Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/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

memeorandum

Trump to rally in deep-red Nebraska, where a Senate seat and key House seat are on the line (Oren Oppenheim/ABC News) - Oren Oppenheim / ABC News: *Trump to rally in deep-red Nebraska, where a Senate seat and key House seat are on the line* — There isn't a Democrat on th...
Futurism

Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies - "Whatever you lean towards, it will speak positively about it." The post Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote Fo...
SCOTUSblog

Court declines to hear cases on “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, felons’ Second Amendment rights, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and other notable issues - Before the justices took the bench on Monday for the first oral arguments of the 2026-27 term, the Supreme Court issued a list of orders from the justice...
The Hill

Justices appear skeptical of oil companies’ bid to quash climate suits - Several Supreme Court Justices appeared skeptical Monday of a request from oil companies to preemptively block a climate change lawsuit that could hold the...
Common Dreams

CCI Response to Suncor v. Boulder Arguments - In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s arguments today in *Suncor v. Boulder, **Corey Riday-White, legal director of the Center for Climate Integrity, r...
Courthouse News

Former Prince Andrew files a legal action to quash warrants that led to searches of his residences - The allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor came to light when the U.S. Justice Department released documents from its Epstein investigation.
Eschaton

Denny Who? - I suspect that if the former Dem Speaker of the House had been disgraced (disgraced themselves) in this fashion, "we" would have never stopped hearing ab...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump heads to Nebraska as supreme court hears first oral arguments of new term – US politics live - President to visit Grand Island as his plan to allow more foreign beef imports proves unpopular in agriculture-rich state; court to hear argument over cl...
Ballot Access News

Texas Claims that Independent Candidate Ballot Access Lawsuit is Moot - On September 21, Texas filed this brief in Collier v Howden, w.d., 1:26cv-1574. This is the lawsuit in which Michael Collier, an independent candidate for ...
World Socialist Web Site

Join the IYSSE in the fight for a socialist future against war, dictatorship and social devastation! - Students in Türkiye and around the world are returning to school amid an intensifying wave of war, dictatorship and social devastation. At the same time, s...
Alternet

Trump hits 93-year low in longtime GOP stronghold: CNN data expert - President Donald *Trump’s* approval rating in the longtime Republican stronghold of Kansas has fallen to a level not seen in roughly 93 years, as the GOP...
Novara Media

Burnham Scraps Starmer-Era Plans to Roll Back Jury Trials - Andy Burnham’s government has scrapped plans to curb jury trials, after months of outcry from lawyers, MPs and the public. New justice secretary Alex Norr...
El Paso Matters

Analysis: Poll suggests El Paso Republicans are shedding their 2024 gains - A poll of El Paso County adults suggests Republicans’ 2024 gains are fading, with Democrats holding roughly 2-to-1 leads in the U.S. Senate and governor...
Mediagazer

Sources: despite saying in July that its 2027 Super Bowl ad inventory is sold out, Disney is seeking $10M-$12M per 30-second spot plus matching ad commitments (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - Brian Steinberg / Variety: *Sources: despite saying in July that its 2027 Super Bowl ad inventory is sold out, Disney is seeking $10M-$12M per 30-second ...
Raw Story

'I don't get it': GOP bewildered as Trump rallies in states that aren't even competitive - President Donald Trump is opening the final weeks of the midterm campaign on defense. The 80-year-old president is rallying in deep-red states where Repu...
Mediaite

Democratic Attorney Argues Trump Could Run in 2028 and Serve Third Term - Mehlhorn warned the question would not necessarily be what the 22nd Amendment says, but who would actually enforce it if Trump secured the GOP nomination...
Mondoweiss

The trial and humiliation of Sami Abu Shehadeh - [image: Former MK Sami Abu Shehadeh casting his ballot at a polling station during the 2022 Israeli general election, Jaffa, November 1, 2022. (Photo: Saee...
Scheerpost.com

Thoughts on the Mass Rape at Cornell University - Chris Hedges ScheerPost I had a brief experience with a fraternity at Cornell University. I was a senior in high school. I stayed in a frat for a weekend w...
OpEd News

Three years that changed the world and more - Three years of accelerated genocide will be marked 7 October. The murderous campaign to ethnically cleanse our country still goes on. The satellite images ...
Texas Observer

It’s Time for the Catholic Church to Distribute the Loaves - I was 7 years old the first time I put on the vestments. White surplice over red cassock, the fabric stiff and foreign against skin that was more accusto...
Undernews

Republicans questioning Hegseth's reduction of admirals and generals - *The Hill - *Key Republican senators say they were blindsided by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announced 20 percent reduction of the U.S. military’s g...
The Root

One Year After Her Passing, Isaiah Washington Reveals Shocking News of His Wife’s Death - Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Isaiah Washington is breaking his silence and revealing some heartbreaking news about his wife in a new post. Read more...
Election Law Blog

Jim Gardner: “Reflections on the State of U.S. Election Law” - The following is a guest post from Jim Gardner: Nearly thirty years ago, our esteemed blog moderator organized a symposium on “Election Law as Its Own Fi...
Independent Political Report

Maryland Third Party Candidates Decry Exclusion From Sole Gubernatorial Debate - *This article was originally published by Maryland Matters on October 5, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
Democracy Now!

