Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Apple says Jon Prosser ‘has not indicated’ when he may respond to lawsuit - Earlier this week, Jon Prosser, who is being sued by Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets, told The Verge that he has been “in active communications ...
Raw Story

Trump just sent a sinister message with 'appalling' ballroom design: Nobel laureate - Economist Paul Krugman said President Donald Trump’s removal of a whole White House wing is typical Trumpian style: an “act of vandalism" being paid for ...
Election Law Blog

I Spoke to Renato Mariotti and Asha Rangappa for the “It’s Complicated” Podcast on the Supreme Court’s Potential to Gut the Voting Rights Act in the Callais Case - You can find it here on Youtube: The post I Spoke to Renato Mariotti and Asha Rangappa for the “It’s Complicated” Podcast on the Supreme Court’s Potentia...
Al Jazeera English

Trump administration investigating China’s compliance with 2020 trade deal - The probe comes as the US government seeks additional leverage against Beijing amid escalating trade tensions.
Courthouse News

California opens recreational Dungeness crab season, with a caveat - Citing humpback whale activity, the state opted to delay the opening of the commercial crab season.
The Hill

Holmes Norton scammed in her home by fake cleaning crew, police say - Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) was scammed on Thursday by a group claiming to be a cleaning crew, according to authorities. Multiple people claiming t...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Tantrum Over Accurate Reagan Quotes Backfires: Millions Learn Reagan Opposed His Tariff Policy - Donald Trump just cut off all trade negotiations with Canada because an Ontario ad campaign quoted Ronald Reagan accurately. The quotes are real. The conte...
Reform Austin

Cornyn and Cruz Push Bill to Tighten Oversight of Unaccompanied Migrant Children - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… On Thursday, Texas Republican Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced new legislation aime...
Mediagazer

Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early October after less than a year in the role (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) - Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: *Sources: X's advertising chief John Nitti, who joined in January, has left; X's CFO Mahmoud Reza Banki left in early Oc...
Vox

Is the US killing innocent people? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Political Wire

Republicans Unaware of Candidate’s Views on Women - A Kentucky Republican official said the committee that recently selected Calvin Leach (R) as the GOP’s state Senate District 37 nominee was not aware of a ...
Mediaite

Trump Turns East Wing Debris Into Filler at Golf Course He Planned to Refurb: Report - The East Wing rubble dump comes two months after Politico revealed Trump was eyeing a refurb and rebrand of the course. The post Trump Turns East Wing De...
San Antonio Report

Scaffolding collapse downtown closes Commerce street, Main Plaza ahead of busy weekend - A scaffolding collapse at a downtown San Antonio construction site shut down East Commerce and Soledad streets Friday as crews worked to stabilize the stru...
Dissident Voice

Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South - Guillermo Grebe (Chile), Muro sagrado de la dignidad (Sacred Wall of Dignity), 2021. The walls of Santiago, Chile – the city where I live – are marked wi...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Councilwoman Sukh Kaur searching for new chief of staff - The search comes after current chief of staff Ryan Salts violated the city's Code of Ethics during Kaur's reelection campaign. The post San Antonio Coun...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tennessee man’s heart still active nearly two minutes after execution, lawyer says - Allegation raises further questions about death of Byron Black in execution lawyer says was ‘100% botched’ A man executed on Tennessee death row showed s...
Houston Public Media

What’s next for the Blodgett Street bike lanes in Houston’s Third Ward? - Houston City Council member Carolyn Evans-Shabazz is exploring the possibility of removing the bike lanes. They were installed in 2023 and largely paid for...
memeorandum

Hegseth's first dismissal with a chosen successor (Paul McLeary/Politico) - Paul McLeary / Politico: *Hegseth's first dismissal with a chosen successor* … “Hegseth wants his guy in,” a defense official said. “Who he replaces doe...
Rallblog

Trump Is Every Day. The Resistance Is Every Few Months. Wonder Why He’s Winning? - Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general o...
The NM Political Report

USDA: Emergency funds will not be used for SNAP during shutdown - [image: shutdown] [image: shutdown] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says emergency funds won’t be used to provide SNAP payments to states if ...
Daily Dot

