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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

memeorandum

Cybersecurity Community Must Not Remain Silent On Executive Order Attacking Former CISA Director (Electronic Frontier Foundation) - Electronic Frontier Foundation: *Cybersecurity Community Must Not Remain Silent On Executive Order Attacking Former CISA Director* — Cybersecurity prof...
Salon.com

Yes, you can air-fry halloumi— and it belongs on this salad - Crispy cheese, sharp fennel and golden raisins make this 20-minute salad anything but boring
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

GOP + DNC = ZFG - If you’re a Liberal or Progressive who, at this point, is still furiously bitching about why the Democrats won’t “do something” about all this, then you’re...
The Verge

Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs - The Trump administration has excluded â€œsmartphones, computers, and other electronicsâ€ from tariffs, even those imported from China, reports Bloomberg. ...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - The China SUPERTARIFF excludes cell phones and various computer things.
Futurism

Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest - Now well into his second term, it's no secret that Donald Trump wields his emergency powers like Musk uses slurs. That is to say, he does it a lot. So fa...
Al Jazeera English

Trump exempts smartphones, computers from reciprocal tariffs - The latest exemptions cover imports from China in a step that aims to lessen the cost effect on US consumers.
Mediagazer

India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language IPL cricket streams, ranking third-largest globally after Netflix and Prime Video (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language IPL cricket streams, ranking third-largest globally after Netfli...
Raw Story

'Caricature of a mad king': Analysis pegs 'narcissist' Trump as 'completely out of touch' - During his first term, President Donald Trump angrily clashed with some of the traditional non-MAGA conservatives he appointed — including the secretary ...
Dissident Voice

Defeating Censorship - What is worse than censorship? The post Defeating Censorship first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Undernews

Golf and dinners for ‘King’ Trump as economy melts down - *David Smith, The Guardian - *After lighting a fuse under global financial markets, Donald Trump stepped back – all the way to a Florida golf course. A...
The Week

Today's political cartoons - April 12, 2025 - Saturday's cartoons - drinking games, tiny hands, and more
Slate

A Fun New Thriller Doesn’t Make Any Sense. Good Thing It Doesn’t Need To. - Drop is a kind of whodunnit set entirely in a restaurant.
San Antonio Report

School vouchers threaten the stability and equity of special education in Texas - The parent of a child with Down syndrome and a longtime advocate for the disability community warns against school vouchers. ------------------------------...
Glasstire

Dallas Museum of Art Announces Works Acquired from the Dallas Art Fair - The Dallas Art Fair (DAF) and the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) have announced the seven artworks selected from the fair to join the museum’s permanent coll...
The Militant

Quebec gov’t mounts new attack on religious freedom - MONTREAL — A new Quebec government draft “secularization” law imposing an even more far-reaching and divisive dress code on teachers and other school worke...
The Hill

Biden's administration may have suppressed COVID evidence contradicting Chinese claims - The Biden administration has been accused of withholding information about a military report that suggests U.S. military personnel contracted COVID-19 afte...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist Profile: Ace Reid - Asa Elmer “Ace” Reid Jr. was born in the Texas Panhandle [on March 10] 1925, near Clarendon. When he was 3 months old, his family moved to Electra, where t...
Mediaite

BREAKING: Trump Exempts Phones, Computers and More From Tariffs - Smartphones and computers will be exempt from Trump's steep China tariffs, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed late on Friday night. The post ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Police searching for man who allegedly sexually abused corpse on New York subway - Video captured one person robbing corpse on idling train before another person robbed and sexually assaulted it A man sexually violated a corpse on a New...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Deportation Black Hole - On March 15, federal agents rounded up more than 230 Venezuelan nationals who were then deported to El Salvador and locked up in the country’s notorious me...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 200: “Is the 21st Century Economy Crushing Your Soul?” - LIVE 10:15 AM Eastern time + Streaming on Demand Later: The DMZ America Podcast dives in! Buckle up for a MIND-BLOWING episode of DMZ America with politi...
The Root