Meet Issa Amro: Palestinian Human Rights Advocate Attacked by Settlers, Detained by Israeli Army - We speak with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro after he was detained at an Israeli military base for seven hours on Friday. Amro, the founder of...
Rewire

Americans of All Ages Want More Federal Help With Childcare Costs. Gen Z Most of All. - New polling from The 19th and YouGov found that support for child care spending was particularly strong among Gen Z, reflecting how affordability shapes th...
Vox

What color is a tennis ball? - A while back, I was at physical therapy, and the topic of tennis came up. Someone said something about yellow tennis balls, and I was like… “What? They’re ...
The Smirking Chimp

The Central Question of Power in America -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - While I’ve been a longtime supporter of Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, this year is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of voting for her, as I was moved from CD18...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio school communities pushed for new traffic safety measures. Here’s how the city responded. - San Antonio schools can request new city traffic signs, but the process can be an uphill battle for requesters — often concerned parents. ------------------...
ProPublica

How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours - The post How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours appeared first on ProPublica.
Axios

A Trump-sized shadow looms over the Supreme Court's new term - The Supreme Court's next chapter begins Monday, with the justices set to decide key questions involving President Trump's immigration agenda, climate-chan...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Gas power plant proposals surging, new interactive map shows - Proposals for grid-connected natural gas power plants have tripled since early 2023, driven largely by rising power demand for data centers. The post REL...
High Country News

Native nations sue over Endangered Species Act changes - [image: Steve Edwards, chairman of the Swinomish Tribal Community at Lone Tree Point, on the Swinomish Reservation in Washington.] Environmental work bein...
Consortium News

Australian Island Base’s Hidden US Military Role - Australia’s Cocos Islands territory is being converted to support US military operations, writes Peter Cronau. By Peter Cronau Declassified Australia Aust...
Portside

Sunday Science: Superpowers Race To Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon - Sunday Science: Superpowers Race To Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon Ira Mon, 10/05/2026 - 01:54
The Week

Cape Town seeks solution to its baboon problem - City plans to remove wild animals have sparked protests, and could even affect upcoming local elections
jobsanger

Texas Is A State Republicans Cannot Afford To Turn Blue -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3414: Bone Music - Episode: 3414 In which bootleg music rides on X-rays. Today, Bone Music.
Informed Comment

Hormuz: As Global Gas Crisis Unfolds, Qatar extends Force Majeure - Nor is the Strait of Hormuz likely to become less strategically important any time soon,
Polygraph (global fact-check)

British lawmaker calls for audit after U.S. charges tech executives with concealing company's Russian ownership - Alexandria, Virginia — Editor's note: this story was translated from two original VOA Russian articles that were combined [article 1, article 2]. A British...
Liberation News

Family of Tierra Walker, killed by Texas abortion ban, sues Gov. Ken Paxton - Texas's abortion ban is killing women.
The Greanville Post

Max Blumenthal : Trump’s Deranged UN Threats - AN—In this episode of Judging Freedom, Judge Andrew Napolitano and guest Max Blumenthal, Editor-in-Chief of The Grayzone, discuss and criticize Donald Trum...
Antiwar.com

How ‘Never Again’ Lost Meaning in Gaza - Looking across the devastated landscape of the Gaza Strip, where surviving generations now carry the permanent physical and psychological scars of war, the...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheri...
Deadline Politics

White House Slams Chuck Lorre’s “Peanut-Sized Brain” After He Roasts Trump: “Immediately Seek Psychiatric Help” - Following his blistering onstage jokes about Trump last weekend, the White House has issued a response to Chuck Lorre. On Saturday, White House spokesperso...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 04, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 04, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Impeaching Trump Won’t End the Rolling Coup. The Root Has a 250-Year Plan. Republic...
Popular Resistance

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates Machinery Of Authoritarianism - The legacy of Nuremberg is with us once again, less as a reminder of the power of the legal system to punish those who enabled and enacted the horrors of...
IVN

New CA Poll: Voter ID Measure Leads Today. Its Undecided Voters Point the Other Way - A new California poll shows Prop. 39 has a narrow lead among likely voters, but undecided voters—mostly Democrats—could swing the race either way. An analy...
MintPress News

Iran Strikes Vital Facilities As Evidence Emerges Of US Invasion Preparations - Oil facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have again been struck by ballistic missiles and drones, while evidence has emerged that the ...
The Verge

NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment - New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and r...
Slate

I’m a 38-Year-Old Virgin. Everyone Freaks Out When I Tell Them the Reason Why. - I'm fine with who I am. Why aren't they?
WhoWhatWhy

Triptych for B, Part I: An End To Grieving - [image: Theseus, Pakthenon, Handbook of Archaeology] When tears begin to dry Triptych for B, Part I: An End To Grieving originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
First Draft

