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

Eschaton

Sunday Happy Hour - Almost Monday.
OpEd News

The Psychology of the Traveler - Escaping from horrendous reality again, briefly, I'm reprinting an essay I wrote in 1998 about the joys of travel.
Raw Story

'Crime is not out of control': Fox News pundit fact-checks Trump on D.C. takeover - Fox News contributor Ted Williams, a former member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, challenged President Donald Trump ahead of a po...
memeorandum

US Ambassador to NATO: 'It's possible' Zelensky will attend Trump-Putin summit (Dana Bash/CNN) - Dana Bash / CNN: *US Ambassador to NATO: 'It's possible' Zelensky will attend Trump-Putin summit* — US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker discusses th...
See You In 2020

We’ll only defeat the Israel lobby by following the lead of Palestine’s revolutionary forces - This July, the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions put out a statement titled “A Cry Before Death.” To the world’s working masses, the Federati...
The Hill

Netanyahu: Israel has 'no choice' but to escalate Gaza offensive - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel has “no choice” but to escalate its offensive in Gaza as his country faces heightened cri...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Court overrides Trump officials’ rollback and blocks fishing in Pacific Islands monument - Judge in Hawaii rules that commercial fishing is illegal in federally protected area in the central Pacific Ocean A federal judge in Hawaii has ruled tha...
Mediagazer

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000+ from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut) - Charlotte Klein / The Cut: *How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000+ from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit c...
Courthouse News

$7K worth of Labubu dolls stolen from Los Angeles store, authorities say - LOS ANGELES (AP) — A group of masked thieves stole about $7,000 worth of Labubu dolls from a Los Angeles-area store this week, authorities said. The incide...
Mediaite

NATO Chief Insists Trump ‘Absolutely Adamant’ on Ending Ukraine War, Keeping Pressure on Putin at Summit - NATO Secretary General Rutte told Jon Karl repeatedly he has high confidence in Trump ahead of the summit with Russia to keep up pressure on Ukraine. Th...
Political Wire

FBI Dispatches Agents to D.C. Streets - “The FBI has taken the unusual step of dispatching as many as 120 of its agents to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Wash...
Salon.com

From Times Square to Montana, shootings reveal ongoing U.S. gun crisis - Conspiracy-fueled violence and nationwide mass shootings in 10 days highlight ongoing gun violence challenges
Daily Cartoonist

Schulz and Schultz Previews; plus a Schultze Revue - The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz by Mark Evanier For many of us, the best part of waking up on Sunday morning wasn’t a cup of Folger’s, but the S...
Ballot Access News

Georgia Legislative Committee Hears Testimony on the Need to Ease Ballot Access - This month, the Georgia House Election Law Study Committee has been holding public hearings in various cities. Libertarian activist Sergio Ortega has spoke...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Arianity with a comment about how RFK Jr. approaches things: He is literally a eugenicist. If y...
Axios

Trump tells homeless people in D.C. to move out "IMMEDIATELY" amid capital crackdown - President Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric about crime and homelessness in Washington, D.C., Sunday, telling homeless individuals to immediately "move out...
Election Law Blog

David Shor, Data Analyst for Democrats, with Current and 2022 Posts on Gerrymandering v. Other Voting Issues - The post David Shor, Data Analyst for Democrats, with Current and 2022 Posts on Gerrymandering v. Other Voting Issues appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for August 10 - “Is the Government Still Collecting Inflation Data?” “How a Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went From Obscurity to the Top of Substack”. “A display at the ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: August 2025 - I don’t have many links this time, and all videos. If you’re one of the readers who doesn’t watch videos, you can skip this one. The Physics of Dissonance...
Alternet

'I truly wish I had not': Trump voter regrets support after seeing high medication costs - While polls indicate that a majority of President Donald Trump's voters remain steadfast in their support, a notable portion is beginning to express regr...
Al Jazeera English

What’s the fallout from a peace deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia? - The US brokered the agreement, giving it leverage and business opportunities.
Daily Dot

