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

Independent Political Report

Elon Musk Quiet on America Party, per Wall Street Journal - Elon Musk is backing away from his recent pledge to form a new political party, according to a report this week from The Wall Street Journal.…
Houston Public Media

With Democrats’ walkout over, Texas House begins debate on controversial redistricting bill - On Wednesday, the Texas House will finally debate a new map for the state's congressional districts that could give Republicans as many as five additional ...
Mediagazer

Source: All Things Considered co-host Ari Shapiro is leaving NPR at the end of September (Hadas Gold/@hadas_gold) - Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: *Source: All Things Considered co-host Ari Shapiro is leaving NPR at the end of September* — NPR host @arishapiro is leaving N...
The Week

Feds seek harsh charges in DC arrests, except for rifles - The DOJ said 465 arrests had been made in D.C. since Trump federalized law enforcement there two weeks ago
memeorandum

Trump's ambiguity is the worst of all worlds (Janan Ganesh/Financial Times) - Janan Ganesh / Financial Times: *Trump's ambiguity is the worst of all worlds* — He supports Europe enough to make it complacent but not enough to make...
Mediaite

Newsom Reveals Moment He Decided Trolling Trump Was the Only Way to Fight Back: ‘I’ve Changed’ - "I respect the Republican Party. I'm married into a Republican family. I have deep love and respect for people I disagree with. He is something altogethe...
Al Jazeera English

Bus crash fire kills dozens of Afghans deported from Iran - Around 80 people have been killed in a bus crash that caught fire in Afghanistan’s Herat province.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | 2010 - *Friends:* *Published in 2010, I offer blog reader's Dr. Henry Giroux’s reflection on Paulo** Freire that makes clear why the Brazilian educator remains...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Someone Keeping Things Tight? (Five Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Aug. 20, 2025.
Salon.com

“Who’s ready to tear up this slip?”: Texas Democrats reject police escorts - One lawmaker said she was "correcting course" after earlier consenting to full-time police surveillance
Eschaton

AI-Enhanced Excel Says This Checks Out - Sure. The investor argues that the math for investing at the $500 billion valuation is straightforward: Hypothetically, if ChatGPT hits 2 billion users a...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Hurricane Erin pounds US east coast as residents brace for ‘life-threatening’ waves - North Carolina anticipates the most brutal surf conditions after storm reportedly rebuilds inner eye wall Hurricane Erin’s arrival is being felt all alon...
Ballot Access News

Colorado Libertarian Party Releases Invitation to Major Party Candidates - On August 19, the Colorado Libertarian Party released an invitation to major party candidates to sign a pledge on certain political issues. Major party can...
Raw Story

'Unconscionable!' New Jersey prosecutor skewers Trump for president's new 'illegal demand' - New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin slammed President Donald Trump Wednesday after having joined in a lawsuit against the administration over wha...
The Verge

Sony is raising PS5 prices, starting tomorrow - Sony is raising the price of all PS5 models by $50 in the US due to a “challenging economic environment,” according to a blog post. The changes will go int...
Second Nexus

Newsom Just Hilariously Trolled Kid Rock With An Uncle Sam-Style Poster—And Kid Rock Took The Bait - Singer Kid Rock lashed out at California Governor Gavin Newsom after Newsom's press office shared an AI-generated poster of Kid Rock dressed as Uncle Sam...
Futurism

After Disastrous GPT-5, Sam Altman Pivots to Hyping Up GPT-6 - OpenAI's launch of its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model turned out to be a bit of a dud. Those expecting a revolutionary change, something CEO Sam Altman prom...
Mother Jones

The Spectacular Narcissism of Trump’s Unsuccessful Peace Negotiations - Amid starvation imposed by Israel on Gaza and deadly bombings in Ukraine, President Donald Trump’s narcissism is reaching new heights. “I’ve done six wars,...
CultureMap Houston

Houston museum celebrates anime culture in blockbuster fall exhibit - Anime and Japanese pop culture are extremely popular in America, and Asia Society Texas (1370 Southmore) is celebrating their enduring legacies with a new ...
Daily Dot

“So chaotic”: A “Cake Picnic” in Lagos went viral for all the wrong reasons. What are they? - [image: lagos cake picnic] What was supposed to be Lagos’s first Cake Picnic turned into chaos, with viral videos showing attendees clawing at cakes with...
Courthouse News

Study says only 16% of Americans still read for fun - The number of people who say they read every day for fun or relaxation has dropped 40% over the last decades.
Common Dreams

Federal Court Blocks Texas Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Public School Classroom - In a victory for religious freedom and church-state separation, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today in *Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo ...
Political Wire

Trump Declares Himself a ‘War Hero’ - President Trump praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel as a “war hero” for ordering his country’s forces to bombard Iran’s nuclear sites — and...
The Hill

