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

Dissident Voice

The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation - The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of Ma...
memeorandum

US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *US army lawyer fired as immigration judge after defying Trump deportation agenda* — Christopher Day was fired barely a month into th...
Al Jazeera English

At least nine people killed in shooting at South Africa tavern - South African police say a manhunt is under way after a mass shooting killed at least nine people and injured 10.
Informed Comment

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story” - On grief, land, and love in the struggle for Palestinian food and memory
The Hill

Jesse Watters: Trump compared Twitter account to Gettysburg Address - Fox News host Jesse Watters on Saturday said President Trump once compared his Twitter account to former President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Wa...
Raw Story

Epstein survivor accuses Trump admin of 'grave and indefensible' error that risks her life - Donald Trump's administration committed a "grave and indefensible violation" with a mistake it made in the production of certain Epstein files, according...
Popular Resistance

Your Anti-Communism Problem And Mine - On November 7, 2025, Donald J. Trump declared Anti-Communism Week 2025 as “a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destru...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: Anger grows about redactions, apparent removal of Epstein files from DoJ website - Justice department hit with legal threats after authorities release limited, heavily redacted trove of files in apparent violation of Epstein Transparenc...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Sets Case Management Conference in California Minor Party Lawsuit on Top-Two System - On December 19, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney set a case management conference in Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308. It will be F...
Mediaite

Trump Called His Twitter Posts the ‘Modern-Day Equivalent of the Gettysburg Address’ - President Donald Trump called his social media posts the 21st century version of the Gettysburg Address, according to Fox News star Jesse Watters The pos...
Claytoonz

Sycophant Center - 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...
Scheerpost.com

Second Ship Seized: U.S. Tightens Grip on Venezuelan Oil at Sea - Image US seized another ship in the Caribbean, Noem saysHomeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that the U.S. Coast Guard interdicted a sanctione...
Futurism

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself - "If there are historians in the future, they'll look back at Starship and say it's one of the most profound things that's ever happened." The post Elon S...
Portside

2026: A Year of Reckoning - 2026: A Year of Reckoning jay Sat, 12/20/2025 - 19:21
Mediagazer

Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: *Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists...
Eschaton

Saturday Evening - Enjoy
Glasstire

Lucia Simek to Step Down as Executive Director of Dallas Contemporary - Dallas Contemporary (DC) has announced that Lucia Simek, Executive Director, will be leaving her position. A Friday, December 19, press release states th...
Political Wire

Bill Clinton Just Can’t Escape Scandal - New York Times: “Over the quarter-century since he left the White House, he has painstakingly worked to overcome the personal scandals that marred his pres...
Axios

Synthetic soul: AI-generated gospel "Mississippi" singer Solomon Ray tops Christian chart - An artificial intelligence-generated soul singer named Solomon Ray has climbed Christian music charts, igniting a national debate over authenticity, race...
Undernews

Winter Storm Warning as 3 Feet of Snow to Strike -
Daily Cartoonist

A Comic Strip Roll Call - With Calvin and Hobbes, Lum and Abner, Dick Tracy, Luann, Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) and Tom Toro, and Dee Parson (Rosebuds). a boy and his tiger still matt...
Salon.com

New vetting rules slow H-1B visa processing, leaving workers in limbo - US visa delays have left hundreds of H-1B workers stuck abroad, raising concerns for employers and families
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: December 14th – 20th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, USA Today published its latest bogus oped against Section 230 that misrepresented the law, a district court rejected CDT’...
OpEd News

Lebanon between state restoration and regional pressures: questions of sovereignty, security, and economy - This is an interview with Lebanese retired general about the latest developments in Lebanon and the tension between Israel and Lebanon
Off The Kuff

Saturday video break: A crooked jerky jockey riding on a crooked hoss - There are lots of good covers of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” out there, but this one features Weird Al Yankovic and a badass trumpet solo: I’ve become ...
Alternet

