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

Courthouse News

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The Verge

Roland’s TR-1000 is its first analog drum machine in over 40 years - Roland has largely decided sit out the analog synth renaissance of the last decade. But it’s (belatedly) making amends for that error with the launch of th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US government shutdown live: first closure since 2018 begins after funding bill fails - Competing bills rejected in Senate as Republicans and Democrats accuse each other of partisan politics. Follow the latest news and updates after the US g...
memeorandum

US government shuts down after Congress fails to find funding deal (Al Weaver/The Hill) - Al Weaver / The Hill: *US government shuts down after Congress fails to find funding deal* — The federal government officially entered a shutdown at mi...
naked capitalism

Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas - For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Solutions remain difficult to achieve
Al Jazeera English

At least nine dead in severe weather in Ukraine’s Odesa as war rumbles on - More than 350 people have been rescued after southern Ukrainian city was hit by two months of rain in just seven hours.
Rallblog

Behind Closed Doors, Biden and Harris Were Amazing - In her new book 107 Days, Kamala Harris claims she was a lioness fighting for Palestinian rights. Not in public, where it counts for a vice president. Be...
Counterpunch

The Roberts Court: Twenty Years of Democracy Undermined - October 6 is the first Monday of the month. It is the traditional start of the U.S. Supreme Court term. It is also the twentieth year with John Roberts a...
The Week

‘Nightmare bacteria’ are rapidly spreading - The infections are largely resistant to antibiotics
jobsanger

We Must Not Let Trump/GOP Whitewash The January 6th Coup Attempt -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2905: The Gift of Imagination - Episode: 2905 Imagination’s Contributions to Science and Technology, Developmental Psychology and Imagination. Today, the gift of imagination.
Mediagazer

Vibe.co, a self-serve platform for businesses to run targeted ads on streaming services, raised a $50M Series B led by Hedosophia at a $410M valuation (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted) - Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: *Vibe.co, a self-serve platform for businesses to run targeted ads on streaming services, raised a $50M Series B led by...
The Hill

Kamala Harris’s book tour provides an opportunity to plot a course for 2028 - Kamala Harris is promoting her new book "107 Days" while competing for media attention with the federal government shutdown, and must address the pressing ...
World Socialist Web Site

Online meeting in Sri Lanka: Oppose restructuring of the CEB! Defend CEB employees’ struggle! - The CEB workers’ fight to defend their rights has become a focal point in the struggle to defeat the Dissanayake government’s IMF program.
Informed Comment

The Gulf Cooperation Council, NATO, and the Collapse of Collective Security - San Marcos, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Within the span of 24 hours in early September, Russia deployed drones into Polish airspace, and I...
Axios

Federal government shutdown begins after Congress fails to act - The federal government will shut down for the first time since 2019 after the Senate on Tuesday failed to pass a government funding measure ahead of a mi...
Mediaite

Federal Government Shuts Down After Senate Fails To Pass Funding Bill - The federal government shut down on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open. The pos...
Techdirt.

Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr. - It’s been a little over half a year since RFK Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services and his tenure thus far has been chaotic, to put ...
Raw Story

National security expert gives Trump's latest speech '10 out of 10' for 'most unsettling' - A national security expert rated President Donald Trump's speech on Tuesday before the nation's military leaders a "10 out of 10" for being the president...
Political Wire

Trump Celebrates His Payoff from YouTube - “President Donald Trump took a victory lap after his latest shakedown of a big tech company, sharing a meme showing an embarrassed YouTube exec handing ove...
Wolf Street

“AI Makes Past Hype Cycles Look Tame”: PitchBook on the Stunning Venture Capital Mania for AI - At these valuations, “exit hurdles become exceptionally large.”
Brad Blog

'A War from Within' Trump's Twisted Mind: 'BradCast' 9/30/2025 - Trump lives and dies by ratings and reviews. Well, the reviews are in on today's BradCast for his sleepy, low-energy, hour-plus long campaign style remarks...
Alternet

Senator reveals how Republicans are harming 'their own constituents' in these 7 red states - The federal government is expected to shut down by midnight Wednesday morning, and health insurance premiums may be about to skyrocket — particularly in ...
WhoWhatWhy

Public Opinion Will Play a Huge Role in How the Looming Shutdown Ends - [image: Government Shutdown, Rally] With a government shutdown a few hours away, Americans can do their part to end the stalemate between Republicans and D...
See You In 2020

