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

Salon.com

6 soundtracks that hit a high note in 2025 - From Kpop Demon Hunters to the glorious return of Nine Inch Nails, this year gave us TV and films worth dancing to
memeorandum

The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office. (New York Times) - New York Times: *The S.E.C. Was Tough on Crypto. It Pulled Back After Trump Returned to Office.* … A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevo...
Futurism

OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000 - It's smuttin' time. The post OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000 appeared first on Futurism.
Eschaton

America's Worst Democrat - Hakeem Jeffries. Last week, President Trump issued yet another pardon that’s corrosive to the rule of law — this one to Representative Henry Cuellar, a Te...
Courthouse News

Gunmen kill at least 11 people in attack on Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach - Mass shootings in Australia are extremely rare.
Raw Story

'Might lead to violence': Republican senator goes to war against Trump's plot win midterms - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) openly condemned President Donald Trump’s push for GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional districts Sunday – laying eq...
Mediaite

‘Astounding’: The World Gushes Over Heroic Man Who Disarmed Australian Hanukkah Shooter - The world is uniting to marvel at the heroism of a man who disarmed one of the perpetrators of Sunday evening's heinous attack in Australia. The post ‘As...
Axios

Australia sees deadliest shooting since 1996 at Hanukkah celebration - Two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration at Australia's iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what officials have declared ...
Daily Dot

“Thanks for ruining my childhood”: Customer devastated to find Bugles don’t fit on his human fingers anymore - [image: cant eat bugles off fingers anymore] Millennials are spinning out because they can’t eat Bugles off their fingers in 2025. According to Bugles' ...
San Antonio Report

After Trump pardon, Rep. Henry Cuellar restored to homeland security funding post - After his corruption indictment, Cuellar forfeited his role as the top Democrat on a subcommittee that oversees more than $65 billion in annual spending. -...
Political Wire

Trump’s Attacks on Opponents Spur Surge of Threats - “President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on bo...
The Hill

Which is cheaper, Uber or Lyft? What researchers found after 2,200 rides - Researchers with Harvard and Johns Hopkins' business schools compared prices on 2,238 ride requests in New York City to find out if Uber or Lyft was cheaper.
Al Jazeera English

Zelenskyy says willing to drop NATO membership bid ahead of peace talks - The Ukrainian president says Kyiv could drop its long-held ambition of joining NATO in exchange for security guarantees.
Undernews

The culture war - *Arts Journal - *The entertainment landscape is undergoing tectonic shifts that make previous disruptions look like minor tremors. The headline grabber i...
The Verge

Inside the high drama of the iPhone 4 - By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was ...
Claytoonz

Ballroom Versus Healthcare - 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 Guardian (U.S. news)

‘They’re selling everything as trauma’: how our emotional pain became a product | Katherine Rowland - In an economy that rewards confession and self-labeling, pain is no longer something to survive – but something to brand, sell, and curate In March 2023,...
El Paso Matters

Judges in El Paso Electric rate case recommend smaller rate increase, less profit for utility - The bill increase proposed by El Paso Electric may be reduced after judges overseeing the rate case sided with customers, suggested lowering rate hike. ...
San Antonio Current

Everything we saw at the Pullman Market Tamale Festival - The inaugural event took place at San Antonio's Pearl development on Saturday. The post Everything we saw at the Pullman Market Tamale Festival appeare...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Talking About Glasstire’s Favorite Books of 2025 - William Sarradet and Nicholas Frank discuss the art-related books that informed and enlightened their year. “I had been reading a lot of postcolonial no...
OpEd News

Utopia: With or Without Baba - If the nations of the world collectively decided that striving to create a Utopia on earth was now our top priority, how would that best be accomplished?
Brad Blog

Sunday 'WTF?' Toons - ...HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY!... ...to my fellow Missourian-turned-Los Angelino...the legendary Dick Van Dyke!... ...and be sure to watch this video, if you hav...
Election Law Blog

“As gerrymandering battles sweep country, supporters say partisan dominance is ‘fair’” - AP News: “When Indiana adopted new U.S. House districts four years ago, Republican legislative leaders lauded them as ‘fair maps’ that reflected the stat...
Mondoweiss

Israel is recycling an old colonial plan in Gaza - [image: Displaced Palestinian families sheltering inside the UNRWA-run Malak School in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, find themselves suddenly located ...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Christmas In Color - Happy holidays in color.
Grist

The EPA was considering a massive lead cleanup in Omaha. Then Trump shifted guidance. - Tens of thousands of Omahans have lead in their yards at levels that experts say is dangerous, especially for kids. Growing momentum to do more cleanup in ...
Daily Howler

