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

The Week

Music reviews: Chance the Rapper, Cass McCombs, and Molly Tuttle - "Star Line," "Interior Live Oak," and "So Long Little Miss Sunshine"
memeorandum

Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García again (Anna Betts/The Guardian) - Anna Betts / The Guardian: *Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting Kilmar Ábrego García again* — Federal judge says man wrongfully deported t...
San Antonio Report

NEISD hasn’t held a bond election in 10 years. Superintendent Sean Maika explains why they need it now. - Putting a $495M bond package up to voters this November was not a spur of the moment decision for NEISD's superintendent. ------------------------------ NEI...
Mediagazer

YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent) - Justin Baragona / The Independent: *YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, ...
Courthouse News

Big Weekly Elk Forest Management Project - SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit upheld an Oregon federal court’s judgment in favor of the Bureau of Land Management, which was sued by environmental grou...
Alternet

'Runs so counter to everything': Conservatives 'appalled' by Trump's deal with tech giant - In an analysis for the *Washington Post* published Wednesday, reporter David J. Lynch argued that President Donald Trump’s recent maneuver to acquire a 1...
Mediaite

‘6 Million Wasn’t Enough’: Hateful Messages Found on Alleged Church Shooter’s Gun - Westman also reportedly wrote an extensive manifesto, which is circulating online and contains disturbing images and rhetoric. The post ‘6 Million Wasn’t...
The Hill

Nation mourns victims in Minneapolis shooting - Plus: Trump meets with Israeli officials {beacon} TWO CHILDREN were shot and killed Wednesday in the pews where they worshipped during the first week back ...
Raw Story

Right-wing Newsmax secretly lobbied to kill funding for fact-checking and ethics: report - Behind the scenes, Newsmax has worked to influence Florida lawmakers to cancel contracts with firms it dislikes. Investigative reporter Jason Garcia, who...
Progressive.org

Why an ‘America First’ Approach to Teaching Won’t Work - Ryan Walters and other MAGA conservatives want to put teachers into an ideological straitjacket.
NPR's Health Shots

The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits - The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines, but is restricting them to people at high risk for COVID complications.
Al Jazeera English

Will a UN funding shortfall affect investigations into Israel’s crimes? - The independent UN body responsible for investigating Israel says it is short on money.
Eschaton

Metastasize - I know it doesn't apply to everyone - or every entity - individually, but collectively, the Professional Democrats are a hell of a lot more corrupt than th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it - Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed Florida’s immigration jail known as “Alli...
Techdirt.

Were A Few Random DEI Programs Worth Killing Democracy? - Eight months ago, those of us actually paying attention—not just scrolling outrage bait about Biden’s age or the latest campus controversy, but genuinely t...
Second Nexus

CBS Reporter Freaks Out After Learning Travis Kelce And Taylor Swift Got Engaged Moments Before Going Live - From beat reporters to long-form journalists to trending news writers, people tend to cover the news as it happens, whatever it is. But every once in a w...
Political Wire

Big Majority Oppose Military Aid to Israel - A new Quinnipiac poll finds 60% of voters oppose the United States sending more military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war with Hamas, while 32% s...
CultureMap Houston

4 Houston universities land on new Forbes list of America's top colleges - Houston's prestigious* Rice University* has landed a top spot among *Forbes'* annual list of America's Top Colleges. Three more local institutions – *Unive...
Daily Dot

Revisiting Travis Kelce’s most infamous tweets from 2010-2011 in honor of his engagement - [image: travis kelce best tweets] Chiefs Tight End Travis Kelce and Singer Taylor Swift announced their engagement on Aug. 27 after nearly two years of d...
American Prospect

How John Roberts Can Help Trump Control the Fed - Today on TAP: Trump didn’t give a reason for firing other members of independent agencies. Roberts can say he gave one here.
The Verge

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors - Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can ...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: When President Trump locked Washington up... - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2025* *...his approvals jumped five points: *As is true of every poll, the new poll by AP-NORC is only* one* poll. No poll is eve...
Wolf Street

