Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Celebrities Raised Millions for LA Fire Aid. Much of the Money Went to Programs for Illegal Aliens and Nonprofits That Only Assist 'Black and Brown Communities.' (Jon Levine/The Washington Free Beacon) - Jon Levine / The Washington Free Beacon: *Celebrities Raised Millions for LA Fire Aid.* Much of the Money Went to Programs for Illegal Aliens and Nonpro...
The Verge

EcoFlow’s Rapid power bank is the fastest yet - It's now possible to charge a large 99Wh (27,650mAh) power bank - the largest you can easily take on an airplane - from zero to 80 percent in about 20 minu...
Eschaton

Distractions - They are spending the money that they raise from you on consultants - David Shor - who tells them to do this. If it were about "law and order," he'd coord...
Raw Story

'People are safe again!' Trump slurs Chicago mayor as 'incompetent' in early morning rant - President Donald Trump raged against Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as he threatened to send National Guard troops into the city. The president has deploy...
Al Jazeera English

Bangladesh issues global call on Rohingya crisis - Dhaka hopes a conference can provide solutions to the aid crisis facing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Techdirt.

The Government Makes It Harder For The Public To Comment On Regulatory Proceedings - Ideally, the U.S. public is supposed to be able to comment on government policy proceedings, and the government is supposed to listen to that input. Of cou...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kilmar Ábrego García detained after reporting to US immigration agents - Maryland man, back in US after being wrongly deported to El Salvador, is threatened with deportation to Uganda Kilmar Ábrego García – who has been thrust...
The Conversation

Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation - George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist decades before popular political ...
First Draft

The Maxwell Scandals - Like father, like daughter.
Political Wire

Freedom Caucus Exodus Could Reshape Congress - NOTUS: “The House Freedom Caucus, as Washington knows it, will look fundamentally different next year. Some staffers — particularly delighted Democrats — a...
Mediagazer

Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on November 12 and Dallas on December 11 (Jennifer Maas/Variety) - Jennifer Maas / Variety: *Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on Novem...
Mediaite

‘Stop This Madness!’ Joe Scarborough Rages at Trump Over Threats Against Bolton, Chris Christie - Joe Scarborough went off on Trump's recent threats against former National Security Advisor John Bolton and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Th...
The Hill

America can’t trust its federal government anymore - The American people deserve accurate and timely information about their president’s fitness, as well as the health of the economy, environment, citizenry a...
Vox

You lift bro? How America became a nation of exercise obsessives. - Every week, it feels as if there’s a hot new fitness trend. The classes are full, there’s a line at the squat rack, and there’s a good chance you know some...
Daily Dot

25 “my therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick” memes that went completely off the rails - [image: Left: Tweet reading "my therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick “they’re not your friends if they disagree with you or try to chall...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Call of Pooty Orange Ops 2 - Understanding Trump’s complex relationship with Vladimir Putin begins with understanding Trump in general, and, as Danziger suggests, he’s not complex. He’...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (8.25.25) - Please listen to David M. Perry, Rebecca Solnit, Donna Ladd, Marissa Franks Burt, Albert Burneko, and Samantha Hancox-Li.
Angry Bear

Cranks to run one’s public-health agencies - What is possibly be “our best defense against future pandemics?” mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. RFK Jr. has been active defunding it. As ...
Alternet

'A dangerous message': Retired general blasts Trump admin in scathing op-ed - During their presidencies, Barack Obama and George W. Bush were sometimes criticized for being overly deferential to their advisers. Some of Bush's allie...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend County residents, elected officials push back against proposed concrete plants - Frustrated with Texas regulators, communities have turned to local leaders to resist new cement facilities.
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Author Topher McDougal Asks If Earth Is Evolving A Planetary Consciousness - Would you like to read a transcript of this episode? Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Author Topher McDouga...
WhoWhatWhy

Facing the Very Real Possibility That Donald Trump Is a Madman - [image: ICE Agent, recruit, Fascist Thug, brownshirts] The rest of us no longer have the luxury of tuning out to preserve our mental health. Facing the Ve...
Axios

Wall Street welcomes rate cuts but ignores the risks - Investors are celebrating interest rate cuts that have yet to happen following Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech, which opens the...
naked capitalism

Links 8/25/2025 -
NPR's Health Shots

Whatever happened to ... the race to cure HIV? There's promising news - At the International AIDS Society meeting this year, a young woman from South Africa spoke. She is the first Black woman from Africa to be potentially cure...
The Smirking Chimp