“90% air”: 15 examples of sneakflation pilfering your bank account - [image: sneakflation examples] As inflation continues, companies are pulling out all the stops to suck more cash out of consumers without directly raisin...
World Socialist Web Site

Lebanese government agrees to US diktat to disarm Hezbollah - Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s cabinet has publicly committed to disarming Hezbollah, in a move that threatens explosive consequences for Lebanon.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Creating Meaning and Purpose to Fight Capitalism: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're not just facing a political battle. Our present moment requires us to reinvigorate a sense of calling and belonging
Mother Jones

No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC - A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded, squalid...
Undernews

Trump fiction and facts - [image: Image] In 2024 DC ranked as the 20th most dangerous US city
Claytoonz

Gerrymanderberger - 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...
Slate

I Came Home Early From Work. What I Learned About My Husband Shattered Everything. - I don't know how to move past this.
San Antonio Report

Charter school expands culinary program with Chef Johnny Hernandez’s old food truck - Culinary-track high school students at Jubilee Lake View University Prep can now get more hands-on learning with a brand new industrial-grade kitchen and f...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- science fiction as art - No explosions, no quasi-supernatural nonsense, no superheroes with silly powers -- just the perhaps paradoxical combination of realism and beauty. I doub...
Liberation News

Don Freeman: Revolutionary educator and resolute fighter for Black liberation - Don Freeman, a lifelong educator and revolutionary giant, has died at the age of 86.
Futurism

Scientists Just Figured Out Exactly How People Judge Your Body Count - It's no surprise that our partners judge us for how many people we've had sex with — but a new study suggests that there are key factors that may impact ...
The Verge

7 password managers to help keep your apps safe - Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passke...
The Week

Too big to recycle | August 10 editorial cartoons - Sunday's political cartoons include a global plastics problem, GOP enthusiasm over tariffs, and more
Crooked Timber

BBC Radio Abroad - One evening last week, having woken up earlier and, as usual, turned on the Jeremy Vine show (with guest host), I turned, again, to BBC Sounds to find… not...
Reform Austin

Best Things to Do in Houston: A Local & Visitor-Friendly Guide - Houston isn’t just Texas’s largest city—it’s a dynamic blend of space-age innovation, diverse food culture, and green urban escapes. Whether you’re here ...
El Paso Matters

A large part of all U.S.-grown pecans come from the El Paso region. Could drought, rising heat change that? - Inside El Paso’s pecan industry: From the Upper Valley’s Ulmer farms to the Iveys in the Lower Valley – and how Texas A&M Agri-Life is working to keep f...
Rio Grande Guardian

Milliken Garza: History in the making: Texas Commission on the Arts is coming to Brownsville - The aim is to have Brownsville - the second most historic city in Texas - officially recognized as a Cultural District. The post Milliken Garza: History ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'All's Well' Toons - (Cain --- who played Superman on TV, plays a human on Fox "News", and claims to have just joined ICE --- is of Japanese heritage. During World War II, his ...
Mondoweiss

Seeking a Presbyterian witness amid the genocide in Gaza - [image: Palestinians inspect the site of a morning Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, August 8, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]More Presbyter...
Bracing Views

War in Somalia - I need to get smart on this BILL ASTORE AUG 07, 2025 With an ongoing genocide in Gaza and a dangerous war between Russia and Ukraine, who has the time to l...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Talking Garments, Fashion & Craft Schools with Ashley Lee - William Sarradet talks with Dallas-based fashion designer Ashley Lee about fashion, textile works, and how to approach craft schools across Texas. “The l...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Frequent Liar Miles - Big Brother in the sky, Wall Street's retirement fund, and more from The Lever this week.
Grist

Offshore wind leasing is officially dead under Trump - Over 3.5 million acres of federal waters are no longer eligible for offshore wind development following an order from the Interior Department.
First Draft

The Harder They Fall (1956) - Starring Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, and Mike Lane. Directed by Mark Robson. Screenplay by Philip Yordan. Based on the novel by Budd Schulb...
WhoWhatWhy

