’s slipping through a loophole in international waste law - Environmental groups are concerned that rich countries are exporting plastic to poor countries in the form of “refuse-derived fuel."
High Country News

Finding your ancestors in the archives - Author Joseph Lee explores Wampanoag family history in a new book of memoir and reportage. The post Finding your ancestors in the archives appeared firs...
Ian Welsh

Imperial Presidency Watch: Congress Loses Control Over The Purse - [image: Imperial Presidency Watch: Congress Loses Control Over The Purse] So, the Supremes have decided, without even bothering to write an opinion, that ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 15 July 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "Martian Grand Canyon" video, click here.] ...
Earth 911

Everything Your Child Needs for a Waste-Free School Year - Remember that crisp excitement of September mornings when choosing fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils would... The post Everything Your Child Needs fo...
Counterpunch

Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa - U.S. President Donald Trump apparently aims to reassert his power to cause a full-blown economic catastrophe, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make Ame...
See You In 2020

The mass will to defeat monopoly capital is there. The question is whether we'll rebuild the workers movement. - One of the biggest challenges which U.S. communists and their allies are about to confront is that of bringing Americans away from apathy. Burnout and l...
jobsanger

Food Banks Can't Make Up For Massive SNAP Cuts -
Informed Comment

Gaza: It’s not “Complicated” - Santa Cruz, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – HISTORY is always complicated. ELEMENTARY ETHICS is not. “Do not do to others what is hateful to y...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Our Genocide and the Limits of Pretend - With recent news that the US sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, it's time for everyone to admit we're watching an American genocide in ...
slacktivist

‘Perversion of Justice’ revisited - A look back at what we've previously written here about Jeffrey Epstein, now that we're told he never actually existed.
Portside

US Undocumented Farm Workers Feel ‘Hunted Like Animals’ Amid Trump’s Immigration Raids - US Undocumented Farm Workers Feel ‘Hunted Like Animals’ Amid Trump’s Immigration Raids Stephanie Mon, 07/14/2025 - 23:00
Krebs on Security

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI - Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. So...
Workers World

Trump’s cuts, politicians’ inactions kill in the Hill Country - [image: Trump’s cuts, politicians’ inactions kill in the Hill Country] Houston The Texas Hill Country is known for beautiful rolling hills, hundreds of win...
Antiwar.com

How Firm Is Washington’s Commitment to Taiwan’s Security? - At first glance, Washington’s informal but very real commitment to defend Taiwan and preserve its de facto independence seems quite secure. Over the past ...
Claytoonz

Stop Talking About Epstein - 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...
Sludge

Defense Contractors Line Up for ‘Golden Dome’ Bonanza - Lockheed Martin and Boeing are touting their products to be part of President Trump’s missile defense project, angling to join rumored favorites SpaceX and...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
The NM Political Report

Luján secures $6.9 Million in federal funding for New Mexico communities - [image: Ben Ray Lujan SNAP] [image: Ben Ray Lujan SNAP] U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) announced that the Senate Appropriations Committee has passed ...
Texas Standard

‘People get tired of alerts’: Why getting the word out about public hazards can be tricky - Warnings sometimes aren’t reaching phones because individuals have turned them off.
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: The End of PEPFAR - Check out the timelapse drawing video (including video of Frank Young’s coloring process). TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. All of them ...
Capital & Main

Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers Least Able to Pay - With wage garnishments expected later this summer, low-income Americans brace for impact. The post Student Debt Collections Resume, Targeting Borrowers L...
Discourse

Bari Weiss Is a Perfect Fit For CBS News - But only for the worst possible reasons.
Earthworks

Flaring in Plain Sight - A ‘solution’ of governments and industry to the common practice of burning off methane pollution and other air pollutants at … The post Flaring in Plain...
Media Lens

Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK - One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person ...
Crooked Timber

Attention is All You Need - One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Pos...
The AltWorld

The Good Guys - The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah and massacring civilians trying to obtain food. The […] The post The Good Guys appeared first on ...
Democracy Chronicles

Camp LeJeune Justice Act Litigation - Congress had to waste time passing a new law because DOJ and Navy JAG won when Congress didn’t want them to win.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

News brief special - MAGA anger at Trump over Epstein Files isn't dying down. It's heating up. - How the Trump Administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein situation (seen here with Trump in 1992) has created a huge rift between Donald Trump and his MA...
Liberation News

The latest billionaire attacks on public education and how to fight them - Students need full funding of public schools, not privitization.
alicublog

SUNDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SAW THE NAZIS GETTIN' SLOPPY EDITION. - *I follow Robert Christgau because how can I not,but also because he catches me up on acts like this.* On the one hand, the outrages never cease; on the...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Looking Toward the Future: Dispatches Mailbag - Readers had questions about the future and I have some thoughts.
San Antonio Current

In the Hill Country and beyond, rural Texas counties lack resources for flood detection - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
Texas Monthly

A Young Magician Has Been Secretly Perfecting His Act for Years. Now He’s Ready to Make History. - Eric Chien plans to perform a new form of magic at a secretive competition in Italy.
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...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
The Militant

‘The working class needs to take political power in our own hands’ - SWP campaign in Minneapolis goes over the top in ballot drive MINNEAPOLIS — After nine days of campaigning throughout the city, Socialist Workers Party mem...
Church and State

The Dangerous Distraction of Population Decline Alarmism - According to the UN Population Division, nine countries are on track to at least double their populations by 2054.
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari — Zarina Zabrisky’s haunting documentary exposes Russian war crimes in Ukraine“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 - *Are the devout in love with Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians? * When enthusiastic Christians decide they’d better read the Bible cover-to-cover...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
MintPress News

Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence - This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli s...
Bud Kennedy

It’s not evil to ask why Texas flood warnings failed Kerrville | Opinion - We’re all heartbroken. It’s our job to write about why. It isn’t wrong or evil to write about how officials failed to anticipate the Kerrville flooding, or...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation presents The Price of Admission, solo exhibition of Jorge Javier López - Opening reception July 11 at Casa Daphne
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: Nebraska Senate, Upcoming Special Elections - In Nebraska, independent Dan Osborn's entrance into the Senate race makes it more of a contest; given their recent overperformances, an upcoming special ...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
ROAR Magazine

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Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
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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