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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Republicans ‘concerned’ after Trump threatens to withdraw more US troops from Germany - US announced withdrawal of 5,000 soldiers last week after German chancellor said US was being ‘humiliated’ by Iran Donald Trump has threatened to withdra...
Glasstire

Summer Exhibitions Coming to Venues in East & South Texas - Summer exhibitions are on the schedule for museums and institutions in East and South Texas, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Beeville Ar...
The Hill

How much the first 'Jeopardy!' winner took home, and what it'd be worth today - Contestants today can score the same amount - or more - with one question.
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Behold The Shadow Network - A new Democratic political machine, the forgotten story behind Trump’s war powers, and more from The Lever this week.
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: New Orleans Tunes - Cheers to Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Domino, The Meters, The Band & Bobby Charles, Li’l Queenie & The Percolators, The Tragically Hip, Dr. Joh...
Futurism

The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital - "I think everyone should be on testosterone." The post The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Ou...
Mediaite

Trump Hits New Low in WaPo/ABC Poll — Whopping 76% Disapprove of His Handling of Cost of Living - Trump hit an all-time low in disapproval in the latest Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll — and notched a particularly dismal score on one major issue. ...
slacktivist

Sunday reading - "There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground."
memeorandum

Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Trump disapproval reaches new high, Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds* — Democrats now hold a five-point advantage in support for Congress, u...
Al Jazeera English

Gaza aid flotilla activists appear in Israeli court after abduction - Court extends activists’ detention by two days for further interrogation, rights group tells Al Jazeera.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Sunday et Cetera - A new irregular feature: Etc. Day, where I feature political cartoons that don’t fit into a major topic but that I found interesting or amusing. The risk i...
Political Wire

Exchange of the Day - President Trump took questions from reporters: REPORTER: In your letter to Congress, you said the hostilities in Iran have concluded. How can you say that ...
WhoWhatWhy

Donald Trump Thinks Americans Want to See His Face and Name Everywhere - [image: Donald Trump, Ballroom, Passports, arch, coins, cards] The president is obsessed with putting his name and likeness on government objects to preten...
Mother Jones

Trump’s SEC Slammed the Door on Small Investors. They Built a New One. - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Since President Donald Trump took office, th...
naked capitalism

Links 5/3/2026 -
Salon.com

Could Donald Trump Jr. make a 2028 presidential bid? - In the wake of the British royals' visit, there are renewed signs a Trump political dynasty could be in the works
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: What Is Being Born -
Slate

Slate Crossword: Crypto-Keepers? (Eight Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for May 3, 2026.
The Root

North West Releases First EP and Music Video That Has Fans Going Wild - On Friday, May 1, North West dropped her debut EP and the six-track project has left her fans shook. Read more...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- with them or without them - The mainstream media in Europe are as worthless as their US counterparts.
OpEd News

No Wrong Turns: Steps Along the Labyrinth Journey - What better way to celebrate World Labyrinth Day than by stepping onto one?
Countercurrents

Gaza: Ahmad, Alaa, Have a Wedding Party in a ‘Bulldozer” - Ahmad and his bride will never forget their wedding day. It was a joyous occasion because he was married on a bulldozer amidst the ruins of his Sheikh Radw...
Counterpunch

How to Sell a Genocide - Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...
jobsanger

U.S. preoccupation With Oil - A Misplaced Priority -
Wolf Street

The US Government sold $723 billion of Treasury Securities this Week. Inflation Jumped and Met T-bill Yields - 30-year Treasury yield looks like it’s setting up to break out past 5%. A rate cut while inflation is heating up could do it.
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1567: Christopher Wren, Physician - Episode: 1567 Christopher Wren: a great architect first learns medicine. Today, an unexpected student of medicine.
Informed Comment

Americans must Mobilize against the Iran War for Peace - To create a safer world, millions of Americans need to mobilize to end the war on Iran, prevent nuclear proliferation, halt the arms race
Deadline Politics

Aziz Ansari On Fire As FBI Director Kash Patel In ‘SNL’ Cold Open: “Incapable & Incompetent” - “In summary, war is awesome!” A week after taking the stage as a part of Deadline’s Contenders Television shindig in L.A., Ashley Padilla took center stage...
Mediagazer