Without Facts on His Side, Trump Turns to Anecdotes to Justify Policies - [image: Metropolitan Police, Capital Jewish Museum, shooting] With science, facts, and reality often not on their side, Donald Trump and his supporters tur...
Vox

We’re hardwired for negativity. That doesn’t mean we’re doomed to it. - Over the past week or so, the US economy took a major hit, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was no longer in the business of caring ab...
NPR's Health Shots

A writer learns to embrace her imperfect recovery from an eating disorder - In a new book, Mallary Tenore Tarpley says she's learned to reject perfectionism when it comes to recovery and accept her slip-ups as part of a messy "midd...
naked capitalism

Links 8/10/2025 -
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me."
The Smirking Chimp

Myopia on the Left: Let's Not Do the Billionaires' Work for Them -
Scheerpost.com

Trump Authorized Military Operations on Foreign Soil to Target Latin American Cartels - Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a $50 million bounty on the Venezuelan President Maduro and said the US was prepared to crack down on cartels
The Root

The Best Dressed Kids Of Black Celebrities - After looking at the best-dressed Black celebrities this summer, it's time to take a look at the best-dressed celebrity kids. Read more...
Crooked Media

Pete Buttigieg Thinks Democrats Can’t Go Back - The post Pete Buttigieg Thinks Democrats Can’t Go Back appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

French Nuclear Power’s “Crazy Gamble” - The Hague nuclear plant. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.5 The Hague nuclear plant. Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.5 The Hague nuclear plant. Wikimedia Comm...
jobsanger

Why is The U.S. Tearing Down The Economic Order It Built? -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1421: Rocket Boys - Episode: 1421 The Rocket Boys, a moving story of adolescence and engineering. Today, a book with a surprising subtext.
Informed Comment

Protesting Gaza War, Massive Crowds Shut down Tel Aviv, Storm TV Station, Call for General Strike - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Rubaie Sawaid, writing for the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, reports that on Saturday enormous crows demonstrated in Israel aga...
The AltWorld

Debating Israel Supporters Is Pointless, Because They Don’t Care About Facts Or Morality - If you follow me on Twitter you’ve probably seen me engaging with Israel supporters to address their arguments, but […] The post Debating Israel Supporte...
Popular Resistance

Government Officials Who Push Button Of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should - For the past five days I have been in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombi...
Portside

Violence Deconstructed: Hysteria Over Zohran Mamdani’s Crime Platform Is Rooted in Lie That Cops Make Women Safer - Violence Deconstructed: Hysteria Over Zohran Mamdani’s Crime Platform Is Rooted in Lie That Cops Make Women Safer Kurt Stand Sat, 08/09/2025 - 18:56
Dissident Voice

Water on Mars, Blood on Earth - Mars Missions vs Earth’s Thirst: NASA’s Perseverance rover cost $2.7 billion. The global space economy exceeds $500 billion annually. Meanwhile, the UN e...
CultureMap Houston

Pioneering Houston restaurant's impending closure leads our top stories - *Editor's note: The top Houston news of the week begins with two high-profile restaurant closures. But there are openings on the horizon, as well as a look...
The Militant

‘Working class in our millions must take the political power’ - SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for August 4 - 8 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There is a strong divergence between the high frequency data, which is ...
Angry Bear

BLS BS - Trump fired BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer for allegedly manipulating statistics to make him look bad. In support of the firing, he pointed to what he...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: We're going to start with the Numbers from Nowhere! - *SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2025* *But also, Pete Hegseth's pastor: *Stephen Moore has been around forever, ridiculed as perhaps a bit of an ersatz economist. ...
San Antonio Current

Judge blocks Beto O’Rourke from financially supporting Texas Democrats who left the state - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourk...
ArcaMax

The Case for Political Performance Ratings - Political opinions are like posteriors; with a few exceptions, everyone has one. And those opinions, like what comes out of rear ends, frequently look and ...
Skeptophilia

The cost of regret - One of the most tragicomic moments in my life happened at my twentieth high school reunion. I was painfully shy when I was young. I brought the concept of...
Consortium News