Still Waiting for Lower Prices, Higher Incomes, Lower Rates: Mortgage Rates Tick Up, Demand in Deep Freeze, Supply Surges - This buyers’ strike, which started in mid-2022, completes its third year.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico State Police chief defends CDL policy after federal criticism - [image: a July 3 traffic stop involving commercial truck driver Harjinder Singh, who was later involved in a fatal crash in Florida that killed three peo...
Mother Jones

Trump Administration Suspends Staff Who Pleaded to Save FEMA - Several employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been placed on administrative leave just a day after signing a public letter accus...
Houston Public Media

2 children are dead, 17 people injured in Minneapolis Catholic school shooting - Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said the shooter fired through the windows of Annunciation Church during Mass on Wednesday. The gunman was found dead...
Slate

My Husband Sold Our House Behind My Back and Kept Every Dime. Well, Now It’s My Turn to Cut Him Off. - This is all mine.
Futurism

Part of Starship Explodes During SpaceX's Latest Test Flight - Coming off a string of explosive failures, Starship's latest flight, by comparison, feels like a resounding success for SpaceX. On Tuesday night, the wor...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: The Political Blender Is Throwing Up Some Odd Alliances - In 2025 we are witnessing a political blender: the collapse of old political alliances and the emergence of new coalitions.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Against Resurgent Militarism - Tens of millions in China and the U.S.S.R. gave their lives to defeat fascism during World War II. As imperialist militarisation rises again, No Cold War r...
First Draft

Slouching Towards The Katrinaversary - Dedicated to my fellow New Orleanians, past and present. In the title I quote Joan Didion quoting William Butler Yeats.
WhoWhatWhy

Butts in Seats - [image: Income Inequality, Medicare for All, Starvation in Gaza, Trolling Trump] Redistricting brings out the animal in the Democrats. Butts in Seats ori...
World Socialist Web Site

Zarah Sultana’s bid for leadership of Britain’s new left party: “Corbynism capitulated” - As set out in her interview with *NLR*, Sultana’s “vision” for the party is a variant of the reformist half-measures championed by Corbyn and her only prop...
Reform Austin

Abbott Targets Voter Registration Change Passed Earlier This Year - Gov. Greg Abbott is seeking to roll back a voter registration provision he signed into law just two months ago. The measure, added as an amendment to Sen...
Environment Texas

Dallas’s $5.2 billion dollar proposed budget protects and strengthens city’s environmental priorities - Despite a tight budget season, the proposal expands the city’s EV fleet and provides funds for solar on municipal buildings while protecting key funding....
San Antonio Current

San Antonio's long-awaited Loop 1604, I-10 Eastbound ramp set to open Thursday - After three years of North Side traffic headaches, the Texas Department of Transportation is finally set to open the long-awaited Loop 1604 flyover eastbo...
Vox

The evolving fight over giving people cash, explained - Over the past 15 years, the idea of giving everyone a “basic income” has been heralded as a promising solution for economic justice and even ending poverty...
Capital & Main

‘I’m Tired of Looking Over My Shoulder’ - What do nurses, Waffle House servers and Uber drivers have in common? Violence on the job — and a movement to end it. The post ‘I’m Tired of Looking Over...
Salon.com

Minneapolis school shooting kills 2 children, injures 17: “These kids were literally praying” - The Catholic school shooter was reported to be a male in his early 20s who used three different weapons
NORML

30+ Attorneys General Call on Congress To Implement Cannabis Banking Reforms - [image: Cannabis Business Banking][image: Cannabis Business Banking]"Allowing access to the nation’s regulated banking system is crucial to public safety ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Alabama State Senate District Boundaries - On August 22, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Manasco, a Trump appointee, struck down the Alabama State Senate district boundaries under the federal Voting ...
Sludge

Top Democrats Keep Paying Mothership Strategies, Despite Years of Warnings - House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, Steny Hoyer, and other senior lawmakers have directed millions to the controversial fundraising firm, even afte...
Rewire

