Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

New Epstein testimony set to 'backfire on GOP' and 'discomfort Trump's inner circle': CNN - Testimony given by Hillary Clinton, and a further statement to be given by former president Bill Clinton on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, may wo...
Al Jazeera English

F1 driver Doohan says armed men confronted him in Miami after death threats - Australia's Jack Doohan says received death threats before being dropped by F1 team Alpine, six races into last season.
The Hill

Louisiana's victory on Ten Commandments in classrooms tees up possible Supreme Court case - Louisiana scored a big win this week when the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a state law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in pu...
Eschaton

Morning - Filthy Friday
Slate

Slate SoundBites for Feb. 27, 2026 - Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
San Antonio Report

Eyewitness to history: The integration and progression of San Antonio restaurants - San Antonio once refused to serve Blacks at city lunch counters. Today, Black chefs shape its food scene attracting national recognition. ------------------...
memeorandum

Why Trump got involved in a state senate race — and why he might lose (Hannah Knowles/Washington Post) - Hannah Knowles / Washington Post: *Why Trump got involved in a state senate race — and why he might lose* — Phil Berger got an unusual endorsement from...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Weather tracker: US cities close schools and cancel flights amid heavy snowfall - Winter Storm Hernando, which struck north-eastern regions this week, described as a ‘bomb cyclone’ Winter Storm Hernando swept across the north-eastern U...
ProPublica

5 Investigations Sparking Change This Month - The post 5 Investigations Sparking Change This Month appeared first on ProPublica.
Daily Howler

STATE OF THE (DIS)UNION: This tilts toward what we've been talking about! - *FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2026* *How far will they go, we've asked:* On this somewhat disturbing day, we'll be away from our sprawling campus until mid-after...
Grist

The culture war is coming for your electricity - Utah Republicans are calling for an energy "divorce" from blue states. A major utility just granted part of their wish.
The AltWorld

The Iran Crisis, #1: Elijah Magnier on ‘The Countdown between Tehran & Washington’ - In this February 25 convo, JWE President Helena Cobban and the strategic analyst Elijah Magnier explored issues […] The post The Iran Crisis, #1: Elijah ...
Daily Cartoonist

Two Two-Tiered Comic Strips - Comic strips of two rows became a rarity in newspapers (Minute Movies, Star Hawks) but in magazines and webcomics they are fairly common, today we look at ...
High Country News

How people are helping breeding frogs dodge cars - [image: A volunteer holds a northern red-legged frog before releasing it.] Meet the volunteers shuttling northern red-legged frogs across a 4-lane highway...
Vox

A new poll shows just how quickly Israel has lost America’s sympathy - For the first time, a Gallup survey found more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis in the long-running Middle East conflict, a watershed m...
The Week

The week’s best photos - Curtain of noodles, one horse open sleigh, and more
Ian Welsh

Friday Morning Highlights and Lowlifes - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Couple of random notes this Friday morning, mostly economics related, some silver news and my personal reaction to portions of the dis...
Two Party Opera

How Are You Enjoying Your Downfall of America? - Read More *TONIGHT!* Join me for a surprise *animated presentation of Two Party Opera* as part of this month's Show & Tell Screening Spectacular in Los An...
Dissident Voice

It’s Cuba’s Turn: Attacking US-Flagged Boats in the Caribbean - This time, the appropriately designated shoe had found itself on the other foot. While the Trump administration has been gorily killing personnel on alle...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Dangerous War Games - The post Trump’s Dangerous War Games appeared first on Crooked Media.
Countercurrents

Ghar Wapsi and the Politics of Reaction: A Dangerous Dialectic - Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Whenever object A exerts a force on object B, object B s...
Rallblog

Earn Big Bucks as an Outside Agitator! - Protests against ICE prompted Republicans to revive their hoary 1960s-era complaints—utterly unsourced and demonstrably false—that protesters are “outsid...
naked capitalism

How X’s Algorithm Shifts Political Attitudes - Not only does brain-pickling by algorithm work, but it has a durable effect by influencing voter information sources over time.
Counterpunch

A Most Disappointing Geneva Diplomatic Doubleheader - “It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame… Let’s play two!” was a favorite saying of Hall of Famer and Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks. Diplomats recently ...
jobsanger

Are We Ignoring The Danger That AI Could Pose? -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1531: Only a Theory - Episode: 1531 On restoring the word theory. Today, let’s theorize.
Mediagazer

California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount-WBD "is not a done deal" as CA DOJ "has an open investigation" and the companies haven't "cleared regulatory scrutiny" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter) - Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: *California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount-WBD “is not a done deal” as CA DOJ “has an open investigation” and the comp...
World Socialist Web Site

From wellness grifter to surgeon general: Trump nominates anti-science quack Casey Means - The Senate committee hearing laid bare the anti-science agenda driving the Trump-Kennedy assault on public health, while Democrats offered only performativ...
Informed Comment

Biden delivered the Country to Trump, disbelieving Gaza Death Statistics; they were Underestimates - The article confirms the Ministry of Health estimate that about 56% of violent deaths were among children, women and elderly men
Consortium News

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba - Oil shipments to Cuba have virtually stopped, writes Marjorie Cohn. Lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential ...
Socialist Alternative

State Of The Union: Trump Insists We’re In The “Golden Age Of America” - Trump took the stage Tuesday night to present the first State of the Union address of his second term. The speech came on the heels of two serious blows ta...
Techdirt.

