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

Scheerpost.com

Israeli Navy Seizes Second Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla Vessel in 2 Months - "The interception occurred in international waters outside Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, in violation of international maritime law," the Freedo...
The Week

5 attention-grabbing cartoons about Trump's distraction tactics - Artists take on a musical diversion, an NFL team by any other name, and more
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US swimmers battling outbreak of ‘acute gastroenteritis’ at world championships - - Gastroenteritis affecting American swimmers - Outbreak traced to pre-meet camp in Thailand - Ledecky unaffected, lead...
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,249 - Here are the key events on day 1,249 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Crooked Timber

A billion people would be plenty to sustain civilisation … - … as long as they are healthy, well fed and well educated Much of the panic about falling birth rates can be dispelled once we realise that (barring catast...
Counterpunch

Confucius Speaks About Palestine - Tomorrow more Palestinians will die, but the unsaid thing is that it is alright because that’s what those people do … – Omar El Akkad, One day, when it’s...
jobsanger

There Has Been A Drastic Decline Of Fresh Water -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1413: Poets and the Industrial Revolution - Episode: 1413 How contemporary Romantic poets saw the Industrial Revolution. Today, Romantic poets and the Industrial Revolution.
Mediagazer

Parks Associates: 33% of US internet households subscribe to a DTC sports-specific streamer and 40% of sports viewers exclusively watch sports via streamers (George Winslow/TV Tech) - George Winslow / TV Tech: *Parks Associates: 33% of US internet households subscribe to a DTC sports-specific streamer and 40% of sports viewers exclusiv...
Rio Grande Guardian

Sepulveda: The Valley’s voice in Congress is at risk - Harlingen Mayor Norma Sepulveda is concerned about proposed new congressional maps for the Rio Grande Valley that would be anchored much further north. ...
Informed Comment

Pariah State: Israeli Cruise Ship, Rebuffed at Greek Island Ports over Gaza Genocide, becomes Flying Dutchman - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Extreme-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to turn Israel into a 21st century version of the Flying...
Mediaite

This is NOT Video from Inside Traverse City, Michigan Walmart During Mass Stabbing - Eleven people were seriously injured in the incident, which a police spox said "citizen involvement" helped to stop. But some of the video is not what it...
Slate

Hot DORK Summer - Meme stocks are back, baby.
Raw Story

'The United States committed human trafficking': Lawyer slams Trump's prisoner swap - News that President Donald Trump's administration completed a prisoner swap with Venezuela didn't sit well with one lawyer. Michael Popok, a lawyer and ...
memeorandum

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born* — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of...
The Hill

Trump doubles down on claims Harris paid for endorsements, says she should be 'prosecuted' - President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his accusations that former Vice President Harris paid celebrities to endorse her during the 2024 presidential ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Republicans aim to redraw House districts at Trump’s urging, but there’s a risk, Nicholas Riccardi & Nadia Lathan, AP News, July 21, 2025 - *Friends:* *What’s unfolding in Texas, as reported by Nicholas Riccardi and Nadia Lathan (2025) for AP News, is yet another brazen power grab—this time ...
Undernews

NOTE - *Sam Smith - *Because some of your editor's children and grandchildren will be leaving tomorrow morning, news service will be somewhat unpredictable.
Eschaton

Saturday Night - Choose your own video
Popular Resistance

Israel Planning ‘Major Offensive’ Against Yemen - Israel is planning a “major offensive” against Yemen and is waiting for a green light from the Israeli political echelon, Israel’s Channel 14 reported on...
Daily Dot

20 red flags in relationships that don’t seem like red flags (until it’s too late) - [image: Couple fighting in bed under AskReddit overlay caption reading, "What’s a “silent red flag” most people don’t notice in relationships?"] In a rec...
OpEd News

Heroes of Conviction to be Honored at 2025 Whistleblower Summit - The Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival continues its mission to honor those who choose courage over comfort, truth over silence, and justice over perso...
The Greanville Post

New Game Changer Again: “Mighty” AGM-158 JASSM [i] - MIKE MIHAJLOVIC—Even the mere mention of a potential strike on the Kerch Bridge is enough to set off a wave of excitement among militarist commentators and...
Portside