Some 1,000 in Maine Could Lose Access to Primary Care Following Court Ruling - A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration does not have to restore Medicaid funding to Maine Family Planning, which provides abortions and othe...
Daily Cartoonist

Mort Todd – RIP - Cartoonist, writer, editor, publisher Mort Todd (Michael Delle-Femine) has passed away. Mort Todd, né Michael Jon Delle Femine November 11, 1981 – August 2...
Axios

Scoop: Tony Blair and Jared Kushner brief Trump on Gaza post-war plans - Tony Blair and Jared Kushner will participate in a meeting on Gaza at the White House on Wednesday and present President Trump with ideas for a post-war ...
Undernews

Donald Trump - HuffPost - "So the line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime," the president said Tuesday. "So a lot of people say, you know, 'If that’s the case, I...
DeSmogBlog

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor - Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog ...
Dorf on Law

Legalistic Cover Stories and Unchecked Dictatorial Power - It is increasingly impossible to deny that the second Trump presidency is a no-holds-barred affair, with the United States now ruled by a regime that tre...
Ecosophia

August 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Progressive Army

Instructivos para la realización de pagos CASS en la plataforma interactiva del Santander. - Estimados socios buen día: Les hacemos llegar el siguiente comunicado de IATA: IATA envía el comunicado adjunto a todos los agentes de carga acreditados an...
Space City Weather

I was a ‘smart home’ skeptic until I had a Smarter Home Bundle installed - In brief: As part of our long-time partnership with Reliant, we will (very) occasionally share information about products and offerings from the company. T...
Texas Observer

West Texas Congressman’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Cuts Could Harm Rural Hospitals in His District - Since it was signed into law on July 4, West Texas Republican Congressman Jodey Arrington has been broadly praised by allies for his stewardship of the s...
The Root

Inside Cardi B’s Hella Weird Civil Assault Trial - Cardi B is currently on trial stemming from an alleged incident from 2018, but things are getting off to an awkard start! Read more...
Election Law Blog

“Fresh off Texas Senate’s approval, new congressional map is target of lawsuits” - Texas Tribune: Hours after the Texas Senate approved a new congressional map early Saturday morning that more heavily favors Republicans — legislation Go...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: Shawn Camp at Rockport Center for the Arts - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
OpEd News

Ukraine: Somebody say something, please! - The underlying reason for the Ukraine War is the break-up of the Soviet Union. Let the people vote as to which post-Soviet nation they wish to belong to.
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...
Dissident Voice

A Palestinian Mother and Son Starve with Dignity - Like the Virgin Mary, Rawan Aljuaidi speaks with dignity, each word chaste and carefully chosen; only facts and intention are allowed when spoken. Can yo...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Rages About “Rumor” That NBC Extended Seth Meyers’ Contract — Something That Happened Last Year - Even as traditional TV networks grapple with balkanized audiences and relevance at a time of YouTube and so many options, Donald Trump still has his attent...
The Conversation

Supporting religious diversity on campus is a surprising consensus among faculty across the red-blue divide - Faculty members represent a university’s core identity and mission. But no one had systematically studied faculty opinions on matters related to spirituali...
SCOTUSblog

The future of voting rights - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Bonddad

Manufacturers’ new durable goods orders is a bright spot - - *by New Deal democrat* No new significant economic data today, but yesterday we did get a look at manufacturers’ orders for durable goods. This i...
Angry Bear

Budget negotiations: funding health insurance, or protecting democracy, science, and universities? - Congress needs to pass a funding bill by the end of September to avoid a government shut down. In theory, the Democrats should have some leverage in the...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Celebrate Labor Day with St. Anthony’s Bazaar, Bark at the Park, wine and chile festivals - Looking for things to do around El Paso Labor Day weekend? Check out St. Anthony’s Bazaar, El Paso Chihuahuas’ Bark at the Park, wine festival in Las Cr...
Democracy Now!

