Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Undernews

Stunning crime crash - *Axios *
Houston Public Media

Chip Roy, Mayes Middleton leading Texas attorney general GOP primary in new poll - The poll, released Wednesday, also showed Sid Miller and Don Huffines with comfortable leads in their Republican primary bids for agriculture commissioner ...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Is this "Trump is stuck in 1987" or "rich coal guy gave him a billion bucks."
Raw Story

Europe set to 'circumvent America' as they do not trust Trump after 'betrayal': analysis - European nations may be set to freeze out the United States following Donald Trump's push to take control of Greenland, a political commentator has claim...
Bonddad

January jobs report: superb monthly gains, but the birds came home to roost for 2025 - - *by New Deal democrat* This is the month the birds came home to roost, at least for the year 2025. While the month over month numbers were almost a...
ArcaMax

The Country at a Crossroads - There are no innocent bystanders in Donald Trump's America. Seeing what we've seen lately -- blood spilled in snow, and a vile post depicting a former pres...
Futurism

Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs - "The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it." The post Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs appeared first on Futurism.
Deadline Politics

U.S. Added 130,000 Jobs In January As Hiring Picks Up; Showbiz Sees Employment Increase - The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, above expectations, following a year of paltry employment growth. The unemployment rate was 4.3%, largely unchanged...
Mediaite

Trump Falsely Claims ‘I’m Popular’ in Fox Interview — Says His Economy ‘Greatest Ever in History Actually’ - President Donald Trump declared "I'm popular" and his economy the "greatest ever in history" on Fox — even as he polls in the 30's on both counts. The po...
First Draft

Nobody Expects The Spanish Inquistion - Republican House members are now investigating the Super Bowl halftime show because it's like Spanish has a different word for everything.
The Hill

Mad Emperor Trump declares war on the air - Trump’s decision to undercut the Clean Air Act has the potential to harm millions of Americans, including many of the red-state voters who got him elected.
El Paso Matters

El Paso Museum of Art reopens, Black History Month speaker series continues - From the El Paso Museum of Art’s grand reopening to Black History Month talks downtown, here’s a look at culture, civic events and performances happenin...
SCOTUSblog

SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, February 11 - “It takes a while to write.” No, that’s not what I said when my editor asked me when I would finish this edition of SCOTUStoday, it is what Justice Ketan...
memeorandum

U.S. payrolls rose by 130,000 in January, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.3% (Jeff Cox/CNBC) - Jeff Cox / CNBC: *U.S. payrolls rose by 130,000 in January, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.3%* — Job growth was stronger than expected to s...
The Conversation

Martha Washington’s enslaved maid Ona Judge made a daring escape to freedom – but the National Park Service has erased her story from Philadelphia exhibit - Ona Judge was one of 9 people George Washington owned when he lived in the President’s House in Philadelphia.
Vox

One of America’s best foreign aid programs is back from the dead - Every great new discovery has to start somewhere. Penicillin was born out of moldy petri dishes followed by years of experimental testing. The Spice Girls...
The Week

The UK expands its Hong Kong visa scheme - Around 26,000 additional arrivals expected in the UK as government widens eligibility in response to crackdown on rights in former colony
Election Law Blog

“Filibuster fight comes full circle as GOP faces internal pressure on elections bill” - From Politico: Senate Republicans are facing a full-circle moment on the filibuster. Four years ago, the GOP stood united against a failed attempt by Dem...
The Verge

El Paso flights grounded 10 days for ‘special security reasons’ - The Federal Aviation Administration has closed the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, grounding all flights in and out of the airport ...
Crooked Timber

The Stone Pillars of the Sons of Seth - Now this Seth… did leave children behind him who imitated his virtues…. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned wit...
Dissident Voice

