Brains and Eggs

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

ArcaMax

You Don't Have to Be Jewish - One of my most distinct memories of childhood is sitting in the back seat of my mother's car with my sister on Christmas Eve as my mother explained that th...
The Week

Received a windfall? Here is what to do next. - Avoid falling prey to ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’
Al Jazeera English

Algeria passes law declaring French colonisation a crime - Algeria’s parliament unanimously passed a law declaring France’s colonisation a crime.
memeorandum

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God (Joshua McElwee/Reuters) - Joshua McElwee / Reuters: *Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God* — Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesd...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2548: Informs - Episode: 2548 INFORMS and the mathematics of problem solving. Today, strange bedfellows.
See You In 2020

Marxism faces today’s crisis unflinchingly, while the far right retreats into a world that can no longer exist - The core flaw of Bronze Age Pervert, Nick Fuentes, and all other “rightist” figures is that they frame history as being a personal thing. That they look...
Countercurrents

Beyond One Order: Why the DMK’s Impeachment Notice Deserves Serious Reading, Not Reflex Outrage - The DMK’s impeachment notice against Justice G.R. Swaminathan has been widely portrayed by some sections of the media as an attack on judicial independence...
TalkLeft

Merry Christmas Eve 2025 and Open Thread - Christmas Eve is the single, quietest night of the year. The world seems to shut down, from stores to movie theaters to restaurants and even food deliver...
Axios

Powerball's Christmas Eve drawing dangles a $1.82 billion Christmas miracle - Powerball's Christmas Eve drawing carries an estimated $1.817 billion Christmas miracle — the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever after growing from...
Political Wire

Trump’s Enforcer Is a Little-Known White House Aide - Wall Street Journal: “During a meeting with GOP lawmakers at the White House over the summer, Trump berated House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris for r...
Techdirt.

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification - It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of stat...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: EU could respond to ‘unjustified’ US visa bans, official says - European leaders including Emmanuel Macron accused Washington of ‘coercion and intimidation’. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 24 December The EU c...
The Hill

Palau signs memo with Trump administration to take 75 migrants from US - Palau, a small archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, signed a memo of understanding with the Trump administration to take up to 75 “third-country natio...
Raw Story

'Clean, beautiful coal!' Trump veers into fossil fuel tangent on Christmas call with child - President Donald Trump veered off topic to endorse fossil fuel energy during a phone conversation with a small child in a Mar-a-Lago Christmas Eve event....
Alternet

Trump brutally mocked by Daily Show video montage of him falling asleep in meetings - Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is bringing in the Christmas holiday by mocking President Donald Trump's habit of falling asleep during public meetings...
Popular Resistance

Christmas Is Not A Western Story; It Is A Palestinian One - Every December, much of the Christian world enters a familiar cycle of celebration: carols, lights, decorated trees, consumer frenzy and the warm imagery...
Salon.com

A holiday viewing guide for every taste - From "The Family Stone" to Christmas caped crusaders, we've got you covered
Courthouse News

Immigrants refuse to eat our children - “Immigrants refuse to eat me,” enraged Trump says. “They’re treating me worse than a dog.”
Mediaite

Trump Tells Child He Wants ‘To Make Sure’ That ‘A Bad Santa’ Doesn’t Enter the Country - President Donald Trump told a child on Christmas Eve that he had to track Santa Claus to make sure that a "bad Santa" is not "infiltrating into our count...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: Behind The Christmas Story - In 1952, a year after Associated Press Newsfeatures delivered the six part The Story of Santa Claus to newspapers, they brought out the six part Behind the...
Scheerpost.com

Israeli Occupation Intensifies: Defense Minister Vows Permanent Gaza Presence as Settler Violence Escalates in West Bank - Israeli actions in the occupied territories are escalating, with dire consequences for Palestinian civilians. Defense Minister Israel Katz has signaled a p...
Eschaton

Felicitations of the season - The thing about the Winter Solstice is that if you're in the northern hemisphere, it doesn't much matter what you believe because a solstice just *is*, n...
Portside

2026: A Year of Reckoning - 2026: A Year of Reckoning jay Wed, 12/24/2025 - 17:49
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this Christmas weekend - So, Thursday is the big day, when many Houstonians will get together with family and/or friends to celebrate Christmas with presents, egg nog, and a festiv...
Wolf Street

US Government Interest Payments to Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q3 2025 - Update on a slightly less ugly situation.
NPR's Health Shots