“Trust your gut”: Woman issues warning after Uber driver sped, ignored warnings, and scared her to tears - [image: Left: Woman in glasses walking outside looking at the camera, finger pointed up, text overlay reads, "PSA tp any girls taking Ubers/ride shares."...
Axios

Welcome to the "not great, but stable" economy - Welcome to the "not great, but stable" economy, according to Procter & Gamble. *Why it matters: *With a wide range of consumer products such as Pampers ...
Slate

What a Mafia-Linked Gambling Scandal Reveals About Sports as We Know It - There’s a rot infesting our national pastimes.
CultureMap Houston

Top Houston steakhouse toasts 10 years with a mayoral proclamation - When a steakhouse hits double digits, you can bet the party will be well done — and *B&B Butchers *didn’t disappoint. The Washington Avenue institution cel...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Another week done. Obviously there are people who are actual victims, unlike me, but Trump I was probably the worst 4 years of my life and Trump II will ce...
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
Deadline Politics

‘CBS Evening News’ Only Broadcast Network To Say Nothing On-Air About Trump Pardon Of Money-Laundering Crypto CEO; Changpeng Zhao Has Biz Connections To POTUS Family - Among the broadcast networks, the CBS Evening News on Thursday was the only news program not to mention Donald Trump’s sudden pardon of money-laundering cr...
OpEd News

The Murdering of Boaters is Public, Not Secret - Trump is murdering the occupants of boats in distant waters. The problem is not that any memos his flacks may have written about it are secret, as Jameel J...
The Militant

Emerging from their tunnels Hamas murders PalestiniansSWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
Futurism

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger - You are what you eat. The post OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger appeared first on Futurism.
Independent Political Report

No Labels Party of Arizona Rebrands as Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona has officially changed its name to the Arizona Independent Party, following approval by the Arizona Secretary of State’s o...
slacktivist

LBCF: When the Pawn … - Wherein the authors -- and characters -- abandon the conspiracy-thriller subplot with which they have grown bored and turn, instead, to their fantasy of th...
The Week

‘Congratulations on your house, but maybe try a greyhound instead’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
First Draft

Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) - Cheers to Woody Guthrie and Martin Hoffman.
WhoWhatWhy

Donald Trump: King or Tyrant-in-Waiting? - [image: Donald Trump, dancing, democracy burns] Seven million Americans took part in the “No Kings” demonstration. Satire ruled the day, but the damage Tru...
Undernews

Hmm.... - [image: Image] Via Roshan Rinaldi
Church and State

Trump: does he ever honor a promised deal? Examples? - We have passed the point about what the vast majority of American people stand about Trump who is acting in a dangerous manner.
Salon.com

The Boss is back: Springsteen’s “Nebraska” story comes full circle - "Deliver Me from Nowhere" and "Nebraska ’82" bring new life to a classic Springsteen era
SCOTUSblog

Oral argument live blog for Wednesday, November 5 - On Wednesday, November 5, we will be live blogging as the court hears oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. The post Oral argument live bl...
Wolf Street

Massive Outlier in Owner’s Equivalent of Rent Pushed Down CPI, Core CPI, Core Services CPI: Something Went Awry at the BLS - OER weighs 26% of CPI, 33% of core CPI, 44% of core services CPI. It moves the needle. CPI inflation would have been a lot hotter without this outlier.
Scheerpost.com

Hedges Slams Hostile Australian Interview, Unpacks Press Club Mess + Western Media Betraying Gaza - Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: a 22-Year-Old Widow and Her Children - Help Noor and her kids out.
World Socialist Web Site

UK government backed persecution of anti-genocide medic Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan continues - A Tribunal agreed with the General Medical Council to continue investigations into Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s entirely legitimate social media activity.
Mondoweiss

Trump’s push to uphold Gaza ceasefire is creating a political crisis in Israel - [image: U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Israel amid accusations that the U.S. is "babysitting" Israel to...
Consortium News

