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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Trump's embrace of 'remigration' echoes Europe's far right (Ishaan Tharoor/Washington Post) - Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post: *Trump's embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe's far right* — The conspicuous term he deployed on Thanksgiving proba...
The Verge

The Luigi Mangione legal saga - One year after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, his alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, faces charges of first and second deg...
San Antonio Current

Petrochemical expansion in Texas will fall heavily on communities of color, study finds - [image: An oil refinery on the Texas Gulf Coast releases pollution into the air.] Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial...
Techdirt.

NYC’s Police Oversight Board Is Now Covering Up More Misconduct Than The Cops Themselves - What a difference a near-decade makes. Back in 2017, the main concerns raised by New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board was that officers were rou...
Scheerpost.com

‘Truly Barbaric’: Number of People Killed or Maimed by Landmines Hits Five-Year High - By: Jessica Corbett Original to Common Dreams The 27th annual Landmine Monitor report revealed on Monday that antipersonnel landmines and other explosive r...
Raw Story

'Takes a pass!' Thune's snub of Hegseth raises eyebrows - Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) snubbed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday following a meeting among top congressional leaders over attack...
The Hill

Silica dust rule faces reconsideration - {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump to reconsider part of silica dust rule The Trump administration says it will reconsi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US north-east braces for ‘significant’ snowfall after storm hits midwest - Prediction for New England area comes after travelers experienced disruption over Thanksgiving holiday weekend A winter storm is expected to slam much o...
Al Jazeera English

Zelenskyy says territorial concessions remain Ukraine’s ‘biggest challenge’ - US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the Kremlin has confirmed.
Houston Public Media

Galveston County residents clean up, seek answers weeks after fire at former power plant - The fire erupted on Nov. 16 at the former PHR Peakers Plant on Texas Highway 146, causing five decommissioned water cooling towers at the site to collapse.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Completes Delegate Calculations for 2026 Convention - The Libertarian National Committee has completed its calculations for state delegate allotments ahead of the 2026 national convention next May, finalizin...
The Week

The military: When is an order illegal? - Trump is making the military’s ‘most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts’
Axios

"Bibi sees ghosts everywhere": U.S. alarmed by Israel's Syria strikes - The Trump administration is concerned that Israel's repeated strikes inside Syria risk destabilizing the country and undermining hopes of an Israel-Syria...
Daily Dot

“Don’t let anyone get away with calling this a prank”: YouTuber seen flinging opossum into the air in now-deleted video - [image: opossom launcher youtuber video pulled] Viewers are calling out YouTuber RossCreations after he built a slingshot to launch unsuspecting opossums...
Slate

Are Leonard Leo and Donald Trump Fighting Again, or Just Pretend Fighting Again? - The Federalist Society has doubled down on doublespeak.
NPR's Health Shots

The state of the CDC - After losing thousands of staffers and facing attacks this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hampered in its ability to protect the p...
Mediagazer

Sources: Netflix has filed a new bid for Warner Bros. that is mostly cash, and is working on a bridge loan that totals tens of billions of dollars (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Sources: Netflix has filed a new bid for Warner Bros. that is mostly cash, and is working on a bridge loan that totals tens of billions of do...
Futurism

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk - A "classic trolley problem," according to Grok. The post Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk appeared first on Fu...
Political Wire

Elise Stefanik Breaks with Mike Johnson - Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a member of the House Republican leadership, said on social media that the “deep state is alive and well” and that Speaker Mike...
Salon.com

Trump loyalist Habba out as top NJ attorney after losing appeal - An appeals court upheld a lower court's decision that the Trump loyalist was serving illegally
Mediaite

‘Like a 12-Year-Old Playing Army’: Mark Kelly Sounds the Alarm On Pete Hegseth Running the Military - Mark Kelly sounded the alarm about Pete Hegseth running the military as an unserious person in one of the most important jobs in the United States. The p...
Election Law Blog

“2025 CPA-Zicklin Index Finds Strong Corporate Support for Robust Political Disclosure and Accountability” - See this post at the Harvard Law School Center for Corporate Governance: The number of leading U.S. companies with the most robust policies for transpare...
CultureMap Houston