Trades Unions Are Split in Their Response to Trump - Trades Unions Are Split in Their Response to Trump Dave Sat, 07/26/2025 - 18:16
Axios

Israel to implement humanitarian pause in Gaza after international pressure - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will implement a humanitarian pause in several population centers across the Gaza Strip beginning Sunday morning and last...
Mondoweiss

U.S. pulls out of Gaza ceasefire talks - [image: US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, July 7, 2025. (Photo: Official White House Photo by Dan...
Political Wire

Trump Is Greeted by Protesters in Scotland - “As President Trump golfed Saturday at his course in Turnberry, Scotland, hundreds of protesters took to the streets to denounce his presence in Britain, o...
Daily Cartoonist

2025 Eisner Award Winners - The San Diego Comic Con hosted The Eisner Awards Friday night and there are a few categories among the mostly comic book groupings that connect to our subj...
Salon.com

Pentagon ends lie detector sweep as Hegseth faces leak probe - Pete Hegseth launched a leak crackdown. Then came Signal messages, resignations, and a quiet White House reversal
Claytoonz

Trump Train For Ghislaine - 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...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio sees 20% drop in homicides in 2025, new report shows - Violence peaked in 2022 when the SAPD reported 231 murders, including the 53 migrants found dead in a tractor-trailer on the Southwest Side. ---------------...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: July 20th – 26th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the DHS was going full gestapo in response to protests in Portland, then quickly expanding the tactics to other cities, s...
Rallblog

Transcript: DMZ America Podcast – “Foodless in Gaza” – Saturday, July 26, 2025 - Generated by AI. Ted Rall: Good morning. Thanks for joining us. You’re watching the DMZ America podcast. Coming to you from the left, I’m editorial carto...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 21 - 25 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. With the continued pause in actual tariff increases, the data has rebou...
Alternet

'A big fat man': Former GOP lawmaker celebrates South Park slam against 'bully' Trump - Former GOP Rep. Joe Walsh said the creators of ‘South Park’ and fed chair Jerome Powell both showed America how to “punch a bully” this week. While some ...
WhoWhatWhy

Speak, Words, for Me: The Fall of Caesar and the Tyranny of Trump - [image: Painting, assassination, Julius Caesar, George Clint, 1822] Do we dare bring yet more words to this gunfight? Speak, Words, for Me: The Fall of Cae...
NPR's Health Shots

Remembering David Nabarro: 'a great champion of global health and health equity' - That's how the head of the World Health Organization paid tribute to Nabarro's lifelong public health leadership. A physician, Nabarro was a leading voice ...
Glasstire

Reconsidering “The American West” - It’s summertime and I’m headed out on a classic “American roadtrip” next week. My daughters and I will hit some of our favorite spots like Santa Fe and D...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Panama Canal Chaos - During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump talked a lot about pulling America out of international treaties and disentangling from military opera...
Ballot Access News

Legal Scholar Richard Pildes Discusses Recent Wall Street Journal Poll on Public Attitude Toward Democratic Party - Legal scholar Richard Pildes, at the Electionlawblog, here discusses a recent Wall Street Journal poll showing public opinion toward the Democratic Party u...
Election Law Blog

“AOC’s Met Gala appearance violated House gift rules, ethics panel says” - Washington Post: The House Committee on Ethics determined in a report released Friday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) failed to comply w...
Futurism

The AI Boom Is Creating Housing Costs in the Bay Area That You'll Think You Must Be Hallucinating - Akin to a rapacious maw, the AI boom has swallowed up untold amounts of water, energy and jobs lost to automation. Now add the rapidly dwindling housing ...
CultureMap Houston

Oldest Houston restaurant's major award leads this week's top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a major award for the owner of Houston's oldest restaurant. Plus...
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
Dissident Voice

Ethnic Cleansing in the United States - Until 1492, all of North America belonged to its many indigenous peoples. With the coming of Europeans, that began to change. Said Europeans came as conq...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: "The images are disturbing," he said! - *SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2025* *In Gaza, mother and child: *We've heard it said that starvation can be a difficult way to die. It can also be a difficult thi...
Reform Austin

