Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Second Nexus

Powerful Line From Sotomayor's Scathing Dissent After ICE Ruling Ignites Standing Ovation On 'Colbert' - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor received a standing ovation during her appearance on *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert *after Colbert read a line...
The Verge

Tonverk is Elektron’s new polyphonic sample mangler and groovebox - Elektron has built a cult-like following over the years with its unique and, at times, esoteric take on electronic musical instruments. On paper, Tonverk i...
The Daily Poster

Utah Forced Campuses To Allow Open-Carry Months Before Kirk Assassination - Earlier this year, Utah lawmakers encoded campus open-carry into state law.
Eschaton

Lunch - eat
Raw Story

Right-wing influencer deletes post targeting Charlie Kirk as insufficiently loyal to Trump - Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer has deleted a tweet sharply criticizing Charlie Kirk nearly two months before his fatal shooting. Loomer had called ou...
Ballot Access News

Procedural Win in Cornel West’s Pennsylvania Ballot Access Lawsuit - On September 11, U.S. District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, issued an opinion in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24c...
Mediaite

The View’s Co-Hosts Mourn Charlie Kirk: ‘Taken Out’ Because of His ‘Beliefs’ - The View co-hosts mourned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the age of 31 for speaking his beliefs on a Utah college campus Wedn...
memeorandum

Charlie Kirk's killing is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence (Margaret Sullivan/The Guardian) - Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian: *Charlie Kirk's killing is a tragic marker of the indiscriminate nature of political violence* — Like an infectious d...
Slate

I Cheated on My Ex-Wife for Years. She Took Me Back. Unfortunately, the Reason I Cheated Remains. - Maybe confronting her is the only way.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Charlie Kirk obituary - Activist and star of the US Republican right with a direct line to President Trump The US political activist Charlie Kirk, who has been murdered at the a...
Vox

How to mourn in our polarized age - Charlie Kirk, 31, observed the Jewish Sabbath. It was a little detail buried near the bottom of one of the many profiles published since news broke that th...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, Real Estate Roulette - The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called Ending Crime and Disorder on America...
Al Jazeera English

Funeral held in Doha after deadly Israeli attack - Mourners gathered in Qatar’s capital Doha to pray for six victims of Israel’s attack, including a 22-year-old policeman.
Political Wire

FBI Releases Photos of Suspect - The FBI released two photos of a ‘person of interest’ in connection with the shooting of Charlie Kirk as investigators appeal to the public for information...
Daily Dot

“Feminism is back”: Jezebel’s story about hiring “some Etsy witches” to curse Charlie Kirk two days before his death goes viral - [image: jezebel hires etsy witches to curse charlie kirk] Jezebel’s latest viral story took a satirical look at online witchcraft and conservative media....
Independent Political Report

National Political Parties Respond to the Fatal Shooting of Charlie Kirk - Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday in Utah while on his “The American Comeback Tour.” Independent Political Report has ...
San Antonio Current

Governor Abbott orders Texas flags lowered in honor of Charlie Kirk - [image: Charlie Kirk speaking with attendees at the Culture War tour at the Ohio Union at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.] Texas Governor Greg Ab...
The Hill

Trump's top economist on track to join Fed before pivotal meeting - President Trump's top White House economist is on track to join the Federal Reserve Board in time to join a key meeting on interest rates next week. Senate...
Axios

State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death - The State Department on Thursday indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants "praising, rationalizing, or making light" of conservative acti...
The Week

NASA reveals ‘clearest sign of life’ on Mars yet - The evidence came in the form of a rock sample collected on the planet
Election Law Blog

NOT “By All Means Necessary” - In light of yesterday’s tragic events, I am posting an excerpt here from Randy Kennedy’s essay we published earlier this week at the NYU Democracy Projec...
Deadline Politics

Thomas Evans Named Editor In Chief At NPR - Thomas Evans, a former CNN executive, has been named the next editor in chief of NPR. Evans will oversee the global newsroom, having most recently served a...
Texas Standard

North Texas Ukrainian community comes together for art, dance and rock music against backdrop of war - The concert was a celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day, hosted by the Ukrainian Cultural Club of Dallas.
Dissident Voice

Language, Mind Control, and 9/11 - An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, becom...
WhoWhatWhy

Workers Are Facing Dangerous Heat — Even Inside Fast-Food Restaurants - [image: fast food worker, kitchen, cooking, heat] Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk ...
Project Censored

The Great Nonprofit Purge - Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or fa...
Mediagazer

