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

WhoWhatWhy

Epstein Survivors Speak Out, But Trump, the Elephant, Is on the Capitol Steps - [image: Stand With Survivors Rally, Washington, DC, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump] And what has the media made of this day of collective...
The Verge

OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film - OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature ...
naked capitalism

Links 9/8/2025 -
memeorandum

'I'm Gonna Punch You in the F--ing Face': Scott Bessent Threatens an Administration Rival (Rachael Bade/Politico) - Rachael Bade / Politico: *'I'm Gonna Punch You in the F—ing Face': Scott Bessent Threatens an Administration Rival* … A private dinner attended by dozens...
Political Wire

Wes Moore Pressed About a Possible 2028 Run - “Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland, widely viewed as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, said on Sunday that he was focused on being re-elected as...
Mediaite

Elon Musk Steps In To Remind Trump Energy Department That Batteries Exist - Musk stepped in to point out the glaring issue with the Department of Energy’s attack on renewable energy by reminding the administration of a key invent...
Salon.com

Katie Miller isn’t fooling anyone - Does Stephen Miller's wife think her dreary podcast will lead her to being First Lady?
Vox

Trump’s sinister America rebrand - You may have seen that President Donald Trump has been doing some remodeling around the White House, including a new Rose Garden patio and so, so much gold...
The Hill

Texas lawmakers finally approve plan for new standardized testing for public school students - Eliminating the current State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) was a bipartisan issue, but finding its replacement split Democrats and Re...
Mediagazer

Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, setting an AI copyright floor price (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) - M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: *Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement raises a drawbridge on its startup rivals, which could not afford to pay such fines, set...
Skeptophilia

Wheat from chaff - My question today is one that haunts many skeptics -- how one would know if a bizarre claim is actually true, especially in the absence of evidence? The ha...
Raw Story

'Strangest thing I've ever heard': Mike Johnson bemuses with latest Epstein story - Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) latest story about the ties between President Donald Trump and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is too strange to be true...
Al Jazeera English

People flee shooting at illegal Israeli settlement - Video shows people running from the scene of a shooting at the illegal Israeli settlement of Ramot in occupied East Jeru
Daily Dot

“No boys allowed”: TikToker decides to paint face green to avoid “disgusting messages” after her audience begins to skew toward men - [image: green face creator on tiktok] One TikToker decides to go for a shocking rebrand after realizing that the majority of her audience is men. Her str...
Scheerpost.com

US Troops in Southern Somalia Come Under ‘Indirect Fire’ - By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com US troops and allied forces in Kismayo, southern Somalia, came under “indirect fire” on September 4, US Africa Command said in...
Eschaton

Morning - Monster Monday.
Mother Jones

We Can Remove Toxic Forever Chemicals From Drinking Water. Why Aren’t We? - This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new study finds that technologies installe...
The Week

Pickle juice drinks that pack a punch - Use leftover brine to make fresh lemonade and tangy margaritas
Axios

Grisly Charlotte stabbing video fuels MAGA's crime message - MAGA influencers are drawing repeated attention to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime — and accuse mainstream media of under-covering sh...
American Prospect

Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics - Their ask in exchange for avoiding a government shutdown is an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies. What happens when Republicans say no?
Courthouse News

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Progressive Army

La UIA se metió en la polémica “anti-Shein” y las importaciones - Durante su visita a Mendoza, Martín Rappallini, presidente de UIA, habló del momento que atraviesa la industria, los desafíos a futuro, la tecnología y más...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Caitlin Clark’s season is over, but the mob’s anger isn’t about her health - The Indiana Fever have shut down their star for the rest of 2025. And the toxic elements of her fanbase have lost a culture-war totem Caitlin Clark’s sea...
NPR's Health Shots

What kind of dairy does a body good? Science is updating the answer - New dietary guidelines are coming soon. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised the days of skim milk and other low fat dairy products are over...
ProPublica

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security - by Eli Hager ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ...
Grist

Billions spent, miles to go: The story of California’s failure to build high-speed rail - California’s dream of building a high-speed rail system linking San Francisco and L.A. is a cautionary tale of ambition outpacing funding, planning, and fe...
High Country News

The Rio Grande’s pecan problem - [image: Aerial view of the Rio Grande with pecan orchards and the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert taken near the Mesilla Dam in New Mexico.] How Big Ag is t...
Dissident Voice

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela - President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a sma...
The Daily Poster

Meet The Democratic Insurgents Fighting To Save Their Party - Three upstart candidates have bold plans to win back working-class voters and fix the Democratic Party.
Slate

How to Help Kids—and Parents—Start the School Year With Confidence - Plus: a parent coach’s strategies for easing transitions, working with teachers, and finding what kids need to feel supported.
Crooked Media

