Brains and Eggs

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Sunday Funnies

"If John F. Kennedy were alive today he would be a conservative..." I agree. He'd be a zombie, with most of his brain missing, so yes he WOULD be a conservative.

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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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Raw Story

Fury mounts as 'untouchable' Trump aide keeps dodging Susie Wiles: Report - President Donald Trump's White House faces a dilemma as aide Natalie Harp infuriates insiders by bowing to his whims without running them past his inner ...
The Verge

Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham’s entire Mutiny movie - Jason Statham's upcoming film Mutiny is set to hit theaters on August 21st, but it can already be streamed in full on the US version of Amazon's Prime Vide...
Angry Bear

Digital Dick Tracey or Fearless Fosdick? - There’s a lot of controversy surrounding Flock cameras. The cops say they help catch crooks. The civil libertarians say big brother is watching you. Some...
memeorandum

Trump Aide Natalie Harp's Brother Explains Her Infatuation With POTUS (TMZ.com) - TMZ.com: *Trump Aide Natalie Harp's Brother Explains Her Infatuation With POTUS* — TRUMP AIDE NATALIE HARP'S BROTHER HER ‘INFATUATION’ WITH POTUS ISN'T...
WhoWhatWhy

Topsy-Turvy Primary Season Continues with DSA Surprise in Florida - [image: Dan Sullivan, Mary Peltola] Tuesday's primaries featured surprises as well as good and bad news for both Democrats and Republicans. Topsy-Turvy P...
Mediaite

Rosie O’Donnell Jokingly Praises Trump for Making Her ‘Re-Famous’ — Like ‘Facism’ and ‘Measles’ - O'Donnell continued her weeklong stint guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! by ridiculing Trump in another barbed monologue without once referring to him by ...
Rewire

Abortion Access in Europe Is Fragile. We Can Learn From the U.S.: Opinion - Feminists and organizers across Europe must start building the kinds of grassroots networks that have helped pregnant Americans get abortion care even in s...
Al Jazeera English

Humanitarianism is not collapsing. It is being traded and compromised - This is endangering the lives of humanitarian workers and the vulnerable communities they serve.
The Smirking Chimp

The Last Stand of the Corporate Democrats -
Vox

The promising race to get kids reading again - Something happens to kids when they’re about 9 years old. Before then, they’re voracious little bookworms, with most of them saying they read for fun at le...
Infidel753

Blogiversary - As of today, I've been doing this blog for exactly twenty years. When I started it, I never gave any thought to how long it might last, but I'm sure that...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Landlord Diplomacy - You read here and there that Kushner and Witkoff’s undertakings with Moscow and Tehran reflect a diplomatic “style.” On we go to the normalization of stupi...
jobsanger

Trump Diverts Money From Protection Of Forests And Parks To Pay For His Vanity Projects -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3402: Absolute Zero - Episode: 3402 Absolute Zero: The hunt for the lowest possible temperature. Today, absolute zero.
World Socialist Web Site

International support surges for jailed Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk - The international campaign demanding the freedom of Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk continues to expand rapidly following his sen...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump hits pause on Canada tariffs threat, and hints at revival of Keystone XL oil pipeline project - US president delays 50% tariffs by three days, and says contentious oil project ‘may be awoken from the grave’ Canada has temporarily avoided a bruising ...
Wolf Street

Oh Dear, Prices of Single-Family Homes Fell by 11% to 26% in 15 Bigger Cities Already - In another 5 bigger cities, price fell by 10%. But San Francisco powered off the list after AI mania started running the housing market.
Workers World

USS Lincoln in crisis/ Will it lead to resistance in the military? - [image: USS Lincoln in crisis/ Will it lead to resistance in the military?] August 16 — Major U.S. media have delivered the news of a collapsing supply lin...
Brad Blog

Is the Zombie Myth that Repubs are Better than Dems on the Economy Finally Dead?: ‘BradCast’ 8/18/2026 - Today on The BradCast: Is another GOP Zombie Myth finally falling? This should be an easy one. But Democrats have not been very good at killing these thing...
Election Law Blog