The Nutcracker and holiday classics lead Houston's 10 best shows this month - Whether you’re looking for something naughty or nice, Houston theater companies have a show in their bag of musical, dramatic, and comic goodies for you. D...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
OpEd News

War on Venezuela Is A Lie - What about the things we are being told right now to try to get a war started (which will likely mostly be forgotten in the future)? Well, first of all, wh...
Second Nexus

Canadian Comedy Show Epically Skewers Trump With Hilarious 'Quiet, Piggy!' Storytime Sketch - For those lucky enough to live in Canada or along the United States border with Canada, *This Hour Has 22 Minutes*—shortened to just *22 Minutes* since 2...
Church and State

Trump’s theater of self-preservation cedes China’s path to replacing the US!!!!! - Wake up America and you can still win the game but not by retreating or permitting people with no integrity or courage to bring us back.
Vox

Why is the US on the verge of war with Venezuela? - Since the early fall, the US has been building up its military forces in the Caribbean and launching airstrikes on alleged drug boats, fueling speculation ...
See You In 2020

Our ruling class gutted the proletariat’s infrastructure, but America’s people are now seeking a path to rebuilding it - Above: a depiction of the rail strike of 1877. As illustrated by William Z. Foster’s The History of the Communist Party of the United States, America’s ...
Wolf Street

Manufacturing Grew for 10th Month of 11 in 2025: S&P. Manufacturing Declined for 9th Month Straight: ISM. What Gives? - What even are these manufacturing PMIs?
Texas Standard

Two remain missing from the July 4 floods. Rangers are using several strategies to find them. - Searchers have entered a very technical phase of the effort along the Guadalupe River.
Popular Resistance

Tribal IDs Are Federally Recognized; ICE Agents Are Ignoring Them - During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism. Trish Carter-Goodh...
First Draft

America’s Worst University Leadership - Keep caving to Trump, universities. One day you'll learn, it doesn't get him off your back.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Personnel and Pardons as Policy in the Trump National Security Regime - The personnel decisions of the Trump national security regime provide a key to better understanding the administration. The stupid doesn't just happen, it'...
Consortium News

Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War) - Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Euro...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: UTEP’s invitation to border czar Tom Homan sends a troubling message to border students - UTEP students plan a peaceful protest as border czar Tom Homan visits campus, citing fears that his aggressive deportation policies endanger immigrant a...
Undernews

The Netanyahu Corruption Trial Explained - *NY Times - *Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel formally requested a pardon from the president on Sunday in his long-running corruption trial. M...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Labour government to massively restrict right to trial by jury - The UK government aims to introduce legislation to end jury trials for all cases carrying a maximum sentence of less than five years. The proposals are par...
Ian Welsh

The Financialization Hoover Effect & The End Of The American Dream - The great problem with financialization is that produces higher returns than productive investments do. If you want to industrialize or stay industrialized...
Courthouse News

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy eyes Trump talks after ‘progress’ - The Ukrainian leader spoke after meeting the French president in Paris as he sounded out European allies on Washington's blueprint, which has been criticiz...
Deadline Politics

Supreme Court Weighs Liability Of Internet Providers For Users’ Music Piracy - As the Supreme Court considered the liability of internet providers for users’ copyright infringement in oral arguments on Monday, justices expressed conce...
Common Dreams

David Sacks’ Financial Conflicts Mean He Can No Longer Credibly Serve as White House AI Advisor. He Should Resign. - A damning investigation by the New York Times has found that top White House A.I. and Tech Advisor David Sacks has “positioned himself to personally bene...
The Daily Poster

Pharma’s Best Influencers Are Off The Books - Prescription drug manufacturers are benefiting from social media’s lack of regulation as influencers take over their marketing.
slacktivist

Rules and notes for a Christmas playlist, revisited - This post is an annual tradition here because, as a retail worker, it helps me to exorcise the hours of Christmas music now echoing in my brain.
Glasstire

And Yet We Fly: Karla Ramirez-Santin at Hyphen Space, Dallas - Nos Cortaron las Alas y Aún Volamos. They Cut Off Our Wings and Yet We Fly. This is the title of Karla Ramirez-Santin’s solo exhibition at Hyphen Space, ...
Project Censored

Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure - This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures.” We a...
The Root

The Ugly Reason Behind All Those ‘Masculine’ Cynthia Erivo ‘Wicked’ Memes - Cynthia Erivo has been subjected to countless internet jokes, but the real reason behind them just proves things have gone on for too long and gone too f...
Capital & Main

Accountable to No One: What 1990s L.A. Teaches Us About the Trump Resistance - Danny Goldberg, whose new book chronicles the post-Rodney King push to remove LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, talks about parallels between 1992 and the Trump er...
The Greanville Post

New US “Peace” Proposal is “Minsk 3.0” Repackaged (Yet Again - BRIAN BERLETIC—he contents of the proposal are irrelevant. The US does not seek peace in general, and certainly not with Russia specifically. Instead, and ...
Dissident Voice

What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan? - Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The rec...
San Antonio Report

37% salary boost places Taylor Eighmy among top-paid UT leaders - The UT board of regents approved a 37% salary increase for UT San Antonio President Taylor Eighmy, who now makes more than $1 million. ---------------------...
Bonddad

November ISM manufacturing report indicates deepening stagflationary contraction - - *by New Deal democrat* Normally we begin each month with reports on both construction spending and manufacturing. But even though th federal shutd...
Ballot Access News

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Board of Elections Will Have Two Democrats and an Independent - The three-member Board of Elections of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, will have two Democrats and one independent, starting new year. See this story. The ...
Texas Observer

The Ballad of Betty Rizzo - The post The Ballad of Betty Rizzo appeared first on The Texas Observer.
SCOTUSblog

Can a Mississippi pastor challenge the constitutionality of a law that he was previously convicted of violating? - On Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, the Supreme Court will consider whether individuals can challenge a law as unconstituti...
Daily Howler

OUR KIND: General Washington chooses war! - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2025* *As does the Fox News Channel:* We're going to start with Colby Covington, just as we did in Saturday's endless report. Covin...
Environment Texas

This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” - Your support will help protect bees from die-offs. The post This Giving Tuesday, help save the bees from a “death spiral” appeared first on Environment T...
WhoWhatWhy

When Birds Move as One — and We Struggle To - [image: Starling_Murmuration_Daniel_Dencescu_3x2.jpg] In an exhausting time, I find watching these birds restorative. See if you agree. When Birds Move a...
Democracy Now!

"Imperial Blowback": Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan - Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in...
Rallblog

Did Hegseth Just Commit a War Crime? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • WaP...
The Conversation

New York’s wealthy warn of a tax exodus after Mamdani’s win – but the data says otherwise - Research on millionaire migration reveals that social and professional ties matter far more than marginal tax rates.
Mondoweiss

The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs. - [image: Nibal al-Hissi and her daughter, Rita, November 2025. (Photo: Saja Nael Al-Louh for Mondoweiss)]An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputat...
Space City Weather

Monday will be cold, wet, and dreary in Houston, followed by the potential for plenty more rain later this week - In brief: The word for today is dreary, as we are going to see a wet and cold day in Houston. Sunshine briefly returns on Tuesday before a rainy end to the...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Scanning the Cartoon Horizon - For those keeping track, Mamdani won’t be mayor of NYC for another month, so it’s a little early to be panicking over what he might do if he becomes the fi...
Mother Jones

“Climate Smart” Beef Was Never More Than a Marketing Fantasy - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Shoppers have long sought ways to make more ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Colorado’s First-Of-Its-Kind EPR Oil Recycling Program With David Lawes - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. Americans dispose of approximately... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Color...
Dorf on Law

Air Bud 15: Pawtisan Redistricting - In a well-known scene in the well-known (but not very good) 1997 movie *Air Bud*, the protagonist golden retriever is permitted to play in a league game ...
Angry Bear

Aluminum is the new mercury - Looks like RFK Jr has pivoted from lying about the long-discredited Thimerosal-autism connection to blaming aluminum-containing adjuvants for autism. Sin...
The Smirking Chimp