Coal Survivor I 4. A Ticking Clock - The post Coal Survivor I 4. A Ticking Clock appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Keep On Doing What You’re Doing, Evil Ones - The Trump Administration’s tactic is to brazenly violate the law and the Constitution, doing what it wants until the courts inevitably intervene. But eve...
Counterpunch

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS 2025: Eurasia’s Re-alignment in the face of Late Stage Barbarism - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s meetings in China last seek (September 2 and 3) took a remarkable step forward in defining how the world will be ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump tariffs bring job destruction - Figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday showed that job creation in the US economy has stalled, with only 22,000 new positions created...
jobsanger

The Constitution Leaves Policing To The States -
Portside

Sunday Science: Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced - Sunday Science: Trump’s Department of Energy Gets Scienced Ira Mon, 09/08/2025 - 01:03
Deadline Politics

John Oliver Rips Into Anti-Vaccine Mandates & Trump’s “Ongoing War” On Higher Education - In his return to Last Week Tonight, John Oliver breezed through recent headlines (hello, Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement) to rip into Florida’s ban of...
Informed Comment

“With me along some Strip of Herbage Strown:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:10 - The tenth quatrain in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám continues the theme of the irrelevance of political power to happin...
See You In 2020

American Azovism, & the popular masses who will wage a resistance against it - “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”—Sun Tzu When you know where to look, it’s easy to become fa...
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...
The AltWorld

The Word “Terrorist” Becomes More And More Of A Joke By The Day - British police arrested nearly 900 people over the weekend for expressing support for the peace activist group Palestine Action. […] The post The Word “T...
Popular Resistance

Global Sumud Flotilla Advances Towards Tunisia Under ‘Harassment’ Of Surveillance Drones - The Global Sumud Flotilla is advancing towards Gaza and is already sailing towards Tunisia, divided into two large groups. Both expeditions will meet in ...
Wolf Street

Scenario of a Triple Whammy for Long-Term Treasury Yields - The Treasury market counts on the tariffs to slow the supply of new debt and could throw a hissy-fit if they end while the Fed cuts rates into accelerating...
Antiwar.com

A National Asset in Troubled Times - When he was running for president in 2024, Donald Trump promised that he would shut down the Ukraine war shortly after taking office, if not before he move...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Gavel Down, Mic Drop: Rep. Vincent Pérez Ends Session with Facts - *Gavel Down, Mic Drop: Rep. Vincent Pérez Ends Session * *with Facts* *Sine Die might be Latin for “the end,” a towering Rep. Vincent Pérez stood firm—n...
Consortium News

US Federal Judge: Trump Isn’t National Police Chief - Trump “willfully” violated the Posse Comitatus Act and his deployment of federal troops to L.A. was illegal, a federal judge ruled, Marjorie Cohn reports. ...
Socialist Alternative

Socialists Meet at ISA World School To Build the Fightback Against Capitalism - In the last week of July, more than 30 members of Socialist Alternative in the US headed to Kiel, Germany to discuss lessons of struggle with about 100 oth...
OpEd News

Familiarity Breeds Contempt - This article hopes to provide some insight in how BAV will work in practice. It details an example of an election that is intended to seem realistic.
Alas, a Blog

Slashing Medicaid: Your Loss Our Gain - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out. It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for September 7 - “This isn’t a debate about vaccine safety— researchers take that seriously and study it continuously. This is a coordinated campaign to undermine evidence-...
San Antonio Report

New logistics lab offers career pathways for Palo Alto students - The new Global Logistics Lab is located in the South Side, where students can have access to a better understanding of the career paths in this field. ---...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Shannon Vanshoon with a comment about RFK Jr’s congressional hearing: So, yeah, I’d say on one ...
Election Law Blog

“Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance” - NYT: Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. T...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Weekend Wonders - Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; F. Opper, R. & G. Dirks and J. Swinnerton jam; the Leffingwell’s Little Joe; McDonnell’s Mutts and Schulz’s Peanuts; and Jimmy Ste...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 07, 2025 by Tony Wikrent They’re not capitalists — they’re predatory criminals Why does the Trump regime wa...
Alternet

'Complete meltdown': Trump slammed for telling reporter to 'be quiet' - President Donald Trump sharply rebuked a reporter’s question Sunday about his administration’s renaming of the Defense Department. “Are you ready to go t...
Claytoonz

Agent Orange - 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...
Futurism

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War - Artificial intelligence-powered conflict simulations have, according to the experts that use them to plan for potential wartime scenarios, gotten extreme...
Undernews

The Thousands of Atomic Bombs Exploded on Earth - * From Orbital Mechanics, *a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945. According to Wikipedia, the number is 2119 tests, wi...
Bracing Views

