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

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s China trade truce extension spurs market rally - Bourses in Australia and Japan hit record highs as hopes grow of trade deal within latest 90-day pause - Business live – latest updates - ...
Slate

My Conservative In-Laws Adore My Daughter. How Do I Push Back—Without Ruining Everything? - Boundary-setting conversations are great. But they don’t cover everything. Here’s what you need to know.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 12 August 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "science fiction as art" video, click here....
Al Jazeera English

China, Brazil can be models of ‘self-reliance’ for Global South, Xi says - China's Xi and Brazil's Lula discuss cooperation amid fallout of US President Donald Trump's trade war.
Earth 911

Shopping for Humanely Raised Meat - This article is the fourth in a six-part series focused on helping consumers choose products... The post Shopping for Humanely Raised Meat appeared first...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Made for TV Occupation of D.C. - The post Trump’s Made for TV Occupation of D.C. appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The New York Times Continues to Give Netanyahu the Benefit of the Doubt - “Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from hi...
The Week

Blue whales have gone silent and it's posing troubling questions - Warming oceans are the answer
Mediagazer

Kevin Durant's Boardroom, a site focused on athletes and other entertainers, plans to launch a print magazine this month, with quarterly issues starting in 2026 (Daniel Kaplan/The Hollywood Reporter) - Daniel Kaplan / The Hollywood Reporter: *Kevin Durant's Boardroom, a site focused on athletes and other entertainers, plans to launch a print magazine th...
naked capitalism

NYC Mayor Eric Adams in Cahoots With ICE? Sudden Surge in Courthouse Arrests With Failure to Act on Illegal Detentions - Hyper agressive ICE shifts tactics in New York City by arresting targets at court appearances. A sop to Mayor Adams? To NYC oligarchs?
jobsanger

Why Trump's Administration Is Filled With Incompetent Idiots -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3324: Flying Blind - Episode: 3324 Jimmy Doolittle, Inventor of Instrument Flying. Today, flying blind.
Axios

Photos: Scenes from Trump's takeover of D.C. - D.C. is seeing an increased federal law enforcement presence after President Trump declared a "crime emergency" in the U.S. capital on Monday. *The big ...
memeorandum

Does President Trump Want to Be Mayor, Too? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times) - Jess Bidgood / New York Times: *Does President Trump Want to Be Mayor, Too?* — President Trump has long railed about crime in blue cities. Now he's ef...
Wolf Street

Serious Delinquency Rates for Subprime & Prime Auto Loans, their Balances, and their Burden: Our Drunken Sailors in Q2 - Subprime is, as always, in trouble, which is why it’s subprime – high-risk-high-profit auto sales & lending that can entail steep losses.
World Socialist Web Site

Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake government announces market-driven education reforms - The JVP/NPP government’s plans to boost privatisation will be a deadly blow to the public free education system that is already on the brink.
Informed Comment

Trump to Xi: ‘Hold our Beer’ – EVs majority of Chinese New Car Sales, as Exports rocket 74% - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Car News China reports that in the first half of 2025, consumers in that country bought 10,891,000 passenger vehicles. But h...
Mediaite

After Trump Deploys National Guard in D.C., Jeanine Pirro Declares, ‘This Is Just the Beginning’ - Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Monday night that President Donald Trump is just getting warmed up when using fede...
Raw Story

'What evidence do you have?': GOP podcaster's claims about crime shocks CNN panel - The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" exploded after a right-wing podcaster gave President Donald Trump credit for declining crime rates acros...
Techdirt.

Seventh Circuit Shuts Down Indiana’s Unconstitutional Police Buffer Zone Law - Although the Supreme Court has yet to say so itself (and probably won’t any time soon, given its current composition), it’s generally accepted that citizen...
The Hill

Trump endorses Georgia Lt. Gov. in gubernatorial race - President Trump has endorsed Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R) in the Peach State’s gubernatorial race. “Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governo...
Courthouse News

Salmonella convictions upheld - ATLANTA – The 11th Circuit upheld the convictions of ex-Peanut Corporation of America president Stewart Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnel...
Alternet

'Not plausible': Trump-appointed judge hands him major loss in court - President Donald Trump's administration is having a difficult time defending the legality of its policies — even to judges Trump himself put on the bench...
Popular Resistance