Kendrick Lamar Finally Drops 'Luther' Visuals, But Here's What Really Has Fans Talking - On Friday, Kendrick Lamar took over social media timelines once again when he dropped the highly-anticipated music video for his hit song “Luther.” And w...
Daily Dot

‘It’s $199. It is worth it every time’: Expert goes to Home Depot. Then she shares why you should always go for the ‘golf ball toilet’ - [image: Women shows hack which clog free toilet people should buy at Home Depot] Most homeowners don't flush a bucket of golf balls down the toilet regu...
Reform Austin

Texans Can Catch Rare Full Pink Moon at Sunset This Weekend - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… On Saturday, April 12, Texans will have the chance to witness the Full Pink Moon—a stunning lun...
Mondoweiss

Trump’s Iran talks can succeed if the administration embraces reality rather than myth - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a visit to the White House on April 7, 2025. (Photo: Flickr/W...
Political Wire

Trump Exempts Phones, Computers From Tariffs - President Trump exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs, potentially cushioning consumers from sticker ...
Counterpunch

- “Nobody should have to live stream the deaths of their loved ones to prove that they deserve to live.” –Mohammad Safa First, the Israelis said it didn’t ...
Second Nexus

Millennials Explain What Their Retirement Plan Actually Entails - By definition, Millennials are currently between the ages of 29 and 39. As a result, their days of dreaming about what their lives would be like when the...
ArcaMax

What Is Resistance? - France's shocking surrender to Nazi Germany in June 1940 left citizens stunned and unsure how to resist the German occupation and Vichy's collaborationist ...
Axios

Law firms pledge almost $1 billion in free work to Trump - Data: Axios research; Chart: Axios Visuals America's most prestigious law firms have agreed to provide almost $1 billion worth of legal work to President T...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: The sitting president "loves this [BLEEP]!" - *SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025* *What we were talking about!* Yesterday, the report came in on CNN. It's what we ourselves had been talking about only one day...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: A Toxic Two-Step Falls Flat - A pharma company can’t hide behind bankruptcy, educators stand their ground, Louisiana’s bayous see justice, and award-winning journalism is safe in the co...
Grist

Massachusetts home-electrification pilot could offer a national model - Installations are wrapping up this month for the turnkey program providing solar, heat pumps, and batteries to households that couldn’t otherwise afford them.
Alternet

'Caricature of a mad king': Analysis pegs 'narcissist' Trump as 'completely out of touch' - During his first term, President Donald Trump angrily clashed with some of the traditional non-MAGA conservatives he appointed — including the secretary ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 7 - 11 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. In this time of exogenous shock to the economy caused by the whims of o...
Vox

How commerce became our most powerful tool against global poverty - A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star philanthr...
Bracing Views

Beware of Militarism and Nationalism - W.J. Astore Responses from Readers I was going through old notes and came across emails written to me from 2009 in response to an article I wrote for TomDi...
NPR's Health Shots

How climate change is making hay fever more miserable - Warmer temperatures make for longer and more intense pollen seasons and more severe hay fever symptoms. New research indicates these changes are already co...
Angry Bear

Social Security Changes to Block Immigrants who were Legal - What happens if you are not an immigrant? Social Security changes has hit upon ordinary citizens also. This is a brief piece article about one citizen wh...
WhoWhatWhy

Eggs Benedict Arnold - [image: Donald Trump, Eggs, Inflation, American businesses; communism benefits; economic strategy; Foreign Competition;] Can tariffs curb inflation, or do ...
naked capitalism

Links 4/12/2025 -
Skeptophilia

Wanderlust - Maybe it's because I'm fundamentally a home body, but I find it really hard to understand what could have driven our distant ancestors to head out into u...
The Smirking Chimp