Perino hits back at Newsom social media criticism: 'We get the joke' - Fox News host Dana Perino hit back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday after the Democrat attacked her for criticizing his social media and mess...
Dissident Voice

The Freedom of Individuals - AI verifies our status as free individuals. The post The Freedom of Individuals first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Axios

HHS workers accuse RFK Jr. of stoking violence against them - More than 750 current and former federal health workers on Wednesday accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of contributing to harassment and violen...
Undernews

Polls - [image: Image] *Reuters -*Americans are deeply concerned over the prospect that advances in artificial intelligence could put swaths of the country out o...
Election Law Blog

My New One in the NY Times on How States, Courts, and the Public Can Combat the Risk Trump Poses to the 2026 Midterm Elections - I have written this guest essay for the NY Times (free gift link). It begins: With Republicans potentially losing their current seven-vote majority in th...
Alternet

'Bracing for impact': Trump insiders privately fear economy is a 'ticking timebomb' for GOP - During the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump used his own variation of Democratic strategist James Carville's famous 1992 line, "It's the economy, stu...
Deadline Politics

Trump White House Joins TikTok As Ban Deadline Looms; “I Am Your Voice,” POTUS Tells Followers - The White House has launched a TikTok account, even as the app’s Chinese parent company faces a deadline next month to divest the social media platform. Th...
San Antonio Current

Live Music in San Antonio This Week: Modest Mouse, Hacienda, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings - This week, San Antonio music fans can bask in the greatness of folk royalty, take in sounds from one of the foundational indie-rock outfits of the early 2...
Mondoweiss

The Peruvian military’s partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer signals deepening complicity in the Gaza genocide - [image: Peruvian President Dina Boluarte speaks at a ceremony marking the 42nd anniversary of the National Police of Peru's Counter-Terrorism Directorate, ...
Daily Howler

REVOLUTION: "I think he died for me," she said! - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2025* *On Monday, Trump said something quite similar:* On Monday, the president spoke to Emmanuel Macron, president of a vexatious...
SCOTUSblog

The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose” - Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the ...
naked capitalism

Autism Fabulist RFK, Jr. Shuts Down Research Into Possible Environmental Causes Even as He Escalated Broad-Based Attack Against Vaccines. - More on RFK, Jr.'s hypocrisy.
Glasstire

Untitled Art Houston Announces New Art Prize, Releases Schedule of Events - As contemporary art fair Untitled Art prepares its inaugural Houston edition to run September 19 through September 21, its new art prize has been announc...
Crooked Timber

Pop culture history: From Kennedy to Lois - There’s been a lack of cheer on this site lately. The obvious response: some analysis of trivial, ephemeral pop culture. So, a question before the jump: ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Gold Rush kicks off semester, Book Club hosts borderland author - UTEP launches the semester with Gold Rush, David Dorado Romo joins the El Paso Matters Book Club, and arts, film and music events fill the city this wee...
The NM Political Report

Secretary Noem visits Rudioso to review disaster response progress - [image: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem tours flood damaged areas with Mayor Lynn Crawford and Emergency Manager Eric Queller...
Bonddad

Real nonsupervisory payrolls and income in danger of tariff-driven stagnation - * - by New Deal democrat* Let’s take a look at the “real” purchasing power of average working and middle class Americans. The July jobs report showe...
Bracing Views

Teaching in the Age of AI - Unthinking Robots for the Man? BILL ASTORE AUG 19, 2025 AI, of course, stands for artificial intelligence, and I’ve played with it here at Bracing Views. I...
First Draft

Become Ungovernable - Every bit of defiance counts.
OpEd News

Oh, I wish it would rain and wash my face clean: A tribute and my theory as to why it rained on Woodstock - Three gifts of rain: Purification / Baptism / Blessing
Scheerpost.com

‘Defeatism Has No Place’ in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says - For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
Democracy Now!

"Unprecedented and Not Normal": ACLU Sues over Legal Black Hole at "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE Jail - We speak with ACLU lawyer Eunice Cho about a new federal lawsuit brought on behalf of immigrants held at the detention center in the Florida Everglades dub...
The Conversation

The Orwellian echoes in Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian - Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwel...
Techdirt.