SUNDAY: There the New York Times goes again! - *SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025* *Front-page article AWOL:* If you're reading the print edition of today's New York Times, it's right there on the front page....
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Are You On The FBI’s Naughty List? - Google wined and dined lawmakers, the Epstein files yield new revelations, and more from The Lever this week.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s A+++++ Economy Is a Hard Sell - [image: Donald Trump, delivering remarks, McDonald's Impact Summit] To prevail in the midterms, Republicans have to hope that an out-of-touch billionaire w...
Vox

How do you know if you’re wasting your life? - Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the ide...
NPR's Health Shots

Measles cases spike in South Carolina - NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dr. Carlos del Rio about the spiking number of measles cases in South Carolina and about the public health challenges posed...
Slate

Most Young Kids Go Through This Frustrating Phase. What My Husband Wants to Do About It Is the Real Problem. - I can't get behind this approach.
Mother Jones

A Dozen Ways You (Yes, You) Can Help Fight Climate Change - This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you’re reading this, chances are you care a...
naked capitalism

Links 12/14/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: How Christmas Will Steal the Trump -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Few Of My Favorite Rants - Let’s start with something guaranteed to offend somebody: I’m okay with death. We all die eventually and maybe my stoicism makes it easier to deal with but...
Crooked Media

Can Democrats Fight Trump Without Being Defined by Him? (with Gov. JB Pritzker) - The post Can Democrats Fight Trump Without Being Defined by Him? (with Gov. JB Pritzker) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Video of the day -- standing strong alone - Yes, Europe can secure its own future without the increasingly unreliable US. France has shown the way.
Off The Kuff

Salinas, Jefferson Patterson headed to victory - As of 10:26 last night, Alejandra Salinas was leading Dwight Boykins in Harris County by about 5,500 votes. You can see the current unofficial results from...
Mediagazer

Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss (Brian Steinberg/Variety) - Brian Steinberg / Variety: *Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Er...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses - [image: Southviille houses]
Countercurrents

Confronting an India Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer Warned Us About - Acceptance speech by Aand Patwardhan at Asghar Ali Engineer Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award When Irfan bhai rang up to tell me that I had been nominate...
The Week

Heavenly spectacle in the wilds of Canada - ‘Mind-bending’ outpost for spotting animals – and the northern lights
Consortium News

Maidan: A Coup or a Revolution? - A revealing conversation with Grok about the events in Ukraine in 2014. JOE LAURIA: Revolutions are only against undemocratic governments, monarchies, dict...
Counterpunch

The Counter-Narrative: The Arab Revolt Onscreen - Cinema has spawned great feature films dramatizing the Arab Revolt, including David Lean’s 1962 Lawrence of Arabia, which won seven Oscars, including Bes...
jobsanger

The Trumpian Flim-Flam Has Hit Its Limits -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1489 Helicopter - Episode: 1489 Inventing the helicopter: harder than it looked. Today, we invent the helicopter.
Informed Comment

Conflict in Mecca: The Prophet Muhammad and Soft Power - I believe that the earliest source we have for the life of the Prophet is the Quran itself. And I believe the Quran is early.
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Opens With An Adderall- And Ambien-Using Donald Trump Trying To Take Press Questions On Netflix-WBD, Jeffrey Epstein & Santa - Saturday Night Live opened again with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), this time with the president trying to make it through an Air Force One press ga...
The Greanville Post

The Beauty and the Beast: Pepe Escobar on the US National Security Strategy - PEPE ESCOBAR—Even stripping down the NSS to the role of yet another narrative – the Empire of Chaos is a master producer of narratives – substantial rhetor...
Popular Resistance

US Secures Its National Security Interests In Congo Peace Deal - Donald Trump invited President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Washington, DC, on T...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Portside

Inside Coca-Cola’s Multi-Billion Dollar Theft of Trade Secrets and Human Rights Abuses - Inside Coca-Cola’s Multi-Billion Dollar Theft of Trade Secrets and Human Rights Abuses Kurt Stand Sat, 12/13/2025 - 17:34
Dissident Voice

Who’s the Dictator? Venezuela’s Maduro or Ukraine’s Zelenskyy - Washington brands Nicolás Maduro a dictator, celebrates Volodymyr Zelenskyy as democratic, and sponsors María Corina Machado to achieve regime change in ...
The AltWorld

General Elections In Chile - Political polarization indicates a possible shift to the right and withdrawal into the orbit of the United […] The post General Elections In Chile appear...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: December 7th – 13th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the ACLU told congress not to add a terrible copyright bill to the must-pass government funding bill, Senator Tillis was ...
Space City Weather

Much of the Houston area could see a light freeze on Monday morning - In brief: We’re interrupting your weekend because our confidence is increasing that a front arriving on Sunday morning will bring sharply colder temperatur...
Alternet