DOJ Issues Grand Jury Subpoenas in “Dan J. Sullivan” Case, Raising Serious First Amendment Issues in Potentially Prosecuting Someone for Impure Political Motives - An NBC News report raises some serious First Amendment concerns for potentially prosecuting someone for having dishonest motives in running for office: ...
El Paso Matters

After hours of tense debate, divided El Paso City Council adopts budget, raises taxes - In two separate 6-2 votes, the council adopted a budget and tax rate that will increase city tax bills by about $105 a year on the average-value home. T...
Axios

Trump to tap Heidi Overton as FDA commissioner - President Trump has decided to nominate White House aide Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration, according to a senior administration off...
Political Wire

Angie Nixon Scores Upset Win in Florida Senate Primary - “State Representative Angie Nixon of Jacksonville, a progressive firebrand who ran a long-shot underdog campaign, won the Democratic nomination for Senate ...
Antiwar.com

The GOP’s Fading Economic Advantage - As the 2026 midterms approach, a nationwide poll released in early August delivered a warning that goes to the heart of the Republican Party’s political id...
Ian Welsh

The New Cold War Intensifies - We all know about American sanctions. They are enforced by removing people from the US/EU banking system, and the SWIFT transfer network. Because this syst...
Mother Jones

Trump’s White House Business Shindig Will Be a Cesspool of Financial Conflicts - Donald Trump will welcome the leaders of major cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies to the White House on Wednesday to discuss how they should be...
The Greanville Post

QUO WARRANTO - PE—The weakening of Constitutional restraint on a President’s war powers is in line with elimination of the separation of powers of the three branches of g...
Texas Standard

Will Houston or Austin land the NHL’s next team? - The league has zeroed in on Texas for expansion. Now investors are evaluating which city is the best fit for professional hockey.
Mediagazer

In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters) - Reuters: *In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta reje...
Crooked Media

Is Democratic Socialism Taking Over The Party? - The post Is Democratic Socialism Taking Over The Party? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Undernews

Bringing history and humanities together - *Sam Smith - *The DC History Center and Humanities DC have entered into an agreement to merge and become a new organization. This may seem like insignifi...
The NM Political Report

Hull says he is ‘fully committed’ to working with Texas Gov. Abbot to stop New Mexico aid for Texans seeking abortions in New Mexico - [image: Republican governor candidate Gregg Hull says comments he made at an Aug. 11 Hobbs meet-and-greet about working with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on abor...
Capital & Main

Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients - Workers and policymakers are pushing for safeguards around AI’s use in health care through collective bargaining and legislation. The post Mental Health ...
Church and State

The GOP Health Circus - A writer describing a political party that deliberately wants to destroy a country’s good health would be laughed out of the room.
Futurism

Journalist Alarmed When His Tesla Running FSD Tries to Veer Off Highway and Plunge Into a Ditch - "My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear." The post Journalist Alarmed When His Tesla Running FSD Tries to Veer Off Highway and Pl...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Rosie O'Donnell took Kimmel's place! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2026* *Timpf sat in for Gutfeld: *We didn't know that Rosie O'Donnell was guest hosting for Jimmy Kimmel last night. You can watch ...
Crooked Timber

The economics of Swifties - Yesterday, I ran my first gimmick promotion for the Brisbane to Gold Coast Ride against Cancer [1]. I invited anyone who donated $100 to nominate a topic o...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol - For more than three decades, MIT physicist Ted Postol has challenged official claims about U.S. missile-defense performance. His remarkable isolation point...
First Draft

Fatal Attraction - Who is Natalie Harp and why is she so relentlessly weird?
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court urged to leave in place order blocking construction of White House ballroom - Lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon to leave in place a ruling by a federal court in Wa...
Courthouse News

Atlanta Braves sued over star player’s $3.2 million loan default - A Florida lender is seeking payments from Ronald Acuña Jr.'s salary and commercial assets.
Texas Observer

What the Data Says About Electricity Shutoffs During Sweltering Texas Summers - In July 2024, the city-owned electric utility in Georgetown recorded two disconnections for nonpayment for every 10,000 residential accounts it served. I...
Dorf on Law