Zionism has ushered in an American Nazi regime, & we must be prepared to fight back against what it’s planning - If our solidarity movements are going to survive, they’ll need to prepare for a scenario where the state has fully activated its tools for violence. Whe...
Deadline Politics

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Continues To Insist His Jimmy Kimmel Comments Were Not A Threat, Even Though Ted Cruz And Other GOPers Took It As One - FCC Chairman Brendan Carr continued to insist that his recent comments about Jimmy Kimmel were not a threat, even though they were widely seen that way by ...
Crooked Media

How Trump Wants To Wield The Shutdown - The post How Trump Wants To Wield The Shutdown appeared first on Crooked Media.
Popular Resistance

Trump Says Israel Can ‘Finish The Job’ In Gaza If Hamas Rejects Latest Plan - President Donald Trump says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the latest U.S.-backed “peace plan,” which is ostensibly aimed at secu...
Workers World

Workers force Europe’s capitalists to act on Palestine - [image: Workers force Europe’s capitalists to act on Palestine] Generally the capitalist class and its state apparatus conduct themselves in a manner detri...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Trump: *We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible and bad for them like cutting vast numbers of people out. Cutting things they like, c...
American Prospect

Workers Sue Vought for Threatening to Use Shutdown to Fire Them - Multiple labor unions sued the OMB director for abusing his position and pushing an extremist Project 2025 agenda.
Antiwar.com

Free Speech and Its Discontents - “It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) “Co...
The NM Political Report

Special session set to get underway - The 112 members of the New Mexico House of Representatives and Senate will return to the Roundhouse on Wednesday for a special session that will concentr...
Vox

The Supreme Court’s newest decision could make it impossible to end the shutdown - On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down an order that could completely upend the balance of power between Congress and President Donald Trump. The order e...
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions about American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy - What’s the name of the book, and where can we find it? American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University...
Liberation News

PSL Statement – Government shutdown: It will take a people’s movement to defeat Trump & the right wing - The intervention of a broad people’s movement against the far right will be decisive in the outcome of the shutdown.
Daily Dot

DoorDash rolls out new delivery robot “Dot”—people are already joking about destroying it - [image: DoorDash autonomous delivery robot Dot, a red robot on four wheels, rolling on the sidewalk. Text overlay reads "First clanker that tries to deli...
NPR's Health Shots

President announces TrumpRx website for drugs, and pricing deal with Pfizer - The Trump administration says it is making deals with drug companies to lower prices U.S. consumers pay for medicines. But key details are missing on how t...
Reform Austin

Texas Tech Restricts Gender Identity Discussions, Raising Academic Freedom Concerns - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Tech Gender Identity Policy Limits Classroom Content In a move unprecedented in Texas hig...
Election Law Blog

“Federal judge rejects racial gerrymandering challenge to NC Senate map” - News and Observer: A federal judge upheld North Carolina’s Senate map Tuesday, rejecting claims that Republican lawmakers had illegally drawn the distric...
Progressive.org

Global Sumud Flotilla Demands Safe Passage into Gaza - Organizers expect Israel will intercept the humanitarian fleet absent significant international pressure.
CultureMap Houston

New restaurant slides into the Museum District with burgers and tendies - The Museum District recently welcomed a new restaurant devoted to mini burgers, chicken tenders, and milkshakes. *Slip Sliders* is now open for lunch and d...
Salon.com

Ariana Grande draws White House ire for resharing Trump critique - The pop star is the latest addition to Trump’s 2025 celebrity grudge list
The Greanville Post

DANNY HAIPHONG DISPATCH: Israel’s FINAL HOUR: Iran Missile Threat, Yemen Eilat Hit STUN IDF /// Netanyahu shunned at the UN - DH—Yemen’s Strategic Role as a Regional Resistance Hub: Yemen’s Ansar Allah has emerged as a significant player in challenging Israeli military capabilitie...
San Antonio Current

Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pedophiles’ in gaffe during Senate hearing - Sen. Cruz, who voted against releasing the Epstein files, reportedly made the bizarre remark Tuesday morning. The post Ted Cruz says ‘stop attacking pe...
San Antonio Report