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Mystery of the Nagasaki Bomb - On Aug. 9, 1945, as Japan’s high command met on surrender plans, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki killing 74,000 people instantly, a decision tha...
Deadline Politics

WGA Toss Out Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar For Writing On HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’ During 2023 Strike - The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many expected due to the talent involved a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION. - *lol* Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie said, not yet. In ...
Workers World

Phony airliftsEU photo ops won’t stop Israeli-imposed famine - [image: Phony airliftsEU photo ops won’t stop Israeli-imposed famine] Faced with demonstrations, urgent appeals and growing mass outrage that permeates all...
Wolf Street

Government Sold $724 Billion of Treasuries this Week, Debt Hits $37.0 Trillion. Getting Ready for the Fed’s Shift to T-Bills - 10-year and 30-year yields rose after rough auctions, despite huge issuance of T-bills to take pressure off long-term yields.
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Texas Standard

Judge rules Beto O’Rourke can’t raise money for quorum-breaking Dems as Texas AG seeks their removal - Legislative activity continues to stall at the Capitol after more 50 Texas House Democrats fled the state to block a Republican-backed redistricting plan.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

What we’re talking about this week. - The post What we’re talking about this week. appeared first on D Magazine.
Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series - A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of J...
Common Dreams

Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Authoritarian and Anti-Democratic - As Texas Republicans continue attempting to force through a partisan redistricting plan at President Trump’s behest, *Public Citizen co-presidents Robert...
Capital & Main

When the Flames Came for an Altadena Church - A husband-and-wife ministry’s efforts to rebuild after a devastating wildfire reveal the fragile future of the area’s historically Black community. The ...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Luján tours New Mexico communities, criticizes GOP budget cuts - [image: Senator Luján toured the new Christus Regional Cancer Center and convened a listening session with hospital leadership, doctors, and stakeholders...
The Texas Signal

Republican Legal Threats Continue As Democrats Hold Strong - As Democrats have appeared alongside leaders of states like Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and California, Republicans in Texas are attempting to take l...
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...
Progressive.org

Let Voters, Not Politicians, Decide Elections - Nothing good can come from President Donald Trump’s redistricting arms race. What’s happening in Texas is a travesty for democracy.
American Prospect

UnitedHealth Merger Approval Again Shows Lobbyist Power - Today on TAP: Another merger settlement allows consolidation in health care; UnitedHealth’s lobbyist was MAGA’s biggest firm.
Sludge

DSCC Took Lobbyist Bundles From Firms Reaping Rewards Under Trump - Senate Democrats’ campaign arm quietly received donations in the first half of this year from lobbyists for Palantir, Andreessen Horowitz, and SpaceX, acco...
The Progressive Wing

8/8/2025-8/14/2025 News Roundup and Open Thread - The fact that she chose to be offended about them attacking her appearance instead of the puppy killing pretty much proves South Park’s point. — Visual Reb...
Second Nexus

People Reveal The Weirdest Thing Their Body Does That They Don't Understand - The body is an extraordinary thing. It's also a great mystery. We only get one body. Often, it feels like we could all use a spare. It breaks, it sha...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 13 - Learn more about Senate Bill 13, a bill censoring library materials, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Piping Plover - As we cruise toward the back half of summer, let’s give it up for this miraculous little beach bird.
The Grayzone

Israel’s govt issues ‘death sentence’ to remaining captives - Israel’s military leadership has acknowledged that full occupation of Gaza will cause the killing of the remaining captives. But Netanyahu’s government s...
The Conversation

3 reasons Republicans’ redistricting power grab might backfire - The attempt by Texas Republicans to gerrymander more GOP legislative districts could backfire and deliver the party dummymandered districts. A political sc...
NORML

NORML’s Facebook Was Hacked - [image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard][image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard]NORML's Meta account was compromised and the spam content you...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Israel Goes Full Gaza” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s the end of the week but there’s no end to the drama on “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou,” wh...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: A Plumber’s Art, Cowboys, and a Sea of Dimes - The post Strangest State: A Plumber’s Art, Cowboys, and a Sea of Dimes appeared first on The Texas Observer.
SCOTUSblog

Justice, democracy, and law - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 3 - *Matthew 6: Yet more deeply flawed Jesus-script * In my article here last week, I mentioned that the Sermon on the Mount is treasured by Christians as t...
Democracy Now!

