Brains and Eggs

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Futurism

Head of NASA Threatens to Ground Every Single Commercial Flight Before Thanksgiving - "We won't let people travel." The post Head of NASA Threatens to Ground Every Single Commercial Flight Before Thanksgiving appeared first on Futurism.
Raw Story

'Not a Freudian slip': Analyst astonished by Trump's 'confession' - President Donald Trump just made an astonishing "confession" about pardons, an analyst flagged Monday. In his Substack essay, Democratic strategist Mike...
memeorandum

A new GOP civil war takes hold (Punchbowl News) - Punchbowl News: *A new GOP civil war takes hold* … With the crowd cheering him on at the annual Republican Jewish Coalition summit, Fine called Carlson “...
Daily Dot

White House’s Myspace parody website fuels backlash amid prolonged shutdown: “Do the jobs we are paying you for, not this” - [image: white house mysafespace myspace parody website] The White House confused many internet users this weekend by rolling out a parody Myspace-era pro...
Mediaite

‘This Was Not a Biden Witch Hunt’: CNN’s Jake Tapper Torpedoes Trump Claim About Crypto Executive He Pardoned - CNN's Jake Tapper shot down President Donald Trump's claim that he pardoned a man he didn't know because he was a victim of a "Biden witch hunt." The pos...
Al Jazeera English

Worker trapped after medieval Rome tower partially collapses - Video shows part of Rome’s medieval Torre dei Conti collapse for a second time during restoration near the Colosseum
OpEd News

Why 1929 Will Not Happen Again - A Great Depression will not happen again because of deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, Social Security and Uber.
The Week

7 mountain hotels perfect for a tranquil autumn or winter escape - Get (altitude) high and unwind
Discourse

Discourse Pod #02: Elections Preview! - Paul Blest joins us for an early look at some key 2025 and 2026 races
Election Law Blog

‘NAACP and Advancement Project Sue Virginia Over Illegal Rejection of College Student Voter Registrations” - Press release: National civil rights organization Advancement Project and the NAACP Virginia State Conference filed a lawsuit against the Virginia Depart...
Mediagazer

Paramount says Jon Stewart has renewed his contract to executive produce and partially host The Daily Show through 2026 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter) - Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: *Paramount says Jon Stewart has renewed his contract to executive produce and partially host The Daily Show through...
The Hill

Democrats call on ex-Prince Andrew to testify on Epstein - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on ex-Prince Andrew to testify about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The BBC cited four Demo...
Eschaton

No Not Like That - Final update of NYC EV Turnout chart from @rudnicknoah. 18-29 year olds have already blown by their 2021 turnout rate. pic.twitter.com/ilvQpBohvg — Zachar...
Political Wire

25 Democrats to Watch - New York Magazine asked Democratic strategists to identify the party’s rising stars, beyond the most famous names. They came up with a next-generation list...
San Antonio Current

Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias benefit show collects ‘historic’ amount of food for San Antonio Food Bank - The standup comedian gathered more than 16,000 pounds of food for the nonprofit. The post Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias benefit show collects ‘historic’ am...
Ballot Access News

Republican Party Submits Reply Brief in Lawsuit on Federal Campaign Law that Restricts Political Parties - On October 29, the Republican Party submitted this Reply brief in National Republican Senatorial Committee v Federal Election Commission, 24-621. This is t...
Courthouse News

Colorado judge rejects plea deal for funeral home owner who warehoused nearly 200 bodies - While investigating an odor complaint in 2023, local law enforcement uncovered a warehouse with decomposing bodies in Penrose, Colorado.
Consortium News

Obama’s Election-Eve Call to Mamdani - The former president had an obvious reason to favor the Democratic frontrunner in the New York mayor’s race with a weekend call, writes Corinna Barnard. Ma...
Techdirt.

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris - 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is curr...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: MAGA Civil War – America First vs. Israel First - A major MAGA civil war has erupted pitting Tucker Carlson against what Nick Fuentes calls "Israel First" Republicans.
First Draft

America’s Punk Ass Institutions - A legacy of cowardice will haunt some of our elite institution's leadership for years.
The Verge

Google’s TV Streamer (4K) is down to its best price to date ahead of Black Friday - With everything from the next Knives Out movie to the final season of Stranger Things on the way, there’s going to be a ton of great stuff to stream in the...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend tax assessor under investigation for allegedly using county funds to pay mother’s caretakers - Harris County prosecutors are investigating allegations that Carmen Turner employed two tax office workers to care for her mother.
Second Nexus

Guy Has Priceless Reaction To Learning His Mom Named Him After 'South Park' Character—And We're Obsessed - When it comes time for parents to name their soon-to-be-born child, they often cast a wide net looking for inspiration. Many will name their child after ...
El Paso Matters