A Sickness in Search of a Name -
Infidel753

Link round-up for 12 April 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o You have been warned. "1/3 fewer cries than the leg! Low fat yo!" It is...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: Time for another moment of perspective - Here are the Friday numbers. The measles outbreak centered in the South Plains region of Texas grew to 541 cases across the state on Friday, according to h...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-04-12 -
Scheerpost.com

Judge Says Trump Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil Over His Political Beliefs - The Trump administration’s push to deport Mahmoud Khalil is based solely on an accusation of “antisemitism," according to a two-page memo signed by Secreta...
ProPublica

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay” - by T. Christian Miller ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re p...
Crooked Media

In-Seder Trading - The post In-Seder Trading appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian doctors’ union shuts down industrial action after three-day NSW strike - The ASMOF union never wanted the strike to take place, and then as soon as it was over, promised the Labor government that it would prevent any further sto...
jobsanger

A Cascade Of Corruption -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1351: M & Mme Blanchard - Episode: 1351 Balloonists Jean-Pierre and Marie Blanchard, the first barnstormers. Today, we join George Washington at a balloon ascent.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Nobody - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
Informed Comment

A Great Muslim Scholar of Jewish Heritage Passes: Abdallah Schleifer (1935 – 2025) - Middlebury, Vt. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Abdullah Schleifer, prominent Arab journalist and Professor Emeritus at the American University in...
Deadline Politics

‘Real Time’: Bill Maher Praises “Gracious & Measured” Trump After White House Dinner: “Not As F—ed Up As I Thought” - Although Bill Maher swears he “didn’t go MAGA” during his visit to the White House, he seems to have a new favorite dinner host. On Friday’s episode of Rea...
Techdirt.

A Newsletter Writer Reflects On Leaving Substack - Many of you may be familiar with the brilliant writer A.R. Moxon, writer of the excellent “The Reframe” newsletter. Last year, he moved The Reframe from Su...
Workers World

After violating ceasefire, Israel escalates genocide in Gaza - [image: After violating ceasefire, Israel escalates genocide in Gaza] Despite the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that began Jan. 19, on March...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | April 11, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | April 11, 2025 barry Fri, 04/11/2025 - 21:31
Wolf Street

OMG the Dollar Is Collapsing, or Whatever - Despite the “Dollar’s Collapse,” the USD remains in its 3-year range and a lot higher than it was before.
The Greanville Post

TANTRUM DIPLOMACY - PAUL EDWARDS—There have been so many crimes and stupidities executed by American Presidents, so many vicious, murderous, imbecile actions taken by the rost...
Popular Resistance

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Was Liberated By Communist Prisoners - Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Ger...
Ballot Access News

North Carolina Supreme Court Invalidates Thousands of Votes in November 2024 Election for State Supreme Court Justice - On April 11, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an opinion in Griffin v North Carolina State Board of Elections, 25-181 P25-104. This is the lawsuit f...
El Paso Matters

3 more people with measles identified in El Paso - Four out of five measles cases in El Paso this year were unvaccinated patients. One person’s vaccination status is unknown. The post 3 more people with ...
Election Law Blog

In a 4-2 Opinion that Will Disenfranchise Military and Other Voters and Likely Overturn the Results of a Valid Election in Violation of Due Process, North Carolina Supreme Court Allows Griffin Election Contest to Go Forward, in Part - WRAL: Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin has won, in part, his effort to throw out thousands of voters’ ballots from the 2024 elections. On Friday the N...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Respecting the Decision - This cartoon was co-written by me and Grace, drawn by me, and colored by Frank Young. Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! This one is...
Rewire

The Supreme Court Weighs In on Immigration Battles - It’s official—welcome to Executive Dysfunction! The post The Supreme Court Weighs In on Immigration Battles appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Consortium News

How Homeland Security Shut Down its Civil-Rights Unit - J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam report on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s closure of its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. By J. D...
CultureMap Houston

Realism and strong performances power new war drama Warfare - At this point in movie history, there are precious few ways to make a war film feel original. Every major American war, including the most recent ones in I...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Dangerous War on Information - Autocratic politicians depend on their ability to lie without facing accountability.
The NM Political Report