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s Final Message Released After Israel Assassinates Him - This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon...
Eschaton

Monday Night - Rock on.
Claytoonz

Caribou Fascists - 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...
Brad Blog

After Vaccine Cancellations, Shooting at CDC, Fired Health Officials Want RFK Jr.'s Resignation: 'BradCast' 8/11/2025 - So much for the campaign to "Make America Healthy Again". Today on The BradCast, former public health officials are calling for the head of Donald Trump's ...
Futurism

Computer Science Grads Are Being Forced to Work Fast Food Jobs as AI Tanks Their Career - Until very recently, studying computer science (or some variation therein) was considered among the best bets an incoming college freshman could make. No...
NORML

NORML’s Facebook Page Restored - [image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard][image: A cannabis key on a computer keyboard]Meta was able to restore access to NORML's Facebook page. The...
Political Wire

Epstein Issue Is Unavoidable In Many GOP Districts - A Republican consultant conceded to Puck “that he’s unnerved by how much the Epstein issue has seeped into the political conversation beyond the Beltway—no...
CultureMap Houston

Keith Lee-loved Houston sandwich shop rolls into new Cypress store - A restaurant that started as a food truck has opened its third Houston-area location. The newest location of *The Waffle Bus* is now open in Cypress.
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Aug 13–19, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Aug 13–19, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 08/11/2025 - 20:21
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Takeover of DC’s Police Tells the Story of His Second Term - [image: Trump, Marine One, White House, 2025 NATO Summit] Both the federal takeover of the capital’s police force and the press conference where it was ann...
Antiwar.com

How Ron Paul Changed the World - I remember like yesterday when Dr. Paul called me into his Member’s office in 203 Cannon with a draft of his famous “What If” speech. He had written it in ...
Daily Dot

“They won’t be able to recover from this”: Cracker Barrel is testing a modernized remodel, and customers are split over the new look - [image: cracker barrel renovated brighter remodel reactions] Restaurant and gift shop chain Cracker Barrel ditches its nostalgic branding for a modern re...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump justifies taking over DC police with claim that Democrats 'want transgender for everybody' - If you haven't heard by now, Trump has decided to take over the DC police and deploy the national guard in the Capitol city. He claims to be doing it bec...
Ballot Access News

Texas Republican Party Edges Closer to Keeping Candidates off its Primary Ballot for Ideological Reasons - This Texas Tribune article says the Texas Republican Party passed a rule last year that authorizes keeping candidates off the Republican primary ballot for...
Salon.com

OpenAI’s Altman admits the way people might use ChatGPT makes him “uneasy” - The head of the company behind ChatGPT worried about using the app to make important decisions
Vox

Trump’s takeover of the DC police force, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Election Law Blog

Election case curriculum videos - Justin here. With the semester either beginning or around the corner, I wanted to lift up a series of great videos (illustrated, annotated, featuring cas...
San Antonio Current

Houston's The Riot Comedy Club expanding into downtown San Antonio - Downtown San Antonio soon will have another spot to yuck it up. Houston's The Riot Comedy Club plans to open a 4,900-square-foot location near the Alamo a...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: ‘Blood Libel’ Paradox & Israel’s Genocide - The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. This is win-win for colonialism, lose-lose for humanity. By Jonatha...
The Verge

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations - On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what t...
Workers World

Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts - [image: Philly: Hundreds protest transit fare increases, service cuts] Over 300 people rallied outside Philadelphia City Hall on Aug. 6 to demand no cuts i...
Daily Cartoonist

Turkish Prosecutors Appeal Zehra Ömeroğlu Acquittal - Cartoonists Rights reports that Turkish prosecutors are appealing the July 24 acquittal of cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu. Zehra had been charged with “obscenit...
San Antonio Report

Spurs arena hits roadblock at City Hall as Mayor Jones demands ‘independent’ economic analysis - Plans for a new downtown NBA arena won over skeptics at Bexar County, but San Antonio's mayor says she's rejecting "artificial timelines." -----------------...
The Grayzone

