Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

US lawmakers introduce Justice for Hind Rajab Act -
The Guardian (U.S. news)

From Run Nation to Power Slap: what is leading the dumbing down of sports? - From violent collision contests to celebrity-backed offshoots, spin-off sports are finding captive audiences. Their spectacle masks something more sinist...
The Week

The week’s best photos - Connect the dots, tulip fields forever, and more
Countercurrents

Trump Unpunished For Killing 25.6 Million But Threatened By Alleged Rape Of A 13-Year Old Girl. - Careful and systematic analysis reveals Trump’s direct responsibility as US president for the deaths of 25.6 million people, many of them children, and a ...
Raw Story

'I am killing them': Trump makes deranged 'ruthless scumbags' late-night Truth Social post - Donald Trump has issued a late-night Truth Social post implying further action will be taken in Iran. The president has not backed down from the war wit...
Dissident Voice

On the Brink in Hormuz: How the Iran War Exposes a Dying Order - Not so long ago, the Iran war could still be treated as a “shock” to the system—a sudden, violent anomaly that spooked traders, sent a few charts vertica...
High Country News

Black riders have always held the reins - [image: Paris Wilburd in the High Horse epsiode “F*ck Westerns.”] What ‘High Horse’ gets right about Black cowboys and the West. The post Black riders hav...
Rallblog

Democrats’ Nexus of Nuance - As they always do, Democrats bent over so far to give credence to the Republican argument—this time, in favor of starting a war against Iran—that they wo...
naked capitalism

Satyajit Das: Iran – Even War Has Been Financialized - Satyajit Das provides a broad look at the scope and depth of the potential economic downside of the Iran war.
Houston Public Media

Emergency crews, pollution control respond to fire at Pasadena chemical plant - No injuries were immediately reported at the LyondellBasell plant southeast of Houston, according to the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office.
Counterpunch

It’s Israel, Stupid! - The second US war on Iran in less than a year has raised a burning question in popular media: What is the rationale for the war and why is it changing? I...
Axios

Ship escorts to start in Strait of Hormuz "soon," Trump officials say - The U.S. Navy will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, "perhaps with an international coalition," as "soon as it is militarily possible," Treasury...
Mediaite

Trump Aide Crashes Bessent Interview To Bring Him to Situation Room: ‘The President Wants You Right Away’ - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was summoned to the White House Situation Room while in the middle of an interview on Thursday. The post Trump Aide Cras...
jobsanger

First Six Days Of The War Has Cost $11.3 Billion In Munitions Alone -
memeorandum

In Case of Emergency: The Dubious Legality of Trump Allies' Draft EO (Lawfare) - Lawfare: *In Case of Emergency: The Dubious Legality of Trump Allies' Draft EO* — Conservative activists say that declaring a national emergency would ...
Informed Comment

“The Horror! The Horror:” Trump and the White Man’s Burden Redux - The underpinnings of Trump’s reasoning can (or at least should) be described as Nazi in style
Techdirt.

MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule - If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when it comes to altering vaccine schedules, approvals, research, and access — is bad...
The Hill

US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian oil amid Iran prices spike - The U.S. is temporarily removing sanctions on Russian oil currently stranded at sea, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced late Thursday — the latest ...
Courthouse News

Experts say Mexican government’s violence tally doesn’t add up - The Sheinbaum administration holds to a narrative that homicides are decreasing, though forensics and disappearance crises surge.
Crooked Media

Why Trump Abandoned America First - The post Why Trump Abandoned America First appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

Joe Rogan Questions Having UFC Fight at White House - Podcaster Joe Rogan criticized the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, saying it’s going to be “weird to have a fight at the White House in the middle o...
Mediagazer

Trump's administration denounced CNN for airing part of the new Iranian leader's statement Thursday, the second time in three days it has singled out CNN (David Bauder/Associated Press) - David Bauder / Associated Press: *Trump's administration denounced CNN for airing part of the new Iranian leader's statement Thursday, the second time in...
Wolf Street

Energy Inflation for Americans - Dropping gasoline prices since mid-2022 papered over big price increases in electricity and natural gas. But that’s now over.
The Daily Poster

Donate TEst - Donate To The Lever Hold the powerful accountable with a donation. Give a one-time donation in any amount to fund The Lever‘s mission to hold the powerful ...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Ballot Access News