ADHD drugs work indirectly to improve attention - New research suggests that prescription stimulants for ADHD don't actually improve attention directly. They work on different pathways in the brain that su...
Claytoonz

Replacement Christmas - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Greanville Post

THE BEST OF CALEB MAUPIN: Why Capitalism Can’t Handle Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Quick Review - CALEB MAUPIN—The video delves into a fundamental contradiction within the capitalist mode of production, focusing on the concept of “glut”—a phenomenon whe...
Ballot Access News

Texas State Trial Court Judges Reverses Herself and Removes Republican David Rogers from Primary Ballot - On December 22, the same Texas trial court judge who had temporarily put David Rogers on the 2026 primary ballot as a candidate for State Supreme Court rem...
Dissident Voice

Iran Rejects US Terms at UN Council - DV coeditor Faramarz Farbod joined AnewZ.tv (Baku, Azerbaijan) this morning to discuss the escalating U.S.-Iran nuclear standoff and the sharp divisions ...
Daily Dot

“So freaking incapable”: People are un-redacting the Epstein files with a laughably simple trick - [image: Left: Screenshot of the Jeffrey Epstein files with big black boxes redacting areas of text. Right: Simpsons meme] The Justice Department’s attemp...
OpEd News

Dodging and Diving Through YouTube - I'm starting to wonder if all these YouTube videos are real.
Undernews

Temperatures expected to set record Christmas highs - *The Washington Post - *On Christmas Day, more than 100 individual high temperature records are forecast to be neared, tied or broken across the nation. Wh...
Slate

Every Random Famous Person Who Cameos in *Marty Supreme*, Ranked - It’s not just the guy from Shark Tank.
San Antonio Report

Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Antonio - Looking for parties to crash on New Year's Eve? We've got you. ------------------------------ Where to celebrate New Year’s Eve in San Antonio was first pos...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #09: [REDACTED] Has an AI Girlfriend????????? - Caitlin joins us for the final episode of 2025 and boy is it a doozy!
Mediagazer

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who "revolted" over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 Minutes' CECOT segment to be fired (Zachary Leeman/Mediaite) - Zachary Leeman / Mediaite: *White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who “revolted” over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 ...
First Draft

All About Christmas Eve - Happy Holidays from New Orleans.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Going Beyond the MSM Name-Calling Narrative at TPUSA - The MSM covered the name-calling at TPUSA, but ignored the MAGA vs MIGA subtext driving the conflict between Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson.
Futurism

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer - Talk about a beer and a shot! The post Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer appeared first on Futurism.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"The Vision of the Vanquished": Knowledge Europe Destroyed—and that the U.S. Power Structure Still Fears, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *"The Vision of the Vanquished": Knowledge Europe Destroyed—and that the U.S. Power Structure Still Fears* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 24...
The Verge

Anker’s beefy Laptop Power Bank has returned to its Black Friday low - As you might expect, things have been relatively quiet on the deals front since Black Friday, particularly when it comes to discounts on charging accessori...
Angry Bear

Judge supports Trump affirmative action for domestic tech workers - As a PhD molecular biologist, I’ve spent my entire career in tech, albeit academic tech. During that time, I’ve had the privilege to work with many colle...
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Just Revealed Trump's Real Motive For Building A White House Ballroom—And It's Peak Trump - Fox News host Jesse Watters told a Turning Point USA crowd that MAGA Republican President Donald Trump is building his golden ballroom as a monument to h...
Mondoweiss

Gazans are taking matters into their own hands by launching community reconstruction efforts - With limited resources, Palestinians in Gaza and in exile are funding community reconstruction efforts amid the absence of international aid. “We have to k...
Off The Kuff

Wednesday video break: The Tuba Christmas before Christmas - I can’t figure out how to embed this from Facebook, but here’s the 2025 TubaChristmas Austin performance, for those of you who like this sort of thing (and...
Reform Austin

Texas Energy Costs Surge: Families Face Tough Decisions This Holiday Season - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As utility costs continue to climb in Texas, some families are finding themselves caught betwee...
WhoWhatWhy

Is SCOTUS Signalling? The Implications of Its Trump v. Illinois Realignment - [image: Supreme Court, Fisheye lens] The Supreme Court took its time with this “emergency” case. Was it taking stock of Trump’s descent into madness? Is S...
Election Law Blog

“As more states pass proof of citizenship laws, report points to Kansas as cautionary tale” - Kansas Reflector: Kansas’ failed proof of citizenship law could serve as a cautionary tale for Congress and other states just beginning to craft similar ...
Texas Standard

