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

Futurism

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown - Oh, it's bad bad. The post Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown appeared first on...
Political Wire

DNC Still Paying for Kamala Harris’ Campaign - “The Democratic National Committee paid $1.6 million in September to cover debt from Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign — bringing the DNC’s total payout to the ...
Vox

The buzzy word that Democrats have pinned their hopes on - The buzziest political word of the year is “affordability” — it’s the mantra that carried the insurgent progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani to victory in ...
The Verge

The new Metroid Prime art book offers rare insight into Nintendo’s design process - Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective is a fabulous resource for learning more than I ever thought I'd be privy to about Nintendo and Retro Studios' am...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Saving Argentina, and the fortunes of some hedge fund guys, is a mission-critical "America First" policy. Finalizing a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina...
Raw Story

'Wrong': Fact checker swats down Trump claims about the Insurrection Act - CNN's Daniel Dale thoroughly fact-checked President Donald Trump's false claims about the Insurrection Act, which he's threatened to invoke to deploy tro...
Rewire

Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Hearing About Racism. Guess What? Me Too. - Opinion: If Brett Kavanaugh wants to sunset the Voting Rights Act, he can do it in the year 2299. The post Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Heari...
Mediaite

Scott Jennings Warns Trump to Slow Down on Chasing That $230M Payout He’s Reportedly Seeking From DOJ - Jennings cautioned Trump to “table” his plan to sue the DOJ as he defended the president’s right to seek $230 million in damages for past legal battles. ...
memeorandum

Democratic senator holds Senate floor for 13 hours and counting to protest Trump (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) - Alexander Bolton / The Hill: *Democratic senator holds Senate floor for 13 hours and counting to protest Trump* — Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (Ore.), ...
Al Jazeera English

Is JD Vance right in blaming left for political violence in the US? - Vance claims left-wing violence is on the rise, but long-term data show right-wing attacks have been far higher.
ArcaMax

'Kings Not on Their Toes Can Be Deposed' - The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and sp...
Techdirt.

Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software - If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week...
Mediagazer

Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 matches in 2022; the remaining 35 will run on FS1 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *Fox plans to broadcast 69 live matches from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the Fox broadcast network, up from 34 match...
The Week

How the online world relies on AWS cloud servers - Chaos caused by Monday’s online outage shows that ‘when AWS sneezes, half the internet catches the flu’
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Man arrested after driving car into security barrier outside White House - Investigators searched car and deemed it safe after Secret Service officials took man into custody Tuesday night A man was taken into custody late Tuesda...
The Conversation

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States - From grave robbing to road construction, a cemetery in Richmond, Va., reveals the long pattern of Black Americans burying their dead in spaces that receive...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Gaza Genocide 2.0” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explore topics shaking the world stage. ...
Houston Public Media

The week in politics (Oct. 22, 2025) - On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And we learn about fentanyl and other substance use trends in th...
Daily Dot

“Anyone want to explain why shoes are dying?”: Sneaker shop owner shares bleak outlook of luxury streetwear - [image: sneaker store owner says sales are down] A California sneaker store owner's desperate plea about the collapsing resale market has gone viral, spa...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Another Pleasant Valley Humpday - Today’s Bliss brought about a flashback. The kids were about 3 and 7 and we’d all been East to visit my family. This was before computerization and reservi...
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, ...
World Socialist Web Site

New Zealand: Workers need a socialist perspective to fight pay cuts, austerity and war - While Thursday’s strike will be a powerful demonstration of the potential power that workers have, a single day’s strike will do nothing to stop the worsen...
The Hill

Help the world breathe again: Restore the US global air-monitoring program - The Trump administration should resume air quality monitoring at our embassies abroad.
Mother Jones

Trump’s Minions Aim to Cut More Than 2,000 Interior Jobs During the Shutdown - This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 2,000 employees could ...
WhoWhatWhy

Yes on Prop 50: Californians Vote and America Hangs in the Balance - [image: Yes on 50, sign, crowd] California had the right idea, but it’s not the right idea for right now. Yes on Prop 50: Californians Vote and America Han...
The Smirking Chimp

History Shows That Trump’s Venezuela Campaign Will Be Disastrous -
naked capitalism

Links 10/22/2025 -
Skeptophilia

Sphere itself - A loyal reader of *Skeptophilia* asked me what I knew about a strange geological oddity called "Klerksdorp spheres," which are round-ish objects with a m...
Axios

Putin's war is "not just about Ukraine," says Estonian ambassador - Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is "not only about territory" but also about rewiring global norms and "reestablishing a Russian vision of how thing...
Off The Kuff

