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

Eschaton

Sure Why Not - I would expect nothing less. Resurfaced comments made by Gregg Phillips, the head of FEMA's Office of Response and Recovery, have sparked concern about t...
Mediaite

Bernie Sanders Says Trump Must Be ‘Neutered’ Amid ‘Soaring Gas Prices’ and War - Bernie Sanders said Trump and his people are in a "panic" over gas prices and the war in Iran, and Democrats must "make sure that Trump is neutered in 20...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration sues Harvard again over accusations of antisemitism - Lawsuit alleges university violated civil rights of Jewish and Israeli people in aftermath of war in Gaza The Trump administration renewed its assault on...
Courthouse News

French jihadist jailed for life for Islamic State group crimes against Yazidis - Sabri Essid, presumed dead and tried in absentia, bought several Yazidi women, repeatedly raped them and deprived them of water and food — part of what pro...
Futurism

Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI - Yoink! The post Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI appeared first on Futurism.
CultureMap Houston

World-renowned Houston physician honored for advancing cancer care - In the heart of Houston’s Texas Medical Center, where some of the world’s most complex medical challenges are confronted daily, a name now marks both histo...
Election Law Blog

Staten Island Congressional Case Dismissed - You can find the parties’ joint stipulation and the order of dismissal with prejudice here. A brief recap for readers. As part of the ongoing wave of mid...
Scheerpost.com

DNI Gabbard Tells Congress Iran Was Not Rebuilding Its Nuclear Program - Kyle Anzalone for AntiWar.com Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, where she fa...
SCOTUSblog

Unanimous court allows street preacher’s free speech case to move forward - A unanimous court on Friday sided with a Mississippi street preacher who sued to block future enforcement of a public demonstration ordinance that he was...
Al Jazeera English

Iran’s Khamenei says enemy ‘defeated’ in written Nowruz message - Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen in public since he replaced his slain father as Iran's supreme leader.
San Antonio Current

Texas officials didn’t know Elon Musk’s Tesla was discharging lithium wastewater into a ditch - [image: A pipe discharges liquid waste from Tesla’s lithium refinery plant into a ditch on Feb. 13 in Robstown, Texas.] While the electric vehicle company...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Calls for “Stable Rules” as Virginia Voters Consider Redistricting Referendum - The Forward Party is encouraging voters in Virginia to prioritize stability in the rules governing how state congressional districts are drawn as early v...
memeorandum

U.S.-Israeli rift widens over potential endgame in Iran (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *U.S.-Israeli rift widens over potential endgame in Iran* — Israel's assault on the world's largest natural gas deposit has renewed te...
Raw Story

Bari Weiss shuts down longest-running news show in America - CBS News is shutting down its flagship radio network – once home to legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow – as part of its ongoing downsizing operation sinc...
Houston Public Media

Changing the rodeo dress code: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the week - The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Undernews

Warning over Social Security funds - Newsweek - A new warning over Social Security’s long-term finances says the program’s funds are on an unsustainable path, with analysts urging policymakers...
Mother Jones

Trump Wants $200 Billion for Bombs. Here’s What That Could Buy Instead. - “It takes money to kill bad guys.” That’s how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth justified reports that the Pentagon is requesting $200 billion in additional f...
Salon.com

Cinnabon breaks up with “The Bachelorette” - Recent domestic violence allegations involving Taylor Frankie Paul led the chain to slice two TV tie-ins
The Hill

The next front is already here in war against Iran - Iran has used its cyber capabilities to launch an attack on Stryker Corporation, demonstrating its ability to conduct asymmetric warfare and highlighting t...
NORML

France: A Last Bastion of Cannabis Prohibition - [image: a cannabis leaf rests atop the flag of France][image: a cannabis leaf rests atop the flag of France]While the United States Supreme Court reviews...
Mediagazer

In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio was founded in 1927 (Ted Johnson/Deadline) - Ted Johnson / Deadline: *In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio w...
The Week

MG4 Urban: a ‘modern’, family-friendly EV - With a ‘whopping’ 557-litre boot and an impressive kit list, you get ‘a lot of car’ for the pricetag
The Verge