The Epstein/MAGA World as the Will to Power - Dream of the sadist, Otto Dix The Epstein abominations, to state the obvious, are revealing, in lurid detail, hidden in plain sight, unnerving aspects of...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Tries to Take DOJ Weaponization to the Next Level… and Fails - [image: Mark Kelly, Glendale, AZ] A grand jury refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers for reminding US troops that they do not have to follow illegal o...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US union elections declined in 2025 after Trump hobbled labor board - Both the number of workers participating in union elections and the success of elections dropped off The number of union elections overseen by the Nation...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Hump Day Revisited - We’re coming up on another obligatory non-holiday which you have to observe but for which you don’t get time off. Blazek is right that the apostrophe belon...
Space City Weather

A weak front sags into Houston today, and on Valentine’s Day will Houston say ‘Be mine’ to rainfall? - In brief: In today’s update we discuss a weak front that will work its way into Houston today. We also look ahead to a soggy Valentine’s Day, and then ampl...
Rallblog

Cuba on the Ropes | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Lust for Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Faces Harsh Arctic Realities - This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has been voicing ...
Mediagazer

In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette) - Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: *In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacki...
Earth 911

How Smart Lighting Can Cut Energy Waste in Commercial Buildings - Smart lighting is a type of intelligent lighting system that uses sensors, automation, and connected... The post How Smart Lighting Can Cut Energy Waste ...
naked capitalism

Links 2/11/2026 - /a>
Salon.com

Evangelicals won’t dump Trump over his racist Obama video - A few spoke out, but most right-wing Christians quietly support the president's ugly views
Axios

Unusual FAA restriction closes El Paso airspace for 10 days - A 10-mile ring of airspace centered on El Paso, Texas, is effectively closed to aircraft for the next 10 days after the Federal Aviation Administration i...
Skeptophilia

Watching the clock - If I had to pick the scientific law that is the most misunderstood by the general public, it would have to be the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The First L...
Scheerpost.com

Mexico Sends Shipment of Humanitarian Aid to Cuba - Hundreds of tons of food were sent from the port of Veracruz to the island as the island faces one of its most critical challenges. Mexico also promised to...
Al Jazeera English

The USS Honduras sets sail again - Honduras is slipping back into Washington’s imperial orbit.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Jarvis Johnson - I’ve said before that the Republican-pushed mid-decade redistricting was partly about getting more Republican seats in Congress, but also partly about redu...
San Antonio Report

‘A new way forward’: SAISD lays out consolidation, growth plan - San Antonio's mayor tied the state of SAISD to the city's future at at state of the district event on Tuesday. ------------------------------ ‘A new way for...
Countercurrents

Thirty Is Not a Deadline: The Silent Anxiety of Arranged Marriage - A woman’s thirtieth birthday is often overlooked in many households. There is oversight. The cake has been cut. We have extinguished the candles. People ex...
The Daily Poster

Empty Warehouses, Secret Deals: Insiders Poised To Profit From Trump’s Deportation Boom - As the Trump administration hunts for massive detention sites, politically connected real estate brokers are lining up to benefit.
ProPublica

As Helene Survivors Wait for State Help, Some Victims of Earlier Hurricanes Are Still Out of Their Homes - The post As Helene Survivors Wait for State Help, Some Victims of Earlier Hurricanes Are Still Out of Their Homes appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development - For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
The Root

Jaafar Jackson Opens Up About Playing His Uncle in New Michael Jackson Biopic - The late Michael Jackson's very own nephew Jaafar Jackson speaks out about embodying him in the upcoming, highly-anticipated biopic 'Michael.' Read more...
High Country News

The coming failure of Glen Canyon Dam - As Colorado River negotiations build toward a Feb. 14 deadline, few are talking about design flaws in the dam that holds back Lake Powell. The post The ...
Slate

Coalie Has Been Derided as Cuddly Propaganda. His Origin Story Is More Complicated. - Why is the government trying to make coal cute?
Crooked Media

Will Epstein Files Take Down the British Government? - The post Will Epstein Files Take Down the British Government? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

Israel ‘Evaporated’ Nearly 3,000 Palestinians in Gaza - “We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part,” Gaza resident Yasmin Mahani told Al Jazeera. By Brad Reed Common Dreams An ...
Counterpunch

