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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Eschaton

Sunday Afternoon - Enjoy
Alternet

Conservative icon: The public has finally taken power away from the elites - President Donald Trump is increasingly unpopular, as the No Kings protests demonstrate — and this means that right now “the public is leading the elites”...
memeorandum

Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. 'They Let Him Rot in There.' (New York Times) - New York Times: *Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’* — As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detenti...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, Subtractive Schooling—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, *Subtractive Schooling*—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. *Every now and then, someone comes ...
Raw Story

Voters in Vance's hometown furious at Trump admin siding with 'horrible' polluter - The Donald Trump- JD Vance administration has sentenced Middletown, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance's hometown — to decades of environmental devastation by...
Mediaite

Secret Service Reportedly ‘Not Letting’ Tiger Woods Drive With Trump’s Grandchildren - Even prior to his arrest on Friday, golf legend Tiger Woods has been forbidden to drive President Trump's grandchildren around — according to a new repor...
Salon.com

Horror’s favorite formula is wearing thin - Between "They Will Kill You" and "Ready or Not 2," stylized horror-comedy about the underdog has lost its edge
Futurism

Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain - What else are friends for? The post Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain appeared first on Futurism.
Scheerpost.com

Holy Week Under Lockdown: Israeli Police Stop Catholic Leaders in Jerusalem - ScheerPost Staff In Jerusalem this year, Palm Sunday didn’t begin with hymns or palm branches. It began with police barricades, armed officers, and the unp...
Daily Cartoonist

The NCS at 80 - The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is embarking on a year long celebration of its founding in 1946. That includes the 80th annual presentation of The R...
The Texas Signal

No Kings Protests Return To Texas - Thousands of Texans took part in No Kings protests in all corners of the state
The Guardian (U.S. news)

DHS funding freeze now longest partial government shutdown in US history - If the now-six-week partial shutdown continues after the weekend, it will become the longest of any shutdown The shutdown of the Department of Homeland S...
The Hill

America’s shifting baselines are a threat to democracy and governance - Generation after generation, the baseline for what's healthy and acceptable continually erodes.
The Verge

Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real? - The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and sa...
San Antonio Report

SwRI’s motion capture tech has applications for everything from jump shots to Alzheimer’s - The same SwRI-developed technology used by the San Antonio Spurs, Air Force and MLB is being explored in a range of medical applications. ------------------...
The Socialist

Brian Kemp Net Worth 2026: The $10M Debt-Cutting Governor - Table of Contents From Small Town Roots to a $10 Million Real Estate Empire in 2026 Kemp Properties: The Engine Behind Brian Kemp’s $10,000,000 Fortune Bey...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Spurs take on Bulls Monday night as team looks to dominate Eastern foes - [image: The Spurs have a lot to celebrate right now.] Next up for the Silver and Black is a West Coast swing that includes matchups against a trip of pote...
Novara Media

We’ve Proven We Can Beat Reform and Labour - Last week at EartH Hackney, Dalia Gebrial sat down with Hannah Spencer, the new MP for Gorton and Denton, and Faiza Shaheen, the director of Tax Justice UK...
Slate

I Was Once Given Just Three Years to Live. A Specific Kind of Hope Could Help Cancer Patients Like Me. - The debate around the word “cure.”
Mondoweiss

Gaming the Iran war and the Gaza Genocide Syndrome - [image: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to L3Harris employees as part of his Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Camden, Ark., Feb. 27, 2026. (DoW phot...
Political Wire

‘No Kings’ Rallies a Show of Political Force - USA Today: “The left-leaning protests with the Revolutionary-era call against President Donald Trump as a would-be monarch and authoritarian had the broade...
Glasstire

Talking with Casie Lomeli About Community Through “The Things We Carry” - This article is part of a series of pieces authored by Vincent Solis, Contemporary Art Month’s 2026 Critical Writing Fellow. The Critical Writing Fellows...
Bracing Views