Katrina Declaration: FEMA Suspends Staff Who Warn Trump Cuts Risk Another Disaster - The Trump administration placed some staffers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency on leave Tuesday amid fallout over a letter to Congress signed by ...
Mondoweiss

Germany’s declaration to stop sending weapons to Israel: symbolic gesture or major shift? - [image: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arriving in the Netherlands for the 2025 NATO Summit on June 24, 2025. (Photo: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, ...
ArcaMax

Un-President-ed - Just when you think President Donald Trump can't get worse, he gets worse. Now he threatens to send soldiers and federal agents to Baltimore and Chicago ne...
Earth 911

Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden With Respect for Place - Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe moved with his family to the banks of Elk Creek in Southern... The post Elk Creek Notes: The Books I’m Learning from to Garden...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Isn’t Just Axing the Constitution. He’s Axing Something We All Love. -
Skeptophilia

Reach for the stars - A few days ago, I got an interesting email: DO YOU WANT YOUR NAME TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER? With the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Telescope ...
slacktivist

What I was walling in or walling out - Some old thoughts on new traditions, and a Mad King's increasing fears of his own death.
Off The Kuff

The scramble begins - Barring judicial action that I have said I don’t expect, the new Congressional map will be in place for the 2026 election. That means that a lot of people ...
ProPublica

Trump’s Pick to Help Run the FBI Has a History of Prosecuting Influential Democrats - by Jeremy Kohler ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing a...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967 - Since October 2023, Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed nearly 200 journalists. But the targeting of media predates the current conflict.
Grist

20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money - The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.
High Country News

The invisible ‘giant nets’ that catch the smallest songbirds - Collaboration and tiny technology are revolutionizing the study of migration. The post The invisible ‘giant nets’ that catch the smallest songbirds app...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Military and Intelligence Purge - The post Trump’s Military and Intelligence Purge appeared first on Crooked Media.
Trivial Knot

Selling out as a game dev - Moon Garden Optimizer is now listed on Steam. You can still play the game in browser for free on Itch.io, but the Steam version will be paid and have expan...
Ian Welsh

Trump Is Running the Standard Purge and Control Playbook To Install Decline - Some years ago I wrote an article about how to run a real left wing government. Seven Rules for running a real left-wing government Of course, it was reall...
Common Dreams

Un-Handcuffing Loose Cannons, Badges and Other Bedlam - What the ever-loving fuck. With the man-child's megalomania spiraling - rampant troops, despot banners, Ugandan exile, his "Consultational" right to hire...
jobsanger

If Nothing Else Brings Trump Down, The Economy Will -
Crooked Timber

It’s Not Socialism–It’s National Socialism - People are wondering how Trump could get away with nationalizing 10% of Intel, with plans to acquire more corporate assets for the Federal government, whil...
Informed Comment

There’s no Such thing as Someone Else’s Children* - Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Medford, a city of 60,000 people in Massachusetts, voted to pass an historic ordinance to divest...
Popular Resistance

Eco-Solidarity And The Threat To Venezuela: Act Now! - The Trump administration is sending three warships with 4,500 marines to the coast of Venezuela, raising tensions and stoking fears of a possible US inva...
See You In 2020

The patriotic struggle of the anti-imperialist forces, & the effort to bring this struggle back into America - Something my fellow Americans must be made aware of is that around the globe, the revolutionary ideas behind 1776 are still being actively put into prac...
Claytoonz

Your Favorite Dictator - 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...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Fight for Higher Education: A Minority Perspective on both the Liberal University and President Michael Roth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - The Fight for Higher Education: A Minority Perspective on both the Liberal University and President Michael Roth *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 26, ...
Black Agenda Report

Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? - Katrina Victims: Relocated or Forced into Exile? bareditors Wed, 08/27/2025 - 05:38 Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Antiwar.com

When the Russia ‘Experts’ Get It Wrong - The Western punditariat’s commentary on Russia is spectacularly ill-informed. This should be expected from mainstream journalists whose employment relies o...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump - "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - SOME folks will probably claim that this comment by Trump from a recent cabinet meeting is being taken out of context. Uh no. He may be talking specif...
Workers World

