Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Nancy Guthrie disappearance: Sheriff says no arrests, none remain in custody after major operation (Michael Dorgan/Fox News) - Michael Dorgan / Fox News: *Nancy Guthrie disappearance: Sheriff says no arrests, none remain in custody after major operation* — FBI and local authori...
Eschaton

The Man Has A Point - Bill Maher does suck. Click to embiggen
Undernews

Jeffrey Epsein - *Money Control - *In early 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was stressed about her US visa status. Later that year, she married an Ame...
Salon.com

We still swoon for Prince’s “Kiss” - Known for songs dripping with sensuality, Prince achieved PG success with this innocent crowd-pleaser 40 years ago
CultureMap Houston

Promising Houston restaurant's surprise shutter leads our top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, beginning with two sudden restaurant closures, followed by four exciting openi...
Futurism

Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation - "You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants." The post Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of I...
The Verge

iBuyPower’s gaming desktops are discounted for Presidents Day - Buying a pre-assembled gaming desktop makes sense for some. It can save you time and money, too, compared to buying PC components piecemeal. If you’re weig...
Mediaite

Pelosi Denies ‘Tension’ with AOC as She Praises ‘Star’ Democrat’s Future - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) denied there being past "tensions" with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as she praised the "star" Democrat amid 2028 rumors...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for February 9 - 13 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were no significant changes in the past week. In particular, desp...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Bad Bunny Knows the Truth. Do We? by Julian Vasquez-Heilig | December 2, 2025 - *Friends:* *I encourage everyone to read this excellent and clarifying piece by Dr. Julian Vasquez-Heilig. It is essential reading in this moment. He rem...
WhoWhatWhy

Call to Arms: A Poem - [image: Emigrants or Fugitives, Honore Daumier, c.1850] Bend that long arc Call to Arms: A Poem originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Raw Story

Interview with FBI naming Epstein co-conspirator completely missing in files: survivor - According to one of the victims of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a series of emails and the record of an interview she gave with an FBI agent...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Casey Wasserman to sell talent agency after links to Ghislaine Maxwell exposed in Epstein files - Clients including Chappell Roan and Abby Wambach cut ties to firm after communications came to light Casey Wasserman, a leading Hollywood talent agent wh...
Election Law Blog

“A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes. It led to confusion in Texas.” - From the Texas Tribune: When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the cou...
The Hill

Search intensifies for Nancy Guthrie in Arizona: What to know - Law enforcement has ramped up activity in the desperate search for Nancy Guthrie as the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show anchor Savanna...
OpEd News

Men! AvoidThese Valentine's Day Insults! - Gift insults. Don't buy your wife a gift that you would secretly like to have yourself like a seed tiller or drill bits or, really, anything from the hardw...
San Antonio Current

Illness Is rampant among Children Trapped in ICE’s Massive Jail in Texas - [image: Protesters gather outside the Dilley detention center to protest conditions inside.] The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The miracle suddenly looks like this! - *SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026* *Eighth-graders bypass Lourdes: *We'd call it one of his weak spots. As we noted in Monday's report, Nicholas Kristof has ...
Glasstire

In the El Paso Region, Art Thrives as One Facet of Culture - In a moment when separation, division, violence, and institutional abuse rule the day, the sustenance of hope is being generated on the daily in communit...
Axios

The Goldilocks economy, if you don't look too close - The U.S. economy started 2026 in a state of excellent balance: strong growth, a solid job market and subdued inflation. Just don't look too closely. *Th...
Al Jazeera English

Bangladeshi PM-in-waiting urges opposition to work with BNP - Bangladeshi Prime Minister-in-waiting Tarique Rahman urged opposition parties to work with the incoming BNP government.
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: California’s Hunting Ghost Guns - California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.
Grist

Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold - America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.
ArcaMax

How to Save Newspapers - Ten years ago, the shuttering of The Tampa Tribune shocked Media World. Last month, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette disappeared, turning western Pennsylvania i...
Vox

Is it love? Or is it an AI romance scam? - Happy Valentine’s Day. Don’t let romance scams — which ramp up around the holiday and are at an all-time high — break your heart. These scams cost America...
Political Wire

For Your Weekend Listening - The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members. It should be no surprise that the structure of our economy is driving our politics. Join now to co...
Slate

Help! My Best Friend’s Entire Personality Changed After a Traumatic Event. I Can’t Stand the “New Her.” - This just isn’t working for me.
NPR's Health Shots

It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise - Researchers celebrate early results of a drug that may become the first treatment for a serious complication of pregnancy called preeclampsia. It's got the...
Mother Jones