Musk’s Starlink Gets Mad At The State Of Virginia For Refusing To Shower It With Broadband Subsidies It Doesn’t Deserve - There are $42.5 billion in broadband grants that are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routin...
NPR's Health Shots

After the CDC shooting, federal workers pressure RFK Jr. for more protections - More than 750 current and former HHS employees signed a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanding he stop spreading inaccurate informatio...
Space City Weather

A weak ‘front’ will bring unsettled weather to end the week, but the weekend outlook improves - In brief: We may see an additional round of storms this afternoon as a disturbance drops into the area, and then fairly widespread showers are likely on Th...
ArcaMax

Trump, the Un-American President - WASHINGTON -- It's a truism that American presidents change in office. The youthful Barack Obama grew gray. Put another way, the office changes presidents....
Rewire

I’m a Trans Girl in Elementary School—My Family and Teacher Support Me - "We all get to decide who we want to be, and I just want to be me." The post I’m a Trans Girl in Elementary School—My Family and Teacher Support Me appea...
Vox

How conservatives help their young thinkers — and why liberals don’t - Last week, two young liberals asked for help finding a job in the ideas industry. And I didn’t have a great answer. It made sense that they were asking: We...
Angry Bear

Trump’s “Truth” About Voting - Civil Discourse It’s one of those days with so much going on that it was clear to me early in the day I needed to do a standalone post on the topic of Tr...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Son of Humpday Humor - We’ll start out with one that knocked me over. Susan had accepted a job, along with her former boss Savreen, only to find it was a soul-killing dead end. S...
Dorf on Law

Are Government Stakes in Private Enterprises the New Tariffs? - As I wrote on this blog a little under a year ago, Donald Trump believes that tariffs are magic. He seems unaware of the tradeoff between the ability of ...
The Smirking Chimp

Paging FDR: Democrats Need To Embrace New Deal-Style Politics -
Skeptophilia

Reality vs. allegory - When I was about twenty, I stumbled upon the book *The Dancing Wu-Li Masters* by Gary Zukav. The book provides a non-mathematical introduction to the conc...
Off The Kuff

Motion for expedited review of proposed Congressional map filed - From the inbox, on Monday night. Today, the National Redistricting Foundation (NRF) filed a motion in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County elected officials once again vote to raise their own salaries in 2026 - Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai will make about $209,000 per year for the 2026 fiscal year, while commissioners will make roughly $165,000. -----------------...
ProPublica

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That. - by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publish...
The Root

Tamar Braxton Shares a Very Scary Story About How She Woke Up In a Pool Of Her Own Blood - The singer can't remember what happened as she shares that she has fractured her nose and is missing some teeth. Read more...
American Prospect

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics - mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it.
Progressive Army

Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas presentó su nuevo portal unificado para importación y exportación - A partir del 23 de agosto, comenzará a operar el nuevo portal unificado de Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas, que permitirá a los usuarios gestionar de manera c...
Grist

Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault. - Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes.
Crooked Media

How Putin Dominated Trump, and Can Ukraine Survive - The post How Putin Dominated Trump, and Can Ukraine Survive appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
World Socialist Web Site

German government plans to cut housing costs amid drastically rising rents - The German government is planning a reform of welfare payments, which would also cut housing support for the poorest households.
See You In 2020

Gaza is the testing ground for capital’s schemes, & Gaza’s resistance shows the world how to fight back - Above: a mercenary makes a heart sign to the people in Gaza’s “humanitarian aid” cages while the fence bulges from overcrowding. (Telegram via BBC.) U.S...
jobsanger

Trump's Approval Rating Remains At Its Lowest Level -
Ian Welsh

China is a Rich Society. No Western Country Is. - Saw this recently, from the University of Chicago: And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on. pic.twitter.com/e2JxrCbm1...
Informed Comment

Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians of Gaza as Part of a Genocide: Amnesty - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amnesty International concluded this week that the Israeli government is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and th...
The Daily Poster

The Plot To Outlaw AI Lawsuits - State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI use potentially violates consumer protection laws.
Wolf Street

Where Americans Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year at Ecommerce Retailers and How that Changed Over Time - Clothing & general merchandise online retailers are the biggie.
Brad Blog

Texas GOP Imprisons Dem State Lawmaker in State House Chamber: 'BradCast' 8/19/2025 - Okay. So, now Republican elected officials who pretend to oppose "Big Government", are literally locking up their elected opponents in the state capital. (...
Consortium News

WATCH: Out-Flattering a Capricious Trump - CN editor Joe Lauria tells RT News the significance of the recent flurry of high-level diplomatic activity on Ukraine may be overblown and that tangible pr...
Popular Resistance

Trump And Democrats Fuel The Washington DC Crime Panic - “The year before, Newark, New Jersey, had been occupied by nearly lily-white units of the National Guard, sent there to quell a four-day rebellion in whi...
Workers World

Stop martial law in D.C.! No to MAGA storm troopers! - [image: Stop martial law in D.C.! No to MAGA storm troopers!] It’s hard to keep track of all of the Trump administration’s many violations of people’s righ...
Antiwar.com

Sixty-Three Years, Nothing Has Changed - Reprinted from The Realist Review. Exactly 63 years ago, on a summer afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Kennedy White House adviser, Arthur Schles...
Portside