Hard Chargers, Yes–Deep Thinkers, No - Kakistocracy at the Department of War BILL ASTORE MAR 27, 2026 I was reading an article today about Pete Hegseth, self-styled Secretary of War, and his dec...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli footballer’s role in assault on southern Lebanon sparks outrage - Israeli Premier League player Menashe Zalka is seen opening fire with Israeli army soldiers in southern Lebanon assault.
Undernews

Donald Trump - *New Republic - *President Donald Trump was humiliated in a Cabinet meeting Thursday while trying to defend voting by mail in Florida’s special election ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Fog of Limited Military Operation' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
WhoWhatWhy

Israel’s Explanation for Killing Three Journalists in Lebanon Doesn’t Add Up - [image: journalists killed by Israel, Ali Shoeib, protests, Lebanon, Fatima Ftouni] Israel claims that one of the three journalists it killed on Saturday w...
First Draft

The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) - A courtroom drama starring George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, and George Tobias. Directed by Vincent She...
Mediagazer

An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views across its first 21 episodes after debuting last week (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) - Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: *An AI-generated TikTok parody of reality series Love Island, called Fruit Love Island, averaged 10M+ views ac...
Grist

‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California - A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shor...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Electric filings detail power plant impact behind Meta’s $10 billion data center - The data center’s cost will grow from $1.5 billion to $10 billion as El Paso Electric works to rapidly build a power plant to service it. Opponents are ...
Axios

Everyone's worried that AI's newest models are a hacker's dream weapon - Top AI and government officials tell Axios CEO Jim VandeHei that Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech giants will soon release new models that are scary-good...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Hey Claude, Follow The Money - Compromised AI decisions, radical manifestos, and more from The Lever this week.
Election Law Blog

NM: “OPINION: Party election rules must be upheld” - Albuquerque Journal: The Uniform State Rules of the Republican Party of New Mexico contain a clear provision addressing situations where a state party of...
Mother Jones

These Scientists Tested How Climate Change Affects Wild Meadows—With Alarming Results - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Every summer, people descend on the w...
Countercurrents

Will the US-Israeli War on Iran Open the Road to Palestinian Freedom? - Some are expressing frustration that Iran’s conditions to end the war have not explicitly and unequivocally included a demand to end the Israeli occupation...
OpEd News

Land day and more - We are seeing a huge change globally thanks to our collective efforts. One example is the hundreds of thousands on streets yesterday in the US in all major...
NPR's Health Shots

How to navigate the maze of drug discounts to get the best price - In February, TrumpRx joined a growing list of websites consumers can tap for discounts on their medicines. Here's a cheat sheet for getting the best deal.
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Vox

The larger stakes of Trump’s redesign of Washington, DC - While President Donald Trump has been flexing America’s might overseas, he’s also working to impose his will on the nation’s capital. Trump’s urban interve...
The Root

Black Nurse Details Terror, Heroism After Plane Crash on LaGuardia Runway - A Black nurse explains what happened in the moments after the LaGuardia plane crash which killed two pilots. Read more...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "you have to understand, / that no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land"
naked capitalism

Links 3/29/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: Turning Yesterday’s Solidarity Into Political Power -
Off The Kuff

Four HISD schools achieve some separation from Mike Miles - This seems like a good thing. They all wanted it, I don’t see any quotes from opponents in the story. Am I missing something? Four of Houston ISD’s most pr...
Houston Public Media

‘Our democracy is worth it’: ‘No Kings’ protesters in Houston area rally against Trump administration - The third installment of "No Kings" protests in the Houston region drew thousands of demonstrators Saturday as part of a coordinated, nationwide movement i...
Crooked Media

When Life Gives You Don Lemon - The post When Life Gives You Don Lemon appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

Panama’s historic towns and wild islands - Central American nation is packed with ‘sprawling’ skyscrapers and ‘candy-coloured’ buildings
Counterpunch

The Election Fraud Con - Much of the coverage surrounding the SAVE Act treats it as a familiar partisan dispute, with discussions on CNN panels and elsewhere framed in procedural...
jobsanger

No Posting Today - I didn't post today. Just needed a day off. I'll be back at it tomorrow.
Informed Comment