Their Courses Were No Longer Relevant, so These Economics Students Went to Work - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the fallout from the 2008 global f...
Mediagazer

A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog) - Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog: *A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Here’s the News Across the Nation - Might as well lead off with the one in dubious taste. Jones doesn’t mind pushing things and I agree with his premise that only crooks wear masks. He’s not ...
naked capitalism

Links 2/14/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Only Downhill From Here’: Pollster Reveals Trump’s Popularity Now Slipping Even With MAGA -
Scheerpost.com

Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit - By Max Blumenthal for the Grazyzone An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privatel...
Skeptophilia

With a whimper - The death of massive stars, ten or more times the mass of the Sun, is thought to have a predictable -- if violent -- trajectory. During most of their lif...
The Root

New Voting Bill Dusts Off Old Voter Suppression Tactics - Voting rights advocates are warning that the SAVE America Act could disenfranchise voters, especially women, Black and Hispanic people, and young voters....
Crooked Media

The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good - The post The Philosopher Teaching AI to Be Good appeared first on Crooked Media.
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Alamo Ranch - I am a proud Alamo City native who owes his life to the community that raised him. In San Antonio, we don’t just live — we show up. We show up for Spurs ga...
Off The Kuff

FEMA produces new draft flood map for Harris County - We’ve been waiting for this. After years of delays, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly posted a draft of Harris County’s new flood maps on...
ProPublica

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention - The post How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

The Name in the File, The Silence in the Newsroom: What the Epstein Omission Says About India’s Shrinking Public Sphere - The Jeffrey Epstein archives reveal the hidden secrets of the global elite. They show how power works in the shadows through closeness, access, and the uns...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 14 February 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. Posting this one a bit early due to computer issues. o o o o o The Venus flytrap ca...
The Week

The Epstein files: glimpses of a deeply disturbing world - Trove of released documents paint a picture of depravity and privilege in which men hold the cards, and women are powerless or peripheral
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern - Former C.I.A. Russia analyst Ray McGovern joins Episode 5 of The World This Week to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Saturday 8 p.m. EST. Th...
jobsanger

Pam Bondi Plumbed New Depths of Moral Bankruptcy -
World Socialist Web Site

AI development and the contradictions of capitalism - The development of artificial intelligence (or more correctly augmented intelligence) AI and the growing concern that it has the potential to set off a maj...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire - Episode: 1524 The other great fire of 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Today, the other great fire.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Sister Cry - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

“Time is slipping underneath our Feet:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:37 - Like cascading waters, or a desert squall another day of my life has fled.
Workers World

ICE fuels massive rise in U.S. carceral system - [image: ICE fuels massive rise in U.S. carceral system ] With an average of over 2 million people imprisoned at any time, the United States has notoriously...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | February 13, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | February 13, 2026 barry Fri, 02/13/2026 - 22:50
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Courthouse News

GirlsDoPorn boss ordered to pay $76 million to sex trafficking victims - Michael Pratt was sentenced to 27 years in prison last year for leading an illegal sex trafficking ring that tricked young women into doing pornography.
Techdirt.

UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Almond Milk Branding - Back in 2023, we talked about a strange trademark dispute out of the UK concerning oat-based milk products. Specifically, Oatly, a large producer of oat mi...
Deadline Politics

Newsom Insists “Trump Is Temporary,” Goes Full Governor Of The Free World At European Security Meetup & Talks 2028 - Gavin Newsom still won’t totally admit he’s running for president in 2028, but the California governor is forthright in his belief that Donald Trump has a ...
Claytoonz

Bad Guys Wear Masks - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Popular Resistance

Laura Dogu And Washington’s Regime-Change Playbook - Laura Dogu, newly appointed US envoy to Venezuela, is described by the Los Angeles Times as an appropriate choice because she “navigated crises” in Nicar...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas State Trial Court Strikes Down Law that Made it More Difficult to Qualify a Statewide Initiative - On February 12, an Arkansas state trial court struck down a 2023 law that makes it more difficult to qualify a statewide initiative. King v Jester, Pulaski...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Canales, Mayor Ochoa pay tribute to David Chavana, the “runner, icon, and the heart behind the Valley’s largest race, the Edinburg All-America City David Chavana 10k Run/Walk” - Graciela Moreno Chavana on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 was presented a framed House of Representatives Memorial Resolution – along with a Texas State Flag fl...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BIG FASH AND SMALL VICTORIES EDITION. - *Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man.* Even though they lie like they breathe and are still fucking shit up in Minneapolis, the administration’s announ...
Alternet