Courting Voter Confusion in Alaska? - In today's Senate primary election, Alaska voters will have many choices, including two named Dan Sullivan. One is the incumbent Republican. The other is...
The Daily Poster

All The President’s Millionaires - The Trump administration is stacked with 57 “ultra-millionaires.”
MintPress News

US Meddling In Brazilian Elections, Preparing For Possible Military Intervention - The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio...
NORML

Massachusetts: Democrats Overwhelmingly Reject Ballot Proposal to Repeal Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Liberation News

73 Years Without Peace: Why the U.S. is still rehearsing war in Korea - More than seven decades after the armistice, Koreans have the right to live without permanent division, foreign military domination, the threat of another ...
Dissent Magazine

The Right to Cooling - Few public health interventions have been as effective at protecting people from extreme heat as air conditioning. Yet the growing need for it is evidenc...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus of the GPUS Hosts August 2026 Steering Committee Election - The Young Ecosocialist Caucus Steering Committee is holding an election for five positions: Caucus Co-chair Green Party US National Committee Delegate Gree...
IVN

America’s Democracy Is Cracking. The Revolution to Rebuild It Has Already Begun. - From a national popular vote and ranked choice voting to proportional representation, court reform and a constitutional right to vote, Rob Richie argues th...
Scheerpost.com

From Black Power To Hip Hop: The Evolution Of Mopreme Shakur - Mansa Musa TRNN How are hip hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Bl...
Bonddad

The positive trend in manufacturing production continues, but are there signs of flagging AI-related growth? - - *by New Deal democrat* If housing permits and starts are in the forefront of long leading indicators, then industrial production and its component...
Independent Political Report

Indiana Secretary of State Debates to Include Libertarian, Lincoln Party Nominees - *This article was originally published by Indiana Capital Chronicle on August 17, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views ex...
Glasstire

Remembering Betelhem Makonnen, 1972 – 2026 - Writing an obituary for a friend is perhaps the hardest thing to do. All the “should haves” and “would haves” suddenly become real relationship inadequac...
Earthworks

Golden Gifts, Sweetheart Deals, and Demands for Investigations - The Trump Administration’s corruption and self-dealing went on full display during the August 7 Critical Minerals Roundtable at the State Department. Th...
Democracy Now!

Netanyahu Throws "Poison Pill" into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel: Mouin Rabbani - President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-p...
Techdirt.

The Ellisons Again Threaten To Move CBS/Paramount Somewhere Shittier And Hotter If State Antitrust Lawsuit Isn’t Settled - Paramount bosses Larry and David Ellison aren’t having much fun in the wake of a 12 state antitrust lawsuit that risks derailing their $111 billion attempt...
Rallblog

Israeli Invaders Terrorize West Bank Families | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Space City Weather

The Atlantic season’s first hurricane is now a week late—and counting - In brief: In today’s post we spend some time discussing the slow start to the Atlantic hurricane season, and how we are increasingly late into the game for...
Mondoweiss

‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands - [image: Israeli military vehicles on Palestinian agricultural land in the Jordan valley, near the West Bank town of Tubas, May 6, 2015. (Photo: Shadi Hatem...
slacktivist

Postcards from America (8.18.26) - "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."
The Root

The Sweetest Moments from Celebrity Kids’ First Day of School - As back-to-school season kicks off, we're looking back at the times celebrity parents got real about the emotional reality of school drop-off day. Read ...
Off The Kuff

Big Bend border wall construction paused - For now. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced that his agency is pausing construction work in Big Bend National Park whil...
The Hill

Mamdani hits challenges even as his popularity rises in polls - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is facing some steep challenges more than seven months into his historic tenure, but New Yorkers show no sign of sou...
NPR's Health Shots

She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks - A 29-year-old woman confided her suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot — not to her therapist, not to her parents, not to her best friend. What can AI learn f...
ProPublica

Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. - The post Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. appeared first on ProPublica.
Informed Comment

The Gasoline War: Have Iran’s Hard Liners decided to Checkmate Trump Politically? - The term "checkmate" in chess is a loan from Persian. "Shah-mat" means the king is confused and helpless. Tehran is going for a checkmate.
Alternet