We could have asked! - I am smacking my forehead so hard, you guys. The City of San Antonio will seek an exemption from the State of Texas in order to keep the city’s rainbow cro...
NPR's Health Shots

Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds - Scientists have found the first compelling evidence that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines as people age.
Slate

Help! I Had a Very Specific Vision for My Life as a Mom. I’m Distraught That It Never Came True. - Every time I see my son, I'm reminded of it.
San Antonio Report

University Health opens $18M Wheatley clinic on San Antonio’s East Side - University Health opened a new $18 million health clinic on the East Side of San Antonio on Monday, the first of four openings to come with the Bexar Count...
The Daily Poster

How Zohran Mamdani Fought The Master Plan - The key factor isn’t his ads or charisma — it is a public campaign finance system that can be replicated across the country.
Scheerpost.com

The Corporate Democrats Delivered Donald Trump - Addressing the root of economic systems that oppress Americans is exactly what the Democratic Party leadership, dependent on big corporate donors, has rigo...
ProPublica

This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools - by Jennifer Smith Richards ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wr...
Grist

The humble plant that could save the world — or destroy it - Clean energy expansion could destroy this crucial climate solution.
The Root

This Woman’s Creation Solves the Drama Every Black Woman Has Had Getting Her Hair Braided! - A Harvard grad won the university's President's Innovation Challenge with a creation that tackles the frustration every Black woman's experienced with th...
High Country News

Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite water concerns - The first crack in the area’s suspension on new housing that relies on groundwater appears. The post Phoenix subdivision builds move ahead, despite wate...
Crooked Media

Trump Rug Pulls Ukraine - The post Trump Rug Pulls Ukraine appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Blame the Rich, Not the Boomers for Economic Inequality - A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic problems on older people. The idea...
jobsanger

MAGA Is Revealing It's Racism -
See You In 2020

Communists are in place to win America’s masses, & this could only happen when we created our own platform - When I say Marxists have created a platform of their own, I’m referring to a process that’s occurred far beyond the mainstream discourse realms. That’s ...
Informed Comment

Juan Cole on Gaza, U.S. Policy, and the Future of the Middle East - I was welcomed onto David Lin’s Podcast, “The David Lin Report” to talk about Gaza, the Middle East and the US-China rivalry. Embedded video and transcript...
OpEd News

Trump's Bulldozers are Demolishing our White House--Literally - Trump's bulldozers are demolishing our White House--Literally.
Courthouse News

Oregon AG argues DEA agent not immune in fatal bike crash at Ninth Circuit - A federal judge dismissed the claims against a DEA agent that struck and killed a Salem cyclist during a surveillance operation in 2023.
Brad Blog

Trump, Republican Law(lessness) & (Dis)Order: 'BradCast' 10/21/2025 - To be fair, we warned you on yesterday's show, when setting aside one blissful hour to celebrate the weekend's joyous and peaceful "No Kings" rallies acros...
Workers World

Stop U.S. attack on Venezuela! - [image: Stop U.S. attack on Venezuela!] October 19. During the past week Washington escalated its attack on Venezuela. Trump publicly authorized the CIA to...
The Texas Signal

A Houston Horror Film 12 Years In The Making - It's been a long and challenging road for one Houston filmmaker, but his latest horror flick really takes a stab at social media
Popular Resistance

The Speech A Press Club Banned - This talk is not sponsored by Raytheon, BAE Systems and Thales, which sell weapons to Israel to sustain the genocide. It is not sponsored by Amazon Web S...
Ballot Access News

Arizona Sues the U.S. House of Representatives Over Failure to Administer the Oath of Office to Adelita Grijalva - On October 21, the state of Arizona filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. House of Representatives, to obtain a ruling that Congresswoman-elect Adelita ...
Portside

Victims Without Victimizers - Victims Without Victimizers Judy Tue, 10/21/2025 - 19:56
Consortium News

WATCH: All Eyes on Gaza - As part of his Australia tour, Chris Hedges joined Antoinette Lattouf & Ahmed Alabadla in Sydney to discuss the media, genocide and Western complicity. Chr...
Alternet

Trump's Pentagon chief abruptly announces new policy to stiff-arm Congress - The Department of Defense has issued a memo requiring any Pentagon staffer to obtain approval from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for L...
The NM Political Report

“An enormous hit:” Billions in fed. mineral payments owed to New Mexico could stop by year end - State budget analysts warn that federal mineral leasing payments to New Mexico could be at risk if Congress does take action in the coming months. The pa...
Black Agenda Report