Trump’s Politics and a Declining US Capitalism in 2026 - A year into Trump’s second term clarifies what his presidency aims to accomplish. On the one hand and widely overemphasized are his initiatives and their...
World Socialist Web Site

Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979 - On Monday, 6,400 educators went on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), setting up picket lines at 120 sites across the city.
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies in Q4 2025 - Americans and their Debts. Long-defaulted federal student loans, after coming out of the woodwork, whack delinquency rates.
jobsanger

The Largest Tax Increase As A Percent Of GDP Since 1993 -
Informed Comment

“Gently, Brother!” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:36 - That clay, and the things made of clay , bear traces of past people who died and became clay is a common theme in classical Persian poetry
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: February 2026 - This month, the ace journal club discussed an article about gender detachment. And I wrote an article on the game design of my game. Epstein Files Reveal ...
See You In 2020

The danger of revolutionary retreat, & the counter-offensive the workers must wage - The biggest threat facing the working class movement is a willing retreat by the labor and labor-aligned forces. This is apparent from how Shainbaum’s g...
Techdirt.

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now? - EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are...
Workers World

What Trump’s racist video reveals - [image: What Trump’s racist video reveals] There is absolutely no denying that Donald Trump is a bonafide white supremacist whose mission is to turn back t...
Courthouse News

Retiree jailed because of random phone number can proceed with malicious prosecution case - A federal judge agreed that a police detective failed to provide exculpatory evidence in his report, which led to the imprisonment of a man who had nothing...
Political Wire

Trump Suffers Big Loss in House Vote on Tariffs - The House rejected a procedural motion that would’ve blocked lawmakers from bringing up resolutions disapproving of President Trump’s tariff regime, a rebu...
Brad Blog

Trump's Presidency Now About Little More Than Racism, Corruption, Culture War Nonsense: 'BradCast' 2/10/2026 - We usually stay out of most of the "culture war" nonsense on The BradCast, because that's what most of it is: nonsense. Republicans love it, of course, bec...
Alternet

'Circular firing squad': Trump's Religious Liberty Commission derailed by 'infighting' - A recent meeting of President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission rapidly devolved into a shouting match between commission members over the issu...
Claytoonz

Worst Cupid Ever - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Student Walkouts, School Discipline, and Legal Guidance: “Please protest, but be smart about it," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Student Walkouts, School Discipline, and Legal Guidance: “Please protest, but be smart about it," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. *Wish permission to share, I a...
The Greanville Post

Pepe Escobar: Iran Forces US Navy to RETREAT, Trump in SHOCK as Russia & BRICS Step In - DH—Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss reports of US Navy in retreat as Iran's war maneuvers send Trump scrambling for a face saving move. Meanwhile, Ru...
Popular Resistance

Why The Jury Were Right To Acquit Palestine Action - Even before the trial began, the British government had done its utmost to prejudice the proceedings against six Palestine Action activists. It declared ...
Portside

“Ice Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti - “Ice Messed With the Wrong Profession”: The Country’s Largest Nurses’ Union Honors Alex Pretti Judy Tue, 02/10/2026 - 19:59
Capital & Main

New Mexico Again Debates Greenhouse Gas Reductions as Snow Melts - Lawmakers table bill to expand use of oilfield wastewater and shoot down another that would restrict drone use around “critical” infrastructure. The post...
Antiwar.com

Trump Should Revive the JCPOA To Prevent War With Iran - When Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States, he famously declared that his “proudest legacy will be that of a p...
CultureMap Houston

Heights restaurant celebrates Lunar New Year with epic barbecue collab - For many members of Houston’s Asian community, February is a time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. At *Agnes and Sherman*, the Asian American diner in the ...
The NM Political Report

Stansbury views unredacted Epstein files about New Mexico’s Zorro Ranch - “There aren’t words to describe what are in those files,” said Stansbury in a low, almost hushed, tone after emerging from a closed-door viewing of some...
San Antonio Current

Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Opeth, Pasatono Orquesta, Tish Hinojosa - [image: Sweden's prog-metal powerhouse Opeth will play the Majestic Theatre.] Southern music stalwarts Tab Benoit and Paul Thorn also will perform togeth...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

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

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

We're Still Figuring Out How Bad This Political 'Virus' Could Become - In this column, I draw an analogy between how we came to understand COVID and how we should try to understand how Trumpism works. To do so, I need to ta...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping s...
Second Nexus

Woman's Glowing Review Of Cream Cheese Goes Viral—But Not Because Of The Cream Cheese - Sometimes we come across something that's so good, and so much better than any other product of its kind, we just have to share it with the internet. We ...
Church and State

After or before the midterms will Trump be ousted using the 25th amendment? - Trump’s bizarre and treasonous behavior has now reached the point where there is growing commentary about his health.
Mondoweiss

The government-sanctioned persecution of Leqaa Kordia - [image: Leqaa Kordia]Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say ...
OpEd News

On the Road to Nuclear War - Although recent analyses and events reveal that the world is closer to nuclear war than ever before, it is still possible to turn things around and create ...
Bracing Views

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

What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) - What's Really Going on in Haiti Right Now? Featuring Jemima Pierre (& Lessons We Fail to Learn) bareditors Wed, 02/11/2026 - 01:35 Jemima Pierre, BAR Edito...
Novara Media

Wounded Starmer Survives After Begging MPs’ Forgiveness - The pressure continues to heap on Keir Starmer Plus: Wes Streeting reveals Mandelson Messages, an interview with Richard Sanders on Virginia Giuffre and th...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: One part of the miracle looks like this! - *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2026* *Black kids, fourth grade, reading:* Is the "Mississippi miracle" real? We aren't able to tell you. As we noted yesterday...
Ian Welsh

How Dependent Is Canada On The US? - This “issue” has flaired up again with as Trump attacks Canada again. The short answer is that in the short term Canada is moderately dependent on the US a...
The Grayzone

US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims - A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and ...
Environment Texas

Renewable energy accounts for 88% of new U.S. electrical capacity in 2025 - Solar has led all energy sources in new capacity additions for 27 consecutive months The post Renewable energy accounts for 88% of new U.S. electrical ca...
Common Dreams

Tennessee Valley Authority goes back on commitment to retire dirty coal plants - In an extremely disappointing reversal, the Tennessee Valley Authority announced it is planning to keep its Kingston and Cumberland coal plants operating...
Ballot Access News

Harold Meyerson, Editor-at-Large of The American Prospect, Says California Democrats Should Act Against Top-Two System - Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect, here writes that California Democratic legislators ought to work to repeal California’s top-two ...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #14: Analilia Mejia's Surprise NJ Win, WaPo Layoffs, and New Epst**n F*l*s (w/Paul Blest) - Paul is back to kick-off the midterms with a bang.
Earthworks

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

Vindictive Federalism - For decades, national policies have compelled states to pare back eligibility and benefits for social programs. Under Trump, federal austerity has become...
Texas Standard

Sen. John Cornyn battles for political life in GOP primary contest with AG Ken Paxton, US Rep. Wesley Hunt - Cornyn is seeking Texas Republicans’ nomination for a fifth term in a contest that has seen bitter and expensive attacks on all sides. A new poll shows Pax...
Glasstire

Centro de Artes Announces Open Call for Exhibitions in 2028 & Beyond - Centro de Artes in San Antonio has announced its triennial open call for exhibition proposals, beginning in the 2028 season. The spacious, two-story gall...
Texas Observer

Local Environmental Groups Are Still Reeling from Trump’s DOGE Cuts - Toward the end of last February, as a chilly Dallas winter began to warm into a balmy Texas spring, Caleb Roberts hopped online to transfer federal funds...
DeSmogBlog

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

As EPA Weakens Air Pollution Regulations, Black Women Stand to Face the Greatest Health Risks - They already face the highest rates of asthma-related mortality in the nation. Dirtier air will make that worse. The post As EPA Weakens Air Pollution Re...
Democracy Now!