MediaRadar: pharmaceutical industry spent $6.4B on US TV ads in 2024; drug companies may cut TV ad spend if new rules mandate the inclusion of all side effects (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *MediaRadar: pharmaceutical industry spent $6.4B on US TV ads in 2024; drug companies may cut TV ad spend if new rules mandate the i...
Daily Howler

FALSE SPRING: Who committed yesterday's murder? - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2025* *Are we nearing the end of a spring?* This morning, we flashed on the passage from Hemingway's memoir, *A Moveable Feast*—...
Bonddad

As consumer inflation shows more signs of re-acceleration, the Fed is being forced to pick its poison - -* by New Deal democrat* The Fed is really facing a no-win situation. Between the recent employment reports, the QCEW, and even this morning’s jobless...
Glasstire

Top Five: September 11, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s 2025 Fall Preview picks, please go here. 1. Breadth of Latino/a Voices Art Museum...
Futurism

Chopped Up Human Body Found in Tesla Registered to Pop Singer - The decomposed remains of a woman were found Monday in the front trunk of a Tesla which had been impounded in a Los Angeles tow yard. The vehicle is regi...
Undernews

Problems with fasting - *Health & Wellness * - Time-restricted eating may worsen sleep quality and psychological well-being despite weight loss benefits - New studies ...
naked capitalism

Milton Friedman: From Modern Monetary Theory to Monetarism - How Milton Friedman was an advocate of functional finance, the precursor to Monetary Monetary Theory before he wasn't.
Houston Public Media

Houston’s new million-dollar firetruck goes unused because it’s too big for its fire station - Houston City Council member Joaquin Martinez said the case of the new firetruck, which cost approximately $1 million to $1.5 million, reinforces the need f...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 220: “What Causes Political Violence?” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University is the focus of “The TMI Sh...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent that would’ve criminalized flag burning - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of ...
Infidel753

Miscellaneous observations - Better my own path to Hell than someone else's path to Heaven. o o o o o Hating things that are popular doesn't make a person sophisticated. o o o o o I...
El Paso Matters

City of El Paso delays release of police lawsuit records despite Texas attorney general ruling - The city of El Paso is stalling releasing records about lawsuits against the police department. The Texas AG ordered the city to disclose them, but the ...
Rewire

Who Gets a Third-Trimester Abortion and Why? Doctor’s New Book Unpacks Politicized Procedure - Abortions after 28 weeks are exceedingly rare. Patients need the treatment for a variety of reasons, writes Dr. Shelley Sella--and every one of them 'des...
The NM Political Report

Board dismisses Westside candidates’ complaint against opponent’s manager - A longtime Democratic campaign manager says he is ready to “move on” after a city ethics board dismissed a complaint by a Westside city council candidate...
Progressive Army

RESO-5756/2025 Presentación sistémica de la Carga y del Manifiesto de Consolidación de Exportación para la vía aérea. - Estimados socios, buen día Se adjunta Res. 5756/2025 relacionada al nuevo trámite digital: Los exportadores y transportistas deben presentar los manifiesto...
Democracy Now!

Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats - We speak to two activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla as it prepares to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade. In recent days,...
The Conversation

Who was Charlie Kirk? The activist who turned campus politics into national influence - Charlie Kirk and his organization connected students and the GOP in new and effective ways. But the slain conservative spread misinformation and thrived on...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: September 11, 2025 - *In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to p...
ArcaMax

Murder Can't Be Erased - Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by hav...
Techdirt.

Business Insider Pulls 40+ Essays After Getting Conned By AI-Using Scammers - Earlier this month, we noted how Wired and Business Insider were among a half-dozen or so major news organizations that were busted publishing fake journal...
Dorf on Law

Mourning The 20th Anniversary of the Roberts Court Part III: The Rule of Law or The Rule of People? - In *Marbury v. Madison*, one of the most important cases ever decided by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall made at least three major mistake...
First Draft

Psychedelic Surgery - The eyes have it.
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather forecast is so dull our update today consists almost entirely of GIFs - In brief: Today’s forecast is our GIF to you, our beloved Houston readers. Houston’s weather will be unchanging for awhile, and it’s been five years since ...
Angry Bear

Revoking visas of Palestinian President, etc. - As a world leader, Rubio and Trump’s actions make no sense. The US is supposed to make it easier for officials from all nations who want to attend the UN...
Alternet