A living memorial: Ruby City celebrates 20th anniversary of park honoring founder’s son - The park will host several events this month to celebrate 20 years of providing space for repose, play and inspiration. ------------------------------ A liv...
Daily Cartoonist

Ashleigh Brilliant – RIP - Author, cartoonist, and “professional epigrammatist” Ashleigh Brilliant has passed away. Ashleigh Elwood (Ash) Brilliant December 9, 1933 – September 24, 2...
Futurism

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign - "AI wouldn’t care if you lived or died." The post New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign appeared first on Futurism.
Consortium News

US Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ Plan Edited by Netanyahu - Axios reported that the changes infuriated Arab officials involved in the negotiations, writes Dave DeCamp. By Dave DeCamp Antiwar.com The Gaza ceasefire p...
Portside

Gustavo Petro Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump - Gustavo Petro Isn’t Afraid of Donald Trump Judy Tue, 09/30/2025 - 17:21
El Paso Matters

El Paso County population growth expected to continue slowing in coming decades, Texas Demographic Center projects - El Paso County’s population is projected to see little growth through 2060, the slowest increase in more than a century. The post El Paso County populat...
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America - Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and...
Independent Political Report

Massachusetts Forward Party Organizing Signature Drive for All-Party Primary Initiative - The Massachusetts Forward Party is organizing a signature drive this Saturday in support of a proposed ballot initiative that would replace the state’s p...
The Texas Signal

The Houston Latina-Owned Bookstore Redefining Love - The popular romance pop-up bookstore Mossrose is selling literary love to a devoted Houston fan base
Texas Standard

Political violence has been on the rise for the past decade, but why? - Last week’s deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas is the latest in a disturbing pattern of politically charged viole...
Claytoonz

Beardos and Fatsos - 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...
Second Nexus

MAGA GOP Governor Candidate Drops Out After He's Caught Following Nonbinary Adult Performer Online - Wisconsin businessman and MAGA Republican Bill Berrien ended his 2026 gubernatorial campaign days after his online activities went public. A vocal transp...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Environment Texas

Where have all the backyard birds gone? - Many common bird populations are declining, leaving not only quieter forests but emptier backyards across North America. The post Where have all the back...
Mother Jones

A Reagan-Appointed Judge Just Wrote a Blistering Anti-Trump Decision - On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a Reagan appointee—issued a decision filled with obvious contempt for the ...
Slate

Money Talks: How Basquiat’s Art Became a Good Investment - Doug Woodham joins Felix Salmon to discuss his book Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon.
Church and State

Trump: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” - Do GOP Congress members have no sense of decency?? They should have joined Democrat members after Trump’s attempted coup.
Discourse

The Nuremberg Clown Rally - Takeaways from an authoritarian vaudeville act
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Listen to the Dictator - Trump and his cronies aren't even hiding it anymore. Listen to them.
OpEd News

History repeats itself as tragedy or as farce! - Zionists will not respect US sovereignty, they think of it also as its occupied territory. This ranges from murderous attacks on the USS Liberty in 1967 to...
Idavox

South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms for Liberty Pleads Guilty to Child Porn - Another day, another right-winger on his way to prison for what he accusing others for... The post South Carolina Legislator That Was Celebrated by Moms ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: The New York Times reports what he said! - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2025* *Except they pretty much didn't: *At first, we planned to give credit where due—while also praising your incomparable Daily...
First Draft

I’m A Piece Of Shit - We're all Spartacus now.
The Daily Poster

Silicon Valley’s 383% APR Side Hustle - Big Tech’s new “earned-wage access” apps are ensnaring workers in borrowing cycles with absurdly high interest rates.
NORML

30 Million Marijuana Arrests and Counting – Enough is Enough! - [image: a police officer handcuffs a man's arms behind his back while another officer in the background uses her radio][image: a police officer handcuffs...
The Root

As Chaos Looms, 13 Warnings Black folks Should Not Ignore - Something about the air feels off right now, and if you’re paying attention at all, you’ve felt the eerie shift too. Here's Warnings Black folks Should n...
Bonddad

August JOLTS report was weak, but foreshadows little - * - by New Deal democrat* In the past year, in contrast to much other data in the jobs sector, the JOLTS reports have been very much consistent with ...
Dissident Voice