Hedges Report: Construction of the Surveillance State - Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump Administration. ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Casey Means MD and MAHA, Health Insurance, Coffee Scat, and Big Brother at the Home of the Free Speech Movement - Part the First: Casey Means MD Is Still Awaiting Her Closeup. We discussed the Surgeon General in waiting some time ago in a review of her book, Good Ener...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Second Nexus

Former White House Historian Offers Dire Warning After Entire East Wing Is Demolished - Fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, Congress was already arguing about how much money to spend on what was then called the “*President’s H...
The Texas Signal

A Dallas Church Paints A Rainbow - Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas is responding to a government decree by painting a staircase the colors of the rainbow
NPR's Health Shots

Some viruses can play a deadly game of hide and seek inside the human body - Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak ye...
Texas Standard

Kerr County’s emergency radio system failed in the aftermath of July Fourth flooding - The system was provided by Motorola and was chosen over another option that may have offered more coverage.
Capital & Main

‘We’re the Resistance’ - A refugee and immigrant advocate reflects on how to cope with the ICE raids in Los Angeles. Amid the trauma, she says, there is also reason for hope. The...
The Root

These Howard University’s 2025 Homecoming Moments Will Stop You In Your Tracks! - No one does homecoming like Howard University. Take a look at some of the best fashion moments leading up to the annual football game. Read more...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Strikes Down Virginia’s Ban on Felon Voting - On October 23, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Gibney, an Obama appointee, declared that Virginia’s ban on felon voting violates the 1870 act of Congress...
Common Dreams

Economic Experts React to CPI - Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that headline CPI increased by 3.0% over the past year. Members of the *Economic Speakers Bureau* shared t...
Glasstire

Nancy McMillan Dedman (1928 – 2025) - Nancy McMillan Dedman, Dallas philanthropist and board member of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), died on Wednesday, October 8, at age 97. Mrs. Dedman was...
Mother Jones

Big Tech Helped Bankroll the East Wing Destruction - Donald Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the White House would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million ballroom, t...
Daily Howler

PIECES OF WORK: At one time, he was two years old! - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025* *Howling into the void: *President Trump has been on a bit of a jag of late. First, he gave us the magic beds. Then he ident...
Bonddad

September consumer inflation: re-accelerating trend more established, with shelter (!) being the only silver lining - - *by New Deal democrat* Wow, some actual new economic data on which to report - how refreshing! To be clear, the only reason this was reported is ...
Daily Cartoonist

TGIFunnies - The Fearsome Fluffy From Wikipedia: Fenrir (Old Norse ‘fen-dweller’) or Fenrisúlfr (Old Norse “Fenrir’s wolf”, often translated “Fenris-wolf”), also referr...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Dorf on Law

Two Questions About Political Questions - In my essay on this blog on Monday, I criticized Justice Alito's statement during the oral argument in *Louisiana v. Callais* characterizing *Rucho v. Co...
El Paso Matters

Fire Department receives $4.4 million FEMA grant; residents urged to drop off drugs - This week: The El Paso Fire Department receives federal grants to bolster ranks. Residents are encouraged to safely dispose of unused medications. Plus,...
Greg Palast

Venezuela: When I met with Chavez and Maduro - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
NORML

Older Adults Increasingly Identify as Cannabis Consumers - [image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling into a joint][image: A senior woman uses a grinder to prepare cannabis for rolling ...
Ian Welsh

Massive Cuts Incoming At NASA As America Just Gives Up - So… NASA’s civil servant workforce has varied in size over the years, peaking during the Apollo program. During the 1990s, the Clinton administration reduc...
Rewire

Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffing Season - How queer folks can find “chemical comfort in cuddling” without all the Hallmark trappings. The post Don’t Let Heteronormative Playacting Ruin Your Cuffi...
Democracy Now!