Ajamu Baraka | "Very Dangerous Situation" - Ajamu Baraka | "Very Dangerous Situation" bareditors Wed, 10/22/2025 - 04:35 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Jamarl Thomas
Progressive.org

Donald Trump’s War on Culture - The cancellation of Amy Sherald's ‘Trans Forming Liberty’ at the Smithsonian is part of a larger Trump takeover of cultural institutions.
CultureMap Houston

3 Houston-area companies make Fortune's first ranking of top AI adopters - Three businesses based in the Houston area appear on *Fortune'*s inaugural list of the top adopters of AI among Fortune 500 companies.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s craft-beer industry has stabilized, but economic issues and changing tastes loom large - [image: San Antonio craft-brewing operations such as Cactusland Brewing say selling beer alone isn't enough to stay in operation.] More than half a dozen ...
Wolf Street

The 23 Bigger Cities where Condo Prices Dropped by 12% to 28% through September - The Condo Bust is spreading, after the most extraordinary Condo Bubble maybe ever.
slacktivist

Home missions - White Christians in America once responded to immigration with "home missions" to welcome (and seek to convert) their new neighbors as the "mission field" ...
Second Nexus

Robert De Niro Epically Unloads On 'Invasive Species' Trump And His MAGA Cronies In Blistering Rant - In an MSNBC interview Sunday, actor Robert De Niro spoke about MAGA Republican President Donald Trump. The interview occurred the day after an estimated...
Undernews

Donald Trump - NYT: Donald Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him *- **Republicans against Trump*...
Church and State

Trump: Again, Showing His Russian Asset Status! - All it seems to take is another long telephone meeting with Putin for that familiar quick change of mind on the part of Trump!
The Greanville Post

The long-suppressed Korean War report on U.S. use of biological weapons released at last - JEFFREY KAYE—Not long after I published the PSB document and accompanying article, scholar Stephen Endicott wrote to remind me that he and his associate Ed...
Mondoweiss

Exclusive: New Hamas crackdown on Gaza militias will be ‘largest yet,’ security source says - [image: Members of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, during the handover of the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz to the Red Cros...
Reform Austin

Ron Nirenberg Considering Run for Bexar County Judge Against Peter Sakai - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg recently confirmed to KENS 5 he is considering running f...
Deadline Politics

Trump Cools On Possible Diddy Pardon Over Risk Of MAGA Blowback - EXCLUSIVE: It seems Donald Trump won’t be springing Sean Combs out of prison any time soon. After months of consideration of a pardon for his old NYC party...
Texas Standard

WNBA growing pains include head coach shuffles, contract strife with players - Several teams fired their head coaches after the most recent season, including the Dallas Wings.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Who (or what) is The Big Weekend Show? - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025* *An imitation of life: *Our kingdom for access to WordPad! As we continue to settle our sudden formatting problems, it occur...
First Draft

Commuting The Talented Mr. Santos - The MAGA patrimonialism, it burns.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Possible Future is Here - We don't have to imagine what a fascist future will feel like anymore. We're living in it and it's time to defeat it before it gets worse
Angry Bear

Redbook, Philly Fed: a whiff of consumer weakening? - – by New Deal democrat The government shutdown is continuing. The only significant national economic news will be the NAR’s existing home sales report o...
Ian Welsh

The Personal Politics of Hopelessness - We’re about 3 weeks into our annual fundraiser. Our goal is $12,500 (same as last year). So far we’ve raised $8,180 from 72 people out of a readership of a...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #0: I Don't Wanna Be (Anything) - A grand, potentially (definitely) idiotic experiment in video podcasting
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...
Dissident Voice

Reversing the Truth: The Gaza “Ceasefire” and British Complicity in Genocide - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to ...
Election Law Blog

Watch Video of My Conversation with Jen Rubin: “A Potential Rights Sunset on the Horizon: Rick Hasen on Louisiana’s Redistricting Supreme Court Case” - Here, at the Contrarian. The post Watch Video of My Conversation with Jen Rubin: “A Potential Rights Sunset on the Horizon: Rick Hasen on Louisiana’s Red...
Bonddad

Redbook, Philly Fed: a whiff of consumer weakening? - - *by New Deal democrat* The government shutdown is continuing. The only significant national economic news will be the NAR’s existing home sales re...
Dorf on Law

What’s in Store for Mamdani Isn’t Pretty, But the Alternative is Worse - In my column this past Friday, "Democratic Bigwigs versus Their Own Voters, Mamdani, and the Future," I expanded on a couple of side comments that I have...
SCOTUSblog

Misusing history to limit birthright citizenship - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Salon.com

Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy get hit with a hard MAGA truth - The right’s anti-Indian hate problem can no longer be contained to the internet
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Stray leadership? Why city of El Paso is again looking for Animal Services director after years of turnover, public criticism - Critics say the city should do more to keep stray animals off the street instead of relying largely on the community to foster them. Our reporters discu...
Democracy Now!