Trump’s “New” Mideast: False Promises of Peace Through War - Imperial wars falsely advertised as a means to peace and stability are not, however, "new" in this region
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! – ‘Diplomacy By Other Means’ - Donald Trump has broken every diplomatic rule in the book in his disastrous unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Now he’s trying to suck in European ...
World Socialist Web Site

More than 8 million join mass anti-Trump “No Kings” protests - Huge crowds gathered in major cities and rural communities alike, underscoring the breadth of opposition to war, fascism and the attacks on immigrants.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Should We Ridicule Alien Technology Claims? Are They Related to Wars? - "Wait for the weekend to go off the deep end." Many or most people may have been indoctrinated to believe that UFOs or aliens are a fringe belief that ...
Portside

We Must Tax Their Wealth - We Must Tax Their Wealth Dave Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:23
Deadline Politics

Israeli Strike Kills 3 Lebanese Journalists; Committee To Protect Journalists Decries “Disturbing Pattern” Of Targeting Media Workers - Three Lebanese journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to officials. Per reporting from Al Jazeera, the attack targeted a clearly m...
Popular Resistance

Donald Trump And The Truth About Robert Mueller - The public denunciation of a political enemy on the day of his death would be shocking if those words were uttered by anyone other than Donald Trump. The...
Claytoonz

Mr. Johnson No Johnson - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Liberation News

Women’s History Month: Women’s leadership in educators’ unions leads labor’s revival - Organizing and demanding better for themselves and their students, women-led teacher unions inspire.
The Grayzone

Who’s behind the mysterious ‘Iran-backed terror cell’ haunting Europe? - Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they’re not targeting countries directly involved i...
Techdirt.

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: I Am Sam Spade - Last week, we announced the winners of our eighth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1930! Now it’s time to begin our series of spotlight post...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts. I know you all want to keep talking about gay Klingons, but restrain yourselves!
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: She had a question for President Trump! - *SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2026* *We have a question for you:* You'll have to forgive us for our minor activity today. We're looking ahead, starting Monday, ...
CultureMap Houston

Longtime Upper Kirby steakhouse to shutter and more top Houston news - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including two high-profile closures that are happening soon. Plus, we introduce...
Courthouse News

Minnesota serves as the flagship for nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump - Minnesota is emerging as the focal point of a nationwide wave of “No Kings” demonstrations, with organizers expecting the anti-Trump protests to draw some ...
Angry Bear

One Rule Congress Must Change - “Shared Legislative Power: The One Rule Congress Must Change” J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Congress is widely described as...
The Progressive Wing

March 28-29 News Roundup and Open Thread - Last weekend in March. Although pretty cold here today, it’s bright and sunny and it looks like March will be going out in the traditional lamb mode. Headi...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for March 23 - 27 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Unsurprisingly, the main issue is the spreading disruption from the spi...
ArcaMax

What If Trump Cancels the Election? - I could be wrong. I hope I am. When it comes to political predictions, my pattern recognition skills usually win. I predicted America's defeat in Afghanist...
Skeptophilia

No guardrails - I was asked a couple of days ago if I think that AI is *inherently* bad. My answer might surprise you; it was an unhesitating "no." As a construct with --...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 28 March 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Mattresses have declared war on humanity. These people have their own tak...
The AltWorld

Vic Mensa: US Siege on Cuba Is a ‘Crime Against Humanity’ - Rapper and activist Vic Mensa joins hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear to discuss his journey to […] The post Vic Mensa: US Siege on Cuba Is a ‘Crime ...
Wolf Street

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Drops to 31-Year Low as Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies & Gold - The spike of the “non-traditional reserve currencies.”
Workers World

Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues - [image: Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues] On March 14, a Fort Worth, Texas, jury found nine activists guilty o...
Ballot Access News

Arizona Governor Vetoes Bill that Required Paid Circulators to Tell Everyone Approach What State the Circulator Lives In - On March 12, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed HB 4115. It would have required paid initiative petitioners to tell everyone approached what state the cir...
See You In 2020