Lawmaker says changing the legislature is difficult – and necessary - [image: State Rep. Matthew McQueen] By Jeanette DeDios, KUNM During the past legislative session, there were a number of efforts to change how the politic...
LareDOS

Saturday Morning press conference launches 55th Earth Day Celebration - National organizations to headline press conference on the banks of the river! Laredo Encuentro - “Nuestra Planeta, Nuestro Poder, Nuestro Río” - to featur...
slacktivist

LBCF: The visitation pastor - CPE and PSTD and why Bruce Barnes, like Tim LaHaye, could not have been a good "visitation pastor."
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Oncoming Trump Slump - On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Samantha Hancox-Li discuss how Donald Trump’s madcap crusade is causing chaos in global markets, and why so many liberal ...
Common Dreams

Despite Lack of Evidence, Louisiana Immigration Judge Rules Against Mahmoud Khalil in Deportation Hearing - In a decision that appeared to be pre-written, an immigration judge ruled immediately after a hearing today that Mahmoud Khalil is removable under U.S. i...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Decide Who Owns Banana Taped to Wall - [image: banana taped to wall]Well, the concept of a banana taped to a wall, at least.
Texas Standard

A federal employee cut at National Marine Sanctuary is throwing part of its mission ‘into disarray’ - The Sanctuary’s advisory council chair says the firing of a scientist responsible for safety, and others at NOAA, “creates a lot of pandemonium, and especi...
OpEd News

How to Raise Revenue without Harming Middle Class - We don't have to cut government agencies to balance the budget. We have to lift the cap on Social Security taxes and level the playing field with corporate...
Sludge

Granholm Cashes In - The former Energy secretary began new jobs this month serving the energy industry as a board member and an advisor.
Capital & Main

California Showdown Over Medicaid as GOP Approves Massive Cuts - Health care advocates and labor unions mobilize against proposed cuts, pressuring swing-district Republicans with protests, ads and town halls. The post ...
MintPress News

US Has No Real Targets in Yemen, and It’s Costing Taxpayers Billions - Trump’s costly air war in Yemen has produced limited military results, with mounting civilian casualties and no clear targets—raising questions about its...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for 360 Realty & Property Management vs Whitney House on April 4 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by 360 Realty & Property Management and Pro Se against All Other Occu...
Claytoonz

Everything? - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Texas Observer

Slowly and Painfully, House Passes $337 Billion Budget - The Texas House spent over 14 hours debating—but mostly, just standing around—amendments during a marathon proceeding to pass its biennial budget. Ultim...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA 2025: THE WINNER - It's our closest, roughest, toughest championship EVER.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DISAPPEARING JUSTICE EDITION. - *A little light for the dark,* How are you liking Life in These (Former) United States? I’m keeping tabs on Judge Xinis hearing an assistant U.S. Atto...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Legislators Don't Fear Indoctrination. They Fear Education. Editorial Board, Daily Texan - Diane Guo *Friends:Note that for this post, I am using the title of the print version that appeared on April 8th (the longer, online piece is titled "Anot...
Ian Welsh

There Are Only Two Ways To Handle Trump’s Threats - [image: There Are Only Two Ways To Handle Trump’s Threats] Trump operates on two simple rules: - For me to win, someone else has to lose; and, - If...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Damage Done: Tariffs, the Demolition of the Liberal World Order, and Opportunities - Pause or no pause, the tariffs shifted everything. We live in a new world and it's ours for the taking.
Eater Houston

Where to Eat in Houston This Weekend: April 11 - [image: The jicama salad at Barbacana, topped with freeze-dried strawberry dust.] Brighten up your weekend with dishes from some of the city’s best restau...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, April 11 - [image: The morning read for Friday, April 11] [image: The morning read for Friday, April 11] Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Garza, Yates: Trump’s deportations will be felt most directly in America’s food security - A guest column by former Antonio Garza, the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, and Dr. Caitlyn Yates, program officer at the NGO Labor Mobility Partnershi...
Debunking Christianity