The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing - The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing Judy Tue, 08/19/2025 - 19:11
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Wants ‘Out of Control’ Museums to Stop Teaching About the Evils of Slavery - [image: Donald Trump, AI Summit] Donald Trump thinks that museums shouldn't teach Americans about the evils of slavery and is directing his lawyers to cond...
Claytoonz

Eat Mor Bulshirt - 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...
Progressive.org

C’mon, LeBron - NBA star LeBron James won't back down from his staunch support for Israel.
Krebs on Security

Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service - A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating "Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denia...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN MURRAY / CRIMINAL INTELLIGENCE / Lt. Burt Gerding and I - Photo by Belmer Wright published in Austin’s underground paper, The Rag, January 15, 1968. By Martin Murray / The Rag Blog / August 19, 2025 Lt. Burt Gerdi...
Discourse

The Men Who Shout At Grok - Used to be people felt a sense of shame about arguing with a beep boop phantom
Reform Austin

Trump Vows to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots, Despite Constitutional Limits - President Donald Trump has renewed his push to abolish mail-in voting, promising to sign an executive order aimed at banning the practice ahead of the 20...
Sludge

Dem Super PACs Refund FTX Money Under DOJ Pressure - Future Forward and Women Vote waited years to refund their FTX money, only doing so after being pressed by the Justice Department.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
Church and State

What I Would Say to World Leaders - Therefore, our top priority should be to ensure that free contraception is available to everyone everywhere.
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Capital & Main

There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up? - Climate policies could lead to future refinery closures as Californians transition to electric vehicles. The post There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s So...
DeSmogBlog

MPs Slam Trump Advisor for Interfering in UK Climate Debate - Members of Parliament have rebuked a Donald Trump advisor for spreading misleading claims about the UK’s climate policies. Professor Steve Koonin, a form...
Liberation News

Texas Democrats surrender to racist redistricting plan, declare ‘victory’ - As the Texas Democrats rejoin their Republican friends in the halls of power, the working class of Texas must keep organizing for a different type of powe...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Texas Observer

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story - James Beathard had an innocence claim-- but it went largely unheard prior to his 1999 execution. Law students are working on a documentary to draw attent...
NORML

Cannabis Rescheduling: Myths Versus Reality - Absent cannabis descheduling, those who produce, dispense, possess, or use marijuana in compliance with state laws could still face federal prosecution f...
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Junk It or Donate It? How to Make the Right Call Every Time - As a mom of two and co-owner of a junk removal company in Los Angeles,... The post Guest Idea: Junk It or Donate It? How to Make the Right Call Every Tim...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier, David Kyle Johnson, and I, Oh My! - We three have been invited by Dr. James Sterba to write papers on ethics without God. So far Johnson's and Carrier's papers have both been published. Mine ...
Infidel753

Blogiversary XIX - Today marks nineteen years that I've been doing this blog. It's become so much a part of my regular routine that it's difficult now to imagine life witho...
High Country News

Wildfire is a growing threat to the West’s water systems - [image: Tourists watch smoke from the Dragon Bravo wildfire float through the Grand Canyon.] How fire and water managers can prepare. The post Wildfire i...
The AltWorld

Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza. Americans Should Know This Too. - It’s so revealing how Israelis keep begging Trump to end the killing in Gaza, because they understand […] The post Israelis Understand That Trump Can End...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Drag show ban blocked at West Texas A&M University. Major parts of Florida book ban struck down by federal judge. - A federal appeals court blocked a drag show ban at West Texas A&M University on Monday. A few days before, a federal judge in Florida struck down major p...
The Texas Signal

The Special Session Starts Again - Texas Democrats face an uphill battle in stopping redistricting, and the other agenda items for the second special session
slacktivist

‘We are Christians first, Americans second’ - It's a platitude that American Christians have recited so many times we're bored by it, but it still means something.
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez - A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugeni...
Project Censored

From the Frontlines: Media, Colonization, and Resistance in Palestine - In the first part of the program, we’re joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Dr. Baroud discusses cul...
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California Democratic Map if Voters Approve It - California Democrats aim for a five-seat gain in a new gerrymander--IF voters approve it The post The Gavinmander: How We Would Rate the New California D...
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
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.
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 - How parents, teachers, kids can spend less; have safer, healthier, greener school year. The post RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 appe...
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: There's No Such Thing As Society - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part I: The individualization of society through capitalism created a vast and seemingly inescapable loneliness
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Hominis - At this point in our exploration of Yeats’s great occult synthesis A Vision, it will help to step back and glance at an earlier work of his that provided t...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Edinburg Politics

Public given more time to see agendas, proposed budgets before local governments take action under new state law coauthored by Rep. Janie López, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new Texas law, coauthored by Rep. Janie López, D-San Benito, will increase transparency in local governments by requiring agendas and proposed annual bud...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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.
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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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