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 Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump celebrates Jimmy Kimmel suspension as some networks replace show with Charlie Kirk tribute – US politics live - Indefinite removal of Jimmy Kimmel Live! show spurs outrage amid Trump administration crackdown on commentary following Charlie Kirk killing - ...
memeorandum

Democrats unveil funding alternative to counter GOP in shutdown brawl (Politico) - Politico: *Democrats unveil funding alternative to counter GOP in shutdown brawl* … “We invite Republican leadership to finally join Democratic leadershi...
ArcaMax

The 'Good Government' Crowd - I used to be a real do-gooder. National Board of Common Cause under Archie Cox and Fred Wertheimer; chair of the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission; profe...
Mediagazer

India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting orders the takedown of 138 YouTube videos and 83 Instagram posts on Adani Enterprises, citing a court order (The News Minute) - The News Minute: *India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting orders the takedown of 138 YouTube videos and 83 Instagram posts on Adani Enterprises,...
Al Jazeera English

Photos: Afghan returnees struggle amid economic and climate crises - The fragile economy is struggling to absorb the influx as millions return home after being ejected by Iran and Pakistan.
Counterpunch

The Epstein Files and the 5-Count Felon Bank: The Untold Story - As the summer from hell fades to an anxious autumn, Americans’ worst dystopian nightmares have evolved into their daily reality. A 34-count felon, convic...
The Week

8 riveting museum exhibitions on view in the fall — and well into 2026 - See Winslow Homer rarities and Black art reimagined
See You In 2020

Gaza, the 680,000 death estimate, and what it looks like to resist your own annihilation - Image from the PFLP. The extermination campaign against Gaza’s people is the fulfillment of every anxiety about engineered depopulations, apocalypses, o...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian PM fails to finalise neo-colonial defence treaty with Papua New Guinea - Labor is attempting to secure de facto control over the foreign and military policy of Pacific states, to align them fully with Washington’s preparations f...
jobsanger

An Appalling Assault On Free Speech -
Courthouse News

Stays denied in temporary immigration status case - SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s request for stays pending appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that U.S. Ho...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2507: The Unsung Engineer - Episode: 2507 The Unsung Engineer: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Today, celebrating the mechanical arts.
Axios

Photos: Scenes from Trump's U.K. visit, from pageantry to protests - President Trump was hosted by King Charles III in southeast England during the first full day of his second U.K. state visit on Wednesday. *The big pictu...
naked capitalism

Prison Labor: The Last Stronghold of Slavery in the US - Black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated and exploited with prison labor. It’s time to finish abolition
NPR's Health Shots

CDC pauses remote work arrangements for employees with disabilities, union says - Members of a union representing federal workers said it has been waiting for guidance from the CDC and its parent agency on whether telework will be consid...
Workers World

PDF of September 18 print issue - [image: PDF of September 18 print issue] Download the PDF Capitalism isn’t working No jobs to be found Editorials: Lies & hype around the Kirk assassinatio...
Informed Comment

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15 - Stanza 15 of the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám has for its theme a denial of the afterlife and resurrection. XV. And those ...
Mediaite

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Live Demo Implodes During Keynote at Meta Conference - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote presentation at the company's annual Meta Connect conference could have gone more smoothly. The post Mark Zuckerberg’s...
Raw Story

'Do you believe in free speech or not?': CNN anchor clashes with GOP panelists over Kimmel - CNN anchor Abby Phillip clashed with her GOP colleagues on Wednesday over the decision to suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on network television. Phillip dis...
The Hill

Liberal nonprofit groups push back against Trump's crackdown after Kirk's killing - Over 120 liberal nonprofit groups pushed back against the expected crackdown by President Trump’s administration after the killing of conservative activist...
Deadline Politics

Kimmel On Pause: Why Did Disney Preempt Him, Who Made The Call & Will He Come Back? - Jimmy Kimmel learned in a phone call Wednesday afternoon that his 22-year late-night run on ABC was put on hold, at least for now. Deadline understands tha...
Vox

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel - Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration di...
Crooked Media

How NOT To Run The FBI - The post How NOT To Run The FBI appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose - Jonathan Lemire reports on a passage from Kamala Harris’s soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that as Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “...
Alternet

'Wrong and dangerous': Karl Rove slams Trump for using Kirk's death to crack down on left - In the week since prominent far-right activist Charlie Kirk was gunned down, President Donald Trump has been consistently blaming the American left for t...
Claytoonz