Texas Standard for Dec. 24, 2025: Revisiting our top 10 music stories of the past decade - This year, Texas Standard celebrated 10 years on the air. One way we marked the occasion was by counting down some of our favorite stories. Here’s a look a...
Capital & Main

Where Will Gov. Newsom’s Evolution on Health Care Leave Californians? - As he heads into his final year in Sacramento — and mulls a presidential campaign — some in the Golden State have gained access to more care, others not ...
Daily Howler

EMPATHY AND ILLNESS: He's a moral pygmy, one analyst said! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2025* *The moral over the medical:* Oof—but also, *world without end*! Last evening, sure enough, there he went again: *Trump L...
slacktivist

Recent reads (12.24.25) - The village of the damned, Art Bell, Mel Torme, the Christmas blues, sticking fingers in oil wells, and why shirts button on that side (maybe).
Bonddad

The low pace of firings continues to Christmas - - *by New Deal democrat* Our last bit of news before Christmas continued the positive news, as initial jobless claims declined back to 214,000, whil...
Glasstire

The Nighttime Machine - As an artist, I look for inspiration everywhere. Some artists find new creative directions through dedicated sketching, hallucinogenics in the desert, or...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s “reindeer rule” - Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict app...
El Paso Matters

Fred Loya Christmas lights return as Kwanzaa celebrations begin - From the Fred Loya Christmas Lights to a weeklong Kwanzaa celebration, El Paso’s holiday calendar also includes Sun Bowl arrivals, WinterFest activities...
Democracy Now!

Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March - Calls are growing to release Palestinian protester Leqaa Kordia, who was arrested at a 2024 Columbia University Gaza solidarity protest. The charges were d...
Rallblog

No Place for Mom | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

But seriously, why has it been so dang foggy? (And why Rudolph may need his bright nose tonight) - In brief: In this Christmas Eve update we discuss all of the fog recorded by Houston recently. Why has there been so much? When is it going away? Will Rudo...
Vox

The 10 most read stories on Future Perfect in 2025 - As Future Perfect has in past years, we’re spending this holiday season rounding up our most-read stories of 2025 — a quick way to see what landed with you...
Environment Texas

Will Congress pass a bill to fund more wildlife crossings? - 2026 will be important year for the future of wildlife crossings The post Will Congress pass a bill to fund more wildlife crossings? appeared first on En...
The Smirking Chimp

May All Your Christmases Be White: A Few Dark Thoughts in a Dark Season in a Truly Dark Time. -
Consortium News

Jeffery Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace - While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate....
Skeptophilia

The problem of choice - I was telling a friend about my current novel work-in-progress, *Nightingale*, a couple of days ago, and he asked me an interesting question: to what ext...
Land Destroyer

A New Space Race Above Earth May Determine Who Prevails Upon It - *December 24, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In early December 2025, private Chinese aerospace company, LandSpace, test-launched its Zhuque-3 rocket. The...
San Antonio Current

‘Construction can’t continue’: South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have upended industry - [image: A group of home builders in the Rio Grande Valley said construction has slowed amid an increase in arrests by immigration officers.] More than 300...
Mother Jones

The Bible Says So…or Does It? - Dan McClellan has spent much of his life learning—and relearning—what the Bible and its authors were trying to tell us. But the years he spent in graduate ...
ProPublica

Someone Is Getting Away With Eunice Whitman’s Killing. Alaska’s Slow Justice System Let It Happen. - The post Someone Is Getting Away With Eunice Whitman’s Killing. Alaska’s Slow Justice System Let It Happen. appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

The reason for the season - Secular Americans are sometimes accused of waging a "war on Christmas". I don't see why any knowledgeable secularist would bother. Almost nothing about...
Crooked Media

Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) - The post Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Trump’s Nuclear Obsession - The Trump family is now directly investing in atomic energy. Its money-losing Truth Social company has become a part owner of a major fusion nuclear pow...
jobsanger

Trump Decided It's Better To Break The Law Than Release All The Files -
World Socialist Web Site

Epstein’s co-conspirators remain protected in new DOJ file release - Another 30,000 documents were released to the public on Tuesday by the Department of Justice along with a statement claiming some of the documents “contain...
Informed Comment

For Christmas: Jesus’ Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry - Muslim mystics such as Rumi, Attar and other Sufi writers often referred to Jesus as a symbol of spirituality and love.
The AltWorld

The US’ National Security Strategy Sends Mixed Signals To India - If the US’ attaches security strings to improving ties with India, particularly if it demands that India […] The post The US’ National Security Strategy ...
Workers World