'Idiotic genre of degeneracy': 'Maggot-crawling depravity' of Epstein birthday book revealed - With all the warranted focus on President Donald Trump's cartoon contribution to the 50th birthday book of the late, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Snap Shots - I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineAnd I cried when they shot Mr. KennedyLike I’d lost a brother of mineBut Malcom X got what was co...
Courthouse News

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Mother Jones

The Cruel Catch-22 of Cash Aid - The Covid-19 pandemic’s stimulus checks and tax credits helped mainstream the idea that government could help unwealthy people through hard times by simply...
The Smirking Chimp

The Future of the Democratic Party (if it has a future) -
NPR's Health Shots

Love, drugs and condoms: Couples with different HIV status face a new reality - They're called "serodiscordant" couples. One is HIV positive, the other negative. Aid from the U.S. enabled them to obtain medicines and condoms for protec...
Skeptophilia

Flash in the pan - "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So wrote William Shakespeare in *Hamlet*, and if anything, i...
Crooked Media

Can The Left Reclaim America’s Story? - The post Can The Left Reclaim America’s Story? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Abbott bans THC for those under 21 - Why didn’t we just do this first? THC products will remain largely legal in Texas, but will be banned for minors and current regulations further enforced u...
San Antonio Report

Former hospital CEO George Hernández receives lifetime achievement award - George Hernández, the former president of University Health, received a lifetime achievement award from BioMedSA. ------------------------------ Former hosp...
ProPublica

After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late. - by Willoughby Mariano, WBUR, with additional reporting by Todd Wallack, WBUR This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partn...
American Prospect

Crypto Bank Machine Operators Swindle Seniors - Once described as the ‘AR-15s of the financial services industry,’ crypto ATMs remain a hotbed for scams targeting vulnerable communities. But third-party ...
Grist

Ahead of COP, Africa aims to become the continent of climate solutions - The continent’s 54 nations outline a bold vision for climate action and pledges to present a unified position at the global meeting later this year.
Consortium News

The Chris Hedges Report: The Death of Holocaust Studies - How distortion of the Holocaust, in the midst of the genocide in Gaza, has been used to serve the narrative of Zionists and the Israeli government, analyze...
High Country News

Access to public land? There’s an app for that - Tech is facilitating land access in new, and sometimes fraught, ways. The post Access to public land? There’s an app for that appeared first on High Cou...
The Root

Truth Or Myth? Fact-checking 10 Popular Online Natural Hair Tips - We fact-checked all those natural hair tips you've been pondering online. Read more...
Earth 911

Easy DIY Skincare Recipes That Truly Care for Skin - We’ve all heard the statistic about the skin being the body’s largest organ, but opinions... The post Easy DIY Skincare Recipes That Truly Care for Skin ...
Counterpunch

The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence - There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. "We need to dial back our discours...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Workers World

PDF of September 11 issue - [image: PDF of September 11 issue] Download the PDF IOF out of Gaza, ICE out of Philly! U.S. hands off Venezuela and Cuba! To fight martial law plans Our m...
World Socialist Web Site

European powers escalate war threats against Russia after drones shot down over Poland - No sooner had it been reported that NATO had shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace, the European powers began a furious agitation for escalation of war.
jobsanger

Today's Republican Party Rejects Lincoln's Dream For This Country -
The AltWorld

The Reported Russian Drone Incursions Into Poland Might Have Been Due To NATO Jamming - It’s unlikely that Russia would risk rallying the West around a no-fly zone over Ukraine by staging […] The post The Reported Russian Drone Incursions In...
Informed Comment

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12 - Quatrain no. 12 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the imperative to live in the moment and take our pleasures w...
Portside

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela - All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela Mark Brody Wed, 09/10/2025 - 23:40
The Greanville Post

5 places to visit in Gaza: Measuring the Magnitude of the Tragedy - PG—I don't mean to be cruel, but sometimes the magnitude of a mindboggling catastrophe is only properly absorbed when you compare the improbably "normal" p...
Wolf Street

RTO Has Stalled, There’s Been Hardly any Reduction in WFH since Early 2023 - And there’s a big mismatch between what employers are offering and what workers want.
Brad Blog

Kirk Assassinated in UT; Government Shutdown Battle Takes Shape in D.C.: 'BradCast' 9/10/2025 - As you might have guessed, it's a grim day on today's BradCast [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our coverage... 31-year old, far-right...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: The Death Of Holocaust Studies - Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and an associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, analyzes how the weaponization and d...
Antiwar.com