D.C. martial law criminalizes Black people - [image: D.C. martial law criminalizes Black people] Janisse Miles gave the following excerpted remarks at an August 22, 2025, Workers World Party meeting i...
Portside

The Low-Wage 100 - The Low-Wage 100 Judy Tue, 08/26/2025 - 19:29
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...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Sells Alexandria Headquarters for Approximately $650,000 - The Libertarian National Committee has sold the Libertarian Party’s national headquarters at 1444 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, for roughly $650,0...
Debunking Christianity

Round Two Edits On My Paper Concerning Atheist Morality - I received a huge endorsement from Philosopher Jersey Flight on X. What a nice thing to hear! It happened on the same day I finished the first round of e...
The AltWorld

Can Trump Find a Way Out of the Box He Is in? - Yesterday on his program Dialogue Works Nima had two guests, Larry Johnson, formerly of the CIA, and […] The post Can Trump Find a Way Out of the Box He ...
Discourse

Permission Given - People on the fence about whether this is fascism or not have no excuses anymore
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
The Daily Poster

Democrats May Finally Ban Dark Money - A proposal to rein in corporate and dark money influence will be considered at this week’s Democratic National Committee meetings.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Consent Factory, Inc.

All Apologies - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 4. Road Trip Update No. 4 will probably be the second to last update before the road trip begins on September 11th. It incl...
Dissent Magazine

The Women’s Basketball Boom - An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing...
Krebs on Security

DSLRoot, Proxies, and the Threat of ‘Legal Botnets’ - The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fascism is Impossible Without Active Denial - Authoritarians aren't the only ones responsible for what's going on. Fascists rely on people denying the reality right in front of them to consolidate power
Greg Palast

“If We Let FEMA Die, Americans Will Die With It.” - I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 26 August 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Pluto video, click here.] At first g...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Everything about Donald Trump this week has been an "ick". The media is all over his health issues. The Irish Star has been unrelenting . - The ick s...
Church and State

Trump’s Chicago dictatorship in rapid expansion - Dictators always use some lever to control the weary into allowing them extraordinary authority. Trump is using claims of crime and violence.
Brad Blog

Before the Fall... - We will be off from The BradCast and Green News Report this week, for a much-needed, end-of-Summer break until after the Labor Day holiday. As always (and ...
Project Censored

Power & Exploitation: DC Overreach & Global Labor Injustice - In the first part of the program, DC organizer Natacia Knapper joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss Trump’s takeover of DC, what makes DC particularly vuln...
Bracing Views

War, the Intelligence Community, and the Deep State - Judging Freedom in America BILL ASTORE AUG 24, 2025 Last Tuesday, I appeared again on Judge Napolitano’s show. We talked about the Russia-Ukraine War and P...
MintPress News

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory - Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The W...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Hands off Venezuela! Hands off Latin America! - Thousands of U.S. troops on board a flotilla of warships are headed towards the waters off the coast of Venezuela in a blatant and unprovoked act of aggres...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Clears Texas Senate - The final vote on redistricting happened after Republicans in the State Senate thwarted a filibuster by Senator Carol Alvarado
Avedon's Sideshow

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

Really, Really, Really - Oh, f’crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he got back into off...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
The Progressive Wing

8/22-28 News Roundup and Open Thread - Trump and Cuomo are true buddies.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
The Rag Blog

RICHARD CROXDALE / ABORTION RIGHTS / Lone Star Three - By Richard Croxdale / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2025 [This article was originally published at People’s History in Texas (PHIT) and was cross-posted to The...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Attorneys General: The Top Races to be “Top Cop” - Key battleground states feature state Attorney General races this cycle, with Democrats playing defense in a number of key battleground states The post S...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Marcos Silva, former Executive Director of Rio Grande Valley LEAD, selected to help guide South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs - Dr. Marcos Silva, Ed.D., has been named Executive Director of the South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs. A longtime leader in education and w...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Media Lens

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

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

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

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

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

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

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

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

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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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