Jared Kushner is backing a 'hostile takeover' of US infrastructure: analysis - Salon reporter Sophia Tesfaye says “the speed and scale of Jared Kushner’s re-emergence can’t be overstated,” and neither can his corruption. “In the fir...
Ballot Access News

New Hampshire State Trial Court Upholds New Restrictions on Postal Ballots - On December 11, a New Hampshire state trial court upheld the new requirements for voters who use postal absentee ballots. The new law requires that the com...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Deportation Push Continues With TSA-ICE Partnership and Move to Strip Legal Status - By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams As a “chilling” report in the New York Times revealed that the Transportation Security Administration is providing the...
CultureMap Houston

Beyoncé-loved Houston brunch spot expands and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with new locations of hot brunch and burger spots. Plus, a Houston en...
Reform Austin

UTA Students Help Solve Decades-Old Murder - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A group of University of Texas at Arlington criminology students helped police make a breakthro...
Angry Bear

Is Thanksgiving seasonality masking a possible longer term positive regime change in jobless claims? - – by New Deal democrat This week’s update of initial and continuing jobless claims is a demonstration of two frames of seasonality: one in the immediate...
ArcaMax

Everyone Must Get Droned - The Achaemenid Persian Empire. Byzantium. The Ottomans. Ancient Rome. All these regimes wielded immense power relative to their contemporaries. They domina...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for December 8 - 12 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While there were no significant changes in the ratings, two big stories...
The Root

Everything We Know About The Sherrone Moore Scandal - The University of Michigan fired Moore for having an "inappropriate relationship with a staff member.” Read more...
Dorf on Law

A Very Public Tantrum Points to a Very Different Future for College Football - For fans of American college football, this is the almost-empty weekend that sits between the end of the conference championship games and the beginning ...
Skeptophilia

The cost of beauty - I have a great admiration for poets. They have an amazing way of collapsing a tremendous amount of punch into a small space. The best poets use language i...
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...
World Socialist Web Site

Democrats release small group of photos from massive Epstein trove - Leading House Democrats released two groups of pictures—first, 19 and then later, another 70—on Friday from a reported trove of 95,000 photos that were tur...
See You In 2020

Zionism & anti-communism are part of a British effort to hold back the American revolution’s completion - To figure out how to defeat America’s financial dictatorship, and end Zionist settler-colonialism, we must investigate the British empire’s role behind ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Libs of TikTok and founder Chaya Raichik blasted on social media for alleged Epstein Files hypocrisy - The bigoted site Libs of TikTok and its founder Chaya Raichik got the proverbial taste of their own medicine this week for the harm they have caused the...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Whooper Swan - Whooper there it is!
Environment Texas

Tips for wasting less this holiday season - Waste less and celebrate more during the holidays. The post Tips for wasting less this holiday season appeared first on Environment Texas.
The NM Political Report

Vasquez warns funding crisis endangers Bosque del Apache’s vital role in local economy - U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., visited the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge on Dec. 6 to assess the impact of federal budget cuts and staffing...
Texas Standard

How to see the Geminid meteor shower, from experts at the McDonald Observatory - Give your eyes about half an hour to adjust to the dark.
Church and State

America’s New Political Reality: Trump Decides Which Beliefs Are “Legal” - Bondi also ordered the FBI to go back as far as 5 years in their investigations of our social media posts, protest attendance, and other activities.
The Conversation

What’s at stake in Trump’s executive order aiming to curb state-level AI regulation - In the absence of comprehensive federal AI regulation, states have stepped in. The Trump administration, at Big Tech’s urging, is attempting to roll back m...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION. - *Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.* It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some go...
Independent Political Report

Working Families Party Claims Majority on Jersey City Council After Runoff Sweep - The Working Families Party is claiming a governing majority on the Jersey City Council in New Jersey for the first time, recently announcing that its end...
Sludge

Dem Governors Gathered With AI Lobbyists Ahead of Trump Preemption EO - OpenAI and Meta were among the tech companies that sent lobbyists to the Democratic Governors Association's annual meeting, according to a list obtained by...
The Texas Signal

Prayer And Magic In The Labyrinths Of Houston - "The labyrinth is a metaphor for life. It takes time. You may think that you’re lost, but if you trust, you’ll get there.”
Second Nexus

Plane Crash-Lands Right On Top Of Car On Florida Interstate In Freaky Dashcam Video - Quick, someone call Jake from State Farm, because “holy sh*t!” feels like a perfectly reasonable reaction to having a freaking plane land on your car whi...
The Militant

Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is ...
Common Dreams

Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Coalition Partners Demand Democratic Leadership Call to Stop Arming Israel at DNC Winter Meeting - A broad coalition of progressive organizations led by Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVP Action), alongside Palestinian and allied organizations, launche...
Capital & Main

They Power the U.S. Economy, But Will Struggle to Afford Health Care - Health insurance costs will skyrocket for millions of Americans if certain tax credits expire. Small business owners and the self-employed will be hit es...
Workers World

Hegseth is ‘the killer’ … and this is not a Netflix series. - [image: Hegseth is ‘the killer’ … and this is not a Netflix series.] The author is a Venezuelan consultant, international analyst, former Director of Inter...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Drones, Drugs, Deer, and a Dutiful Dog - The post Strangest State: Drones, Drugs, Deer, and a Dutiful Dog appeared first on The Texas Observer.
NORML

Media Reports: White House Decision on Marijuana Rescheduling May Be Imminent - [image: marijuana rescheduling][image: marijuana rescheduling]"While such a move potentially provides some benefits to patients, and veterans especially,...
SCOTUSblog

Five issues in front of the justices - This morning, Friday, Dec. 12, the justices are gathering for their final regularly scheduled private conference of the year to discuss cases and vote on...
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...
Democracy Now!

"A Force of Terror": Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach DHS Chief Kristi Noem - Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during ...
Rallblog

Call-In Friday | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Got a question for CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou and/or political cartoonist Ted Rall? Today’s your chance to bend their ear about the news of the day ...
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $602 Billion of Treasuries this Week, 10-Year Treasury Yield Bounces Back to 4.20%, 30-Year Yield to 4.86%, Highest since Sep 4, after Fed Cuts - All of it to fund the ballooning debt that hit $38.4 Trillion. Shift to T-bill issuance has begun.
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 ...
Rewire

These Four Supreme Court Cases Could Upend U.S. Democracy and Human Rights (Opinion) - If SCOTUS sides with the Trump administration and its Republican allies, the damage “will take lifetimes to repair.” The post These Four Supreme Court Ca...
slacktivist

LBCF: Going to the UN - Rapture Christians hate and fear the United Nations, but they don't hate and fear it enough to bother learning the slightest thing about what it actually i...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: As You Like Nature - This week’s quote comes from Duke Senior’s speech in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Act... The post Earth911 Inspiration: As You Like Nature appeared firs...
ProPublica

The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds - The post The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices, Watchdog Report Finds appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Colorado wolves are on the move - Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders. The post Colorado wolves are on the move appea...
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
Antiwar.com

The Siren Song of War - In October of 2002, I shocked many in my Congressional District and beyond by voting against giving President George W. Bush authorization to use military ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/12/2025 - 05:26 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Progressive.org

Living in Dangerous Times - How much longer will people be taken in by the propaganda emanating from a party that controls every branch of the federal government, yet insists it is po...
Socialist Alternative

Founding Conference Kicks Off New Left Party in Britain - On the last weekend in November, over 2,000 Your Party members gathered in Liverpool to establish what is already the largest socialist party in Britain si...
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Polling Accuracy in the 2025 Elections: Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City - Democrats were underestimated in New Jersey and Virginia, while two-way polls in New York City anticipated what might happen if the non-Mamdani vote cons...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead - We're living in the Mad King era
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...
The Grayzone

US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mo...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: December 2025 - Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger Episode 1-4 | Video, 2 hours, via – An old television show, talking about the interpretation of European painting. Epis...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
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...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2025 Edition - Microsoft today pushed updates to fix at least 56 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This final Patch Tuesday of 2025 ...
Project Censored

Drones Linked to Gaza Operating Surveillance Flights Over US Cities - In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the US-based drone company Skydio provided more than one hundred surveillance drones to the Isr...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Democracy Chronicles

The Best Replacement For Mercator World Maps - Don’t let the hype and bullshit convince you that Equal-Earth is the best, or is a scientific optimization, or that there’s anything new about it. No other...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
MintPress News

Stop The Hate UK: The Shadowy Israel-Aligned Group Targeting MintPress staff & anti-genocide organizers - MintPress exposes how Stop The Hate UK, an Israel-aligned group, is driving efforts to intimidate journalists and pro-Palestine organizers. The post Stop...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
The Progressive Wing

December 9-14 News Roundup and Open Thread - December continues cold in the Northeast.
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...
DeSmogBlog

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Facing a growing number of law...
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.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
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 ...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
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...
Web of Debt

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

¿Por qué Trump amenaza con invadir Nigeria? ¿Realmente es para “proteger a las y los cristianos”? - A comienzos de noviembre, Trump amenazó con tomar acciones militares contra Nigeria, el país más poblado de África.
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...
Land Destroyer

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

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

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

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

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American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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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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