Kentucky House Passes Bill that Lets Candidates Run for President or Vice-President, and Congress, in Same Election - On March 5, the Kentucky House passed HB 534, an omnibus election bill that lets people run for President (or Vice President) and to simultaneously run for...
Claytoonz

Hegseth’s Crabs - 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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/13/2026 - 06:36 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Daily Cartoonist

Jack Ohman Wins 2026 Herblock Prize – Pedro X. Molina is Finalist - The Herb Block Foundation announced today it has awarded the 2029 Herblock Prize to Jack Ohman. Judges’ comments: From Marty Two Bulls, Sr.: Jack’s loose d...
Alas, a Blog

Tehran - All dialog in this strip is quoted from “Dark Like Our Future” by Deepa Parent in The Guardian. From the article: Thick black smoke was still rising in the...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter: The U.S. Has Lost and Is Trapped in the Iran War With No Way Out - DW—The video features an in-depth discussion with Scott Ritter, a former Pentagon analyst and intelligence officer, about the ongoing 12-day war between th...
Popular Resistance

International Coalition Calls On FIFA To Move Games From The US - With the FIFA World Cup 2026 now 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches f...
Antiwar.com

Washington’s 47-Year War Against Iran - The irony of the Big Lie about Iran’s alleged “47-Year War On America” is that the imperatives of Empire caused Washington to take actions in the decades a...
Scheerpost.com

From Tehran to Beirut: A War Spreading Faster Than Diplomacy - ScheerPost Staff Live updates from the Middle East Monitor among others “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said attacks launched by the US ...
San Antonio Current

H-E-B reopens annual contest letting food companies compete for shelf space - [image: Texas grocer H-E-B is once again urging potential suppliers to compete for shelf space and cash prizes.] The San Antonio-based grocer's 13th annua...
Portside

Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter Politicians - Zohran Mamdani and the Rise of the Renter Politicians jay Thu, 03/12/2026 - 18:52
Salon.com

“Robbing them blind”: Live Nation execs boasted about overcharging customers - Two senior employees at the concert giant bragged about exploiting customers
CultureMap Houston

Street corn shines at Houston's truffle-powered chef competition - One of Houston’s top Mexican restaurants took the top prize at this year’s *Truffle Masters* competition. Victoria Elizondo, chef-owner of Cochinita & Co., ...
See You In 2020

The incel population’s explosion, the American family’s destruction, & the monsters this crisis is creating - What does a generation do when they realize they aren’t going to be allowed a familial connection with the future? This is the question that a growing p...
The Militant

SWP campaign kicks off in new Pittsburgh headquarters -
SCOTUSblog

Birthright citizenship: Originalism 101 - These days, everyone wants to be an originalist. But in Trump v. Barbara, the birthright-citizenship case at the Supreme Court, not everyone is doing ori...
Progressive.org

The Fight for Palestine in Higher Education Continues, Despite Institutional Backlash - Since the October ceasefire in Gaza, students and faculty have continued to fight for Palestine, but institutions remain resistant.
Deadline Politics

Teamsters Call For Justice Department To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger If Job Protections Are Not In Place - The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling on the Justice Department to sue to block Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery unl...
San Antonio Report

Demand and oversupply are the story of a ‘steady’ commercial real estate market - [image: Construction continues on the Art House apartments along Cevallos Street in the Lone Star neighborhood on Tuesday.]Here's how San Antonio's commerc...
Futurism

Robot Escorted Away By Cops After Terrorizing Old Woman - You're under arrest. The post Robot Escorted Away By Cops After Terrorizing Old Woman appeared first on Futurism.
The Verge

Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year - You can download Chrome for Linux, and you can download Chrome for Arm devices - but if you've got a computer running Linux on Arm, not so much! Now, Googl...
NPR's Health Shots

Exercise rates are still a non-moving target - Dance teachers, health researchers, urban planners — they all have a desire to get people moving. But globally, exercise rates have remained stagnant.
Slate

The Strait of Hormuz Gets Even More Dire - Why is Congress still acting like a bystander over their Constitutional war powers?
Consortium News

Hedges Report: The Trillion Dollar War Machine - The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big T...
Undernews