Google’s battery-powered Nest Doorbell is $40 off right now - Buying a video doorbell is worth it for several reasons. They’re convenient if you get a lot of deliveries or visitors, as they let you glance at a phone a...
San Antonio Report

UT San Antonio ensemble to back music legends at Tejano concert - A new UTSA ensemble will back up seven musical icons at a Tejano concert at the Empire Theater next month. ------------------------------ UT San Antonio ens...
Dissident Voice

The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes - Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now. “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime c...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Sports Feat Called a *Jonrón* in Spanish (Seven Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for March 20, 2026.
Novara Media

Switzerland Bans Arms Exports to US Over Iran War - The Swiss government has not issued any license to export weapons to the US since the beginning of the illegal war on Iran and has said it will not issue a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shadow Censorship: How Fear Is Rewriting Higher Education in Texas, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Shadow Censorship: How Fear Is Rewriting Higher Education in Texas* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 19, 2026* *The "shadow censorship" that ha...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I think right now at least just kind of keeping a stiff upper lip. Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks and so that gas goes a little further.” — Min...
ProPublica

The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted - The post The Number of Families Being Held at Dilley Detention Center Has Plummeted appeared first on ProPublica.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Incoming… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Inc...
The Militant

Synagogues, Jews attacked in Canada as Jew-hatred spreads - MONTREAL — Three synagogues in the Toronto area and several Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal have been attacked by Jew-haters since the beginning of Was...
naked capitalism

Manure-to-Energy Project Touted as Climate Fix Emits Thousands of Tons of Methane - Manure digesters for cattle are yet another rentier-enriching climate con.
Glasstire

Spring Horoscopes with Table Top Tarot - This is part of a series of seasonal horoscopes inspired by works of art and informed by author Nancy Douthey’s performance and storytelling-based Table ...
Axios

White House releases Trump's national AI plan and framework - The Trump administration on Friday released its legislative recommendations on AI, urging Congress to preempt state AI laws and take a light-touch approa...
The Daily Poster

Powder Grab: The Ski Industry’s Forgotten Coup - The long-forgotten story of how we broke the ski industry — by very nearly saving it.
ArcaMax

We Can't Protect What We Don't Understand: the Case of Eastern Golden Eagles - There's a special story unfolding at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky, where eastern golden eagles have made their winter home. Scientists have be...
Deadline Politics

CBS News Starts Another Round Of Layoffs; Job Cuts To Impact About 6% Of Workforce - CBS News announced a new round of layoffs on Friday, the latest for the news division under the network’s new parent Paramount Skydance. In a memo to emplo...
Alternet

Senior White House official blows up Trump’s 'boots on the ground' messaging - In an early March interview with the New York Post, U.S. President Donald Trump didn't rule out of the possibility of using ground forces in his war with...
The Progressive Wing

3/20 News Roundup and Open Thread - And on to the weekend.
First Draft

Make Populism Great Again - Democrats can reclaim populism and win big in 2026.
El Paso Matters

GECU CEO announces retirement; El Paso County seeks Ascarate input - This week: GECU’s longtime CEO announces her retirement and county leaders seek public input on Ascarate Park renovations. The post GECU CEO announces r...
Space City Weather

Houston, what were you like in the 90s? - In brief: Houston is going to be doing some heavy flirting with 90 degrees beginning today and continuing into next week. That’s it. That’s the summary. If...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity’s Role in Fueling the Nazi Holocaust - *“Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust”* My subtitle today is, in fact, the title of an essay by Hector Avalos in John Loftus’ 2010 anthology, *T...
Democracy Now!

Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump's SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters - Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed vote...
The Conversation

Overconfidence is how wars are lost − lessons from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Ukraine for the war in Iran were ignored - The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is the latest entry in an old and lethal tradition in international politics: the catastrophic gap betwee...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Crafting ‘Patriotic’ Call Center Onshoring Plan To Provide Cover For Mass Looming Telecom Layoffs - When he’s not busy trampling free speech, crushing the First Amendment, and destroying media consolidation and consumer protection standards, Brendan Carr ...
Vox

The pain from the Strait of Hormuz crisis will be felt far beyond the pump - The gas prices are unmissable. Since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, Brent crude oil has surged past $100 a barrel for the first...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Even Our Closest Allies Won’t Tell Him - Wilcox sums it all up. Thanks for coming and don’t forget to tip your wait staff.However, there are several ways of explaining where we’re at, and the most...
NPR's Health Shots

He's one reason why aid cuts weren't as dire for the HIV population as predicted - Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump administration's aid cuts but he k...
The Root

What We Know About Usher, Justin Bieber’s Confrontation at Beyonce’s Oscar Party - Usher was Justin Bieber's mentor early on in his career, but now it seems like the two may not be in good-standing with each other. Let's get into it! Re...
Consortium News

DAYS 19 & 20: WAR ON IRAN –Why Would Israel Care? - U.S. and Israel publicly disagree on attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure. Why wouldn’t Israel want the Gulf’s oil and gas to go up in flames? By Joe Lau...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Half The Energy and Doing Just Fine - Stewart Brand, who popularized the “blue marble” photograph that changed humanity’s perspective on the fragility... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Half T...
Dorf on Law

Does Bruen Insanity Violate the Tenth Amendment? - Since the Supreme Court decided *New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen* in 2022, I have written numerous blog posts and essays critici...
Mondoweiss

The Gods must be cruel: Inside Israel’s psychological warfare campaign in Lebanon - [image: Destruction following heavy Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern Dahiya suburb, March 7, 2026. (Photo: © Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire/APA Imag...
slacktivist

LBCF: LPU&B - Anyone who talks about love, peace, unity or brotherhood might be the Antichrist, so anyone who speaks of such things must be rejected.
The Smirking Chimp

The REAL Reason Trump is Trapped in Iran -
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Cleaning out the pasture spring! - *FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2026* *Bundy, Koresh to follow:* As it happens, we're going out to clean the pasture spring, or something very much like it. We may ...
Skeptophilia

Hellscape - In the *Star Trek* episode "The Savage Curtain," the intrepid crew of the *Enterprise* visit the planet Excalbia. I forget why, because the planet was com...
Countercurrents

Satan’s Superpower: The Banality of American Evil - “And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” – 2 Corinthians 11:14 Decades ago when I heard the Iranian government of Ayatollah ...
Rallblog

F&#k You! And Pay Me $200 Billion | 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...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Patrick Oathout - And today we finish our journey through the candidate field for the Houston City Council District C special election, which is also now on Day Three of ear...
Grist

On Thin Ice - The growing allure — and danger — of glacier tourism.
High Country News

Congress contemplates sweeping investigation of Native boarding schools - What the Truth and Healing Commission Bill would — and would not — do. The post Congress contemplates sweeping investigation of Native boarding schools ...
Crooked Media

The Worst Way to Spend $200 Billion - The post The Worst Way to Spend $200 Billion appeared first on Crooked Media .
Counterpunch

Sound Police at the Oscars - A decade ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at last summoned the annually assembled Oscar orchestra into the Dolby Theatre to play for ...
jobsanger

Trump Must Accept Blame For The Current Poor Economy -
Informed Comment

Apocalypse Now: The Great Battle of the Gas Fields and Looming World Hunger - all it the "Netanyahu tax" that we'll all be paying in our electricity, grocery, electronics and consumer spending, possibly for years to come
Portside

Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois - Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois jay Fri, 03/20/2026 - 00:01
Common Dreams

Clown Shoes 'R Us - Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass...
The Greanville Post

Cheap Iranian drones destroying billions: The Radical Asymmetry of Modern Warfare (P1) - KW—Iranian drones cost less than $50,000 to build and launch. Yet they are taking down multi-billion-dollar fixed assets all across the Persian Gulf. Just ...
Brad Blog