The Times Strikes Back - 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...
Popular Resistance

Independent Probe For United Nations Says Israel Commits Genocide - In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the U.N. Independent International Commission of...
Daily Dot

LimeWire has bought the Fyre Festival name, outbidding Ryan Reynolds and shocking the internet - [image: limewire buys fyre festival] LimeWire, the file-sharing giant that defined early 2000s internet piracy, is back in the headlines. This time, thou...
Portside

What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders - What Abraham Lincoln Understood About the Founders Geoffrey Wed, 09/17/2025 - 21:26
Election Law Blog

“Meta created its own super PAC to politically kneecap its AI rivals” - Interesting story in The Verve. “’It’s essentially a way for [Zuckerberg] to spend the company’s money on his political choices, whereas at a company lik...
The Verge

Meta Connect 2025: the 6 biggest announcements - Meta just showed off all the latest in wearable technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, and more at its annual Connect keynote. In addition to the ...
Techdirt.

Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel - There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “i...
The Greanville Post

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - MAX BLUMENTHAL—The Grayzone has spoken to five people with intimate knowledge of Kirk’s meeting with Ackman, which was held in early August. According to o...
El Paso Matters

Turning the soil: El Paso cancer center breaks ground - The Hunt Family Foundation announced a $5 million donation toward the Fox Cancer Center at Texas Tech Health El Paso during its groundbreaking Wednesday...
Antiwar.com

Ukraine’s Embrace of Suicidal Nationalism - Reprinted from The Realist Review. The recent assassination of the Ukrainian neo-fascist politician Andriy Parubiy are a grim reminder of the far-right or...
Salon.com

ABC pulls Kimmel off the air over Kirk comments - The late-night host has been yanked off the air "indefinitely" following comments about Charlie Kirk's killer
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Nancy Mace's latest attempt to exploit Charlie Kirk's death fails' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Nancy Mace *Trying again to raise her profile by exploiting Charlie Kirk's death, Rep. Nancy Mace began a war of words against another Congressional repr...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - There is way, way, *way* too much stuff happening this weekend. There are so many things happening, we couldn’t fit it all in the event planner.
Futurism

Nvidia Just Suffered a Huge Blow in China - For years, the Chinese tech industry has been dependent on the US and its allies for advanced semiconductors, otherwise known as "chips." Necessary to pr...
San Antonio Report

Investing in San Antonio talent today strengthens the city’s future - SPONSORED: Every employer can play a role in building the skilled workforce that will drive San Antonio's continued success. ------------------------------ ...
SCOTUSblog

Group of Louisiana voters urges Supreme Court to strike down major provision of the Voting Rights Act - Lawyers representing a group of Louisiana voters challenging the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district in the state told the Supreme...
Reform Austin

Texas Rep. James Talarico Runs Against Colin Allred for Senate - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… State Rep. James Talarico is making appearances across Texas after officially launching his bid...
Slate

If You Can Believe It, Senate Republicans Are Probing a Trump Scandal - It turns out that there are some things Republicans aren't willing to help sweep under the rug.
San Antonio Current

Texas Rangers investigating after South Texas congressional staffer burns to death - U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales said he's "heart-stricken" by the woman's death. The post Texas Rangers investigating after South Texas congressional staffer bu...
Mondoweiss

As Israeli annihilation of Gaza City advances, residents choose between death and displacement - [image: The Israeli army has ordered Palestinian to leave Gaza City as it launches its ground invasion, September 16, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images...
Progressive.org

Curbing Our Enthusiasm - When cities fail to maintain their sidewalks, they create major accessibility issues for disabled people like me.
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 19] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Please join us in New York City for a food tour in support of Dissent. On Saturday, October 18, Dissent editors, staff, and donors will enjoy New York Ci...
Texas Standard

Robert Redford found his love for the natural world in Texas - “He was focused on people, relationships, the issues he cared about,” recalls one of Redford’s film collaborators.
Discourse

Let's Try Not Being Absolute Cowards For a Change - A new group of consultants wants Democrats to sell out the most vulnerable in service of a faulty strategy.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
slacktivist

‘My Dear Wormw–‘ … No. Just stop. - Laura Robinson on why Screwtape is so good and its imitators are so bad. Plus some grave visits and that discussion of Pentecostal historiography you've al...
Texas Observer

News Orgs Fight to Unseal Records in the Paxtons’ Divorce Case - This article was first co-published by The Texas Newsroom and ProPublica. A group of state and national media organizations, including The Texas Newsroom...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Fed Cut: A Warning Sign?” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou read the tea leaves behind the Federal Re...
OpEd News

