Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediagazer

First Lady Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner held a private screening of their controversial Amazon-funded documentary, Melania, at the WH on Saturday (Lexy Perez/The Hollywood Reporter) - Lexy Perez / The Hollywood Reporter: *First Lady Melania Trump and director Brett Ratner held a private screening of their controversial Amazon-funded do...
Eschaton

Alex Pareene. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time. - He reappeared! I propose a sort of long-term residential program for everyone who remains with ICE and CBP after this week, along with more or less every...
Courthouse News

Myanmar uses ‘ghost ships’ to import aviation fuel for deadly air attacks, Amnesty says - Opponents of Myanmar’s military government have described cutting off its supply of aviation fuel as crucial to curbing its war-making capacity, which has ...
Raw Story

Karoline Leavitt throws Stephen Miller under the bus over calling Alex Pretti 'terrorist' - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to defend aide Stephen Miller after he described Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse gunned down by Bor...
Novara Media

ICE Agents Execute Another Civilian in Minneapolis - A second US citizen has been killed by ICE. Plus: Andy Burnham blocked from by-election race, and Suella Braverman defects from the Conservatives to Reform...
Futurism

Trump Forgets the Word for Alzheimer’s Disease While Insisting That He Doesn’t Have It - "What do they call it?" The post Trump Forgets the Word for Alzheimer’s Disease While Insisting That He Doesn’t Have It appeared first on Futurism.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Oracle Debt and TikTok Transition Troubles Vex the Ellison Media Empire - Oracle has financial problems that threaten the Ellison media empire, while technical problems at TikTok complicate the transition to total info control.
Texas Standard

Winter storm leaves slick roads for much of Texas, but the grid held up - Meteorologists are eyeing another front approaching at the end of the week.
Mediaite

Karoline Leavitt Turns the Heat Back Up On Tim Walz Shortly After He and Trump Buried the Hatchet: ‘Spreading Lies’ - Karoline Leavitt slammed Tim Walz for encouraging the "hysteria" against ICE that she said directly contributed to the shooting death of Alex Pretti The ...
Techdirt.

Judge Blocks DHS From Destroying Evidence From Alex Pretti’s Execution By Federal Officers - First, there’s the lies: the immediate, reflexive flurry of posts meant to portray anyone federal immigration officers kill as a threat to public safety. W...
Scheerpost.com

The ‘Peace President’ Who Bombed 10 Countries and Wants $1.5 Trillion for War - Posted by Joshua Scheer Donald Trump keeps insisting he’s a “peace president.” The record shows something closer to a global arsonist with better PR. In ju...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Critics slam Pam Bondi’s demand for Minnesota voter rolls amid ICE surge - Outrage mounts after US attorney general’s request as state reels from the weekend killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis There was widespread outrage aft...
Houston Public Media

Anti-Islam rhetoric takes center stage in Texas Republican primary - As the GOP and its factions debate what constitutes American identity, opposition to Islam has become a key campaign pillar for some Texas Republicans in s...
The Week

‘Human trafficking isn’t something that happens “somewhere else”’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Axios

Exclusive: Trump says Hamas helped find last hostage, now must disarm - President Trump told Axios in an interview on Monday that Hamas had helped locate the remains of the last Israeli hostage. He called on the group to now ...
Mondoweiss

Mahmoud Khalil vows to oppose Trump efforts to deport him to Algeria over pro-Palestine speech - [image: Mahmoud Khalil addresses a large crowd of supporters in New York City on June 22, 2025. (Photo: x.com/PeoplesForumNYC)]Mahmoud Khalil and his legal...
San Antonio Current

Ken Paxton: Comptroller can exclude schools from voucher program under anti-terror laws - [image: Attorney General Ken Paxton greets attendees at the Texas Youth Summit at the Woodlands Marriott on Sept. 20, 2025.] A CAIR official blasted the T...
Political Wire

Suozzi ‘Failed’ In Voting for Homeland Security Funds - Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) on Monday said he regretted his vote last week for a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, amid intense backlash sur...
memeorandum

Ye apologizes for antisemitic remarks: 'I lost touch with reality' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill) - Judy Kurtz / The Hill: *Ye apologizes for antisemitic remarks: ‘I lost touch with reality’* — Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is issuing a...
OpEd News