New World Democracy Report Warns U.S. Facing 'Unprecedented Autocratization' Under Trump: 'BradCast' 3/19/2026 - Today on The BradCast: You're not the only one worried about the U.S. devolving quickly into an autocracy under Trump's attempted dictatorial rule. So are ...
See You In 2020

The dangers the social democrats pose: normalizing Israel, & weaponizing Palestine against China - This month, the website of Illinois “progressive” Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh revealed many things about where socdems stand on foreign policy....
Workers World

DPRK: Workers’ Party of Korea holds Ninth Congress - [image: DPRK: Workers’ Party of Korea holds Ninth Congress] The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened its Ninth Party Congress on Feb. 19 in Pyongyang, th...
Claytoonz

Giggity Hegseth - 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...
World Socialist Web Site

New Zealand police given power to “move on” homeless people - The criminalisation of homeless people must serve as a warning to the entire working class of the repressive measures that will be used against any opposit...
Krebs on Security

Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks - The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that co...
Progressive.org

Eid Between Memory and Survival - In years past, the sights, smells, and sounds of Eid preparations were enchanting. The genocide in Gaza changed all of that.
Wolf Street

Prices of New Single-Family Homes Drop Further, Inventory of Completed New Homes for Sale Highest since 2009 - Hoping for lower mortgage rates that may not come.
Antiwar.com

Iran War Is Putting Israel First - Reagan Carney, a really fine young man with whom we go to church, told me a few days ago that the University of Tennessee Young Republicans had a board on ...
Popular Resistance

I Resigned In Opposition To The US War On Iraq 23 Years Ago - Twenty-three years after I resigned on March 19, 2003, the Trump administration is in the third week of its attack on Iran, led into the war by Israel. T...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/20/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Ballot Access News

California Secretary of State Removes Butch Ware, Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate, from Ballot; Ware Sues to be Reinstated - On March 16, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber removed Butch Ware from the June 2, 2026 primary ballot. He is the Green Party candidate for Gover...
Church and State

Trump is now straitened out! - After bashing our NATO allies and many others with stupid comments, Trump is finally getting what he so richly deserves.
Ian Welsh

The Credit Cycle: Phase Two Accelerating - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Here are today’s Phase Two developments. Many are ominous. Things not looky so goody. The smartest guys in the room, i.e., Goldman Sac...
Dissent Magazine

Trump’s War - The fact that the war in Iran has proven so shocking to both Trump’s base and the broader commentariat reflects how distorted the popular view of Trump a...
Angry Bear

Running Out of Funding . . . - As reported at Common Dreams by Jake Johnson, “The Pentagon reportedly wants Congress to approve more than $200 billion in supplemental funding for US Pr...
Socialist Alternative

How To Organize A Student Walkout For May 1 - Read our accompanying article on why students are walking out on May 1! 1. Why Are You Fighting? You will need clear demands, so your action’s goal is clea...
Capital & Main

More States Are Taxing the Ultra-Rich — Washington Is the Latest - As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. "It’s a movement," says Patriotic Millionaire's Chuck Collins. The post ...
The NM Political Report

Oops! Candidate for Gov forgot to file paperwork to make the ballot. Now what? - Republican voters may have one less candidate to choose from on their June primary ballot after one candidate failed to show up to file paperwork confir...
Bonddad

A detailed look at interpreting expansionary and pre-recession layoff and unemployment signals - - *by New Deal democrat* This week, in addition to my usual look at jobless claims, especially in view of my post earlier this week breaking down th...
Bracing Views

Joe Kent’s Principled Resignation - And Tulsi Gabbard’s Problematic Response BILL ASTORE MAR 18, 2026 Joe Kent’s principled resignation letter, in which he calls out the influence of Israel a...
Rewire

Some Endometriosis Patients Are Changing Their Diets to Manage Symptoms - Endometriosis is underresearched and underdiagnosed. Providers and patients alike are trying a more holistic approach—but does it work? The post Some End...
Texas Standard

A Texas reckoning over César Chávez’s legacy after abuse allegations - The late civil rights icon is facing allegations of sexually abusing women and girls tied to the farmworker movement. The fallout is already reshaping how ...
WhoWhatWhy