Claude Pepper's 125th Birthday -- Need His Courage Now On Social Security, Health Care, the Vulnerable - As we celebrate Senator and Congressman Claude Pepper's 125th birthday this month (September 8), it is an impactful reminder of all the work Pepper did not...
Church and State

How the Vatican Supports Trump’s Cruelty - More than 14 million people could die by 2030 as a result of USAID cuts, including 4.5 million children younger than 5 years old.
ProPublica

ProPublica and Other News Organizations Fight to Unseal Texas AG Ken Paxton’s Divorce Records - by Lauren McGaughy, The Texas Newsroom ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as s...
Second Nexus

Oxford Historian Offers Dire Warning With Prediction Of How Long Americans Have To Save Their Democracy - Noted British historian, author, and head of the Oxford University European Studies Center Timothy Garton Ash wrote in an op-ed for *The Guardian* that t...
The NM Political Report

Contractors push back on immigrant detention center closures - The companies that manage the three New Mexico immigrant detention centers are pushing back against a new report that recommends closing those facilities...
Common Dreams

One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie - The fiery shards from the murder of Charlie Kirk still ricochet in baleful ways, even as his shooter's views and motives remain murky. Despite rabid call...
The AltWorld

AIPAC’s Hatred - AIPAC’s Hatred The post AIPAC’s Hatred appeared first on TheAltWorld.
The Texas Signal

Texas Tees Up A Nationwide Abortion Showdown - "What we are seeing in Texas is part of a national plan to restrict access to abortion care nationwide, and it’s deliberate"
Undernews

Hmm.... - [image: Donald Trump in a church, wearing a dark suit and red tie, with hands clasped in prayer. A red circle highlights his right hand, showing six finge...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday Sports Issue – Topps Cartoons/Peanuts All-Stars - Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part III Here in Part III, we will identify the last of the three contributors to the 1960 set. My identifica...
American Prospect

Trump’s Fraying Alliance With RFK Jr. - Today on TAP: Will congressional Republicans get serious about restraining Kennedy’s perverse policies or forcing his resignation?
Wolf Street

This Fed Meeting Must Have Been a Circus - Amid only one dissent, FOMC Cuts by 25 basis points. “Dot Plot” sees 50 basis points in additional cuts in 2025. Risks shift to labor market. QT continues.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Gutfeld was back in the saddle again! - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025* *America's prospects aren't good:* Last night, he was back in the saddle again. Monday afternoon, on *The Five*, he had ...
The Conversation

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows - Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say research...
Ballot Access News

Quinnipiac University Poll for New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Includes Libertarian and Socialist Workers Candidates - On September 17, Quinnipiac University Polls released a poll for the November 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial race. Four candidates are on the ballot, and th...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Ohio Opposes State Bill to Throttle Residential Energy Use - The Libertarian Party of Ohio has recently come out in opposition to Ohio House Bill 427, which, if made into law, would allow utility companies to throt...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’ - Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents...
Consortium News

A Symbol of Global Resistance: Why Israel Fears Gaza Flotillas - Israeli leaders’ threats to treat flotilla activists as “terrorists” is, paradoxically, a powerful acknowledgment of the international solidarity movement’...
Progressive Army

Problemas operativos con TCA -Portal Impo- - Estimados socios, buenas tardes Les solicitamos que por favor hagan un análisis de los listados que nos han enviado anteriormente con las guías sin cerrar...
WhoWhatWhy

To Save Its Rare Birds, New Zealand Is Relying on Nation of Backyard Trappers - [image: science, nature, biodiversity, New Zealand, conservation, rare birds, predator trapping] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our edito...
Ian Welsh

American Billionaires Are Competing To Be King Shit of Turd Island - You may have heard that Tesla’s board has proposed giving Elon Musk a one trillion dollar payday. Tesla is falling apart, and the ostensible theory is that...
Angry Bear

August industrial production: overall neutral trend continues - – by New Deal democrat So much is imported that industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock...
Mother Jones

The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data - As the Trump administration vows to undertake a sweeping crackdown on liberal organizations following last week’s murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk, t...
The Root

13 TV Shows So Good Fans Wish They Could See It Again for the First Time - From "Scandal" to "Breaking Bad," these top rated series deliver the kind of drama you'll never get tired of reliving. Read more...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *In Lak’Ech and the Good Samaritan: Texas State Rep. James Talarico and the Redemptive Politics of Radical Neighborliness * *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph...
The Daily Poster