Federal Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration’s Restrictions on Services for Survivors, LGBTQI+ Youth, and Unhoused People - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A federal court has temporarily blocked the Trump-Vance administration from enforcing new restr...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-07-26 -
The Root

What You Don’t Know About Aretha Franklin’s Wildly Controversial Secret Romances - As Aretha Franklin’s hit “Who’s Zoomin’ Who” turns 40, and next month marks the anniversary of her death, we decided to take a deep dive into her secret ...
The Verge

Here are the laptops I’d tell any parent to consider for their back-to-school student - We’re in the heart of summer fun, but it’s already time for back-to-school planning, especially if that involves buying a new laptop. The dizzying number o...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio-based Whataburger to sell 75-cent burgers for one day only in August - On August 8, 1950, an entrepreneur by the name of Harmon Dobson sold his first Whataburger order in Corpus Christi. Now, in celebration of the 75th annive...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A Cure For Debt - Hospital bills are wiped clean, writers win against chatbots, a bill beats the heat, and foreign aid is saved.
Second Nexus

Guy Stunned To Find Massive Sum Of Cash Hidden In Old Furnace In His House - Especially in today's economy, we all known how life-changing a large sum of money found in the wall of our home—or from a random rich uncle we didn't kn...
Grist

Georgia sterilization plants using toxic gas among those exempt from new rules - Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
Vox

Four stories that are more important than the Epstein Files - Over the past couple of weeks, one story has overshadowed every other, no matter how important they might be: Jeffrey Epstein. Unless you’ve been taking y...
ArcaMax

Make Funny, Make Money - In media, does satire generate profits? Or do profits permit satire? Causation is elusive. But there is a correlation between how much money a media organi...
Angry Bear

Has consumer spending really been flagging in 2025? - – by New Deal democrat There was no big economic news today, despite the report on durable goods, which declined -9.3% in June — after a 16.5% advance i...
naked capitalism

Links 7/26/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

With a Psychopathic Base, Will Trump’s Dark Diversion Strategy Work? -
Skeptophilia

Vinegar FTW - The frustrating thing about woo-woo ideas is that they never really go away permanently. Take, for example, the Ancient Aliens thing. It really came int...
Off The Kuff

Lawsuit filed over Trump tariffs - Interesting. A conservative legal group is suing the Trump administration in Texas over the president’s tariffs on Chinese imports, alleging that they were...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 26 July 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o This was, to say the least, rather unwise. Personally, I think they're gu...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Crooked Media

Epstein Files Didn’t Kill Themselves - The post Epstein Files Didn’t Kill Themselves appeared first on Crooked Media.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Yellow Moon - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian Labor government to expand police-state ASIO interrogation powers - Without a single mention in the May 3 election campaign, the Albanese government is extending and broadening ASIO’s forcible questioning powers.
Nina Illingworth

Recommended Reading: Ground Games - Amid a backdrop of fascist conspiracies about Democrat-voting migrants, Bondi's DoJ is moving to target election officials who won't help Trump rig elect...
Deadline Politics

Stephen Colbert Praises ‘South Park’s Naked AI Trump PSA: “An Important Message Of Hope” - After South Park made waves against Donald Trump and parent company Paramount in the Season 27 premiere, Stephen Colbert has regained a sense of optimism. ...
Wolf Street

Treasury Market Sees No Rate Cut by Sept., 30-Year Treasury Yield Near 5%: The Yield Curve and “Real” Mortgage Rates - At the long end, the bond market is nervous.
Common Dreams

Watchdog: Emil Bove Privately Met With The Extreme Right-Wing Group Alliance Defending Freedom Whose Cases Could Come Before Bove on 3rd Circuit - A new Accountable.US investigation, first reported by Huff Post, has revealed new concerns about Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former defense attor...
Capital & Main

Facing a ‘Federal Occupation’: An Interview with Councilmember Ysabel Jurado - The L.A. City Councilmember and daughter of undocumented immigrants speaks about immigration raids and recent LAPD activity. The post Facing a ‘Federal ...
The AltWorld