Iran is fighting a war to save the world, & it will be fully won when Americans defeat their Epstein dictatorship - Iran’s heroic example in defying the Satanic Epstein regime’s aggression is something that can inspire Americans to fight back themselves. To recognize ...
Progressive.org

Music, Violence, and the Ritual That AI Cannot Replace - Strip-mining our culture and selling it back to us to the detriment of all.
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Tuesday, March 31 - On Tuesday, March 31, we will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here f...
Texas Standard

CPAC draws conservatives to Texas amid Iran war, Republican battle for U.S. Senate nomination - The influential Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, is underway in Grapevine. While the annual event draws attendees and speakers from all o...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: PHONEY WAR EDITION. - *He looks like a high school science teacher but sometimesMichael Franks gets into Wesley Willis territory.* One good thing about everything getting stu...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2026 - Censored Press News Allison T. Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, has had a number of articles...
MintPress News

Trump’s Iran Gamble Is Spiraling Out of Control: From Shock & Awe to Strategic Failure - In this week’s episode of the MintCast podcast hosted by MintPress director Mnar Adley, we are joined by Iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh to talk a...
The Conversation

What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes - The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens.
Duck of Minerva

Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility - When I was in graduate school, my training included the methods and theories of international relations but also some of the epistemology and philosophy of...
The Militant

End US war in Mideast! Bring troops home now! - “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Mari...
Common Dreams

Economic Liberties Applauds Bicameral “Take Back Our Hospitals” Legislation - In response to Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-CT) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon’s (D-PA-05) introduction of the Take Back Our Hospitals Act, which would effectively ...
NORML

Voters Gave Ohio Legal Cannabis. Then Lawmakers Took Away the Part That Helped Me. - [image: topical cannabis cream][image: topical cannabis cream]NORML Winter '25/Spring '26 Intern Tobey MacCachran shares how Ohio lawmakers' repeal of le...
Capital & Main

The Social Care Company Trying to Undermine the U.S. Labor Board - Findhelp is a public benefit corporation that wants the structure of the National Labor Relations Board held unconstitutional. Critics say those things d...
Dissent Magazine

A New Non-Aligned Movement? - The “middle powers” can band together to chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
Texas Observer

Dolores Huerta Feared Speaking About Her Abuse for Years. The Farmworkers She Advocates for Understand. - Editor’s Note: This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th and is republished with permission. Read more of her reporting here on g...
Rewire

Government to Investigate States That Require Insurers to Cover Abortion Care - Plus: Olympics ban trans women from women's events, requires genetic testing; and Colorado pioneers a creative legal strategy to protect abortion. The p...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Won't Vote Our Way Out of Fascism - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Church and State

When will the GOP Congress members finally call Trump for his crimes? - Is there no Senator in the GOP, like Barry Goldwater, who has the courage, integrity, or willingness to risk their career for the sake of our democracy?
The NM Political Report

Senate Republicans agree to Dem demands funding DHS without ICE ops; House approval uncertain - [image: United States Capitol] The United States Senate voted by unanimous consent overnight to break the impasse and fund the Department of Homeland Secu...
Democracy Now!

Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs "Pa'lante" at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary - The 30th anniversary celebration of *Democracy Now!*, held in New York City’s historic Riverside Church this week, featured live performances and appearanc...
Debunking Christianity

Leaving the Church: A Welcome Relief or Trauma? - *It can be a mixture of both* By the time I finished my PhD in Biblical Studies in 1975 (Boston University), I had become an atheist. Primarily because...
Independent Political Report

Bodnar Announces Independent Campaign for U.S. Senate - *This article by Micah Drew was originally published by the Daily Montanan on March 4, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 license.*…
Space City Weather

Extreme drought expanding into Houston metro area with limited rainfall on the horizon - In brief: In today’s post we have some good news, and some bad news. Let’s start with the good. There are many, many outdoor activities this weekend in the...
ProPublica

Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault - The post Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault appeared first on ProPublica.
Rallblog

TACO Toos-Day | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The First Step To Sustainability - Today’s inspiration and photo come from Earth911’s Mitch Ratcliffe: “The first step to sustainability is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The First Step...
Dorf on Law