Donald Trump in 1998 - CALL TO ACTIVISM
Dorf on Law

The Unexpected Political Salience of the Home-Ownership Myth Shows that Political Moderates are Even More Wrong - In January 2025, I took the deliberately provocative position that "Being Unable to Buy a House (as Opposed to Renting) is Generally a Good Thing." This...
Alternet

The one word Trump refuses to say — and why it matters - President Donald Trump refuses to refer to his Iran war as a “war,” a conservative commentator claims — but this only works to the disadvantage of the Am...
World Socialist Web Site

*Emergency Exits*: Britain’s brutal counterinsurgency wars, retreat from empire and historical memory - The “Emergencies” in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus that are the subject of the Imperial War Museum’s current exhibition were fought to preserve the advantages o...
The AltWorld

Israel takes POWERFUL Blows – Unleashes GENOCIDAL FURY on Lebanon | Ep. 172 - Live coverage of the war on Iran. Updates, analysis, and the latest developments as the conflict escalates […] The post Israel takes POWERFUL Blows – Unl...
Novara Media

Israel Claims It Hit Iran ‘Nuclear Site’ - The Israeli air force has claimed to have hit what they say is an Iranian nuclear facility. Plus: Starmer takes the blame for appointing Peter Mandelson, C...
Vox

Nurse practitioners are rushing in to fill the gaps in US health care - Have you ever caught yourself squinting at the acronyms next to your health care provider’s name? MD, DO, NP, PA… The medical workforce has changed. While ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Trump's Policies Are Such Failures He's Now Losing White Voters - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Election Law Blog

The Bost Boost: The Supreme Court’s Decision Helpfully Channels Election Litigation to the Period Before an Election and Suggests Laches Should Bar Cases after an Election if There Was a Chance to Sue Before - Dan Tokaji helpfully described the Bost case decided by the Supreme Court in January. The decision, as Dan writes, “represents a welcome departure, makin...
El Paso Matters

With Tony Gonzales out, Democrats sense an opening against new hardline GOP nominee Brandon Herrera - Herrera’s history of brash comments, and the leftward drift of Hispanic voters, has renewed Democrats’ interest in the 23rd Congressional District, whic...
Independent Political Report

North Carolina Green Party Applauds Senate Candidate Brian McGinnis Following Capitol Hill Altercation, Demands Accountability - The North Carolina Green Party is applauding its U.S. Senate candidate Brian McGinnis for remarks he made during a congressional hearing earlier this mon...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Friend, are you really able to have... - *THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2026* *...more than one thing on your mind?* Is Bill Clinton on the level? This morning, we showed you some of what he said about h...
Common Dreams

More Than 250 Groups Oppose Additional Spending on Trump’s Illegal Iran War - Members of Congress should vote against any additional funding for President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran, 251 groups said today in a lett...
Mondoweiss

Exclusive: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib demands Leqaa Kordia’s release, says ‘I’m afraid she’s going to die in there’ - [image: U.S. Congressional representative Rashida Tlaib (center) outside the Prarieland Detention Center in Texas with Leqaa Kordia's team.]In an exclusive...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Shoes - These shoe are guaranteed to fit.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: March 2026 - I wrote an article for The Asexual Agenda which may or may not interest readers, talking about umbrella terminology. “I am Jesus Christ” and Other Games ab...
ProPublica

Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say - The post Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say appeared first on ProPublica.
The Root

S.C. Rep. Jim Clyburn’s Run for an 18th Congressional Term Has Black America Divided - After 85-year-old Rep. Jim Clyburn announced his run for an 18th term, Black folks online shared plenty of thoughts. Read more...
Capital & Main

Kaiser Therapists Plan Strike Over Proposed AI Use, Chronic Understaffing - Regulators are again fining the health care giant for inadequate investment in mental health care. The post Kaiser Therapists Plan Strike Over Proposed A...
Bonddad

Housing permits, starts, and construction: signs of both imminent recession and “green shoots” - - *by New Deal democrat* This morning’s important data on housing construction contained two apparently contradictory trends: on the one hand, it co...
Mother Jones

Trump’s New Nuclear Nightmare in Iran - Donald Trump says he’s bombing Iran to prevent the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But he may be providing with Tehran more incentive to sprint tow...
MintPress News