What You Need to Know about Moldova’s Bans, Blacklists, and Last-minute Rule Changes - Moldova went to the polls on Sunday in what officials in Chisinau and Brussels have called a “milestone on the European path.” Yet with opposition partie...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees with Lower Courts that a Voter May Vote Provisionally if Original Ballot was Defective - On September 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with lower courts that when a voter’s original postal ballot is not counted due to the voter having ...
Mondoweiss

Why the Trump-Netanyahu ‘peace plan’ is a trap - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak in the Diplomatic Reception Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, ...
SCOTUSblog

The state of the death penalty - As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest request for a stay of executio...
ArcaMax

Dream Weaver: Camp for Inner-City Kids Highlights a Great Man's Legacy - "What I've tried to do," Boston mega-philanthropist Jack Connors told an obituary writer interviewing him as he lay dying of pancreatic cancer, "is to make...
Glasstire

Posters, Poems, Prints, and Richard Prince - “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne Bravery and creation both take risk. The question of risk has become synonymous w...
Democracy Now!

Chicago Activist on Organizing Community ICE Patrols as Trump Escalates Immigration Crackdown - Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing ...
The Conversation

McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity - The McCarthy era in the 1950s was another politically contentious time that raised questions about how politics influences what gets taught in the classroom.
Bracing Views

Some Qualities of Good Leadership - Does Donald Trump Exhibit Any? BILL ASTORE SEP 29, 2025 Recently, I jotted down some qualities of good leadership. Of course, the importance of specific tr...
Space City Weather

Late summer heat continues, with little change expected until next week - In brief: This is largely a persistence forecast. Houston will face temperatures in the low- to mid-90s this week before rising humidity levels bring highs...
Rewire

How Trump Paywalled Our Colleges—Opinion - Slashing key financial aid funding will make college a luxury once again reserved for those who can pay. The post How Trump Paywalled Our Colleges—Opinio...
Dorf on Law

Why Did Cass Sunstein Think Sitting for an Interview with Isaac Chotiner Was a Good Idea? - The most famous classic blunder is getting involved in a land war in Asia, but there are other classic blunders, including the only slightly less well kn...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Admin Made Up ‘Sniveling Losers’ and ‘Crybabies’ Putting On ‘Tough Guy Act’ -
Skeptophilia

The legend of the lost sister - The difficult thing about any sort of historical research is that sometimes, the evidence you're looking for doesn't even exist. In my own field of histori...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Renee Jefferson Patterson - We continue our visit with the candidates for HCC Trustee. Today we move into District II, where incumbent Renee Jefferson Patterson was appointed to fill ...
Progressive Army

Nuevo cepo cambiario: qué se puede hacer con el dólar tras las restricciones del BCRA - El Gobierno reinstauró un cepo cambiario que limita la compra de dólares financieros. Qué significa la medida, a quiénes afecta y cómo impacta en el mercad...
ProPublica

An American Friend: The Trump-Appointed Diplomat Accused of Shielding El Salvador’s President From Law Enforcement - by T. Christian Miller, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg and Brett Murphy Leer en español. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of...
Grist

In Alaska, a graphite mine races toward approval without the required tribal consent - A project in western Alaska is being fast-tracked in a process that has not yet included legally required consultations with Inupiaq communities.
High Country News

The Trump administration’s war on wind - How energy companies and states are navigating federal policy that’s hostile to wind. The post The Trump administration’s war on wind appeared first on ...
Infidel753

For Blasphemy Day - This is International Blasphemy Day -- a day for denigrating, mocking, and denouncing deeply-held spiritual beliefs of every kind! The day is observed ev...
Earth 911

Home “Eco”nomics – Window Replacement - Getting new windows is one of the most satisfying ways to improve your home’s efficiency.... The post Home “Eco”nomics – Window Replacement appeared firs...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Heritage Foundation caught pushing false stats in attempt to classify trans people as terrorists' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - The dirty hands of longtime anti-LGBTQ activist Roger Severino are all over the Heritage Foundation's attempt to classify trans people as terrorists. *Ri...
Angry Bear

Gulf Stream collapse may happen sooner, Dutch scientists predict - David Zetland had this article link on his site The One Handed Economist as taken from the Dutch News. Why am I posting it at Angry Bear? Part of the art...
slacktivist

Good for us all for saying that murder is Bad - The unanimous condemnation of murder is encouraging. Our inability to recognize that this condemnation is unanimous is not.
Common Dreams