NYC’s Mayor Adams boasts of endorsement from ‘rabbi’ accused of child molestation - Eric Adams’ mayoral campaign quickly removed all references to a “rabbi” accused of pedophilia after eagle-eyed social media users discovered the charges...
NPR's Health Shots

Women who have experienced stalking have a higher risk of heart disease, study shows - A big, new study shows women who are victims of stalking are at significantly higher risk of heart disease.
Texas Standard

Lawsuits, arrest warrants: Everything to know about the Texas quorum break - It’s now week two of a quorum break by more than 50 Texas House Democrats who left the state to block a new, Republican-backed congressional district map.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Nixes Idea Of Larger White House Briefing Room, Tells Reporters “I Don’t Want You To Be Comfortable” - Donald Trump has paved over the grass adjacent to the White House Rose Garden, and he plans to construct a huge ballroom on the East Wing. But on Monday, h...
Mondoweiss

The Western media is complicit in Israel’s murder of Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif - [image: A Palestinian journalist inspect the scene after an Israeli airstrike on a journalists' tent near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on Augus...
OpEd News

Lebanon faces a new civil war amid U.S. and Israeli pressure - This article talks about the latest developments in Lebanon and how the USA is putting political and economic pressure on Lebanon
Project Censored

From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power - In the first part of the show, we welcome back award-winning investigative reporter Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red. We’ll talk about his lat...
Second Nexus

Owner Of MAGA-Themed 'Trump Burger' Chain Facing Deportation After ICE Arrest - The co-owner of a Texas chain of MAGA-themed burger restaurants is facing deportation after being arrested by the Department of Homeland Security's Immig...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Pritzker made a joke of the Illinois map! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2025* *He's left with one (shaky) claim:* Will Jeffrey Epstein be a type of finishing touch? Will Epstein be the magical topic which ...
Church and State

Zelinsky shows spunk against a probable Trump sell out. Ukraine must be a NATO member for any Putin deal to work. - Leaving Zelinsky on the sidelines as Trump prepares to meet in Alaska with Putin shows the stupidity and arrogance of Trump.
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Stop Trump’s racist, police state takeover of DC! - Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C. is his latest step towards imposing a police state where civil liberties are shredded and cops are given free rein to ...
American Prospect

Tariffs to Import and Fees to Export - Today on TAP: An unprecedented new revenue share on chips sold to China reveals Donald Trump’s economics of control.
Reform Austin

Abbott Threatens Endless Special Sessions Over Congressional Maps - The political standoff over Texas’s congressional maps shows no signs of slowing, with Gov. Greg Abbott (R) pledging on Sunday to keep the fight going fo...
The NM Political Report

25 New Mexico lawmakers oppose petition to allow oil and gas wastewater discharge - [image: On June 14, thousands in the Albuquerque community showed up for the No Kings Rally held at Mariposa Basin Park in Taylor Ranch. This is one of t...
ArcaMax

An Important Way to Fight Trump Fascism - As you’re painfully aware, Trump’s ICE is rapidly morphing into a national police state — targeting legal immigrants as well as the undocumented, some of t...
Independent Political Report

North Carolina Forward Party to Host Virtual Town Hall with Andrew Yang and Rep. Don Davis - The North Carolina Forward Party will host a virtual town hall this week featuring members of the party’s leadership and a discussion on national plans f...
The Conversation

This isn’t how wars are ended − a veteran diplomat explains how Trump-Putin summit is amateurish and politically driven - A former US ambassador and career diplomat says that history indicates that the possibilities for a lasting peace coming out of the Trump-Putin summit are ...
Undernews

Maine news - *Maine news *
First Draft

Mary Kay, Amway, And Donald Trump - Turns out MLM schemes have a lot in common with our current president.
Glasstire

Houston Arts Alliance Seeks Grants Working Group Participants - The Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is seeking applicants for its Grants Working Group, established in 2023 to advance accessibility, equity, and transparenc...
DeSmogBlog

UK Government to be Sued in ‘Secret Corporate Court’ by Coal Firm Represented by Tory MP - Keir Starmer’s Labour government is being sued by investors represented by a Conservative MP over court decisions to quash the now abandoned Cumbrian coa...
Discourse

The Enraging Betrayal of Murdered Palestinian Journalists - May the elite media's shameful treatment of their fallen colleagues haunt them forever.
The Root