Only 4% of El Paso County voters cast early ballots in the Nov. 4 election. Here’s what’s on the ballot and where to vote Tuesday. - Early voting saw 24,202 total in-person and mail-in votes – a typically small turnout for an off-year election with no major candidate races on the ball...
San Antonio Report

UIW courses to offer AI and cognitive bias crash course to doctors and nurses - Health care professionals can learn about artificial intelligence and cognitive biases with two new continuing education courses this spring. --------------...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing confirms regional Feds’ reports: prices up, production improves slightly, employment contracting - - *by New Deal democrat* The ISM manufacturing and services reports assume heightened importance this month in view of the continuing federal govern...
Axios

Trump's plan to roll out SNAP benefits could take months - The Trump administration announced it plans to partially fund SNAP benefits on Monday, after two federal judges ruled on Friday that the funds must be re...
World Socialist Web Site

Lee Miller retrospective: “I didn’t waste a minute of all my life” - The retrospective is the most extensive ever staged in the UK. It leans heavily on gender politics, largely omitting the deeper ideological and historical ...
CultureMap Houston

Tony winners and holiday favorites lead Houston's 11 best shows this month - Houston theater gets set to ring in the holidays with some traditional favorites and roaring new works. But for those holiday Scrooges in the house, perfor...
Slate

The City Where the Summer of 2020 Never Really Ended - Can a relative centrist hold on against a surging left-wing candidate? This Midwestern city is about to find out.
Alternet

'Scared' ex-generals stay silent over fear Trump will use rare military law against them - A military law that allows prosecution against ex-generals and retired senior military officers who speak out with "contemptuous" statements against Pres...
WhoWhatWhy

How Scientists Are Shining Light on Biology Behind Seasonal Affective Disorder - [image: science, biology, medicine, winter, seasonal affective disorder] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump administration will provide half of usual funds to Snap recipients in November - Contingency funds will keep benefits going for nearly 42 million people in the food assistance program, Trump says - US politics live – latest...
NORML

Election Day Decisions Could Reshape Cannabis Markets on the East Coast - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Bracing Views

More and More War - What Happened to Diplomacy and the Rule of Law? BILL ASTORE Last week, I talked to Judge Napolitano about the Russia-Ukraine War, the Trump administration’...
Angry Bear

Delays in ACA Healthcare Insurance Pricing - I have been looking around for more information, accurate information on the forthcoming increases in ACA healthcare insurance costs. I have yet to find ...
The Daily Poster

The American Dream’s New Premium Hike - Homeowners insurers are relying on artificial intelligence to raise your rates and boost their profits.
NPR's Health Shots

SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed - About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first time, the Trump administration st...
Salon.com

One writer’s plan to rescue baseball from itself - In "Make Me Commissioner," Jane Leavy breaks down how the sport lost its emotional core, and how to get it back
Capital & Main

Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses - Impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times has been "dire." The post Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors...
Project Censored

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity - In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiograph...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Ohio House Map: Democrats Get a Better Map than Expected - The map gets better for Republicans, but Democrats still have a path toward defending all of their current seats The post Rating the New Ohio House Map: ...
The Greanville Post

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet - MATT SIMON—The two ocean heat waves started like those we experience on land, with the atmosphere warming things up. Indeed, the ocean has absorbed 90 perc...
Daily Howler

CHAOS: Let them eat cake, the president says! - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2025* *But Democrats more "out of touch!" *We're prepared to admit it! Initially, we misunderstood this report from *Mediate.* It wa...
Undernews

Word - [image: A blue background with overlaid white text reading It is a sad day when a judge has to order the President of the United States to feed vulnerable...
Dissident Voice

In the Time of the Open Secret: Palestine and the Fundamental Choice of Our Era - “Imperialism is capitalism in that stage of development in which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital has established itself; in which the exp...
Space City Weather

SCW Q&A: La Niña, drought talk, blue nights, ozone days, king tides, open forum - This month we’ve got a jam-packed SCW Q&A for you, with topics ranging from the eventual demise of La Niña to mysterious high tides to a new forum where yo...
DeSmogBlog

Fique de Olho Nestes 8 Termos de Greenwashing do Agro na COP30 - The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 26 November 2025 Alimentos e agricultura estarão no centro dos holofotes na próxima...
Deadline Politics

Chuck Schumer Floats Filing FCC Complaint Over The Way CBS Edited Donald Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview - UPDATED: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered his take on Donald Trump’s sit down with 60 Minutes, riffing that he should perhaps file a complaint ...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Texas schools turn to AI to flag banned books - To comply with new laws restricting “profane” or “indecent” material, some Texas school districts are using ChatGPT to screen library titles. Supporters sa...
SCOTUSblog

President Trump’s tariffs v. the Supreme Court’s duties - Major Questions is a recurring series by Adam White, which analyzes the court’s approach to administrative law, agencies, and the lower courts. When Pres...
Glasstire

Review: Erick B. Salazar’s “Closer to Now: Under the Effect of Form & Color” at the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum - In 2018, the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum opened with the goal of promoting the culture of South Texas. Erick B. Salazar, a Rio Grande Valley nati...
The NM Political Report

“I have zero confidence in the Trump administration”: Gov. presses ahead with $30 million in state SNAP funds - [image: NMPR] [image: NMPR] The $30 million that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham pledged to offset losses in federal SNAP funding will go out as promised, e...
Democracy Now!

Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump's Threat to Strike Nigeria - We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made...
The Root

Trump Finally Responds to Federal Judge’s Ultimatum on SNAP Benefits - After two federal judges gave President Trump an ultimatum regarding SNAP benefits, he has finally made a decision. Read more...
The Conversation

The military’s diversity rises out of recruitment targets, not any ‘woke’ goals - Both men view diversity as a symptom of “woke” culture rather than as a long-standing practice driven by the nature of the all-volunteer force.
Texas Observer

Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder - Texas has grown a bumper crop of book authors and, with that, an ever-expanding list of literary festivals. San Antonio’s sprawls around its towering tom...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Most Silicon Valley... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation ...
Vox

Will the attacks on Zohran Mamdani awaken a “sleeping giant”? - As the New York City mayoral election enters the final stretch, with the Muslim American Democratic Party nominee Zohran Mamdani maintaining a sizable lead...
Dorf on Law

Some Major Questions for Wednesday's Oral Argument in the Tariff Case - On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two consolidated cases that present the question whether President Trump's imposition of tarif...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Royal Flush and ‘Royalty’ Unflushed - I don’t live in New York City, or even close enough to feel its presence, and so, no, I’m not scared about who they’re going to elect as mayor tomorrow. I ...
The Smirking Chimp

Make America Radioactive Again? Yes, if Trump Has His Way -
Skeptophilia

Searching for Rosalia - Remember how in old college math textbooks, they'd present some theorem or another, and then say, "Proving this is left as an exercise for the reader"? Wel...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump Threatens to Invade Nigeria” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explain why Wednesday’s landmark hearing ...
Crooked Media

The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities - The post The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Election Day for November 2025 is tomorrow - From the inbox: The Harris County Clerk’s Office (HCCO) reminds registered voters that Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the final opportunity to ...
Scheerpost.com

Interview: Sen. Rand Paul Slams “Insane” Trump Admin Drug Boat Policy - By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
ProPublica

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force - The post “I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit. - As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
High Country News

For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm - [image: Power lines and a transmission tower in Tuolumne County near Groveland, California.] Years ago, the state’s largest utility rolled out a power out...
Portside

Sunday Science: Powerful New Antibiotic That Can Kill Superbugs Discovered in Soil Bacteria - Sunday Science: Powerful New Antibiotic That Can Kill Superbugs Discovered in Soil Bacteria Ira Mon, 11/03/2025 - 03:11
Common Dreams

Let Them Eat Marble and Big Beautiful Ballroom - Hours after exultantly posting 24 photos about his gaudy new marble bathroom and hours before he defiantly refused to fund food stamps and health care su...
Counterpunch

The Room Where It Happens: My Three Decades at CounterPunch - CounterPunch went online just in time for Clinton’s war on Serbia. Clinton’s war was premeditated; our transit to the World Wide Web was reluctant, at be...
ArcaMax

Hegseth’s War on 'Woke' is An Assault on American History - When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of any official observance of “cultural awareness” months in the military service, I immedi...
jobsanger

Democrats Need Both Moderates And Progressives -
Informed Comment

When Zohran Mamdani campaigned in Arabic, He was Speaking an old American Language - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani made a campaign ad in quite passable colloquial Arabic for the some 180,00 Arab residents o...
The AltWorld

Mali’s Potential Fall To Terrorists Could Result In Another French-Led Intervention - The dual pretexts of crushing the world’s latest caliphate and averting another 2015-like migrant crisis could suffice […] The post Mali’s Potential Fall...
Mother Jones

Trump Brags He Could Invade Your City Whenever He Wants - In a wide-ranging Sunday night interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump put his desire for unchecked power on full display. He bragged ...
Popular Resistance

Trump Is Clearly Losing The Trade War With China, Which He Started - Donald Trump is losing the trade war against China, which he himself started. Trump held an important meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in the S...
Antiwar.com

Beyond the ‘Unbreakable Bond’: Is the US Reclaiming the Wheel from a Self-Destructive Israel? - Has Donald Trump’s sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments imm...
See You In 2020