A Failure Already? Bill Maher Declares Zohran Mamdani "A Straight Up Communist" - Bill Maher's latest remarks about Zohran Mamdani being a "straight up communist" show he knows less about communism than my middle school grandchildren.
slacktivist

Timberwolves chaplain speaks out - Minnesota is preaching a sermon that all of America needs to hear.
Democracy Chronicles

Sad to Say But the Trump Disaster is Worse Than We Expected - I don’t believe things can get better with Trump. I have no faith in his concern for our nation. I’m afraid that we won’t have a country left by the time h...
Salon.com

How Minnesota nice became Minnesota strong - This is how a society builds resilience and creates lasting change
Dissent Magazine

Nick Salvatore: Citizen and Historian - The author of *Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist* and other biographies, Nick Salvatore leaves behind a rich legacy that both challenges and inspires...
The Daily Poster

Larry Ellison Knows Where You’re Scrolling From - TikTok’s new owners have eliminated a privacy rule protecting U.S. users’ precise location data from being collected.
Deadline Politics

Senate Hearing On Netflix-Warner Bros. Transaction Set For Feb. 3; Co-CEO Ted Sarandos To Testify - A Senate committee will examine the proposed Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. at a hearing scheduled for next week, with co-CEO Ted Sarandos scheduled t...
Second Nexus

Beaten DC Cop Coughs NSFW Message At MAGA Rep. For Blaming Jan. 6 On Capitol Leadership - Michael Fanone—who worked for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department for 20 years until he sustained serious and life-threatening injuries during the Ja...
Undernews

Washington Post staffers fear major cuts - *The Guardian - *The Washington Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic a...
Consortium News

DHS Turns Warehouses into Mass Detention Camps - 2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in over two decades, writes Julia Norman. Detention facilities lack climate control, ventilation, running water, sanitation, ...
Capital & Main

Is Black Representation Over for Los Angeles City Council District 9? - Chris Martin is the only Black candidate in the race to replace City Councilmember Curren Price. It’s a pivotal moment for a South L.A. community that ha...
Daily Cartoonist

Sal Buscema, Senior Stripper - Marvel comic book artist Sal Buscema, born January 26, 1936, joins our Senior Strippers club today.Sal is one of a few remaining creators from The Silver A...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court agrees to hear case on digital privacy, reverses ruling ordering new murder trial - The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to weigh in on the interpretation of a federal law, enacted in the wake of Judge Robert Bork’s unsuccessful Su...
Project Censored

Manufactured Borders, Manufactured Intelligence - In the first part of the program we welcome back political and legal geographer Dr. Austin Kocher to talk about the immigration news that never makes the...
Glasstire

New Ismaili Center in Houston to Feature Contemporary Art - The Ismaili Center in Houston’s Fourth Ward neighborhood opened to the public on Saturday, December 13, 2025. The 150,000-square-foot facility will host ...
Al Jazeera English

EU launches probe into Grok AI feature creating deepfakes of women, minors - European Commission says its investigation will examine if the AI tool has met its legal obligations.
The Hill

Ellison: Trump officials' narrative of Pretti shooting 'flat-out insane' - Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said Sunday that federal officials placing the blame for Saturday’s shooting of Alex Pretti on the victim is “...
The Verge

Internal chats show how social media companies discussed teen engagement - Recently released documents show the big business opportunity that social media companies saw in recruiting teens to their platforms and how they discussed...
The NM Political Report

Report: New Mexicans spent $1,355 more because of inflation during Trump’s first year - New Mexico families spent $1,355 more on everything from groceries to rent in 2025 according to new analysis by members of a Congressional committee tra...
CultureMap Houston

Houstonians go all-in at fall Derby gala supporting seat belt awareness - Isn’t the Derby in May?
WhoWhatWhy

What My Lai Massacre Has to Do With Minneapolis - [image: Border Patrol Tactical Unit, BORTAC, Speedway gas station, Minneapolis, MN] New perspectives — and investigative avenues — on the shootings What ...
Krebs on Security

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? - The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating th...
Dissident Voice

The Execution of Kanno Sugako - On 25 Jauary 1911, in anarchist history we remember the execution of Kanno Sugako. Kanno was a journalist, feminist and anarchist who had previously been...
The Progressive Wing

1/26-1/30 News Roundup and Open Thread - Buried in snow and cold here in NY–and possibly another big snow storm here next Sunday ⛄️😱
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT Austin Is Dismantling Its Academic Core—And Calling It “Optimization,” by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *UT Austin Is Dismantling Its Academic Core—And Calling It “Optimization”* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 27, 2026* *The University of Texas ...
Bonddad