'You can't do that!' Trump reveals 'obvious' sign Noem and Lewandowski may be dating - President Donald Trump is reportedly not above gossiping about members of his own Cabinet. That's according to a Friday report in the New York Post, whic...
Progressive.org

The Human Cost of Unregulated AI Tools - AI companies have a responsibility to respect human rights.
The NM Political Report

Should New Mexico buy PNM? Lawmaker says yes - [image: Senate Memorial 9 was introduced Friday asking the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to pause Blackstone Infrastructure’s proposed $11....
Wolf Street

Services Inflation Spikes in January, but Bad-Joke OER CPI Pushes Down on Year-over-Year CPI. OER is Huge and Bad - Gasoline & used-vehicle prices plunge, food inflation backs off for a moment, natural gas bills jump.
Second Nexus

GoFundMe For James Van Der Beek's Family Sparks Debate About U.S. Healthcare After Amassing Over $1.5 Million - Though *Dawson's Creek*'s James Van Der Beek has only just tragically passed away at the age of 48, his family has had to start making financial plans am...
Sludge

K Street’s Trump Boom - From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to p...
Brad Blog

Court Blocks Hegseth Censure of Sen. Mark Kelly - On Thursday, Senior US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, issued a Preliminary Injunction preventing Secretary of Defense Pe...
Mondoweiss

How Israel is eroding life for Palestinians in the West Bank - [image: Settlers hang Israeli flags and banners in the Masoudiya neighborhood near the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus, February 13, 2026. (Photo by Moha...
Novara Media

Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful - A high court has found that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful. We speak to the group’s co-founder Huda Amori, w...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Colorado Votes to End Liberty Pledge Strategy - The Libertarian Party of Colorado has voted to discontinue its “Liberty Pledge,” a strategy under which the party sought policy commitments from candidat...
The Militant

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade! - A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist ...
The Conversation

How a largely forgotten Supreme Court case can help prevent an executive branch takeover of federal elections - An FBI raid on a Georgia elections facility has sparked concern about Trump administration interference in the 2026 midterms. An obscure 1970s Supreme Cour...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Religious Liberties Commission Implodes Over Zionism - POTUS Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission is tearing itself apart in a fight about zionism. The leading dissident, Carrie Prejean Boller, the 2009 Miss Ca...
Dissident Voice

Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota - Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been referring to public demonstrations a...
Church and State

Nasa’s Artemis II mission is crucial as doubts build that America can beat China back to the Moon - For the first time in half a century, America stands on the threshold of sending astronauts back to the Moon.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: The Texas Republican Olympics - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: The...
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, February 25 - On Wednesday, Feb. 25, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list o...
Liberation News

Victory! Historic strike delivers justice for San Francisco educators, students and communities - After four days on strike, San Francisco educators have secured a historic contract victory: A contract that delivers justice for educators, students and c...
Socialist Alternative

The Urgent Need For A New International Anti-War Movement - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
The Grayzone

Iran war described as ‘biggest opportunity’ at US oil lobby’s DC summit - An attendee told The Grayzone that oil industry heavyweights were less excited about Trump’s Venezuela policy, privately complaining about the President’...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Texas Standard

On display for the first time, collection peels back mystique surrounding musician Daniel Johnston - “True Love Will Find You in the End” consists of original drawings, audio, photographs, correspondence and more that had been collected over the years by t...
Common Dreams

Trump Appoints Gambling CEOs to CTFC After Ousting Enforcement Lawyers - On Tuesday, The Daily Wire reported that President Donald Trump has established an advisory commission at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission fill...
The AltWorld

Netanyahu’s humiliation in Washington - What is the underlying motive for the American president’s “public” emphasis on the negotiation option? There are […] The post Netanyahu’s humiliation in...
Rewire

Pregnant Immigrant Teens in Detention Face Potentially Unsafe Conditions in Texas Shelter - Plus: The Pride flag rises again over Stonewall and California reproductive clinics get cash influx from state. The post Pregnant Immigrant Teens in Dete...
Space City Weather

Roses are red, violets are blue, some Valentine’s storms are in Houston’s view - In brief: We expect some showers and thunderstorms on Saturday in Houston, a couple of which could be on the stronger side. Outside of that, we have nice w...
The Texas Signal

Transforming Traumatic Brain Injuries Into Art - Tim Colomer's work has made him an unofficial artist-in-residence for the bomb squad community. He has even been invited to contribute to a large obelisk a...
El Paso Matters

El Paso gas customers to see higher bills; city names capital projects chief - This week: State Railroad Commission approves higher gas rates for El Paso customers and the city names a capital improvement director. Plus airport par...
Democracy Now!