Trump's second term poses a clear challenge - Today, after almost a year of Trump’s second regime, I want to talk about the challenge Trump and his regime pose to America’s moral purpose. The best wa...
Environment Texas

Success stories from four state parks leaders - Hear from state park representatives on how they’ve been able to fund, expand, and maintain their state parks. The post Success stories from four state p...
First Draft

Caturday: Home Again - Finn says "meow".
The Verge

Sony’s XM5 headphones and the latest Kindle round out this week’s best deals - If you’re feeling the stress of having procrastinated on your holiday shopping — and you missed out during Black Friday and Cyber Monday — we’ve got you. W...
Liberation News

A ‘blue wave’ or a new system? How to make universal healthcare a reality - The U.S. has the resources, knowledge and skills to adopt universal health care right now. Socialism would redirect our resources towards people’s health, ...
Election Law Blog

“Coldwater community supports former Mayor at first court appearance since election fraud accusations” - KAKE: Friday, former Coldwater Mayor Joe Ceballos appeared in court for the first time since being accused of and charged with voter fraud. Ceballos des...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #LegacyMediaFail - [image: Media, Dumpster Fire] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #LegacyMediaFail originally appeared on W...
Daily Dot

“Nothing prepared me”: Butter Baby pop-up lets guests spoon butter onto a yellow mascot - [image: butter baby la popup donuts] A baffling look inside the Butter Baby cult in LA. The character-driven, hyper aesthetic dessert company’s LA pop-up...
Slate

My Wife Wants to Ruin Everyone’s Christmas to Make a Point to Our Son. Not on My Watch. - This punishment is way too much.
CultureMap Houston

French pastry chef picks Houston for U.S. debut and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a French cafe's upcoming U.S. debut. Plus, inside the hottest ne...
San Antonio Report

Texas A&M System tightens restrictions on discussing race and gender in class - Under the new rules at Texas A&M, discussions on “race or gender ideology," sexual orientation or gender identity appear to be barred from introductory-lev...
Courthouse News

Taiwan attacker planned assault that killed 3 and injured 11, authorities say - Authorities in Taiwan said the suspect behind a deadly attack in Taipei acted with premeditation, carrying out coordinated violence that left three people ...
Reform Austin

Susie Wiles Offers Rare Look Inside Trump’s White House - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Trump’s chief of staff raises concerns about GOP voters and offers blunt assessments of Elon Mu...
Consortium News

Support CN’s Middle East Coverage - Seven-year old Consortium News in 2002 was one of the first outlets to reject the politicized intelligence for the disasters Iraq invasion and has run circ...
The Root

Chris Brown’s and Donny Hathaway Both Sang ‘This Christmas.’ Only One Is Worth Playing - There's only one answer when it comes to who has the superior version of "This Christmas." Read more...
Mondoweiss

‘What is the Christian word in the face of genocide?’: new Kairos Palestine document calls for repudiation of Zionism - [image: Displaced Palestinians continue their daily lives under difficult conditions inside displacement tents scattered amidst the destruction in the Zeit...
ArcaMax

Transgender Teens - According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgend...
Angry Bear

The “gold standard” QCEW through Q2 suggests little if any employment growth this year - – by New Deal democrat The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census of 95%...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for December 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. All of the trends that we have been seeing for the past several months ...
San Antonio Current

Judge in Ken Paxton divorce case agrees to unseal documents - [image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton finds something to smirk at during a 2024 appearance at a conservative conference in Arizona.] The release of th...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: It's a disease, top newspaper says! - *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025* *Ever so slowly they turn:* Peter Baker, he of the New York Times, is an *extremely *clear-minded journalist. For that re...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Bottled Water Gets Squeezed - Collective bargaining is unbanned, a rideshare giant gets sued, a new player takes on surveillance pricing, and water runs free.
Grist

What a crumbling power grid means for disabled Americans - Angela Frederick’s new book is a call to put disability at the center of disaster planning.
Vox

The Epstein files release did nothing to clear up the scandal’s biggest question - The Trump administration was legally required to release all documents related to federal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein by Friday, with only limited gr...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
naked capitalism