Stale data watch: manufacturers’ new orders soared in November — more evidence of AI data center building? - - *by New Deal democrat* With another likely government shutdown looming at the end of this week due to DHS funding, we are still playing catch-up f...
Daily Howler

HUMAN ERROR(S): Jesse Watters was at it again! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2026* *Human error prevails:* One day before the (latest) fatal shooting, Jesse Watters was at it again. He was sitting on the set o...
Brad Blog

The BRAD BLOG: 22 Years and Still Counting - We're not in much of a celebratory mood around here right now, given all that's going on. But still, The BRAD BLOG was formed in a post-911, "Global War on...
Discourse

Enough Is Enough - Politicians can either support the abolition of ICE or get the hell out of the way.
Ian Welsh

How To Drive Domestic Production and Reindustrialization - There’s a lot of confusion over this topic, so let’s break down some of the factors. The principle is that you need someone to buy whatever it is you want ...
Rewire

Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend. - State and federal officials are working with Native American groups to better track and address pregnancy-related deaths in their communities through mat...
El Paso Matters

Election 2026 Voter Guide: Everything you need to know about the March 3 primary elections in El Paso - Who are the candidates for Congress? Who’s running for county judge and commissioner seats? When is early voting? Can I only vote in only one party? We ...
Democracy Now!

"ICE Out": Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids - Tens of thousands of Minnesotans braved the bitter cold in Minneapolis on Friday to demand ”ICE out.” The march was organized by faith and labor leaders an...
Countercurrents

The epitome Assam - During our childhood schooling we were repeatedly told to memorise the tag-line,”Assam is the epitome of India”.The idea behind it was stress on the incred...
The Root

The *Wild* Reason Trump Told FEMA Not to Use the Word ‘Ice’ While Managing This Monster Winter Storm - Days before a historic winter storm took over half of the country, Trump issued a clear warning to FEMA to avoid one very taboo word... Read more...
The Conversation

Political polarization in Pittsburgh communities is rooted in economic neglect − not extremism - Voters in places like Aliquippa and Braddock aren’t becoming more radical; they’re responding to decades of disinvestment and institutional failure.
First Draft

MAGA’S Hypocritical Oath - Yes men never say no.
Alternet

The Trump administration is 'creating conditions for a catastrophe': NYT analysis - Tensions in Minneapolis continued to escalate on Saturday, January 24 when 37-year-old Alex Pretti — a U.S. citizen and intensive care unit (ICU) nurse a...
Rallblog

Who Will ICE Kill Next? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

The River and the Fever Dream - On a hilltop overlooking the Rio Grande, just below a picnic area along Highway 83 in San Ygnacio, there’s an unmarked grave. The river—as well as its ne...
Vox

Football won’t be forever - Football occupies a strange place in American life. It’s the most popular sport in the country by an absurd margin, but it’s also the most controversial. I...
The AltWorld

What may be the Greenland endgame? - What will be the initial ‘Greenland’ endgame? Trump will ‘take’ Greenland. On Monday, when asked whether the […] The post What may be the Greenland endga...
Space City Weather

No power issues, a few ice concerns, but mostly it’s just really cold in Houston - In brief: As we experience the coldest weather of this winter outbreak, Houston’s coming through without any significant power issues. Roads, too, are most...
Mother Jones

A Year Later, We’re All Paying for Trump’s Assault on the “Green New Scam” - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Village of Sauget in St. Clair County, I...
Earth 911

How to Recycle Your American Flag - Editor’s Note: We received this intriguing question from a Scouting leader, how do you recycle... The post How to Recycle Your American Flag appeared fir...
Dorf on Law

What SCOTUS Could Learn From the New Constitution for Claude (Anthropic's AI Chatbot) - In 2018, Meta created an Oversight Board that quickly came to be known as the Supreme Court of Facebook. Although it still exists, it has become less imp...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Officials ‘Drunk on Their Own Brutality’: Analysis -
Skeptophilia

Dream a little dream of me - One of the more terrifying concepts to arise out of physics is the idea of the *Boltzmann brain*. The Boltzmann brain was first postulated by, and is nam...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Audrie Lawton Evans - Harris County Attorney would not normally be on our ballot this year, but with Christian Menefee stepping down to run for Congress we need to fill the rema...
Slate