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want "Accountability & Justice," Not Political Grandstanding - Jess Michaels lives with the PTSD from her 1991 assault by the serial sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She is part of a national chorus of voices calling on...
Dorf on Law

How the Hell To Teach Constitutional Law in 2025: Twenty Questions and No Answers - Constitutional law professors across the country are starting to prepare their syllabi for the upcoming year. At my school, we have two three-credit cour...
Rewire

Groups File Suit to Declare Montana’s Right to Abortion Is Unconstitutional - The state Supreme court rejected the "last-minute" argument, while groups say every amendment passed since 1978 has been "deficient." The post Groups Fil...
Space City Weather

A rather typical early August weekend awaits Houston while we take a detailed look at the tropics - In brief: Hot and humid weather with daily shower chances awaits Houston over the next several days, typical for August but perhaps encroaching on 100 degr...
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 ...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Becoming Nobody-But-Yourself - The poet e.e. cummings offered this advice to students but it applies to anyone who... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Becoming Nobody-But-Yourself appear...
ProPublica

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals - by David Armstrong, Eric Umansky and Vernal Coleman ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...
Progressive Army

La CERA detalla su agenda para impulsar la competitividad del sector y propone una Estrategia Nacional Exportadora - La Cámara de Exportadores de la República Argentina (CERA), una asociación civil sin fines de lucro con una trayectoria que se remonta a 1943, ha reafirmad...
High Country News

Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions - In the face of federal cuts, volunteers, businesses and others help keep programs afloat. The post Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions ...
Antiwar.com

Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide - Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a well-respected holy man in Israel with some devoted followers. He is a dayan, a judge in the rabbinical courts of Tel Aviv, dispe...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Slap in the face: Air Force to deny retirement pay to trans soldiers being kicked out by Trump Administration' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service* - *Just another way the Trump Administration is k...
Lowering the Bar

Constitution Deleted - [image: wayback machine image showing disappearing text]Is somebody practing for the big day?
Independent Political Report

Green Party Marks 80th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Renewed Call for Nuclear Disarmament - The Green Party of the United States commemorated the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this Thursday with a call for nuc...
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...
MintPress News

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent. The post Israe...
Unlimited Hangout

From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy - The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-...
Project Censored

The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment, and democracy. The detrimental combin...
DeSmogBlog

Farage and Vance ‘Sherpa’ Attacked ‘Ukraine Brain’ at Oil-Backed Festival - James Orr, an ally of Nigel Farage and JD Vance, accused the UK of adopting a “naive and dangerous” approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at an event ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Previewing the 2026 Secretary of State Races - About half the states will hold secretary of state elections next year, with key contests coming in presidential battlegrounds The post Previewing the 20...
Ecosophia

Talking Back to Flying Heads - As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is ...
Edinburg Politics

With key governments in South Texas using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, taking leadership role to stop use of such a practice by local politicians - With key governments in South Texas for years using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, is taking a leadership role to ...
Environment Texas

Austin’s $6.3 billion budget targets water, energy, and parks upgrades - Proposed FY 2026 plan boosts investments in clean energy, tree planting, wildfire preparedness, and water conservation amid financial constraints The pos...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
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...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
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...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
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...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

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Socialist Alternative

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Reveal

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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...
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Moron Majority

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Southeast Texas Record

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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The Disorder Of Things

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Texans For Public Justice

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Political Garbage Chute

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Free & Equal

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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, ...
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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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Equality Texas

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The Mind Unleashed

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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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The Intercept

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Texas Environmental News

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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One People's Project

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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.
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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.
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FiveThirtyEight.com

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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News Junkie

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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BillMoyers.com

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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Liberal America

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epic.org

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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

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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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Better Texas Blog

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Think 3 Institute

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The Metaphor Project

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Splinter

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