President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order: Too Much Detail, Too Little Authority -- Guest Post by Scott Titshaw and Stephen Yale-Loehr - There are three categories of birthright citizenship recognized around the world. Two of these, citizenship based on place of birth and citizenship inher...
Greg Palast

1931 is here again. We hope. - It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re ...
High Country News

Why intentional fires can still be safe during this dry spring - Land managers are finding pockets of cool, wet conditions, allowing them to safely reduce future fire risk. The post Why intentional fires can still be ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/27/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Antiwar.com

How the West Is Quietly Legitimizing Anti-Iran Terrorists - US President Ronald Reagan once declared that “Terrorism is the preferred weapon of weak and evil men.” While the ideological descendants of President Reag...
Earthworks

Methane gas is different: How Trump’s Attack on EPA Power Does NOT Effect #CutMethane Rules - Oil and methane gas is different. In February, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented attack to sabotage the Environmental Protection … Th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: 11 Rating Changes in Democratic-Held Seats; Non-Presidential Party Typically Doesn’t Lose Many of Their Own Seats in Midterms - Because the presidential party usually loses ground in the House in midterms, it is also the case that they typically flip only a handful of seats from t...
The Mind Unleashed

Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba - Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba 2026 Dalam dunia permainan online, banyak pemain mencari cara untuk meningkatkan peluang kemenangan. Arti...
Seeing the Forest

A Progressive Populist Agenda - Here’s a first stab at some ideas for a post-Trump agenda that would actually be popular with the public. Democratic “We the People” Government is based on...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter : What Awaits US Ground Troops - JUDGE NAP—The chapter examines claims of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran: President Trump’s assertion that his envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkof...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Visual reminder - homophobia and transphobia are two heads on the same beast - I have a visual reminder for everyone, particularly the relatively small number but nonetheless extremely annoying and ignorant LGB people in my communit...
Sludge

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability - The campaign arm pulled in $4.1 million from lobbyist bundlers in February, including firms representing pharmaceutical, insurance, and corporate landlords.
Ecosophia

March 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...
Alas, a Blog

Parents’ Rights - The right-wing (plus some alleged liberals cough Singal cough) assault on trans kids is genuinely horrifying. Literally hundreds of anti-trans bills – most...
LareDOS

April 1 at Casa Ortiz: Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and art exhibit of Bethany House residents - The Laredo Cultural District’s (LCD) upcoming Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and the art exhibit of Bethany House residents is set...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #19: Iran Updates, ICE at the Airport, the State of Magazine Covers, and Chappell Roan vs. Jude Law's Daughter - Official War Correspondent Cros is back to tell us what to think about the war.
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Socialist Alternative

How Cincinnati Is Building an Anti-ICE, Strike-Ready Fightback - Donald Trump’s war and deportation machine has kicked into overdrive, tearing apart communities at home while expanding violence abroad. But across the cou...
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Executive Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Krebs on Security

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran - A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secu...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice - Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attemp...
Trivial Knot

Four reviews of musical sequels - In my family, I have a reputation for hating movies. To some extent this is humorous exaggeration, but it has been a noticeable pattern since my teenage ye...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas, Porte Faugères - [image: Porte Faugères]
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Field Negro

No bottom. - *"Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. ... They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Invades Lebanon Again: The Greater Israel Project That Keeps Failing - Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli official...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Lowering the Bar

FEMA Official: Teleporting to Waffle House Was an “Incredible Adventure” - "Incredible" is the operative word there.
DeSmogBlog

Breaking: UK Court Paves Way for Alleged Exxon Hacker-for-Hire’s Extradition to U.S. - An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. law enforcement for allegedly orchestrating an illegal “hacking-for-hire” operation on behalf of oil and g...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Environment Texas

Sued for plastic pollution, Dow asks Texas regulators for permission to discharge pellets - Dow argues the “trace amounts” limit on plastic discharges – the basis of Texas’ lawsuit – is “vague” and unnecessarily stringent. The post Sued for plas...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
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,...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. —...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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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