BBC News staff are told they face 15% cost cuts, steeper than the 10% shared previously for the corporation as a whole, in the biggest downsizing in 15 years (Mark Sweney/The Guardian) - Mark Sweney / The Guardian: *BBC News staff are told they face 15% cost cuts, steeper than the 10% shared previously for the corporation as a whole, in t...
Portside

The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments - The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments Kurt Stand Sat, 05/02/2026 - 22:25
Alternet

Defense official reveals alarming way US military learned about Trump’s troop withdrawal - An anonymous U.S. defense official revealed the branches of the U.S. military learned of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from ...
Axios

Trump says new strikes possible if Iran "misbehaves" - President Trump told reporters on Saturday that he could order renewed military action against Iran if it "misbehaves." *Why it matters:* While the U.S. ...
Claytoonz

MAGA Malaise - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
The Greanville Post

Trump Moves Closer to Final ‘Blowout’ Hail-Mary Against Iran, as Outlets Report Total US Regional Wipeout - SIMPLICIUS—First, let us again point out just how cravenly hypocritical it is for Trump and his admin to repeatedly criticize Iran for being a “disjointed ...
SCOTUSblog

Abortion pill dispute returns to Supreme Court - On Saturday, two companies that manufacture mifepristone came to the court in Danco Laboratories v. Louisiana, asking the justices to pause a ruling by the...
Election Law Blog

“‘Lines are going to change’: Trump DOJ confirms it will target minority voters nationwide after Supreme Court ruling” - Democracy Docket: The Trump administration confirmed Friday it will target Black and Latino-majority voting districts across the country — using the Supr...
Undernews

The greatest country on earth - Via James Tate
Raw Story

Trump convenes secret meeting as ‘voter backlash’ surges over key issue: report - In a “private meeting” on Tuesday, President Donald Trump met with several of his top officials to discuss ways to address a growing vulnerability that m...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Undermining Our Future: Deportations, DACA, and Lost Potential, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Undermining Our Future: Deportations, DACA, and Lost Potential* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 2, 2026* *In a February 26, 2026 piece authored by ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: AG Holder's redistricting dream! - *SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026* *A very murky topic:* On this campus, we have high regard for former attorney general Eric Holder. If we told you what we admir...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Polyrhythmic flower - This is a pleat-based design, similar to other designs I’ve posted before. They’re fairly simple to fold on the spot and improvise. This probably took me...
CultureMap Houston

Over-the-top burger chain comes to Houston and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from killer burgers to sad closures and all-you-can-eat wagyu. Read on for our m...
Courthouse News

Video of NYC police killing machete-wielding man at Grand Central station released - Body camera footage shows New York police fatally shooting a man armed with a machete after he injured three people at a Grand Central subway station.
Mondoweiss

Understanding the shared ideology behind settler colonialism in Native America and Palestine - [image: American Progress, a 1872 painting by John Gast, depicts the settler-colonial dispossession of Native America as a celebration of the idea of Manif...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for April 27 - May 1 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. It is surprising how positive most of the high frequency data is, despi...
San Antonio Current

Everything we saw during San Antonio’s May Day protest - Demonstrators took to San Antonio’s streets Friday evening to support workers and their right to organize. They also loudly pushed back at the Trump adm...
Consortium News

WATCH: The World This Week: ‘Economic War or Bombs?’ - U.S. holds off Israeli pressure to restart the shooting war on Iran, turning instead to economic warfare. But how long can that last? Meanwhile, Trump call...
Vox

Some deaf children are hearing again because of a new gene therapy - In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks later, after a single injecti...
Skeptophilia

Cracker crumbs - Three years ago, I wrote here at *Skeptophilia* about the scary Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is capable of enormous earthquakes and tsunamis -- and wh...
Scheerpost.com

They Film the Darkness - Michelle Ellner When the lights go out in Havana, the foreign cameras arrive to film the darkness. They come for the blackout glow: candles in apartment wi...
Eschaton

Morning - Slacker Saturday
ProPublica

Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science - The post Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges “Healthy Skepticism” of Climate Science appeared first on ProPublica.
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
The Week