The last wall: Why Jon Stewart is untouchable at MAGA-coded Paramount - President Donald Trump has long made it clear that he wants Paramount to purchase Warner Brothers because its CEO, David Ellision has indicated that he w...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, August 19–25, 2026 - This Week in People’s History, August 19–25, 2026 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 08/17/2026 - 20:33
Claytoonz

Shock the Monkey - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 78 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Lawsuit alleges WI school board teamed up with Moms for Liberty activists to wreck gay principal's' career' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Editor's note - some folks have commented on my two-day posting weeks. They weren't bad comments, but simply questions of concern. I am alright but I am...
CultureMap Houston

Terry Black's co-founder dishes on Houston opening and future hotel plans - Houston barbecue fans are buzzing about the arrival of *Terry Black’s Barbecue*, which *opens in the Heights* (1329 N. Shepherd) this Tuesday, August 18.
Deadline Politics

Abby Phillip Signs New Deal To Remain At CNN - Abby Phillip has signed a new deal at CNN, where she has hosted the nightly show CNN Newsnight. A network spokesperson declined to comment on talent contra...
Slate

Donald Trump Promised to Keep Us Out of Protracted Wars of Choice in the Middle East. We Are Now in a Protracted War of Choice in the Middle East. - Thanks, Donald
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Socialist Alternative

Interview: Union Nurse In Maine On Organizing Against ICE Brutality - Matt McDonald is a unionized nurse in the town of Biddeford, Maine. On July 13, 25-year old Johan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE officers in...
Ballot Access News

Oral Argument in New Mexico Ballot Access Set for August 28 - On August 28, a U.S. District Court will hear oral argument in New Mexico Forward Party v Toulouse Oliver, 1:26cv-2286. This is a ballot access case. The...
Popular Resistance

Legal Fight Over Desecrated Moses African Cemetery Presses On - The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) says the struggle to protect Moses African Cemetery is far from over. Even after a landmark ruling from th...
Common Dreams

Texas Families Urge U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Challenge to Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms - More than two dozen Texas families are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a state law that requires public schools to post a Protes...
See You In 2020

The intelligentsia, the rural masses, and the usury class that’s bringing them together - The further the ruling financiers advance their schemes, the more the proletariat’s potential class allies are brought together. We’re seeing this with ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Duck of Minerva

On religious dialogue and “stochastic terrorism” - Potentially inflammatory rhetoric should be addressed with dialogue, not bans Recent antisemitic attacks have rightly led to concern among the US Jewish po...
The Progressive Wing

8/17-18 News Roundup and Open Thread - Looks like Markey is going to cruise to victory in MA
Daily Cartoonist

Edward Frascino – RIP - The New Yorker cartoonist Edward Frascino has passed away. Edward Dominick (Ed) Frascino November 15, 1930 – August 13, 2026 Michael Maslin has learned of ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Authoritarian Personality and Forecasting Future Politics - As I’ve already said a few times, I’m heading out to the middle of nowhere to get a little rest in order to prepare for the run-up to what is surely going ...
Novara Media

Over 200 Musicians Tell Andy Burnham to Block Rosebank Oil Drilling - Brian Eno, Massive Attack and Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie are among 211 artists calling on prime minister Andy Burnham to block plans for new oi...
Salon.com

Pete Hegseth is Trump’s favorite kind of failure - The USS Lincoln disaster reveals the defense secretary’s twisted priorities
Debunking Christianity

Visit My "Academia.edu" Papers - I have published papers for Academia.edu, a few of which aren't found elsewhere. Here they are in one Link. ---A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of E...
Grist

Mining executives bought stock in their own firm days before Trump shrank Bears Ears - House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.
High Country News

In a warming world, wildflowers offer a warning - The discourse between plants and fungi changes with increasing soil temperatures, impacting meadows, nutrients and wildlife. The post In a warming world...
Two Party Opera

Sullivan Ballou on the U.S.S. Lincoln - Read More
The Week

Stuck ships in the Strait of Hormuz could be a marine superspreader threat - Idle ships are a microbes’ playground
Counterpunch