Trump’s $625M Coal Bailout Won’t Be Enough to Save Expensive, Dirty Energy Source - The Trump administration today announced a coordinated attempt to keep the struggling U.S. coal industry alive slightly longer, including opening more th...
Texas Observer

Party Discipline - In response to last spring’s student protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that roiled college campuses across the country, including in Texas, the state...
Project Censored

Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir - In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories threate...
Capital & Main

Is the Sun Setting on Pennsylvania’s Solar Future? - Trump administration rescinds $156 million to help power low-income homes; state legislature remains an obstacle if the money is restored. The post Is th...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Death, Power, and the Charlie Kirk Memorial - Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with Pat Blanchfield.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

H-1B Crackdown Threatens America’s Universities—Just as Public Trust Returns, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *H-1B Crackdown Threatens America’s Universities—Just as Public Trust Returns* *by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *September 29, 2025* Link to Emissary, Carneg...
Democracy Chronicles

Facebook is Losing its Chance to be a Force for Democracy - Sarah Wynn Williams pitches her idea that Facebook has great power for good in the world, an idealism she eventually loses as she works in policy for Faceb...
The AltWorld

Five Reasons Why The Latest Moldovan Elections Were So Important - Even in the best-case scenario that their tensions remain manageable, NATO will still solidify its presence along […] The post Five Reasons Why The Lates...
Ian Welsh

2025 Fundraiser - This blog runs on reader subscriptions and donations. Reading it is free, and always will be, but it does take money to run the site and keep myself fed an...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Swinburne On the Need For Corroborated Testimony - I went to a philosophical conference two weeks ago which highlighted the work of Paul Draper at Purdue. It was really informative. I got to meet up with ...
DeSmogBlog

How farmed fish in Dutch supermarkets undermines food security in West Africa - On a beach strewn with plastic and fish waste on the eastern side of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a lorry is being loaded up with small fish that have j...
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...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism Destroys Political Democracies - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about how authoritarian capitalism destroys political democracies. Don’t authoritarian economic systems like slavery, feuda...
The Grayzone

‘No doubt they will attack’: Max Blumenthal meets Iran’s President in NYC - In a meeting with US antiwar figures, Iranian Pres. Masoud Pezeshkian forecasted a more intense round of conflict with Israel and the US, and slammed Was...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
Crooked Timber

Rambouillet, part 1: The State of Play - A while back I wrote a series of posts about the 1998-9 Kosovo conflict. If you’re interested, here they are: Prelude to War, The Serbian Ascendancy, Th...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas, psychedelics, Rick Perry, and Special K - Despite the legislature’s crackdown on recreational THC this session, Texas is poised to become a leading force in psychedelics treatment after approving...
Lowering the Bar

Following Up - [image: LTB logo]In which I note recent developments in cases previously certified as stupid.
The Militant

Israelis fight a defensive war against Hamas, attacks in UN - At the center of the debates swirling around the annual United Nations General Assembly are competing attempts by all the imperialist powers and other ruli...
Sludge

Lobbyist-Led EPA Office Set to Add a New Chemical Industry Hire - Longtime cleaning products lobbyist Douglas Troutman is nominated to lead the EPA office that has worked to stop the MAHA Commission from restricting toxic...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FASH-AND-CARRY EDITION. - *Absolutely not my kind of thing, but I like it.Know what I mean?* Let’s see, what were the new nightmares of the past week? Well, last Sunday they had...
The Progressive Wing

9.26-30 Open Threads - Hola, you all. These are Open Threads so our Nest is ready to host. Post whatever suits your fancy. LOL. Everyone stay safe and well.🙂
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 26, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/26/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Socialist Alternative

Italy On Strike Against Genocide – Gaza City Under Hellish Attack - Under the slogans ‘24 hour general strike’ and ‘Block everything,’ the strongest day of protest in solidarity with Gaza in Italy to date took place on Mond...
Trivial Knot

Hell is Us: War and emotional distance - Hell is Us is a recent action adventure video game, with an emphasis on puzzles and exploration. I really like the game, but this is not a review. See oth...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Back to the Senate: Defeated Senators Who’ve Returned to Office - While several defeated senators are attempting, or considering attempts, to return to the Senate, such efforts have only been successfull a handful of ti...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Ecosophia

September 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...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
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.
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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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
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

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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.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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

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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