2 Months Into 2026 We Are Over Half 2025’s Total Count Of Measles Cases - Measles. Yes, yes, I know you’re sick of hearing about it. For that, though, you must lay the blame at the feet of Donald Trump, RFK Jr., and this entire a...
Mediaite

Trump Reportedly Viewed Noem’s Shooting of Family Dog as an ‘Asset’ in a DHS Secretary - President Donald Trump reportedly viewed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s story about shooting a family dog as an “asset” for a DHS chief. Wh...
Brad Blog

Loser Trump's Unlawful Tariffs, Failed Media Company, Corrupt SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 2/26/2026 - We're getting caught up on today's BradCast with a whole bunch of stuff, from the dark Trump secrets still buried in unreleased Epstein Files, to his lies,...
Political Wire

Unions Tell Schumer to Stay Out of Maine Senate Primary - Union leaders in recent days have urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to end their support for Gov....
Workers World

Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti - [image: Celebrating the revolutionary contributions of Michael Parenti] Sara Flounders — a Workers World contributing editor, who helps coordinate the Inte...
Courthouse News

Delta Conveyance Project opponents say plan would hurt environment, tourism, farming - The California Department of Water Resources says the project is needed to combat a changing climate and future water needs.
Alternet

Family member warns Trump’s cognitive decline 'only going to worsen' as US braces for war - Trump’s niece Mary Trump confessed on CNN that her uncle’s mental impairment is more obvious than ever, and the aging president does not need to be leadi...
Deadline Politics

“Not A Done Deal”: California AG Warns Paramount + WBD Merger Far From Certain - The champagne corks may be popping right now at Paramount over the David Ellison-owned company’s successful bid for Warner Bros Discovery, but up in Sacram...
Progressive.org

The Right to Discriminate - States are fighting to overturn rules meant to help trans youth.
Ballot Access News

New Mexico Ballot Access Bill Dies - On January 22, the New Mexico House Rules Committee ruled that HB 135 cannot be considered in the 2026 session. Bills in even years can’t be considered unl...
Election Law Blog

“Justice Department Sues 5 States, Most Republican-Led, for Voter Data” - N.Y. Times: The Trump administration on Thursday sued five states for voter data, including three governed by Republicans, some of the first red states t...
El Paso Matters

17 measles cases reported in El Paso, including 13 at ICE Camp East Montana - El Paso city health officials are coordinating with federal partners and have provided testing support and vaccines for prevention efforts. The post 17 ...
Environment Texas

Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly - The post Victory! Dallas convention center to be built bird-friendly appeared first on Environment Texas.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Portside

Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March - Trump’s Cruelty Is Strangling Cuba — Its Oil Reserves Could Be Empty by March jay Thu, 02/26/2026 - 19:12
Antiwar.com

How To Bring Peace to Ukraine - There is always an urgency to put an end to war. But there is a growing urgency to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. That urgency was expressed in Ukrain...
San Antonio Current

You can dance if you want to at San Antonio’s La Semana Allegre 2026 - Resuscitated music festival La Semana Allegre unveiled its 2026 lineup Thursday, and it has a little something for everyone — from new wave to Latin to ...
The Verge

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance - Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted a...
See You In 2020

The Epstein class has an Israeli-backed plan to weaponize organized crime, & terrorize the people into submission - When it comes to the long-term designs of the Epstein class, an insightful resource is the Israeli-backed psyop book Bronze Age Mindset. Its author, the...
Earthworks

Delfin LNG Pipeline Explosion Underscores Dangers of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure, Casts Doubt on Project Viability - In February, a gas pipeline in Southwest Louisiana, part of an offshore liquified “natural” gas (LNG) export project expedited by … The post Delfin LNG ...
Claytoonz

Pam Pedo Protector - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Salon.com

“They can’t ride off into the sunset”: Moulton calls for ICE agents to be “prosecuted” - The Mass. Democrat called for criminal prosecution against ICE's lawlessness in a new interview
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Free Booker Ngesa Omole! - We demand the immediate release of Booker Ngese Omole, the General Secretary of the Communist Party Marxist – Kenya, who was unjustly abducted by Kenyan po...
CultureMap Houston