Links 12/20/2025 -
Countercurrents

The Great Betrayal: The Colonisation of Bharat by India - It is a long, tongue-twister of a name for a government scheme – ‘Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)’. It is even more tortur...
The Smirking Chimp

‘When I Opened It I Gasped’: Legal Analyst Shocked at Level of Redactions in Epstein Files -
Skeptophilia

A twist in the fabric - I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal *Science Advances* there was a very cool paper about an obse...
Crooked Media

What Comes After Trump? - The post What Comes After Trump? appeared first on Crooked Media.
ProPublica

A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay - The post A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 20 December 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Today was the deadline for the release of the Epstein files, *all* of them...
Mother Jones

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art - In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another–works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark...
The Week

5 fairly vain cartoons about Vanity Fair’s interviews with Susie Wiles - Artists take on demolition derby, alcoholic personality, and more
jobsanger

Trump Wants A Country Dominated By White Male Christians -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1492: Necessity in the Siege of Paris - Episode: 1492 Necessity and invention during the 1870 siege of Paris. Today, necessity, invention, and the Siege of Paris.
See You In 2020

As AI speeds up capitalist society’s collapse, the hinterland is where we must look to find our way out - When pundits talk about AI’s disruptions of jobs, as a rule they focus not on the actual working families who are being impacted, but on the “creative c...
World Socialist Web Site

*Jacobin *magazine denounces left-wing criticism of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani - Following Mamdani’s fundraisers with billionaires and decision to retain NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, *Jacobin* insisted that left-moving worker...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Workers World

12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia - [image: 12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia] Philadelphia A rally in Philadelphia on Nov. 28 kicked off the 103-mile March for Mumia to ...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico cannabis industry cheers Trump’s rescheduling order - [image: President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order directing federal agencies to speed up the process of reclassifying marijuana as a drug...
NPR's Health Shots

White House announces new round of drug-price deals - Fourteen companies in total have now reached what the administration calls most-favored-nation pricing deals.
Deadline Politics

‘Good Night, And Good Luck’: Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson Sign Off From ‘CBS Evening News’ - John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois signed off as co-anchors of the CBS Evening News on Thursday, as the network retools its evening broadcast under new news...
The Greanville Post

The Hundredth Beach Attack, But The Only One White People Care About - INDRAJIT—White* people have gotten way too comfortable with war from afar. I'm not saying that people within the White Empire have any particular control, ...
Democracy Chronicles

An Interview With the Illinois Green Party’s Eyde Arndell - Right now, the most concerning issue in our country and Illinois is masked, armed ICE agents terrorizing our communities completely disregarding the rule o...
Capital & Main

‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis - In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest. The post ‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change ...
The Conversation

As DOJ begins to release Epstein files, his many victims deserve more attention than the powerful men in his ‘client list’ - Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: After a challenging 2025, El Paso builds toward a shared future - From parks and public health to civic engagement, El Paso’s progress in 2025 shows how local leadership and community participation can shape a resilien...
Church and State

Why is Africa’s extreme population growth ignored, despite very serious consequences? And how will Europe respond? - How will EU countries act in the face of Africa’s extreme population growth and increasing migration?
Wolf Street

Single-Family Home Prices Barely up YoY, Condo Prices Fall, Highest Supply for Nov in Years, Sales at Housing Bust Levels - The beginning of the 4th year of demand destruction in the resale market after the price explosion from mid-2020 to mid-2022.
Socialist Alternative

Ukraine: A War That Defined an Epoch - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
Dorf on Law

The Left's Conventional Wisdom about Last Year's Election Results Is Still Wrong, No Matter How Much They Repeat It - With two weeks of holiday disruptions (and, one hopes, loads of joy and love) ahead of us, I expect this to be my last new *Dorf on Law* column of 2025. ...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s request in dispute over immigration judges - The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Trump administration in a dispute over a policy limiting speaking engagements by immigration j...
Second Nexus