$1.1 MILLION AN HOUR!!—Trump’s Personal Profit in 2025 - To House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—Your responses on July 1, 2026 on the reporting of the $2.2 billion pro...
The AltWorld

We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything’s Normal - Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is […] The post We All Know This Civilization Is D...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon, by Angela Valenzuela, August 16, 2026 - *The Serpent Has Reached Its Tail: America Is Devouring Itself at Santa Elena Canyon* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 16, 2026* *There are act...
OpEd News

Caught in the Crosshairs of War by Gale Nemec - I was enthralled from the beginning, and I wept when the family, after hours of fear and anguish, finally succeeded in escaping across the border. I shared...
San Antonio Report

Geekdom announces the end of its coworking space. Instead, it will focus on the startup ‘valley of death’. - Much of Geekdom’s focus was turning ideas into businesses. Now, the company wants to support people who already have startups off the ground. --------------...
San Antonio Current

Limits on certain firearms, silencers lifted for some in Texas after judge’s order takes effect - Nearly century-old federal restrictions on certain short-barrel firearms and silencers were lifted Thursday for some gun groups and government agencies ...
Field Negro

The united marks of America. (The great American con) - It's official, the Trump administration is now the worst in the history of America. How could it not be? Consider what is happening with the following: ...
Bracing Views

This Mighty Scourge of War - The Most Terrifyingly Honest Sentence Written by a U.S. President BILL ASTORE AUG 13, 2026 Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a...
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
Seeing the Forest

- This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Extraction Everything is extraction ...
ArcaMax

Presidential Chutzpah - When Truth Social, President Donald Trump's media mouthpiece, announced that it would be selling advance access to Trump's posts, I thought they were kiddi...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: Palestine Action facing new rigged ‘terrorism’ trials - As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Out Of Missiles - 12 x 16 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2mb According to this Reuters report from a week or so back, the USA is basically running out of missiles in Iran. ...
Lowering the Bar

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Allowed to Vote Because He Has “No Legal Residence” - The court didn't say he had "no legal residence," just that he lied about where it was. Falconry records notwithstanding.
The Militant

Quash government subpoenas, Defend constitutional liberties! - The following statement was released Aug. 9 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Idavox

South Africans protest against xenophobia - #operationubuntu calls for an end to xenophobic violence by vigilante groups and the government. Elitsha... The post South Africans protest against xenop...
Krebs on Security

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out - It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day....
Progressive.org

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health - It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.
Black Agenda Report

Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants - Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/14/2026 - 08:42 The Supre...
The Texas Signal

The Trail Helping Houston Regain Freedom From Roads - Transforming the trail into something actually useful started in stages in 2009, but the formation of the Friends of Columbia Tap Trail really got the ball...
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
Discourse

Drafting the Woke 1 Accords (w/Paul Blest & Jack Crosbie) - Plus: AOC egg freezing drama, the Michigan Senate primary, and Francesca Hong.
Sludge

Dark Money Group Sends Staffers to Tech and Pharma HQs to Kick Off August Recess - Center Forward, funded in part by the companies it sent congressional staffers to visit, paired the tours with policy briefings for aides who sit on the co...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat - In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
The Conversation

The false and the furious: We aren’t just bothered by different beliefs – we’re bothered when we think others are wrong - Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
LareDOS

Janet Krueger’s Thick and Thin exhibit opens at the Hunt Gallery Sept. 3 in San Antonio - Artist talk is set for September 12 from 1 to 2 p.m.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Wisconsin Gubernatorial Race Moves to Leans Democratic After the Establishment’s Great Escape; Other Primary Takeaways; Rating Changes in Montana and Ohio - Passing on Hong makes Democrats favorites to hold the Wisconsin governorship, plus other observations from Tuesday's primaries and elsewhere The post Wis...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 1 - In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and...
Environment Texas

Small is Beautiful - Today’s environmental problems can feel overwhelming. Sometimes it helps to think small The post Small is Beautiful appeared first on Environment Texas.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: August 2026 - Artificial Life | Emergent Garden (video, 35 min) – A video about simulations that simulate evolution or generate life-like complexity. He draws a distinc...
Project Censored

Media Dictates Democracy - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Ke...
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
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...
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. —...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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....
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...
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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