Help! I Drained My Life Savings for My Mother. Then I Found Out What She’d Been Doing to Me. - To sue her would ruin her.
NPR's Health Shots

How long do you need to spend in the gym to get strong? Less than you think - If you're procrastinating working out, here's one less excuse. Short gym sessions can be enough to build meaningful strength — as long as you push yourself...
San Antonio Report

Out-of-state micro school moves into San Antonio with 3 locations - Primer Microschools has campuses in Florida, Arizona and Alabama. Now they're setting up shop in Texas. ------------------------------ Out-of-state micro s...
ProPublica

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence - The post Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. - Through television ads and online campaigns, industry-backed groups are promising jobs, clean energy, and lower electricity bills.
High Country News

How to find deep time in Seattle - A geologist connects Earth’s history to the amazing stones that clad the city's buildings. The post How to find deep time in Seattle appeared first on H...
Crooked Media

Will the Court Actually Push Back Against Trump’s Unlawful Firings? - The post Will the Court Actually Push Back Against Trump’s Unlawful Firings? appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

More than 30,000 Kaiser workers in California and Hawaii launch open-ended strike - The walkout, involving a wide range of frontline medical staff, marks a major confrontation between healthcare workers and one of the largest corporate hea...
Common Dreams

Maximum Damage and Massacre: ICE Kills, ICE Lies - What to say. Alex Pretti, 37, a kind, principled, hard-working ICU nurse who cared for real soldiers in dire need was executed in the street at close ran...
Counterpunch

The Massive Scale of Rabbinic Opposition to Israel’s Proposed Death Penalty Bill - The thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty – a group that I co-founded – has advocated vociferously against Israel’s proposed d...
jobsanger

State Terror Has Arrived -
Informed Comment

A Blood Bath Took Place in Iran - The families had to search for the bodies of their loved ones amongst the many covered coffins in the many morgues or hospitals
Portside

Sunday Science: Why Consciousness Is the Hardest Problem in Science - Sunday Science: Why Consciousness Is the Hardest Problem in Science Ira Sun, 01/25/2026 - 23:50
Socialist Alternative

The Largest Nurses’ Strike In NYC History: Nurses Refuse Cuts To Patient Care - It’s day 14 on the picket line at Mount Sinai Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, one of 12 hospital locations where over 15,000 nurses unionized with...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Election Law Blog

“How the TikTok deal could tighten Trump’s cultural grip” - Politico: The deal creating a majority-American board for TikTok’s U.S. arm puts President Donald Trump’s allies in charge of yet another driver of Ameri...
The Greanville Post

De-Banked: It Could Happen to You. - SCOTT RITTER—Today my banking institution of 26 years, Citizens Bank, declared that they were ending their banking relationship with me. My accounts were z...
Popular Resistance

Racist, Imperialist US Vassal Denmark Now Cries Over Greenland - “A court in Denmark has ordered the government to compensate 18 civilians who were tortured during the Iraq war in an operation carried out by Iraqi secu...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Antiwar.com

‘Economic Statecraft’ Exposed: A Key Pillar of US Hybrid Warfare for All To See - John Maynard Keynes famously wrote in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919): “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis...
Idavox

Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis - This time it was a a nurse at a local VA hospital – or as... The post Federal Agents Kill a Second Person in South Minneapolis appeared first on Idavox.
Claytoonz

DHS Pinocchio - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Alas, a Blog

I Can’t Believe They Deported Carol! - This cartoon is by me and new guest artist Mike Lawrence. Mike Lawrence is a cartoonist in Milwaukie, OR who mostly makes middle grade graphic novels. He’s...
Ballot Access News

Over 90% of Oklahoma Republican State Legislators Sign Public Letter Opposing Top-Two Initiative - On January 22, over 90% of the Republican members of the Oklahoma legislature signed this letter that criticizes top-two systems. An initiative is currentl...
Wolf Street

US Government Struggles to Keep a Lid on 10-Year Treasury Yield and Mortgage Rates - The “rate check” on Friday to put a floor under the yen was the latest step.
Field Negro

The Fuehrer Principle - I understand now how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party became so powerful in Germany, and how, as president of the party, he was able to rise to power th...
Angry Bear

Women in Clinical Trials - The facts remain that many women were not included in clinical trials which a hole in the testing wider when the numbers are compared to Men in Clinical ...
Infidel753