"Criminal Justice Is Criminal": New Film Is "Musical Indictment" of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail - The new short film *Criminal* highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill....
The Conversation

Influencers could learn a thing or two from traditional journalism about disclosing who’s funding their political coverage - Creators who conceal financial support while weighing in on matters of interest to their funders are falsely presenting themselves as independent voices.
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
Space City Weather

A forecast that has it all: Heavy rains this weekend, Fall Day fun, and highs in the 60s - In brief: We have a comprehensive update on what we expect to be two rounds of storms, one early Saturday, and another later on Saturday evening, that are ...
ArcaMax

My Sister Said Yes to Montana and Helped Me Say Yes to Myself - I would not make the trip by myself, but I also would not pass up the opportunity. I texted my sister Erica, who lives on the West Coast, "How do you feel ...
Angry Bear

Issues with the ACA MLR - July 28, 2009. Bruce Webb posted on what he considered to be the most important provision of the original House Tri-Committee Health Care Bill. “Sec 116:...
Skeptophilia

Surf's up - One thing that never fails to leave me feeling awestruck is when I consider that astronomers figured out the shape and size of the Milky Way Galaxy while...
The Smirking Chimp

The Mamdani Moment and the Future of the Democratic Party -
Off The Kuff

TEA will take over Fort Worth ISD - Good luck, y’all. You’re gonna need it. Fort Worth ISD’s nine locally elected trustees are out as Texas officials stepped in Thursday after years of poor s...
Alternet

Why people are really wearing silly costumes at protests against Trump - Three frogs, a shark, a unicorn and a Tyrannosaurus rex dance in front of a line of heavily armoured police in riot gear. Over the past few weeks, activi...
ProPublica

Meet ProPublica’s 2025 Class of Emerging Reporters - by Talia Buford ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grist

Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too - As climate change reshapes the Blue Ridge, Appalachia’s native trout are losing ground — but dedicated anglers and scientists are racing to save them.
High Country News

Inventing habitats - [image: The endangered Gila topminnow is now thriving in a section of the Santa Cruz River near downtown Tucson that was dry until just a few years ago.] ...
Crooked Media

Trump (Literally) Destroys White House - The post Trump (Literally) Destroys White House appeared first on Crooked Media.
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 2 of 4) - On the longer time scale that we feel in nature, the violence of colonial capitalism seems almost fleeting. ‘Mother Nature will outlast all of this’, Barka...
Counterpunch

King of the North Sea: The Glories of Göteborg Organ Culture - —Göteborg, Sweden. The Christianization of Scandinavia took place over a few hundred years and was completed by the early 12th century thanks to Sigurd t...
jobsanger

Trump Betrays His Rural Voters - Again -
Portside

What Next After No Kings Day II? - What Next After No Kings Day II? jay Fri, 10/24/2025 - 00:58
Informed Comment

As a Palestinian, Trump’s 20-Point Gaza “Peace Plan” Scares Me - Belfast (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Like most Palestinians, I was initially excited about the ceasefire agreement in Gaza — even though, judgi...
Workers World

End the U.S. blockade of Cuba! - [image: End the U.S. blockade of Cuba!] Since 1992 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted annually on the criminal U.S. blockade of socialist...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 24, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/24/2025 - 07:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Brad Blog

Exiled NOAA Scientists Resurrect Critical Billion-Dollar Disaster Database: 'BradCast' 10/23/2025 - The first six months of the year in the U.S. featured the costliest weather and climate-related disasters on record. The "good news", however, as we discus...
Progressive.org

The ‘Miracle’ of New Orleans School Reform Since Katrina Is Not What It Seems - The city’s all-charter school experiment is a cautionary tale about what happens when democracy is stripped from public education.
Antiwar.com

The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela - When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off Ve...
The Daily Poster

ICE Just Bought A Social Media Surveillance Bot - Trump’s immigration enforcers just inked a multimillion-dollar deal for AI-driven social media surveillance software used by the Israeli military and the P...
Environment Texas

Diverse interests unite to protect Texas waterways from plastic pollution - Fishermen, oyster harvesters, and tourism advocates join Environment Texas in urging new state standards to curb plastic pellet pollution and protect coa...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: The Rise Of The Thielverse - The descent into a new, mutated and technology-focused form of American fascism is already here. Those who have kept track of the rise of the Thielverse,...
See You In 2020