Sports and the Military - An Unholy Alliance BILL ASTORE SEP 07, 2025 There’s a full slate of NFL football games today, meaning there’ll be a full slate of military flyovers and sim...
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...
The Root

Damon Dash Spent Years Clowning Folks For Having a 9 to 5 Job, But Now He Might Need One - The 56-page petition filed in Florid on Sept. 6 shows the Damon Dash, the 54-year-old Roc-A-Fella co-founder, allegedly owes more than $25 million in tax...
El Paso Matters

Some El Paso homeowners will save hundreds with relief on school property taxes. Others may see their tax bills go up. Which are you? - Texas’ new homestead exemption increase is designed to lower school property taxes, but many El Paso homeowners will still see higher overall bills beca...
San Antonio Current

No Off Switch: Veteran actor and Alamo Heights grad Peter Weller talks about his twilight years - [image: Peter Weller stars in the movie Bang, which is now streaming.] Best known for his title role in the 1987 action movie RoboCop, veteran actor and A...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Big Ball Room' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Talking About the Artistry of Tarot with Nancy Douthey - Jessica Fuentes speaks with artist and gallerist Nancy Douthey about tarot as storytelling, visual art, and creative future building. ”Looking at the com...
First Draft

Cornered (1945) - A veteran goes Nazi hunting in this film noir starring Dick Powell and Walter Slezak. Produced by Adrian Scott. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Screenplay by J...
Mondoweiss

I was brutalized by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It was only a fraction of what Palestinians experience every day. - [image: Palestinians inspect a burned-out mosque in the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the West Bank, after Israeli settlers set fire to the entranc...
Angry Bear

New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators September 1- 5 - – by New Deal democrat My latest “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The high frequency data continues to be buoyed by financial indicators...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: He’s Losing -
Infidel753

Video of the day -- in the tent - *Lawrence of Arabia* (1962) is widely considered one of the greatest movies ever made. This scene epitomizes what film-making can be when the writing is ...
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...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Trieste (2009) - [image: Cubism]
Common Dreams

The Smell of Fascism: What the Absolute Flying Fuck - Implausibly, it keeps getting weirder, darker, worse. Hankering to make war against his own citizens in the name of an imaginary crime wave, the deranged...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1435: Rudolph Diesel - Episode: 1435 Rudolf Diesel, his engine, and a look at invention. Today, meet Rudolf Diesel.
ArcaMax

Can Democrats Come Back? They Already Are. - During a summer when the popularity of Donald Trump fell to abysmal lows -- and strong disapproval of his presidency achieved record highs -- those dire wa...
Idavox

NY Attorney General Sues VDARE & Peter and Lydia Brimelow for “Self-Dealing and Abuse of Charitable Assets” - Looks like the announcement that VDARE was shutting down was a ruse! And we are... The post NY Attorney General Sues VDARE & Peter and Lydia Brimelow for...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 1 - 5 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My latest “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The high frequency data continues to be buoyed by financial ind...
The Grayzone

AP Jerusalem chief participated in secretive Israeli govt anti-BDS event, leaked files reveal - AP’s Israel-Palestine news director, Josef Federman, has spun data to minimize the Gaza death count. Leaked documents show he appeared on a panel aimed a...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Weakest Men: Fascism, War, and the Illusion of Strength - The Trump Administration and their political movement is built on weakness masquerading as strength
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Switches Voters Registered in the Independent Party to “No Party” - The Louisiana Independent Party has ceased to be a qualified party, due to a legislative change earlier this year that said no party can have the name “Ind...
CultureMap Houston

James Harden's Houston restaurant gets locked out and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a celebrity-owned restaurant's recent lockout. Plus, a favorite ...
Daily Howler

THE DEAD: It's general over Blue America! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2025* *The paralysis afflicting the dead:* In Thursday morning's report, we detailed the disappearance of Jeffrey Epstein's victi...
SCOTUSblog

Group of small businesses calls on Supreme Court to decide tariffs case - A group of small businesses challenging the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in a series of executive orders urged the Supreme Court to provide ...
Independent Political Report

2025 National Party Chair Questionnaire: Jolly Mitch Davilo, Captain of the U.S. Pirate Party - The Outsider Media Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing public understanding of and participation in underrepresented po...
Progressive.org

Don’t Let Trump Destroy Higher Education - I know firsthand how college can transform lives. Capitulating to authoritarian intimidation will rob future generations of that chance.
Workers World

Rally blasts Trump’s migrant detention - [image: Rally blasts Trump’s migrant detention] Tacoma, Washington Some 500 people rallied at the Northwest Detention Center on Sept. 1 to protest Trump’s...
Krebs on Security

GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republica...
The Texas Signal

Houston Maritime Museum Reopens Where City’s History Began - The Maritime Museum is incredibly elegant, easily the fanciest of Houston’s little quirky museums (or maybe the quirkiest of the fancy museums)
Lowering the Bar

Yet More Aquatic Escape Attempts - [image: pond standoff]People show no signs of stopping, even though these show no signs of working.
slacktivist

LBCF: Episode IV - Wherein we contemplate the effects of the Rapture, the Great Tribulation, and the Rise of the Antichrist on the business model of suburban chain restaurants.
The NM Political Report

Special session won’t include ban on ICE private prisons after all - Although an adviser to Lujan Grisham told lawmakers a few weeks back that Lujan Grisham might put such a proposal on her call for a special session, Mich...
Texas Standard

New box set celebrates 50 years of the blues - Antone’s in Austin has nurtured blues music since it opened in 1975. The new album combines historic tracks, along with some new ones.
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...
Capital & Main

California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory Labor Traffickers - Lawmakers poised to expand protections to hundreds of thousands of temporary migrant workers. The post California Bill Aims to Crack Down on Predatory La...
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...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Barking Owl - Headphones on. Volume all the way up.
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...
Dorf on Law

Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth? Part 2: Mindless Chaos and Economic Pain - Yesterday, I inaugurated this new "Who Knew That Trump's Superpower Would Be Destroying Wealth?" series. Admittedly, the titular question might seem rhe...
Second Nexus

Channing Tatum Reveals The Huge Toll Losing 65 Pounds For His Latest Role Took On His Mental Health - *Heads up, dearest readers: this article includes discussion of weight loss, body image, and extreme dieting for film roles.* While promoting his upcomin...
Texas Observer

Embattled Texas Oilfield Waste Company Fined After Worker’s Death - Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the e...
Earthworks

In the Race to Build the Country’s First Deepwater Port, the Bluewater Texas Terminal is in Last Place - It’s been five years since the Port of Corpus Christi granted lease approval and pipeline easement for Phillips 66 and … The post In the Race to Build t...
The Conversation

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight crime blurs the legal distinction between the police and the military - A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 10 - *Another mix of flimsy theology and cult propaganda*There are several different topics in this chapter, but the author’s agenda of cult promotion is tra...
Rewire

Why Research On Pregnancy-Safe Medications, Already Scarce, Could Soon Dwindle - "Removing or reducing ongoing investments in healthy pregnancies poses a danger to much-needed efforts to reduce excessive rates of stillbirths as well a...
Democracy Now!

Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown - Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for p...
Space City Weather

Houston’s pre-fall fling pauses this weekend before resuming for a couple more days early next week - In brief: Houston will see more humid weather this weekend with rain chances re-entering the forecast slightly today and tomorrow and more so on Sunday as ...
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...
Church and State

ToolAI will be more than just a tool – it will be a new kind of intelligence - When AGI matures into Superintelligence, it will give birth not only to the self-created new species, but it will also begin our own evolution.
Reform Austin

New Texas Laws Targets Hemp THC Products and Gendered Restroom Bill - On August 15, Texas lawmakers started a second special session to review and come up with a resolution concerning the Hill Country flooding, THC products...
Sludge

House Group Pushes for Vote to Ban Congressional Stock Trading and Ownership - Some Republicans in a bipartisan group of House lawmakers have given the speaker until the end of the month to bring a new unified bill to the floor, or th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump DOJ reportedly looking to ban trans Americans from owning guns' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking to Ban Trans Americans From Owning Guns *- *I am NOT a fan of guns, but I do understand the need of them for the sake of ...
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.
NORML

Analysis: Consumers Are Twice as Likely To Use Unregulated Delta-8 THC Products in Jurisdictions Without Adult-Use Cannabis Markets - [image: delta-8 search][image: delta-8 search]"The lesson is clear: Placing marijuana products behind the counter keeps cannabis out of the hands of youn...
Dissent Magazine

Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the ’60s, and the Tragedy of Development - Our day and night at the Pentagon, like Faust’s encounter with the Earth Spirit, marked a new awareness of ominous, fearful powers that had to be dealt w...
Project Censored

Dignity Over Detention: How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms - By Elizabeth Insuasti In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. Whil...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
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...
Ecosophia

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration - Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear...
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...
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
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 ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Avedon's Sideshow

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The Socialist

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alicublog

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nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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Texas Monthly

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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

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ExChristian.Net

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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

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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

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The Greanville Post

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

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Land Destroyer

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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

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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

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Dandelion Salad

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CT's short stories and novelettes

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The Intercept

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

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

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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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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Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

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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

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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

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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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