Behind the Trump Team’s Effort To Mislead the Public Over Epstein -
Skeptophilia

Tall tales and folk etymologies - My master's degree is in historical linguistics, and one of the first things I learned was that it's tricky to tell if two words are related. Languages a...
Ian Welsh

Yeah, America’s Gone Fascist - I think we can put a peg in this. For years everyone’s being “we’re going fascist.” It’s done. It’s over. The US has gone fascist. Purges of the military, ...
Crooked Media

The Shadow Docket Just Won’t Quit - The post The Shadow Docket Just Won’t Quit appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Motion to block implementation of new map filed - Once again, from the inbox: Today, plaintiffs supported by the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF) filed a preliminary injunction to block the implemen...
Salon.com

Trump’s DOJ puts John Bolton in its crosshairs - What's happening to the former national security advisor should chill Americans
Slate

Help! I Want to Carry on a Sweet Family Tradition. But My Sister-in-Law Says It’s Unhealthy. - This is supposed to be fun!
Mother Jones

Legalizing Wolf Hunting in the US West Does Little to Prevent Livestock Loss - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Legalized wolf hunting in the western...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio’s housing market got better for buyers in July - Houses are staying on the market for longer periods of time and the change in home prices is lagging behind other cities. ------------------------------ San...
Scheerpost.com

Staggering Rate of Civilian Deaths In Gaza Revealed - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
American Prospect

EPA Is ‘100 Percent’ Union-Busting, Workers Say - After ending their collective-bargaining agreements, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered employees to seek prior approval for protected union activ...
Progressive Army

San Juan abre la segunda edición de Argentina Exporta - El Ministerio de Producción invita a empresas locales a sumarse a la iniciativa federal que brinda asistencia técnica para desarrollar negocios en mercados...
ProPublica

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There. - by Richard A. Webster, Verite News This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispa...
Grist

Alligator Alcatraz must close, but the fight isn’t over - A judge sided with the Miccosukee Tribe and said the ICE detention center must close. Florida officials have already appealed.
High Country News

New indictment in alleged wolf torture brings friction to a Wyoming community - [image: A storm brews behind the Green River Bar in Daniel, Wyoming, on Aug. 21, 2025.] Cody Robert’s new prosecution causes relief and concern that anoth...
ArcaMax

Don’t Know Much About History? That’s OK with President Trump - Of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, one in particular seems recently to have rubbed President Donald Trump the wrong way. ...
jobsanger

Low-Paid Workers Suffer Heat Injuries 5 Times As Much As The Highest-Paid -
The Week

Codeword: August 25, 2025 - The Week's daily codeword puzzle
World Socialist Web Site

Fed chair shifts toward interest rate cut - Powell’s move to ease rates will not ease the pressure from the Trump administration for major rate reductions nor that which has started to emerge from wi...
Informed Comment

How Europe is managing Guilt over Gaza: The Politics of moral Cleansing - Europe’s distancing from Netanyahu masks deeper complicity in Gaza’s devastation and the silencing of Palestinians Written byGuest Contributor By Dalia Ism...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Threatens To Investigate Chris Christie After Former New Jersey Governor Criticizes Him On ABC’s ‘This Week’ - Donald Trump threatened to investigate Chris Christie after the former New Jersey governor criticized him on ABC’s This Week earlier on Sunday. Trump wrote...
Popular Resistance

Clutching At Pearls, The World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, The US, Cracks Down On Crime - Sociologists correlate high homicide rates to high unemployment and poverty rates; known historically as the Black Belt, Chicago’s predominantly African ...
Portside

Obsession, Blackmail and Instagram: Inside Lurker, the Year’s Most Compelling Thriller - Obsession, Blackmail and Instagram: Inside Lurker, the Year’s Most Compelling Thriller Marti Sun, 08/24/2025 - 20:21
Antiwar.com

The War on Truth: Why Are Palestinian Journalists Being Systematically Erased? - The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substa...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace suffers embarrassment when only eight people show up for her campaign speech - Nancy Mace This embarrassment couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. I can only hope that this is a sign of how things are going to be not only...
Claytoonz

Cheat To Win - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Election Law Blog

“A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally” - Pro Publica: Officials in a large North Texas county decided this week to cut more than 100 Election Day polling sites and reduce the number of early vot...
OpEd News