"Policy of Aggression": Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government - Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any natio...
Debunking Christianity

The Warsaw Ghetto vs. God-Is-Good Theology - *Horrendous suffering can never be ignored to protect god(s)* Not too long ago, a post quoting Bertrand Russell popped up on social media. It was an e...
The Progressive Wing

2/13 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Angry Bear

130K new jobs - Taken from a site named Cheapism. I suspect New Deal democrat will have more to say on the topic. “yesterday’s jobs gain of 131,000 for January and wheth...
Rallblog

King of Crud | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Dorf on Law

The Revolving Door of U.S. Attorneys for the Northern District of New York - The big news out of the Justice Department on Wednesday was made by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who, testifying in the House of Representatives, proved t...
High Country News

Learning to two-step at a queer country bar - [image: Scenes from Stud Country dances in Los Angeles, 2024-2025.] With a wedding months away, a writer takes a dance class to prepare. The post Learning...
Counterpunch

Illegal Orders and the Criminals Who Give Them - The president and secretary of defense have failed in their effort to see to the execution of six members of Congress after the lawmakers urged members o...
The Greanville Post

Russia Sees Through US “Diplomacy” and Washington’s Continued Pursuit of Global Domination - BRIAN BERLETIC—he video transcript provides a comprehensive analysis of the ongoing geopolitical conflict centered around the war in Ukraine and the broade...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
See You In 2020

Technocrats, their efforts to normalize pedophilia, & the fight that Americans are tasked with - As American society becomes less functional, and our rulers seek to profit from this, a trend is emerging: the spread of child sexualization. This trend...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/13/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Antiwar.com

When Did Starvation Become an Acceptable Tool of Foreign Policy? - On September 15, 1970, Richard Nixon infamously instructed the CIA to “make the economy [of Chile] scream” (CIA Director Richard Helms actual note of the c...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Capital & Main

Trump Administration ‘Wanted to Use Us as a Trophy,’ Says School Board Member Arrested Over Church Protest - Black Lives Matter leaders recount their arrests last month after a Minnesota anti-ICE protest. The post Trump Administration ‘Wanted to Use Us as a Trop...
Project Censored

Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been re...
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
Earth 911

Taking Your First Bite of Upcycled Food: Understanding the Certification - In 2023, U.S. households, retailers, and restaurants wasted approximately 73.9 million tons of food—about 31%... The post Taking Your First Bite of Upcyc...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing: The Outlook for Electoral Accountability in 2026 - Midterm elections often act as a brake on presidential power, but extreme partisan polarization calls into question whether the 2026 midterm will serve i...
LareDOS

Ice melts. - Eventually.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Bisexual Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn blasts her haters: 'They hate to see woke b**ches winning'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn has a message for her haters. *Bisexual figure skater flaunts gold medal at her haters: “They hate to see woke b***hes ...
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
NORML

South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Bills That Sought To Dismantle State’s Voter-Initiated Medical Cannabis Access Program - [image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol][image: South Dakota flag pulls back to reveal a medical cannabis symbol]Over 18...
Discourse

Do You People Understand How Fucking Dumb You Look - Melting down over Bad Bunny...say it with me...LOSER BEHAVIOR.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part Two - The Great Wheel of the symbolic phases of the Moon, as noted already, is the central mandala of Yeats’s Vision. Two months ago, in the last installment of ...
Crooked Timber

The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth - Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned wit...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

This World is Insane: The Check-In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
The Rag Blog

DAVE ZIRIN / CULTURE / Bad Bunny Steals the Show - Bad Bunny in Los Angeles, California, on October 11, 2019. Photo by Glenn Francis of www.PacificProDigital.com By Dave Zirin / The Rag Blog / February 10, ...
Bracing Views

“Guardrails” - The New Dishonest Word of the Moment BILL ASTORE FEB 09, 2026 I’ve been noticing a new word of the moment: “guardrails.” President Trump is smashing the gu...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump Accused of Trying to ‘Divide and Destabilise’ Europe Through New MAGA Fund - Plans by the Donald Trump administration to fund right-wing groups in Europe have been slammed by policymakers and campaigners as an effort to “usurp Eur...
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
TalkLeft

Big Day for Bad Bunny: He'll Knock it Out of the Park - I may not care for football but I will be watching this afternoon to see Bad Bunny's half time show, which he'll sing in Spanish. He is probably the bigg...
Field Negro

Monkeying around. - A shockingly racist trope *(to some)* depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife as apes was posted by the current president from his person...
Greg Palast

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Screenings of Vigilantes Inc. in Georgia - Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History screenings of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc. A victim of Geo...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Moron Majority

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The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

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

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

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

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday, October 07, 2013

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