"Armed Only with a Camera": HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine - *Armed Only with a Camera*, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western...
Glasstire

Review: “Eva Lundsager: Time Is Very Quick” at Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas - For three and a half decades, Eva Lundsager has essayed nature-oriented abstraction in a variety of two-dimensional mediums. Using familiar means of abst...
The AltWorld

New Painting: Larry Ellison - The subject of my latest painting is Larry Ellison, one of the empire’s nastier oligarchs. Oil on […] The post New Painting: Larry Ellison appeared first...
Space City Weather

After October doldrums, Houston’s forecast turns more dynamic with rain this weekend, and real fall weather on the horizon - In brief: Houston’s weather has been largely unchanging in recent weeks, but that pattern is about to break. We expect widespread rain showers this weekend...
NORML

Urgent Action Needed To End US Marijuana Arrests - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Media Lens

Reversing The Truth – The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ And British Complicity In Genocide - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Black is declared white, and white is declared purple with pink polka dots. Immunity appears to be...
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.
Two Party Opera

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Common Dreams

Utter Desecration: Walking Wrecking Balls, All Of 'Em - In a perfect, ghastly metaphor for the state of our "democracy," J.D. and Drunken Pete just oversaw an "artillery fiasco" at a Marine celebration when a ...
Idavox

Crowned Fools: MAGA Misfits and Proud Boys Get Royal Treatment While Protesting No King Rallies - Despite how much they lectured all of us about defending free speech and the not... The post Crowned Fools: MAGA Misfits and Proud Boys Get Royal Treatme...
Antiwar.com

It Was Never a Gaza ‘War.’ The ‘Ceasefire’ Is a Lie Cut From the Same Cloth - Ceasefires stick because the two sides in a war have reached military stalemate – or because the incentives for each side in laying down their arms outweig...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Federal judge to block Trump from erasing trans people from states' sex education curriculum' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With **Trump's Trans Ban* - *Basically, the Trump Administration was...
Independent Political Report

Workers Party Endorses Joseph Tache for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts - The Workers Party of Massachusetts announced this week it has endorsed Joseph Tache, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation running for U.S. ...
Texas Observer

ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account - Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey made an unannounced visit to a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility on Monday in an ef...
Project Censored

Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused - In the first part of the program Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo for this year’s ...
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 ...
Capital & Main

The Farm-to-School Model Is Under Threat - Federal rollbacks are leaving farmers and schools struggling, but local investment is helping Tucson’s program endure. The post The Farm-to-School Model ...
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...
Infidel753

No Kings - See reports and images from the No Kings rallies in St Petersburg FL, Tiverton RI, Kalamazoo MI, and here in Portland OR, where the downtown rally drew fo...
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 ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pe?zenas]
Democracy Chronicles

Executive Immunity and Institutional Erosion - Unchecked executive power threatens democratic institutions in the US, demanding urgent civic response.
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...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS EDITION. - *You still need a drugstore to cure my cough.* Getting this Friday ‘Round-the-Horn (which often turns into Saturday ‘Round-the-Horn or even Sunday ‘Round...
Lowering the Bar

Nirvana Beats Former Baby’s Lawsuit (Again) - [image: Cropped version of the Nirvana album cover]Please appeal again.
The Militant

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust - Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized fo...
Sludge

Schumer Lines up Behind Centrists in Senate Primaries - In Michigan and Minnesota, Schumer’s reported favorites align with AIPAC’s endorsements and the crypto industry's supporters.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 6 - *Bad theology in the Old Testament* Not too long ago I saw a video: a conservative woman being interviewed by a man who wanted to know her opinion abou...
Krebs on Security

Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk - Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messa...
LareDOS

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez awarded APHA’s 2025 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health - SaludAmerica!
Greg Palast

Palast, Hartmann Speak in San Diego, LA this Friday, SaturdayTwo evening talks — plus Palast at No Kings this Saturday - Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE
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...
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 2 - In Part 1, we discussed the NRx technocrats’ ideas and how they have influenced the city-state model that seeks to capitalise on the global proliferation...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders - Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of part...
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: *...
MintPress News

Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal - Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cem...
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*.
Ecosophia

The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude - Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s i...
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...
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
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...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
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

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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

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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

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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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