In Public Rift With Allies, Trump Rips Israel for Attacking Iranian Gas Field - [image: South Pars Oil Field, Iran] In order to limit the rise of oil prices, the US has refrained from attacking Iran's energy sector. Israel, on the othe...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Six Gubernatorial Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans May Still Come Out Ahead - Republicans have had an edge in overall gubernatorial control since the 2010 election, and they still have a clear path to maintaining that advantage. ...
Greg Palast

Hormuz BluesBush should show Trump how you seize another nation’s oil - In one of my most elaborate undercover ops for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- highways in the sky - There is a great beauty in visions like this. Think of the skill and precision it takes to keep all of this traffic flowing safely and in proper order, d...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

MAGA Christian Nationalist pastor: We are going to impose our (morality) on America. If you don't like it, I'm sorry - Why do white conservative evangelicals support Donald Trump even though he is the antithesis of everything they claim to oppose? Because he gives them po...
LareDOS

Poets and writers invited to River Pierce - Poetry Under the Sundial in San Ygnacio
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Seeing the Forest

Iran Failure Shows What The ‘Deep State’ Was FOR - Understanding things like the Strait of Hormuz and guiding policymakers on how to work with countries like Iran is what the Deep State was about. The Strai...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Rubble: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
The Grayzone

IDF threatens ‘elimination’ for Russian leaders who ‘wish Israel ill’ - Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reported...
Liberation News

Counting the horrific waste of the U.S. war machine - This is waste at an unimaginable scale, burning human lives and money away at a rate of millions of dollars per second.
Sludge

AIPAC Splits in Illinois Races After $20M in Spending - AIPAC-tied groups poured millions into yesterday’s Illinois Democratic primaries, much of it from undisclosed sources. Here’s how it turned out.
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of Détournement - It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a cert...
Crooked Timber

Habermas, democratic discourse, and class - Jürgen Habermas has died, at the age of 96, and traditional and social media are full of obituaries and memories. For outsiders, it is maybe hard to gauge ...
The Texas Signal

Houston’s Quirkiest Museums To Visit Over Spring Break - For many Texas families, Spring Break is the perfect opportunity to explore some museums off the beaten path. And these sure beat exhausting beach trips an...
The AltWorld

Could US Officials Face War Crime Charges? - Could US Officials Face War Crime Charges? The post Could US Officials Face War Crime Charges? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
DeSmogBlog

‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels - Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a...
MintPress News

Top US Counterterror Chief Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran War, Blames Israel Lobby Pressure - Joe Kent resigned as head of the National Counterterrorism Center over Iran war. He said Iran poses "no imminent threat" and claimed the war began due to...
Idavox

Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case - “What happens here sets the tone for what’s to come. We are here and we... The post Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case ...
Trivial Knot

Review: Revenge of the Phantom Press - Revenge of the Phantom Press is a novel by FTBlogger William Brinkmann. It is the sequel to The Rift, which I previously reviewed, although it may be read ...
Alas, a Blog

The Business Genius - Yes, this comic was inspired by evil non-genius Elon Musk. No one better epitomizes money cosplaying as competence. As Richard Carrier wrote: He fell ass-b...
Environment Texas

Texas Nature & Energy Project - How Texas can build large renewable energy projects the right way The post Texas Nature & Energy Project appeared first on Environment Texas.
Project Censored

Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade - In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analy...
Field Negro

Operation Epstein. - Happy Sunday field hands. Imagine being such an evil and contemptible human being that you would literally start a war with another country* (one with...
alicublog

ROY’S 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS (FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY) - OK cats and kitties it’s OSCAR DAY! Feel the excitement! I've been making Oscar predictions for years, peppered with what I used to call “sucker bets” ...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: Oscars Pod 2026! (w/Katherine Krueger & Caitlin Schneider) - Our most anticipated pod of the year is here!!!
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.
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...
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...
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

Fireside Chats - Read More
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...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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Sunday, April 05, 2015

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