Palestine will not be forgotten - [image: Palestine will not be forgotten] Although it may appear that the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, h...
Common Dreams

Wowza: Food Fight Clean-Up In Wingnut Aisle 47 - In what was variously dubbed a "grievance Olympics," "conference of clowns" and "Wrestlemania with Podcasters," the noxious mucky-mucks of MAGA just asse...
Antiwar.com

Netanyahu First – The Real Reason For Washington’s Syrian Caper - This is part 2 in a series, read part 1 here. Since Washington is now sacrificing American lives in the aid of HTS (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) in Syria, it is ...
Ian Welsh

What Constitutes A Successful Life? - I never fully bought into the consensus ideas of what constitutes a successful life. Money, power, 2.3 kids, a house in the burbs. I was an only child and ...
The Root

Black Celebs With the Most Lavish California Homes! - Let's take a look at some of the most stylish celeb homes in California. From Marvel hero-like mansions to super stylish digs and more! Read more...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Releases Year-End Overview of Party and Candidate Activities - The Forward Party has released an end-of-year recap detailing its electoral activity, ballot access map, and overall organizational growth during 2025, p...
The Daily Poster

Too Big To Heal - The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.
Dorf on Law

A War on Christmas Classic - We here at *DoL *are enjoying the holidays, so I'm posting the following classic column from a little over a year ago. It originally ran under the headli...
Church and State

Why global environmental negotiations keep failing – and what we can do about it - The stakes are high. Every delay means more emissions. The world cannot afford negotiations that stall while ecosystems collapse.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Sustainable Construction and the Future of Infrastructure - The world’s approach to construction is shifting as climate change intensifies and the calls for... The post Guest Idea: Sustainable Construction and the...
Dissent Magazine

*Dissent* in 2025 - Our most read articles this year.
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
Rewire

Clitoris Researcher Wants You to Know Everything This Sex Organ Can Do - Pleasure is only the tip of the clitoral iceberg, says Dr. Angela Towne. The post Clitoris Researcher Wants You to Know Everything This Sex Organ Can Do ...
Grist

What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good - As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
High Country News

Winter solstice is a time for planting seeds - At the turning of a season, a writer finds a sense of possibility. The post Winter solstice is a time for planting seeds appeared first on High Country ...
Deadline Politics

Democratic Congresswoman Sues To Remove Donald Trump From Kennedy Center’s Name - A congresswoman who is an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board sued other trustees on Monday, seeking a court ruling to force them to remove Donal...
The NM Political Report

What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor - “To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close i...
Brad Blog

Have a Holly Jolly Somehow - So, we're standing down from both The BradCast and Green News Report until after the new year for a much needed brain break --- for a brain that is breakin...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Would you be gay for an hour for one billion dollars, Nancy Mace is so unpopular & other holiday news briefs - * Editor's note* - *Some folks may see the above video as offensive, but I disagree. It's from the Facebook group All African LGBTQ We Have Rights Too a...
Progressive.org

The Push to Make U.S. College Students Climate Literate - Students and professors at universities across the country are pushing for general education requirements to equip students to combat climate change.
The Texas Signal

The New Laws Of Texas - Many of these new laws represent a mix of hot button issues, like restricting access to reproductive health and bathroom use based on sex and not gender id...
Democracy Chronicles

Ptolomy’s Maps: Inventing Modern Map Design in the 2nd Century - So why didn’t Ptolomy divide each parallel equally? There’d be no point to. In Ptolomy’s day, no one had a way to determine longitude. So what would be the...
Liberation News

Who stands to benefit from a U.S. war on Venezuela? - If Trump's war drive reaches its conclusion and an all-out conflict begins, huge numbers of people in Venezuela and the United States will suffer greatly. ...
The Progressive Wing

12/22-28 News Roundup & Open Thread – Plus Holiday favs Tunes - Hello! Still plenty of news swirling. Later in the week, we can post our fav holiday tunes on Xmas Eve and Xmas day. Join us in the comments below the jump.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison - It's not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box. There have to be consequences that keep this from ever happening again.
The Conversation

How the ‘slayer rule’ might play a role in determining who will inherit wealth from Rob Reiner and his wife - These rules have a long history in the United States. They played a role in the notorious murders by the Menendez brothers and Scott Peterson.
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2025 - In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many month...
Duck of Minerva

Remembering Our Lost Colleagues - I started this post sort of confessionally. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID an...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Suecia violó sus propias leyes al darle el Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado - Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, e...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Progressive Army

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

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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