“Bronze Age Pervert” is Zionism’s psyop for selling war on Venezuela, & only Marxism can defeat this psyop - “Create popular power, transition to the Communal State”—Photo by Rachael Boothroyd, venezuelaanalysis.com. To find the role that “Israel” has in the Ve...
Krebs on Security

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody - A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Ita...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 02, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 02, 2025 by Tony Wikrent [via Naked Capitalism 10-29-2025] Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Cou...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Personally Resisting Fascism: Audio From A Collapsing State - It's time we check in with each other as the onslaught continues.
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
Reform Austin

Dozens of Dogs Rescued from Suspected Puppy Mill in Smith County - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A rescue group has stepped in to help 44 dogs seized from a property in East Texas amid an inve...
Mondoweiss

Like Gaza, Israel is threatening to destroy the Lebanon ceasefire - [image: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun attends the commemoration of the army martyrs in Yarzeh, Beirut, Lebanon, on July 31, 2025. (Photo: Lebanese Preside...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Close Enough' Toons - From 2017. But timely all over again... ...HALLOWEEN LEFTOVERS... ...AND THE REST... NEWSWEEK: "Donald Trump’s Approval Rating is Underwater in 12 States H...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Infidel753

People power in California - A California union is showing the whole country's politicians how it's done. SEIU-UHW, a major union of healthcare workers, is acting to get an initiativ...
Wolf Street

Dear Readers, Please Donate to WOLF STREET: Fall 2025 Reminder - Your generous support allows WOLF STREET to remain free and open to all, not hidden behind a paywall.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Power of Texas Social Movements to Heal Fear, Inspire Hope, and Build Islands of Sanity in Troubled Times, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Power of Texas Social Movements to Heal Fear, Inspire Hope, and Build Islands of Sanity in Troubled Times* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Nov. 1,...
Independent Political Report

November 2025 Monthly News Open Thread - For over a decade, Independent Political Report has hosted a Monthly Open Thread, providing readers with a dedicated space to share news tips, opinion pi...
Liberation News

The people of Genesee County, Michigan, defeat local police 287(g) agreement with ICE - [image: Community members in Genesee County, Michigan, attend an organizing meeting strategizing to fight back against the 287(g) agreement, just hours aft...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Workers World

Palestinian factions condemn ceasefire violations, hold U.S. responsible for massacres - [image: Palestinian factions condemn ceasefire violations, hold U.S. responsible for massacres] Resistance News Network posted the following statements on ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Progressive.org

Wes Jackson Considers the Deep Roots of Our American Crisis - In a new film, the prairie prophet’s lifelong search for sustainability offers solutions straight from the soil.
Church and State

Even starving children won’t break the population taboo - Increasing food production might have outpaced population for a while but this doesn’t refute its impact.
ExChristian.Net

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why He Doesn't Believe in God: Which God? There's 18,000 Gods! - In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson revisits a previous statement he made about not believing in God. Astrophysicist/TV Host Tyson expanded on the quote by...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
The Texas Signal

The Many Fronts Of The Abortion War - The Texas bill targeting abortion medication is just one layer in a multi-pronged approach to restricting abortion
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Rewire

Abortion Bans Can Hinder Life-Saving Care for Pregnant Patients with Lung Disease or Medical Crises—Study - Pulmonologists, critical care doctors, even rheumatologists are struggling to adequately treat pregnant patients in states that restrict reproductive rig...
slacktivist

LBCF: A routine flight - Does the authors' Bad Writing result from their immoral view of the world? Or does their immoral view of the world result from Bad Writing? Yes.
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 3 of 4) - In the Wilcannia cemetery a lot of plastic is on display. This cemetery is an important local monument not because it celebrates the working class, because...
LareDOS

District 6 marks Día de los Muertos with festivities, Glow Run and Catrina contest - Nov. 1 Central Park event welcomes all
Environment Texas

Where do butterflies go in the winter? - In the fall, butterflies begin some of the most epic and iconic journeys in the animal kingdom The post Where do butterflies go in the winter? appeared f...
Dissent Magazine

[RECORDING] How Will Zohran Govern? - A conversation with Chi Ossé, Cea Weaver, and J.W. Mason.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 31, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/31/2025 - 02:32 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Socialist Alternative

Argentina: Far-Right Milei Secures Win—Lowest Turnout Since 1983 - Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei managed to secure an unexpected victory for his party, La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in midterm electi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace's backtrack on gay marriage support proves that she is a political opportunist with the integrity of a dead slug - *How it went:* *Nancy Mace in 2021:* In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Mace explained that while she’s voting against the Equalit...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” - Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Re...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov 3 News roundup & OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments below.
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
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 ...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

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Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
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...
Field Negro

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Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Web of Debt

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Reading the Pictures

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Progressive Army

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

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

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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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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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