2 Michelin-recognized pitmasters cooking up Texas barbecue joint in NYC - Two important restaurants in the Texas barbecue scene have spawned a new project in a less-expected locale: New York City. Barbs B Q owner Chuck Charnichar...
Popular Resistance

United States Unipolarity vs China’s Multipolarity - The United States is waging a new cold war against China. This has been openly admitted in Washington for several years. The First and Second Cold Wars a...
The Daily Poster

Lifestyles Of The Rich, Famous, And Epstein-Connected - Newly released files show that while private equity giant Apollo Global Management was milking companies dry, founder Leon Black was spending millions on a...
The Greanville Post

US Proxy War on Russia: What Comes Next? - BRIAN BERLETIC—Today, the Western media openly admits that ongoing long-range drone strikes deep inside Russian territory and maritime drone strikes on Rus...
Second Nexus

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Trolls Kash Patel With Epic Zing Over 'Heated Rivalry' Airbnb Listing - MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's FBI Director, Kash Patel, is facing backlash over his taxpayer-funded locker room booze fest at the Milano Corti...
Wolf Street

AI, the Immigration Crackdown, and Mind-Blowing Overhiring in 2020-2022 Are Now Rattling the Labor Market - Despite only tepid job creation by the private sector, unemployment remains historically low.
Undernews

Word -
The NM Political Report

Supreme Court removes New Mexico judge from the bench - [image: NMPR_default] The New Mexico Supreme Court ordered a McKinley County magistrate judge off the bench this week, ending a months-long saga between t...
SCOTUSblog

Court rejects ICE contractor’s right to immediate appeal - The opinion yesterday in The GEO Group v. Menocal rejects the efforts of a contractor for ICE to get an immediate appeal from a district court judgment. ...
Futurism

The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger - What's going on? The post The Saga of NASA’s Space Station Evacuation Keeps Getting Stranger appeared first on Futurism.
The Rag Blog

JONAH RASKIN / BOOK REVIEW / Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground - Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground. By Zayd Ayers Dohrn; W. W.Norton & Company, 2026 By Jonah Raskin ...
WhoWhatWhy

Will Senate GOP Kill Filibuster to SAVE Trump? - [image: Donald Trump, World Economic Forum, Switzerland] Trump’s up the creek. The Senate GOP seems to be taking a pass on handing him a paddle. Will Sena...
Novara Media

The By-Election That Could End Starmer - Could this be the end for Starmer? Plus: Labour’s dirty tricks revealed, disgusting media smears on Polanski, and the battle for Your Party leadership cont...
Mother Jones

Trump’s War on National Park Signs Is Even Dumber Than You Think - Last fall, an informational sign vanished from a patch of grass across from Chevy Chase Circle in Northwest Washington, DC. The placard—installed in 2022 b...
The Root

Oscars 2026: The Most Iconic Black Celeb Red Carpet Looks of All Time - From Halle Berry to Colman Domingo, these are the best Academy Awards red carpet looks ever from our faves! Read more...
First Draft

Won’t Someone Think Of Women In Sports? - MAGA can't quit sexism.
OpEd News

The State of the Nation: Feb. 25, 2026 - This column is framed by 2 "Yogi-isms:" "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." And, "It's never over 'til it's over." One begins the essay, the ot...
NPR's Health Shots

Why it's a bit surprising that the U.S. is attending a key global flu meeting - After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to determine the recipe for the ...
Rewire

How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos - A sex toy has become a symbol of resistance in Minnesota and beyond. The post How Minneapolis Fought ICE With Dildos appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Scheerpost.com

DHS Agents Lie To Abduct Columbia Student - “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help,” read the Instagram caption of the detained student.
Independent Political Report

Detroit Regional Chamber Poll Shows Tight Three-Way Race in Michigan Gubernatorial Election - A Detroit Regional Chamber/Glengariff Group poll finds Michigan’s 2026 gubernatorial election has developed into a competitive three-way contest, with in...
Capital & Main

Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Tourism - Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue. The post Trump’s Deport...
Alas, a Blog

Two Quick Thoughts On AI Art and Artists - I’m not as anti-AI as a lot of my cohort (lefty artists). I’ve never been morally against art made by remixing other artists’ work, so it’s hard for me to ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

What to Watch for in the Texas Primaries - The 2026 primary season will begin next week, with Texas being the biggest event of the night. Both sides have nationally-watched primaries for the seat ...
Texas Standard

Scandal surrounding Rep. Tony Gonzales sends tremors through contested political frontier - The fallout from allegations involving Rep. Tony Gonzales is reverberating across a pivotal congressional district with implications for power, accountabil...
Project Censored

No Press, No Choice: Lessons from Djibouti’s Scripted Election - Zineb Haddaji For Washington, Djibouti is not just another ally. It is a strategic hinge point on the Red Sea corridor, positioned beside one of the busi...
Sludge