A Christian Defends Popular Theobabble with Amateur Theobabble - *Religious personal opinion doesn’t replace epistemology * In my article here last week, I explained exactly why *He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand...
Texas Monthly

Why Tariffs Could Make Your Willie Nelson and Beyoncé Records More Expensive - The vinyl record boom cranked higher, in part, because of easy sourcing from the U.S.'s closest trade partners. Now, domestic presses are in limbo.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio April 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/11/2025 - 19:24 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Earthworks

Increasing US Mining While Reducing Oversight Puts Frontline Communities at Further Risk - On March 20, 2025 President Trump issued an executive order (EO) titled Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production. The post Increasing ...
The Conversation

Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE Act has no basis in the Constitution – and ignores precedent that only states decide who gets to vote - The Constitution does not grant Congress authority to set voter-eligibility requirements in federal elections.
Democracy Now!

"The Teacher": Director Farah Nabulsi and Actor Saleh Bakri on New Film Based in Occupied West Bank - A feature film about life in the occupied West Bank, *The Teacher*, opens in New York tonight and in theaters across the U.S. next week. The film, which is...
Space City Weather

Expect continued mild, warm weather for awhile with near-zero rain chances in Houston - In brief: A weak front arrives in Houston this morning to drop humidity levels down for a couple of days. Beyond this, the region will see warm weather for...
Dorf on Law

Is the House Bill Forbidding (Most) Nationwide Injunctions Constitutional? - On Wednesday night, the House of Representatives passed the No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA) of 2025 on a party-line vote: 219 in favor and 213 against. All ...
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 ...
See You In 2020

The empire’s Nazistic onslaught, the rising workers movement, & the revolutionary strategy for an era of chaos - Our government’s criminal actions, and its schemes to commit future crimes, are of a nature that’s going to require a new strategy from our popular move...
Antiwar.com

Trump Must Cut the Ukraine Albatross Loose - President Trump should avoid a snare of his own making and extricate the United States from the war between Russia and Ukraine. During the 2024 presidentia...
DeSmogBlog

New Reform Think Tank ‘Resolute 1850’ Run by Mining Magnates - A new research group set up to support Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is run by investors with business interests in the energy and metals industries, DeSmog c...
Brad Blog

'Nothing to do With Efficiency': Soc. Sec. Expert Warns DOGE Hastening Collapse, Privatization: 'BradCast' 4/10/2025 - Donald Trump's chaos coaster continues on today's BradCast. Our top on today's ride: Social Security. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] FIRST...
Church and State

American Gulag - In a case involving a lawful noncitizen resident mistakenly sent to a foreign prison, the Trump administration has claimed it cannot retrieve him.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: April 2025 - Conspiracy | Contrapoints (video, 2:40 hours) – Back in 2016, Contrapoints got a reputation for “deradicalizing” people who fell down the alt-right pipelin...
Bud Kennedy

‘Hands Off!’ anti-Trump protests drew crowds. But did Texas Republicans know? | Opinion - A couple of thousand marchers protested against government chaos last weekend in marches from downtown Dallas to small-town Granbury, and Texas Republicans...
Krebs on Security

China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks - China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. ...
High Country News

Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree - Sacrificing for the benefit of other species. The post Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree appeared first on High Country News.
NORML

North Dakota: Senate Lawmakers Reject House-Backed Bill Reducing Marijuana Possession Penalties - [image: North Dakota Marijuana Laws][image: North Dakota Marijuana Laws]Thirty-two Senate Republicans and one Democrat voted against the bill, which would...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: Democrats Favored on What Starts as a Small Battlefield - History suggested Democrats would be favored to flip the House in 2026 as soon as Donald Trump clinched the presidency in 2024, Little that’s happened ov...
The AltWorld

The Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backed Crimes Will Fuel The Far Right - A new Pew survey has found that a majority of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, with […] The post The Backlash Against Israel’s Western-Backe...
Idavox

Sam Hyde in Pittsburgh- Two Sold Out Shows - By Keystone Anti-Racist Action Yet another white supremacist soap-boxer books a comedy show in Pittsburgh.... The post Sam Hyde in Pittsburgh- Two Sold O...
The Grayzone

AIPAC leader boasts of special ‘access’ to top Trump natsec officials in leaked audio - During an off-the-record panel, AIPAC’s CEO detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials, and how his group’s “access”...
The Rag Blog

ROBERT COTTRELL / BOOKS / A Trip Through the Long Movement - A Review of Thorne Dreyer’s new book, ‘Notes From the Underground’ By Robert Cottrell / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2025 Notes From the Underground: 77 Article...
The Texas Signal

The LGBTQ+ Representation At The Dallas Art Fair - While the Dallas Art Fair has always been a preeminent place for Texans to experience the imagination and creativity of artists in all kinds of spaces, thi...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Preliminaries - In the autumn of 1917 William Butler Yeats was at a turning point in his life and his two careers, the public one and the other, secret one. In his public ...
Earth 911

Do Metal Roofs Save Energy? - The popularity of metal roofs has soared in recent years because of their durability, energy... The post Do Metal Roofs Save Energy? appeared first on Ea...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

J.K. Rowling throws hissy fit after John Oliver nukes hysteria about trans athletes - Comedian John Oliver calls out the hysteria about trans athletes for the lie that it is and gets (former gay ally and present transphobe) *Harry Potter* ...
Web of Debt

McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks - President Trump has repeatedly expressed his admiration for Republican President William McKinley, highlighting his use of tariffs as a model for economic ...
Texas Freedom Network

Public Schools Matter: How Texas Families’ Stories Are Fighting Voucher Schemes - We recently put out a digital call for stories from teachers, students, parents, and community members who have been positively impacted by public educat...
Unlimited Hangout

The Katie Halper Show - The Katie Halper Show.
Project Censored

PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants - According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl su...
Duck of Minerva

Unreal climate ‘realism’ - It’s hard to keep track of the problems confronting Americans these days. But, just in case a reminder is needed, climate change is still a thing. Casual o...
Seeing the Forest

China Didn’t Take American Jobs - Trump says other countries took advantage of the US. He says they “took” manufacturing and jobs from thee US. This is just not what happened. American Comp...
Progressives Chat

Election 2025: What These ‘Specials’ Mean - The last two weeks, ending March and beginning April, here in 2025 saw outcomes in Special elections which are indicators of what will likely play out in...
Crooked Timber

Trump’s Tariffs, McKinley, and the Bonapartist Executive - With collapsing stock markets, retirement portfolios, and consumer confidence, there is an all-too-human tendency to focus on the economic effects of tarif...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not trying to pretend - Hydra VIII by Sebrina Seck is from a collection of Iconic Muse Women by European artists. So, this was the part where I fell and broke my hip, which rathe...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2025 - Walmart had another eight shootings related to their business, most if not all on their property in March 2025 with two people killed in two incidents i...
Campaign for America's Future

¿Qué hace falta para que gane la resistencia? - Una ola de resistencia se levanta. ¿Qué hará falta para que ganemos? Dondequiera que miremos, una ola de resistencia se levanta. Mi corazón se llena de ale...
The Progressive Wing

3/5-11 News Roundup and Open Thread - Lot of April showers here this weekend.
Dissent Magazine

The Degradation of Big Law - By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administra...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
Liberation News

Solo un movimiento sindical combativo puede derrotar los ataques de Trump contra las y los trabajadores - Los sindicatos se forjaron en la lucha masiva de la clase trabajadora, y solo con esa misma combatividad y acción audaz no solo resistiremos los ataques de...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
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...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
The Socialist

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Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
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
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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 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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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