Amlou cinnamon knots recipe - Sweet and sticky, these pastries are stuffed with a Nutella-like paste
World Socialist Web Site

Australian inflation soars as economic effects of Iran war bite - The official cost-of-living index rose 4.6 percent in the 12 months to March, up sharply from 3.7 percent in February.
ArcaMax

The Maine Senate Race - It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor, Janet Mills, ...
Workers World

Trump’s standoff with Iran fuels mounting economic, political strain across Europe - [image: Trump’s standoff with Iran fuels mounting economic, political strain across Europe] Press TV posted the following article on April 27, 2026. Europe...
The Socialist

Jeff Yass Net Worth 2026: $67.4 Billion from Trading & TikTok - Table of Contents Jeff Yass’s $67,400,000,000 Financial Foundation Jeff Yass’s Early Ventures and SIG’s Ascendance Jeff Yass’s Diverse $67,400,000,000 Inve...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Surgeon General Search: Casey Means Out, Casey Means In Groucho Glasses & Mustache In! - A quick reminder: America has not had a confirmed Surgeon General at the federal level since January of 2025. Yes, that’s over a year ago. How we got here ...
Ballot Access News

Alabama Legislature Called into Special Session to Redraw U.S. House District Boundaries - On May 1, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey called the legislature into special session to draw new U.S. House district boundaries. It will be interesting to see i...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
NPR's Health Shots

Court restricts abortion access across the US by blocking the mailing of mifepristone - A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone.
The Verge

Splatoon Raiders preorders for the Switch 2 are nearly 20 percent off - Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo ...
San Antonio Report

68 workers to lose jobs as Eastside clothing factory announces closure - Ohio-based National Safety Apparel LLC will close its Eastside factory this summer, laying off dozens of sewing machine operators. -------------------------...
Lowering the Bar

Six-Month Sentence in Bee-Assault Case - She used bees to assault some people. She didn't assault a bee.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Common Dreams

Keystone Light Tar Sands Pipeline: Same Problems, Different Name - President Trump signed off on a key permit to construct the Bridger Pipeline Expansion project, often referred to as “Keystone Light” because it would pu...
Popular Resistance

Day Of The Internationalist Hero Announced In Nicaragua - Under the shade tent in the schoolyard, staring solemnly ahead, stands a line of children wearing t-shirts with the image of the most famous North Americ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Bylaws Committee Soliciting Input on Proposals Ahead of National Convention - The Libertarian Party’s Bylaws Committee is soliciting feedback on 22 proposed changes to the party’s governing documents ahead of its national conventio...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: The promise and risks of AI use in El Paso schools - El Paso Matters education reporter Claudia Lorena Silva discusses the different approaches to AI across El Paso school districts and what the upsides an...
Angry Bear

When a Senator Makes Ignorant remarks - If this is a true statement by esteemed Senator Sununu, he must be in his last term in office. Personally, I believe all Senators and Representatives sho...
Space City Weather

Widespread showers and thunderstorms will exit this evening - In brief: The current storms across the region are behaving more or less as expected, and much of the Houston region is getting a good soaking with no majo...
Novara Media

Met Police Chief Condemns Zack Polanski After North London Knife Attack - Zack Polanski has apologised to the Metropolitan Police for a retweet he made in response to the horrific knife attack on two Jewish men in North London. P...
LareDOS

WCHF recipient of two Texas Association of Museums awards - Recoognition for excellence in museum communications and design
Seeing the Forest

The Old Enemies Of Peace – Welcome Their Hatred - This post first appeared at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. In 1932 FDR campaigned asking for hel...
Church and State

‘Only the Beginning’: Santa Marta Summit Heralded as New Dawn in Fight to End Fossil Fuel Era - The single biggest breakthrough at the conference was France’s unveiling of a national roadmap to phase out fossil fuels in the coming decades.
Sludge

Bayer Built a Farm Front Group to Fight Roundup Cancer Claims - The German pharmaceutical giant launched the Modern Ag Alliance two years ago to help protect itself from billions in cancer-related liabilities and push f...
Texas Standard

Court order allows smokable hemp to stay on shelves in Texas - A Travis County judge issued a temporary injunction allowed the sale of hemp flower and concentrates and blocking sharply higher state fees charged to busi...
The Militant