Did you include peaches? - Im still trying to wrap my head around / Moving a whole hospital,
Courthouse News

Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. to stand trial in Mexico over alleged cartel ties - HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — A judge in Mexico said boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. will stand trial over alleged cartel ties and arms trafficking but could awai...
See You In 2020

Russia’s operation has led the masses to be radicalized, but it’s up to us to take advantage of this - At least since Washington started the conflict in Syria, we’ve been living through what’s essentially a third world war. And as Mao predicted, when a th...
El Paso Matters

After 20 years in prison, Daniel Villegas wins chance to put El Paso police on trial for coerced confession - Daniel Villegas, acquitted in 2018 after decades in prison, will take his lawsuit over alleged police misconduct and a coerced confession to trial follo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Where the Buffalo Roam: The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is educating people about the state’s native buffalo in the Southern Plains - * In the heart of Waelder, Texas, Lucille Contreras is restoring a relationship that was nearly lost to history. As founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo P...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the outer worlds - An excellent summation of what we learned from the New Horizons probe. About the planet Pluto, yes, but also about its moons and the tiny, vastly ancient...
Futurism

RFK Jr. Cancels Promising Work on Cancer Vaccine - About 10 weeks before his assassination in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy — better known as Bobby, and the father of our current health secretary, Robert F. Ken...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Simulation of Resistance: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're being fed a pale imitation of resistance and democratic action by people determined to keep the status quo
Liberation News

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

The Internet Trolls MAGA With Hilarious Gavin Newsom Memes - The Internet is Trolling Maga With These Funny Gavin Newsom memes! Read more...
Dissident Voice

Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws - Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late. Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalisin...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Donald Trump - *“We have a lot of bad people… many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.” *Independe...
Reform Austin

Black Bear Sightings Confirmed in East Texas, TPWD Issues Guidance - The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has verified several black bear sightings across East Texas, including Cherokee, Anderson, Panola, and Rus...
Mondoweiss

Stop Censoring Palestine: A public call for accountability at the Harvard Education Publishing Group - [image: Harvard University Widener Library (Wikimedia)]Hundreds of scholars, educators, and education practitioners condemn Harvard Educational Review's ca...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Random Acts of' Toons - ...A BRIEF TOON BREAK!!... On yesterday's BradCast with guests Digby and Driftglass, we discussed --- among many other things --- Gavin Newsom's brilliant ...
Glasstire

Core Residency Program Fellows Announced for New Two-Year Terms - The Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced the 2025 fellows in its Core Residency Program for visual artists and...
The AltWorld

Never Forget The Lies They Told About Gaza. Never Forgive Them. - A joint investigation by The Guardian and +972 Magazine found that the IDF’s own records show that civilians make […] The post Never Forget The Lies They...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: sunflower - [image: Sunflower]
Wolf Street

The 12 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Single-Family Homes (-10% to -23%) through July - Oakland, Austin, New Orleans, Cape Coral, San Francisco, Birmingham, Washington DC, Fort Myers, Denver, Portland, Phoenix, and Sarasota.
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Voting Rights Groups Ask Fifth Circuit Not to Stay Recent Decision on Legislative District Boundaries - As already noted, on August 14, the Fifth Circuit agreed with a lower court that Louisiana’s legislative district boundaries violate the federal Voting Rig...
Workers World

URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today! - [image: URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today!] Continue reading URGENT! Mumia’s eyesight endangered! Call in today! at Workers.org
The Texas Signal

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

2 Houston universities excel on prestigious report and more top stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with top marks for local high schools and colleges. Plus, a top Hou...
San Antonio Current

Texas Senate approves GOP congressional map, sending plan to Abbott’s desk - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate early Saturd...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 18 - 22 at Seeking Alpha - -* by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were no big changes this week, but what continues to stick out in ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: A pair of defectives had some good fun... - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2025* *...on our most watched "cable news" program: *Early this morning, the thought came to mind: Had we ever attempted to resear...
Avedon's Sideshow

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

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

Trump Administration Gives Coal Plants and Chemical Facilities a Pass - In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emission rules. The post Trump Admi...
Sludge

Lawmakers Hold Stocks in Defense, Energy, and Tech Companies They Oversee - Here are 13 senators and representatives whose stock portfolios raise conflict-of-interest questions.
Independent Political Report