The NGO left’s decline, boutique America’s collapse, & the chaotic reality our ruling class has created - Boutique society, the hipster layer in the imperial power structure, is going through a slow-motion unraveling. It’s not going to simply vanish, but it’...
Duck of Minerva

Ceasefire NOW (but not *now*) - After years of calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, a ceasefire was recently announced and…those calling for the ceasefire are upset about it. There are some val...
Texas Observer

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - Texas workers have long struggled with wage theft by their employers—and the state’s willingness and ability to crack down on scofflaw employers has been...
Liberation News

Trump escalates aggression against Venezuela - U.S. aggression has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with stealing Venezuela's vast resources.
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Sludge

Corporate PACs Fund ‘Anti-Muslim Extremist’ Rep. Randy Fine - Comcast, CVS, Boeing, and other major corporations have made PAC donations to the Florida Republican despite his repeated calls for violence against Muslim...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race - MN-SEN moves to Likely Democratic, and a look at how many voters skip the down-ballot VA statewide races The post Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Infidel753

Video of the day -- lying (to yourself) by omission - I was going to just add this at the end of the next link round-up, but it's such a must-see that it deserves its own post.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Oops! Inaccurate birth certificate proves how anti-trans policies can harm student athletes - Some of us told folks that these anti-trans policies would have unintended consequences. From *LGBTQNation: * In Arizona last week, a cisgender male ...
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
The Greanville Post

The Masks Have Come Off - ED CURTIN—It was in 1985, the year of “amusing ourselves to death,” that Donald Trump, a fake-estate developer, acquired the Atlantic City Hilton Hotel and...
The AltWorld

LA GUERRE EN UKRAINE VA S’ARRÊTER… SAUF SI ON TUE TRUMP ! - Guerre en Ukraine, Trump, Poutine, OTAN, UE: la paix est‑elle désormais possible ou l’escalade l’emportera‑t‑elle sous la […] The post LA GUERRE EN UKRAI...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Worth in the Age of Fascism: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A new episode of The Check-In
MintPress News

Nobel “Peace” Prize of Shame & the UK/Israeli Crackdown, with Tadhg Hickey - Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey joins Mnar Adley to expose Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel “Peace” Prize farce and the UK’s crackdown on pro-Palestine voices. ...
Krebs on Security

Canada Fines Cybercrime Friendly Cryptomus $176M - Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian crypto...
Ecosophia

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the No Kings Rally in Chicago - We should take personal account of our lives from time to time and the way we treat others. We are holding our leaders to this same evaluation.
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
LareDOS

Laredo Film Society hosts Laredo filmmaker Alejandro Montoya Marín for Q&A and screening of The Unexpecteds - Laredo Film Society (LFS) welcomes home Laredo-native filmmaker Alejandro Montoya Marín for a two-day event celebrating independent cinema and Latino voice...
Trivial Knot

Review: The Fifth Head of Cerberus - The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe is a work of anticolonialist science-fiction published in 1972. Personally, I am suspicious of anti-colonialist f...
Earth 911

Green Living Tips for Fall - As the brilliant colors of early fall fade in the northern U.S. states, many of... The post Green Living Tips for Fall appeared first on Earth911.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Shadow President: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. - *Friends,* *Every empire has its architects. In this vein, I urge you to read Andy Kroll’s extraordinary investigative report in ProPublica co-published ...
The Progressive Wing

10/20-26 News Roundup & Open Thread - Cuomo clings to his own failings. Here’s a clip of someone correcting Cuomo in an interview this morning. Notice one of the corrections was subtle, the oth...
DeSmogBlog

The Methane Hunters of Melendugno - This story was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. For centuries, farmers in Melendugno, a town located at the tip of southern Italy’s b...
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 ...
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Earthworks

In West Texas, Residents Face Drought, Proposals for More Pipelines - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post In West Texas, Residen...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

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

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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
Free & Equal

Geneesmiddelinteracties tussen Cialis en Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline - Penicilline G Benzathine / Procaïne Penicilline Penicilline G Benzathine en Procaïne Penicilline zijn vormen van antibiotica die veel worden gebruikt om ...
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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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

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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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