The rise of Amelia - Something strange, wonderful, and purple is stirring in the land of my ancestors. This really is a good one -- a clumsy attempt at indoctrination by a st...
Debunking Christianity

Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: - Some Disturbing [Preconciliar] Catholic Art: [image: Instruments of the Passion from pinterest] *Figure 1:* Some disturbing Preconciliar Roman Catholic ar...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Tattoo Time - [image: Tattoo time]
See You In 2020

The post-Covid generation has been cast out of society, but Mao shows us how to respond to this - The post-Covid generation’s two available paths are arrested development, or entry into a life of overwork just to hold on to a bare minimum. When those...
LareDOS

Operation Big Bucks, Cola Larga: federal indictment nails Sheriff Martin Cuellar, assistant chief Alejandro Gutierrez, and former assistant chief and UISD trustee Ricardo Rodriguez for fraud and taxpayer-funded private venture for personal gain - Three-way profits from COVID-19 era sanitizing scam allegedly netted $175,000 each for Cuellar, Gutierrez, and Rodriguez
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Another murder by federal agents in Minneapolis – Expand the General Strike! - The only appropriate answer to this murderous violence is to expand the general strike.
Workers World

Commune leader discusses popular resistance in Venezuela - [image: Commune leader discusses popular resistance in Venezuela] To discuss the post-kidnapping situation in Venezuela with a seasoned Chavista fighter an...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Shut It Down - It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
ArcaMax

Never Mind the Democrats. Get Organized. - As a leftist, I'm heartened by the reactions of the citizens of Minneapolis and its neighboring municipalities to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ass...
Edinburg Politics

Tough new law coauthored by Rep. Terry Canales ensures that human traffickers of children and people with disabilities no longer qualify for parole - A recent state law, of which Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, help lead through the legislative process, guarantees that convicted human traffickers of chil...
Progressive.org

Close the Gaps in Our Frayed Social Safety Net - If we really want to address poverty and income disparities, we need gapless welfare.
Lowering the Bar

New York State May Allow “Dancing by Default” - Don't get too excited yet, though.
Church and State

America at the Mirror’s Edge - A few nights ago, I was forced to admit that I had exhausted my store of ideas for a way out of the Trumpian nightmare.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKE IT EASY BUT TAKE IT EDITION. - *You got to spread a warnin' when the army they come in.* All honor and best of luck to the comrades in Minneapolis on general strike today. The ICE goons ...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
DeSmogBlog

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads - Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the ...
The Militant

Flight attendants at United rally in Chicago for contract - CHICAGO — “Winter is here, our contract is not,” read one of the many picket signs carried by over 200 United Airlines flight attendants and their supporte...
Bracing Views

What Is Blitzkrieg? - And how much does the U.S. spend on weapons and war? BILL ASTORE JAN 23, 2026 Last January, I published “My Father’s Journal,” which recounts my dad’s expe...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Showdown - Just weeks away, the Republican and Democratic primaries for the Texas Senate race have captured national attention
Earthworks

Standing In It Together: What One Toxic Tour Reveals About Life Near Oil & Gas Development - A Toxic Tour is a guided, on-the-ground visit that brings tribal leadership, agency staff, and community members directly to areas … The post Standing I...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 23, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/23/2026 - 06:31 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
NORML

Feds Propose Amending 2nd Amendment Ban for Cannabis Consumers, Others - [image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: a woman smokes a legal cannabis joint]The ATF acknowledges that a change in the federal ban is nece...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party to Host First State Convention, Back Independent Candidates for 2026 - The Texas Forward Party will host its inaugural state convention in Austin this spring, where members will select leadership and set organizing prioritie...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Handicapping The 2026 State Legislative Map: A First Look - In our first handicapping of state legislature control for the 2026 cycle, we find 15 chambers that are competitive—either Leans Republican, Toss-up, or ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Another “No Kings” Weekend - Inspired by a Bluesky thread about all the DNC astroturf front outfits hogging all the public protest space, and how they plan on exploiting the situation ...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
Trivial Knot

Estimating true ratings - If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff that would float to the top would be pretty o...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ad account of Atlanta influencer used to recruit Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest. ...
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
Daily Dot

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

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Environment Texas

House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards - Bill passed in the House creates water and energy efficiency loophole for shower heads. The post House votes to axe shower head efficiency standards appe...
Reform Austin

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

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

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

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

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

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
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...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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
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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