Dems Shockingly Competitive in Deep-Red House District Trump Won by 22 Percent -
Skeptophilia

The downward spiral - I've spent a lot of time here at *Skeptophilia* in the last five years warning about the (many) dangers of artificial intelligence. At the beginning, I w...
Off The Kuff

We may never know what’s in those intimate Abbott-Elon emails - This was from just before Thanksgiving week, I’m just getting to it now. Months after fighting to keep secret the emails exchanged between Texas Gov. Greg ...
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...
Portside

Sunday Science: The Plague That Won’t Die - Sunday Science: The Plague That Won’t Die Ira Mon, 12/01/2025 - 05:54
ProPublica

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. - The post In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Hurricane season is over. Here’s why the US never got hit. - For the first time in a decade, the country avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was exceptional in other bad ways...
High Country News

The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab - [image: Danna Camblin moves her family’s herd of cattle to a new pasture to give the land time to recover.] Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Lan...
Crooked Media

December Preview: SCOTUS Doubles Down on Its BS - The post December Preview: SCOTUS Doubles Down on Its BS appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty - Since the Monroe Doctrine (1823), the United States has treated all Latin America and the Caribbean as its “backyard”. The United States has intervened i...
jobsanger

The U.S. Still Averages Over One Mass Shooting Every Day - From Gun Violence Archive
Informed Comment

Pope Leo XIV: “We Know Israel does not … Accept” Palestinian State, But “We see it as the only Solution” - What I like about Pope Leo's remarks is that he openly admitted that the Israeli government is die-hard opposed to a two-state solution
Claytoonz

Recent Cartoons - With so much going on post-stroke, I have forgotten to update this website with the most recent cartoons and links to the blogs. Here they are. Quiet Piggy...
The AltWorld

Coke? It’s the real thing - Trump pardons former Honduras president and narco drug baron caught with 400 tons of coc*ine, while making […] The post Coke? It’s the real thing appeare...
Antiwar.com

Ukraine Peace Talks: Concessions or Done Deals? - The latest attempt at U.S. mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are in disarray with the chance of success rapidly shrinking. Trump originally o...
Workers World

No ‘no-fly zone’ in Venezuela! U.S. hands off! - [image: No ‘no-fly zone’ in Venezuela! U.S. hands off!] Workers World condemns Trump’s latest war moves against Venezuela. His declaration on “Truth Social...
Crooked Timber

Will Fewer Kids mean Fewer Scientists* - I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century o...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Do Zionists Believe Their Own Obvious Lies? - I don't know if you noticed, but Zionists are totally out of touch with reality, and they often create a heavily censored and false version of history a...
The Grayzone

Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime - Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. T...
Alternet

Retired Army general fears Trump's 'retribution campaign' will have 'chilling effect' - In a video released in late November, a group of military veterans — including Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) and Rep. Jaso...
Greg Palast

Trump declares new blood-for-oil war - Donald Trump just announced he will pardon the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, serving time after his conviction for flooding the US ...
Reform Austin

Austin Scores 3 Spots on America’s 100 Greatest Restaurants Ranking - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Three Austin eateries have earned recognition on Robb Report’s inaugural “100 Greatest American...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Bootlicker' Toons - ...LAST WEEK... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly a...
Liberation News

‘Defend public housing!’ Chelsea NYCHA tenants fight displacement & corporate developers - A giant developer plans to destroy Chelsea's public housing and replace it with luxury housing.
Debunking Christianity

Should We Really Pay Attention to the Latest Research? - Well it depends. When evangelical apologists/theologians claim liberals, agnostics, and atheists should pay attention to their latest research, they really...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- oh, my! - A *Wizard of Oz* remix. Found via Miss Cellanea.
Democracy Chronicles

On Business and Power - The government is the only entity big enough to stop business from having all the control and economic sway, yet the United States is failing at this.
LareDOS

Remember the Laredo Film Society on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 2 - Help keep the projectors rolling and the community growing
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...
Socialist Alternative

Sudan—A New Phase In The Devastating Civil War - The civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has been raging in Sudan for the past two and a half ye...
ArcaMax