Woman Freaks Out After Getting Stuck In Entry Pod At Her 24-Hour Gym—And It's Pure Nightmare Fuel - This may not be the most innovative thought, but sometimes it's true that if it's not broken, you don't need to fix it. That wasn't how the 24-hour gym ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Boutros Boutros Carpathia - Even good writers would not have been able to escape the trap that Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye set for themselves here in "Left Behind."
Texas Standard

Longhorn Ballroom celebrates 75 years of music history with big plans for the future - The Dallas venue, now on the National Register of Historic Places, has hosted a diverse array of acts – from Bob Wills and Nat King Cole to the Sex Pistols...
Rallblog

We’re Workers Too - From an economic standpoint, governments look at citizens as workers, consumers or both. Most people, of course, are both: we work and earn, and we spend...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Announces State Leadership Changes - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has shifted its state leadership following the resignation of Justin Miramonti as chair, with former Vice Chair Tim Tea...
Common Dreams

Trump Ends Year on Voters’ Naughty List As Rising Unemployment and Snowballing Prices Crush Holiday Spirit - As 2025 comes to a close, Americans are taking stock of an economy that looks nothing like what Donald Trump promised. Instead of lower prices and stable...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where the Bodies are Buried: The Hidden DNC Autopsy - The DNC is choosing to hide what went wrong in 2024 and, in turn, is making future failure much, much likelier
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Rewire

FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnancy. But Doctors Call Them a Lifeline. - “Treating mental illness in pregnancy is not a luxury,” said one doctor. “It’s a necessity.” The post FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnan...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Democracy Now!

"Terror & Fear": Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery - The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with *The New York Times* reporting that off...
The AltWorld

The strong return of the Islamic State - What is the most significant threat to America and the new Syria? And what are the causes […] The post The strong return of the Islamic State appeared fi...
Space City Weather

After today Jack Frost is gonna get lost - In brief: It is chilly across Houston this morning, with some outlying areas falling all the way into the upper 30s. Most of us are in the lower 40s. This ...
Texas Observer

A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish - The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Things are dark, and likely to get much darker. Our po...
High Country News

Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek honestly - To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust. The post Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek hones...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature - Today’s quote is from American writer Steven King. In his novella The Mist he wrote,... The post Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature appear...
Counterpunch

The Classroom as a Battleground: Italy’s Students Rise Against Genocide - In Italy, the bell that signals the start of the school day has recently sounded like a call to arms—not for war, but against it. While the Italian gover...
Brad Blog

Old Man Shouts at People from White House for 20 Minutes, and Other End of Year Observations: 'BradCast' 12/18/2025 - My ears are still ringing after the President of the United States spent about 20 minutes barking at me last night. But the show --- in this case, the fina...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Insane claim about children's penises highlights Trump Administration effort to ban healthcare for trans kids - Trump official Mehmet Oz voices a wild and absolutely ridiculous claim about creating children's penises as a part of the administration's effort to ban g...
Antiwar.com

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy - Since early 2023, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed...
Progressive.org

Are We Celebrating America’s 250? - Celebrating our country under the Trump Administration feels tough, but doing so is an important act of resistance.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
The Texas Signal

An Economic Reality Check In Texas - The president claimed that Texans will begin feeling the impacts of his economic policies next year, a cold comfort for the millions experiencing the pinch...
NORML

President Trump Takes Executive Action to Federally Reschedule Marijuana - [image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf background][image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf backgr...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Crooked Timber

L’Établi (2): the book - Having watched the film, I thought I’d get Robert Linhart’s book off the shelf and finally read it. I think I bought it in Oxford in the early 80s. To remi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
TalkLeft

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

C. Wright Mills Warned Us: 'The End of Ideology' is a Trap, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Wikipedia C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The 'End of Ideology' is a Trap *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 17, 2025/Updated Dec. 20, 2025* *You may v...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado - By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened ...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
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...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
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 ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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 ...

Show All

Brains and Eggs

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Sunday Funnies

Search This Blog