Chicago school lunchroom workers rally for a contract - CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools lunchroom workers and their supporters rallied downtown here April 23 protesting the lack of progress toward a...
Capital & Main

In One of L.A.’s Food Deserts, ‘Hands That Harmed Are Now Hands That Heal’ - At an urban farm in Compton, the formerly incarcerated nourish residents hit by rising costs and cuts. Their “pay what you can” markets draw hundreds. T...
The Conversation

Why the 60-day War Powers Resolution deadline doesn’t actually constrain presidents - Donald Trump’s unilateral move to engage in military action against Iran isn’t unprecedented; Presidents Obama and Clinton directed U.S. military engagemen...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Christian Nationalism as Heresy and Threat: A Conversation with Rev. Angela Denker - I was so happy to welcome Rev. Angela Denker of I'm Listening to Dispatches From A Collapsing State. Here, Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus, and ...
Rewire

Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion Ban - Plus, the Supreme Court guts voting Civil Rights-era protections for Black voters, and trans Idahoans fight back. The post Judge Pauses Wyoming Abortion ...
The NM Political Report

U.S. House passes Farm Bill with 9 bills for ranchers, farmers from N.M.’s Rep. Vasquez - [image: Rep. Gabe Vasquez visited Adams Produce in Hatch in September, where Scott and Terry Adams run a family farm growing everything from chile and onio...
Earthworks

Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’ve Witnessed in 2026 So Far - The Air is Shared What happens at an oil and gas site doesn’t stay there. It moves. Out here there … The post Seeing What We’ve Been Breathing: What I’...
Liberation News

Working people can defeat Trump! - Millions of people across the country are marking International Workers Day in the true tradition of the holiday that was born right here in the United Sta...
Progressive.org

In Chile, Latin America’s Latest Far-Right Leader Takes the Stage - José Antonio Kast, a once-marginal figure who rode fearmongering on crime and migration to Chile’s presidency, is taking pointers from far-right leaders in...
Democracy Now!

"A People's History of Invisible India": Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights - On International Workers’ Day, we take a look at the state of workers’ rights and freedoms in India, where pressure on fuel supplies from the U.S.-Israeli ...
Debunking Christianity

Why I Abandoned Christianity, Part 1 - *Two compelling reasons that are hard to refute* *1. **The Arrogance of Theology* I grew up on the very flat prairie of northern Indiana: the land w...
The Progressive Wing

5/1 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments below.
Rallblog

Epstein’s Swan Song | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Earth 911

5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards - Every year, Americans toss out about 17 million tons of textiles, and most items left... The post 5 Places to Mail In Your Old Clothes and Earn Rewards a...
Dorf on Law

The Alien Tort Statute's Translation Problem - The Alien Tort Statute (ATS) was enacted by the first Congress as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 and, with the exception of references to particular f...
Off The Kuff

Texas Politics Project poll: Talarico leads again - It’s becoming a trend. Democrat James Talarico leads both Republicans vying to face him in the November U.S. Senate contest, according to a new poll releas...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections: Six Months Out - Now that May 2026 has arrived, we are six months out from the 2026 United States midterm elections. Scheduled date is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. At this...
Crooked Media

Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? - The post Did Trump’s Supreme Court Rig the Midterms? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Grist

Two months in, the Iran war has changed the global energy system forever - The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.
High Country News

The dark legacy of the atomic age is still playing out in New Mexico - [image: Family photographs hang on the wall in Andrea Carrillo’s mother’s home in Tularosa, New Mexico. Carrillo’s sister died of cancer a few years ago, a...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
Brad Blog

‘86 47’ or ‘Weekend at Donnie’s’: ‘BradCast’ 4/30/2026 - It’s that time of the month on The BradCast! Our monthly-ish roundtable with two of our favorite guests. [Audio link to full show follows summary.] Before ...
Antiwar.com

Soon Comes The Mother of All Supply Shocks - It’s getting pretty hard to tell who is more delusional: The Donald or the noisy boy band of school-yard incompetents that surround him. Either way, it’s n...
Black Agenda Report

Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran - Dr. Gerald Horne Analyzes the U.S. War of Aggression Against Iran Authors Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist bareditors Fri, 05/0...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pro family' advocate to the LGBTQ community - We are going to eliminate your marriages - Anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust wants to eliminate our legal right to marry. Just in case you need a reminder, long-time anti-LGBTQ activist Katy Faust an...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
The Texas Signal

Voting Rights And Texas - While the Supreme Court’s decision did not fully strike down a pivotal section of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Elena Kagan (in a dissent) wrote that this...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is There An "Obedience to Authority" Experiment Going On In Washington? - There's no doubt that current events are providing an opportunity to study how blindly people follow orders, even illegal or unethical orders, like they...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Rising Responds to SCOTUS VRA Ruling - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 30, 2026 AUSTIN, Texas – The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday opened the path for Texas and other states to redraw their...
Bracing Views

The Rule of Aging Corporate-Friendly Lawyers - The Color that Matters in America is Green BILL ASTORE APR 30, 2026 How representative of the people is the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court? If you’re ...
Project Censored

Innovative Apprenticeships Address Shortages in Childcare and Early Ed - Apprenticeship programs for aspiring educators provide “classes and training alongside paid work experience to help hopeful teachers earn required creden...
Dissent Magazine

A Constitutional Moment in Hungary? - The defeat of Viktor Orbán wasn’t primarily driven by anger over the dismantling of liberal democracy. But the new government could serve as a positive e...
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Thus, it ends as it began as it begins as it ended. Or something like that. The state, and to some extent the nation, waits to se...
Krebs on Security

Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs - A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Redistricting Check-in at the Dawn of the Callais Era - What the Callais decision may mean, and how the national House map has already changed, or not changed, so far The post A Redistricting Check-in at the D...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law - City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
Ecosophia

War In Heaven? - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, the topic of the fifth Wednesday post here gets decided by the readership via...
The Grayzone

UK judge gags Palestine Action defendants to secure ‘terror’ stitch-up - Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equ...
See You In 2020

People’s Forum hosts neocons & Democrats, revealing a consolidation of the pro-reformist forces - There is evidence that the “red liberal” tendency within left politics is now being directly assimilated into the Democratic Party itself. We have reaso...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s First 100 Days: Where Does NYC Stand With A Socialist Mayor In Office? - It’s been nearly four months since Zohran Mamdani officially became mayor of New York City. When running for mayor, Zohran was focused intensely on an affo...
Field Negro

Render unto Caesar. - *" Julius Caesar styled himself as a servant of the republic, claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by capric...
NORML

Maryland: Governor Signs Bill Into Law Providing Employment Protections for Firefighters’ Off-Duty Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"This legislation set...
Environment Texas

Ten ways bees are smarter than you think - These pollinators may be small, but their intelligence is both surprising and incredible. The post Ten ways bees are smarter than you think appeared firs...
Discourse

Abolish the White House Correspondents Dinner (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: All the depraved moments and images from the failed shooting
The AltWorld

The US and Iran: Between Stalemate and Checkmate - The US and its allies started a war with Iran that they did not win. For nearly […] The post The US and Iran: Between Stalemate and Checkmate appeared fi...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Blue Angels, Devil Hands - That’s the actual name of the paper. Isn’t that great? Here’s a prologue: a post I wrote a while back about the Portuguese Man-o’-War. (It’s kind of long ...
Duck of Minerva

This Protestant feels confused: On moral authority and the Pope-Trump divide - As I have discussed here, I am a proud Protestant. I was raised Lutheran, and am now Episcopalian. While there is some variation among Episcopalians and An...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not just anybody - Photo: Harrowgate Valley Gardens by Cliff Ounsley Harold Meyerson at *The American Prospect*, "New Israeli Law: Hangings for Palestinians, but No Noose ...
MintPress News

Dr. Marandi: Washington Post Assassination Orders, Iran Refuses Negotiations & UAE Complicity - As Washington shifts from threats to negotiations, Iran is signaling it no longer sees talks as credible. Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi explains why Tehran ...
Idavox

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. - MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ... The post I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Big Bidness Babble - 11 x 15 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 592kb Starring in order of appearance: Some Harvard Economics dweeb, author of “Some Crap You Bought To Read On T...
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

Fireside Chats - Read More
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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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