Eddie Murphy’s Ex-Girlfriend Predicted His Future Spot on And What He Did For Her Will Have You Grabbing The Tissues - Murphy revealed how someone special from early in his life predicted his now-legendary fame. Read more...
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...
Mother Jones

Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza - Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, the Israeli military has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists, according to the Committee to ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Thank you, Guardian readers! - Thank you to all the readers, reporters, staff, supporters, sponsors, and advertisers for making our incredible journey possible. The post Thank you, Gu...
The Daily Poster

King Of D.C. - The Trump administration is federalizing the D.C. police and deploying the National Guard to clean up the nation’s capital, even as violent crime drops.
Angry Bear

Trump vs Krugman - Apparently, the guy who bankrupted casinos has called economics Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman a “deranged bum.” LOL! Trump is pissed at Krugman for critici...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Fascism Goes to Washington” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Is fascism coming to the streets of D.C.? That’s the big question on the “DeProgram” show with political ca...
Rewire

$150 Billion to Deport Immigrants? Here Are 4 Other Ideas. - Plus: Trump to deploy troops in federal takeover of nation's capital, White House abandons IVF promise, and NH bans gender-affirming care for minors. The...
Capital & Main

Tracking the Chaos of Trump 2.0 - Digital activists are building tools to monitor the havoc caused by Trump-era policies — from deportations to funding cuts. The post Tracking the Chaos o...
SCOTUSblog

Shadow voting on the shadow docket - Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views ...
Debunking Christianity

What Could Convince Reasonable People to Accept the Miracle Stories in the Bible? - This is a segment of my talk at last weekend's BAHA conference in Sarnia, Canada. The conference was fantastic, by the way, with excellent speakers who wer...
Dissident Voice

Dancing with the Devil: Is It Possible to Evaluate Stalin Dialectically? - Orientation Boogey men on parade “How can you like Putin? He is a dictator who has been in power for 20 years. There is no democracy in Russia. Besides, ...
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...
Bonddad

A decline in the immigrant labor force is not a valid reason for Wall Street’s optimism - * - by New Deal democrat* Despite some very soft employment and production data in the past several weeks, Wall Street has been on something of a t...
El Paso Matters

As drought, climate change pressure El Paso water supply, farmers innovate to sustain orchards in one of nation’s biggest pecan-growing hubs - Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife and throughout the borderland are working to help area farmers sustain in the face of drought, escalating temperatures...
Ian Welsh

Do The Same Sorts Of People Lead All Societies? - There often seems to be an assumption that leaders everywhere are the same: that there is no real difference between leaders in different countries or at d...
Progressive.org

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation - How the current conditions of immigrant detention and Trump Administration policies impelled a farmworker organizer to return to Mexico.
Democracy Now!

Community Organizer Slams "Fascist ICE Agents" After Arrest of U.S. Citizen Documenting Raids - As immigration raids and arrests continue to terrorize communities across the United States, we look at grassroots efforts to fight back. ICE has faced wid...
Common Dreams

“Dangerous Act of Climate Vandalism”: BP Defies UK Government to Reopen North Sea Oil Field - As the UK approaches its *fourth heatwave of the summer* and wildfires burn in Dorset and Edinburgh, climate campaigners have condemned BP’s decision to ...
Texas Observer

Picturing Palestine - The post Picturing Palestine appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Space City Weather

Fairly widespread showers likely today across the region - In brief: Houston will see a pattern this week of typical August temperatures, and daily shower chances. We may also see a few isolated downpours and stron...
Progressive Army

Reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buen día: Informamos temática y código de acceso al zoom correspondientes a la reunión de comisión directiva que se llevara a cabo el miér...
Crooked Timber

I guess that makes me…Horace Slughorn? - The Economist, having surveyed the current state of European higher education, has decided that the most significant problem is that the specialized gradua...
Dorf on Law

Do Class Actions Circumvent SCOTUS Ruling Against Universal Injunctions or Solve the Problems Associated With Such Injunctions? - The recent SCOTUS decision in *Trump v. CASA* forbids federal district courts from issuing universal (sometimes called "nationwide") injunctions against ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Rigged’: Former Trump Lawyer Predicts He Will Throw ‘Someone Under the Bus’ Over Epstein -
Skeptophilia