Iranian Official Claims Israel Used Arab ‘Contractor’ in Alleged Oman False-Flag Operation - A senior Iranian security official has accused Israel of orchestrating a “false flag” operation in Oman, claiming the attack was designed to inflame tens...
Texas Standard

New South Texas refinery could bring jobs — and environmental risks - A new oil refinery planned for Brownsville could bring thousands of jobs and a major energy investment to the region. But it could also pose risks to the r...
Angry Bear

They Have Only Just Begun . . . - I subscribe to Robert’s site. Every once and a while, I see a commentary I like. In which case I post it. This commentary by Robert is about a week old. ...
Rewire

The New Parental Rights Legal Grift (Podcast) - The Supreme Court’s conservatives are using the shadow docket to redefine family rights at the expense of trans kids. The post The New Parental Rights L...
Sludge

Democrats Criticizing ICE Are Paying Consultants Tied to Palantir - Two prominent Democratic consulting firms, Wavelength Strategy and SKDK, are owned by Stagwell, a marketing company that partnered with major ICE contracto...
Grist

The secret superpower of Brazil’s vast savanna - The Amazon rainforest gets all the attention, but the neighboring cerrado stores massive amounts of carbon in its peaty soils.
Environment Texas

Texas Musicians Against Plastic Pollution debut - Kacey Musgraves, Robert Earl Keen, 11 other artists partner with Environment Texas, call for crackdown on plastic pellets The post Texas Musicians Agains...
Glasstire

Top Five: March 12, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Reynier Leyva Novo: Gut it, Forget it. Invisible Housto...
WhoWhatWhy

Donakd J. Trump Has Some Thoughts on the Millions of Americans With Dyslexia - [image: Donald Trump, National Prayer Breakfast , 2026] In trying to take a shot at one of his political rivals, Trump on Wednesday insulted the tens of mi...
Democracy Now!

Amnesty Head Agnès Callamard on Iran War, Global Fight for Gender Justice & Killing of Yanar Mohammed - *Democracy Now!* recently sat down with Agnès Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International and a former United Nations special rapporteur, whi...
The Conversation

Federal benefits cuts are looming – here’s how Colorado is trying to protect families with children - A combination of Colorado state tax credits for low-income families is predicted to lift more than 50,000 children out of poverty.
Space City Weather

Breezy and cooler today with an even stronger cold front likely on Sunday night - In brief: Today we discuss our breezy conditions, which will lead to a chilly night. Also, after days of clouds we are likely to see sunshine prevail for a...
Earth 911

The 9 Rs of Circular Economy Explained - Here’s a number that should make you uncomfortable: the global economy is only 7.2% circular.... The post The 9 Rs of Circular Economy Explained appeared...
The Smirking Chimp

Insider Believes Trump Went to War out of Boredom for a ‘Cliffhanger’ -
Skeptophilia

Little bits of beauty - I have a curious hobby. Well, at least an *uncommon* one. I collect old nature field guides. My somewhat flexible cutoff date is publication before 195...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Sophia Campos - Did you think we were done with interviews for the time being? Not a chance. Believe it or not, we’re on the verge of the start of early voting for the Apr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Deeper into Texas and North Carolina’s Primaries - In the Texas GOP runoff for Senate, Rep. Wesley Hunt's (R, TX-38) voters could help determine the nominee. In both Texas and North Carolina, Democrats ou...
Texas Observer

In Rural West Texas, Renewable Energy Brings a Windfall for Seniors - This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Observer. In the far corner of the Crockett County Senior Center, 75-year-old Cynthia Fl...
ArcaMax

Rewriting History - It is a Washington Post exclusive. They must have been tipped off. They clearly had a reporter there at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, when two employees of the ...
Ian Welsh

Iran Is Winning & It’s Not Close - Yes, the Americans and Israelis are inflicting a lot of damage. But that damage does not appear to be degrading the military enough to really matter. It’s ...
Workers World

PDF of March 12 print issue - [image: PDF of March 12 print issue] Download the PDF Heroic Iran resists imperialist attack Hands off Iran! Let Iran Live! Tribute to Ayatollah Khamenei U...
Crooked Timber

Fifteen years after Fukushima - It’s the 15th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and any lessons from that event seem to have been forgotten by most. Political leaders of all ...
Brad Blog