Affordability: We Need Higher Incomes, Not Lower Prices - Everyone's talking about affordability or, more precisely, unaffordability -- and the issue is likely to drive U.S. politics for the foreseeable future. Af...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: POST-THANKSGIVING INGRATITUDE EDITION. - *Drive that pile.* Hope your Thanksgiving was good! Mine was fine and now that I’ve had my gratitude I’m ready to move back into my usual ingratitude mo...
The Militant

Fight to defend unions, political rights in Quebec - MONTREAL — Quebec’s four main union federations and five other unions are organizing to bring thousands of unionists to a mass united rally in Montreal Nov...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 11/29/2025 - 00:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The American Capitalist Cargo Cult: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're lost in a cycle of rituals we don't understand and defeating fascism requires conscious living
Progressive.org

The Real Toxins Faced by People with Disabilities - By taking away rights and making life harder for us people with disabilities, our government is creating an environment that will cause more disability.
DeSmogBlog

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture - An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are ...
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 ...
The Rag Blog

SUSAN VAN HAITSMA / HISTORY / CodePink: Austin’s history is alive at the Austin History Center - CodePink Austin at I Miss America pageant in Million Musicans March, March 17, 2007. Photo by Jim Turpin. By Susan Van Haitsma / The Rag Blog / November 27...
NORML

The Fight for Cannabis Freedom Doesn’t Take a Holiday - [image: a slice of pumpkin pie topped with a small cannabis leaf is served with three apple slices on a ceramic plate][image: a slice of pumpkin pie topp...
The Texas Signal

Hunger And The Lone Star State - For millions of Texans this year, hunger and food insecurity are top of mind instead of what’s on the Thanksgiving table
Krebs on Security

Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ - A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass ext...
Ecosophia

November 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
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...
The NM Political Report

2/3 of New Mexicans lack access to”trustworthy local news,” new study finds - Two-thirds of New Mexicans say they lack access to trustworthy local news, what they do have is often hard to access, even in bigger cities where news in...
Discourse

Back Next Week! - Have a restful holiday break.
Bracing Views

America the Sick and Anxious - And so too are our kids BILL ASTORE NOV 25, 2025 “America’s children are unwell.” From the New York Times this morning: Nearly one in four 17-year-old boys...
Rewire

How Queer Organizers Feed Their People, from New York to Atlanta - A Lesbian bar in New York City. A sapphic society in the South. Food insecurity is high in queer communities. And this holiday season, LGBTQ+ groups are ...
Sludge

Jeffries Misleads on AIPAC PAC Money - Though Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said that AIPAC PAC gives him only the per-cycle maximum, the group has flooded his campaign with more than a million dollars i...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Silence Is Not Neutral: UT, the Compact, and the Fight for Fair Admissions in Texas Higher Education* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 25, 2...
MintPress News

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons - The world’s seven richest men now double as media barons, buying up platforms from CNN and CBS to Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Alan MacLeod charts how t...
Dissent Magazine

Partyism Without the Party - Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.
Trivial Knot

Recent health developments - Another casual blogging event. This one is about farts. Wait, I’m being serious! A few months ago, I had COVID for the first time. I never got it before...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Culture war backlash fuels Democrat school board sweeps' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Editor's note - This being Thanksgiving week, I don't expect to be blogging as much as I usually do. Of course knowing the disastrous few weeks the Tru...
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...
The Progressive Wing

11.23-30 🦃 Thanksgiving Week Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads. So, post whatever suits your fancy (within reason). Also, 🥂here’s🥂 to a safe and Happy Thanksgiving for everyone. 🙂
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Lord Of The Files - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb With a big ol’ School Book Depository Anniversary Day salute to all you poor-ass marks who showed out for thi...
Alas, a Blog

Crap You Hear In A Wheelchair - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: As a cartoonist in the internet age, I’m really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rust on the Midterm Iron Law? Voter Expectations for 2026 - In the early parts of the Trump administration, citizens were skeptical that Democrats could retake the House or Senate, but more recent surveys indicate...
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...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
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.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
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...
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
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 ...
Two Party Opera

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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...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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

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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...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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