The lady in red - I've been interested for years in how religions get started. There are a handful that come about from the work of a single person; Joseph Smith with the ...
Off The Kuff

Comparing the districts - As I write this on Sunday, there’s a lot we don’t know about how this saga ends. I feel confident saying that at some point there will be a quorum and a ne...
ProPublica

They Can’t Get Answers From the Oil Industry. North Dakota’s Oversight Program Hasn’t Helped. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor, photography by Sarahbeth Maney, ProPublica This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in...
Scheerpost.com

Israeli Strike on Tent in Gaza Kills Five Al Jazeera Journalists - By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com An Israeli airstrike on Sunday night targeted a tent outside the gates of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and killed five A...
Grist

Tracking sea turtles is a long, slow process that just might keep them alive - This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.
See You In 2020

The “Trump wants peace” lie, & the vile acts this lie has enabled - *This is an excerpt from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: How The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocau...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: August 2025 - I don’t have many links this time, and all videos. If you’re one of the readers who doesn’t watch videos, you can skip this one. The Physics of Dissonance...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Creating Meaning and Purpose to Fight Capitalism: Audio From A Collapsing State - We're not just facing a political battle. Our present moment requires us to reinvigorate a sense of calling and belonging
Bracing Views

War in Somalia - I need to get smart on this BILL ASTORE AUG 07, 2025 With an ongoing genocide in Gaza and a dangerous war between Russia and Ukraine, who has the time to l...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me."
The AltWorld

‘US Is Trying to Instigate Civil War in Lebanon’ - The Lebanese government has approved a US-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, a move Rania Khalek says is […] The post ‘US Is Trying to Instigate Civil War ...
The Militant

‘Working class in our millions must take the political power’ - SWP on Minneapolis ballot! ‘Oppose rulers’ drive to war’ Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis Kevin Dwire was certified on the ballot...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMIN' EDITION. - *lol* Sorry I missed last week’s edition -- guess I'm really due for a vacation. Or a nervous breakdown. In either case, as St. Augie said, not yet. In ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

What we’re talking about this week. - The post What we’re talking about this week. appeared first on D Magazine.
Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity in New ‘Most Wanted’ HBO Max Series - A new documentary series about cybercrime airing next month on HBO Max features interviews with Yours Truly. The four-part series follows the exploits of J...
The Texas Signal

Republican Legal Threats Continue As Democrats Hold Strong - As Democrats have appeared alongside leaders of states like Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and California, Republicans in Texas are attempting to take l...
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...
Sludge

DSCC Took Lobbyist Bundles From Firms Reaping Rewards Under Trump - Senate Democrats’ campaign arm quietly received donations in the first half of this year from lobbyists for Palantir, Andreessen Horowitz, and SpaceX, acco...
The Progressive Wing

8/8/2025-8/14/2025 News Roundup and Open Thread - The fact that she chose to be offended about them attacking her appearance instead of the puppy killing pretty much proves South Park’s point. — Visual Reb...
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 ...
High Country News

Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions - In the face of federal cuts, volunteers, businesses and others help keep programs afloat. The post Public lands and wildlife turn to stopgap solutions ...
Lowering the Bar

Constitution Deleted - [image: wayback machine image showing disappearing text]Is somebody practing for the big day?
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...
MintPress News

Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS - Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent. The post Israe...
Unlimited Hangout

From Project 2025 to the PayPal Presidency: School Choice Fin-Tech for a Blockchain Social Credit Economy - The ambitions of the Koch-backed network behind Project 2025 and the the PayPal Mafia behind President Trump are set to converge in a public-private fin-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Previewing the 2026 Secretary of State Races - About half the states will hold secretary of state elections next year, with key contests coming in presidential battlegrounds The post Previewing the 20...
Ecosophia

Talking Back to Flying Heads - As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is ...
Environment Texas

Austin’s $6.3 billion budget targets water, energy, and parks upgrades - Proposed FY 2026 plan boosts investments in clean energy, tree planting, wildfire preparedness, and water conservation amid financial constraints The pos...
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...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
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 ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
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...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
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.
LareDOS

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
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...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
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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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
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

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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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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