"I Have Never Felt So Much Fear": Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX - A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as bein...
Angry Bear

When does Accountability Come Into Play? - A picture came with this article by Dan Rather. I do not believe I need the picture of the two accused who more likely than not played a part in the scan...
The AltWorld

US-China AI Race: Automated Domination vs. Abundance - I listen to supposedly “smart” people in the West talk about the US-China AI race who repeatedly […] The post US-China AI Race: Automated Domination vs. ...
The Smirking Chimp

Clown Car Presidency’: Trump Mocked After Threatening Canada in Social Media Meltdown -
NPR's Health Shots

This complex brain network may explain many of Parkinson's stranger symptoms - Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 10 February 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the food video post, click here.] ...
LareDOS

Dan Clouse memorializes the small town milieu that was Laredo, the place that formed us - Nostalgia is complicated
Land Destroyer

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

'Republicans want nothing to do with effort to ban gay marriage' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Republicans Want Nothing to Do With Conservative Efforts to Ban Gay Marriage *- *This isn't surprising seeing how popular gay marriage (same-sex marri...
Independent Political Report

Texas Forward Party Appoints New County Chairs in Cameron and Harris Counties - The Texas Forward Party has named two new county chairs, appointing civic leader Ciara Perez as Cameron County Chair and attorney John Flud as Harris Cou...
Alas, a Blog

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

A Steep Rise In Texas Immigration Cases - Last year, two districts in Texas – the Southern and Western District – recorded 25,506 immigration criminal case, breaking all previous records. And that ...
Green Pages News

Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth - Author’s Note: This essay was originally published in New Green Horizons on November 9, 2025. A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the Uni...
Sludge

Companies ‘Honor’ Trump With Kennedy Center Donations - From defense to oil to tech, new companies are supporting the Kennedy Center since Trump’s takeover while others are revising their disclosure practices to...
Progressive.org

The Real Threat to Arctic Security - Conflict in the Arctic is entirely avoidable and unnecessary.
MintPress News

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

Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda - First up, Mickey and Eleanor dive into some critical media literacy, including AI-generated videos and images that ping our confirmation biases, making i...
The Progressive Wing

2/9-10 News Roundup & Open Thread - More News, videos, etc. in the comments.
TalkLeft

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

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

Here is a Visual of the Book "God and Horrendous Suffering" - In case you need a visual this is a very B.I.G. book! 600+ pages! Just released! You’ll get your money's worth. Get it. Review it. Laud it. Praise it. L...
Liberation News

Remembering the Wilmington 10 - We honor Black student activists who dared to organize to fight segregation and racial injustice, despite intimidation and state-sanctioned violence!
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LEMON, IT'S WEDNESDAY EDITION. - *Sabor.* Here’s where I'd repeat the 30 Rock What A Week joke except I assume even people who never saw the show know that one by now because every week i...
Socialist Alternative

Union Leaders Call For Nationwide General Strike—All Out To Get Strike Ready - “We all have to be preparing for a general strike. We all have to be focusing on strike readiness. This is the fundamental check on capitalism. The greates...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How We Would Rate the Democrats’ Proposed Virginia Gerrymander - Virginia Democrats finally unveiled a proposed partisan gerrymander on Thursday night that is intended to elect 10 Democrats and 1 Republican if implemen...
NORML

Study: Fewer Cannabis-Related School Disciplinary Incidents Following Legalization - [image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo][image: A group of smiling teens poses outdoors for a photo]"These findings reinforce the rea...
The Militant

Fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! - Unions help build Minneapolis protests to unite working clas MINNEAPOLIS — Across the country last week unionists, high school students and others marched ...
Greg Palast

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

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

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

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

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

On the Education of Desire - As I mentioned a little over a month ago, the competition over which theme would get the fifth Wednesday post in December was almost unparalleled in the en...
nonsite.org

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

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Progressives Chat

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

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The Disorder Of Things

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

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

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

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

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Unlimited Hangout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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