Hey, POTUS, How About a Department of PEACE! - Part 1 Well, the Donald hit the nail on the head, albeit surely not by purpose. That is to say, Washington DC is indeed the War Capital of the World – so t...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - A lot of fun stuff is happening Houston over the next few days.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace loses it after being confronted about her 'gender-affirming care'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Editor's note - Charlie Kirk was assassinated today. He was a homophobic, racist bully and an all-around terrible human being, but he didn't deserve to ...
Claytoonz

Sorry, Charlie - 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...
Reform Austin

Abbott Expected to Set New Restrictions on THC Products in Texas - Following negotiations during the Legislature’s second special session, Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to issue an executive order to regulate hemp-derive...
Mondoweiss

From European leaders to American media personalities, Zionism’s rationale is crumbling - [image: French President Emmanuel Macron. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)]The breakdown of the mainstream consensus on Israel is an opportunity for the left, sp...
Discourse

The American Years of Lead are Here - The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.
slacktivist

Biblical slop - "The AI Bible is run by Pray.com ..." and the rest of the story, as hard to imagine as that is, gets worse from there.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2025 - My PC is out of commission right now, so no origami this month. Still got a handful of links. Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults | Ozy Brennan – When...
Church and State

Trump’s foreign policy - Not only India, but Brazil and Canada have become centerpieces of distrust of America because of Trump's use of tariffs often for poor reasons.
Ian Welsh

A Brief Taxonomy Of Corruption - I was discussing Indian corruption with Sean-Paul the other day, and we had to really break down what we meant by corruption. That lead to a simple classif...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Deserve Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We can stop this. Today.
Sludge

Lobbyists Cash In on Both Sides of PFAS Fight - California water ratepayers are funding lobbyists who simultaneously represent chemical companies that oppose PFAS regulation.
Capital & Main

Hitting the Bullseye - The Black-led boycott of Target seems to be working, even in L.A. neighborhoods that once yearned for big-box stores. The post Hitting the Bullseye appea...
The Texas Signal

Why The JFK Assassination Still Matters - The seminal Texas event gets the spotlight at the third annual "It Came From Texas" Film Festival with the screening of a documentary highlighting local news
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Texas Observer

Life in the Time of Hurricanes - Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from the first chapter of Life in the Time of Hurricanes by Rod Davis, out this month from TCU Press. It is rep...
Common Dreams

September Poll: 64% of Republican and Independent Voters Want Ban for Mid-Decade Redistricting - Republican and Independent voters want Congress to step up and ban mid-decade redistricting in opposition to a White House desperate to hold onto power –...
Bracing Views

Genocide Is Apparently OK in Gaza - Lesson from the LA Holocaust Museum BILL ASTORE SEP 09, 2025 The LA Holocaust Museum recently suggested that “Never Again” is a fundamental lesson of the H...
Salon.com

MAGA’s plan for a white Christian America is unfolding before our eyes - Their ambitions were on full display at the National Conservatism Conference
NORML

Georgia: Clayton County Commissioners Enact Marijuana Decriminalization Ordinance - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
The Grayzone

Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings - A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. ...
See You In 2020

Bronze Age Pervert & the KKE: working to sell the Trump White House’s Venezuela regime change war - Since Washington invaded Iraq, there has emerged a current of pro-imperialist actors who retrospectively oppose the Iraq war, while endorsing every new ...
Crooked Timber

My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies. - Mr Magpie has always been a bold friend. He sits at the table with us when we are outside. In the warmer months when we often leave the back door open he w...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition - Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known "zero-d...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s War on the Climate - For years we’ve been experiencing countless air quality warnings due to mass wildfires, record high temperatures across the globe, and sea levels rising at...
Progressive.org

Suppressing Dissent - In ‘Police Against the Movement,’ Joshua Clark Davis investigates the role of police violence during the Civil Rights Movement.
MintPress News

MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth - For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you. The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The MAGA kids are not all White: Tokenizing Black Conservatism - Friends: The *Washington Post*’s profile of CJ Pearson’s “Cruel Kids Summer” party shows how Trumpism is being rebranded: young, multiracial, and “fun.” D...
Dissent Magazine

Falling Leaves - How do we know when democracy is gone?
Debunking Christianity

How Strong is 2nd/3rd Handed Testimony? - From Jack Johnson on Facebook. He studied Biblical academics and counseling at Baptist Bible College, Baptist Bible School of Theology, Trinity Seminary. ...
The Progressive Wing

9/8-9/14 News Round Up and Open Thread - The U.S. Open just showed Donald Trump on the screen for a second time and he got booed for 30 seconds straight. Fans are pissed off. This is the clip that...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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alicublog

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

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

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

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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...
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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