Ukraine Proxy-War: Trump Picks Up Where Biden Left Off - “Despite promises to end foreign entanglements, the Trump administration has intensified the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine […] The post Ukraine Proxy-War: Tr...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Know Them By Their Fruits - Those tiny skeletal bodies you’re seeing on social media are the fruits of the empire. So are the shredded, eviscerated, decapitated children in Gaza since...
Independent Political Report

Andrew Cuomo, Jim Walden Pledge to Drop Independent Bids in NYC Mayoral Race if Not Leading Come Fall - Former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Jim Walden, both independent candidates in this year’s New York City mayoral race, said in separate interviews this mont...
slacktivist

LBCF: What’s on second? - "So is the Antichrist the first or second beast?" "I don't know." "Third beast."
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Texans deserve better than misplaced priorities - Instead of focusing on protecting Texans from future natural disasters, Republicans are focusing on efforts to weaken the political power of communities...
The NM Political Report

Rio Rancho pharmacist running for House - [image: Ndidiamaka “Didi” Okpareke says she loves New Mexico and wants to be part of lifting the state that has given her multiple opportunities to meet ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

What we’re talking about this week - A few highlights from the week on Frontburner. The post What we’re talking about this week appeared first on D Magazine.
Church and State

Trump has now attacked every possible entity in our democracy! - Even those snookered MAGA are not stupid enough but just too ashamed to abandon completely their fealty for this fascist liar!
Workers World

NATO and the EU are pushing Europeans toward war - [image: NATO and the EU are pushing Europeans toward war] Raposo is a Portuguese Marxist analyst, editor of the web magazine jornalmudardevida.net, where t...
DeSmogBlog

Carney’s LNG Push Will Cause BC Fracking to Skyrocket, Expert Warns - Shell’s LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., shipped its first tanker of Asian-bound liquefied natural gas last month, signaling the beginning of a liqu...
Progressive Army

Comunicado de TCA - Estimados socios buenas tardes: Les hacemos llegar comunicado que hemos recibido de parte de TCA Los contactamos en esta oportunidad para informarles que p...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Shredding the Safety Net, but Hey, New Coke! - On our live show, David and Emma Janssen discuss the ways Republicans try to stealthily cut down social services, the Make America Healthy Again movement, ...
Texas Standard

‘He’s in everything I do’: Amid tragedy, visions of his son underpin Ben Kweller’s new album - The Dripping Springs musician’s son Dorian, who was killed in a car accident, still has his presence felt in “Cover the Mirrors.”
Progressive.org

Cutting Housing Counseling Is a Grave Mistake - The budget proposed by the House of Representatives eliminates funding for crucial housing counseling programs.
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protestors! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
ProPublica

The Drying Planet - by Abrahm Lustgarten, Graphics by Lucas Waldron, Illustrations by Olivier Kugler for ProPublica As the planet gets hotter and its reservoirs shrink and ...
Project Censored

Big Tech Data Centers Deplete Water From Scarce Sources Around the World - Big tech companies are building data centers that “use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas,” according to an April 2025 report by L...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
Sludge

AIPAC Gives Millions in PAC Donations to House Allies, Senators in 2026 Races - The lobbying group’s PAC donated six-figure sums to dozens of lawmakers in the first half of this year, as it pushes for billions of dollars in military ai...
SCOTUSblog

Is religious freedom possible in state schools? - Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the ...
Dorf on Law

Veganism, Year Seventeen: A New Country, a New Hope - Seventeen years ago yesterday, I published "Meat, Dairy, Psychology, Law, Economics" here on *Dorf on Law*. Although that column was couched in somewhat...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 25, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 25, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/25/2025 - 19:27 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Rewire

Trans Fighters Wrestle To Take Down Discrimination in Mainstream Martial Arts - As trans women are attacked for competing, advocates are working to build new spaces by and for trans people in the martial arts community. The post Tran...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Scarlet Ibis - Do we really have to explain why?
Democracy Now!

Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza Siege, American Killed by Israeli Settlers & Epstein's Financial Network - Democratic Congressmember Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, responds to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s latest attem...
Debunking Christianity

Religion Survives Because Humans Live in Vast Bubbles of Ignorance - *Reducing your own bubble requires determination, effort, and courage* It’s inevitable actually: when we are born, we know nothing about the cosmos, and ...
The Conversation

Deportation tactics from 4 US presidents have done little to reduce the undocumented immigrant population - After his predecessors failed to diminish the US population of undocumented immigrants, President Trump is attempting to drastically reduce that population...
Space City Weather

This break in Houston’s heat brought to you by the letter S for showers - In brief: Periods of rain and scattered thunderstorms will be with Houston today and tomorrow as a disturbance moves in from the Gulf. Then, we will get an...
MintPress News

Voices From the Terror List: Palestine Action Members Speak Out After UK Ban - As Britain officially labels them terrorists, Palestine Action members speak out from the shadows of a new crackdown. The post Voices From the Terror Lis...
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...
High Country News

Law enforcement surveilled Nevada lithium mine protesters, according to records - [image: Josh Dini, left, and Gary McKinney, a member of a group opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada, pass Sentinel Rock on a 2024 pra...
Brad Blog

Landmark Climate Ruling at World Court; More Epstein Trouble for our Petty Little Tyrant: 'BradCast' 7/24/2025 - We've got another mix of good, horrible and hilarious news for the world and the nation today. Ya know, just another day on The BradCast. [Audio link to fu...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

No Heroes, No Kings: Notes on Childhood Grief and Moving Forward - Hulk Hogan was everything to me as a kid. A hero. A religious-like figure. Moving beyond that gave me the space to become myself.
Antiwar.com

The Rise of the Jewish Dual State - Ever since the Six-Day-War (1967) and the occupation of Palestinian territories, Israel has witnessed the rise of the Messianic far-right settler Jews. In ...
The Grayzone

FBI surveilled 2018 ‘Russia & Wikileaks’ panel featuring The Grayzone, files show - Russiagate hysteria led the BI to spy on a panel featuring The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil. As Blumenthal warned during the discussion, t...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
The Texas Signal

Texas Republicans Revive Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill - Women and survivors of violence held a rally outside the Capitol blasting the latest bathroom bill re-introduced in the special session
See You In 2020

Foster clarified we can only win the masses on a class basis. This is how MAGA communism will succeed. - One of the most important lessons William Foster provided is that the American masses are not going to be won through a cultural struggle. The notion th...
Krebs on Security

Phishers Target Aviation Execs to Scam Customers - KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a lar...
Texas Observer

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers - I’ve had it with hearing the same story over and over again—another 100-year-plus rainfall event, another tragic result from people occupying the floodpl...
Unlimited Hangout

PayPal Presidency Pt. III: New World Currency with Mark Goodwin - PayPal Presidency Pt. III: New World Currency with Mark Goodwin.
Trivial Knot

The NSFW game purge - Recently, Steam purged a bunch of NSFW games from its storefront. This occurred as the result of efforts from Australia-based anti-porn group Collective Sh...
Earth 911

Guest Opinion: Earth Savvy? - “The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed... The post Guest Opinion: Earth Savvy? appeared first on Earth911.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

CAMPAIGN OF CHAOS, Our New Book on the 2024 Election, is Now Available - Our new breakdown of the 2024 election, Campaign of Chaos, is now available The post CAMPAIGN OF CHAOS, Our New Book on the 2024 Election, is Now Availab...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump was told in May by DOJ that he was listed in the Epstein files: Wall Street Journal' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *DOJ told Trump in May he was among names in Epstein files: bombshell report* - *This doesn't mean that Trump is guility of any wrongdoing but with this ...
Ecosophia

July 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...
NORML

Clinical Trial Data Provides “Compelling Evidence” That Vaporized Cannabis Mitigates Migraine Symptoms - [image: A hand holds a vaporizer over a budding flowering plant][image: A hand holds a vaporizer over a budding flowering plant]"Nearly one-third of migr...
Democracy Chronicles

What The Silencing of Stephen Colbert Means - Why did this happen and what does this action mean? This isn’t a moment to celebrate, but a moment to contemplate.
Bracing Views

Trinity, 80 Years Later - Haunted by Thermonuclear Nightmares BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2025 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic de...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
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. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
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...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
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...
Progressives Chat

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

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
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...
Web of Debt

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

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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