AIPAC Donor-Tied Group Drops Six Figures for Foushee - A mysterious super PAC, Article One PAC, has spent $600,000 supporting Rep. Valerie Foushee in the NC-04 Democratic primary against challenger Nida Allam.
Axios

The Epstein files keep toppling the powerful. The latest: the man who runs Davos. - World Economic Forum leader Børge Brende announced his resignation Thursday, the latest casualty of the Epstein files fallout rocking business, politics ...
Glasstire

Top Five: February 26, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Prince Varughese Thomas: A House DividedHooks-Epstein G...
Dorf on Law

Kansas Bans Driving While Trans - As of today, transgender Kansans whose driver's licenses denote their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth (as was previously permitte...
Mondoweiss

Gaza does not need new overlords - [image: Displaced Palestinians return to their destroyed homes in the al-Maghraqa area south of Gaza City, January 31, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Image...
Bonddad

More clarity in jobless claims: both post-pandemic seasonality and regime change at work - - *by New Deal democrat* As we move further into the calendar year, we are getting more clarity on what has been happening with jobless claims. As a...
The Conversation

How to prevent elections from being stolen − lessons from around the world for the US - As President Trump and other Republicans cast doubt on the legitimacy of the US electoral system, other democracies offer lessons in protecting the integri...
Democracy Now!

A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible for 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ - A record 129 press workers were killed worldwide in 2025, more in one year than in any of the previous three decades for which the Committee to Protect Jou...
Angry Bear

Blocking Flu Shots - Started at the end rather than the beginning . . . Blocking Flu shots does not make much sense as Flu Shots are nothing new. The big issue is whether the...
ArcaMax

So You Want to Be a Plumber - The skilled trades have become hot of late. That has many young people dropping plans to attend college. Meanwhile, some desk-bound professionals are said ...
Space City Weather

Houston will end a frying February with an exclamation point - In brief: In today’s post we’re celebrating like it’s the 80s all over again, because that’s how February is going to end. In fact, with three days to go, ...
Infidel753

Who I am, part 2 -- ancestry and culture - My "who I am" post two weeks ago, which I started with the goal of explaining why I'm not a political blogger or activist, ended up necessarily being part...
Earth 911

Circular Economy Startups to Watch in 2026 - The circular economy grew 7.5% in the past year and now employs more than 2.2... The post Circular Economy Startups to Watch in 2026 appeared first on E...
The Smirking Chimp

SOTU: A Post-Mortem: More Will Surely Die. -
Skeptophilia

The slingshot - Coming right on the heels of yesterday's post about a star so large the astrophysicists are at a loss to explain how it even exists, today we have... .....
Off The Kuff

UT/Texas Politics Project: Crockett 56, Talarico 44 - Adding it to the poll pile. Dallas U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett has a double-digit lead over Austin state Rep. James Talarico in the final days of Texas’ Sen...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT's restructuring makes Texas less inclusive and more divided, by Alicia Perez-Hodge - * Friends:* *I urge you to read this opinion on the dissolution of Mexican American and Latino Studies (MALS) at UT written by a highly respected member ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
The Texas Signal

Legal Challenges For Texas Muslim Organizations - In the past several months, Paxton and his office have been quite busy filing lawsuits against developments with ties to the Islamic community
Church and State

Donald Trump makes the worst speech of his career. Is it politically fatal? - The majority of voters disapprove of the way President Trump is approaching every single one of his priority issues.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Enough with this Fascist Mess: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Idavox

ICE is silencing the children of migrant children - There’s a reason why Trump didn’t mention I.C.E. all that much during his State of... The post ICE is silencing the children of migrant children appeared...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Texas Observer

A New Age for Houston Politics? - Among the youngest cohorts of voting age, there’s a running online joke that they “should’ve been” buying real estate or investing in Bitcoin decades ago...
Ecosophia

February 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
NORML

Mainstream Media’s New Era of Reefer Madness - [image: A reefer madness stylized illustration of a man holding a cannabis flower and smoking a joint surrounded by large plumes of marijuana smoke][image...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
Crooked Timber

Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 2 - Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a Europ...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #16: The DNC's Secret 2024 Autopsy, Kash Patel at the Olympics, and War With Iran (w/Katherine Krueger) - Also: Wuthering Heights and the East Coast blizzard!
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
The Progressive Wing

2/23-26 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting the week up here with plenty of snow.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind - Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
Common Dreams

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? - The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "tru...
Bracing Views

Why We Fight Wrongful Wars - Ours Not to Reason Why BILL ASTORE FEB 22, 2026 If you’re looking to “your” military to resist wrongful wars, you’re looking in the wrong place. I should k...
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! Build protests against US blockade - Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. r...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
DeSmogBlog

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show - When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a w...
Unlimited Hangout

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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