Former Santa Monica Mayor Urges Politico to Include Green Gubernatorial Nominee in California Summit - Former Santa Monica Mayor Michael Feinstein urged Politico in an open letter this week to include Green Party gubernatorial candidate Dr. Butch Ware in i...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Help Abdul Get a Phone - We can do this!
The Militant

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

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Socialist Alternative

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

Homesteading Hate: Arkansas Group Is a Lesson in Legalized Racist Exclusion - Cultural and political regressions, as well as legal ambiguities, have allowed for a ‘whites only’ community to develop and expand.
Space City Weather

Flash flooding a possibility Friday afternoon with stubborn, slow-moving storms in the Houston area (Updated) - In brief: We are pushing out a Stage 1 flood alert for today based on developments since this morning. Locally heavy downpours will almost certainly cause ...
The NM Political Report

USDOT blames New Mexico State Police for fatal Florida semi accident involving undocumented driver - Federal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says New Mexico State Police officers are partially responsible for a fatal semi-truck accident over 1,000 mi...
Church and State

The imminence (or otherwise) of depopulation - As ecosystems deteriorate and wealth inequality deepens, the impact of overpopulation on the natural world is well-documented.
Second Nexus

Joe Jonas Reveals Super Cringey Interaction On Flight After He Joined The Mile High Club - Some times people share stories of their embarrassing moments and we can all relate. Sometimes, however, that person is Joe Jonas talking about how he ac...
The Progressive Wing

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

Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer - Plastic pellets are polluting our beaches and harming wildlife. The post Nurdles: The microplastic pollution you might find at the beach this summer appe...
alicublog

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

The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family - Everyone knows Epstein and Ghislaine—but few know the shadowy family dynasty behind them. From Mossad and CIA ties to Silicon Valley and D.C., Alan MacLe...
Texas Observer

Texas, No Exodus - I insist on survival every day I stay in Texas. Let me explain. A friend came over today & boom: joy shone from our fingertips. While the moon transition...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court is historically unpopular right now. Or is it? - Is the Supreme Court’s approval rating at a five-year high or record low? It depends on which survey you’re reading. In just the past two months, at leas...
Rewire

He Graduated Early To Get Gender-Affirming Surgery Before College. Then His Hospital Cut Him Off. - Months before his first class at Carlow University, Lee, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania, found himself without a provider. The post He Graduated Early To ...
Debunking Christianity

Oh the Irony: Religion Is Shooting Itself in the Foot - *Disbelief and atheism are on the rise* A few years ago I had the misfortune of attending a First Communion service at a suburban Rhode Island Catholic...
Democracy Now!

Day Laborer Dies Fleeing ICE: Family Mourns, Community Demands Answers - Family and community members are mourning 52-year-old Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez, a father and grandfather from Guatemala who died while attempting to e...
Dorf on Law

Should Public Schools Allow More Curricular Opt-Outs to Retain Students? - Two months ago, in *Mahmoud v. Taylor*, the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative supermajority delivered a potentially devastating blow to public schools. Ju...
Unlimited Hangout

The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek - The PayPal Presidency Part IV: Teaching Technocracy with John Klyczek.
Common Dreams

Assault With A Deli Weapon - As armed, burly goons roam D.C.'s streets, besieged residents say "it's the little things" that give them solace, which is why they've embraced as their ...
The Rag Blog

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

Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day - TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report. The channel, which attract...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2025 - Project Censored in the World In late July, Hyperallergic published “Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation,” a detailed, affirmative r...
NORML

Federal Appeals Court: Medical Cannabis Consumers Shouldn’t Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights - [image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a table next to a black handgun][image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a t...
Bracing Views

The Business of Nuclear Weapons Is Booming - Part II of a Documentary on the Military-Industrial Complex BILL ASTORE AUG 20, 2025 The business of nuclear weapons is booming in the U.S., as Part II of ...
Duck of Minerva

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

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

Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Could Explode Next Year - A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
Krebs on Security

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years - A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and o...
Consortium News

NOTE TO READERS: A Pause in Publishing - Because of technical issues, Consortium News will undergo a renovation that will prevent us from publishing from today over the weekend until early next we...
Edinburg Politics

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

The Narrative Trap - One of the experiences I’ve had tolerably often, over the more than nineteen years that I’ve been writing these weekly essays, is the discovery that a seri...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Democracy Chronicles

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

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

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

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

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

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

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
GreenSource DFW

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

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
The Greanville Post

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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