Iran War's 'Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain'? What Long Term-Gain?!: 'BradCast' 3/11/2026 - Donald Trump's disastrous War on Iran continues to wreak global havoc on today's BradCast, with no apparent end in sight. Though election news from Tuesday...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Maine residents rally to keep LGBTQ book in local libraries' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Resident in the city of Gardiner, ME rallied to keep the LGBTQ book 'Prince and Knight' on the library shelves after some people called it 'propaganda' cr...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer’s Mistakes - [image: a fail stamp]This is a relatively clear sign that your performance left something to be desired.
The NM Political Report

City councilor seeks to make mayor, councilors liable for blocking ICE arrests in Albuquerque - [image: “unfair, complicated and untrusted.”] A day after a trio of city councilors joined dozens of community advocates and state legislators in support ...
Idavox

ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars - A review of Jake Lang’s “Stop The Islamic Takeover of NYC” rally Freya Jaager and... The post ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars appeared first on Idav...
slacktivist

The Amish are not ‘Evangelicals.’ They’re Amish. - Ryan Burge asked a question and so here I will try to answer it.
Liberation News

Epstein, the ruling class, and the capitalist system - The files demonstrate how Epstein and his network were an integral component of how the global capitalist system functions.
Krebs on Security

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker - A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technol...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Powerful Evening at UT Austin on the 'Censored University': The Legendary Nikole Hannah-Jones and Truth-Telling, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *A Powerful Evening at UT Austin on the 'Censored University': Nikole Hannah-Jones and Truth-Telling* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 11, 2026* *I...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Second Quarter - With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode ...
The Progressive Wing

3/11 – 3/12 News Roundup & Open Thread - AIPAC, crypto and AI are pouring money into Illinois to try to buy congressional seats. We cannot allow billionaire-funded super PACs to decide our elec...
Infidel753

Democrats, on the right track at last - Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna have introduced legislation that would impose a 5% annual wealth tax on all billionaires in the US. The proposed law would, ...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
The Texas Signal

The Private Prison Model For Texas Detention Centers - The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley has drawn widespread attention over the alleged conditions for detained children. That focus has also s...
Church and State

The Iran War and Immigration Facts in the Trump era - The obvious cover-up with the further release of the Jeffrey Epstein files now others have increasing reason to confirm my guess.
Bracing Views

Trump’s Disconnection from Reality - And More War By and For Israel BILL ASTORE MAR 10, 2026 Here are some excerpts from recent articles dealing with Trump’s growing disconnection from reality...
Socialist Alternative

11 Days Of War On Iran—Trump Has Unleashed A Nightmare - US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (March 10), US Secretary of War Pete Hegs...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #18: Texas Senate Primaries, Olivia Reingold's Rama Duwaji 'Investigation,' and Donna Kelce's Home Renovation (w/Producer Sam) - Sam Grasso aka Producer Sam join us talk an absolutely explosive week in news.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
NORML

Alabama: Commissioner Says Patients Can Likely Begin Accessing Medical Cannabis Products Next Month - [image: Alabama Marijuana Laws][image: Alabama Marijuana Laws]“For nearly five years, Alabama patients and their providers have lacked the ability to loc...
Seeing the Forest

Corruption Leads To Corruption Leads To Today - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. Some time back I listened to Ezra Klein interviewing journalist Anan...
Project Censored

What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran - First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

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Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - 10. *Tim Scott:* Still silent when it comes to criticizing his master, Donald Trump. We will see if he remains quiet if any of the citizens he represe...
Greg Palast

How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma - How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 ...
WAWG Blog

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

War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle - The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizatio...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IRAQ BUT DUMBER EDITION. - *Doo-wop is such a deep well.* It’s Drunky Pete Warfighter time! It’s a weird war for sure, done Trump style -- no warning, no reason, and especially no ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
The Grayzone

How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war - The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest f...
Debunking Christianity

The Cult-Goofy, Defective Final 16th Chapter of Mark’s Gospel - *Wrapping up my honest sermons on this first gospel* For many centuries, religious scholars and laity alike had no clue that the final chapter of Mark is ...
LareDOS

LC’s Out of the Box art exhibit explores innovation and creative boundaries - Exhibit open to the public through March 20
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
DeSmogBlog

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster - It has been three months since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a new bit...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

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

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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