Marathon Man (1976) - A movie that poses the question: Is it safe? Starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, and Marthe Keller. Directed by John S...
The Daily Poster

Lever Weekly: Forever Chemicals, Never Trumpers, Always Wall Street - Toxic waste skips town, neocons cross party lines, Wall Street pockets your interest, and more from The Lever this week.
Angry Bear

New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for September 28 – October 2 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. When looking at the economy, you have to put your ideological priors aside. M...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: What We’re Reading: Architecture, Rasquachismo & Zines - Glasstire’s William Sarradet and Nicholas Frank discuss new books on Texas art and architecture, talk about the dialogue between minimalism and rasquachi...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
The Progressive Wing

10/4 – 10/5 News Roundup & Open Thread - 800 Texans in deep-red Longview, TX showed up to demand change, save our Texas public schools and secure the American Dream. More news, videos, candidat...
Crooked Media

Deep State Rebels v. Trump (with Michael Lewis) - The post Deep State Rebels v. Trump (with Michael Lewis) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

A Wild Week for 10-Year & 30-Year Treasury Yields! Is there Blood in the Streets yet? Is it Good Enough for me to Nibble? - Some thoughts on how I'm easing back into a bond portfolio after 14 years of interest-rate repression.
The NM Political Report

In social post, Trump endorses Cunningham, mispronounces Vasquez’s name and doubles down on renaming New Mexico - [image: Twitter, Trump Post] By Pat Davis, New Mexico Political Report — President Donald Trump officially endorsed Republican Greg Cunningham’s bid for C...
LareDOS

Journey, the movie – an indie immigrant-themed film shot partially in Laredo premiers Oct. 2 at Alamo Drafthouse; four screenings through Oct. 4 - Assistant producer Karen Gaytan and other local crew and cast on hand for Q & A Oct. 2 and 3
Church and State

Trump’s $500 Checks Reveal the GOP’s “Billionaire Theory of Democracy”: Everything Has a Price - According to the White House, over the next few days about a million Americans will get a check for $500 in the mail.
slacktivist

LBCF: Fire-breathing Martians - We were promised that the Two Witnesses would literally breathe fire. But then they don't literally breathe fire. I am disappointed.
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Earthworks

Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassment Limit Reporting on Harita’s Nickel Operations in Indonesia - In 2025, I sat locked in a room in a private home as military officials camped on the front porch. The post Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassm...
Socialist Alternative

“We’re Coming For You & Your Rotten System”: Ten Years Of Socialist Alternative’s Revolutionary Socialist Council Seat - Years before Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Zohran Mamdani were household names, Socialist Alternative and our member Kshama Sawant shook the Seattle establishme...
Progressive.org

Remembering Wendell Berry - Berry was bighearted, ever open to other people, passionate about what he believed, and accustomed to being misunderstood.
Bracing Views

We’re #1! - At Needless Wars, Weapons Exports, and Threatening Annihilation BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2026 Americans like to think we live in the best country in the world. ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

INVITATION: Rethinking Schools 40th Anniversary Celebration, Monday October 5th, Workers Defense Project at 5:30 PM CST - * Friends:* *For forty years, Rethinking Schools has been so much more than a publication. It has been a source of courage, imagination, intellectual no...
The Conversation

White nationalism’s appeal runs deeper than partisan politics - Nearly 1 in 7 white men under 30 in the US support white nationalism, and partisanship alone doesn’t explain who’s drawn to it.
Debunking Christianity

If Devout Christians Don’t Love Reading the Gospels… - *How do they feel about the letters of Paul?* Many years ago, I met a devout Catholic woman who bragged—during out first meeting—that she had seen the B...
Two Party Opera

The Little Magician - Read More
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 2, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 2, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/02/2026 - 04:52 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Icosahedral Weave - I spent an inordinately long time designing this model in 2024, so let me talk about it. In modular origami, there are many models that have exactly 30 uni...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The United States of Enshittification: AI and the Flattened Future - The purpose isn’t progress. It’s profit for less.
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-trans grifter Riley Gaines suffers major court loss against NCAA - Riley Gaines From the online publication them: A federal judge dismissed Riley Gaines’ lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Venezuela Coup & Iran War Part of Neo-Colonialism Tyranny! - If there ever was any doubt about the fact that our government is behaving like the biggest criminal organization in the world Trump's obvious behavior,...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding. - The ACLU argued in court that Trump administration officials broke the law by defying a judge’s order and sending 100 Venezuelan men to a notoriously bruta...
Ecosophia

Notes on Magical Geography - As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth ...
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Vote This November To Keep Marijuana Legal in Massachusetts - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]This campaign is not about promoting the health and safety ...
Krebs on Security

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hac...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Duck of Minerva

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
Discourse

The World Ed Sheeran Wants to Live in No Longer Exists (w/Katherine Krueger) - Plus: A touching tribute from Project Mohammed
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Life as a Thought Criminal - What follows is a timeline of events that have transpired since I published The Rise of The New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021),...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Web of Debt

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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)

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