How The NFL Sells The U.S. Military — With Your Money - Inside the Department of Defense’s multimillion-dollar push to control the narrative through sports, culture, and entertainment.
Sludge

Following Sludge Report, SKDK Says It’s Dropping Its Israel Contract - The Democratic PR firm was under contract with Israel to build a social media bot program, but says it never worked on such a program.
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
Dissident Voice

Inadequate Responses Leading to Calculated Atrocities - As the tragedy facing the Palestinians unfolds to an ultimate tragedy, we become aware of the true nature of the catastrophe, exhibiting unique elements ...
Bonddad

August housing construction: even more recessionary than before - * - by New Deal democrat* A puzzling relationship this year has been that the housing data has been classically recessionary for a number of months, ...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- there's nothing out there - This is the best and most thorough discussion of this topic that I've ever seen. No, the fact that there are "billions and billions" of stars, planets, g...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Rewire

Abortion Funds Help Pregnant People. South Carolina Wants Us To Stop. - Opinion: I co-direct a group that helps people get abortion care. If a new abortion ban passes, our work will become illegal. The post Abortion Funds Hel...
Bracing Views

The Department of War Is Back! - But Victoryless Culture Remains Also at TomDispatch.com. BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval...
Glasstire

Synergistic Studio Series: Shifting Perspectives on Purpose with Zach Morriss - Although the vision of the starving artist toiling away in their brilliantly lit warehouse studio is still frequently portrayed in popular media, the rea...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Sing Out - Singing is a refusal to be silenced.
Democracy Now!

Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film - Robert Redford, the legendary Oscar-winning director, actor and activist, died at the age of 89 on Tuesday. Redford was a longtime environmental activist w...
Space City Weather

Modest rain chances reenter the forecast, with a pattern change ahead - In brief: Houston will see plenty of sunshine through the weekend, but we will also start to see some slightly better rain chances. By later Sunday or more...
Dorf on Law

For Trump, Racism and Homophobia are Features, Not Bugs: "Monkeypox" Edition - Donald Trump has a penchant for bestowing and changing names--from "Little Marco" to the "Gulf of America." Some of Trump's statements and actions regard...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Calamitous Crypto Corruption -
Skeptophilia

Utopia for pirates - There are very few tropes that have had quite the cachet (and staying power) that pirates do. Consider the popularity of the *Pirates of the Caribbean* ser...
Off The Kuff

Judge Hidalgo will not run for re-election - We have our answer. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced late Monday that she will not be seeking re-election in 2026. The decision, announced exclus...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Democratic Calendar in Disarray: The Importance of the 2028 Presidential Primary Schedule - The 2028 presidential primary will help determine the future of the Democratic Party. But the schedule of that primary season remains a mystery The post ...
Scheerpost.com

US Allies Are Not Off-Limits: Israel’s Qatar Strike Shatters Gulf Illusions - Tel Aviv’s unprecedented attack on a US-designated major non-NATO ally has warned the region that diplomatic ties and American bases offer no shield from I...
Grist

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap - A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.
High Country News

New Mexico’s billion-dollar orphaned oilfield problem - After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits. The post New Mexico’s billion-dolla...
Brad Blog

Our Crumbling Courts and Withering Rule of Law: 'BradCast' 9/16/2025 - We're lucky to have a guest on today's BradCast who is able to offer a smart perspective on a whole bunch of legal stories breaking over the past 24 to 72 ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / Political Commentary / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal - Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center hosts open house for West Laredo Clinic - Residents invited to meet staff
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Right Breaks Down: Charlie Kirk's Assassination Set Off a Powder Keg - We're watching the fury of the Right grow by the hour and it reveals the depth of our problems
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
MintPress News

Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement - Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life. The post Infiltr...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Liberation News

‘One space, one people, one destiny’: Two years of the Alliance of Sahel States - The roots of the AES were formed out of military coups that sought sovereignty as a rallying cry from the mass mobilizations taking place against French pr...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Project Censored

Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect - This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented cens...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
DeSmogBlog

What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences - Of the many health impacts linked to fossil fuels perhaps the most gruesome is chimney sweep testicle. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, chimne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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...
Two Party Opera

2PO Revisits - Last year was the 150th anniversary of the impeachment and Senate trial of 17th President Andrew Johnson. Starting on March 13, 2018, Two Party Opera ran f...
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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